Judearoo
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Irish gal abroad. Interested in books and general tomfoolery
Irish gal abroad. Interested in books and general tomfoolery
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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being billed as the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.
The dictionary will not be huge because relatively few words survive, but experts from Aberystwyth University say they expect they will end up with more than 1,000 words. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
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Myers Briggs test for Irish men:
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Myers Briggs test for Irish men:
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Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
This gets very dark towards the end.. 👀 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Gardaí check 1980s death certificates in bid to identify Cork skull
Investigators have established the remains belong to a woman who died between 1985 and 1987
www.irishtimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This gets very dark towards the end.. 👀 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
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New bio, thank you Tripadvisor
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
New bio, thank you Tripadvisor
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British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
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Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
October 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
Proper mouthful there, lads
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Proper mouthful there, lads
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This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.
Steen claims the political consensus has never been so out of kilter with the grassroots desire for an alternative voice
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.
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“I’m a nice person. I know racists are bad, that’s a given. I have however developed a lot of what other people might consider racist views. But I’m a nice person. So… that means my… racist views aren’t racist. THERE! TA-DAAAAA!”
a woman in a red leotard with the number 265 on her back
ALT: a woman in a red leotard with the number 265 on her back
media.tenor.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
“I’m a nice person. I know racists are bad, that’s a given. I have however developed a lot of what other people might consider racist views. But I’m a nice person. So… that means my… racist views aren’t racist. THERE! TA-DAAAAA!”
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Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
August 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
@kitdewaal.com Hello - just finished The Best of Everything and absolutely loved it!
August 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
@kitdewaal.com Hello - just finished The Best of Everything and absolutely loved it!
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The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
August 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Brexit has made the entire United Kingdom much poorer.
Promoting Brexit has made Nigel Farage much richer.
£100,000 a month richer, just in earnings declared last year on top of his MP's salary.
Think on.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Promoting Brexit has made Nigel Farage much richer.
£100,000 a month richer, just in earnings declared last year on top of his MP's salary.
Think on.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's not patriotism.
It's not even politics.
It's a business model.
It's not even politics.
It's a business model.
August 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Brexit has made the entire United Kingdom much poorer.
Promoting Brexit has made Nigel Farage much richer.
£100,000 a month richer, just in earnings declared last year on top of his MP's salary.
Think on.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Promoting Brexit has made Nigel Farage much richer.
£100,000 a month richer, just in earnings declared last year on top of his MP's salary.
Think on.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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the scary thing about AI right now is not so much that it is capable of replacing your job but that your boss might think it is capable of replacing your job
either way the end result is you don’t have a job
either way the end result is you don’t have a job
August 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
the scary thing about AI right now is not so much that it is capable of replacing your job but that your boss might think it is capable of replacing your job
either way the end result is you don’t have a job
either way the end result is you don’t have a job
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2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals. What interests me is they believe the woman was about 50. A really good age back then. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos
The woman, aged about 50, was buried in a Siberian ice cave and discovered millenia later.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 6:19 AM
2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals. What interests me is they believe the woman was about 50. A really good age back then. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This fragmentary small ivory figurine was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892. Gravettian, about 25,000 years old, it is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face
December 10, 2024 at 8:25 AM
This fragmentary small ivory figurine was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892. Gravettian, about 25,000 years old, it is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face
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'Hello human, nice to meet you'
July 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
'Hello human, nice to meet you'
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there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
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Have a hefty whack of unexpected medical and physio bills so I'm running a flash discount in the shop for the week - you can use the code BANJAXED at checkout on www.ciaraioch.com/artprints to get 10% off all orders. If you've had your eye on a print, please take it off, you're making it soggy.
June 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Have a hefty whack of unexpected medical and physio bills so I'm running a flash discount in the shop for the week - you can use the code BANJAXED at checkout on www.ciaraioch.com/artprints to get 10% off all orders. If you've had your eye on a print, please take it off, you're making it soggy.
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Neil Francis singing on London Underground
YouTube video by DayVideoEdits
youtube.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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