The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is urgently seeking an additional 12,000 blood donations over the next four weeks as most blood groups have fallen to under three days of stock.

I'm a bit late sharing, but I read one fiction book in September.

PhD is wrapping up, so not much surplus brain space. But I could not put it down once I started reading Sunrise on the Reaping.

Great book, although, can I say, poor Haymitch! He has a tough time in this one.

5⭐

#BookSky

Translation: farmers vote for us, and we can't reduce our greenhouse gas emissions without doing something about the cows.

Talk about unimaginative. Failure to mitigate climate change means you are hanging out to dry anyone who relies on our temperate climate to make a living.

It would be a positive side-effect of this election cycle if this issue got some sympathetic attention.

Sharing given Irish political discourse today.

"The rule means that barristers cannot discriminate between clients, and that they must take on any case provided that it is within their competence, they are available and appropriately remunerated."

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Autism hive-mind: does anyone have a sense of the etymology / origins of 'meltdown' as a metaphor for autistic overwhelm?

When it was first used / popularized as an analogy? Whether it was a community-originated term, or a medical one? Particularly influential deployments that lent it currency?

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

I mentioned that some of them simply weren’t true, and @eilymay.bsky.social had the best response: “why would you let something like the truth stand in the way of being a hater?”

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25

Not about America - there is a small island across the Atlantic, you may have heard of it - Ireland - there is a presidential election on at the moment (yes we have elections too) and one of the candidates is a man named Jim Gavin - this post is about that #speirgorm indicates Irish related content

Lol. OP was talking about a man from Dublin running to be the president of IRELAND.

So no, Jim Gavin does not run the fourth largest economy in the world.

The issue being misogyny and sexual assault in the Defence Forces of a country that is not the United States.

I must have missed Gavin Newsom receiving the first-name status of Cher or Prince. Henceforth must every Gavin be a reference to him?

Nice colonialism on show. There are languages other than English. The hashtags are in Irish.

Scarlet for ya.

Worth reading in its entirety.

I was feeling rather anxious yesterday as our first storm since Éowyn approached. #StormAmy appears to be upon us, and I'm hoping it's not as destructive.

Thermos has been filled with boiling water, and battery packs are charged if we lose power. Just got to ride it out now!

Iconic scene. Like, the show is ludicrous, and that is why I kinda love it.

I enjoy journaling with some quotes from authors I admire. Today's quote is from Virginia Woolf and feels apt for this moment:

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

"When we fight for the right of autistic trans people to access transition care on the same terms as neurotypical trans people, we fight for disability rights. When we fight against cuts to disability benefits that our community disproportionately needs, we fight for trans rights."

Right, @frankiegolucky.bsky.social and I have just decided that the village is Cong. Even if "the topography is completely wrong."

#HouseOfGuinness

Right, I've got a bee in my bonnet over this.

Cloonboo doesn't have a church or a graveyard.

@frankiegolucky.bsky.social assures me that Cong has both.

Why did they choose Cloonboo over Cong as the impoverished Irish village for #HouseOfGuinness?

The famine also happened in Mayo, and Adelaide could have walked to Cong.

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Update on #HouseOfGuinness: we are now up in arms over the idea that Adelaide somehow walked the 24km from Ashford to Cloonboo.

It takes at least half an hour by car, and you're telling me that woman walked it. Nah.

The absolute lack of spine from our Taoiseach.

Dozens of people, including a few Irish people, are peacefully approaching Gaza.

They should not be threatened by the Israeli military and our government should be providing aid to protect our citizens on a humanitarian mission.