Bumper year for foxgloves. Wondering if there are different sub species? Ones on the left are perpendicular to the stalk and on the right it’s the more common drooping form #SpéirGhorm

Trump has gotten the news that everyone quit and he’s considering hiring himself to celebrate his birthday. Lmao even. #sad

Actually, could I just have a regular ambulance, please?

Milo is not quite ready for Caturday

new edition of 19thc Irish-language stories about the American West! Ed/trans @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social

It's very lovely to see all the irises in bloom around Dublin 8 at the moment. These hand-coloured beauties are from a mid-16th century herbal or Kreutterbuch.

A shining cage upon a hill

I think it would be quite disturbing if her head and limbs were still present

This is a great read. "The breakdown of the Dublin Central tally is clear: when you map the votes of Hutch (and of Malachy Steenson, running on a more overt platform against immigration policy), the houses with more money are the ones offering their votes."

For anyone who still thinks that the US is a functioning democracy, with a separation of judicial and executive power

Phew "not satanic"

Let’s see what @weratedogs.com makes of this

How to avoid burnout at work: Stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Get in your car. Drive home to your cat. Never return.

A recent @newscientist cartoon p.s. I will be in Madrid and Germany very soon! Details at www.tomgauld.com

Researchers in AHSS fields with any connection with Ireland might want to consider signing this. openletter.earth/concern-abou...

Robert Harris’s take on Blair in _The Ghost_ seems more and more plausible

The new Amazon 007, "A Prompt For a Kill" "True biological male, James Bond, must prevent W.O.K.E, an evil Marxist terror organisation, from assassinating beloved, visionary billionaires, such as Beff Jizzos, who plan to build an AI data centre that will benefit all, or at least some, of mankind"

I’m concerned that the USA is in a dangerous bubble so they should add lots of people from other countries

Price Club, the early years

“The ‘intelligence’ is artificial but the stupidity is real”. [ok, it doesn’t actually say that]

Despite the glamour, the job opportunities, the enviable conditions… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Why young academics are leaving academia

Despite the glamour, the job opportunities, the enviable conditions… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Why young academics are leaving academia

Price Club, the early years

No, you smut-heads, it’s not that kind of pegging. More like Polo. But not Jilly Cooper.

Really think we could stand to drop the utterly credulous headline style of "Billionaire says doorway to Narnia will be open by 2027"

Happy Sherlock Holmes Day to all who celebrate

Any chance of some kind of last minute “Tale of 2 Cities” switch here?

Any chance of some kind of last minute “Tale of 2 Cities” switch here?

[Musk ‘s plans to] ‘establish a lunar economy, develop human augmentation systems, and transport humans and cargo to the Moon and Mars, involve significant technical complexity”, the company warned. “Such initiatives may not achieve commercial viability.”’🙄

Today would be a good day to enact the Occupied Territories Act

This is disgusting treatment of the Flotilla activists, the woman being abused at the start of the video is Irish woman Catriona Graham. Our government cannot continue to stand by as apartheid Israel kidnaps, assaults and incarcerates its citizens, it must impose sanctions now.

WHERE DO I VOTE

I’ve asked The Anarchist’s Cookbook what it thinks about this, but I can’t repeat its answer here

Hubris

It’s the 199th anniversary of the ‘Murder in the Red Barn’, which wasn’t discovered for a year, but when it was, the perpetrator was hanged, skinned, and used to bind a book... 🧵

Hubris

I like walking on the coastal path that runs out towards Sutton, but I'd really like to not be killed on it. I'm finding it hard to believe that the electric bikes that go whizzing past me in the cycle lane are doing less than 25 kmph. #speirdhubhlinn

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Happy birthday Melanie Lynskey! 🎉 Lynskey has previously spoken out in support for the LGBTQ+ community following backlash over her role in The Last of Us in 2023. 📷 Getty

Another year of allowing Israel to use the Eurovision to pinkwash genocide. FFS. www.thejournal.ie/eurovision-r...

Red rum!

especially pissed off to learn they’ve been making delicious salty butter out of our most famous horse

In next week’s Guardian: the 100 Best Butts of All Time

Something, something … fobbed off.

Hot on the heels of “whither Bluesky” it is Bluesky v the Guardian books listicle. What a time to be alive!

Pitch: the Knights of the Round Table set out to seek the Great Butt, and the secret of eternal life

In 1836 some labourers found these 2,600 year-old wooden figures whilst cleaning a ditch at Roos Carr, near Withernsea, East Yorkshire. One of the men is said to have given one of the ancient ‘dolls’ to his daughter to play with! 😱 Hull and East Riding Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

I had a job interview recently where they asked me: where do you see yourself in 5 years? I told them I was pretty sure we’d still be using mirrors.