Sophia Grene
@sophiagrene.bsky.social
Too tired to do much, but interested in so many things.
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'Deeply distressing'- Same-sex couple call out Irish Passport Office for discrimination
'Deeply distressing'- Same-sex couple call out Irish Passport Office for discrimination
A married same-sex couple in Ireland were told that The Irish Passport Office 'do not recognise' LGBTQ+ mother of their newborn child, despite being her genetic mother
A same-sex married couple in Ireland have shared a 'deeply distressing situation' involving the Irish Passport Office and wha
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www.limerickleader.ie
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
'Deeply distressing'- Same-sex couple call out Irish Passport Office for discrimination
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Historical precedent of note...
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Historical precedent of note...
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Taking a break from spinning to feed chickens ca. 1340
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Taking a break from spinning to feed chickens ca. 1340
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Because of twoke
nobody wants to twerk these days
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Because of twoke
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Remembering the time I was in Türkiye and the hotel welcomed me with an effusive press release and one of the all time great pull quotes
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Remembering the time I was in Türkiye and the hotel welcomed me with an effusive press release and one of the all time great pull quotes
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A fan favorite Thanksgiving story from the Library: In 1926, Mississippi supporters of President Coolidge sent him a raccoon to kill & serve for Thanksgiving dinner. The Coolidges adopted her, instead.👇
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A fan favorite Thanksgiving story from the Library: In 1926, Mississippi supporters of President Coolidge sent him a raccoon to kill & serve for Thanksgiving dinner. The Coolidges adopted her, instead.👇
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky
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Palestine campaigning in Ireland and the UK has badly needed more union action and collective support of workers. That’s where the most power is, not with celebrity activists; the murder machine relies on labour. Stand with this Tesco worker who refused to handle Israeli goods
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Palestine campaigning in Ireland and the UK has badly needed more union action and collective support of workers. That’s where the most power is, not with celebrity activists; the murder machine relies on labour. Stand with this Tesco worker who refused to handle Israeli goods
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This is what happens when as a single condition health charity you’re overly focused on those who die of your condition and you don’t consider outcomes for those who don’t, or the opportunity costs involved for NHS. PCUK are particularly guilty but they’re not alone.
www.thetimes.com/article/4487...
www.thetimes.com/article/4487...
Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
NHS advisers are expected to rule against a mass programme for the disease, which causes more than 12,000 deaths a year
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is what happens when as a single condition health charity you’re overly focused on those who die of your condition and you don’t consider outcomes for those who don’t, or the opportunity costs involved for NHS. PCUK are particularly guilty but they’re not alone.
www.thetimes.com/article/4487...
www.thetimes.com/article/4487...
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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🚨 The EU watchdog has spoken: @ec.europa.eu broke its own rules with its rushed handling of the #Omnibus I and 2024 #CAP reform, rolling back key environmental protections without:
🔎 Impact assessment or public consultation
🤐 Engaging all stakeholders
🌡️ Considering EU climate obligations
🔎 Impact assessment or public consultation
🤐 Engaging all stakeholders
🌡️ Considering EU climate obligations
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨 The EU watchdog has spoken: @ec.europa.eu broke its own rules with its rushed handling of the #Omnibus I and 2024 #CAP reform, rolling back key environmental protections without:
🔎 Impact assessment or public consultation
🤐 Engaging all stakeholders
🌡️ Considering EU climate obligations
🔎 Impact assessment or public consultation
🤐 Engaging all stakeholders
🌡️ Considering EU climate obligations
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Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary - Deadline extended to Wednesday 3rd Dec.
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann invites applications from poets for the inaugural Home Again - Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary aimed at the development and creation of new work.
www.poetryireland.ie/news/home-ag...
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann invites applications from poets for the inaugural Home Again - Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary aimed at the development and creation of new work.
www.poetryireland.ie/news/home-ag...
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary - Deadline extended to Wednesday 3rd Dec.
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann invites applications from poets for the inaugural Home Again - Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary aimed at the development and creation of new work.
www.poetryireland.ie/news/home-ag...
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann invites applications from poets for the inaugural Home Again - Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary aimed at the development and creation of new work.
www.poetryireland.ie/news/home-ag...
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Obviously this piece is lacking in quite a lot of information, however, statistically if people are being stuck in lorries to leave the UK they aren't being "smuggled" they are being trafficked, a whole other thing. That seems like a pretty crucial thing to clarify.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two Romanian men jailed for trying to smuggle migrants out of UK
Marius Bajenaru, 44, and Sorin-Costinel Ivan, 46, tried to smuggle migrants in the back of lorries.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Obviously this piece is lacking in quite a lot of information, however, statistically if people are being stuck in lorries to leave the UK they aren't being "smuggled" they are being trafficked, a whole other thing. That seems like a pretty crucial thing to clarify.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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In the wake of Enoch Burke’s latest arrest, an old and long-debunked claim suggested that his trouble with the law stems from his refusal to “endorse transgender ideology” or to refer to a trans student by their preferred pronouns.
jrnl.ie/6887268
jrnl.ie/6887268
Debunked: Enoch Burke was jailed (again), but not for refusing to endorse transgender ideology
Misleading claims about the arrest were shared in Spanish, French, and Polish, as well as by UK and US figures.
jrnl.ie
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In the wake of Enoch Burke’s latest arrest, an old and long-debunked claim suggested that his trouble with the law stems from his refusal to “endorse transgender ideology” or to refer to a trans student by their preferred pronouns.
jrnl.ie/6887268
jrnl.ie/6887268
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For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.
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This is possibly my favorite product answer yet:
Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell?
A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.
Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell?
A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is possibly my favorite product answer yet:
Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell?
A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.
Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell?
A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.
I dunno. This is a fairly accurate depiction of me, an autistic mother. I got loadsa runctitional features, and my Factor Fexcectorn is definitely RELU dropout.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I dunno. This is a fairly accurate depiction of me, an autistic mother. I got loadsa runctitional features, and my Factor Fexcectorn is definitely RELU dropout.
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An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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If anyone in Northern Ireland is looking for a great Christmas event for kids who don’t like a lot of noise or crowds, @downrail.bsky.social have a handful of places left on their Lapland Express ‘Quiet Train’ on Saturday 29th November. Details here:
www.downrail.co.uk/2025/10/lapl...
www.downrail.co.uk/2025/10/lapl...
Lapland Express: Quiet Train 2025 - Downpatrick and County Down Railway
If you want to travel on our Lapland Express trains to meet Santa, Mrs Claus and the Elves but you have someone in your group who doesn’t respond well to crowds, music and other loud noises, you can n...
www.downrail.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
If anyone in Northern Ireland is looking for a great Christmas event for kids who don’t like a lot of noise or crowds, @downrail.bsky.social have a handful of places left on their Lapland Express ‘Quiet Train’ on Saturday 29th November. Details here:
www.downrail.co.uk/2025/10/lapl...
www.downrail.co.uk/2025/10/lapl...
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This is the thing: in a climate-catastrophic world, nowhere will be permanently safe. Nowhere. We will have to move and move and move. So all of the posturing of various nations about keeping immigrants out is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is the thing: in a climate-catastrophic world, nowhere will be permanently safe. Nowhere. We will have to move and move and move. So all of the posturing of various nations about keeping immigrants out is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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“Who exactly is going to welcome in an exodus of desperate Irish climate refugees? These are issues we as a society need to reflect on carefully, especially as our own politicians are now shaping up to ‘get tough’ on migrants.”
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“Who exactly is going to welcome in an exodus of desperate Irish climate refugees? These are issues we as a society need to reflect on carefully, especially as our own politicians are now shaping up to ‘get tough’ on migrants.”
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Whenever I see campaigns such as this, I'm reminded of the 2021 tweet from Surrey Poilce
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Whenever I see campaigns such as this, I'm reminded of the 2021 tweet from Surrey Poilce
I can’t be doing with these stupid teen meme things. My 12 year old has fastened on to the 6-7 thing and has spent the past ten minutes explaining to me why 67 is a perfect prime and a lucky prime. Do you know what a Heger number is? Or a Chen number? No? Lucky you.
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I can’t be doing with these stupid teen meme things. My 12 year old has fastened on to the 6-7 thing and has spent the past ten minutes explaining to me why 67 is a perfect prime and a lucky prime. Do you know what a Heger number is? Or a Chen number? No? Lucky you.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”