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Mark Maguire
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Works #museum #education. Here for the #art, #comics, #SciFi, #news | Photos mine or otherwise credited. Followers with bio, activity, etc. more likely to become mutuals | ☘️ #SpeirGorm / #SpéirGhorm | 🐘 @[email protected] | 🧵 @markbmaguire
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Newgrange at Solstice
December 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Sun’s up #SpéirGhorm
A serene sunrise over the ocean, with colourful clouds above and a few people silhouetted in the foreground watching the view. A serene seascape featuring calm waters under a colourful sky at sunrise, with clouds and a distant coastline visible.
December 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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A Lord of the Rings cover band called Gary Númenor
adamroberts.bsky.social Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 1d
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Gandalft Punk
thegrampus.bsky.social Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 1d
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Tolkien Heads
December 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The shopping centre car park was BLASTING out the most unhinged piped/background music today #SpéirGhorm
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Gil Gerard bowing out at 82 has me reminiscing what a major part he played in my Saturday evenings in 1981.
Annual cover for 1982 Buck Rogers in the 25th century
December 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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We've been code switching since the Vikings stuck up a fence in Dublin in 838.
mattsteinglass.bsky.social Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 4d
The terrifying thing about the Irish is that they can do your accent but you can’t do theirs
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The old band from the Northside of Dublin are back live busking for the festive season but the years are beginning to show their toll …
#SpéirGhorm
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Today is 2025-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:45 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 02 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I braved Bram last night for the launch of the book “Arts Education in Ireland” edited by Jane O’Hanlon and Dervil Jordan in DCU St. Patrick’s. Also caught sight of this library display of Colum children’s books … #SpéirGhorm
A vintage book cover titled "The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes" by Padraic Colum, illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker. The cover features a whimsical illustration of a house with a large tree and two grazing goats in front of a house A book open on title page with an illustration in colour of an Irish market town with text: A BOY IN EIRINN BY PADRAIC COLUM ILLUSTRATIONS BY JACK B. YEATS LONDON M. DENT & SONS LTD. Opened title page of a book. Modernist illustration of a girl in front of a castle. Text reads: “Of course, being a Princess, she lived in a white-fronted castle.” And: THE PEEP-SHOWMAN by Padraic Colum Illustrated by Lois Lenski MACMILLAN NEW YORK 1927 Book title page opened in a display case. An illustration of a smaller figure slaying a bigger figure. Text reads: “The King of Ireland's Son sprang at him and thrust the Sword of Light through his breast.” The King of Ireland’s Son by Padraic Colum ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY WILLY POGANY LONDON GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY LTD. 283 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
A giant pomelo over a country estate. The image is part of a book about famous citrus fruits of Nuremberg (VD18 14760916).
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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ok, this is my favorite so far:
Penguin Classics cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot. cover image is a painting of the death of caesar
October 17, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Share a smile
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Hands up if you have ever been in an Irish maternity context where you didn't think "wow, they could REALLY do with at least twice the number of staff in here".

Nobody?!
news.rte.ie RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 19d
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has begun a ballot of its members in the Emergency Department of University Hospital Galway in a dispute over staffing levels
INMO threatens industrial action at UHG over staffing
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has begun a ballot of its members in the Emergency Department of University Hospital Galway in a dispute over staffing levels.
www.rte.ie
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Insert a movie into another movie:

Clockwork Orange County
brainchain.ca Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 19d
Insert a movie into another movie:

The Lives of The Others
charloh.online it's a holly jolly charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 19d
insert a movie into another movie

The Men Who Stare at The Mountain Goats
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Pasta (1998-1999): Canned pasta in a tomato/cheese sauce from Franco-American, shaped like weapons, a castle, and a dragon from the short-lived Fox Kids action-fantasy series from Saban, which was set in ancient Ireland
A can that reads "Franco-American Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Shaped Pasta with Tomato & Cheese Sauce". On the can is a lineup of 4 characters from the show The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, in colorful armor and helmets, standing in front of rolling green hills
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Celebrate Scottish Comic Book Day open.substack.com/pub/comicsce...
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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“The Blankety Blank chequebook and pen”
UK PM Sir Keir Starmer reading from a POTUS podium with US and UK flags behind him. He is saying “There’s a famous slogan in the United Kingdom.”
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Me when your Bluesky post isn't what I was expecting/hoping for
Framed photo portrait picture in oval mat with young woman from long ago in formal attire who looks mildly disappointed in her facial expression
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Your kids watch stranger things season 4 and they are like ‘ohhh Eddie is so fun’ and you are like ‘I WAS LITERALLY A TEENAGER METALLER WHO PLAYED AD&D IN THE 80s AND MY HAIR *ALTHOUGH FINE* NEVER LOOKED THAT GOOD’

I mean it was Ireland so we never had the Satanic panic, but still. Triggering.
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Dolphin
Hummingbird
Vulture
Wolf or Coyote (still unsure, probably a Wolf)
Pheasant (a few weeks ago. In my mid-fifties. Driving through the back roads of North Dublin, there in a field I saw my first pheasant)
rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23d
Pronghorn antelope
Humpback whale
Southeastern African cheetah
American mink
Armadillo
yazikus.bsky.social yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 23d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Beaver
Big Horn sheep
Pacific lamprey
Ant lion
Stone fly
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen

Prince
Tinariwen
Nirvana
Public Enemy
Television
rebeccastmaries.bsky.social Rebecca Boone @rebeccastmaries.bsky.social · 23d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen

Leonard Cohen
Yo-Yo Ma
Soundgarden
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Neko Case
ruh-roh.bsky.social Swampy Elf💀 @ruh-roh.bsky.social · 23d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
B.B. King/Dr. John/Little Feat
Yes
Seattle Symphony
John Lee Hooker
Jerry Lee Lewis
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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My BlueSky 2025 Unwrapped is just going to be a gif of me punching the Microsoft authenticator app
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I will never tire of this...
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25d
Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?
Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (1969)
YouTube video by Tiny Dancer
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November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Still makes me laugh
keyboard the print screen button has the word bruce written on torn paper above it
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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15 years ago.

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Ahem, good morning peoples. I am looking to rent an apartment, that is not a total shithole, €750 pm, southside...go!
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM