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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 9h

From today until Sunday, over 10,000 used books reduced to only €1 per book in our big autumn sale. We only do 3 big clearance sales on the website per year - the best books sell quickly so get going! #spéirgorm

thebookshop.ie/october-1-bo...

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 12h

Thing is, though, it's a Canadian show that is apparently set on Nova Scotia. But based on a novel series set in Colorado by an American author.

I wonder how that feels to have your very American story relocated to Canada (shades of The Sweet Hereafter).

Normally it's the other way around.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 12h

The Mammy wanted me to know she's being good and watching CanCon in Ireland.

What's she watching?

Sullivan's Crossing starring that guy from that thing and that other person from that other thing.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 18h

Lmao these people really drove an hour just to get roasted by kids

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 13h

Someone is explaining polio to a kid in my earshot.

Kid is aghast.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 13h

Mildly crankier than usual

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 23h

One of the growing tensions in modern societies is between people who find unfamiliar stuff weird and scary, and people who find *people who find unfamiliar stuff weird and scary* weird and scary 1/x

jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 1d

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

"The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Tuesday.

www.oregonlive.com

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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 14h

New billboard in town 👀

Billboard reads: "There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Join us in fighting for safer streets. Vision Zero Vancouver and Rovelo Creative." Beside the text, a picture of a child riding a bike in a painted bike lane.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 14h

So all these cosy fantasies about witches and librarians (and librarians who are witches, naturally).

Any of them have student loans or desk time?

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Jeff Deroshia @jeffderoshia.bsky.social · 15h

Everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
When you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd2...

Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Official Audio)

YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO

www.youtube.com

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 16h

Regarding changes announced by Bell Media today. Ah yes, AI is going to “enhance customer experience”. I guess that means it will go from “non-existent” to “truly shitty, unhelpful” customer experience.

The company also expects to save $1.5 billion in the next three years through efficiencies, including using artificial intelligence to enhance customer experience, something it hasn't always been known for.

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Bryson The Gaytive @brysonthegaytive.bsky.social · 17h

Iʼko (e goh) in Mi’kmaw means I exist. It’s a beautiful word. And part of an ancient gathering song for my people.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 16h

Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 17h

Compare this, for a second, to the way they portray campus protests or Trayvon Martin being murdered by a man who stalked him and approached him after emergency services personnel SPECIFICALLY told them not to.

Jordan Crucchiola @jorcru.bsky.social · 17h

One of THE most embarrassing things about republicans is the specific category of triage where they start talking about very much grown men as tender children. Fucking elected state senators framed as boys who don’t know better. How utterly humiliating for all parties involved. Jesus.

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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans infantilize when it suits their purposes & treat people as young as 12 years old as adults when that suits their purposes. A 14 year old Black boy accused of shoplifting? Send him to Rikers! A 13 year old girl pimped to horny rich old white men? "The 'age of consent' is too high!"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 17h

March 2024.

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · Mar 3

"Your daughter can look after your son when you die"..the response Sen Tom Clonan received from the HSE on what would happen to his son who lives with Scoliosis.

He told the Seanad that 150+ children in Ireland are in dire need of life-saving surgery but the State/HSE will not provide it #Ireland

The two top scoliosis surgeons in Ireland were recently suspended for speaking out on the crisis, leaving those children with even less hope of the life-giving surgery they require, many being slowly crushed to death through skeletal pressure on their internal organs due to their condition.

Dr Clonan is calling for a No vote in the upcoming referendum on carers in the constitution saying that contrary to government claims the amendment will have no positive impact on the lives of Carers.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 17h

Whee. Got some tickets to the writers festival.

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 18h

Why are people left untreated after a miscarriage so that they develop sepsis? FFs this country. #Speirgorm

LimerickLive @limericklive.bsky.social · 20h

Woman, 33, died at Limerick hospital just one day after learning she had suffered a miscarriage

The expectant mother was just five weeks pregnant, after getting pregnant through IVF A YOUNG woman who had a miscarriage, following an IVF pregnancy, told a doctor that she'd meet her again in the maternity hospital when she got pregnant again, but she tragically died the next day. The inque ---

www.limerickleader.ie

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 18h

This. Thank you. This tracks with my experience as a Xennial.

(There are some people from my undergraduate class who I really really do not want to know what they're up to now, thank you.)

Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · 19h

librarian: please don't reshelve your own books
patron: why not?
librarian: they're shy around strangers

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 21h

Looks like @janschuermann.bsky.social needs some remedial training @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social

This should read:

A driver used their vehicle to strike a woman and a child.

CityNews

SUV crash in Vancouver sends two pedestrians to hospital

By Jan Schuermann

Posted October 14, 2025 2:06 pm.
Last Updated October 14, 2025 8:08 pm.

A woman and a child were struck by a vehicle on West 16th Avenue and Willow Street in Vancouver.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 20h

The Celebrity Petting Zoo, everyone.

FAN EXPO Vancouver @fanexpovancouver.bsky.social · 21h

Fool of a Took is heading your way. Billy Boyd completes the Fellowship at #FANEXPOVancouver26 for An Evening with the Hobbits: In Celebration of 25 Years. Experiences on sale October 22 at 10 AM PT. Buy tickets: spr.ly/6001A0JU7

#FXV26 #LOTR #TheHobbits #Hobbits25 #LOTR25 #BillyBoyd #PippinTook

Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 20h

Libre office is just the most common iteration of Open Office (because some long involved story I can't remember).

But yeah I feel you.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 21h

I like it. It feels like Word of 2005, ie without all the flashy whatnots.

However, when I went back to school I had to embrace MS Office again because Libre/Open Office and Word *formatting* is a constant issue.

Also it can crash randomly on some systems, so save a lot.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 21h

Quite honestly, my assumption is money laundering.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 21h

I'm sure you've tried this, but what sometimes (very sometimes) works is one paracetamol and one ibuprofen.