🏛️ An Ottoman Glass Hanging Lamp, 17th Century

Just pointing out like an awful pedant that this isn't daylight savings time. The summer is daylight savings time. We have returned to standard time. And I love it.

I enjoyed yesterday's tours as the guide, thanks to @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social Open House Day, they enjoyed the visit to the Eavan Boland Library and Nellie's Flat, thanks, IAF.

Watching the canvassers knock on each door in the neighbourhood and bypass my house, not even saying hello, I was in the front garden. I must be on a list somewhere, DEAF HOUSE, DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS PERSON,. It happens quite regularly to Deaf people at election time. I know who NOT to vote for.

@irisharchitecturef.bsky.social fb.watch/CCC-erJXG0/ ISL tours Open House Dublin Saturday 18 October 2025: #OpenHouseDublin #OHD25 #FutureHeritage Watch Video for ISL information.

You can read more about this wonderful site in our article here: www.tuatha.ie/gallarus-ora...

'Against stupidity we are defenseless.' - Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I've been thinking about that quote a lot recently.

One of my favourite places on the Dingle Peninsula, Gallarus Oratory, is always worth a visit. The church was constructed some time around the 9th—11th century, from a single continuous corbelled vault, with the splayed walls of the base supporting the roof, giving it the shape of an upturned boat.

Anyone in need of some ancient art to brighten up your day? In need of some _cute_ ancient art? How about this marvel from (probably) the first century CE Rome, currently held in the Getty museum, of a bronze mouse nibbling away!

The perfect combo: the entrance to the steps to the Chapter House at Wells Cathedral is fronted with a delightful medieval door. I don't think I've seen any photographs that include it. So it took a pic..📸

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Goddamn.

You have to actually SAY THE THING for change to occur. No more friendly acronyms or umbrella euphemisms. Say "Anti-Black racism". Stop trying to create soft and gentle terms for what is actually happening and ungently harming real people.

Giving a talk on Deaf people in the long 18th century, you're more than welcome to attend. This would be of interest to those into Georgian history, those into Irish Deaf history. 14henriettastreet.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

I promise this is an actual photo I took #Nikon Z7ii | 57mm | f/7.1 | 1/400 | 1000 ISO #photography #sunset #landscapephotography Prints: kerrigorsnaps.darkroom.com

Looking for experts in early Victorian Irish working class clothing, I have a few questions. would a carpenter renting a shop for his business necessarily wear a waistcoat?

Exactly. The US ceased to exist on January 20th. Now we have this clown show of a musical comedy dictatorship, with no adults in charge of anything. Wanna be autocrats, two-but grifters, psychopaths, drug addicts, drunks, all low IQ racist homophobes. That's how fast things can fail.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.

And that it causes your immune system to forget what it's learned about other diseases, making you much more vulnerable to everything else. Fun! 🙃

Everything is off the rails right now, but news of physical intimidation at scientific conferences by MAGA shows how far things have already gotten. #StandWithScience

Hidden away for centuries in a Transylvanian church tower, a forgotten medieval library has come to light, revealing treasures as old as the 9th century, a rare glimpse into the intellectual and cultural life of medieval Romania. www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost...

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Amazing picture of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander languages as per the 2021 census, from HotsanGget on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Linguistic...

ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪

A face from the past. A 12th century Hiberno-Romanesque head incorporated into a wall at Kilteel Church, Kildare.

We are a day or two away from the United States Constitution being a dead letter. This is not hyperbole. This is not me be being a doomer. This is a basic legal and political fact. The math, as I see it. 🧵

It's called fashion look it up

some america first beers spotted in denmark:

"Why are you so worried now?" Because I paid attention in history class...

There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊ eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

People who followed Babylon 5 back in the day... let me refer you to the Shadows, Morden and Londo Mollari... allegorical for what is happening in the US right now, with Morden = Musk, Londo Mollari = Trump?

When I was a child, 1 of my favourite authors was Ursula Le Guin. Let's revisit some of her works. It was only when I was older that I got to understand the depth of her work. My favourite book back then was Wizard of Earthsea. You can imagine my delight when I found out it was the 1st of a series.

A poster in a hospital in Drogheda, in Ireland. It shouldn’t be a big deal, should it?

Okay so that we can gratuitously show you the Hall on #superbowl day, prepare for tenuousity on an epic scale. Superb-owls would once have sat in the oak trees that now span the Hall. Okay we promise to stop now.

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

I just read this unattributed quote and after laughing I wanted to find out WHO the genius is. “When you think there’s no hope left. Remember the lobsters in the tank at the Titanic’s restaurant.”

Also an excellent postcard/poster

Musk isn’t making government smaller. He’s shutting down the parts of the government that have been investigating his companies for safety violations and ties to Russia.

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

Great news: Trump/Musk cuts to USAID temporarily blocked in court. Keep chipping away. They're not invincible.