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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Dinner the other night. Yum yum! Have a big batch of them for the freezer, now, and I'm gonna give a tub to my Mam.

I love multi-cultural Ireland! 🇮🇪🌈 Potato wedges and Thai curry! Who'da thunk it?
A bowl with a reddy-orange quite liquid curry in it, chips and potato wedges mostly submerged, chicken on top of the wedges. A ladle sits on top, with salt shaker behind the bowl. Various other kitchen accoutrements can be seen.
September 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Ronan Kelly on Morning Ireland said my letter "seethes with frustration." 😡 🇮🇪 🤘

I know what my first tattoo is gonna be, now. 🤣 Just a question of where I get it. 🤣
Photo of the "Letters to the editor" section of the Irish Examiner. Headline written by the Examiner on my letter reading, "My disability doesn't stop me working — State does" with a cut off of headline text next to it saying, "win again." The folded in half newspaper rests on a table and there's a supplement from 'De Paper' in the background on Staycations. Full text of all the letters to the editor available at https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/yourview/arid-41708216.html and I would hope the 'De Paper's' website works with zoom levels in browser, alternative, dyslexia friendly fonts, and screen readers.
September 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.
Two women in bikinis, robes and wearing wizard hats sitting in a field of weed plants, one smoking a fine looking dooby, their eyes red, them baked, everything chill as fuck.
September 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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One minute video of me cooking my 🔥 Desperate Single Woman, Irish Black Pudding Stir Fry 🐖 Sound on for wicked, legendary 🏳️‍⚧️ soundtrack.

This is what single, 40 year old 🇮🇪 women🧙‍♀️ get up to when left to their own devices! 🌈 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

Recipe at nodyesyes.substack.com/p/the-desper...
September 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Got me Farm Sim 🚜 on last night. Doing it again today. Drunkenly driving my skid steer around.

Getting sheep 🐑 and goats 🐐 today. Already have moo cows 🐮 chickens 🐓and bees 🐝

Plan is to create a little hipster farmers market area in a patch of land I bought. Will keep you all updated, of course! 🌈
A Farm Sim screenshot of a New Holland skid steer with farm sheds in the background and text overlaid of, "Love me little New Holland for Shuffling me Spring Onions about."
September 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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From my email on disability Holly Cairns SocDems office gave suggestions of people I could contact to offer my skills to.

After months of hard work — my blog my portfolio — I now have my first bit of journalism in print.

Given opportunities people with disabilities can contribute! 🇮🇪 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 #SpéirGhorm
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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From the Cork Pride Parade this year, August 3rd 2025, in the staging area.
A photograph at a pride parade. There's a giant pride/inclusivity flag laid out on the ground with lots of people standing around it. Trees, buildings and fancy lampposts behind that. In the foreground, with their backs to the camera, are two black women carrying Irish flags on flagpoles and looking at the pride flag on the paving. The sun is shining and the skies are clear and blue.
September 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Was at a pride parade recently. There were a fair amount of Irish flags which is something that made me proud.

Reclaim the flag from the fascist pricks and continue to push that Ireland is modern, progressive, inclusive country that has to keep striving to do even better.
A photograph at a pride parade. There's a giant pride/inclusivity flag laid out on the ground with lots of people standing around it. Trees, buildings and fancy lampposts behind that. In the foreground, with their backs to the camera, are two black women carrying Irish flags on flagpoles and looking at the pride flag on the paving. The sun is shining and the skies are clear and blue.
September 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Still summer but I'm excited about doing this over the wet winter. Got me thinking about toy drives and how this is aimed at ages 14+

Young kids get a lot of attention but 14/15/16 year olds are still kids and deserve "toys" (from Santa.) Would really like to donate stuff like this, paints, etc 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
A picture of a model kit car in its box, a red Mazda MX-5, made by Tamiya (one of the ones you put together yourself) sitting on a table surrounded by clutter.
August 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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A split scene from The Young Ones where Rik Mayall is asking them to put their hands up if they like him and they all press their hands down towards the floor. Except the text has been edited to be about John Boyne and it says, "Hands up who's been criticised by the Auschwitz Museum."
August 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Cork Pride August 3rd 2025 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm
August 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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So exhausted after Cork Pride 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ (weekend), a week with shitty family stuff ending an era, and a medical crisis I've been avoiding for eons that I've taken the bottle of milk and not the (very good) Aldi Pepsi Max knock-off from the fridge and was about to pour it in my (very good) Aldi whiskey 🥛🐄😩
A group holding a banner saying "Gender Rebels - Trans Peer-Support Network" at Cork Pride August 2025. There's a flag framing this from one side in the foreground, red balloons on framing it on the other side in the foreground. A lot of people are standing around. One woman is wearing a blue dress and another holds an umbrella, both standing behind the banner. There's rainbow and trans flags flying in the background. The sun is shining at it's joyous and celebratory.
August 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM