Take your pick from an ever-broadening range of injustices and abuses that this ever-green song could be referring to in your life. Then stop tolerating whatever it is, and--in whatever small way you can, or dream you can--begin to act. Please, for the love of humanity: act. (h/t Manics & Goethe)

A familiar looking balcony...

There is a witticism about a man lost driving through the back roads of Wicklow who stops to ask a farmer the best way to get to Dublin and the farmer replies "If I were you, I would not start from here"

I would have thought that if Trump sets a precedent with Greenland then the British Overseas Territories (Cayman, British Virgin Islands etc.) should be very nervous.

IRAN IN TURMOIL AS GOVERNMENT FORCES FLEE It was a bad night in Iran for the government. Mashhad, the home city of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khaminie fell to protesters as the government’s forces fled. Despite a massive Internet shutdown organisers are finding a way to reach the public- largely

Can anyone do me an Irish translation of this?

"move slow and repair things" could save the world

Astonishing. Take that Funghi

It is sad that so many Christians have not got to the second half of the book...

Absolute genius.

It’s hard to believe that the UK is in the 21st century! Here in (Catholic!) Spain legalised assisted dying became law in June 2021, allowing adults with severe, chronic, incurable conditions or debilitating diseases causing them intolerable suffering to request help to end their lives.

Another backpack of books to take to Oxfam books again today. I measure my library in the flows, not the eddies.

So, today marks 10 years since the passing of Bowie. It also marks 10 years since I put something on Twitter about it which resulted in me having to take a day off work, chase down various international media, get blocked by half of Australia, and end up the filling in a Kanye and Madonna sandwich.

One of this year's resolutions is to replace and improve the Kingspan insulation (I was young and foolish) but trying to decide between cast in place hempcrete or wood fibre.

@rickoshea.bsky.social and I had a good natter about translated fiction on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social earlier in the week. You can listen back here if you fancy it. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

A pair of blue tits appeared with a tiny youngster, so all is well again...and the Robin is back on patrol.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

I have got a school athletics cup (1988) he can have if he is that needy?

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

My latest at Quitting Carbon: China's EV dominance, fast-tracking heat pumps and plug-in solar in California, research roundup, and more highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... 🔌💡

I’m beseeching you: I do not want to be instructed to draft X posts for my senior managers; and I will not read news or communications posted to X; and it is absolutely wrong for EU institutions to expect me as an official to do that. We need to remove ourselves from the platform IMMEDIATELY.

He took the corner quite a bit wrong because of another car parked a bit askew is now engaged in a 300 point turn to try and get his car straight again. I am having trouble containing my bladder as I watch this clown...

Yet another data point for "the United Kingdom is not a country" thesis.

Hey #speirgorm, talk to me about Mounjaro please? Is it working? Positive /negative side effects? Easy to get? Expensive? Trust? GP experience? Anything really.

DEKALOG (It may have been a pirate though?) www.criterion.com/films/28661-...

Amazing! I know you can get good Ethiopian, Nepalese, Sichuan and Nigerian food in Dublin. Any others?

“Know thyself” is a mistranslation. What the Oracle of Delphi actually said was more along the lines of “sure you know yourself”

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." #ReneeNicoleGood #Minnesota #Andor #r4today Via @anamariecox.bsky.social

You are beauty. You are courage. You are compassion. You will outlast all of this. youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc?...

OPEN ACCESS BOOK: African Masks and Emotions (Getty Publications, 2025) by Zoë S. Strother www.getty.edu/publications...

Did you hear about the scarecrow that won the Nobel Prize? He was outstanding in his field. When asked about why he thinks he deserved it, he said "Hay - it's in my jeans" It's not the first time he has been in the news - he was in previously after seeing a magic tractor that turned into a field.

It is easy to recognise the best farmers - they are out standing in their field.

Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.

Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.

Leonard en Hungry Paul is coming out in Dutch on 21st January, translated by Eefje Bosch and Manik Sarkar. Published by Van Oorschot. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Everyone, with any decency in them, should leave that cesspit twitter/x: #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Grok

No birds at all to the bird feeder the last couple of days. I hope it is because they have a better offer...

Congratulations to @ronanhession.bsky.social Leonard and Hungry Paul is the first Bluemoose book to be selected as a national set text in secondary schools. September this year it will be on the Irish Junior Certificate for English alongside Hemingway, Austen, Blackman. Marvelous.

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

I'll be on with @mrjamesob.bsky.social next on @lbc.co.uk

Good news...and if we (EU) were stronger in enforcing the sanctions it would already have been over.

Horrifying to see an American woman shot dead by an ICE agent on a Minneapolis street, and Donald Trump’s ghoulish response is truly chilling. Britain mustn’t follow America down this dark path.

I am awake. 0/5 stars - would not recommend.

An interesting development - although it will not replace stablecoin as that really is mainly about paying drugs gangs...but it might offer an alternative to the $ for international transactions where neither party has a particularly stable currency. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Country 9 in global oil reserves has invaded country 1 and arrested its president. Country 7 is under sanctions and its refineries are being destroyed. Country 2 is facing off with country 6. And there are riots in country 3. But oil is only $60/bbl. Maybe oil is not as critical as it used to be?

and this kids, is why you show up

BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.

The sign on the van says "Johnson Painting". Surely there isn't enough of a local market for that sort of thing to support a business?