annoyed people annoy people

Was on Pat Kenny this morning talking about some historical context for Ireland's boycotting of Eurovision this year. (Working under my pseudonym of Ciara, naturally) www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Men in roles like this, for approx. 4 decades: "Society is not subsidising your reproduction! Can't afford to raise kids, close your legs!" People: close their legs These men who somehow sre taken seriously: no, not like that

What the hell?!?! The Silk Road Cafe at the Chester Beatty provides probably the best lunch in Dublin. This is tragic. Please say my comination @marshslibrary.bsky.social and silk road days are not gone forever. www.thejournal.ie/silk-road-ca...

Little jumper for the little 2yr old fella. Though, not so little, as I had cast off but then had to re-open and throw on another 12 rows to make it a decent length on him. All leftover wool, short sleeves for the summer etc. Shoulder stain already. #knitsky

Reading as I sit on a bus freaking out about being late for a 9pm start, after a kid drop off that has to happen at 8.30. My manager will not mind at all, but the idea that most of us still work to an assumption of a 9am start when it is pretty much inconsistent with kid drop offs is silly.

We have all committed ourselves to a tremendous amount of work, but I'm excited to share this news.

OOO on.

EXTREMELY EXCITING news about 'Killing Kelly', a film adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s ’Two in One’ starring Jason Isaacs and Thomasin McKenzie. Production to begin in Dublin later this year and we cannot wait for the skin-tingling, skin-wearing, skin-fusing comedy horror.

Shout out to the parents managing it without the bribery biscuits. You are the real heroes

Reminds me of this, which I love. Love a cozy bed/bedroom painting.

Whoa, this is a cool story! www.fastcompany.com/90375440/the...

Talking Highlander and life-extension with Ben Davies

Some nice books in here, between the Murdoch, Bowen and O'Briend www.purcellauctioneers.ie/catalogue/lo...

Unfortunately I don't know that, but it would be interesting if so since eating too much fruit was supposed to be bad for you in 17th century. This description of a dead wife by her husband assumes it would be better if she ate no summer fruit at all. archive.org/details/bim_...

The Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Ireland is currently seeking student representatives for its new committee: www.swip-ireland.com/about

#earlymodernsky It's often said that Bernard de Fontenelle lived to 100 (no mean achievement for one dying in 1757) and credited it to eating copious amounts of strawberries. I see it as unsubstantiated in his Wikipedia. Anyone know where the claim originates? So much AI drivel to wade through 🫠

I'd appreciate any help in amplifying this that I can get. A lot of work went into it and it's the kind of story that most media wouldn't touch with a barge-pole, but I think it raises important issues that need to be discussed.

I'm pretty sure I have found a way to discuss The Highlander in an Irish Times piece next week. Finally

Guessing game to pick what "sweet feck all" refers to: - Progress on the Nat Children's Hospital - Action by gov to meet climate targets - Intention of gov to pass OTB - Impact on gov of MHR quitting - Votes won by SF in recent lurch right - Money gov says it has to fix the country #IrishPol

‘By discussing the past, we get to appreciate not only the success of our best current science but also the effort that is required to study nature and its workings’, writes @vanessaseifert.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...

Not sure why my response to this is JUSTICE FOR PIGEONS

BP profits more than doubled in the first three months of the year thanks to the soaring cost of crude caused by the Iran war. - Jade Wilson www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Unreal Luas green line queues this morning. The platform is heaving with people, and there's no room for people to get on to anything that arrives. Groups leaving to, I presume, get bus. The second one on the list is due in 18minutes.

Not sure my iPhone really captured how beautiful this wood carpeted in bluebells was, but here’s springtime in Wales 😊

Mine would just be a bouldering wall, near my house, with a foam-floored mini-wall (serving as a creche for littlies). There'd be childcare, a huge cafe for local community groups, esp older ppl who might want to try climbing. It would be free for kids and teens. Maybe there's also a pool somehow😅

Coming to Ireland must be very traumatic for the Swedes

Wow, some people can run really fast for ages. Genuinely shocked by what some bodies can do 🫣

Real people make these choices. #DerelictIreland

we asked five Calvinists in a New England diner what they think about salvation by works. the answers won’t surprise you

There's nothing quite like your two your old son WEEPING because you won't play Celine Dion's All Coming Back for a fifth time. It's so long 😩 "Nights in the winnnnnd 🥲😪😭"

New issue out now! We’ve got theoretical relicts and biological mistakes, pragmatic Humeanism and Bayesian conditionalization, Reichenbach’s vindication and Lewis games, and much, much more! Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur... #philsci #philsky

Belfast launch of Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 will be at the Seamus Heaney Centre on May 1, from 5.30pm to 7pm. Bígí Linn

This is also me when I see a woman has made a deadpan joke online that could be construed as her just not understanding something.

The younguns will be losing their mind over my Pro-Choice curriculum. Week one, a hero of pro-choice ideology... that's right, guys, it's super-woke icon Ernst Zermelo. Want some more, well good, I'll take them all the way forward to that icon of independence, Paul Cohen.

cool, a human shaped car

Men might have coined the term, but women invented ‘looksmaxxing’

The emergence of Elise, who has legs for ballet but hands for jazz:

It would take a full bottle of wine for me to get through all the reasons I find this hilarious. Saying someone "lives like the ambassador of the kingdom of ridiculous notions" is just an immaculate piece of abuse. Big Cork energy to it, also.

How have I never heard the term "bride's chair" before? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride%2... I have spent so much time working on Byrne's one. I even made my own one in pottery class and my mam loved it so much she managed to get someone to frame and mount it on an appropriately printed page...

Enjoyed reading this piece on cosmetic surgery and phenomenology by Luna Dolezal for something I'm writing on Looksmaxxing. Esp interesting given how incredibly widespread aesthetic surgery is now. www.jstor.org/stable/40602...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

This breaking news alert while an Israeli drone still buzzes above us #beirut

Last day to apply for this fully funded PhD in #philosophy at @ucddublin.bsky.social…

So sad to hear of the passing of Moya Brennan - part of the collective soundtrack of a slowly emerging cultural confidence in Ireland in the ’80s and ’90s.

Reminds me of that Iris Marion Young essay 'Glowing Like a Girl'

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral reut.rs/41oluvL

Piece on Cam McEvoy's world record & comments on fatherhood. Also on flexibility and fascilitating individual flourishing as key to happy parents, not the reductive vision of trad-wives& manosphere bros. If only I could've channeled Cam in training this morning. Absolutely pathetic sprints from me😩