Orla
@somebogwitch.bsky.social
Irish environmentalist with a day job in make believe, fantasy fiction and speculative stories. Lesbian on main talking ecology, mental health, queer politics, audiobooks, ttrpgs and Gaeilge
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orlanidhuill.com
sí/iad she/they
orlanidhuill.com
Daniel from Dublin, and 4 others have been imprisoned for allegedly disrupting an Elbit Systems facility in Ulm, Germany last month. Elbit is an Israeli weapons manufacturer whose weapons are central to Israel’s genocide. Daniel is held 23 hours daily in their cell, including meals, no phone calls
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Daniel from Dublin, and 4 others have been imprisoned for allegedly disrupting an Elbit Systems facility in Ulm, Germany last month. Elbit is an Israeli weapons manufacturer whose weapons are central to Israel’s genocide. Daniel is held 23 hours daily in their cell, including meals, no phone calls
New episode of From the Roots two since the launch, I revisit the figures of that first overview, a number of current headlines and whether anything can be learned from Budget 2026
Text below and podcast wherever podcasts are found
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October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New episode of From the Roots two since the launch, I revisit the figures of that first overview, a number of current headlines and whether anything can be learned from Budget 2026
Text below and podcast wherever podcasts are found
orlanidhuill.com/2025/10/14/s...
Text below and podcast wherever podcasts are found
orlanidhuill.com/2025/10/14/s...
Great ecology walk in Brackloon Woods with the Mayo Queer Sheds on Sunday (before I got this wicked cold) for the start of fungi season
September 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Great ecology walk in Brackloon Woods with the Mayo Queer Sheds on Sunday (before I got this wicked cold) for the start of fungi season
Autumn seas in Achill
September 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Autumn seas in Achill
After I was done getting soaked from the thigh down and cover head to toe in mud while making this video about removing gunnera, a neighbour I hadn't met before stopped me on the road to say their son had sent her my tiktoks, I can only assume the mud gave me away 😂
June 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
After I was done getting soaked from the thigh down and cover head to toe in mud while making this video about removing gunnera, a neighbour I hadn't met before stopped me on the road to say their son had sent her my tiktoks, I can only assume the mud gave me away 😂
finally finished a system agnostic version of one of my games, interested to hear how other people who use a lot of different systems day to day borrow from them into something new
April 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
finally finished a system agnostic version of one of my games, interested to hear how other people who use a lot of different systems day to day borrow from them into something new
I've noticed a really strange absence of frogs and frog spawn on Achill this spring. Thinking back I don't think I remember any last year either. Anyone know something I don't?
March 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've noticed a really strange absence of frogs and frog spawn on Achill this spring. Thinking back I don't think I remember any last year either. Anyone know something I don't?
As a teenager and into my twenties I spent a lot of time in town alone and Pat Ingoldsby was such a fixture of my Saturdays. Conversations with him were never dull and Dublin is all the poorer without him.
March 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As a teenager and into my twenties I spent a lot of time in town alone and Pat Ingoldsby was such a fixture of my Saturdays. Conversations with him were never dull and Dublin is all the poorer without him.
It's very tenuously connected but this video of my frog residents is worth turning the audio on
February 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It's very tenuously connected but this video of my frog residents is worth turning the audio on
Beach clean day. It's always a pain to disentangle this kind of rope and netting from the seaweed. I met a member of a local clean coasts group on the way home and that made it feel worth it.
February 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Beach clean day. It's always a pain to disentangle this kind of rope and netting from the seaweed. I met a member of a local clean coasts group on the way home and that made it feel worth it.
Yep! That was a successful afternoon playing in muddy puddles *ahem* I mean engaging in restorative ecological praxis.
February 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Yep! That was a successful afternoon playing in muddy puddles *ahem* I mean engaging in restorative ecological praxis.
This #WorldWetlandsDay I'm celebrating by helping to encourage these seasonal pools where water drains from the field to the stream (translation: splashing around in the mud pulling gunnera roots out and deepening them) if I still have signal later expect pictures of the mess I make of myself.
February 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This #WorldWetlandsDay I'm celebrating by helping to encourage these seasonal pools where water drains from the field to the stream (translation: splashing around in the mud pulling gunnera roots out and deepening them) if I still have signal later expect pictures of the mess I make of myself.
Went out in the rain earlier determined to get rushes from my field for crosses. Celebrating lá féile Bríde slightly damp by the fire.
February 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Went out in the rain earlier determined to get rushes from my field for crosses. Celebrating lá féile Bríde slightly damp by the fire.
Lá féile Bríde shona daoibh go léir xx
February 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Lá féile Bríde shona daoibh go léir xx
Before I go, please appreciate my mothers toasting fork for toasting bread through the stove glass, made from a wooden spoon, a fork and some painters tape
January 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Before I go, please appreciate my mothers toasting fork for toasting bread through the stove glass, made from a wooden spoon, a fork and some painters tape
Cold enough in the house without power that my tea looks a lot more dramatic than usual. Hopefully the stove will take the edge off now I'm home.
January 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Cold enough in the house without power that my tea looks a lot more dramatic than usual. Hopefully the stove will take the edge off now I'm home.
Episode 10 on the budget and PfG is up now. I'm also starting in on research on the next episode on the national parks, and some of history of land management by the state in Ireland so any questions or thoughts welcome
January 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Episode 10 on the budget and PfG is up now. I'm also starting in on research on the next episode on the national parks, and some of history of land management by the state in Ireland so any questions or thoughts welcome
We might not have a government but we do have a podcast by me talking about the budget and programme for government with an eye to environmental policies. I suffer through many reports so you don't have to
From the Roots Episode 10: found wherever podcasts are found.
From the Roots Episode 10: found wherever podcasts are found.
January 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We might not have a government but we do have a podcast by me talking about the budget and programme for government with an eye to environmental policies. I suffer through many reports so you don't have to
From the Roots Episode 10: found wherever podcasts are found.
From the Roots Episode 10: found wherever podcasts are found.
Arguably money going missing in government is part of our heritage so...
January 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Arguably money going missing in government is part of our heritage so...
Pour one out for the 34th Dáil
January 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Pour one out for the 34th Dáil
I have finally finished the script of episode 10 of From the Roots where I'm discussing the Programme for Government and the budget so here's a clip of me reading part of the section on emissions and the completely imaginary numbers it contained.
January 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I have finally finished the script of episode 10 of From the Roots where I'm discussing the Programme for Government and the budget so here's a clip of me reading part of the section on emissions and the completely imaginary numbers it contained.