Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺

The Jumping Sharks of Loop Head.
Here’s hoping for another season of them in May.

Huge jump and our government said it would not happen. Happened overnight - total gouging

The Shield ????!!!! Are we playing war games as toddlers?

I fear WW3 is approaching

Last weekend diesel cost per Litre at my local station was €1.74c.

Today, €1.88c 😳😡

And our government said it would be weeks before we would see increases due to the Middle East war.

Home heating oil same thing 📈

#gouging #diesel #ireland #Cavan

@simonharrisireland.bsky.social

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So while the world’s focus is on US-Israel attack on Iran, Israel is bombing Lebanon and attacking, arresting and stealing from Palestines in the West Bank.

The US is not stopping & is supplying arms.

Israel is not stopping creating wars, murdering people, bombing, stealing, invading ….

A mainly white fluffy large Siberian Forest 9 month old kitten (weighing 5.4kg) with dark grey very fluffy thick tail and dark grey face and ears. Sitting on a green cat shelf outside in a built catio (wired and timber box attached to the house), looking towards me taking the photo through an open white window. Sun is shining and he can see across the fields with green grass.

Pooka out by himself for the first time in the catio - quite an adventurous 9 month old kitten! Stayed out for about 2 hours & made happy chirps and thrills noises I’ve never heard!

Prince was highly cautious & took about 10mins to go out & stayed out for about half a hour.

#cats #catsofbluesky

#SpotTheScammer - Talita Leonardo's injured cat scam - I’m desperate. My mom passed 39 days ago & I found this kitten dying in the Bronx. He’s skeletal, crying in pain & hasn't urinated in 18hrs. I have $0 for the vet. He won't survive the night without help. Please don't let him die because I’m a stranger.🐾 (1/2) Link for donations in the reply below.↓ #cats #catsofbluesky

#SpotTheScammer

Everyone REPORT, REPOST and block @tatanadoo.bsky.social. Latest Talita Leonardo's injured cat scam. Over 100 suspended accounts on Bluesky. Cat is injured and needs surgery. PayPal link to scam money follows. #cats #catsofbluesky

Social media break from today for the next while …. I’ve got things to do and little time

Here’s Punch was left in Ireland to leave ye smiling …

Catch ye in a good few weeks

It’s a multifunctional name 😅🤣🤣🤣 especially with his colouring & his antics! Everyone takes their own meaning from it and different spelling but I purposely based it on the cave spelling. ☺️

Named after a cave 😁

BIRDS!!!

Thanks, he’s 9 months in a few days and still growing! He won’t stop growing until he’s 5 years old. He’s neutered so won’t reach giant size 🤪😺

Pooka is gaining confidence on his walks ….

Look! It stopped raining in Ireland for 20 mins! Fresh and windy out there this morning, lovely.

🐾🐱😺

#kitten #cats #SiberianForestcat

The co-founder of @itiscolossal.bsky.social George Church has been shown to have deep ties with Epstein, more than he let on, and should be ostracised from the palaeontological, ancient DNA, and conservation communities
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p... @tetzoo.bsky.social

Nala needs her own account:

I rate puddles

🤣🤣

The cool sun really showed her orange highlights … she really is stunning even if I’m biased to say so.

Prince in a sun spot this morning, soaking up the cold sun….so good to see the sun again and not raining and grey gloom.

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This tail went rotten as I got the flu and didn’t have much stomach for anything other than water so sat in the fridge vacuum packed for 2 weeks 😬 before I simmered the bones in a pot in the kitchen ….

Shameful.

European conger eel tail vertebra, first fish reference bone of 2026 to join my fish bone zooarchaeology reference library of bones☺️

(Conger conger)
#zooarchaeology
#fishbones
#fish
#LibraryofBones

Greyscale four panel comic titled "Valentine's For Single Women" with ways to celebrate illustrating a woman in a bath with a head from a corpse holding a candle, reading a book called Wreaking Terror For Her, standing naked with a shield, and riding into battle. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

Happy Valentine's Day 💘

I hope your research goes well, I’m handing over the chalk to you for the next few hours….time for me to get some sleep, it’s 22:46hrs in Ireland now.

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Starting to run out of energy now with yawns coming every few seconds. I know I should go to bed and get sleep but want to continue too. Incentive to get up early and hit the research again.
The stove is dying down, to the wood embers now. Prince & Pooka left a little while ago-night patrol shift.

That’s interesting area and many rabbit holes of research to fall into!

Some zooarchaeology research for a few different journal papers

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Working on some independent research this evening/tomorrow. Feels good to do something new and exciting!
On my own time - need the variety in my life.
Satisfying.
And nice coffee.
In the company of two fluffy felines.
Simple things.
I can get lost in time.

#zooarchaeology
#IrishArchaeology

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Happy birthday! 🥳 🎂🎁

Any spiders that roam the house, Prince gets them - my protector !