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AveTeresa

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I’m more a chatter-with & connector-of people than a poster. I’ll remember years later that you once said you like pancakes & tag you in a recipe I just found. Banner - a flopsed rabbit called Chive. Avatar - me in a Giant Chair in Danish Design Museum.

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 8h

I wrote this book because I wanted to do a deep dive into why we Irish are so unforgivably crap at looking after our natural environment and why we resist attempts to mitigate climate change. But in a way that is entertaining and a page-turner. I hope it sparks discussions.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 5h

I was cynical about reiki right until I tried it - I couldn’t deny its impact, even though no one actually touched me 😄

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 5h

Yep, LLMs and most other commercial semi-agentic versions of AI don't do any favours for the potential that artificial intelligence has when thoughtfully applied. So they're damaging technology at the same time as devasting the arts and humanities, all for the $. Terrifying for the global economy :(

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 5h

Oh yes! We may not compete with the French for butter in mashed potato, but we surely compete with them for butter on bread/brack/Marietta biscuits.....

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 6h

(I may have pushed the ring back into the brack so my daughter finds it….)

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 6h

Bairín breac, eh? With a generous slather of butter. And a perfect cup of tea.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 6h

But artists must die so AI can live!!!

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 6h

It’s also ludicrous cos breast cancer doesn’t care about gender.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 7h

Even new Irish linen! I bought 2 handmade placemats for a teeny wedding I wasn’t invited to, and they were nearly the price of a gift I’d give to someone whose wedding I was attending! But they were beautiful and unique and she is a dear, old, good friend, and I like her husband. irishlinenhouse.com

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The home of luxurious Irish linen. Handcrafted in Dublin, Ireland.

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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 7h

Urgent appeal for blood donations as supplies for most groups run critically low

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service said it needs 12,000 donations over the next four weeks to respond to patient need and meet hospital demand.

Urgent appeal for blood donations as supplies for most groups run critically low

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service said it needs 12,000 donations over the next four weeks to respond to patient need and meet hospital demand.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 7h

I second this. It can be busy! You can get big or little bits. It’s casual and delightful.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 12h

I guess the first Global Information System was seafaring, and a lot of that was government-tolerated (encouraged?) piracy, bullying, slavery - the more things change….

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 21h

The wonders of 21stC technology: advertising, data theft, and porn.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

My teen too - I think we used to just “do a round of the charity and vintage shops”, I don’t think we had a verb for it!

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

www.worldofmoose.com/products/cop...

Cartoon of man at a table with a book, a plate, a knife and a jar in front of him. He is touching a blob on a page of the book. Caption: I've got jam on my autobiography! Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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National College of Ireland @ncirl.bsky.social · 2d

Have you got your Monday thinking cap on yet?

If you haven't, check out our newest Weekly Research Round-Up on ELI's Dr Josephine Bleach's work on Delivering on UN Sustainable Development Goals through Community Action.

Check it out: www.ncirl.ie/Research/Res...

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

I should learn not to do puzzles that require a level of manual dexterity while I’m on the bus - it has cost me Waffles in the past, a sudden jerk meaning a letter is dropped in the wrong place…

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot remember the names of all the different sweets - Nawal sweet shop on Camden St the supplier - company name: House of Sweets! It made raising a PO a little more fun to write in that company name :D

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

OMG - say that to DG - that could be a serious fundraiser :D :D :D

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations - the Khalil Gibran thing may have become a bit of a wedding wish cliché, but the longer I live the truer it feels (at least how I remember it): may there be gaps in your togetherness and may the breath of angels flow through.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Are you going to be in on Friday? I can promise you a good time ;)

:D Diwali Delight, I mean! 2-3pm.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

5-a-side at 75 - - the copy writes itself!

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Contrariness as a survival trait!

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

And Deirdres! I still think we should do a Deirdres vs Karens 5-a-side :D

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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