Notices by Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie), page 6

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This series is so good that I am comfortable giving out the middle one -- if you haven't read it, I *strongly* recommend going out and getting A DEADLY EDUCATION (which is about €4.50 right now, I think) so you can read this one. And then get the third one.

*Please* share this giveaway any way you can, because the UK/IE books are very hard for me to get out enough. Not enough UK/IE followers, I presume, as opposed to any inherent mistrust of free books. 😄

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of @nkjemisin's The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1), which didn't win nearly enough awards (even though it won all of them). To say it's powerful would be an understatement, a failing of my ability to articulate thoughts into words. Ironically, *not* a problem Jemisin has. There are 2 sequels to this, equally as good. If you haven't read it, you should; if you have read it, find someone who hasn't and get them to read it.

@kithrup woo hoo.

Thank you!!!!!

Literally a seilide-púca. Hah,
Thank you #mastodaoine

@IanMoore3000 especially when it's usually said with a certain degree of fondness... as a child it was 'cute' "look at the wee snail-goblin" my mammy would say... so to speak...

@IanMoore3000 @theirishfor You seem to be right!

@pinguicverse That needs to go up on wiktionary too I think.... Do you have the details of the slang dictionary. And hmm, maybe I need one of those....

@Ailbhe I had never tried before, that I remember

Dear @theirishfor
all of which leads me to ask, what words this got mangled FROM to make this word... and if it's deise, that includes what language were those words IN. Do you know?

I had no idea it was a Deise word...

@Ailbhe thank you, I couldn't find any spelling online this morning and was wondering!!

@jk001 Yes- I just couldn't find ANY of the spellings I tried this morning and was beginning to wonder

Dear #mastodaoine how do you spell shellakipooky?
IYKYK

Oasis? Did hell freeze over??

@JulietEMcKenna That's my mam and the 60s!

@lilithsaintcrow It's just so weird!!

@BioGeek23 @sidereal @seachanger @inquiline

Right? That's what I meant when I said "Institutionalism is a beast". My mom will do anything the CDC or Anthony Fauci tells her to do. So will doctors, hospitals, business, workplaces, government buildings, courthouses, etc etc etc.

IF it weren't so inexcusable, Biden's deft erasure of COVID using the subtle authoritarianism of executive branch institutions would be an impressive example of a society-wide psy-op with plausible deniability.

So there I am reading descriptions of tv shows to pick next- one says it stars Stephen McHottie....
Momentary huh?!

Re-read line. Stephen McHattie.....

Ah....

Years ago I was putting together a Nanny Ogg outfit for my mam. What would have really made the outfit was if I could have got her a pipe that blew bubbles. But I couldn't find one anywhere. Figured tobacco stuff for kids was now off the market.
Lidl recently: https://www.pustefix.de/shop/pustefix-puste-pipe/