Facilitation IS NOT neutrality. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

If someone told 15yr old me that I'd be able to go see an all trans woman punk band in my wee little Irish hometown of all places someday, I probably wouldn'tve believed them TBH and wld wonder why they were telling me lol. But yeah... Things do be bad but they're also sooo much better than before💜

Cross-section of the Rotunda in Leicester Square, 1801. From our essay “Unlimiting the Bounds” by @LilyRFord exploring the link between the immersive view of the panorama and the advent of ballooning: publicdomainreview.org/essay/u...

We see these straw men. We see their amorality compound the present into a future of ignorance and harm. Make them extinct. Vote like the lives of your children and grandchildren depend on it. Because they do.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

If you've ever wondered what Hubble and Webb were observing at any time, there's an easy way to find out! 👀 Space Telescope Live can show you what the telescopes are looking at now and what the next planned observation will be, all in one space (pun intended 😁): https://spacetelescopelive.org/

Full ‘snow moon’ time lapse, newly captured 2 hour movement of oak shadow on 20” of snow Enjoy its brilliance tonight 🌕

Here's the trailer for Rabbit Trap. 👇 The credits at the end were soundscapes, not music. ❤️

As it’s LGBTQ+ History Month I thought I’d share some bits from my new book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains (out in mid March) just to give a flavour of what was going on beyond the privet…

Can relate... (Frontispeiece to Mary Baine Campbell's: 'Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe'. 1999)

Here in the solar system.... (wow!)

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

More stunning high-resolution images from ESA’s #Rosetta mission 👇 www.esa.int/Our_Activiti...

Topography as storm. The photography returned by this probe exists in a category of mission imaging entirely its own. A haunted roil of cliff, valley and plain, as if Francis Bacon had painted a planet..... #solarsystem #spaceimaging #planetaryscience #francisbacon

This whole thread 🧵 is a glowing example as to how the true intelligence of an institution is located on the ground floor, not the top. Kudos to Mr Nguyen and their students!✊

WRITTEN BY DAYLIGHT | John Howard Sunsets in a London suburb, an obsessed journey towards a Mediterranean dream; a city so ancient that even its total disappearance has been forgotten, and an island of shifting sands that can never be truly mapped . . . swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/wr...

I'm just lost for words, knowing what this shows....

🔥Greenland politician: “Trump doesn’t know about Greenlandic people. We don’t value💰/Kardashian lips/fake boobs… we won’t give up free health care & education… 🇺🇸are so greedy they’re trying to shoot their friends… Trump surrounds himself with white power— our rights would probably be taken away.”

If Denmark can get farmers to agree to dropping their nitrates derogation, adopting a carbon tax on meat, government promotion of plant-based diets and rewilding a fifth of the country - why can't Ireland? www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...

Illustration from Ultima Thule; Or, A Summer in Iceland by Richard F. Burton, London, 1875.

One for all the minimalist fans out there - a wonderful live recording of Terry Riley live at Town Hall, New York City - September 25, 1982 youtu.be/nTKL2zxqCF0?...

A predatory class, which demands not just the shirt off your back, but the skin as well. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The previous image seen from orbit. Almost at the exact moment!

Limned by the last of the sun as a winter storm swings in from the Atlantic. E. Galway 15.01.2025. #galway #ireland #winter #light

For centuries, a “gossip” was a woman who attended another woman's delivery. The word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” The gossips offered support to mother & midwife. Only later did it become derogatory. More info: www.historyextra.com/period/gener...

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” – Gertrude Stein @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to biographer Francesca Wade about her new book Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. #books #biography #modernism @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

The disturbance of pictorial space going on here is frankly unsettling.

So despite all denial we're now openly facing up to failure on emissions targets and massive fines. The industry of spin through last year on denial on impact of data centres, nitrates etc and lack of media challenge on Government has failed our future #climate www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Now would be a good time.

A frozen winter's night in Ireland. 3/1/25

Ghost in moonlit orchard under Cygnus. 3/1/25.

Leaving. 1/1/26

Moonlight re-enchants the house during a New Year's Day power cut. 1st January 2026. E. Galway, Ireland. #moonlight #enchantment #lowlight

First moonbeams of the year. 1/1/26. East Galway, Ireland. #newyear #moonlight #ireland

EU continues to support Israel as that State becomes the first in the world to ban Doctors Without Borders. @msf.ca #EU

Does anyone else take great pleasure in printing out vintage line-hachure drawings of prehistoric monuments? Sometimes I mount them on card, sometimes I create handouts for field trips from them. I just love the detail and tangibility of these beautiful, evocative, technical works. 🏺

The 12th-century Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral rarely steals the spotlight (thanks to that lantern tower), but it’s absolutely jaw-dropping

How utterly charming!

Krampus is overrated, my favourite Christmas characters are the mob of bird cultists and the Christmas Baphomet.

A winter being momentarily visible in the back garden at dusk. E. Galway, Ireland. 22nd December. #Winter #spirits

Winter Solstice walk through woods in E. Galway in search of a Yule log. 21st December, 2025 #winter #solstice #ireland

In Stephen McKenna’s 1926 novel ‘The Oldest God,’ a Christmas gathering at a country house is interrupted by the mysterious (and cloven-hoofed) Mr. Stranger after most guests decide to follow nature over social convention. Could he be Pan, or someone more sinister? #BookWormSat

Oh the underlight! Clouds suddenly becoming visible in the Western sky as the light of the rising #sun catches them on its rays. 13the December, East Galway.

Corvids moon and sunrise. Galway/Roscommon border. 13th December.

Subject of worship (Marmalade in the sunrise). 13th December, Co Galway.

A serious indictment of our politics and media that CETA, which has been adjudged to be unconstitutional by the Irish Supreme Court (Costello vs the Irish Govt), was passed overnight by the Government and there’s barely a ripple of curiosity, let alone rigorous questioning.

The adults-in-the-room parties making a holy show out of us - breaching EU directives, getting taken to court over it, ignoring the court ruling and having to be dragged back to court six years later. All because they can't be arsed with basic competencies like clean drinking water.

A study in raindrops and armed support units. 11th December. Ireland.

Light and shadow, Galway city.