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Antiqueight
@antiqueight.bsky.social
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I don't remember what I said over there. Here I am really just me to people who know who I am already.
Pronounced Auntie Kate
She/Her Engineer Irish
History, Feminist, STEM, Wikipedia & SFF
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San Diego now has pandas 🐼 in the zoo. I got to visit in October. Short lines. Cuties on display.
Panda going walkabout
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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woman in red topped grey dress with a christmas tree broach pinned to her left chest and she looks like someone in a star trek next generation uniform. The text above her reads "when you're trying to look festive but end up looking like a member of star trek"
December 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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God I was beginning to think no one had mentioned it. Always this.
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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For me it will always be "Cry Freedom"
Denzel Washington playing Steve Biko
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I, too, have learnt a new word...
Etymology 3 From Middle English, analogous with Germanic verbs such as meet, met. Verb tret (Northern England, Bristol, colloquial) simple past and past participle of treat, i.e. treated.
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Apologies - it shows $1.31...

I mean... I don't know - are you looking at just book 1 or the full set? The other book is $6 7.93 so together it might be 9something??
snip of the amazon page for infinity gate book 1 showing $1.31 price
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Blocked
Post advising pirating of all art, by stephanie baudelaire md.
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I got thinking about food and food names today.
This is what I think of when I hear these names....
#Irish v #American #food
Scones, Biscuits, Drop scones, Flapjacks and pancakes
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Oddest thing.
Went to reply to something, and bluesky wants to know if I am writing in German.
My vpn is set to UK for reasons, so???
Screenshot of above basically
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I wonder if they ended up with clonakilty kids?
Clonakilty gaa colours are red and green. These are baby socks in red and green..
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Photo by Vicky Comerford at Rower-Inistioge GAA.
"It's impressive how adaptable GAA pitches have become, no matter what the weather throws at them 😎"
Photo shows a pitch heavily flooded with 3 people in canoes playing with a ball on the water.
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Just call me Rubber Duckie!
Muppet Ernie with his rubber duck
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Any #fungus experts out there to tell me what these are just for curiosity
#mushrooms
Mushrooms under a tree. November, Ireland. Mushrooms under a tree. November, Ireland.
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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"They said you were dead"
"I know"
HT to @mharvey816.bsky.social
Two lines of dialogue: "They said you were dead." "They were wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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What's on my mind today?
The deafening silence
With flags unfurled
2 minutes to remember
The wars of the world
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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So, like, there's this reel on fb with the long skirt turned short, etc.... but I'm Gen X, and I was doing this in the 90s...80s even.... like, it was a staple....
Model wearing long skirt, blouse, narrow belt and shoes labelled millennial and same model, same skirt worn folded into minidress with jacket, wide belt and boots labelled gen z.
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Doomscrolling break
my dog in the crate at his minders.
September 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Hey look what i'm reading:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX2V218H
September 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Seriously, just because I didn't buy a ticket, I didn't win???
First ever Irish winner of EuroDreams set for €20k a month for 30 years
September 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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This is for sale on FB marketplace and for the life of me I can't figure out (for sure) what is going on here and why someone carved it:
wooden "painting" of figures where one appears to be beating another about the head while a third has something that vaguely looks like a german WWII helmet on and is holding what could be knives, and is watching the others while 2 more people are in the background ignoring it all...
September 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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This is Lee and mama bear. If you aren't interested in war all the time, avoid. Nothing else matters.
Image showing Lee
September 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Saw this online and the truth is this is why when people in historical dramas (and honestly even today) say it's not "natural" for a child to die before their parents I think how priviledged we are to imagine that.
Picture says In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today, it's .7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it's been proven to work safely and effectively time and time again.
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I suggested to a friend that her son might not recognize this furniture. Then because of cultural differences I realised she herself might not. And indeed, she didn't. Do YOU know what it is??

What use do you think we could put it to, now that it's original purpose is defunct.
selection of photos of furniture with a small low connected chair and table where the table has a shelf, drawer or cupboard section.
September 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Apparently I'm the only one who got visions of Mjölnir getting "Axe-drunk" from all this....
picture of Mjölnir in a puddle of beer with the word "Hic!"
August 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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AIs make up the most outrageous stuff and give it to you as the answer to a search these days.
#AI #Thor #Mjölnir #Irish #Etymology
I am fascinated by two places which seem utterly unrelated. Newtwpothouse on the N20 road between Mallow and Buttevant, and the two-pot river near Curraheen in Cork city. They are about 44km apart. The town is *supposed* to have got its name from an Inn with two large pots by the door.. (There was an old inn and a new inn). So I asked google about the river name, hoping someone had discussed it somewhere - it's hard to keep discussions of the house version out. So I asked "where does the river "two pot" in cork get its name exclude references to twopothouse" and the AI answered: ------------------------------------------------- *Origin of the Name* " The name Two Pot is an English adaptation of the Irish phrase Tua-póit. Tua-póit means "two small hills" and was the name given to two prominent small hills in the region. The hills themselves became known as "Two Pot hills," and by association, a nearby watercourse or tributary also took on the "Two Pot" name. " ------------------------------------------------- The problem with this is that Tua-póit does NOT mean "two small hills". Tua is not two. Nor is it a hill. A direct dictionary translation would be "Axe-hangover" or possibly "Axe-drunk". ------------------------------------------------- MEANWHILE it does on: *Excluding the "Twopothouse"* " While the name "Twopothouse" exists in the area, it is important to note that the river's name did not originate from the house but from the historical Irish geographical term for the hills. The name "Twopothouse" is a later development that likely took its name from the already existing "Two Pot hills". The river's name therefore predates and gives origin to both the "Twopothouse" and the localized term "Two Pot". " Note the "area" is 44km away. There is no area called Two Pot hills.
August 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM