Claire Iníon BouliSneachta

@claireissimo.bsky.social

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Good things. Queen of Hot Water Bottles. Nature, Environment, Social Justice, Cats. Performer, Writer, & Artist. She/Her Ireland.

Patch of white teatowel with red stripes. In one section a tiny critter that had been on my worktop (which is blurred in the background under said tea towel. Terrified it's a tick.
Artwork by the wonderful Liz Climo from her 2026 calendar. An array of gorgeous animals in rainbow courts for #Pride month. From left to right: White bunny, pink pig, brown maybe otter with a light blue butterfly on its head, light black bear, red maybe arctic fox, orange maybe hamster, yellow duck, green snake, blue bird, pink axolotl. Her cartoons are awesome. Check out her work.
Screenshot of results stats popup from cluesbysam.com Main graphic, on a black background, shows a fully green 4x5 game grid, which means I solved today's "tricky" level puzzle 100% correctly. White text below image reads "Solved in less than 10 minutes. Only 54% others had a perfect solve." A little much-needed boost in my day. I am invincible!!! 💖
Screenshot of my highest score to date on 100jumps.org 81 out of 100 jumps.
Screenshot of a perfect solve on cluesbysam.com's daily puzzle. Today was labelled "tricky" so I'm fuppin thrilled. My 2nd full house since I started playing.
Screenshot from drawafish.com where you draw a fish & it gets put in a virtual tank & swims around with other people's fishies. The background is light blue, sky blue really, & there are various fish of different colours & varying degrees of artistry! My fish is in the middle, highlighted by yellow lines, like sunbeams. It is a simple little black line-drawing fishy, in right profile, with a black dot for an eye, & a little smile. It's a very happy fishy, & is utterly perfect. I love you, Fishy! Thanks to @levparikian.bsky.social for highlighting this game in his wonderful Six Things substack. Do subscribe!
Screenshot from a grid-style anagram word game from writingexercises.co.uk I got 13 out of the 16 findable words in this round. These are listed in green: hilt, limo, mirror, mirth, moil, molt, mort, moth, riot, toil, trim. 2 of the words I didn't get are listed in red text: omit, trio. I've crudely edited the photo & drawn a blue box around the other "word" I didn't get, & put 2 question marks, & an exclamation mark beside it. The word? "html" Ah here!
Screenshot of a tweet by someone named Jim Smith @mozzer2015 that reads: "Make it "the young fella that tweets about planes" international airport 😂😂"
Connolly for President Celtic spiral-indpired artwork in green background, orange Celtic design, & cream-white text.
Image of the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings. Under earth it reads: Breaking News The Eye of Sauron Latest to Endorse Heather Humphreys. The Waterford Whispers News Logo, WWN, is above the image.
Screenshot from @tupp_ed's The Gist, which reads: "I like Soap" The posters have gone up on lamposts. Micheál Martin's candidate Jim Gavin (or Don Uachtaránacht as he's also known to the less observant poster reader) beams, shiny-faced down on the public with all the political charisma of a middle manager in a soap factory. He can't wait to visit some community groups, he explains in his interviews with the zeal of a man eating a slice of waterlogged bread.
Screenshot from Simon's The Gist article. "I like Soap" paragraph about Jim Gavin. Follow the link in Simon's original post in this thread for the article.
Photo of the front cover of Lev Parikian's book "Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?"
Close up of cool little light green beetle on a black surface (inside the car door, actually!) They are in sorta side profile facing right. Unit.
Close up of a gorgeous, & quite large moth chilling on on a burgundy-coloured fleece blanket. Beautiful shades of brown with wing markings like the bark of a tree.
A stem of fairly well-eaten ragwort, nibbled to pieces by some very hungry black & orange striped cinnabar moth caterpillars.
Screen grab from twitter where Progressive Politics NI posted an image of a July 12th bonfire with a migrant boat containing effigies of migrants in it on top. It says "Stop The Boats" on a placard underneath it. Tweet text reads "The top of the year's Moygashel bonfire. This isn't culture, this is pure hate." Have to say, I agree. Disgusting behaviour.
Screen grab from twitter where Progressive Politics NI posted an image of a July 12th bonfire with a migrant boat containing effigies of migrants in it on top. It says "Stop The Boats" on a placard underneath it. Tweet text reads "The top of the year's Moygashel bonfire. This isn't culture, this is pure hate." Have to say, I agree. Disgusting behaviour.
Another angle on my good moth-friend here. Yoy can see their dark eyes showing in this photo, & their wavy markings are more pronounced. It looked like an ethereal white in the the real, but comes out darker in the photo.
Screenshot of what looks to he a very cool cowboy boot with an image of a T-Rex on the side, & red flames licking around the toes. I would totally buy these, but it turns out it's a vase!
Some weird little gherkin-like life form in my compost pin. About the size of a woodlouse.
Screenshot of Alphaguess word game results. Puzzle #705 2 guesses 5seconds.
A screenshot of a post that says: "I'm Italian & my cousin just sent me my late grandma's potato gnocchi recipe. Obviously this recipe is only decipher able by boomers, & some Gen X since its written in ancient text. I had to have ChatGPT translate it for me, no one can read this shit." Underneath this text are 3 photos of handwritten recipe notes in cursive joined handwriting.
Screenshot from An Post website page "Letter to My Future Self" with a drawing of a postbox with a stamped envelope flying towards it. Underneath the text reads: "Capture the moment. Send it to your future self. Ever wished you could check in with yourself a year from now? A freepost letter to My Future Self gives you the chance to do just that. Write a letter today & post it for free. An Post will send it back to you in a year - no stamp needed."
Screenshot of fake account posing as Niall on twitter.
Screenshot of the profile page of @ mrneeson.bsky.social purporting to be the real Liam Neeson of movie fame. Indeed.
Text from Thejournal.ie Penney's poll, but the poll isn't there.
Cover of poetry anthology Washing Windows V. The artwork, "Dinner in the College" by Pauline Bewick, features women seated round a long banquet table, dining & talking by the soft glow of the various candelabra on the table.
On a white background a graphic with, on the left, a heart in the colours of the transgender pride flag - blue, pink, white, pink, blue horizontal stripes. On the right the text in blue & pink reads "International Transgender Day of Visibility March 31.
An image from Duolingo in orange & yellow. Duo, wearing sunglasses, is radiating inner fire, & the text in white reads "I'm on a 1000 day learning streak", which apparently I am! Wooh!!
StyScraper stacking game. A precarious tower of stacked boxes, armchairs, tyres, pigs, & barrels. New personal best of 18.31metres high!!
Game 368 chickens. I got down as far as only 3 chickens remaining. Ridiculously chuffed of a Friday!!
Game 368 chickens. I got down as far as only 3 chickens remaining. Ridiculously chuffed of a Friday!!
StyScraper stacking game image. I've reached a grand height of 14.92 metres!!!
Board of a game where you're tryi g to clear rows of dire t kinds of chickens & gens in groups of 3+. Sake.
Sty Scraper pig stacking game. I have built a tower with varuous bits to a highest level (yet) of 11.47 metres. WOOOOOH!!
Is it a shirt? Is it a jacket? No, alas, for a new superhero is born among us! Cropped image of a person wearing a "shacket". It's ridiculous.
Screenshot from Word of The Day by gratefulness.org which reads: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, JR.
Cover of the book The Bookshop Woman. Illustration is a side profile drawing of a woman with cropped black hair, sitting on the ground, back against a stack of books, knees up. She is balancing the book she is reading on her knees, her arms resting along her thighs. She is wearing a pink sleeveless vest, pink cropped trousers, & pink cosy socks. There are 3 "windows" in her the clothes, showing yellow light & filled bookshelves inside. Under her elbow is her bookshop in miniature with a row of people queuing up outside to get in.
Artists picture of a male & female farmer in a field. Red tractor in the background. Text in white at the top in bold caps says "Stop the EU-Mercosur deal"
Large box proclaiming "Wild bird's Advent Calendar." "Everyday treats for our little friends." The image on the box feels like an old-fashioned feeling artwork of birds in a snowy winter scene. There's a snowbeing, a fence, a lake, & in the distance, a house. In the foreground are the birds... Robin, on the right, beside the snowman, a bluetit above them on a branch. Over left, there's a sparrow & a woodpecker (I think) perched, & a great tit facing us - feathers wide in flight. And bang in the centre there's a gorgeous bird, & I've no idea what it is. I must ask Lev. But it's clearly some kind of worm/insect water bird because it doesn't have that kind of finch-y beak! Anyway, this advent calendar looks all nostalgic & warm, & wholesome. A brilliant gift for both myself, & the birds! Wait!! Is that supposed to be a willy wagtail??
A piece of paper, with lines rudely drawn across. Trying to sort my voter preference for tomorrow. Ist line has a 1 in it, then going down the page numbers as fast as 9. Some of them have been changed a bit.
Pink Care Bear wearing gold-rimmed heart shaped sunglasses. They are sitting in a blue car seat, up in the clouds methinks, & looking towards us, smiling, their hands on the steering wheel. Above the image in black block caps the text reads: Get in gorgeous, we are going to higher vibrations. Am considering making this my profile pic!
Å left hand held up, palm facing us, & fingers curled towards us. The nails have been awesomely manicured to look like vampire fangs. Pinky & index fingers are pointy vampire canines white at the top, turning blood red to the pointed tips. Middle & ring fingers clipped straight to look like front 2 teeth with same white towards blood red. It looks amazing!
Silver laptop lid embellished with the finery of a black and white reclining Marty Whelan sticker.
White poster on a red background. The poster has an image of the cover of the new anthology "Fire: Brigid & The Sacred Feminine." Editors Shauna Gillian & Niamh Boyce. The cover image, an artwork by Noël O'Callaghan, is a drawing of a naked woman standing proudly with a green snake in her hands, wrapped back around her shoulders. The woman is in her natural state with underarm & pubic hair. Underneath the poster, on the red background is the invitation text: "Publication & launch, Thursday 26th 6.45pm, Naas Library & Cultural Centre. All Welcome." The Brigid 1500 logo of a flame containing a Brigid's cross is to the left of the poster, & the logo for publisher, Arlen House, is on the right.
Dragonfly resting on a plain white wall, it's wings spread open. Her wings are transparent, & her body is striped with black & brown, & some light yellow spotting.
The last remaining chicken goujon, sitting on the black surface of the induction hob.
A tweet from 8th April last year that reads: "Like do they have to screen the Snapper every feckin week or something? It's so lazy & reductive"
An image with a Yes on a white background in the top half, & a No on a green background in the bottom half with the aim of reminding people to vote no on the green ballot sheet.
A picture of Lev's book, close up, on a wooden table. The front cover is a beautifully rich drawing with cherry blossoms in bloom, & all sorts of wildlife, & hints of places that Lev talks about in the book.
An upturned coffee filter with ground coffee spilling out of it lies on the kitchen floor beside a willow pattern saucer it hit & broke on the way down. Gah.
A small glass containing a measure of Fernet Branca.
Duo owl congratulating me on finishing my Irish course.
Small patch of grass with snopdrops, purple crocuses, & the bud of a daffodil ready to explode in all its sunny glory.