"The Establishment"

Brexit was stupid but surely it is just another symptom rather than a cause: there is a childishness born of empire that refuses responsibility and seeks to externalize blame.

Roses are red Starmer is not You aren't Andy Burnham But I still think you're hot

the tragic thing is that it's really only the top twenty or thirty dads who make real money out of it, you can be the hundredth best dad in the world and you're mostly working as a dad coach.

I would like to see Iran (IRN) play Brunei (BRU)

Roses are red Algae is green If you were a reflecting pool I'd pretend you were clean

Some days you're Andy Burnham, some days you're Josh Simons.

Tá a fhios agat go bhfuil tú (sách) Gaelaithe nuair a mbíonn ort an leagan Gaelainne d'fhocal a fheiscint chun an leagan Béarla a thuiscint i gceart! Benedict = Beannacht - ar ndóigh!! Comhartha deas DAS - an seana-cheann é n'fheadar?

You really can’t overstate the significance of this diagram in understanding the U.K.’s political paroxysm. Also, having understood it, you are now better informed than every U.K. politician and media outlet. Check out the very detailed write up explaining how it was created.

I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).

It's all kicking off in Henrietta Park.

LSD saints. Beatus of Liébana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin, Burgos ca. 1180. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.232.6. #medieval #medievalart

Lá eile i dtír na n-amadán is na n-arrachtach.

"I'm not going to walk away and plunge country into chaos"

If you can't find me tomorrow it's because I'm busy trying to remember why I moved to this stupid country and sewing coins into my coat lining.

Anybody questioning spends on active travel infrastructure should also be questioning every cent 'wasted' on car infrastructure. How much is spent on car parking by state bodies on a daily basis? www.rte.ie/news/politic...

Today many in this country are being asked to answer, in secret, the question "are you an asshole?"; some people say we should think of the elections as a referendum on Starmer, I am thinking of it as a referendum on national-assholery. Another one.

Questionable Contents is literally the only thing Monday to Fridays have on the weekend.

worst hack ever.

Finally.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this . . .

Desmond Morris was very important to me because he wrote about gay people in his book The Naked Ape and it was the first time I'd ever read or heard a description of gay people that wasn't sneering or judgemental. It was thrilling. About 40 years later I had a chance to tell him so. RIP Mr Morris

Kate O'Brien had left Ireland by the #1926Census but this photograph of her was taken that year. Her first play, Distinguished Villa, was a huge success in 1926 which allowed her to become a full-time writer.

@anna-aslanyan.bsky.social Please can I send you a message about the Museum of Languages, an event I am organizing at Bristol University? www.bristol.ac.uk/golding/turi... ?

Temple Meads and the promise of better days.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Really excited to share a new preprint! 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁 & 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲? We explore how! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We built Connectome-based Neural Networks (CoNNs) using Drosophila wiring (larva&adult) & compared with random networks with same sparsity.

Tog S.O.S.

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

Trowbridge vets offer the full service.

If I was Tiger Woods I'd spend my life trying to persuade Jeremy Irons and Minnie Driver to play golf with me, rather than, you know, messing up in automobiles.

This is a wonderful prose poem from Joyce Carol Oates and all the lovelier for being illustrated; it reminded me that years ago I made an illustrated version of Frank O'Hara's poem "To a film industry . . .". www.tumblr.com/filmindustry

Reality is a dilligent servant but a harsh master.

'Preserved fingerprints, 50 in total, allowed researchers to identify who made [the beads]. The prints belong to individuals of different ages: children, adolescents, and adults.'

Why is isiXhosa so hardcore

I know there is a lot more to Chloe Zhao than her dress, but wow her dress was so great, both hilarious and beautiful. She is my new sartorial hero.

I don't know if the internet and machine translation means the end of linguistic diversity, or the end of global languages!

it never ceases to amaze me that within my lifetime we have gone from "language learners must hoard every scrap of eg French newspaper bought in France and precious casettes of spoken radio" to "yeah can get infinite written stuff & podcasts with transcripts plus easy to translate those transcripts"

Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate, we spoke with #Constellations exhibiting artists Amanda Coogan and Jennifer Trouton about their work, their experiences as female artists, and what #InternationalWomensDay means to them. youtu.be/fxcKz_UYm3c #CrawfordArtGallery #TouringandSharing

Is Claude conscious? Is a whale's song music? Does a mayfly fear the setting sun? Can a tree thirst for the rain? Is a spider's web art? Can a rock know it is beautiful? Does the wind speak? Will we every tire of asking questions that have no answers?

Forgetting female architects; it's sad @bathnes.bsky.social is allowing the demolition of our fine fire station, designed by a woman architect. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

Jessie Buckley has walked back her "I hate cats" comment, another person crossed off my hero list.

More surprise at the noun-ness of Irish verbal nouns: anabhainn.substack.com/p/a-verbal-n...

Celebrating St. David's Day today, 1st March, and all things Welsh, with this delightful little medieval dragon with golden wings.

Life and art are hard. In both cases, making it through is a heroic achievement. We all have an arc to our lives. It is not tragic to age. But it feels like it is.

U Bristol has a new, free, online AI course with a nice mixture of technical details, explained in a simple way, and broader discussion of what it all means. I appear towards the end filled with anger at the big corporations and wonder at the big machines. www.futurelearn.com/courses/unle...

The Greens now "very confident of a win" in Gorton and Denton and Labour sounding like they've lost; it must be a sturdy win if they're going so far off tallies.