#mastodaoine
The world is too distressing, and I am powerless to fix it (no, don't explain how I am not. My adopted country just voted Against a ceasefire in Gaza, while supplying the $ and munitions and nothing you say will change my powerlessness).
So. I made a new folder in lists, and I put every Irish account I could find in there, and I am just going to hide it there until armageddon, after which none of this will matter anymore.
Luas update at: 11.30pm Sat 9th Dec 2023.
All Red Line services are operating normally.
All Green Line services are operating normally. Please be advised that the escalator at Connolly is out of service. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
All lifts and other escalators are in full working order.
If a smoochy, 1940's-style song about a New Year's one night stand sounds like your bag, get your pre-order in so you have something to dance to!
You will get an older song of mine, Persevere (Another Year) right now, and Not a Love Song on December 30th.
We are having a lot of fun with this one!
#NewYear #IrishMusic #BandCamp #Musodon #FediArtists #Mastodaoine #Jazz
https://sharonmurphymusic.bandcamp.com/album/persevere-another-year-with-b-side-not-a-love-song
The pine marten is Ireland's rarest (and one of our prettiest) native mammals, and was almost lost to extinction through hunting for fur, poisoning, and destruction of their forest habitat.
Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/cat-crainn-pine-martin-10x12-inch-fine-art-print
Uplift are creating a beautiful mosaic banner to hang up in Parnell Square to show that we are for love, we are for solidarity, and we welcome immigrants and refugees. You can take part by following this link:
https://action.uplift.ie/surveys/love-organise-resist-dublin
@sk76 North Dublin and as far away as South Dublin #MastoDaoine
Great celebration with choirs and dance groups in the Gresham today at the heart of O’Connell Street with New Communities Partnership. #DublinForAll #NewCommunitiesPartnership #OConnellStreet #RIUPlaza #TheGresham #FestiveSeason #Mastodaoine *Again, the automatic alt text generator on IceCubes is phenomenal.
Luas update at: 4.33pm Sat 9th Dec 2023.
All Red Line services are operating normally.
All Green Line services are operating normally. Please be advised that the escalator at Connolly is out of service. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
All lifts and other escalators are in full working order.
#StormFergus tomorrow, as well!? Lads.
More orange and yellow weather warnings tomorrow afternoon and evening affecting several counties across the middle of the island.
Check Met Éireann for updates: https://www.met.ie/warnings/today
Today is 2023-12-09, the sun sets at 16:06:19 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 36 secs. #mastodaoine #GrandStretch #NearlyAtTheNewSthretch
80km/h wind has the canal a-flowin' and his beard a-blowin'!
#IrishWeather #Kildare #Mastodaoine #CanalLife #Walking #MastoDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Schnauzer
Just tried to sign up for a FREE online course, but they required my credit card details.
WTH?
I backed out of course.
#mastodaoine
It's the moooost wonderful tiiiiiime of the yeeear...
Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/every-christmas-romance-movie-10x8-inch-fine-art-print
Diary of a true radical. ‘The editors conclusion that ‘she was a woman worth knowing through, and in, her own words’ is indisputable & it’s good they didn’t alter or correct her phrasing or spelling which makes reading the diaries more authentic’. Irish Times review, 9/12/‘23 #history #irishhistory #mastodaoine
Ah here, now.
⚠️ #StormElin: Weather warnings for most counties, except Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Limerick.
🟠 Orange warnings in place for: Donegal, Dublin, Wicklow.
• "Gale force west to northwest winds and severe gusts, causing disruption and travelling difficulties."
🟡 Yellow warnings in place for the remainder of the country.
• Wind warnings in place, and some rain warnings.
More info here, and batten down the hatches: https://www.met.ie/warnings/today
On this day in 1829, Sarah Ainsworth Enery Story died in Carlisle aged 33. The Journals show the inscription on a monument for her at Ballyconnell Church, Tomregan, Co. Cavan: https://tinyurl.com/story1829
Learn about the Journals at https://MemsDead.com
#OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #MastoDaoine #Cavan @genealogy@chirp.social @genealogy@a.gup.pe @histodons
Luas update at: 9.00am Sat 9th Dec 2023.
All Red Line services are operating normally.
All Green Line services are operating normally. Please be advised that the escalator at Connolly is out of service. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
All lifts and other escalators are in full working order.
Had the absolute privilege to play this for a refugee from #Palestine this evening and to dedicate it to her family both here and at home and to all affected by the conflict #CeasefireNOW #mastomusic #mastodaoine https://youtu.be/iyOF20P3dQo
Today I learned that the creator of the first ever episode of Doom lives in Galway. #mastodaoine
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/witness-history/id339986758?i=1000634277490
Welcome to #MastoDaoine, @RightToKnow 🙌🏼
One day you walked into Xtravision for the last time #mastodaoine
Just watched "Leave The World Behind". Interesting concept and I quite enjoyed it.
#mastodaoine #LeaveTheWorldBehind
Today is 2023-12-08, the sun sets at 16:06:38 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 55 secs. #mastodaoine #GrandStretch #NearlyAtTheNewSthretch
Paging #MastoDaoine! And fans of #film and #books in general:
Can anyone recommend a good watch or read for a short (overnight) stay in hospital? I will be there, on my tod, for 24 hours. I will be bored.
Go!
Any and all suggestions hugely appreciated.
📚🎬
Happy Culchie Christmas to all those who celebrate. Enjoy the day in the big smoke
#MastoDaoine
Our friends from the west are back for the winter. #Geese #WinteringOut #Kilbarrack #Northside #DublinBay #Mastodaoine #BirdsOfMastodon *Lads, I just used the auto alt text generator on IceCubes and it is good!
On this day in 1777, Clues Shortt died aged 30. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Ballyburly, Co. Offaly (King's), in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/shortt1777
Learn about the Journals at https://MemsDead.com
#OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #MastoDaoine #Offaly @genealogy@chirp.social @genealogy@a.gup.pe @histodons
My wife buys potted plants for our back garden and wonders why I collectively call them “expensive rabbit food”…
#mastodaoine
Giclée print of the sold-out original linocut piece, Gráinne Mhaol commanded a fleet of ships and engaged in piracy and raids, met with Queen Elizabeth in person, and legend has it she got up immediately after giving birth to turn the tide of a battle.
Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/grinne-n-mhille-grinne-mhaol-10x8-inch-fine-art-print
@clickhere Mornin Joan. Bit wet this morning. #mastodaoine
Anu (Anand/Anann), associated with the idea of the mother goddess of Ireland. The pair of hills known as the Paps Of Anu (Da Chich Anann, "the breasts of Anu") in Kerry are believed to be named after her.
Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/anu-a4-fine-art-print
#Monaghan #GAA has released their new home jersey sporting the new sponsor.
The promo image looks OK... until you look at the actual sleeves and the back. My god, that is horrid.
#mastodaoine
https://www.oneills.com/monaghan-gaa-home-jersey-2024-white-shadow-royal-personalised.html
Today is 2023-12-07, the sun sets at 16:06:59 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 min and 16 secs. #mastodaoine #GrandStretch #NearlyAtTheNewSthretch
For those not aware of the context of the above poem For Patrick, this article explains how his story came to light and touched the heart of the nation.
#IrishTravellers #ChildSuicide #Bullying #Mastodaoine
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/1127/1418610-higgins-traveller-doc/
For Patrick
He was not lost! He knew the way
and had the answers to each day.
He found the meaning of his voice.
He was not lost. He had no choice.
He was not lost! He was undone,
this child of music, Ireland's son.
With shredded dreams he fell to ground.
He was not lost, but can't be found.
He was not lost! He was a guide,
with much to say, but more to hide.
He closed his eyes, returned to womb.
He was not lost. He's in his room.
Alright y'all. It's December and that means that gender pay gap reports are coming. There's over 400 entries in my database for 2022, so that's a lot of googling for me to be doing. If you want to help, keep an eye out for companies dropping their 2023 report and send em my way!
Seriously is there ANYTHING more satisfying than sitting on a bus using the bus lane to sail by a few hundred single-occupant cars on the rainy morning commute??
#publictransportFTFW #publictransport #mastodaoine #dublin #ireland
Who was I talking to at the #MastoDaoine meet up who was looking for the details of the Howth foraging guide lady?
Nicole Dunne
Howthforaging@outlook.ie
Trees Abstract
[Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/trees-abstract-james-mccormack.html ]
#treesabstract #trees #abstract #green #foliage #leaves #trunks #treetrunk #branches #park #forest #thicket #sunshine #sun #sunintrees #painting #watercolour #BuyIntoArt #mastoart #mastodaoine #fedigiftshop
Brigid/Brigit, the goddess and the saint, associated with blacksmiths, spring, cattle, and fertility, among others, and stories including blinding herself in one eye to avoid being married. The three-armed cross is associated with the triple goddess and the Trinity.
Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/brigid-a4-fine-art-print
An investigative journalist made every effort to find someone who spoke Irish among the extreme right-wing in Ireland but failed to find so much as a single person.
In summary: "The Ireland For The Irish" people don't actually have Irish.
How shocked am I? Not very, to be honest.
14) #Wired with the story on how American #FarRight figures are amplifying their fringe counterparts in #Ireland
Just as #Stalin and #Lenin encouraged global communist revolution through the #Comiterm, we now have #ElonMusk and #Putin stoking a #Fascisterm aimed at undermining western democracies
Ireland is a plaything for these #garchs
#DublinRiots #MastoDaoine
#IrishNews #ItishPolitics
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-calling-for-ireland-civil-war
I’m now going back to previous posts where I hadn’t entered any #alttext #mastodaoine @IceCubesApp
The new AI-generated #alttext description within the new version of @IceCubesApp is great! #mastodaoine
‘A fascinating documentary’s about the hidden stories behind eight lesbian couples during Ireland’s revolutionary years’. Croíthe Radacacha/Radical Hearts @TG4TV, Dec 6th, 9.30pm. #irishwmnhist #mastodaoine #history #lgbthistories #queerfemininities https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41283085.html
I'm apparently a 'top 3%' Irish learner on Duolingo.
I couldn't tell you one fucking sentence and I've been at it for over a year.
Chead acu imeacht sa foc.
Commanding the waves is Manannán Mac Lir - son of the sea, ancient warrior, powerful sea god, and member of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology.
Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/manannn-mac-lir-a4-fine-art-print
Ceum airais bho Oilthigh Obar Dheathain.
Petition: Save Language, Translation & Interpreting degrees at the University of Aberdeen
#Aberdeen #AberdeenUniversity #languages #Gaelic #cuts #MastoDaoine #CelticLanguages
The National: Huge number of Scots Gaelic learners revealed by Duolingo
The popular language learning app has said that 1.8 million people had started learning Scots Gaelic since it launched on St Andrews Day 2019, with 519,000 people actively learning the language today.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23966266.huge-number-scots-gaelic-learners-revealed-duolingo/
Tobhta abaid Lann Dorais agus a taigh-staile ùr. Bha uisge-beatha dèanta an-seo cho tràth ri 1494 a-rèir chlàir sgrìobhte.
The ruins of the abbey of Lindores and its new distillery. It is here where we have the first written record of aque-vitae/ uisge-beatha being made in Scotland, at least as early as 1494.
#Whisky #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scotland #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #MastoDaoine
@DoubleTreble Morning DT and everyone in #Mastodon land and #mastodaoine Musical Mondays now! Hope you have a good day planned and the crowds are not too big if you are out and about. I’m off to let the vampire have a feed in the Doc’s this morning.
Did you ever wake up, hug the person beside you and feel thankful for being alive?
I did, but now I'm banned from Ryanair...😄
#mastodaoine #dadjokes
13) Looking at the landscape of #SocialProblems in #Ireland, lack of affordable housing may be one of the triggering items for the #DublinRiots.
Let me be clear, not everyone struggling with the #IrishHousingCrisis riots, but it is likely one of the fault lines used by #FarRight agitators to trigger violence especially when tied to #migration pressures
The #IrishTimes has an excellent article ⬇️ on those whose housing circumstances are challenging
12) There is no unitary explanation for last week’s #DublinRiots. Those who participated in violence had a reasons peculiar to their own experience. Much as we may wish for singular explanations, solutions to the street rage will likely be manifold, if there is enough courage to look at the event without bias and simplistic prejudice.
Let’s stipulate that the rioters did not participate motivated out of satisfaction with their current life situation.
Reading Glasses.
Charcoal Drawing.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/reading-glasses-james-mccormack.html ]
Reading Glasses, a drawing of a pair of spectacles on a wooden table beside a book, drawn inblack and white, in charcoal.
#readingglasses #reading #glasses #spectacles
#Mastodaoine #jamesmccormackartist
#wooden #table #book #blackandwhite #charcoal #BuyIntoArt #Fedigiftshop
A few Gráinne Mhaol stickers to shtick in with print orders on www.ciaraioch.com between now and d'Christmas 🏴☠️
The full #Crowvember series is now available as a print, with a bonus yogi crow (crow-gi?) which definitely wasn't hastily included just because I couldn't get the original 15 to fit properly. Thanks for following along, prints available here! https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/crowvember-combination-print-a4-and-a3-fine-art-prints
A cartoony selection of some of Ireland’s aquatic, bird, plant and animal life, with their names as Gaeilge in a cló Gaelach-inspired script. Available individually in A4 and A3 size in the online shop, or together as a discounted A4 bundle here: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/irish-wildlife-value-bundle-save-10-a4-fine-art-prints
Thanks, @Tupp_ed for organising the Mastodon/Bluesky meet-up.
Unfortunately there was no dance-off, but thankfully there was no karaoke!
And a good question posed - we have #MastoDaoine but what's the #bluesky equivalent?
Our inaugural #MastoDaoine and Bluesky meet-up went very well. (All the really cool teenagers who showed up were just in the loo during the photo)
Next time- ROLLERCOASTERS!
Reminder that the gorgeous Irish documentary "How to Tell a Secret" just dropped on Netflix today. Even if you've already seen it, maybe pop it on the telly while you work :) #mastodaoine #HIV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=javUGyajTCY
The bould EIRSAT-1, Ireland's first satellite, is launching on Friday from California. In 2022 I was asked to draw a stamp-making design for outreach events, so I based it on the original Irish stamps, which celebrated their 100th anniversary last year. Beir bua! 🛰️
TBT This week started by attending an ICTU vigil outside the GPO against the far right rioters of a week ago. This week 13 years ago I was similarly outside the GPO protesting austerity, the cuts, and the Government. It was alternately crisply bright and slushy miserable weather. The guards were out in force in front of the Department of the Taoiseach despite the lack of trouble. #TBT #ThrowBackThursday #Ireland2010 #Austerity #TheTroika #IMF #EC #ECB #TheCrash #Dublin #DublinRiots #Mastodaoine
Chapel of the Afflicted - interior.
Watercolour.
Chapel in Liberdade, in the center of Sao Paulo, - interior of the chapel.
Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/capela-dos-aflitos-interior-james-mccormack.html
#Chapel #afflicted #Liberdade #mastodaoine #FediGiftShop #SaoPaulo #exterior #BuyItoArt #watercolour #capeladosaflitos
That's Shane off to Tìr nan Òg. Another who leaves a powerful legacy.
The Morrigan triple goddess - and the crows they are heavily associated with - are Irish mythology's foretellers of death or victory in battle. https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/the-morrigan-triple-goddess-a4-fine-art-print
See this in real life this Friday 1st Dec
7pm
Market Bar, Fade Street.
#MastoDaoine and Blueskyers meet up
There will be badges!
(The badges are real, but available in limited numbers)
Chapel of the Afflicted - exterior.
Watercolour.
Chapel in Liberdade, in the center of Sao Paulo, - exterior of the chapel, a street view.
Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/capela-dos-aflitos-exterior-james-mccormack.html
#Chapel #afflicted #Liberdade #mastodaoine #FediGiftShop #SaoPaulo #exterior #BuyItoArt #watercolour #capeladosaflitos
This is fine.
"Government looks to cut off access to homeless hostels for some immigrants"
- by Laoise Neylon in @dublininquirer
(h/t @SimonB)
#HabitualResidenceCondition #Housing #Immigration #Ireland #MastoDaoine