JUST IN! 'You Could Have It So Much Better (20th Anniversary Edition)' by Franz Ferdinand Has it really been twenty years since the Glasgow post-punk revivalists released their second?! @dominorecordco.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2105...

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban: “This war is already decided. The Russians have won. The only question is when and with whom they will make peace.”

30 years ago today Black Grape at Cardiff University, 30th September 1995 #blackgrape #cardiffuniversity #cardiff #wales #caerdydd #cymru #cardiffmusichistory @cardiffunilib.bsky.social

New Order, Blue Monday 95 (Hardfloor Mix) This is the best remix of a song I've ever heard. Even now it brings back feelings of being on a dancefloor at the time and everything just building and building until the ecstatic finale. How does it feel? Like a 30th anniversary re-release actually. 😋

By tern You don't get it. Their rejection of clean air and masking is not based on logistics or cost or practicality or achievability or comfort. They think that you *need to catch airborne viruses*. That's why they reject clean air. And, yes, they are wrong. Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

This is what happens when evil people in power decide to target a minority group they don’t like or understand.

1/13 Forced Sterilization Is Not History in Canada In 1928 Alberta passed the Sexual Sterilization Act, giving a government board power to sterilize people it deemed unfit to reproduce. Indigenous women and girls were heavily targeted.

"Covid suppressed their immune system, allowing Lyme bacteria lurking at unproblematically low levels within the body to rapidly multiply (a study found that 13.5% of people in western Europe have serological evidence of the bacteria in their bodies)."

Italy: 16 million influenza-like cases expected — Australia’s winter trend shows a surge is coming. "The peak of the curve is expected to arrive "like every year around Christmas , facilitated by ideal weather conditions, travel, kisses and hugs." www.adnkronos.com/salute/influ...

By Keith @keetmuise Media saying avoiding Covid is “health anxiety” is like saying… Seatbelt = Crash Anxiety Life Jacket = Drowning Anxiety Helmet = Brain Injury Anxiety Winter Boots = Frostbite Anxiety Keep it going in the comments Source: x.com/keetmuise/st...

A new international study led by the Australian National University and King’s College London found inhaled heparin, a cheap and widely available drug, halved the need for ventilation and lowered death risk in nearly 500 hospitalized COVID patients across 6 countries. Source: archive.md/Uifo9

Vincent from Pulp Fiction but he's a child

Naomi Watts is 57.

This was once paranormal Now it's just science. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a680...

Australia: Measles is making a comeback as cases rise. So far in 2025, 127 measles cases have been recorded nationwide, the highest since 2019. It spreads via microscopic droplets that can stay airborne for 2 hours, infecting others even without a rash. Source: www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...

It really is a great time to chamce your arm in PR in Ireland. How embarrassing for the papers of record.

It doesn't matter if you're into food and restaurants, this is a must-read on the importance of fact-checking and subject-matter experts (and a mini exposé on how a particular food enterprise in Dublin is capitalising on its absence in Irish media). www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...

German: We call this creature the sea hedgehog, because it is spiky like a hedgehog :) English: To us it is a sea urchin. Wastrel of the deep. A wretched, miserable soul cast down by God, condemned to a watery grave, a cruel living death. A being of Dickensian suffering.

My 10-month-old woke me up early this morning (5am), so I decided to have an early morning gaming session. Which I have been missing ☹️ I feel Mirage is slowly sinking its hooks into me. I can't wait to see where the adventure takes Basim and Rashan 🦅 #Assassin'sCreedMirage

Amazing news! Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

🇮🇪 #Ireland Irish friends on BlueSky: I just read that this new “stratus” COVID variant in Ireland is different. Do y’all have a different vaccine for it that’s different from the new one (spottily) available in the US?

Aluminum foil Saran Wax Wax paper Gift

Sturgill Simpson covering Eddie Murphy’s “Party All The Time” at his Red Rocks tour closer last week

A study conducted by the think tank Common Wealth found that private energy bills were funding corporate profits  | Charlie McCarthy

Yeah. I looked one of these up. Not saying which one ☺️

Maidin mhaith

Autumn has arrived in the n/hood - Cork and rhe River Lee t

Mary Wilson has been amazing inspiring journalist never afraid to ask the hard questions. I have grown up listening to her and thank her for her service in #rte and #morningireland -all the best to Áine as she steps back from morning Ireland.

Flag wars in 1920s Germany: A man tore down his neighbour’s black-red-gold republican flag because it “disturbed his pigeons" Flag colours signalled loyalty for or against democracy, and such acts fed wider tensions that helped Hitler's rise to power blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/09/16/f...

Scenic view from the Inch Wildfowl Reserve Trail in Inishowen, Donegal. www.inishview.com/activity/inc... #donegal #wildatlanticway #visitdonegal #govisitdonegal #ireland

Good morning! One more signature gets this to 950 and my brain likes even numbers. Parliament discussing this today.

Another member of the Oireachtas will in the next hour publicly declare their intention to sign Maria Steen’s nomination papers.

Wednesday, 6.30am Let’s do this! You coming? #ireland

Very impressive sir take a bow.

On this day in 1972, David Bowie wrote and gave the song "All the Young Dudes" to Mott the Hoople, after the band rejected his song "Suffragette City" and was considering breaking up. Bowie produced the track, which became the band's biggest hit.

Queensland Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 16 Sep to 22 Sep 2025 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 487 (-27.3%) 🔹Influenza: 2,706 (-22.6%) 🔹RSV: 718 (-15.3%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 43 (-20.3%) 🔸Influenza: 155 (-25.1%) 🔸RSV: 56 (+16.6%) Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...

Soulwax share two exhilarating new tracks alongside London, Manchester headliners - www.clashmusic.com/news/soulwax...

Excited to be back in Rio de Janeiro, playing at Circo Voador on 5th November, as part of ÍNDIGO by 30E. Tickets available from tomorrow 4pm (GMT). See you there!

This is lovely Cormac Izuchukwu discovers after Saturday’s Fiji game that he is the first Offaly man to play senior rugby for Ireland 📹

GAA Pitch Abbeyfeale

📚 #PubLibs

Just wanna drop this here: “In addition to being false, a growing body of research in psychology and neuroscience suggests that believing in meritocracy makes people more selfish, less self-critical and even more prone to acting in discriminatory ways. Meritocracy is not only wrong; it’s bad.”

It’s time to shut down AI data centres because WTF IS THIS

Please help the Nashwan family if you can chuffed.org/project/1428...

Kazem and his family still desperately need help, please donate if you can chuffed.org/project/1307...

In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was #Matrilineal New analyses from #IronAge burials reveal that #women remained in their natal communities and provided the key to #kinship. www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... #archaeology #matriarchy #UK #Celts

This little drawing of a hare is available in my Folksy shop. I sell to lots of locations around the world. I have also resumed sales to the US, duty paid and art is exempt from the tariffs... folksy.com/items/8530241 #Hare #AnimalArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #ArtShop #bsnm

All the food news you might have missed this week, & there's a LOT. Dylan McGrath's former empire gets split between three groups; Dublin's favourite sandwich shop is coming back; & trade your fruit & veg for pastries... www.allthefood.ie/single-post/the-news-you-might-have-missed-this-week-128

Love it! Thanks, James.