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Also btw every single complaint about irish pronounciation and spelling in schools would be solved if we hammered in the slender/broad distinctions early because it would become abundantly clear why this 't' has to be surrounded by 'i's and it isn't just a thing they decided to do one day and more people would be able to spell words from just hewring them and pronounciation from just reading them send tweet

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5k notes and I'll stop putting off cleaning my room.

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IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR IRISH GO TO CULA4.COM (ITS A KIDS STATION SO THE WORDS AND VOCAB USED ARE AIMED AND YOUNGER CHILDREN HENCE MORE COMPREHENSIBLE THAN A SOAP LIKE ROS NA RÚN( ITS GOT SPONGEBOB AND HORRID HENRY (HIS NAME IS DÓNAL DÁNA AHHHHHH) GIVING AHIT LIKE THIS RECOGNITION, BOOSTS, AND ENGAGEMENT IS EXACTLY HOW YOU TELL THE IRISH GOVERNMENT WE WANT THIS SHIT AND WE WANT MORE IRISH THEYBONLY LAUNCHED LIKE 3 HRS AGO GO WATCH

#yo SpongeBob?????

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No one ever gets to make fun of “I before e except after c” ever again.

I just read a several page blog post about how and when to stick an H into Irish words and it doesn’t make any sense.

On a specific set of consonants, if you’re using a specific list of prepositions, using the word “my”, asking someone a question (yes you literally change how you spell and pronounce another persons name apparently. My name is now pronounced gella but only when you ask me a question), or using a feminine noun (did not explain the rules of that) or a feminine adjective (who the fuck is grammatically gendering adjectives) but in some of those cases if it’s a D or an T it DOESNT actually happen…

Then you stick an H after the first letter and change how you pronounce it.

…..in one specific dialect.

And it did not clarify in what tenses this applies. Is it only present tense? All of them? Some but not all?

#gaeilge #irish langblr

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It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

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Hey y'all, there's a great Instagram acct called gogreensavegreen that just released three awesome resources for getting involved in collective action!

I'll include the link, they're going to be updating them and helping them grow, and they're AWESOME. Collective action is huge! Individual action is great for getting motivated, connecting with the earth, understanding resources, and growing passion, but these resources will take you further. I love just scrolling through them.

If you care about this and don't really know where to start THIS is for you. If you feel hopeless about our situation THIS is for you. If you find it hard to find like minded people THIS is for you!

Please boost and spread the word about this. We need as many people taking action as possible, and maybe this will help someone out there find their niche, their calling, their hobby, their action!

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just found a treasure trove of irish language resources you can't even imagine

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Degrowth resources

Degrowth basics

Why degrowth is the only responsible way forward | OpenDemocracy

Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment

We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth | Current Affairs

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance | Common Dreams

Defending limits is not Malthusian | Undisciplined Environments

Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? | New Yorker

The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy | The New Republic

Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier | The New Republic

A guide to degrowth: The movement prioritizing wellbeing in a bid to avoid climate cataclysm | CNBC

What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change? | Popular Science

Enough for Everyone | Yes! Magazine

Toward a Post-Capitalist Future: On the Growth of “Degrowth” | Lit Hub

All we are saying is give degrowth a chance | The RSA

A pathway out of environmental collapse | newsroom

On Technology and Degrowth | Monthly Review

What is degrowth (and more importantly, what is it not)? | META

Green growth

The Myth of America’s Green Growth | Foreign Policy

The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability | The Conversation

Is green growth happening? | Uneven Earth

Green Growth | Uneven Earth

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth | Scientific American

Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite | Al Jazeera

A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think | Timothée Parrique

Deceitful Decoupling: Misconceptions of a Persistent Myth | Alevgul H. Sorman

Degrowth isn’t the same as a recession – it’s an alternative to growing the economy forever | The Conversation

Degrowth and the left

The Left should embrace degrowth | New Internationalist

Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way | The Trouble

Degrowth: Socialism without Growth | Brave New Europe

Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable | Monthly Review

For an Ecosocialist Degrowth | Monthly Review

Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth | Rupture

Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist | Protean Mag

Degrowth Communism | PPPR (Part one | Part two | Part three)

Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century | New Socialist

Degrowth and the South

Who is afraid of degrowth? A Global South economic perspective | IBON Foundation

The anti-colonial politics of degrowth | Jason Hickel

Unlearning: From Degrowth to Decolonization | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

Journals/Reports

Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance | Jason Hickel

What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification | Jason Hickel

Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios | Nature Energy

Degrowth and critical agrarian studies | Julien-François Gerber

Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability | European Environmental Bureau

Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World | David Woodward

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help | Nature

A New Political Economy for a Healthy Planet | Jason Hickel

Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits

Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions | Cleaner Production Letters

Books

Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Pluto Press

A People's Green New Deal | Max Ajl

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job | Verso Books

The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism | Verso Books

The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism | Verso Books

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism | Kohei Saito

Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation

27 Essays and Thoughts on Degrowth | Giorgos Kallis

Videos

Yes To Limits To Growth! | The Other School

How Degrowth Can Save the World | Andrewism

How We End Consumerism | Our Changing Climate

Demystifying Degrowth | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

Degrowth is not Austerity | John the Duncan

Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Planet: Critical

Degrowth in 7 minutes: Fighting for climate by living better | Think That Through

The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) || SRSLY WRONG

"Degrowth means power to the working class!"with Jason Hickel | GND Media

Others

degrowth.info

Degrowth Journal

Doughnut Economics

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The amount of leftists who can't tell the difference between

"You should recycle, but it's not going to stop impeding climate doom"

and

"You shouldn't recycle because it's not your fault the planet is imploding"

is baffling. Like, you're allowed to be mad about greenwashing while still trying to live as sustainably as possible. Buying glassware instead of plasticware isn't gonna stop the planet from falling apart, but it's certainly better than saying "ah fuck it" and supporting the production and landfilling of plastic waste. Even if it's just by a tiny, individual's amount, it's still better than doing nothing. This "all or nothing" mentality that these people claim is tearing apart American politics is quite literally at the heart of their entire belief system.

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Fuck self-sufficiency. It's time for Interdependence. Always offer help and always accept it. Cook meals for the people you love. Grow fruits and vegetables and give them to your neighbors. The "independent" person is merely the perfect version of a Consumer, eating directly from the palms of Corporation. Fuck self-sufficiency. Need one another.

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Irish Vocab from Éasca Péasca - Caibidil 2

From the book Short Stories to Learn Irish by Olly Richards Highlighted by the book: An-chraic - Great fun Cúthail - Shy Thar a bheith - Exceedingly Thar mholadh beirte - Not great/Below par Aerfort na Sionainne - Shannon Airport Carrchlós - Car park Tost - Silence Árasán - Apartment an Fhaiche Mhór - Eyre Square Radharc - View Stiúgtha - Starving In aice láimhe - Nearby Bia mara - Seafood Fadhb - Problem Plódaithe - Crowded Go háirithe - Particularly Suaimhneach - Peaceful Luasbhus - Express bus Cadhnra - Battery Ar an dea-uair - Fortunately De ghlanmheabhair - By heart Ag geonaíl - Grumbling Splanc inspioráide - Flash of inspiration Tuirse arthurais - Jetlag Highlighted by me: Aimsigh - To find Tuirling - To descend Meangadh - Smile Leiceann - Cheek I gcroílár - In the very middle of... Urlár - Floor Tobann - Sudden/Unexpected Airigh - To sense/perceive/feel Ullmhaigh - To prepare Anonn - Over/to the side Tit i laige - To faint Suíochán - Seat Duine uasail - Sir Leaindeáilte - Landed Gabh - Take Cinn - Step/Fix/Determine Teagmhaigh - To meet/touch Gortaigh - To hurt/injure Géar - Sharp Uafásach - Horrible Múch - To extinguish A leithéid de lá! - What a day!

#gaeilge #irish langblr #vocab

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Some verb sheets plus one about the weather

#gaeilge #irish langblr

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Gan-rómáns, Gan-ghnéas, Painghnéasach agus Il-ghnéasach

[ID: na bratach gan-rómáns, gan-ghnéas, painghnéasach agus il-ghnéasach agus na focail as Gaeilge]

Sainmhíniú:

Gan-rómáns - ní bhíonn tarraingt rómánsach ar daoine seo ar aon inscne

Gan-ghnéas - ní bhíonn tarraingt ghnéasach ar daoine seo ar aon inscne

Painghnéasach - bíonn tarraingt ghnésach ar daoine seo ar gach inscne

Il-ghnéasach - bíonn tarraingt ghnésach ar daoine seo ar a lán inscne ach ní bhíonn ar gach inscne

Aromantic, Asexual, Pansexual and Polysexual

[ID as Béarla: the aromantic, asexual, pansexual and polysexual flags and the words for them in Irish]

Meanings:

Aromantic - someone who doesn’t experience romantic attraction

Asexual - someone who doesn’t experience sexual attraction

Pansexual - someone attracted to all genders

Polysexual - someone attracted to multiple genders but not all

#gaeilge #irish langblr

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Some Irish terms of endearment/Cúpla Focal muirneach as Gaeilge

Feel free to add your own in the notes!

Note these are all in the vocative tense, implying these are all being spoken to the person directly, not about the person,

Tá A Chara an téarma níos-coitianta agus ciallíonn é friend, úsáideann é le do chairde.

Ciallíonn A Stór agus A Thaisce My treasure, agus ciallíonn A Leanbh my child, úsáideann iad le do chlann, do dhlúthchairde, agus do leannáin.

Agus úsáideann A Mhuirnín (darling), A Ghrá (love), A Chroí (heart), A Chuisle (Pulse), A Rún (Secret), A Chuid (Portion/share) le do chéile amháin.

Nótaí: Is féidir leat a tar in áit 'A' le 'Mo' a dhéanamh 'Mo chara' (my friend), 'Mo leanbh' (my child), 'Mo Ghrá' (my love), agus araille.

#irish langblr #gaeilge