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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jul 11

oh gosh they have have those cute little vertical banners as though this is nothing different than a ukelele festival

crop from OP's photograph showing vertical orange banners being suspended from a poles among the area the people with all the UK flags are. They say "Belfast - Orangefest" with "fest" in whimsical letters and have logos which I assume are for the Orange Order.

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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jul 10

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jul 9

I never thought I'd read it so beautifully written: "it might be the last owing to threats of expulsion" this is utterly critical terrain of struggle

Image taken from a post by the Anne Devlin Community Centre instagram page of a photograph of a bilingual poster advertising an Irish language conversation meetup. The poster reads as follows:

Ciorcal Cainte
6 i.n. Dé Luain
D’fhéadfadh sé a bheith ar an gceann deireanach de bharr bagartha díbeartha

Ciorcal Cainte
6pm Monday
Potentially the last due to threat of eviction

Ionad Pobail Áine Ní Dheagláin
Anne Devlin Community Centre

The poster is simple black marker on yellow card and has beautiful penmanship in addition to a small drawn portrait of Anne Devlin. It makes use of traditional irish letterforms and the ponc séimhimhe for the text in irish and is somewhat poignantly fixed to the wall with packing tape printed with the word "fragile".

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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jul 8

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Infographic from An Phríomh-Oifig Staidrimh, the Central Statistics Office. It is titled Data Centres Metered Electricity Consumption 2025.

First, it breaks down percentage of metered electricity consumed by data centres as follows:
- 5% in 2015,
- 22% in 2024
- 23% in 2025

Next, percentage of metered electricity consumed by urban dwellings:
- 22% in 2015
- 15% in 2025

Finally, percentage of metered electricity consumed by rural dwellings:
- 12% in 2015
- 9% in 2025

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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jul 8

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A pie chart titled "Sectoral contributions to Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions 2025". The different sectors are as follows in order highest to lowest:

- Agriculture, at 38.7%
- Transport, at 22.0%
- Buildings, at 12.6%
- Energy generation, at 12.5%
- Industry, at 11.4%
- Others accounting for 2.8%.

The change on previous year for this is as follows:
- Agriculture fell by 0.2%
- Transport fell by 1.5%
- Buildings fell by 4.7%
- Energy generation fell by 7.1%
- Industry fell by 4.7%
- Others increased by 2.1%

The graph cites it was created with Datawrapper
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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jul 7

tadc composers if they weren't cowards:

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jul 7

for a moment I wondered could there be a music joke going on, and while if interpreting the key centre as minor, the sixth scale degree (Fa) is played over she strikin it, it's not adjacent to the seventh (So) so idk if there's anything here

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jul 4

what if it was all a dream...

photograph of the Six Grandfathers, Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, prior to its 1927 defacement with the faces of four american presidents known as Mount Rushmore. The smooth yet rugged granite bluff towers over forest and looks majestic.

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jun 16

here's the image I used (credit to the Karlach on the Loading Screen mod for the base image I edited further www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3...)

the image I used for the banner, on its own now for the purposes of downloading and using yourself if you like!
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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jun 16

I have done the same for baldur gate, because how could they leave my girl off 👿

screenshot again of my custom banner for Baldur's Gate 3, an edit of the usual but including Karlach this time
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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jun 16

I'm afraid to say I had rebelliously changed the banner on steam to Secrets of Strixhaven before the set actually dropped. I shall not be clearing it until at least The Hobbit 🙂‍↕️

screenshot of my Steam client showing the fact I have set a custom banner image for the game Magic the Gathering Arena of characters from the magic set Secrets of Strixhaven instead of the marvel super heroes that would be there had I not

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jun 13

Jim "none of us would like to imagine living in a surveillance state, but" O'Callaghan

clipping from The Irish Times from last november which reads:

In his speech, O'Callaghan said there was "a need to grapple with the question of what data we will permit gardaí to access and what systems, protections and oversights should be in place".
In quotes: "None of us would like to imagine living in a surveilance state ... [ellipsis] but neither, I think, would we like to imagine people who have taken, or plan to take, the lives of others continuing to walk free with impunity, as a result of an inability on the part of gardaí to effectively investigate their crimes."

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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· May 12

I think about this often

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· May 12

also,

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· May 9

a canopic jar, a simple pottery flask made of dust coloured-clay with a sculpted jackal's head for a lid

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 27

screenshot of an article thumbnail titled "Why you should always pack a tennis ball in your hand luggage" from HuffPost UK

stock photograph of a dog with glasses at a typewriter. He looks like a very good boy and his mouth could fit a tennis ball really well oh man it could probably fit one so good you wouldn't even know you would if you had a tennis ball you could see for yourself right now it would fit so good if you had a tennis ball

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 27

turns out if you follow the data and maybe are a little bit open to thinking for the people involved, you do in fact arrive at the conclusion "maybe this is alright, actually" (also: www.removepaywall.com)

screenshot is of an extract from the article in quoted post:

There’s even a philosophical dimension to the debate. “Philosophically speaking, I agree that facts alone don’t tell us what we should do,” Gualano reflects. “It’s the classic ‘is-ought’ problem that Hume pointed out.” The Scottish philosopher David Hume observed that many philosophers and moralists jump from describing how things are to saying how they ought to be without justifying that leap. No prior moral premise is added. In this debate, the fact that trans people have been excluded from sports for centuries does not mean they should continue to be excluded. That it has been so does not justify that it should remain so.

Note: Bruno Gualano is a physician and researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, who co-authored the study inquestion.

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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 9

top-trumps universes beyond sets really are something huh... my first draft type thing ever and in four games I've already legend-ruled myself twice, with *commons* literally a quarter of nonland cards in my deck are named Raphael, and I even cut another thinking this might happen. good grief

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 8

abigale is adorable 🦉🤍🖤

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 7

this is so cute 💫

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 6

last view prior to loss of signal

similar to previous view, but it's earthset. The sliver earth is vanishing just beyond the horizon of the moon, itself just lit as a sliver. it's dramatic and breathtaking

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 6

"you're getting a view of Orion, the moon, and the earth. *everyone* here" 🥹

screenshot from the lifestream from the artemis II mission spacecraft from outer space. The camera is mounted on a solar panel, so is far enough aft that the command module is mostly in view, and next to it the moon as a sliver as they prepare to pass around the dark side, and next to that the tiny earth which oddly for us is also lit as a crescent. it's beautiful

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 6

artemis II just asked capcom to restate distances from the moon in kilometers and parsecs

the kekw emote, a face chuckling to an absurd degree

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 4

as four brave spacetronauts hurtle towards the moon as we post, let us take a moment to do our due to remember the giants on whose shoulders they stand:

photograph 1 of 4 of "A trip to the Moon", a short illustrated story from Richard Scarry's "Great Big Air Book" picture book.

Quote: Wolfgang Wolf, Benny Baboon, and Harry Hyena are about to climb aboard their spacecraft. They are going to the moon to collect rock samples and bring them back to the earth. They want to find out what the moon is made of.

We see the three animal astronauts standing in front of a Saturn V type looking rocket in the background. Huckle Cat, his family, and his friend Lowly Worm are standing nearby admiring the astronauts in their suits.

The next illustration shows the rocket leaving the atmosphere, breaking apart into its multiple stages.

Quote: Ready for lift-off. Five, four, three, two, one, LIFT-OFF! Up, up goes the spaceship - off into space and heading for the moon.
The three astronauts are very excited. No! There are four astronauts! What is Lowly doing there? Well, it is too late to put him off now.

While the three anthro hyena, baboon, and wolf astronauts can be seen through the windscreen of the command module, Lowly the adorable stowaway worm has his own porthole for some reason.

The next illustration shows the command and service module manoeuvring next to the lunar excursion module.

Quote: The spacecraft is getting close to the moon. The landing ship (Baby) is attached to the command ship (Mother). Wolfgang turns the nose of the command ship around so it fits into the hatch door of the landing ship.

The next illustration shows the lunar module descending to the moon's surface.

Quote: Then Benny, Harry, and Lowly climb through the hatch door into the landing ship. Wolfgang stays behind in the command ship to wait for their return. The two ships separate so that the landing ship can head for the moon.
Benny! Turn on your landing motor so you can make a gentle landing on the moon.

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we see the lunar module suddenly stalling its descent awkwardly and almost tipping over.

Quote: The ship trips over a rock. It does not land very gently.

The next illustration shows Benny Baboon and Harry Hyena leaping around and using grabbers to gather moon rocks. Lowly worm is visible in the helmet of Harry Hyena.

Qutoe: There is no air on the moon. Each astronaut has to carry his air with him. It is carried in a tank in the pack on the astronaut's back. But Lowly has no space suit so he gets into Harry's suit. Now he can breathe air. Pick, pick, pick. They are busy collecting rock samples.

The next illustration has them back in the lunar module, but the still-suited astronauts look a bit unsure.

Quote: It is time to climb back into the landing ship. The air in the astronauts' tanks is almost all used up. Inside the landing ship there is plenty of air for breathing. Oh dear! The hatch door won't stay closed! The air inside the landing ship will leak out. "Keep calm", says Lowly. "Benny, you hold the door shut. Harry, you turn on the air tank. Then I will be able to breathe when I get out of your spacesuit. I know how to keep the hatch door closed".

Quote: Lowly ties himself into a knot around the door handle, and the door stays tightly shut. "Now we will be able to get back with our valuable rocks", says Lowly.

The astronauts look a lot more confident now.

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we see the lunar module on its way back to the command and service module. Harry and Benny's faces are in the main portholes and just Lowly Worm's foot is visible through the porthole of the door

Quote: All set? BLAST-OFF! The landng ship takes off from the moon, leaving its launching pad behind.

The next illustration shows the lunar module docking with the command and service module.

Quote: It connects with the command ship again. Then the astronauts climb through the nose hatch into the other ship. As soon as they are all set, Wolfgang sends the empty landing craft into space. Then the command ship heads back to earth.

The next illustration shows a scene on the ocean of an aircraft carrier with a large funnel. Helicopters are everywhere in the air, as is the command module parachuting down, as well as the flying ace Rudolf Strudel making a cameo in his propeller plane.

Qutote: After the astronauts get back into the earth's atmosphere, they open up the big parachutes on their spaceship An aircraft carrier and several helicopters are waiting to pick them out of the sea. HERE THEY COME...

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We see a two page spread of the aircraft carrier. The astronauts heads are poking out of the top of the tunnel.

Quote: But the spaceship does not land in the water. It goes... RIGHT DOWN THE FUNNEL! Well anyway, the astronauts have landed safely with their precious rocks. Everyone is happy to see the brave astronauts safely back on earth.

Quote: After they have all had a bath, the admiral gives lowly a shiny medal. On the medal are the words: "Lowly Worm, a real astro-knot. The first worm on the moon." Lowly likes the medal very very much, But best of all he likes being back on earth where he can breathe fresh air again! All right everyone! Let's take a deep breath of the earth's wonderful air!

Inset is an illustration of the very small Lowly Worm in his alpine hat and enormous new medal. An even tinier insect guy is looking up in admiration.

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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Apr 2

best I can do, may she forgive my miscomings

it's the moon. photographed through a spotting scope. she's a bit blurry, but sure aren't we all

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Feb 9

make a copy of The First Iroan Games so everyone can share the medals

picture of the card "The First Iroan Games", a saga with four chapters where across four turns you create a weenie human soldier token, then you get to buff it or another creature up, then you get to draw two cards if you have a creature that's big enough (if you buffed the soldier that suffices!), and then you create a so-called gold token, the official printing for which is clearly a gold medal. The card is from the greek-mythology inspired plane of Theros, and is obviously inspired by the ancient olympic games.

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Feb 9

well I took a limited reroll with @bskyttrpg.bsky.social and not to brag or anything

screenshot showing I have the label on my account "Witch" from the bluesky fantasy role playing character class labeler

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Feb 2

definitely going to have to use this one on vacating a scene "of the thirty-six stratagems, fleeing is best"

screenshot of the line "of the thirty-six stratagems, fleeing is best" from the chinese opera Qin Xianglian, sung by the grandly-robed and heartless Chen Shimei as he announces his intention to avoid his own trial and execution

Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jan 26

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my character sitting peacefully in the middle of a field on my Animal Crossing island. Three snowguys with slightly incorrect dimensions are situated nearby in various forms of melting decay, surrounded by raging bonfires and enormous spouts of flame. I am wearing a flame decal t-shirt and a glowing halo. I look very innocent.
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Astra 🐲@astrathedragon· Jan 26