Have a #painting. "The Long Walk II" My Galway city painting that I'll never tired of telling people it prompted a friend's young son to ask why there were giraffes walking down the street, and ever since that's all any of us can see. It hangs in his home. He's a man now. #art #JanuArty #SpeirGhorm

Things are awful, so a little treat for the real Crush-Heads. It is now eleven years since I got this printed in the Metro.

OMG. The Rector of the University of Ghent used ChatGPT for her opening speech this academic year. Journalists pointed out the hallucinated quotes (including Einstein). Now she's doesn't dare to go and get an honorary PhD in Amsterdam. There's A LOT in there. But still some *shame*, which is great.

OMG. Of course Huberman doing a collab with Gwyneth! This is so wellness GRIFTER-O-RAMA that it seems like satire! Gold. 🙏 "The meat-to-bean ratio in chili is crucial." WTF? Huberman Is Optimizing Turkey Chili www.thecut.com/article/andr... cc @drandrealove.bsky.social @drjengunter.bsky.social

A #painting from the west of Ireland. "Enniscrone Pubs" came out of my annual carer breaks to the County Sligo seaside town where every year magic happens. This painting was one of a series of 4, each a gift for one of the people who make that magic possible. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Have yerselves a #painting. "Martello Tower, Ireland's Eye" is from the east coast of #Ireland - specifically the small island off the north coast of Howth Head in County Dublin. It's not the only one of Dublin's many Martello towers I've painted, and I imagine it won't be the last. #art #SpeirGhorm

That's frustrating #mcfc

A #painting for you. "Mayo Trees" came out of a ridiculously happy day in the west of Ireland. I could tell you about that day, but I'll let the trees do the talking. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

All you need to know about this weekend's wolf supermoon, the first of 13 full moons we will get to enjoy in Irish skies this year www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Peeping up over the rooftops

Under Irish law Musk can be jailed for 12 months for being a director of a company distributing CSAM. Section 9 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998. 'X' is a company registered in Ireland.

Ireland, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

There will be 13 full moons in the 2026 year and it will also be the year that humans make it back to the Moon.

A #painting. "Garristown". One cold day I went out at 5am, got two buses, unfolded my bike, cycled it a few km over a hill into very north County Dublin and sat down in this small village. I poured a cup of tea and thought, “I could live here”. Then I painted this as I drank my tea. #art #SpeirGhorm

this is irresponsible reporting. a neural network can't comment on why it produced CSAM. a neural network can't be held answerable for generating CSAM. accountability lies within the fascist ceo and the team willing to work for him www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Lovely full moon already out tonight if you can see it

An older Irish #painting for you. "Three Cottages" came out of loving shapes as much as paint and landscape. It was one of a series of ten small paintings I did once upon a happy time. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Happy new year to ye all - let’s do this!

Moratorium on ChatGPT until guard rails can be put in place to stop it from killing people, including killing kids Is that too much to ask? (I’m personally not convinced that all of these deaths are the ‘necessary price’ we simply must pay in order to use Sam Altman’s apparently wonderful tool)

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Put that headline on a t-shirt. And how is it that a company can look for a meeting with the Taoiseach to ask why more of the country isn’t using their toxic product? And now they’re trying to push it into our education system? How about no? Just no.

Have a #painting. "Knocknarea III" came out of my annual visits to County Sligo where I get to visit the iconic mountain. This is a view from the south as you wend along the coast - which I recommend you do, ideally on a bicycle. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear

Don't want to split hairs, but am pretty sure at least two of these attractions are not in Dublin...

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Is there a way to fix the volume on your telly so that it doesn't go from "slightly too low" during the film to "utterly deafening" during the ads? Asking for my mam's telly/hearing...

A few Stephenses evening photos of Naas - love the light at dusk

Happy Christmas to everyone out there in the Blue - wishing you all peace, happiness and comfort wherever you are and whatever your circumstances. May joy find you and stay with you.

Time for a #painting. "Stone Walls, No Sheep III" was the 3rd in a series of 4 paintings that came out of loving landscapes especially those with stone walls and those with sheep but accepting that sometimes the sheep just aren't there. #art #Speirghorm #ArtAdventCalendar

@davidmooney.co.uk @lmtpod.city emergency podcast??

Fancy visitor along the canal today

🎄We would like to wish all of our students, colleagues and friends a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous 2026! Nollaig shona daoibh go léir! 🎁 #Christmas2025 #Maynoothuniversity #MUpsychdept

Dublin was looking well this evening/dusk

Thousands gather for Winter Solstice sunrise from ancient tomb at Newgrange

Newgrange at Solstice

It's worth noting - because nobody seems to be saying it - but Erling is doing all this without the benefit of service from Kevin de Bruyne this season. Staggering. #mcfc

Applications for the @MaynoothUni John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026–27 are open until the 23rd January 2026 at 11.45am. Offers: • €25k stipend • €2k research expenses • EU fees (non-EU waiver available) Apply via: maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res... #PhD #Scholarship

Was Rosalind Franklin a secret football fan? Cryptic note in her US address book.

Gil Gerard, 'Buck Rogers' star who was a hero to late-'70s latchkey kids, dies at 82

I'm very happy to report that sense has eventually prevailed and the year planner for 2026 has returned to the more sensible vertical option. Just as I had gotten used to the horizontal...

A wonderful close to our celebrations for @mupsychology.bsky.social at 25, opened by @d-desmond.bsky.social and @maynoothuniversity.ie President Eeva Leinonen, keynote talk by PSI President Sarah Cassidy & panel discussion with Sarah, Anne Kehoe & Ian O'Grady, chaired by @cooganlab.bsky.social

A #painting for you. "Oughterard Field" shows County Kildare and the glory of its flatness as viewed from one of its small isolated hills, rather than the view behind which would show a Round Tower stump, a cemetery, a church ruin, and the grave of a certain Arthur Guinness. #SpeirGorm #JanuArty

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

🎉Huge Congratulations to Dr. Sadhbh Byrne and colleagues awarded the Mental Health and Disability Award at the Health Service Executive Open Access Research Awards 2025 #HSEOAAwards🏆#MaynoothUni 👉Read More here: maynoothuniversity.ie/psychology/n...

Great headline

Another west of Ireland #painting. "Connemara Cottage" came from a day cycling in circles in north Connemara up and down hills and onto a beach, looking for roads that didn't exist while making memories that lasted forever. And I kept coming back to this scene. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar, Day 11 Blood Vessel, Watercolor on Aquabord, 2023, #sciart

📻Listen back: Prof Andrew Coogan from the @mupsychology.bsky.social joined Karl Henry on the Real Health Podcast to explain why sleep is a core pillar of health and shared his top tips for a better night’s sleep. m.independent.ie/podcasts/rea...

Another #painting "Mellows Bridge II". Because of Arran Quay with the church of St Paul and the Bank of Ireland building. And the Four Courts dome. And I still like what used to be our Central Bank. But Mellows bridge is really what this painting is about. I think it’s a beauty. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

The Morrigan triple goddess - and the corvids they are strongly associated with - are Irish mythology's foreteller of death or victory in battle ⚔️ Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said