dóchas is grá
@dochasisgra.bsky.social
She/her, Irish, 2 kids, 3 cats, 1 dog; many books, unfinished knitting projects, dreams and good intentions; insufficient dopamine receptors. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Springer by moonlight #dogs #speirgorm
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Springer by moonlight #dogs #speirgorm
When I was struggling with young kids and PND, a trip to the library was a manageable outing that alwsys lifted my mood. When my son was stuck in his room struggling with mental health as a young teen, a gift bag from the library of LGBTQ YA books put a smile on his face. #LIW25 1/3
Our Library Ireland Week Public Competition is still live and looking for YOUR submissions! How do libraries light the way for you - what do you they truly mean to you? Enter the competition by posting on your social media platform and use the hashtag #LIW25!
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
When I was struggling with young kids and PND, a trip to the library was a manageable outing that alwsys lifted my mood. When my son was stuck in his room struggling with mental health as a young teen, a gift bag from the library of LGBTQ YA books put a smile on his face. #LIW25 1/3
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Everything is terrible but this is joyful
Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Everything is terrible but this is joyful
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I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Can't recommend @ciaraioch.bsky.social highly enough for beautiful art work and the little free treats are GORGEOUS. #speirgorm
📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Can't recommend @ciaraioch.bsky.social highly enough for beautiful art work and the little free treats are GORGEOUS. #speirgorm
Sad and enraging news about this arson attack, but it's good to see the community rallying around and supporting them. Here's the GoFundMe link: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-br...
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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🧵 As we look towards the #LateLateToyShow next week, it's time to remember that everyone - including the State - will expect us all to donate generously to the very worthy causes supported financially by the Toy Show Appeal. Let's think about this.
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🧵 As we look towards the #LateLateToyShow next week, it's time to remember that everyone - including the State - will expect us all to donate generously to the very worthy causes supported financially by the Toy Show Appeal. Let's think about this.
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A. The Judean People’s Front
B. The People’s Front of Judea
B. The People’s Front of Judea
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A. The Judean People’s Front
B. The People’s Front of Judea
B. The People’s Front of Judea
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I'm rapidly approaching homelessness. I'm also grieving my mum. I don't have the spoons for visiting strangers off daft.ie and trying to come off as a fun and likeable person to live with. If anyone knows of a room coming available in Dublin, please let me know
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I'm rapidly approaching homelessness. I'm also grieving my mum. I don't have the spoons for visiting strangers off daft.ie and trying to come off as a fun and likeable person to live with. If anyone knows of a room coming available in Dublin, please let me know
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
Stoat (Ireland)
Red squirrel (Ireland)
Leatherback turtle (Trinidad)
Otter (Shetland)
Tortoise (Greece)
Red squirrel (Ireland)
Leatherback turtle (Trinidad)
Otter (Shetland)
Tortoise (Greece)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Stoat (Ireland)
Red squirrel (Ireland)
Leatherback turtle (Trinidad)
Otter (Shetland)
Tortoise (Greece)
Red squirrel (Ireland)
Leatherback turtle (Trinidad)
Otter (Shetland)
Tortoise (Greece)
You say a vanload of Intermezzos goes down my road every night on the back road to Cullaville? Heard nothing, saw nothing. #speirgorm
Rejigging the old network used to get around 8th Amendment censorship in Ireland to smuggle Intermezzos into the UK.
buying a farm that straddles the cavan-fermanagh county border to run contreband intermezzos into the occupied 6
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
You say a vanload of Intermezzos goes down my road every night on the back road to Cullaville? Heard nothing, saw nothing. #speirgorm
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An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March
Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley
www.transmissionlive.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
#speirgorm I know a lot of us donated to the Navajo people during Covid- this looks like a lovely organisation.
Time once again to rep my favorite place for giving: anelder.org - they supply food, firewood and supplies for traditional crafting to Navajo Elders. If you have the cash, please give these folks a hand.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
#speirgorm I know a lot of us donated to the Navajo people during Covid- this looks like a lovely organisation.
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You see anyone acting the fuckin' fool on this matter - give 'em the facts and nothing else.
Trans rights are human rights, no matter how hard these people try to create spectacle, confusion and distraction.
#speirghorm #ireland #transrights
Trans rights are human rights, no matter how hard these people try to create spectacle, confusion and distraction.
#speirghorm #ireland #transrights
Debunked: Enoch Burke was jailed again, but not for ‘refusing to endorse transgender ideology.’ jrnl.ie/6887268
Debunked: Enoch Burke was jailed again, but not for 'refusing to endorse transgender ideology'
Misleading claims about the arrest were shared in Spanish, French, and Polish, as well as by UK and US figures.
jrnl.ie
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
You see anyone acting the fuckin' fool on this matter - give 'em the facts and nothing else.
Trans rights are human rights, no matter how hard these people try to create spectacle, confusion and distraction.
#speirghorm #ireland #transrights
Trans rights are human rights, no matter how hard these people try to create spectacle, confusion and distraction.
#speirghorm #ireland #transrights
Lovely Native American short animation, free link in thread #speirgorm
When I was a kid, the only Native representation I saw in cartoons was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special.
I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!
I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Lovely Native American short animation, free link in thread #speirgorm
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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
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For anyone in Dublin city centre later today, I'm chairing a conversation between @sineadgibney.bsky.social TD and Dr Tom Cowin on the subject of "is right wing populism unstoppable?". We're the second session, so we'll be kicking off around 3:30pm - Academy Plaza Hotel, just off Cathal Brugha St.
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
For anyone in Dublin city centre later today, I'm chairing a conversation between @sineadgibney.bsky.social TD and Dr Tom Cowin on the subject of "is right wing populism unstoppable?". We're the second session, so we'll be kicking off around 3:30pm - Academy Plaza Hotel, just off Cathal Brugha St.
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To fix a problem that doesn't exist, British businesses now have to decide between getting sued by a local bigot funded by JK Rowling, or getting sued by a trans or GNC person and possibly ending up in front of the European Court of Human Rights. They must really love the Labour goverment right now.
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
To fix a problem that doesn't exist, British businesses now have to decide between getting sued by a local bigot funded by JK Rowling, or getting sued by a trans or GNC person and possibly ending up in front of the European Court of Human Rights. They must really love the Labour goverment right now.
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When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
Great man, great article. "Ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Great man, great article. "Ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"
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Also, I kind of really want a werewolf story where a biologist turns and then has to inform the pack that they are working off of a very outdated understanding of wolf social dynamics.
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Also, I kind of really want a werewolf story where a biologist turns and then has to inform the pack that they are working off of a very outdated understanding of wolf social dynamics.
This is a strike. Do not pass the picket line. He is not getting in the car, he has not been allowed to get sufficiently wet (he's sopping) and it is A BREACH OF SPANIEL RIGHTS.
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is a strike. Do not pass the picket line. He is not getting in the car, he has not been allowed to get sufficiently wet (he's sopping) and it is A BREACH OF SPANIEL RIGHTS.