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Potato Teaspoon
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Trans woman living in Cork City #SpeirGhorm #SpeirGorm, #SpéirGhorm loliunno

https://nodyesyes.substack.com/
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I fell asleep on the couch late afternoon. Woke up to RTE1 telling me about women flying home from Dubai on the regular to represent the parish. Go fund mes, the lot.

For some bizarre reason I had this mixed up with my own life. Imagining me getting go fund mes to take a DIY course and go to Croker
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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A view from the place I'm doing my DIY Course. Unfortunately not every walk home has had the weather like this. There's been horrific storms and rain, too. And I don't have a hat.

No hat is part of the reason I chopped my hair off. I don't want long hair getting caught up in drills and oils.
A tree on a slope overlooking a hockey field with houses behind it, and cars. At the bottom and side of the picture is a driveway leading towards a road.
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Great segment on @news.rte.ie @rteradio1.bsky.social on Drive Time the other day about the problems with masculinity and DIY, among other things.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

How men are often afraid to get stuck in as they feel it's something they should know automatically, i.e. shame. #SpéirGhorm
potatateaspoon.bsky.social Potato Teaspoon @potatateaspoon.bsky.social · 10d
I had my toolbox analysed at my DIY course yesterday. I was told it's very good. The only thing I felt was really missing was a ratchetting screwdriver and a drill (I'll get the drill in Aldo.)

The tutor said what I was really missing was a handsaw. I'll research that!
A kitchen countertop with a variety of tools laid out. In the background are some wooden boxes, a Hario V60 with coffee in it, a coffee cup and a bottle of alcohol free beer. There's a watermark on the image that says "nodphotography@protonmail.com" in purple text.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
potatateaspoon.bsky.social
I had my toolbox analysed at my DIY course yesterday. I was told it's very good. The only thing I felt was really missing was a ratchetting screwdriver and a drill (I'll get the drill in Aldo.)

The tutor said what I was really missing was a handsaw. I'll research that!
A kitchen countertop with a variety of tools laid out. In the background are some wooden boxes, a Hario V60 with coffee in it, a coffee cup and a bottle of alcohol free beer. There's a watermark on the image that says "nodphotography@protonmail.com" in purple text.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Had an absolute mare of a day the other day. Busy all morning. The dentist in the afternoon getting holes in my teef filled. The dentist was lovely! A student dentist, even!! Amazing!

Nothing for me to do but treat myself to a candlelight dinner all by myself as no-one is will to do it for me! 🕯️🌈🍽️
A candlelit dinner, with a rice dish served on a plate, a bottle of pilsner resting to the side of the plate. There's a tablet resting on a stack of newspapers. The table is a white kitchen table and there's a warm glow from the candle. The watermark says nodphotography@protonmail.com.
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I ate dinner a few hours ago. Too big a dinner. I was stuffed to the point of unwell. Now I'm hungry again. Bodies need to learn a little respect.
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Want to see Catherine Connolly's road bowling skills. She's had a go at everything else.

New Irish Presidential Pentathlon.
October 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Picture from Cork City, from about ten years ago. I think it was taken between Kent train station and the dock area by the quay. 🍦🐈
A red warning sign on a temporary metal fence, in front of some old, run down brickwork and orange, old window in the background. The warning sign says, "No Unauthorised Access," and obscures some graffiti of what gives the impression of a cat in blue shoes eating an ice-cream cone.
October 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Fully predict in seven (fourteen?) years time future presidential candidates will be asked about their keepie uppies.
October 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Be sure to votáil all the way down the ballot! #Aras25 #Áras25 🤣🇮🇪🏳️‍⚧️
October 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My Cork Bike Scheme photo that, last I heard, was hanging in the National Transport Authority offices.

I was given a €500 gift voucher for this and for the NTAs usage of my photos from this shoot on "socials" and in their annual report. Unfortunately some media companies are less honest. #SpeirGorm
A photo of the Cork Public Bike Scheme. Shot from a low position, through the frames of a series of bikes in their stands. After the row of bikes is a display board with the words, "CORK WALKS" on it. And after that, framed in the window of Cork Coffee Roasters is a couple sharing a chat over a coffee in the café.
October 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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This may be my conspiracy brain but surely FF are deliberately throwing the Presidential election. Like... Seriously?

God only knows what FG are up to. Probably something with AI, data centres and Uisce Eireann water waste given the level of soul and empathy on show.

#speirgorm #spéirghorm
October 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
potatateaspoon.bsky.social
This may be my conspiracy brain but surely FF are deliberately throwing the Presidential election. Like... Seriously?

God only knows what FG are up to. Probably something with AI, data centres and Uisce Eireann water waste given the level of soul and empathy on show.

#speirgorm #spéirghorm
October 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The Leisureplex (The Coliseum) in Cork, a number of years ago. Just given planning permission to be turned into a hotel.

It's desperate that semi-delinquent teens, today, have no smokey, Lynx smelling pool halls filled with Puzzle Bobble, Time Crisis and DDR arcade machines.

#SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm
A colour photograph of the Leisureplex (aka The Coliseum) in Cork. The predominant colour in the photograph is blue, with a pale and darker blue. The photograph emphasises rectangular geometric patterns, including the small, old windows which are thin and run high in the building. There is also red and white stripes on the building, which is emphasised by a light grey footpath, tall grey lamppost, red and white traffic separator and red cycle path. There is a lot of "perpendicularity" to the photo and the geometry is the focus along with the blocks of colour. A sign for the Leisureplex is cut off with text readable of "7 Days - Late."
October 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Connolly the clear winner in that by virtue of being the only one who isn't a complete pain in the fucken hole. 🇮🇪🍑

#RTETWIP #Áras25 #IrishPol
October 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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In the distant future there'll be psionic leaders micro-dosing 20th and 21st century brain worms to help them lead their worlds.
October 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Hillbilly's 🐔 MacCurtain Street, Cork. April 2016. 🍗🍔 🌈

#SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm
A photo of the lower half of a man in tracksuit pants and runners, and red top, at night, standing next to a sign that says, "Snack B - buy 1 get - Free - 12 - 7p." The footpath is paved and there's marks from chewing gum being thrown on the ground and walked in.
October 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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For the day that's in it, with Storm Amy. ☔

Taken about ten years ago on George's Quay, outside the Intreo Office, in Cork.
A black and white photo on a wet street, in the rain. Three people feature, one standing at the back right looking at a woman with an umbrella. Her face is obscured by the tilt of the small, light-coloured umbrella held against the rain. On the left of the picture is a man with messenger back looking determined against the weather.
October 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Posted an excerpt from my trans fiction novel. This featuring something based on a real life experience where a man said he'd pray for me to get pregnant 🏳️‍⚧️🤣 and to keep trying. ☑️ Fair enough! Good advice! 🇮🇪

Mainly a story about drinking in bars🍻 and having fun nodyesyes.substack.com/p/toni-with-...
Toni With An i
God can do many things...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The old FÁS building in Cork. Knocked ten(?) years ago, with lots of plans from BAM (who else?)

The site has been sitting empty for an age, with nothing looking like it's happening. This after Sample Studios, an arts group using part of the building, were kicked out for "Construction."

#SpéirGhorm
A picture of a statue/sculpture/monument with lamposts around it, a carving of a man looking out. An actual human is standing next to it, looking at it. In the background, and the equal level focus of the photo, is a brutalist building, roughly eight storeys tall at its highest level, five storeys at the lower level. The photo is in black and white.
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Picture of some leaves on a tree. The leaves are a vibrant variety of greens, possibly indicative of a humid, warm day. Maybe after a rain has fallen while the sun is evaporating the fallen rainwater nourishing growth.
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Two sections on RTÉ1 Liveline over the past week on Disability.

Said to a friend it feels like a flame's been lit when it comes to disabilities and that I played a part in it with my Letter to the Editor.

He said "Now pour some petrol on it!"🔥

It's incredibly draining, tho🌈 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm
A Letter to the Editor in the printed copy of the Irish Examiner from the 19th September 2025. The headline reads, "My disability doesn't stop me working — State does." Full article text available at: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/yourview/arid-41708216.html
September 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Noodles the other night with frozen doner kebab meat from the Asian/Middle-Eastern shop. Easiest dinner I've made in ages, and delicious! It'll save me a fortune on takeaways and ready meals🇮🇪🍻

Despite being a woman in her 40s, solo living means you need to work to eat a 'just-beyond' student diet🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
A kitchen counter with ingredients and pots and pans in prep for a meal laid out. The ingredients are; Rapeseed oil, frozen mushrooms, frozen peppers, egg noodles, chilli flakes, chow mein packaged sauce, and frozen doner kebab meat. A can of Budweiser is there, too. For the cook. A plate of noodles with a knife and fork sticking into them. Noodles slightly reddened from the sauce and cooking. Mushrooms, peppers and doner kebab meat mixed through. A plastic takeaway tub with dinner leftover noodles, with doner kebab meat, peppers and mushrooms mixed through, fork sticking into it. The tub of the lid sits behind it. A bag of crushed chilli flakes rests behind the tub.
September 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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I cannot tell you how many parents I met across the last few events who said that comics started their kids reading. Just comics. It’s the one thing that worked. 🫡
markbradley.bsky.social Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · Sep 30
I’m just humbly suggesting that, should the publishing industry want to tackle the crisis in reading for pleasure rates, and we have research suggesting that there’s no crisis in reading for pleasure rates amongst children who read comics, that there’s maybe a relatively simple solution right here.
September 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Went to the Cork Sports event in Tramore Valley Park. Played pétanque with Rebels Pétanque, lovely people, Cahill and Oliver.

My kinda sport. Not too frenetic but still involving a bit of skill and energy. When I suggested a beer while playing like in France Cahill suggested a pint of pastis. 🤣🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🍻
A pétanque area in Tramore Valley Park. A woman is bent over throwing a boulle. A group of people are looking on, one man with a baby in a sling at his front. Another game is going on in the background. The sky is a deep blue with just a few clouds, the grass is green and lush, there are cars in a carpark in the background. It looks like a crisp, clear, autumnal day.
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM