Ellen Brickley

Made my first ever visit to EPIC museum today, enjoyed it very much!

I am bad at pantry suppers but freezer suppers save my butt on a weekly basis!

Hand written sign at shop reading “WE HAVE” “CHICKEN” “NOODLE” “SOUP”

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

A photo of small decorative green Christmas crackers with a gold label that says "For Decoration Only. Does Not Contain Gunpowder."

Girl, same.

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

incredible headline

Watch our LIVE camera from the puffin colony on the Farne Islands, Northumberland, UK YouTube video by National Trust

Lovelies, drop everything, I have the perfect timeline cleanse:

A PUFFIN LIVECAM.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=03P6...

I cannot express how much I need this right now.

Same-sex marriage is finally legal in Ireland! Here's everything you need to know From 2:15 PM on Monday, November 16, same-sex couples will finally be able to wed in Ireland. Here is everything you need to know.

22nd May 2015: Ireland becomes the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote, with 62% voting "Yes" in a historic referendum. Today marks 10 years of Marriage Equality in Ireland. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

My open access article on the public history of allyship and solidarity between Native American and Irish people has just been published. It draws on thousands of comments published on a GoFundMe page between 2020 and 2024. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mine was: actions have consequences, and if someone's behaviour has changed the way you feel about them, that's a consequence they have to accept.

a photo of a fig and another one cut it half labeled Fig 1 Fig 2

i will never apologize for a post

I went to the Trans Image/Trans Experience film festival today in the @lighthousecinema.bsky.social - saw Soft by Joseph Amenta and a short cakes Adult Child by Hugo Francker. Great event, I hope it endures! We need trans stories and voices now more than ever.

Say what you like about Dublin (and as a Dubliner, I do), but I get to see writers of the calibre of *Shon Faye* for €14 and *Roxane Gay* for €20 (plus small booking fee) at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social , in a venue I can reach by affordable public transport. We have a wonderful cultural landscape.

Royal Mail launches mythical creatures stamp collection Myths and fables from across the UK are illustrated in the set of stamps.

Really love these www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The head of state played guitar, everybody drove a car, music didn't matter and radio wasn't king.
Accountants had control, the media could buy your soul, computers weren't still scary and we knew everything.

I remember having a teacher who bullied me at school. That feeling of absolute powerlessness.

And my bully never made it to the White House.

‘We’re in dire straits’: St Michan’s appeals for public support as it plans crypt reopening after arson Mummified remains burnt in medieval crypt left church facing up to €100,000 loss

‘We’re in dire straits’: St Michan’s appeals for public support as it plans crypt reopening after arson www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

I've finally cracked how I want to use BlueSky to add value to my life in a post-X world.

Welcome to the campaign page for Microwaves To Have Their Fucking Wattage Clearly Displayed On the Front of the Fucking Microwave movement.

I am also fine with this!

Want some magpies? 😁

It does actually! Someone does a murder and is underpaid for it and that's how the deception unravels - because of one piece of silver... 🙂

Thanks for the recs - I wonder if free newsletters would release me from the guilt! :)

I saw 15 magpies in the park.

I can't tell if I'm getting
- five letters 💌
- three pieces of silver 🩶
- a kiss and gold 💋⚜️
- a secret and a wish 🤐🌠
- fourteen joys and a sorrow 🎭
- the devil and one piece of silver 😈🩶

What I know I am getting is a lot of workable romantasy novel titles.

a designated coffee-break type time or as they arrive? Do you subscribe to many of them?

It may be that I just don't vibe with them but subscribing to newsletters made me feel guilty, both for not giving enough attention to content I paid for, and for not interacting.

Any thoughts welcome!

a personal friend, I perceive them as digital clutter or another obligation and archive them and then never read them. I'm loath to subscribe because I won't get the value from them.

Is anyone subscribing to multiple substacks and actually reading and enjoying? How does it look? Do you read them at

I've been hearing that newsletters are replacing social media as the go-to for content discovery (which makes sense as so many social media feeds are unusable now!).

I'd love to hear thoughts about reading newsletters. I can't get into them, personally. Unless they're Anne Helen Petersen or

I only realised this week that Sarah Kendzior and Sarah Kurchak are not the same person. I thought she had *range.*

Anyway this is happy discovery because two interesting writers cns produce more books than one!

5. The sheer range of Christopher Guest who played both Count Rugen in the Princess Bride and Nigel Tufnell in Spinal Tap.

4. Bruno, the man who designed and built the first aqualung so he could defect from East Germany to Denmark.

3. The fact that the Northern Lights once powered a conversation between two telegraph operators.