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The Centra for policy studies. My novel Elysian is out now. she/her http://nichorra.org/ Follow me on Mastodon https://mastodon.ie/@nichorra 📍Passing through
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@pipsish.bsky.social desperately searching for that Matrix post you shared a while ago, a screenshot from a forum post, about Neo and his enemy merging, how we are all one. Can you help me out?

Late late late f4scïşt form of predatory late capitalism 👇👇👇

Measles on the train or snakes on a plane. Which would you choose?

The bumblebees are on the dandelions!! Back away from the lawnmowers

I bet you look good on the dancefloor by Arctic Monkeys

Did anyone else confuse Roseanne Barr and Rosie O'Donnell at some point?

Social media oligarchs don't mind turning the whole world into a Myanmar-like hell.

On the Myanmar chapter of Careless People, deep into the Myanmarification of many other nation states.

Irish flag being held in an anti-immigration protest of the Flemish far right in Ghent, Belgium. I have no words. #SpeirGorm

Meghan Markle picks red blackberries on her Netflix show.

'Levy the cost on the Europeans'. Just call it tribute and get it over with.

Pierre Boulez making salad. #pierreboulez

In her latest video Contrapoints recalls viewing examples of N@zi propaganda in a European history museum and finding them on par with or tamer than what is mainstream on X right now.

Posting about Garron and Irish culture over on Mastodon. #speirgorm mastodon.ie/@nichorra/11...

"things keep appearing because they don't exist." Clara Llum

This image feels like a larger cultural metaphor for Ireland in late capitalism. #speirgorm

Mother has returned to feed us. youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?... #contrapoints

The fact that my BlueSky Discover tab is filled with the very accounts I already follow feels like a lesson in Buddhism.

MSc in Wholegrain Conspiracy Theory

I've done this hundreds of times at this point, watching my company lose interest as the passion of the urban legend gets reduced to its component parts.

I always found Leo Varadkar a bit smarmy, missing the note he was aiming for, dreaming of becoming a populist leader in a very overt way — a modern political popstar — without the charisma to carry it over the line. I wouldn't hire him to do public relations. #speirgorm

European toads like Buddhas on the late-night streets of Belgium.

What the Adobe realm can offer in terms of using computers for creativity is a dead end. Young artists would be better off developing ways to make digital art with low power computers like RPI or N97. In 2025, there is no reason a 20 year old should learn any specific app from the Adobe suite.

Do Belgians learn to drive via Mario kart?

Is there a word for having the desire to know someone and that very desire creating the cosmic barrier that prevents you from ever knowing them? #wordoftheday

www.kennys.ie

Norma Foley's haircut is political.

Is there anyone who didn't have a teacher with the Norma Foley haircut? #speirgorm

"Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it." ~ Emile M. Cioran