Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest huge amounts of wrack from swathes of the west coast of Ireland. Seaweed forests are crucial for protecting communities against erosion, protecting wildlife and heritage. Pls sign!

Me teaching myself how to host a Zoom meeting...

What is it to be a devotee of Brigid? #Brigit #BrigidGoddessAndSaint #PaganSky #IrishPolytheism

Lest we forget. Sean Connery in Zardoz.

But is that what the New Zealand Ladies Rugby Team would have wanted? They might have higher aspirations. #TheArchers

Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can we listeners fund Chelsea's startup? #TheArchers

Elle Cordova, “Halley Came to Jackson.” #Astronomy #Bluegrass www.tiktok.com/@sundaymorni... Three young white women with guitars and mics sit in a green yard.

@dejaysus.bsky.social @chrismole.bsky.social @tomsbrown.bsky.social ❤️

Look who showed up in the mail today: St Brigid & Me by Hannah McCann. #StBrigid #BrigidOfIreland #GraphicNovel #PaganSky

I only did two hourly comics this year before I decided to spend my energy elsewhere, gettin snacks and looking at fish. Been waking up early lately for someone with sleepalot disorder #hourlycomicsday

"The permanent scheme follows a trial that ran from 2022 to 2025 to help artists during Covid pandemic shutdowns. New York and San Francisco had similar pilot schemes but Ireland is believed to be the first country to make one permanent." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

So exciting that George has apparently finally remembered who clobbered him! The suspense continues… #TheArchers

I can't believe I'm being a grown-up and having my sprouted rye with all that lovely challa in the fridge.

@smattocks.bsky.social Hi, Sarah!

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #StareDown I had to go with a Sharp-shinned Hawk because *DERP* (I could've gone with a Steller's...to be clear 😂) #birds #becurious 🪶

#SmallBeauties Jona, Switzerland and Venice, Trieste, Italy. 2019.

Timely repost. #TheArchers

Further on "imbolg": Several, sometimes fanciful etymologies, have been proposed from the medieval to the modern period. 1. "Old Irish imb- (intensive prefix) and folc ('wash, cleanse'), linking it to folcaim ('to wash/cleanse oneself') and suggesting it referred to a ritual cleansing". /1

What fabulous language research, what a lovely guy, AND what a great video! 🪶 #SmallBeauties @jomary10.bsky.social @paperpie.bsky.social @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social @hilllabsask.bsky.social @gettoknownature.bsky.social youtu.be/doj_wt9ER_Q Images of a young-looking Japanese man & a Japanese Tit.

@tarkers.bsky.social hey! Nice to see you. How are you doing?

I am re-watching #CallTheMidwife and as characters arrive who I know will come to terrible grief later on, it's very hard to just relax and enjoy their stories — even when those stories are going to take years!

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Eight and a half years and I think I have finally got this story where it needs to be. There is something deeply pleasant about circling around a story or poem as long as it takes: going away, coming back, forgetting, remembering, till it finally comes right. ✍🏽

Signed. No potential or actual Prime Minister should be without a security clearance.

"Two wrongs don’t make a right. Three rights make a left. Eight lefts summon a déjà vu…" Rights, Wrongs, Lefts by @grigorylukin.bsky.social. qb.foofaraw.press/rights-wrong...

I’m grateful for a day without appointments, where I can putter around getting little tasks done before curling up with a good book.

Is this poor fellow, as I believe, a cockroach? If so, my cockroach traps have not detected any others and I certainly haven’t seen any others so I suspect it’s a visitor from next door. Images are of a frozen insect, taken from several angles. #Invertebrates #Cockroach #0hMyGiddyAunt

After enjoying Josh’s come down and Georges maturity, not to mention Esme’s and Clarrie’s clarity and thoughtfulness, I do have a suggestion for Josh: He could just tell the woman that he likes her and see if she wants to go out. It isn’t necessary for her to *need* or *depend* on him. #TheArchers

This is a lovely, gently wending talk about the Irish naturalist, RJ Ussher, by Emma Murphy, curator at the National Museum of Ireland – Natural History.🪶#IrishBirds #IrishFossils #RoyalIrishAcademy #Naturalist #HistoryOfScience #NationalMuseumOfIrelandNaturalHistory soundcloud.com/the-royal-ir...

A ruddy woodcreeper creeping around to the sunny side of a tree trunk. Chunyaxché, QR, Mexico (south of Tulum). #birds 🌿 #birdwatching

All the news that’s fit to print from #Twitbridge A.k.a. #TheArchers

Outside interference from Israel lobbyists, Friends of Israel, and the Israeli Deputy Ambassador, Daniela Grudsky. "Police and prosecutors’ details shared with Israel during UK protests inquiry, papers suggest" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A song that struck me deeply in my youth. Holly Near’s Mountain Song. To me: A woman defending her home. Apparently she wrote it about women coal miners (?) who were attempting to unionise. youtu.be/-Dod4gTn-gM #Resist #ProtestSongs #FeministSongs Image of a blue mountain (Fuji?) against a blue sky

I wonder how much Melvyn Bragg actually remembers from those thousand-odd episodes…

If ever there was a day to announce it - it's today. My paper (one I own) is finally online - we've got fact checking local politics, a spotlight on girls HS sports & Crawlies and MORE! Celebrating 50 years (I did NOT own in in 1976 lol) of publication Check us out! upperrogueindependent.com

#TombTuesday The cairn circle & stone row on Hingston Hill #Dartmoor The cairn at the eastern doesn’t have a stone circle. I always feel a bit sorry for it

Buddhist monastics walking for peace in US and Canada. "Walking for Peace — How Love Quietly Travels From One Heart to Another" youtu.be/GlH88AD3M3s

My deep dislike of Josh is thus reawakened. #TheArchers

St Brigid’s Day 2026, Lá Fhéile Bríde 2026: message from the government of Ireland. #Brigit #BrigidGoddessAndSaint #StBrigidsDay2026 youtu.be/xvkVH8sdEsU Image of young white woman wearing glasses. Superimposed is a drawing of a daffodil & the words “that the power of woman is shaping our future."

#Brigit #StBrigid #GraphicNovels #AbortionRights #Ireland #NorthernIreland

For the day that's in it 4: A hill that I'll die on: today should be properly called and written "Imbolg", not "Imbolc". The word has a -g at the end, not a -c.