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Biddy Early They said she kept a blue bottle. The colour of deep water, of bruises. Men with books came searching for the thing they feared inside it. But the hills had already told her their secrets. Bog-myrtle. Foxglove. The slow grammar of rain. Women crossed the dark fields to her door with quiet emergencies. Milk gone bitter. Blood that would not come. The future pressing like weather. The priests called it witchcraft. The law called it fraud. But the land had always trusted her hands. perdans ined nothing. Only the dangerous rumour that a woman might know what the earth knows.

In Irish tradition, a bean feasa (“wise woman ”) was a healer and seer who worked with herbs, lore, and the wisdom of the land. Biddy Early was one of the most famous. Denounced by some clergy as a witch, she was brought to court but never convicted. #vss365 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

I'm not referring to you

christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.

When they start telling the Brits to give back the original volumes I might start believing thag they actually care about pre-Christian Ireland

They're too oppressed to have the time sure

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

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This old pile of dog shit on the ground is conscious. Disagree? Explain how human consciousness works.

When America tells you to bend the knee, you ask how low

Black and white drawing of an axe dtuck into a tree-stump and more stumps and trees in the background. The text reads: "'The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.' - Turkish proverb"

I think this perfectly sums up the argument against "Vote Blue no matter who." And anyone saying that we should accept the inevitability of a Newsom nomination in early 2026 deserves to be defenstrated through The Overton Window.

IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot

THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him

THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me

YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care

BECAUSE my position is immutable

This is part of the white people desperately wanting to be oppressed thing imo

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9 https://theonion.com/egg-companies-assure-customers-dozen-has-always-meant-9/

Feminista Jones touches on the concept a bit in her book, it's quite interesting

An Irish woman I know lives in California and this week has been instructed by her sons school to make a "leprechaun trap". Last year she sent him with a book of basic focail for preschool age and it came home untouched.

Absolutely

She was either a very good parody or 100% serious

There was a Yank™️ on tiktok once criticising every Irish person in her comments section for telling her she was getting paddy's day wrong. She basically said everyone living in Ireland today was a coloniser who had murdered her Irish ancestors and had no right to tell her not to call it Patty's day

Ireland will remember what International Law is on or after 18th March.

his killer being a man who murdered three people including a pregnant woman who he also raped is a perfect demonstration of how ‘paedophile hunters’ are just violent men looking for a socially acceptable target for their violence

Feel bad for our Government cause this new war will probably make the Occupied Territories Bill EVEN MORE complex to pass, & they were just about to pass it! I even saw Micheál Martin running into Leinster House last week, holding the OTB, on his way to pass it, & then the bloody war broke out

Michael McFaul • @McFaul If we killed those Iranian girls, and the evidence appears overwhelming that we did, we should apologize now.

A.I Bradley Cooper to star in the 2029 blockbuster movie “What We Did In Iran Made Me Big Sad.” Calling it now.

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

beyond switching to an electric vehicle and installing solar panels (financially out of reach for many people), there is little people can personally do to mitigate the costs of prolonged energy and gas price spikes, tariffs and/or disruptions from immigration raids

I keep thinking about how working class people will suffer so much if the price of gas spikes and the government continues to spend $1B/day on international conflict (plus ICE's budget for immigration raids) instead of education, research, international aid, clean energy, and healthcare

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Someone claimed they had measles parties in the 70s like they had chicken pox parties in the 90s and that's just not true