Stoned?? or Inquisitive? readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/stoned

Israel killed three of these four children in a drone strike targeting their car and an accompanying scooter in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon. The entire family of six was hit – only the mother and eldest daughter survived, one of them critically injured and hospitalized.

Interesting that - not just an Irish thing - power of the gift www.bbc.com/audio/brand/....

Did the pedestrian collide with a car? Did a car strike the pedestrian?

Spotted on a lovely morning at St Mary the Virgin, Rhossili earlier this week. A memorable headstone at Rhossili readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/a-man-o...

Had not seen Hoppers adorned with shamrock before my recent visit to Whitethorn, #Cork #Ironworks readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/shamroc...

Gatepost pride but unsure if name is for stone-carver, concrete company or ironworks. #Cork readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/gatepos...

I wonder if this is a Cork play on Harry Potter? readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/platfor...

I must have missed this in the David Attenborough programmes but near a busy road in Swansea was the first time I spotted the Seagull Dance.

#OtD 20 Sep 1878 American author Upton Sinclair was born. He often wrote about the everyday lives and struggles of working class people and his investigative exposés written as fiction had many concrete results in terms of improving conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9328...

La gare / The station - 1922 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112263

New to me

The early morning drive today was shortened by a few podcasts that could be an answer to a request Give your age without giving your age

I can so relate to this What is not to admire in latches and handles

In 40 years of teaching, Mrs Raw met kids with some unlikely and unsuitable names, but that's a cracker:

A lovely sand in the toes morning

Two years on the TO VISIT list Now ticked - a beautiful morning Learnt of this on the blue bird place from @hellohistoria.bsky.social

I was this age old when I learnt that an Oriole was a bird

You know you're getting old when the Pope condemns some high profile sinner and you think "let him cook" instead of buying that sinner's book or album.

#OtD 15 Sep 1954 Veterans of the Abraham @LincolnBrigade – US volunteers in the Spanish Civil War – were brought before the Subversive Activities Control Board as the government attempted to classify them as a subversive organisation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8742...

REPOST (error in first post!) Get ready! October 1st is the start of a month of gravestone and burial ground pictures, with a different prompt for each day. Be creative, there are no rules, just tag with #31DaysOfGraves! Background image is from King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

So many possible other examples www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

All animals are equal But Some are more equal than others

Stunning speech -- and the BBC, having been told in advance that this Israeli conductor would make this newsworthy condemnation of Israel's genocide, cut off the live feed so their audiences wouldn't hear it.

Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.

"To allow universities to be bossed by political operatives in this way undermines the basic ideals of the university as well as [its] important links to the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The part they didn’t quote me saying was that the threat of political violence is an overwhelmingly right-wing problem. It happens of all political varieties, but it’s 50:1 a right-wing phenomenon. Left-wing political violence is far less common and usually defensive.

My local wishing fountain was turned off and drained - so people have started knocking coins into a nearby stump (without any encouragement from me, I promise). It goes to show, wishes find a way

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

Only learnt of Kronos Quartet a few weeks back from John Kelly's Mystery Train Has chances of making my Spotify yearly review

Waterford crystal catches the light but look a fly is drowning in the Tuscan wine #TankaThursday (crystal) #tanka #micropoetry

As information comes to light suggesting Trump may not be able to exploit the Charlie Kirk shooting to hurt unrelated people he hates, he no longer thinks it’s worth focusing on.

“The Next Terrorist Attack,” which I published in April. Please have a look. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

A new opportunity for research for those in Death Studies

I am currently working on an oral history project on Cork's Docklands. One of the interviewees showed me this picture today of some mad lad scaling the flag pole on the old grain silos. #speirgorm

It is a bad day when one does not learn something new

beautiful soul

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award, "It's not lost on me why I might have won this award" "Aside from presenting Match of the Day.." "Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

A beauty

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Court staff cover up Banksy image of judge beating a protester

#PostboxSaturday, the key(ring) to a lovely day. 😁🔑💍📮🎉

#Cork Do not think that I knew of this before

Is everyone feeling ready for #31DaysOfGraves?? 😱 I'm in the final throes of my PhD but will put the prompts together soon so everyone can look them over ahead of October 1st 🪦

New (extensive) source of listening on road trips found today Much enjoyed open.spotify.com/episode/2Hwd... open.spotify.com/episode/43cw... open.spotify.com/episode/7xwp...

“To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.” John Steinbeck

Interesting that the cobble was only used as rigidity for tram tracks Remainder of carriageway is dirt/mud #Cork