Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Manchán 🕯️

So very sorry to learn that Manchán Magan has passed. He was a rare talent, and a lovely guy, and still had so much more to give. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

📷 Part of the 16 km electrified barbed-wire fences of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. The voltage in the fence was 760 volts. A short video about Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs — Photo: instagram.com/the_view_of_your_memories_

I don't want to hear "AI" researchers complain that everyone now thinks AI = LLMs. It wasn't that long ago that y'all were calling logistic regression AI because it suited you to. You could have stopped this long before but chose not to. 😘

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025. Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work... Please share!

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A timely reminder to support Wikipedia if you can

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Guess who cracked the top 100 science newsletters in substack! Thanks to everyone who has subscribed! And if you havent, and dont want FOMO here’s the link: epiellie.substack.com

You can tell it's a fake profile because there's no ORCID ID...

The next Irish person on University Challenge should adopt the name of Mo Chara

As Judge Paul Goldspring’s decision was announced, they stamped their feet and cheered like the rapper had just scored a hat-trick against the Auld Enemy Kneecap rapper Mo Chara’s barrister was on crutches, yet looked ready to dance a jig www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

Handbag at the Dáil for Maria Steen as her Áras run comes to an end 'Maybe somebody should have taken Maria aside and gently told her: “The democracy didn’t suit you today.”' www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...

I really don’t wish for any European countries to adopt the ”Turkish approach” with Russia, which not only involves shooting down jets but also new Russian-built nuclear power plants and booming trade. And buying Russian air defence systems ffs.

As it was foretold! He is returning! #Rapture

@Sulli864 can you please do me a favour and let me know how the rapture goes tomorrow and I will decide whether to get out of bed or not :) (I haven't a clue either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Some cranks say it will be the rapture tomorrow, but I am sure it will be a normal day with typical activity, and a perfectly normal posting response from New Zealand when it is the first country to see the new day. Chat to you all in the morning.

We are trying to raise money for DCAF because DCAF doesn't have any money! It's getting to the time of year when we need to start booking for 2026 but DCAF never has that kind of cash lying around, so shares would be really appreciated.

400-year-old yew tree in Muckross Abbey, Ireland

Russia is a pathetic third rate power yet it keeps provoking European neighbours. A bully only understands the language of force. When will Europe use appropriate force to deter the predator? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

this exists it is called thinking

I am not a sheeple

Yesssssssss well done Kate O'Connor, what an athlete. Five personal bests in this heptathlon😍 Absolutely incredible. 💚☘️🥈

People getting the internet at home meant young men no longer got a basic grounding in arthouse cinema while looking for nudity on TV.

"... the Yamnaya genetic impact is smaller than in Germany and Britain, about 40 percent, but the Y chromosome of the first farmers who preceded them is entirely absent in the population, a sign of something that “can’t have been a happy occasion for the men involved,” Reich said."

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Garbage in, garbage out. If you ask a dumb question you get a dumb answer. Read the full to understand why!

But there is more to it than that. When you are asked a question like that, where you actually don’t know very much about the topic, people will (very sensibly) hedge their bets: I might think only 1% of people are trans, but shit maybe it’s 10% and if I’m wrong I look less stupid if I’d said 5%

Well I have a super 8 projector and copies of " the Guns of Navarone" "The Professionals*" and Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin shorts * The western

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

"I have smelled too much to know too many among us believe deodorant is an option and not a social responsibility."

Trump, Epstein & Prince Andrew, brothers from a different mother, - acknowledges King Of England… Quite the confession!

Important new Europe Dispatch column by @alanderminna.bsky.social The Russian drone attack into Poland emphasizes one very important change--a European only NATO group of states is beginning to take action. They understand that the US will not lead. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Next stop, Antarctica: ‘Van Diemen’s Land’ and its many historical Irish connections

Great photo captured of the sun shining over Dublin this morning by our 42m turntable ladder crew.

I choose to believe that it is very sassy of @tearma.bsky.social to select múscailte as the Irish for woke, mocking everyone's least favourite divorced Boer by linking his name to the worldview he hates. A coincidence, I'm sure 😉

🧵 One of the things that extremists talk about, a lot, is Western culture. The tulips even do it in Ireland. When you look at their big hair, dead eyes & urinary incontinence - do they look like they’d be regulars in any museum or pub music session?! So here’s some ideas on Irish culture! [1]

"the room was nonetheless filled with Irish tricolour flags... Seeing his young son’s eyes gleaming at the sight of the flags, Hume’s father looked at him and said simply, “don’t get involved with that, son”. When the young John Hume asked him why, his father replied simply: “You can’t eat a flag”

this doesn't look like a normal distribution

As the Irish Minister for Agriculture vows to fight for the right to keep filling rivers with levels of agri-pollutants illegal in the rest of the EU, results show a massive leap of 16% in a single year. Whoever told them it was okay to turn OUR rivers into open sewers? share.google/k7hbDw2O4shX...

The Donabate site was suddenly still and silent as a child’s remains were found

Some facts for the "Ireland is Full" people...

Welcome to the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧 Never before in U.S. History has a President been acknowledged by another country in this unique way! 🇺🇸 At Windsor Castle, in London & all across the land, people are United! ✊ They all want to see the #EPSTEIN_PedoFiles, ASAP! 👀

Anyone who mocks or otherwise doesn’t properly mourn the death of our beloved Dark Lord Sauron will find themselves taken into orc custody and brought to Barad-dûr for questioning. Thank you for your attention to this matter!