Lauren Beehan
@laurenbeehan.bsky.social
Ireland. News/Media. Moon fan. Happily lurking in Linguistics Bluesky.
Audience Editor at the Irish Independent. Views here are my own, and usually of the moon. (She/her)
Audience Editor at the Irish Independent. Views here are my own, and usually of the moon. (She/her)
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
January 14, 2026 at 8:44 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
This being the first post on my feed when I opened the app feels... pointed.
(also - never!! 🌕)
(also - never!! 🌕)
The moon seems to have a dedicated PR team, with news outlets hyping Wolf Moons, Super Blood Moons, Cold Moons, and more, Kaitlyn Tiffany writes. She explores what's behind the moon hype:
Stop Talking About the Moon
Just look at it.
bit.ly
January 11, 2026 at 1:32 AM
This being the first post on my feed when I opened the app feels... pointed.
(also - never!! 🌕)
(also - never!! 🌕)
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Named: 50 ‘experts’ and linked brands publishers should treat with extreme caution! pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-5...
Named: 50 'experts' and linked brands publishers should treat with caution
Experts and brands associated with more than 1,000 likely fake stories are named.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Named: 50 ‘experts’ and linked brands publishers should treat with extreme caution! pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-5...
Had ridiculously long laces on my shoes (inexplicable teenage fashion choice) and put one foot through the lace loop of my other shoe, tying my ankles together while I was running across several lanes of traffic on O'Connell Bridge.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
😅
January 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Had ridiculously long laces on my shoes (inexplicable teenage fashion choice) and put one foot through the lace loop of my other shoe, tying my ankles together while I was running across several lanes of traffic on O'Connell Bridge.
New year, same old moon posts.
First supermoon of 2026 on a freezing Dun Laoghaire walk last night 🌕
First supermoon of 2026 on a freezing Dun Laoghaire walk last night 🌕
January 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
New year, same old moon posts.
First supermoon of 2026 on a freezing Dun Laoghaire walk last night 🌕
First supermoon of 2026 on a freezing Dun Laoghaire walk last night 🌕
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THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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Aaaaagh I had made it all the way to Christmas this year without being Christmas Shoed and I've just heard it now in the final hour of Christmas FM. An almost perfect run!
(It's ok though as the friend I was playing against was Shoed on Dec 14th 😅)
(It's ok though as the friend I was playing against was Shoed on Dec 14th 😅)
My personal version of Whamageddon is avoiding the horrible Christmas Shoes song... and I've just been Christmas Shoed.
December 15th. It was a good run.
December 15th. It was a good run.
December 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Aaaaagh I had made it all the way to Christmas this year without being Christmas Shoed and I've just heard it now in the final hour of Christmas FM. An almost perfect run!
(It's ok though as the friend I was playing against was Shoed on Dec 14th 😅)
(It's ok though as the friend I was playing against was Shoed on Dec 14th 😅)
I know I haven't been going out in town as much as I used to, but, uh, since when do we [checks notes] eat black pudding with our pints to warm us up on pub crawls? 😅
December 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I know I haven't been going out in town as much as I used to, but, uh, since when do we [checks notes] eat black pudding with our pints to warm us up on pub crawls? 😅
Didn't know today was World Linguistics Day when I posted that and now it looks like that was a choice to mark it.
It wasn't... but I think I stand by it
It wasn't... but I think I stand by it
Studying linguistics really made me reject prescriptivism and policing language etc.
But, uh, can we make an exception to agree that we should never abbreviate the word 'shampoo'?!
But, uh, can we make an exception to agree that we should never abbreviate the word 'shampoo'?!
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Didn't know today was World Linguistics Day when I posted that and now it looks like that was a choice to mark it.
It wasn't... but I think I stand by it
It wasn't... but I think I stand by it
Studying linguistics really made me reject prescriptivism and policing language etc.
But, uh, can we make an exception to agree that we should never abbreviate the word 'shampoo'?!
But, uh, can we make an exception to agree that we should never abbreviate the word 'shampoo'?!
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Studying linguistics really made me reject prescriptivism and policing language etc.
But, uh, can we make an exception to agree that we should never abbreviate the word 'shampoo'?!
But, uh, can we make an exception to agree that we should never abbreviate the word 'shampoo'?!
If you're wondering how long it's been since Simple Plan played in Ireland, let me tell you that I missed their last show as I didn't know it was happening - because I *didn't have the internet* at home yet 😅
Just a 20 year wait to live my teenage emo dreams!
Just a 20 year wait to live my teenage emo dreams!
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If you're wondering how long it's been since Simple Plan played in Ireland, let me tell you that I missed their last show as I didn't know it was happening - because I *didn't have the internet* at home yet 😅
Just a 20 year wait to live my teenage emo dreams!
Just a 20 year wait to live my teenage emo dreams!
Woke up in the middle of the night and looked out my window... to see this!
An incredible aurora display over Dublin around 3:30am (and a few Taurid meteors as well - not pictured) 😍
#NorthernLights #Aurora
An incredible aurora display over Dublin around 3:30am (and a few Taurid meteors as well - not pictured) 😍
#NorthernLights #Aurora
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Woke up in the middle of the night and looked out my window... to see this!
An incredible aurora display over Dublin around 3:30am (and a few Taurid meteors as well - not pictured) 😍
#NorthernLights #Aurora
An incredible aurora display over Dublin around 3:30am (and a few Taurid meteors as well - not pictured) 😍
#NorthernLights #Aurora
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
I mean... I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a tiny part of me expecting to see the Louvre when they rolled the VT.
Of all the weeks for this task to air! #Taskmaster
Of all the weeks for this task to air! #Taskmaster
October 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I mean... I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a tiny part of me expecting to see the Louvre when they rolled the VT.
Of all the weeks for this task to air! #Taskmaster
Of all the weeks for this task to air! #Taskmaster
Finally got to see one of the comets after a run of cloudy nights in Dublin! (C/2025 A6 Lemmon)
No telescope but the 200mm lens caught it ☄️ #comet #cometlemmon
No telescope but the 200mm lens caught it ☄️ #comet #cometlemmon
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally got to see one of the comets after a run of cloudy nights in Dublin! (C/2025 A6 Lemmon)
No telescope but the 200mm lens caught it ☄️ #comet #cometlemmon
No telescope but the 200mm lens caught it ☄️ #comet #cometlemmon
As much as I'm enjoying Celebrity Traitors... I simply cannot get past the fact they gave *banshees* names like Sandra and Venus and Janet 💀
October 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As much as I'm enjoying Celebrity Traitors... I simply cannot get past the fact they gave *banshees* names like Sandra and Venus and Janet 💀
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September 14, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Maybe the real eclipse was the clouds we met along the way...
Stood on a hill for 45min, got stung by nettles, saw only clouds, gave up and went home... and then I turned around in my front garden and there was the effing moon. About three minutes after the main eclipse ended. Typical 😅
Stood on a hill for 45min, got stung by nettles, saw only clouds, gave up and went home... and then I turned around in my front garden and there was the effing moon. About three minutes after the main eclipse ended. Typical 😅
September 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Maybe the real eclipse was the clouds we met along the way...
Stood on a hill for 45min, got stung by nettles, saw only clouds, gave up and went home... and then I turned around in my front garden and there was the effing moon. About three minutes after the main eclipse ended. Typical 😅
Stood on a hill for 45min, got stung by nettles, saw only clouds, gave up and went home... and then I turned around in my front garden and there was the effing moon. About three minutes after the main eclipse ended. Typical 😅
They weren't wrong about the high seas on the Atlantic!
(Off Ballyheigue, Kerry yesterday)
(Off Ballyheigue, Kerry yesterday)
August 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
They weren't wrong about the high seas on the Atlantic!
(Off Ballyheigue, Kerry yesterday)
(Off Ballyheigue, Kerry yesterday)
I can hear The Sims loading music just looking at it...
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I can hear The Sims loading music just looking at it...
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Famine grips Gaza’s largest city and is likely to spread, crisis authority warns amid rapid increase in child malnutrition
www.independent.ie/world-news/m...
www.independent.ie/world-news/m...
Famine grips Gaza’s largest city and is likely to spread, crisis authority warns amid rapid increase in child malnutrition
The world’s leading authority on food crises has said the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restric...
www.independent.ie
August 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Famine grips Gaza’s largest city and is likely to spread, crisis authority warns amid rapid increase in child malnutrition
www.independent.ie/world-news/m...
www.independent.ie/world-news/m...
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
Just realised I've reached that paradoxical time of upheaval that comes in every Irish woman's life... simultaneously too old and haggard to be the Rose of Tralee, and too young and sprightly to run for president 😅
August 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Just realised I've reached that paradoxical time of upheaval that comes in every Irish woman's life... simultaneously too old and haggard to be the Rose of Tralee, and too young and sprightly to run for president 😅
This thread is incredible and I can only imagine the chaos if they let Irish people do the same here
When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
August 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This thread is incredible and I can only imagine the chaos if they let Irish people do the same here