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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"Will you please shut up and eat your icecream"

Who? Me? We? (Ugly. Formal. Confusion. Disarray)

"Will ye ever shuhup ta fuck and eat yeer icecream / will youse ever shurrup ta fuck and eat yizzer icecream"

The collective has been addressed poetically and beautifully, and they DO shuhup ta fuck

February 2026: around 17,000 people - "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"

Gleoite 🐶🥰

The Gist: The Promise of No Change For every action needed, why is there an equal and opposite inaction? This is the Gist.

New Gist: The Promise of No Change

"Ireland's recent economic success is based around a very simple model. We hold a burlap sack open under a pipe attached to Apple and Microsoft "

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

"Was 9/11 an inside job?" Answer was yes. We got the "correct" answer cos we figured if you're the sort of person who sets a question like that...

Ag an am, bhain mé beagáinín taitneamh as The Guard, ach paddywhackery a bhí ann gan amhras, agus i nginearálta, aontaím leat. Chuir an Banshees seafóid isteach orm go háirithe

I get chills when I remember Irish twitter and black twitter celebrating together on the day the queen died

Oh, the grand old duke of york
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Great article. Importance of SNAs should go without saying but I'm glad you made the point that their removal will make our class sizes even more catastrophic. So many outside of education think 30+ children in a class is a thing of the past. In my school, it's half of the classes. One class has 36

I know the second part is not a joke cos I'm working on my own necklace. (Slow work, and I've had to discard a lot of gems that got ruined by shoddy soul quality). But were you joking about the writer and if not... who?

óicé, thúoigh dónt úí thamh a gó 😀

Rinne mé dearmad ar an Mhanainnis, úps! Tá brón orm, a Mhanannaigh 😬

Ach tá sé uafásach gránna, faraor

shance knock will nah botana in aun on gaylgeh ah hishkint maw oosawjin mwij nah phonetics Berla?

Roses are red
Violets are blue
A regular verb in the past tense
Gets a séimhiú.

😱 bodchraoltóirí inar measc?

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Flood Prevention Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming F...

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment”

How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods.
#RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Ná déanaimis dearmad ar conas litir a scríobh nó geansaí a chniotáil Cén damáiste intinne a dhéanann sé nuair a thosaíonn an domhan i gcoitinne ag ligean scileanna i ndearmad?

'Tá sé cosúil le matán sa chorp- mura na-úsáidtear é cailleann sé neart.'

tuairisc.ie/na-deanaimis...

Okay, but think of the costume choices you'd get with David Snowie. 🎵Ground control to Major Thaw🎶

Ro um knock remain... romham nach raibh mé?

A re-working by Adam Doyle (Spicebag) of the painting An Irish Eviction attributed to Daniel MacDonald (c.1850, Crawford Gallery, Cork), showing Garda in hibiz uniforms and private security in tactical/riot gear assisting with a 19th century eviction.

Well now

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

This is Remi. She feels so powerful in her snowsuit. Loves the satisfying swishy sound it makes when she walks. 12/10 diva material (TT: ferikitz)

“Something that’s been bothering you for a long time is out there. What is it? You can almost see the shape of it, when all the color is gone, when life is stripped down to the starkness of February”

Not making me feel better about February, but v funny and well written 😄

Magnificent. Can only hope there was also a bag of Milky Moos or Fox's Glacier Mints in there too. My granny always had the FGM in her bag, and 7-10 biros. (They were never referred to as pens, always biros)

A lot of garden plants sold in Ireland are grown far away and need extra care to cope here.

Plants grown from local native seed tend to suit our soil and weather, support wildlife, and feel “right” in the landscape.

I’m sharing a few examples. THREAD…
#NativePlants #gardenSky

My approach has mostly been to read children's books. Walliams & Rowling are presumably ruled out (the HP translation is fairly difficult in any case) but there's Dónall Dána (Horrid Henry) etc. and obvs even better to go home grown... Máire Zepf stuff or the likes of Dialann Emily Porter

www.siopaleabhar.com?s=Open+door&...

As others have mentioned, New Island have a series called Open Door, short stories in manageable language, can def recommend the Marian Keyes one, "Is Gearr".