Ann Marie B
@psycicflower.bsky.social
Working in a library. Loves embroidery, music, video games & knitting.
She/Her
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I think at this point I'm just watching Game of Wool to admire what the contestants are wearing.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I think at this point I'm just watching Game of Wool to admire what the contestants are wearing.
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One pair of numbers nicely illustrates where the Irish housing crisis actually originates.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
One pair of numbers nicely illustrates where the Irish housing crisis actually originates.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.
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Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
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Sources expect ban within next six to 12 months
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IOC president wants to protect the female category
The International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics.
Multiple sources expect such a ban to come into effect over the next six to 12 months with the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, making clear she wants to drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways
I know the bar is in hell for gaming CEOs but this is something else.
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I know the bar is in hell for gaming CEOs but this is something else.
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"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else
To everyone else they are just "homes"
To everyone else they are just "homes"
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else
To everyone else they are just "homes"
To everyone else they are just "homes"
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
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Far right propagandists don’t need to attain power.
The result is the same if they can successfully
seed their ideologies in the existing body politic.
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Far right propagandists don’t need to attain power.
The result is the same if they can successfully
seed their ideologies in the existing body politic.
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April 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Far right propagandists don’t need to attain power.
The result is the same if they can successfully
seed their ideologies in the existing body politic.
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Far right propagandists don’t need to attain power.
The result is the same if they can successfully
seed their ideologies in the existing body politic.
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Excellent gig from English Teacher tonight, including some great new songs. Can't wait for whenever their second album comes out.
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Excellent gig from English Teacher tonight, including some great new songs. Can't wait for whenever their second album comes out.
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Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
Everyone celebrating Cheney's death is going to do great things for Trump's I don't think I'm getting into heaven, no one will mourn me mindset.
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Everyone celebrating Cheney's death is going to do great things for Trump's I don't think I'm getting into heaven, no one will mourn me mindset.
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A claw machine victory for Death.
Former US vice president Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84, a statement from his family said.
Cheney was one of the chief architects of the 'war on terror' and an early proponent of invading Iraq.
jrnl.ie/6864278
Cheney was one of the chief architects of the 'war on terror' and an early proponent of invading Iraq.
jrnl.ie/6864278
Former US vice president Dick Cheney has died aged 84
Cheney was one of the chief architects of the ‘war on terror’ and was an early proponent of invading Iraq in the wake of the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
jrnl.ie
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A claw machine victory for Death.
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The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.
The genocide is ongoing
The genocide is ongoing
Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report
Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report
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<p data-end="277" data-start="76">Israeli occupation forces are bulldozing large swathes of land east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, destroying what little remains of homes and infrastructure after months of relentless bombardment.</p>
<p data-end="447" data-start="279">Al Jazeera's correspondent on the ground reported that the army is conducting extensive demolition operations in the area, flattening residential blocks and farmland.</p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.
The genocide is ongoing
The genocide is ongoing
Absolute monsters setting the stairs on fire so people can't escape.
So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children.
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children
Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released
www.thetimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Absolute monsters setting the stairs on fire so people can't escape.
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Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
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Where is the initiative, or the resourcing, to stamp this out before someone is killed? (2/2)
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Where is the initiative, or the resourcing, to stamp this out before someone is killed? (2/2)
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A real test for politicians and gardaí.
There's been a years-long campaign of arson/attempted arson at IPAS centres - even buildings rumoured to be considered for asylum seekers.
We've had far-right instigated riots in our capital, at CityWest and Coolock; arson at TD's property... (1/2)
There's been a years-long campaign of arson/attempted arson at IPAS centres - even buildings rumoured to be considered for asylum seekers.
We've had far-right instigated riots in our capital, at CityWest and Coolock; arson at TD's property... (1/2)
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A real test for politicians and gardaí.
There's been a years-long campaign of arson/attempted arson at IPAS centres - even buildings rumoured to be considered for asylum seekers.
We've had far-right instigated riots in our capital, at CityWest and Coolock; arson at TD's property... (1/2)
There's been a years-long campaign of arson/attempted arson at IPAS centres - even buildings rumoured to be considered for asylum seekers.
We've had far-right instigated riots in our capital, at CityWest and Coolock; arson at TD's property... (1/2)
Who knew you could take a royals titles, home, etc. without a guillotine.
October 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Who knew you could take a royals titles, home, etc. without a guillotine.
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This pile of riot-appeasing baloney can roll right down the beach and cheerfully sink beneath the waves.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
Govt should reconsider immigration policies, says Harris
Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has said Ireland's asylum seeker system is not working and that the Government should reconsider existing policies "in a very serious way".
www.rte.ie
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This pile of riot-appeasing baloney can roll right down the beach and cheerfully sink beneath the waves.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
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I repost this each October in the hope that the complexity of Halloween's origins and customs are more widely appreciated. Claims of a simple historical & mononational genealogy for this celebration are themselves examples of contemporary folklore/mythmaking. limerick1914.medium.com/customs-vary...
“Customs vary wi’ the times, At Hallowe’en”
Customs, Myths and Messiness
limerick1914.medium.com
October 6, 2024 at 10:59 AM
I repost this each October in the hope that the complexity of Halloween's origins and customs are more widely appreciated. Claims of a simple historical & mononational genealogy for this celebration are themselves examples of contemporary folklore/mythmaking. limerick1914.medium.com/customs-vary...
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how are we supposed to have anything besides a low-trust society when the media refers to airstrikes that kill 100 people as a 'threat' to a ceasefire, or offers the logic that a ceasefire is something that can be unilaterally paused whenever Israel gets the urge to kill.
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
how are we supposed to have anything besides a low-trust society when the media refers to airstrikes that kill 100 people as a 'threat' to a ceasefire, or offers the logic that a ceasefire is something that can be unilaterally paused whenever Israel gets the urge to kill.
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The state broadcaster giving free rein again to one of the country’s largest developers to tell everyone why there aren’t enough houses and shockingly it’s got nothing to do with relying on developers - and the market which has made him a very rich man
STATE HOUSING ON STATE LAND BY A STATE BUILDER
STATE HOUSING ON STATE LAND BY A STATE BUILDER
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The state broadcaster giving free rein again to one of the country’s largest developers to tell everyone why there aren’t enough houses and shockingly it’s got nothing to do with relying on developers - and the market which has made him a very rich man
STATE HOUSING ON STATE LAND BY A STATE BUILDER
STATE HOUSING ON STATE LAND BY A STATE BUILDER
The highs and lows of a singer announcing an Irish gig, only for it to be in Marlay Park.
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The highs and lows of a singer announcing an Irish gig, only for it to be in Marlay Park.
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‘Suffering’ British Library staff take to picket lines.
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
‘Suffering’ British Library staff take to picket lines - Research Professional News
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
‘Suffering’ British Library staff take to picket lines.
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Library “operating reduced service” as PCS members demand better pay, two years on from cyberattack.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...