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Gytha Ui Bhanain
@gytha1069.bsky.social
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I drink and I teach things. Reader, Knitter, Nerd Educator, SCAdian, compulsive learner.
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A tiny sweet pea, blooming thyme, and raspberries and strawberries from the garden.
June 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Next colour change brings in a pink.
June 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Unexpected orchid in my garden.
June 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
April 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
gytha1069.bsky.social
Checking my flowerbed to see if any of last years flowers are making a come back. I’ve got a tiny pansy, and a wallflower in under the rose bush ( I definitely didn’t plant it there).
Small yellow wall flower surrounded by green rose bush leaves A hand holding up a tiny cream yellow and purple pansy flower. Dandelion flowers and daisys in a flower bed, a red brink in the foreground. Feathery yarrow leaves surrounded by long grass
April 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
I love how gay nature is.
miriam.blacksky.app Christmas Miriam 🎄 @miriam.blacksky.app · Mar 6
This is the news we deserve.

“These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males

'It was not what I was expecting,' says biologist Stephanie Stack”
These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males | CBC Radio
Photographers Hawaii captured what scientists say is the first documentation of humpback whale sex.
www.cbc.ca
March 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
gytha1069.bsky.social
Prepare yerselves, I’m going to be sharing as many of these groan worthy Valentines as I can find.
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levostregc.bsky.social Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Feb 13
Roses are redde
Lightsabers glowe
Carbon-freeze chamber
"I love thee," "I knowe"
February 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
gytha1069.bsky.social
How was my morning? Oh you know, just coded a robot to be photophobic.
February 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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bsbiscotland.bsky.social
Ooo exciting! I missed this one so great to be able to catch up 😁
Did you know someone who studies brambles is known as a ‘batologist’? Or that some bramble species have better fruits for cooking, jam making etc than others? No me neither, until those brambles got me hooked… 🤦 😂
bsbibotany.bsky.social BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · Feb 6
If you missed David Earl's excellent webinar about Rubus (Brambles) - or if you were there but want to refresh your memory - no problem!
We recorded the whole thing & it's now up on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=43jw...
Thanks to @daera-ni.gov.uk for funding this series of webinars.
February 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
gytha1069.bsky.social
Fresh spring morning!
Single snowdrop growing out of frost covered leaves, white trellis in background
February 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The artist Filip Hodas has created a series of "fossils" that provide an unconventional look at the skeletons of animated characters. I just love these!

More info: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/fili...
A series of photos showing the skeletal heads of Goofy and Donald Duck. A series of photos showing the skeletal heads of Goofy and Donald Duck.
February 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Hand knit Green-striped Cardigan now has buttons and is ready to wear. Not sure about button placement but wearer is happy so I’m calling it done and moving on to next item on the needles.
Cropped v neck cardigan, body and arm alternate a solid mid green with a self striping yarn in shades of yellow to brown to green to blue.
February 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
gytha1069.bsky.social
Putting this in my calendar
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The Grand Auld Sthretch (@theauldsthretch@mastodon.ie)
Something for your collective calendars. On the morning of the Sat. the 29th March there will be a partial solar eclipse visible from Ireland. At peak, around quater-to-11 local time, about 40% of the...
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February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
gytha1069.bsky.social
This look like a good exhibit - I could visit family and friends at the same time.

www.visitleiden.nl/en/event-cal...
Bronze Age: Fire of change
The major retrospective exhibition Bronze Age – Fire of Change is about a fascinating period in our history.
www.visitleiden.nl
January 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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phenologydecor.bsky.social
Launch Day! (Officially tomorrow, but here's a preview) We're going live with phenologydecor.com - luxury door and candle wreaths, with more to come, from Bunclody, Ireland. #Speirgorm
A dark-haired late teen girl stands outside a grey half-door, leaning on it, while a similarly dark-haired late teen boy stands inside. On the upper half of the door, between them, is a wreath with green leaves and frosted red berries.
January 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
Just cause yer competent doesn't mean ya need to be boring

(your morning amusement)
My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase So our summer intern (who I'm 90% sure is a professional shitposter moonlighting as a dev) just saved our entire authentication service by being, well, an absolute agent of chaos. Background: We have this legacy auth system that's been running since before TikTok existed. No one touches it. It's documented in ancient Sanskrit and COBOL comments. Then he begins leaving comments in the codebase like: // This function is older than me and probably pays taxes // TODO: Ask if this while loop has health insurance // Here lies Sarah's hopes and dreams (2019-2022), killed by this recursive call // yo why this token validation looking kinda thicc though // fr fr no cap this base64 decode bussin // wait... hold up... this ain't bussin at all Turns out his Gen Z spider-sense wasn't just tingling for the memes. Man actually found a validation bypass that's been lurking in our code since Obama's first term. The kind of bug that makes security auditors wake up in cold sweats. The best part? His Jira ticket title: "Auth be acting mad sus rn no cap frfr (Critical Security Issue)" The worst part? We now have to explain to the CEO why "no cap frfr" appears in our Q3 security audit report. The absolute kicker? Our senior security engineer's official code review comment: "bestie... you snapped with this find ngl"
January 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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a found poem, by @genderqueerwolf.bsky.social, from a mashup of good bones by maggie smith and wild geese by mary oliver.

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photo of a computer printout of a photo of cut out lines from both poems, carefully placed on yellow paper. i am sorry i cannot adequately reproduce the line breaks in the alt-text. poem begins here. life is short, though i keep this from my children. you do not have to be good. life is short, and ive shortened mine, you do not have to walk on your knees, in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, for a hundred miles through the desert, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways i'll keep from my children. repenting. the world is at least 50% terrible, and thats a conservative estimate, you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. tell me about despair, yours, and i will tell you mine. though i keep this from my children. meanwhile the world goes on. for every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird, for every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though i keep this from my children. i am trying to sell them the world. meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things. this place could be beautiful, right? you could make this place beautiful.
January 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
gytha1069.bsky.social
I’m thankful to the universe that there exists bags of frozen partially cooked veg and or pasta that can be thrown into a frying pan/ wok, with left over cooked chicken. It’s a 10 minute proper meal.
January 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Weather model 18z updates rolling out and they are bad news. They increase the wind gusts even a little more with more areas in Midlands forecast to see gusts of 170kmh. #StormÉowyn is going to leave a serious mark!
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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🧶 my daughters boxy baggy-sleeved cardigan is off the needles. I modified the TinCanKnits harvest cardigan pattern. Now to add buttons and block.
January 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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From the theydidthemath community on Reddit: [Request] what does his shirt say
Explore this post and more from the theydidthemath community
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January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Congratulations to the newest Laurel of Drachenwald, Órlaith Chaomhánach, who was elevated yesterday at 12th Night Coronation. Órlaith abú!
#Drachenwald #Laurel #Peerage #MySCA
A woman wearing a laurel wreath, a medallion and a black cloak with embroidery of laurel wreaths on the shoulders holds a medieval-style scroll and stands between a man and a woman wearing crowns and dressed in rich red colours in a medieval style. All three are smiling; the woman in the middle looks a little stunned.
January 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Thousands of students have arrived at the RDS for the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition.

Ahead of the event opening to the public, The Journal spoke to one student who wanted to find out if there is any truth to someone having a “big Irish head”.

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Vape safety and testing big Irish heads: What to expect at this year's Young Scientist
A total of 550 projects were selected to compete in this year’s exhibition.
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January 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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(7/31/18) #Delafina777-stories

Speaking of the dog, I may have slipped up and introduced a term into my mother's vocabulary that I'm worried she's going to start using without fully grokking what it means and that was a fuckup on my part...

hang on, let me back up and explain.
December 22, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Out for a walk in the local park.
Foreground contains a picture of an information board on Turlough formation. Mid and background contain bushes and leafless trees framed by a slightly overcast sky.
December 29, 2024 at 1:35 PM