This is a 2 hour video that is part odyssey, part road trip, part investigation of why birders keep lists and is hilarious and witty and cleverly put together. What's not to like? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

Excellent thread on how to consume stories about autism causes.

got a bit of light morning vintage procrastination viewing tee’d up. the opening segments look highly promising

Damn it all, their advantage is so huge that mildly athletic men have been switching gender in droves just to get to the Olympics. Like you DON’T, because that would be weird and much too much to do with your entire life if you weren’t actually trans. And, as the numbers prove, isn’t happening.

I'm just back from 8 days seawatching from the Bridges of Ross in the west of Ireland. 355 sabine's gulls on one of the days.

She's an Irish woman - Kitty O'Brien is her name.

You really aren't going to get a better example of how the British media works than the contrasting coverage of two Irish authors this week. The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.

The entire journalistic team from Al Jazeera stationed in and reporting on Gaza, has been killed. 💔💔💔 🙏🕯️

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

📣 Palm oil is a *terrible* climate solution! I don’t repeat topics in my column, but this month I made an exception. HVO is being marketed even more aggressively as a miracle “drop in” fuel for everything from homes to buses to data centres. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

So I'm watching a modern London version of a Sherlock Holmes story and I see a front door with the number 221b. I Google the address of SH and I see variants of the search including "Where did the real Sherlock Holmes live"? And there I was thinking it was fiction

First day this year seawatching. 31 wilson's petrels seen from the Bridges of Ross from 6.30am until 6.30pm

The Irish Border, almost invisible except for the two different tarmacs. North on the right, South on the left.

Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.

RIP Ozzy. This was the sound of my mid teens complete with guest piano by Rick Wakeman. youtu.be/noUYAPdLMp0?...

Lableak or zoonotic origin of SARS-COV-2? This video breaks it down in eaay to follow steps. Just planly as it is, just fthevacts. youtu.be/eTlur4YIAo0...

800 Palestinians killed waiting for food in the past 6 weeks. Am I anti-semitic in finding this appalling

It’s heartening to see that @deshiggins.bsky.social’s influence in the world of men’s fashion is as strong as ever.

I went past this view hundreds of times over the past 55 years and never looked up. You can smell the malt being roasted at certain times of the day. Those big vertical white tanks are full of Guinness. This is on the western outskirts of Dublin City centre upriver along the Liffey.

Hey people with platforms , they are starting to take the trans positive books out of the libraries. Now is the time to stand up or just accept that you don’t care - and here is to the millionaire comedians who have helped oil the wheels of hatred

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This is it. It is the endgame. Once established it gives absolute power. Expect arrests at polling stations. It is all so prosaic and easy and happening in front of everyone and everyone will do their "duty" or look away

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Twitch to Tory Island, 10km off N coast of Ireland today to see Ireland's first ever Song Sparrow (n American passerine). Found by @robertvaughani.bsky.social

@squidgerugby.bsky.social you are at the match in Dublin!!! I just saw the pair of you on Irish TV

Be like Gary Lineker, don't be silent, don't be complicit.

#MusicChallenge #MayMusicMasterpieces 19 | American Gothic - Grant Wood Hurt - Johnny Cash youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?...

After Hamas realised a high-profile hostage, Israel bombed a hospital. And of course we are way past the stage that they have to pretend it was a mistake, bombing hospitals and killing medics is just what they do on a daily basis. Monsters.

White Stork near Tacumshin, and Hoopoe on Great Saltee Island today, both in in Co. Wexford, Ireland

European Bee-eater near Tacumshin Co. Wexford today

Over in the other place there's a heated and earnest (?) debate taking place about whether 100 men could successfully beat a gorilla in a fight and I feel like I've lost IQ points just typing this.

The Battle of Megido in the 15th century BCE was fought between the Egyptians and the Canaanites. Kneecap have refused to condemn either side.

I have seen lots of these abroad but this morning I managed to see a Bee-eater in Ireland, in Donegal. Photo taken using phone and scope.

They might be exposed to science that hasn't been pre-approved by the administration

Nightingale twitch on Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. Saw it for 2 seconds after 4 hour stakeout.

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

I was behind a Skoda Superb at traffic lights and got to thinking about the name was a bit ostentatious for Ireland. I came up with the more restrained: Skoda Not Too Bad Skoda Grand Skoda Fuckin Deadly In order of increasing cost

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

The Irish have started calling Conor McGregor, ‘Andrew Tayto’.

A very Happy 15th of March to one and all.

Gorse is so overlooked as a native plant. Land covered in gorse is usually described as wasteland. But this early flowering plant is great for bees and butterflies and invaluable for nesting birds.

Higgins is derived from the viking (and current Norwegian) word for viking (Uigin). Dublinia viking museum offerering free entry for Paddy's Day.

This is from Kilkee Co. Clare a year ago. It was a sunny day and I was relieving my suffering using conventional methods.

Tadaa.

Seen yesterday on a public bus in Heidelberg, Germany.

New podcast. Blackbirds getting floppy mickeys from imitating the sound of reversing trucks, the sins of the dead rising into the yeast of bread to be eaten by the poor, Christ in the desert is taunted by a goat who ate all the sins of the village. Theres something in here for everybody. Dog Bless ❤️

Welcome to the CCBO sightings page. This platform is for sharing sightings of nationally & locally rare/scarce birds, other flora & fauna of interest recorded on Cape Clear & updates on CCBO research, events, courses, our accommodation & developments. John Horton, warden CCBO, BirdWatch Ireland.