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ihearthestia.bsky.social

Books, gardening, cooking, dogs, wine, oceans. Nonna to Obi (6). 🇮🇪 Irish woman. Living in 🇵🇸 Mi’kma’ki / Nova Scotia 🇨🇦

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It's past my bedtime as I'm watching the Canadian Association of Journalist Awards. I just won silver in the Daily Excellence category. Thank you to the association, judges, all the nominees, and the Examiner team, especially @timbousquet.bsky.social for his continuing support and encouragement.

submitted 5 hours ago • 19 comments

This is so true. (For me anyway).

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Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Is it just me or is there a weird amount of shows on the streams about how really rich people are not actually that bad? Is it deliberate?

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

opens Irish Times sees headline puts phone down and stares into the distance

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

when your body goes haywire during menopause and literally no one knows wtf is going on because nobody about our health. Your hairline starts to migrate. Blinding headaches. You break out into hives weekly for no reason. (Go on hrt immediately if you can. Do not try to raw dog menopause.)

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

Congrats to Michael Crummey of St. John's, NL, on winning the €100K Dublin Literary Award for The Adversary. I love Crummey's work and can't wait to read this one. shorturl.at/D7jaW #canlit #BooksWorthReading #bookworm #Newfoundland

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Quiet intelligence that’s always with me, my ass. I already have an intellect tyvm. Everything just ends up being more surveillance (ostensibly to sell us crap we don’t need).

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This story is hard to read, but there’s so much love and redemption and caring and growth in it, it’s really worth it.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

That sunshine paired with that wind is just cruel.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I have a Nova Scotia- specific question. The marriage certificate you get when you complete the ceremony is the official marriage certificate, right? There isn’t another Service NS one that lawyers expect when they ask for a copy of it? I should know this but I don’t.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Jesus turned out to be a lovely man, All that a woman could ever possibly dream of: Gentle, wild, soft-spoken, courteous, sad; Angular, awkward, candid, methodical; Humorous, passionate, angry, kind; Entirely sensitive to a woman's world. Discreetly I invited Jesus to spend the night with me –

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“We will not be silent in front of the man-made humanitarian catastrophe that is taking place before our eyes in Gaza.” A joint statement from Ireland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Malta and Slovenia.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

I'm in Calgary airport watching everyone watch the hockey.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

So the people pushing an Alberta separatist referendum don’t envision an independent republic where they’d relinquish their Canadian passports or Canada Pension Plan payments? Just their transfer contributions? Do I have that right?

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments