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desktophippie.bsky.social
Desktop Hippie
@desktophippie.bsky.social
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A complete and total nerd.
#SpéirGhorm #Booksky #Treksky Star Wars, Discworld, SciFi, Fantasy, Comics, History, Folklore, Ecology, Photography.

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Patchwork art from the Irish Patchwork Society, displayed in the Chapter House at St. Mary's cathedral in Kilkenny city.
A selection of brightly coloured hand made patchwork quilts. A selection of brightly coloured hand made patchwork art pieces, mostly wall hangings, with several cushions and a patchwork book bag. A selection of brightly coloured hand made patchwork wall hangings on display in a medieval church looking building with pale yellow walls and warm wooden ceiling beams. A selection of brightly coloured hand made patchwork wall hangings in a building that looks a little like a medieval church, with pale yellow walls and a warm wooden ceiling.
September 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
A photo of Joanna Lumley with her chin resting on her hands, wearing a black blouse and a string of white pearls.
June 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Ohhhh gosh! This Buffy fan bids farewell to Quentin Travers, played by the wonderful Harris Yulin. You were the master of your fate. You were the captain of your soul.
#Buffy #BuffyTheVampireSlayer #BTVS
A screengrab of Harris Yulin playing Buffy The Vampire Slayer character Quentin Travers of the Watchers Council. Quentin is a middle aged man with receding silver hair, Caucasian skin, and a dour expression. He is wearing a tweet jacket, with a brown blazer beneath, and a white with faint beige striped shirt and faint beige and brown paisley tie beneath that. He is standing in Sunnydale High School’s library.
June 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Gutted to hear we’ve lost Peter David after a long illness. From Star Trek to Marvel Comics, his work had an indelible impact on me. He had a particular gift for humanising even the most unlikeable or neglected characters, making them resonate with an audience like no one else could.
A page from a Marvel comic book. This scene takes place at night, a conversation between Quicksilver and Doc Sampson, while Quicksilver completes a jigsaw puzzle at super speed. Quicksilver: “Tell me, Doctor, have you ever stood in line at a banking machine behind a person who didn’t know how to use it? Or wanted to buy stamps at the post office, and the fellow in front of you wants to know every way to ship his package to Istanbul? Or gotten some counter idiot at Burger King who can’t comprehend ‘Whopper, No Pickles’?” Doc Sampson: “Well… yes, I suppose…” Quicksilver: “And how do you feel on those occasions?” Doc Sampson: “Impatient. Irritated. A little angry sometimes.” Quicksilver: “Precisely. Because your life is being slowed down to a crawl by the inabilities or the inconvenient behaviour of others. It’s not a rational or considerate attitude to have, but there it is.” Focus on Quicksilver’s hands moving at super speed, snapping puzzle pieces into place with a constant thap thap thap thap sound. Quicksilver: “Now Imagine, Doctor, that everyone you work with, everywhere you go, your entire world, is filled with people who can’t work cash machines.”
May 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Apparently we got actual real life dire wolves back before we got The Winds of Winter.
💙📚 #Booksky #Fantasy #ASOIAF #GRRM
A Time Magazine cover with a red border, featuring a picture of a plain looking room with a gray floor and gray walls. In this room stands a snow white wolf, a dead ringer for Ghost, Jon Snow’s wolf from A Game of Thrones. The headline is EXTINCT in large white words, crossed out with a red line. Underneath is the following blurb. “This is Remus. He is a dire wolf. The first to exist in over 10,000 years. Endangered species could be changed forever. By Jeffrey Kluger.” The cover story is dated May 12th 2025.
April 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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If you're in Kilkenny next week I highly recommend dropping into the Butler Gallery to see Siren by Ursula Burke. Grecio-Roman inspired and informed by her life in post conflict Northern Ireland, its language of division and post conflict despair could not be more timely nor important. #SpéirGhorm
In the foreground is a four tiered stand finishing in a single slender column. Each tier, and the column, is topped with small sculptures and ceramics. In the background is a room with white walls. A tapestry can be seen on the left and right wall. The back wall is painted with tears of blue acrylic paint weeping from the ceiling. Just in front there is a separate white standing wall, with a painting in blue acrylic of rocky cliffs and a lake. A small mosaic and twin tapestries framed in a triptych sits on the wall, framed by the larger painting. In the foreground is a four tiered stand finishing in a single slender column. Each tier, and the column, is topped with small sculptures and ceramics. In the background the corner of a room with white walls. A tapestry of a boat in curling waves can be seen on the right wall. The left wall is painted with tears of blue acrylic paint weeping from the ceiling. Just in front there is a separate white standing wall, with a painting in blue acrylic of a river, with a field empty but for a single bushy tree on one side and odd looking hoofprint shaped structures on the other. A small mosaic and twin tapestries framed in a triptych sits on the wall, framed by the larger painting. A white wall and a white floor. The wall has streams of blue acryllic paint weeping from the ceiling, making a pattern of stripes. Ten small rectangular tapestries are hung on the wall, each depicting scenes of political chaos from around the world. The tapestry threads have been left loose at the end of each tapestry, forming a long fringe of variously coloured stripes that echoes the stripes of blue paint on the wall behind. A triptych hung on a white wall with a scene of leaves and rocky cliffs painted on it. The triptych is a dark wooden three panelled hinged frame made to close shut and open to reveal a three panelled religious icon. The left and right panels depict and abstracted mosaic in various skin tones occasionally contrasted with scarlet or cobalt blue. The centre panel is pale blue and coral red, with a fish laid across the border the contrasting colours form. The fish's head is scarlet. The rest of its flesh has been stripped away, leaving only a skeleton that looks oddly brachlike. Above this sits a circular mosaic depicting the face of a white woman with brown eyes and dark red hair. Her scarlet lips are swollen, and scatters of scarlet blood are dotted on her pale cheeks and chin. She stares at you with an expression that is weary and wary, almost accusatory.
April 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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The River Nore in the sunshine #SpéirGhorm
The River Nore in Kilkenny, with Kilkenny Castle in the distance.
April 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Isn't a bit of sunshine lovely all the same? Today we really are #SpéirGhorm
Some trees in a park reaching up toward a perfect cloudless bright blue sky.
April 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Me appearing in your thread like:
In an arid looking brown earthy landscape, a burrowing owl glares directly at you, its yellow eyes and beak barely visible over the edge of a ridge in the soil. The owl has a hostile expression indicating that it is outraged by your presence, possibly even outraged at your existence.
March 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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There's some great views from the big wheel #Kilkenny #LáFhéilePádraig #SpéirGhorm
A birds eye view of Kilenny city taken from the big wheel at The Parade, looking over the rooftops and cathedrals. A birds eye view of Kilkenny castle, the rose garden, and castle road, showing the market on The Parade, taken from the big wheel.
March 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Marching band in Kilkenny city #SpéirGhorm
March 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Fantastic entertainment in Kilkenny today #StPatricksFestival #StPatricksDay #SpéirGhorm
March 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Damn. I’m really glad I got to meet him and talk with him.

Also, I suppose this one is obligatory.
A Message For When I Am Gone Ireland -it is little or no favours you ever did me or my poems when I was alive I have this terrible feeling that sometime after I am gone you will swing into your usual rearguard action so posthumously in advance stick it up your arse.
March 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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A simplified map of the continent of North Mexico, which accurately depicts (from South to North) Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, West Russia, Canada and Greenland.
March 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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When all at once I saw a crowd...
A host of golden daffodils
February 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate!
A still film image from the very first episode of Twin Peaks. In side profile, Dale Cooper is inside his car, conifer forests passing blurrily by his car windows, one hand on his steering wheel, the other holding up a dictaphone he narrates into. The close caption reads: “Diane, 11:30am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”
February 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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HA! Too late! Ya missed me! *flees the county*
Photo of a road that has been blocked off by a Garda car for a Gardaí checkpoint. I don't actually know what the checkpoint is for. I'm just taking a trip today and found it amusing.
February 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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A map of the continent of North America, which correctly identifies Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, North Mexico and Canada. Apparently there’s some thing about some North Mexicans trying to rename parts of it for some weird reason.
February 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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First crocuses peeking
A handful of purple crocuses in bud, just starting to emerge.
February 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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February Snowdrops
February 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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🎶 Happy birthday to me!
🎶 Happy birthday to me!
Photo taken inside a restaurant of a marbled restaurant table. On it sits a large chocolate fudge sundae in a fancy sundae glass, topped with a heap of whipped cream and chocolate fudge sauce, and finished with two heart shaped wafers. Behind the sundae is an almost empty glass of orange juice and a bowl with scoops of strawberry and vanilla ice cream, topped with whipped cream and strawberry sauce. The chair opposite is empty, but there is a purple coat on it that belongs to my dining companion, who was in the loo when I took the photo. I swear I didn't order two desserts for myself.
January 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The orange march continues
#StormÉowyn #SpéirGorm
Met Éireann weather warning map. Although all the West and North coast are still red level warning, it’s now only the top third of the counties that remain red. The rest are orange. That’s top third as in the Northernmost counties. Not the top third as in the best third. Kilkenny is orange and it is an excellent county I will have you know.
January 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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THIS IS NOT THE SORT OF UNITED IRELAND WE HAD IN MIND!!!! #StormÉowyn #SpéirGhorm
A Met Éireann Weather and Marine warning map showing every Irish county and every part of the Irish coast under a red level warning. Just the whole country, all 32 counties, and every segment of coastline, marked bright red. No, this has never happened before. Yes, you should take in or nail down anything loose anywhere near your home.
January 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A black and white ink panel from a Peanuts comic by Charles M. Schulz. It’s nighttime. Charlie Brown is lying on his back in an open field, staring up at the sky. Linus has arrived, dressed in his striped shirt and dark shorts. He leans over Charlie and says “I have been asked to tell you that your cries of anguish are keeping the whole neighborhood awake!” For meme purposes, Linus has been labelled “Europe”, and Charlie Brown has been labelled “United States”.
January 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Here’s examples of some teeny tiny hats I knitted for Innocent smoothies for their Big Knit charity campaign.
An empty Innocent Smoothies bottle wearing a very fetching tiny fuchsia pink hat with a white knitted bow, surrounded by a range of other tiny hats in shades of fuchsia, hot pink, lavender, purple, and white. An empty Innocent Smoothie bottle wearing a very pretty teeny tiny knitted lavender hat with a deep purple knitted bow. The hatted bottle is lying on a carpet of other teeny tiny hats; fuchsia with white bows, hot pink and white stripes, soft green, lavender, dove gray with hot pink bows, plain white, and plain fuchsia.
January 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM