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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1h

I love it! Nine Tails! #GBBO

AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 1h

honestly think Aaron's meringue Kitsune is one of the most impressive things I've seen in the tent? #gbbo #BakeOff

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks everyone who liked my socks!

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 12h

I think a good interview with the candidates is much more useful than the debate format. Especially for President because personality matters.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 12h

"calls into question, why are the Government not doing something about it?"
Unfortunately the answer is easy. Managing floods like this would need landscape scale action including rewilding rivers and rewetting land and the government are fundamentally opposed to anything positive for nature

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 13h

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath

Farmers along Shannon say lives 'destroyed by flooding'

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and W...

www.rte.ie

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 13h

Good article on dyslexia and dyspraxia and the need for extra time in the junior and leaving cert. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/pa...

Colman Noctor: Time is of the essence in exams for neurodivergent students

"For a student with dyslexia or dyspraxia, time can be crucial. They may understand the material and have the correct answer in their mind, but struggle to transfer it onto paper before the timer runs...

www.irishexaminer.com

Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve been drawing people for Inktober and today finally drew a hand that wasn’t dreadful. It’s not just the genAIs that trouble with hands!

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks for answering. I’m using an older pattern the good plain sock pattern by Stephanie Pearl McPhee. Socks can be tricky but they’re great for learning techniques. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...

Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks

Amazon.com: Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks: 9781580178341: Pearl-McPhee, Stephanie: Books

www.amazon.com

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter designed Halloween mittens and yesterday I made a lot of progress knitting them. Using the Pacific knit co Doodle patterns. They're really fun. #knitting 🧶

Photo of a mitten being knitted, it has a tombstone and ghosts on it

Photo of a mitten being knitted, the knitting chart is visible in the background

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir was really creepy.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 1d

Not only are these data centres devouring energy & water – and feeding the AI bubble that'll blow up our economy when it bursts – they're also wasting vast construction resources (human, materials & admin) that could instead be building homes, solar farms, wind farms etc.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Data centres costing €5.6bn have planning approval but no electricity, industry warns

Access to electricity and gas restricts because of risk of blackouts due to power-hungry sector

www.irishtimes.com

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

No you can’t blame them but I think we don’t need the AI stuff, plenty nice videos made by real people out there.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

Ah just seen a friend share one if those AI cute baby animal videos for the first time. It's bad in many ways but the erosion of truth so nature is just cute and portrayed as we want it to be is going to be very damaging. People seem to prefer the cute quick content than real messy nature.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 2d

That was much better. Lang Lang is always wonderful.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 2d

Finished these socks recently but finally got around to grafting the toe today. The pattern is one I've mostly memorized and the yarn is from wollmeise. I got it in London about 15 years ago. #knitting 🧶

Photo of a pair of hand knitted socks being worn. They are burgundy, purple and green

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 2d

This is what we're up against. People still removing woodlands when we've already lost so much

www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 2d

These fly near me but thankfully not over my estate, they are really loud despite what the CEO says. Like a lawnmower.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh that's just rude.

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 2d

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 2d

Man politics aside, Connolly's team are knocking this visual branding out of the park

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Karen Mulreid @beatingblog.bsky.social · 3d

Catherine Connolly thinks Maniac 2000 is 'only ok'. #SmearTheBejaysis #SmearTheBejaysus

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 4d

I heard Catherine Connolly once put the empty sweet wrappers back in the box.
#SmearTheBejaysis

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 3d

The jokes on me now as my brother in law just gave me one of these jackets. It has a fold up inflatable neck pillow that you can store in the hood.

Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 6d

Seeing adverts for Kickstarter and it seems it's now a website that sells jackets with an ever increasing amount of ridiculous pockets.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks will be having a nice beer very soon.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 4d

Cheers! Sounds lovely.

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