In Vic I racked up new #parkrun course Inverloch 2.5hrs from city I roped in mate Grant as he could bring sailboard & sail in the inlet. He got the board out I paddled in his kayak.cool for my Qld senses this mornwith 15 min walk to start lovely glimpses of inlet all the way Tx to designated driver

The Earth transformed: A history of climate change woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...

It’s quite jarring given the 50c fares elsewhere that Brisbane Air train cost $18 one way even with online discount

I view right wing protests more in sadness than in Soros

No, autocorrect, I did mean "airgead" which is not just the Irish word for money but also for silver, and not "airhead", which to my knowledge, has no monetary or metallic value.

Aus’s human history is 65.000 years old not 237 www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...

Excellent EROI

Life after growth: Notes from Terrifying Tim woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/l...

Reminded of Escape to Victory which made me think what was Pele’s Kevin Bacon ranking. It’s 2 but not from E2V. Pele was in Hotshots with Jim Youngs who was in Footloose. Stallone is also 2 thru Eddie Murphy (both in audience for doco of 1986 Tyson v Berbick) Bacon was in a Beverly Hills Cop film

I've substantially updated my 2023 post on Dungarvan-born "Fenian and Filibuster" James Francis Xavier O'Brien to be a chapter in my forthcoming book Stories of Waterford and the South East. woollydays.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/j...

As much as I like birds, I am getting over the Graun’s attempts to hang a readership strategy around them

A new independence: What 2026 World Cup qualification means to Cabo Verde www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Reading a biography of Oliver St John Gogarty and learned about his sly acrostic poem which was the talk of Dublin in 1901. Given OSJG’s links to James Joyce, someone wrote a good article about it in 2009 owlsmag.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/b...

Good, ahem, thread

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

Every living thing: The race to categorise life on earth woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/e...

Diane Keaton dead aged 79. Well la di da

Watched One Battle After Another and as title would suggest it is a bit gruelling (exactly what you’d expect from Thomas Pynchon borrowed by P Thomas Anderson). Was thinking early on it reminded me of Battle of Algiers and sure enough Leo was watching on in TV. Not as good as that but worth a watch

Bike to Kelvin Grove #parkrun for pre-course check vollie credit 47 & run 301 in 24.45 The seasons are changing #brisbane netballers officials & parents gone, instead cricketers warming up in gleaming flannels under flowering jacarandas But main reason change was obvious: 7am already too friggen hot

Perhaps the French might consider sleeping on their sides

Fed and Qld govs to bail out Mount Isa copper smelter with a $600m cheque to Swiss commodity giant Glencore www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in...

Marry in Hastie, repent at leisure

The meeja keeps talking about the need to give the opposition leader “clear air”. No mention that the air is far from clear with atmospheric CO2 levels reaching 425ppm in 2024 no thanks to the same party’s promotion of coal, oil and gas and its peremptory wrecking of the carbon price mechanism.

As if travel to the US was not dangerous enough atm, many air traffic controllers are calling in sick since the US government shutdown started www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10...

How in 860 a #Kilkenny king overcame his hangover to stop Viking invaders: "Cearbhall fought hard but the amount he had drunk the night before hampered him greatly until he puked so mightily that he regained his entire strength & was able to urge his people loudly & harshly against the Norsemen"

Stumbled upon this 1958 BBC Light Programme audio where Ian Fleming interviewed Raymond Chandler and they compared James Bond to Philip Marlowe www.google.com/search?q=ian...

Was 27.30 pacer at Chermside #parkrun today. 300th run and 46th vollie (Sadly must wait another 200 runs for next shirt). Clearly a significant day as it was also parkrun's 21st birthday and my daughter's 30th. Happy birthday to all concerned

fuckin ell its HMHB christmas

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25. @gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

The shock of the new: The French revolution and the Napoleonic Wars woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/t...

Michael Davitt's letter to Nationalist electors of Waterford Dec 14, 1891. Byelection was held after Parnell's death split the Irish party. Davitt who founded the Land League, went up against Parnell supporter John Redmond but lost by 500 votes thanks to Redmond's support in bacon factory workers.

Someone emailed me with great news. Mavis L. Wanczyk has donated me "a generous sum of $920,000.00 dollars" ($ and dollars!) All I have to do is kindly contact Mavis L. at [email protected] with my donation selected code number: MLW647/DTAN2025. Woohoo. I do hope this is not a load of wanczyk

Loyal and landless: Ireland in the 17th century woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/l...

Snapped at Mitchelton #parkrun where I ran 24.12 in my 299th run. Cycled 8km there and back pretty much all along the Kedron Brook bikeway as was the course back in the direction I came from

A bit negative imo, (I love My Life in the Bush of Ghosts) but an interesting read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Be bury, bury careful www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Béarla alive: The fate of the Irish language woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/b...

No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week. Read more and view the digital images, provided by Irish Script on Screen and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library: www.ria.ie/collections/...

Equinox is at 4:19 am (AEST) tomorrow. Bring on the longer days

Next time someone says the Dems are rolling over while Trump trumps tell them to listen to Jason Crow not the bought media crow.house.gov/media/press-...

Female leprosy was by far the worst kind of leprosy though in fairness, its artifacts are good value

One slight issue about picking up pizza by bicycle and back pack

On home turf at Kedron #parkrun today after 14 wks on the road. I did first timers' brief for 45th volunteer credit and then ran a time of 25.04 in 298th run. First pic shows me crossing the creek footbridge and in the second I'm back to camera listening to the Run Director's brief before the event.

Why only us: The evolution of language woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/w...

“The simple fact is the Queensland coal industry is approaching a crisis point.” Good. www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in...

A msg our political class does not seem to grasp: "The sooner Australia mitigates and adapts (to climate change), the safer and more resilient we will be." theconversation.com/is-this-aust...

"Short of the legitimacy of “tradition” that is so powerful in Northern Ireland, the practice in England, Scotland, Wales or the rest of Ireland, might fade away. Or it might become embedded in a world of increased chauvinistic and xenophobic nationalism." theconversation.com/ive-research...

Maryborough friends drove me 35 to mins to Burrum Heads Beach #parkrun It was low tide, people get wet feet on high tide & run cancels on spring tide. Roos on the beach! 2.4km run south & back, finished w 200m concrete to park 297th run 116th course time 24.22 My friends and doggie enjoyed the walk

The Tudor Conquest of Ireland woollydays.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t...

Eddy's in the space-time continuum theconversation.com/10-years-ago...