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Shatnerologist Daon-Phoblacht Corcaí 🇮🇪 Scrap the 27th Amendment https://www.thejournal.ie/children-face-deportation-4295689-Oct2018 Big list of Irish Bskyers (click on 'People') https://bsky.app/profile/uilliammac.bsky.social/lists/3kdkem5ypxi2s

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · Oct 10

How are you? / How are you doing?
#Gaeilge #Éire #Ireland #Gàidhlig #Alba #Scotland #Gaelg #GlareVanninagh #Mannin #EllanVannin

A map of Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man which shows how the phrase "How are you" translates into many dialects of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 1h

The universal screening programme won't just test for coeliac disease. It will save needless suffering and pay for itself. Healthcare is considered a human right, and is provided based on clinical need not on the ability to pay. Italy uses 10% of it's GDP to achieve this. celiac.org/2025/09/24/h...

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 1h

I actually can't watch any of the clips of the unhinged shit Trump is saying in the Israeli parliament. One side is going to be screwed here, and yet everyone is going to be extolling the virtues of this "peace".

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 1h

People who don't want to see universal healthcare here don't want to talk about Italy where it's operated properly, ranking number 2 globally on the WHO ranking of quality. Italy is leveraging that capacity to screen every child for coeliac disease.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Coeliac disease: What is it, how is it caused

Sarah Keogh, registered dietician, works with the Coeliac Society of Ireland and Professor Karen Boland, consultant gastroenterologist, Beaumont Hospital

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 2h

The pronunciation drifts in that direction as you head into Ulster. Each province has it's own peculiarities in English, and there is also an Ulster dialect of the Irish language (my own family would use that in Donegal)

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2h

So. Mention that airline and you get an offer of support from a fake account.

Take care out there.

A screenshot of my original post saying "Fuck #RyanAir" and the response I received from "Daniel Custome[r Support]" at @ryanairaupport33.bsky.social with "Hello, we apologize for the inconvenience and such an experience with us. We would like to look at the problem raised further. Kindly follow back send us a private message with your full name and active phone number we reach out and assist."

As it's an Irish company the scammers should know that Ryanair would never apologise, at least not with a zed.

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 2h

... we had to reach for the closest sound we had (the soft S), and use á which approximates the French vowel combination ea in Jean. That's how we ended up with Seán. English did something similar, but went the route if using the hard J and the short 'oh' sound to end up with John.

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 2h

Seán isn't actually a Gaelic name, it entered Irish via Norman French. The Irish alphabet does not have J - because the language has neither the hard J sound of English or the soft J sound of French. So when we encountered the French name Jean (John in English, originally Hebrew Yohannan)...

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

As well as that, it's not the case that English people would all pronounce it the same way. There are so many wonderful and varied accents that the pun would land better in one region than in others. Not to mention the variety of different ways it would sound in Wales and Scotland.

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

She has a great knack for cutting through it, and the medium is better suited to it I think.

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Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 3h

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

m.youtube.com/shorts/iBYOZ...

How to pronounce the Irish name Seán ☘️ #gaeilge #irishnames #learnirish

YouTube video by Gaeilge le Jane • Irish with Jane

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

Seán is the correct spelling, the closest you could get in English phonetically would be how you would pronounce lawn. Unless that attracts an r as well. Sean is the word for 'old' and is pronounced as you would pronounce "can"

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 4h

Eg, this woman was arrested for holding up a sign saying that she opposes the proscription of Palestine Action.

Does this raise a reasonable suspicion that she supports Palestine Action? Or is she critiquing the application of counter-terrorist powers?
www.thenational.scot/news/2552039...

Woman 'arrested' over 'I oppose proscription of Palestine Action' sign

A PROTESTER has claimed she was arrested for holding a sign saying “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”.

www.thenational.scot

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

Declaring war on pit communities too

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 4h

Very much so, dark days.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 4h

There are no "market forces" when a few people have all the money and don't care how much of it they waste.

bsky.app/profile/erik...

Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 5h

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 4h

Her efforts to protect Pinochet from facing justice for mass murder and her support the apartheid regime in South Africa are also feathers in her cap.

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 4h

Oct. 13, 1925: Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" who pulled British politics to the right as the first female prime minister, is born (as Roberts) in Grantham. Her polarizing record included breaking unions, waging the Falklands War and backing Reagan's hawkish Cold War stance.

In 1979 with husband Denis outside 10 Downing St., after her election

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 4h

Bertie Ahern smiling with a cup of tea. For some reason he is not in Mountjoy.

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Arlene Harris @arleneharris.bsky.social · 5h

#journorequest - looking to talk to people in Ireland who live at home with their parents due to being unable to find accommodation of their own. DM today if any thoughts. RTs appreciated. #housingcrisis #housing

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 4h

A Sea-urchin shell, found in a low tide rockpool.

Cleaned of the spines and tube-feet that covered it when it was living, you can see the beautiful details and symmetry of its shell.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 6h

I return to Twitter occasionally, out of hopeless nostalgia.

It's like having brain surgery while being hit on the face with a cactus.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Seanfhear míshásta 🇵🇸 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦📎 @seaghano.bsky.social · 6h

A shame he wasn't sufficiently 'deeply moved' by the suffering of Palestinians to actually do something to help them.

Taoiseach 'deeply moved' by scenes of hostage release

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he was "deeply moved" by scenes of Israeli hostages being reunited with their loved ones.

www.rte.ie

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 6h

I'm fascinated how that fragment of a page came to be there as well

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 6h

Grma Áine 😀

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 6h

I haven't seen Blackbird but I've heard that it's, well, quite something