Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape. Please share to all Irish crafts people. #Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland

In 2026 we continue the search for secure, appropriate, long term work spaces. ✊🏻♥️🏡 All artwork by the very very good, great actually, @leoprints.bsky.social

To our trustees and staff team who go above and beyond, our members for giving and caring so much, our fellow artist-led spaces for being the best network, our participants and audiences for showing up, getting involved and celebrating the arts, the Martin Group for renting us Marlborough House…

Bankmore House is in the city centre (just opposite Wetherspoons) and will be home to many of the Marlborough House artists. It will also be home to our new gallery and project space which, all being well, will reopen this April. Wahoozers! Massive thank you to everyone who has supported us…

…To those who have also lost their buildings and still seek a new space - Solidarity. So what's next? Our amazing staff team have secured a new building on Bedford St called Bankmore House. It's a temporary fix but it does allow our artists to keep working and our programming to continue for now…

… multidisciplinary collaborative, experimental, group and solo exhibitions. Phew-nominal! Being in the city centre allowed us to make new friends and team up with other artist-led spaces and creative human forces all experiencing the same highs and lows of working in the arts at this time...

The 70 or so artists who had studios here made the most of the building and its location in Belfast city centre while we had it. Marlborough House was home to our first city centre gallery and project space and what a space that was! We hosted, produced and curated more than 25 incredible…

Vault Artist Studios presents... A comic in 5 pages. In little more than two weeks, Vault at Marlborough House will be no more as our tenancy in this home for the last 2 years and 8 months comes to an end. Marlborough House was a temporary building for us as the site is due for redevelopment…

Made a roads map for another project. Thought I would share.

Gabriele Münter, Dahlias, 1945 Expression painter #Womensart

Hi there. I’m Dermot, a disabled activist. Follow me for posts about: ♿️ Disability 🧑‍🦯 Accessibility 📰 Disabled Issues 😡 Politics 👨 Me Stuff I love: 🤓 Cosplaying 🌳 Environment 🐝 Alcohol 🍽 Food 📺 Sci-Fi & Comedy 😁 Funny stuff Say hello if you think we are compatible as friends & activists.

Just had our neighbours around. The whole year round we just smile and wave, but this year we decided to throw open our doors and ask them in. And it was the best 2 hours of the holidays. Good people are everything 🙂

Kathy Klien, US artist known for her intricate flower mandalas created with petals #womensart

An Interior section of the 15th century Ranakpur Jain Temple, also called the Chaturmukh Temple, Rajasthan, India

The Schools' Energy Co-op celebrated their 10-year anniversary roughly the same time as their 100th solar PV installation 🔆 SEC are experts when it comes to rooftop solar on schools, and they partner with other community energy groups to lend expertise and get projects going.

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day. "Where there any other contenders?" "Um, no?" "A hollow victory, then".

UK Government response to Lord Murphy's Independent Review of the Windsor Framework published All 16 recommendations accepted. The Independent Review followed the NI Assembly's vote in December 2024 on granting 'Democratic Consent' to the continued application of... www.gov.uk/government/p...

Hi all. Are ye ready? 2 important notes: - Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset. - Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

A closer look at yesterday's all-time high for wind power: - occurred during the Friday morning peak - 4671MW, or about 75% of electricity demand at the time - finally beats the 4629MW seen in March 2024 A green day for all the tellies and kettles during the Toy Show! 🪀 #SpeirGorm #LateLateToyShow

This is exciting news!

Thank you to Tumble Circus, Black Box, the MAC, Criterion, C.B.Cheesy’s, Audacity cafe...

‘England doesn’t know how to say: “No Kings.” Instead, it says: “Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his son.” But it isn’t the monarchs who are the British problem. It’s monarchism: the archaic top-down power structure of the Anglo-British state.’ Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Portrait of Lydia Cassatt, 1880 by Mary Cassatt #WomensArt

Trickle down economics is a hoax. This t-shirt is not. Support @imcivicaction.bsky.social on Giving Tuesday and help us spread the word about this economic myth. https://bit.ly/4iywu15

Kenya is one of Africa's clean energy leaders: In 2000 60% of electricity came from fossil fuels. Today: - 8% is from fossil fuels - 43% is from geothermal - 28% from hydro - 14% from wind and - 4% from solar.

'Just a glass of water' linocut by contemporary Ukrainian printmaker Olesya Dzhurayeva #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

An alarming new ad by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) that plays out like the opening scenes of a horror movie has been shared widely online. jrnl.ie/6887143

Job opportunity: 2 x Research Assistants, Coastal Geomorphology, Ulster University www.ulsteruniges.com/post/2-x-res...

Contemporary landscape painter Sarah Jane Brown captures the dramatic beauty of her home on the Pembrokeshire Coast, West Wales #womensart

Throughout the last 2000 years, only five cities have the right to claim to have been "Europe's largest city". Source: buff.ly/vpchRZk

#ShareTheShore just got real! @meabc.bsky.social Mid&East Antrim Council have launched a consultation on opening up long-denied pedestrian access to our beautiful forbidden beach. www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk/things-to-do... - please give your views (i.e. YES!!!). Thanks, and please REPOST!

Give this man a medal. He's doing a marathon 24-hour live radio show called Unexpected Number Twos, to highlight the problem of sewage pollution in our lakes rivers and seas. Leavened with songs that only reached Number 2 in the charts! Do send him a msg - he'd love to hear from you. #ourearthweek

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The work of contemporary #printmaker Andrea Rich #womensart

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING 65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction China is an outlier - but maybe not for long @e3g.bsky.social www.e3g.org/publications...

Over the past couple of months I've repeated in various talks that 11 of our endemic plant species have gone extinct. I was delighted to read in the most recent BSBI News that one of these, the Glenridding Hawkweed, last seen in 1953, has been rediscovered!! 📷: Mark Lynes

@deptinfra.bsky.social little suspicious of the handle but could you provide any information about the decision to open Donegal Place to traffic, please?

Norwegian painter Oda Krohg, Japanese lantern, 1886 #WomensArt

Larne House Visitor Group is inviting you to join a Migrant Solidarity Walk. Saturday 18th October, 11am–1pm, followed by a free lunch. Meet at Whitehead car park. We’ll walk along the coastal path to Blackhead Lighthouse and back 👉 You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-in-so...

Autumn in Throne Wood and the Snake Steps on the edge of North Belfast.

Delighted to see this kind of analysis across so many of policy interests. Vital to know how different approaches will deliver on fuel poverty and carbon targets as NI works on developing new schemes

A beautiful school, both in location and ethos

Even in a month full of notable highs and lows, one stood out: during September, the Irish grid emitted its least amount of CO₂ in a single month in modern times. Our estimate is 577k tonnes. A lot but, as the chart below shows, just a few years ago we were seeing months with almost *1.4M tonnes*.`

This is extremely important but saddening social media content

I love the beauty and mystery of this, and those soft shades are dreamlike, yet my first response is that the poor woman must be foundered.

A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA

81GWh yesterday from wind was the most ever for an October day, equivalent to 77.1% of the day's electricity demand. Add biomass, solar, and hydro and it's 82.2%. Only seven days have ever seen a higher share. Grid carbon intensity averaged 105gCO₂/KWh: the fourth lowest ever. #StormAmy #SpeirGorm

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.