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Gavin B

@ghostflaneur

Leabharlannaí Ireland, Canada, Etc. MLIS and migraines. Pronouns in bio just in case someone feels a need to shoot me on the street.

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well, its definitely Mastodon-with-pictures. but you can follow people, and even follow people on other Mastodon instances. I am sure I am not using it right, however.

07.03.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The sun sets over an ancient stone graveyard, framed by dark green trees and a grey sky above.

A stone Celtic cross rises in the centre

The sun sets over an ancient stone graveyard, framed by dark green trees and a grey sky above. A stone Celtic cross rises in the centre

#glendalough

07.03.2026 22:10 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Pixelfed kind of sort of works a bit like that. I suspect there will be more bells and whistles over time though.

07.03.2026 22:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No matter how bad you think colonialism was, it was worse. (And it's not actually over.)

"UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair."

07.03.2026 17:25 👍 56 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0

Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

07.03.2026 01:50 👍 444 🔁 90 💬 6 📌 6

"ah is that U2? Great sound off the TV altogether. But I hate that bono fella"

07.03.2026 20:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Friends in Time" by 'The Golden Horde
"Friends in Time" by 'The Golden Horde YouTube video by FiendsInSlime

"Friends in Time" by 'The Golden Horde: music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCW...

07.03.2026 20:22 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

With their hippy hoppy and their tikky tokky? 🤣

07.03.2026 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A beaded earring in the process of being made it is on felt and it’s resting in my hand. The centre is an acrylic teardrop cab that is iridescent, green and blue and gold around. It are cut Crystal beads with gold bugle beads and then there’s teal and gold seed beads around it as well.

A beaded earring in the process of being made it is on felt and it’s resting in my hand. The centre is an acrylic teardrop cab that is iridescent, green and blue and gold around. It are cut Crystal beads with gold bugle beads and then there’s teal and gold seed beads around it as well.

A preview of another pair I’m working on. The picture doesn’t do it justice that’s for sure. Now gotta make the other one.

07.03.2026 19:55 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 0

And this doesn't even include the *additional* obstacles Black women had to face. I grew up in the 80s AND around evangelicals. I saw where "submission" really left women. This is why the new generation off trad-wife mythologizing makes me sick to my stomach.

07.03.2026 19:56 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Also useful for paper writing, etc.

07.03.2026 12:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My heart bleeds…

07.03.2026 09:27 👍 1141 🔁 219 💬 104 📌 27

I wish I had the sort of talent to turn this pure rage into such beautifully timed snark.

Respect to the master.

07.03.2026 11:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"how can you run and plot at the same time?"

07.03.2026 11:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In German military analysis they called it the Sedan and Sadowa syndrome: the officer corps of 1914 were raised on the idea that fast victories against major European neighbours were their birthright.

07.03.2026 10:50 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Watching Death of Stalin.

It might very well be prophetic.

07.03.2026 10:55 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

let's add the sand dunes in there :D

07.03.2026 10:20 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

I was impressed how they snuck them in. Little micro breaks

06.03.2026 23:32 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Dolly Parton is not a good billionaire.

I SAID WHAT I SAID.

...because she's given so much of her wealth away that she isn't a billionaire at all. 💚

06.03.2026 23:09 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Visit Bryson 🖖🏽 The Gaytive's Shop! Welcome to my shop, I am a Mi'kmaw beader. I love making earrings the most, but have a few other items I make as well. These earrings are made with love and are to be loved and worn by all, wearing ...

If you’re looking for some new earrings. I got lots for sale.

ko-fi.com/brysonthegay...

09.04.2025 19:17 👍 138 🔁 71 💬 11 📌 8

yeah, it was a different sort of gnarly when I lived there, but reports seem to indicate a whole other level of crud nowadays.

06.03.2026 20:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah ha.. That makes more sense

06.03.2026 20:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also said commentators are basically making shit up. No, you have no idea how the game will happen.

Further it's about as irritating as watching hockey what with all the ad breaks

06.03.2026 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We have the rugby on downstairs.

Things I've noted:
- how has Wales a team which apparently cannot sing
- why was "Jerusalem" playing in the background ("... England's green and pleasant land")
- Ireland gets two anthems. I know why but it's odd
- commentators filing space is universal, clearly.

06.03.2026 20:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I just mean with my silly username. 😄

06.03.2026 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Flâneur - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A...

06.03.2026 19:25 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Soaree.

It was a very specific in-joke at a very specific time.

06.03.2026 19:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Shite

06.03.2026 19:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it's actually deeply creepy - there's a bunch of them centred on kids, but then you see how mom has just bought a new porsche.

06.03.2026 18:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

dinner time with the small human relatives apparently involves binge watching some sort of godawful children's youtube content.

06.03.2026 18:35 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0