Jo O'Reilly
@jomarieoreilly.bsky.social
Digital PR. Millennial. World Traveller. Essex Girl in the North West.
Standing at my fridge door singing where is my hummus to the tune of Raye’s where is my husband. How’s your Thursday morning going?
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Standing at my fridge door singing where is my hummus to the tune of Raye’s where is my husband. How’s your Thursday morning going?
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An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
What on earth? Monitoring VPN use? This is getting so insidious.
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
What on earth? Monitoring VPN use? This is getting so insidious.
I’ve just seen my aunt’s old council flat in Hackney on one of those luxury property listing TikTok accounts selling for well over half a million quid.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I’ve just seen my aunt’s old council flat in Hackney on one of those luxury property listing TikTok accounts selling for well over half a million quid.
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
I had sworn off any US visits for the foreseeable but maybe I can make an exception now for New York. So delighted to see that hope won for a change.
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I had sworn off any US visits for the foreseeable but maybe I can make an exception now for New York. So delighted to see that hope won for a change.
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
I wish this woman on Sky News would stop bringing Anne Boleyn into this.
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I wish this woman on Sky News would stop bringing Anne Boleyn into this.
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I'm sure there are things I can do about it but the sheer amount of fertility & pregnancy-related ads I get on Instagram at the moment is... infuriating, to be honest. I cannot imagine how awful it is if you're struggling to conceive or similar, and just being inundated with this shit.
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I'm sure there are things I can do about it but the sheer amount of fertility & pregnancy-related ads I get on Instagram at the moment is... infuriating, to be honest. I cannot imagine how awful it is if you're struggling to conceive or similar, and just being inundated with this shit.
How many days do you think I have spent sitting on my new sofa before dripping melted Kerrygold onto it?
October 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
How many days do you think I have spent sitting on my new sofa before dripping melted Kerrygold onto it?
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"Polanski slammed” reports the Daily Express. The person doing that “slamming” is, err, Daily Express journalist Carole Malone.
And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.
And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Polanski slammed” reports the Daily Express. The person doing that “slamming” is, err, Daily Express journalist Carole Malone.
And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.
And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.
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The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa
October 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa
Worried for the wellbeing of those angry pub bores as they experience a full brain malfunction trying to work out what they hate more, the EU or Vegetarians.
October 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Worried for the wellbeing of those angry pub bores as they experience a full brain malfunction trying to work out what they hate more, the EU or Vegetarians.
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I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.
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The New World editor/founder Matt Kelly: "The idea that a magazine can be on open sale in more than 10,000 newsagents up and down the country, but its purchase and open display can get you arrested, makes a mockery of this daft law." www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...
Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British
This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The New World editor/founder Matt Kelly: "The idea that a magazine can be on open sale in more than 10,000 newsagents up and down the country, but its purchase and open display can get you arrested, makes a mockery of this daft law." www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
This is the sort of positive progressive thinking I want to see from a British Labour government, instead they're just bullying the disabled and pandering to the roundabout painters.
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is the sort of positive progressive thinking I want to see from a British Labour government, instead they're just bullying the disabled and pandering to the roundabout painters.
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Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper
Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One of the most wholesome things about October is when all the zoo social media managers give their animals pumpkins to squash. May this trend never stop.
October 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
One of the most wholesome things about October is when all the zoo social media managers give their animals pumpkins to squash. May this trend never stop.
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441) Ghostbot. If you're worried your house may be haunted, deploy this spooky pal to patrol the area. If it meets any ghosts, it will befriend them and keep them away from you so you can get a good night's sleep. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween
October 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
441) Ghostbot. If you're worried your house may be haunted, deploy this spooky pal to patrol the area. If it meets any ghosts, it will befriend them and keep them away from you so you can get a good night's sleep. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween
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"on a technicality"
Not really.
A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.
Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Not really.
A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.
Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out
Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"on a technicality"
Not really.
A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.
Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Not really.
A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.
Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
I'm pretty on the fence with ID cards, I can see the pros and cons my main issue is why is Starmer going out to bat for them and not the legal citizens Farage is threatening to deport?
September 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'm pretty on the fence with ID cards, I can see the pros and cons my main issue is why is Starmer going out to bat for them and not the legal citizens Farage is threatening to deport?
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The perennial myth about migrants eating swans stretches back to at least 2003 when the Sun printed it as a front page story.
It was later obliged to clarify that it had zero evidence.
Farage must be fairly desperate to be trotting that one out
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
It was later obliged to clarify that it had zero evidence.
Farage must be fairly desperate to be trotting that one out
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
www.itv.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The perennial myth about migrants eating swans stretches back to at least 2003 when the Sun printed it as a front page story.
It was later obliged to clarify that it had zero evidence.
Farage must be fairly desperate to be trotting that one out
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
It was later obliged to clarify that it had zero evidence.
Farage must be fairly desperate to be trotting that one out
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
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Buy ANY book from Bookshop.org today, September 24, and you could win a £250 digital gift card! Every sale supports independent bookshops and if you buy from the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, you help support the Fabulous Folklore podcast too uk.bookshop.org/shop/fabulou...
September 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Buy ANY book from Bookshop.org today, September 24, and you could win a £250 digital gift card! Every sale supports independent bookshops and if you buy from the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, you help support the Fabulous Folklore podcast too uk.bookshop.org/shop/fabulou...