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emma q burns [festive mode]
@betaburns.bsky.social
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Mother of mongrels. Researcher: PhD political participation & disability; advocacy; DPOs; repro justice. Autistic community organiser. Lover of bogs, stray dogs and odd sods. Found at CDLP Galway or in #Tipperary. #SpéirGorm She/they/yer wan ♾️🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦
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The cat has taught my dog how to purr.
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Summerhill Vets in Nenagh are having the most ridiculously cute Christmas fundraiser in aid of Billy Goulding's Recovery Fund and the Tipperary Friends of Animals (local rescue). Great causes both. More details on FB:
www.facebook.com/summerhillvet/
Cream coloured background with the Summerhill Vets logo at the top. A drawing of Santa Claus carrying a green sack is in the lower left corner. The text on the poster reads: Santa Paws is coming to town! Saturday 13th December. 12 to 3.30pm. Bring your furry friend to see Santa. Free entry, donations matched.
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Poor Lola! This gobshite has dents gone out of both my shins and every door in the house.
Malcolm the big red dog is wearing a cone of shame and is looking at the camera with a 'fuck you' grin, delighted that he smashed me with his cone. This is out of character for him but he's high as a kite on metacam and enough steroids to win a stage of the Tour de France. There is not much wrong with him, he has sore toes.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Not sure it's been done already, but I am enforcing a RuthieFizz rule on #Spéirghorm. Say the name, post the primate.
Photo of a screaming right-wing fash-enabling proboscis monkey, apparently gripting its own balls.
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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There's quality in the country yet.
Screenshot of President Catherine Connolly receiving the seal of state. Beside her, outgoing President Michael D Higgins applauds warmly.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Malcolm's first Presidential campaign was a good one. More dogs for the Áras, please. There'll never be another President who inspires as much pure affection as Michael D.
Malcolm the big red dog, but as a puppy, sitting in the boot of a car in 2018 wearing a bright red harness and a Michael D Higgins campaign badge. A homemade Michael D for President badge with an image of the teensy President riding on the back of his mighty Bernese mountain dog, Bród.
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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They have it coming.
Sign in the Zohran font and colours reading "Ringworm for transphobes"
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Such a part of childhood tv- watching. And I don't think she and John ever stopped being relationship goals 🥰
A very young, very beautiful Pauline Collins with a suavely handsome mustachioed John Alderton. An equally beautiful Pauline Collins sitting holding hands and having a drink with John Alderton on their 52nd wedding anniversary.
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Malcolm couldn't decide what to dress as so he chose both.

I've just realised I did not take any photos of my children's costumes.

#TrickOrTreat #Halloween
Malcolm the Irish setter cross dressed as a lion. Malcolm the Irish setter cross dressed as a horse.
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Ok, I'm calling bullshit. This is obviously all a set up for a forthcoming French jewel heist movie featuring intense sexual tension between the uptight dapper, methodical detective and the irresistibly hot and daring gem thief. #FromLouvresToLovers
Photo of French police lounging outside the Louvre while checking out the Frenchest Frenchman who ever Frenched, widely reported as being a detective. Mugshot of an objectively beautiful man with blue eyes, sideswept dark hair, light stubble and slightly parted lips. He is purportedly the Louvres jewel thief.
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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New tax on taigs just dropped.

#LocalPoperyTax #SpéirGhorm
Excerpt from Irish Time article Revenue insists ‘technical issues’ with Local Property Tax portal have been resolved Colin Gleeson Wed Oct 29 2025 - 16:19 Revenue has insisted that “technical issues” that locked many property-owners out of its dedicated portal to lodge a Local Popery Tax (LPT) return in recent days have been resolved.
October 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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There was a documentary featuring her a few years back. I'd say she was wild crack. As Máirín de Burca said at a 2023 event to honour May and her legacy, "Nothing will stop an Irish woman who gets thick.”
May McGee, who sought a court ruling that the confiscation of contraceptives she ordered was unconstitutional, leaving the court with her husband Shay in 1972. He is wearing a suit, she is wearing a smart blazer and a short skirt. They had 4 children. May developed toxaemia during her pregnancies, almost died having her second child and was in a coma for 4 days after delivering her twins after that. Her doctors said further pregnancy would risk death, but still she was denied access to contraception. She fought the law and won, changing Ireland forever. Photograph: Dermot Barry / Irish Times
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Amazing result in Tipp North for Catherine Connolly when you consider that all three TDs were against her. Commentators on about disenfranchisement should look at that carefully. It's not the spoiled votes that are interesting, it's who the Connolly vote will go to next #GE. #Áras25
Count result for Tipperary North: Connolly 58.01% Humphreys 32.89% Gavin 9.1% Count result for Tipperary South: Connolly 61.66% Humphreys 30.88% Gavin 7.46%
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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#HungerForJustice
#JusticeForPalestine
#Nenagh #Tipperary
An amazingly long crocheted quilt representing the colours of and lives lost in Palestine is being carried in solidarity from Banba Square through the streets of Nenagh by activists, artists and local people. Flags of Palestine, Ireland and Tipperary are also being flown. Image thanks to IPSC North Tipp.
October 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Seriously 😳
#RuralPursuits
WhatsApp message from my neighbour dated today at 09.04. "This question is driven by pure nosiness.... What's the story with the black merc?"
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle".
Image from the movie poster for Stephen King's Christine, featuring a night shot of a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury with headlights on. An outstretched hand is just visible clawing the ground underneath the murderous car.
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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My sister-in-law took this photo of Malcolm. Look at him! How happy and kind he is! He would press his warm weight against you and give you tidy little pupper kisses if you asked him to.
#DogsOfBluesky
Malcolm the Irish setter/retriever cross is lying on a brown leather sofa, his big front paws hanging over the edge. His mouth is open in what is definitely a laugh, his eyes are shining, his long ears are pressed down and he has a very happy face. There may be salmon treats nearby.
October 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I am always reluctant to narrow participation in politics in any way, but this whole election is a good argument for minimum qualifications for candidates and a pre-nomination public scrutiny process. So many of them have been an utter waste of time and airspace. #Áras25 #Aras25

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Text from article in Irish Independent with a photograph of former presidential candidate Jim Gavin. Text below, full story linked in post. Jim Gavin was sent solicitors’ letters by tenant seeking €3,300 rent refund, but they went unanswered. This article was written for publication this morning before Jim Gavin dropped out of the presidential race Fianna Fáil presidential election candidate shifts story from not having ‘any recollection or records of any such dispute’ Former Dubs boss now says he is ‘gathering the data’, ‘looking into it’ and that he will ‘deal with it with urgency’ Letters delivered to Casement Aerodrome where Defence Forces pilot worked and his parents’ house in Clondalkin
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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"what are we, Americans?"

That horse bolted long ago.
Fatal police shootings: Since 1990, the police have fatally shot 87 people in England and Wales. Source: Inquest.org https://www.inquest.org.uk/fatal-police-shootings Deaths of Black people in and following police contact: Since 1990, 194 Black people have died in and following police contact in England and Wales. https://www.inquest.org.uk/deaths-black-people-police Deaths of people in and following police contact Since 1990, 1938 people have died in and following police contact in England and Wales. https://www.inquest.org.uk/deaths-in-and-following-police-contact
October 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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D... doomer girl???
Doomer girl from the memes - a very pretty dark haired slightly emo girl
October 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Malcolm is having more success getting my recuperating father-in-law up and exercising than any trained health professional has managed so far.
#DogsMakeYou
The setting is a small suburban back garden. Malcolm the big red dog is play-bowing with a ball on the lawn in front of a man with white hair who is bending and stretching for the ball.
September 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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"You can't have a penis!!!" he squealed, increasingly weakly, as I continued to bludgeon him with my mason jar of pickled pricks.
A large glass jar of pickled penises sitting on a bookshelf. Not an obvious weapon, until now.
September 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Mam's anniversary, I got the box of photos down and found one I hadn't seen before (always magic, that). She's young here, but she always had the best smile. I can still hear her laugh 🥰

They never completely leave you (for me that's a good thing).
A young woman wearing the height of 70s style. She has a big toothy smile and gorgeous cheeks. A small child - my big sister - is on her lap just out of shot.
September 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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When asked what she meant by “game-changer,” Ms McDonald replied: “a game changer”, “Match of the Day” and “Up for the Match”.
“Does it sound very GAA?” she asked.

Oh God.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
President of Ireland Marty Morrissey in a tux shooting fingerguns, or maybe dancing.
September 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This poor guy has had 6 teeth removed but is exceptionally happy with the drugs he's been given.
5 stars, would trip again. #Caturday
A ginger and white cat is lying on his side on a green and white herringbone-patterned blanket on a sofa. His eyes are slightly open. He is off his tits on painkillers and is purring loudly
September 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM