O.R. Melling
@ormelling.bsky.social
World-wandering writer, screenwriter, XR/immersive tech, newbie gamer. Also feminist, socialist, contrarian, Corbynite. Ireland born, Canada reared, Irish inhabitant. She/her. Website: www.ormelling.com. *DMs blocked unless invited*
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E io a lui: "Se 'l presente rigagno/si diriva così dal nostro mondo/perché ci appar pur a questo vivagno?" And I to him: If the present stream so springs therefore from our world, why does it appear also at this border?"
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11... **Irish doctor confirms the Trump/Israeli ceasefire in Gaza is a LIE. After amputating a child's leg due to a bullet wound, the doctor claims things are worse than the last time he was there.** #Gaza #Israel #ceasefire [again, I had to search for this, not in my newsfeed]
Gaza now resembles 'Mad Max movie', says Irish surgeon
Gaza resembles "something out of a Mad Max movie", with lawlessness on the streets and amputations carried out on children daily, an Irish surgeon who left Palestinian territory this week has said.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11... **Irish doctor confirms the Trump/Israeli ceasefire in Gaza is a LIE. After amputating a child's leg due to a bullet wound, the doctor claims things are worse than the last time he was there.** #Gaza #Israel #ceasefire [again, I had to search for this, not in my newsfeed]
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Battledore and shuttlecock or jeu de volant was an earlier version of badminton. Played with two rackets and a shuttlecock, the object was for the players to hit the shuttlecock towards each other without letting it fall to the ground. #FolkloreThursday
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Battledore and shuttlecock or jeu de volant was an earlier version of badminton. Played with two rackets and a shuttlecock, the object was for the players to hit the shuttlecock towards each other without letting it fall to the ground. #FolkloreThursday
Heading to Derry for the celebration of a dear departed (too young!) friend, Frances Molloy. I'll be staying with pals in Dungiven, the author's hometown & setting for her novel NO MATE FOR THE MAGPIE, published when women writers were ignored in Ireland, a precursor to Anna Burns's MILKMAN.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Heading to Derry for the celebration of a dear departed (too young!) friend, Frances Molloy. I'll be staying with pals in Dungiven, the author's hometown & setting for her novel NO MATE FOR THE MAGPIE, published when women writers were ignored in Ireland, a precursor to Anna Burns's MILKMAN.
Tried to watch #DearX because many great actors are in it but somewhere into Ep 3 I realised I couldn't possibly continue. Like #DearHongrang it's not horror, it's abuse porn, evil-for-vicarious-kicks viewing. I no longer traumatise myself for entertainment. Why I left dramas of the West.
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Tried to watch #DearX because many great actors are in it but somewhere into Ep 3 I realised I couldn't possibly continue. Like #DearHongrang it's not horror, it's abuse porn, evil-for-vicarious-kicks viewing. I no longer traumatise myself for entertainment. Why I left dramas of the West.
Last night in Mandarin class, our laoshi taught us the word for day & sun (rì) being the same as per moon & month (yuè). Then he gave us an expression for mutual benefit i.e. light shared/reflected & added it's antiquated, used only by nobles e.g. an emperor to a prince. Then he looked at me. .../2
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Last night in Mandarin class, our laoshi taught us the word for day & sun (rì) being the same as per moon & month (yuè). Then he gave us an expression for mutual benefit i.e. light shared/reflected & added it's antiquated, used only by nobles e.g. an emperor to a prince. Then he looked at me. .../2
One should never be afraid to repost RED. Here's my latest contribution. #LiuYuning #Cdrama
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
One should never be afraid to repost RED. Here's my latest contribution. #LiuYuning #Cdrama
#Cdrama lovers, here's a sweet fan account for #BaiJinting to follow. The profile description is "handsome man" lol.
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#Cdrama lovers, here's a sweet fan account for #BaiJinting to follow. The profile description is "handsome man" lol.
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Must pop over to see this. Last time I was in London I stayed in a jail cell. (Conversation starter.) Jailhouse turned Buddhist Centre that offers B & B in renovated tiny cells (bunk with shelves, grafitti still on tiled walls). Scotswoman & myself agreed our people probably stayed here.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Must pop over to see this. Last time I was in London I stayed in a jail cell. (Conversation starter.) Jailhouse turned Buddhist Centre that offers B & B in renovated tiny cells (bunk with shelves, grafitti still on tiled walls). Scotswoman & myself agreed our people probably stayed here.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... **Western governments & media condemn Hamas's war crimes & brutality against civilians while bankrolling & supporting the IDF & Israel's far greater guilt by number & intensity.** #genocide #Gaza #Israel
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... **Western governments & media condemn Hamas's war crimes & brutality against civilians while bankrolling & supporting the IDF & Israel's far greater guilt by number & intensity.** #genocide #Gaza #Israel
On the staff shelf in the library yesterday (librarians are the best readers!). As mentioned previously, I no longer traumatise myself for entertainment in any medium, but I'm on for someone called "the Queen of cosy crime in Japan". Nothing like snuggling up to a warm murder mystery.
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On the staff shelf in the library yesterday (librarians are the best readers!). As mentioned previously, I no longer traumatise myself for entertainment in any medium, but I'm on for someone called "the Queen of cosy crime in Japan". Nothing like snuggling up to a warm murder mystery.
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Oh is woke back? Has it risen from the dead? Did the people rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number? Is the old world dying? Is the new world struggling to be born? Babe, wake up, now is the time of monsters.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Oh is woke back? Has it risen from the dead? Did the people rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number? Is the old world dying? Is the new world struggling to be born? Babe, wake up, now is the time of monsters.
This is a lovely calming thought from a great thinker. (Neo-Marxist my Marxist philosophy prof called him. I wonder about these terms & labels.) And HURRAH. Mamdani won. What a great day for hope. But is it the turning of the tide for that hot mess of a country ruled by a dictator? We stay tuned.
What a day to be teaching classes on Gramsci’s notion of political hegemony. Optimism of the will!! 👊🏻
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This is a lovely calming thought from a great thinker. (Neo-Marxist my Marxist philosophy prof called him. I wonder about these terms & labels.) And HURRAH. Mamdani won. What a great day for hope. But is it the turning of the tide for that hot mess of a country ruled by a dictator? We stay tuned.
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Best of luck New York! The light is rising - Irish presidency, Dutch elections, your turn.
a person holding a glowing object in their hands with stars coming out of it
Alt: Sparks of light flowing from cupped hands out into the darkness of night.
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Best of luck New York! The light is rising - Irish presidency, Dutch elections, your turn.
Namaste everyone everywhere. Have a lovely day. 🙏
House-builder, you are seen,
you will not build a house again.
All the rafters are broken,
the ridgepole destroyed.
The mind, gone to the Unconstructed,
has reached the end of craving.
Buddha, 5th century BCE
#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
you will not build a house again.
All the rafters are broken,
the ridgepole destroyed.
The mind, gone to the Unconstructed,
has reached the end of craving.
Buddha, 5th century BCE
#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Namaste everyone everywhere. Have a lovely day. 🙏
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... *Google "Gaza" and read the headlines. There is no ceasefire as far as Israel is concerned.* And I have to search for #Gaza news as the media keeps it off my general news feed despite me searching for it daily. Who's controlling the algorithms? #genocide #Israel
A single shell, fired by the IDF at a fertility clinic: peace prize recipient explains what lies behind her genocide finding
Former UN inquiry chair Navi Pillay says ‘what’s so unusual about this genocide’ is that ‘we are all witnesses to it’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... *Google "Gaza" and read the headlines. There is no ceasefire as far as Israel is concerned.* And I have to search for #Gaza news as the media keeps it off my general news feed despite me searching for it daily. Who's controlling the algorithms? #genocide #Israel
And this is exactly why Trump is afraid of comedians. They just bring it home with laughter.
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
And this is exactly why Trump is afraid of comedians. They just bring it home with laughter.
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Anybody else like to sit on the top of their stairs to ponder life, the universe and everything? I got the habit when I was a kid and never lost it. (Probably why I was called "Big Ears". Seemed to know everything that was going on in my large family. Guess I heard a lot. Writer in training.)
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Anybody else like to sit on the top of their stairs to ponder life, the universe and everything? I got the habit when I was a kid and never lost it. (Probably why I was called "Big Ears". Seemed to know everything that was going on in my large family. Guess I heard a lot. Writer in training.)
This lad is so dotey, here's a little cheer-you-up for the day. #TheKingsAffection.
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This lad is so dotey, here's a little cheer-you-up for the day. #TheKingsAffection.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Drop something RED ❤️
November 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Drop something RED ❤️
DROP SOMETHING RED. One of the best Korean kings (😉) in #Kdrama. There are 4 gorgeous men in #TheKingsAffection and one of them is a woman. 😍
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
DROP SOMETHING RED. One of the best Korean kings (😉) in #Kdrama. There are 4 gorgeous men in #TheKingsAffection and one of them is a woman. 😍
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The conditions of a solitary bird are five: it flies to the highest point; it does not suffer for company, not even its own kind; it aims its beak to the skies; it does not have a definite colour; it sings very softly.
St John of the Cross, 17th century
#Photography #Birds #SpeirGorm #EastCoastKin
St John of the Cross, 17th century
#Photography #Birds #SpeirGorm #EastCoastKin
October 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: it flies to the highest point; it does not suffer for company, not even its own kind; it aims its beak to the skies; it does not have a definite colour; it sings very softly.
St John of the Cross, 17th century
#Photography #Birds #SpeirGorm #EastCoastKin
St John of the Cross, 17th century
#Photography #Birds #SpeirGorm #EastCoastKin