Just saw a picture of a bed that has a TV built into the end of it, and it has significantly eroded my faith in humanity.

Sounds like the start of a ghost story... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Darwinian Christmas

Morning donkey

Imagine the chaos this would prompt in Ireland. 'Cripes, how do I know them? They've smiled and waved and Eye Contact, I have to stop and chat. Is that Mary's friend with the liver cancer or the guy I worked with three jobs ago? Do I lead with "do ye still all go to that pub on the quays" or not?'

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

You get to stay at the 12th one.

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for November 2025 is Maynooth, @mulibrary.bsky.social MS C110, containing an Irish translation of Arnaldus de Villanova’s Speculum medicinae completed in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork on 15 May 1414: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Gone to the printer and soon to be released… Launching in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday 1 December at 5:30pm. Further details to follow. “Christmas prezzies sorted, so…” 🎄 #Childhood #Ireland #IrishHistory wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...

Omg

Nearly here: Childhood and the Irish, ed. Salvador Ryan. I have articles on the parish children of Youghal, and a grandmother's keen on a little Waterford girl c. 1870s. wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...

Nearly here: Childhood and the Irish, ed. Salvador Ryan. I have articles on the parish children of Youghal, and a grandmother's keen on a little Waterford girl c. 1870s. wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...

Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Many oral histories skip the question of bathroom facilities, so I enjoyed this account of a seven-seater outdoor jacks in Co. Antrim. Any advance on seven?! (NB a 'clocking hen' is one sitting on eggs, which may be the origin of the terminology.) Doreen Bishop, We just got on with it, 2022.

Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

RE Banner Bookshop Ennistymon event: Tuesday Nov 11th 7pm UPDATE: You've heard about the conversation, book signing, readings, Q&A and complimentary wine, tea or coffee? Apparently, there will also be CAKE @roisinm.bsky.social #spéirgorm #booksky #Irish #fiction #writingcommunity

How does he even manage this?

Well. Today I learned that there is a review process happening for the government's pilot draft pay gap portal this month. Guess who's not invited to take part? Honestly, more than a little insulting. It's not like they don't have my contact info, I email them about once a month... #genderPayGap

📣Out now on #firstview! David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789' #Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜 👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Declan Ganley is a US military contractor in business with Peter Thiel and Karl Rove. his son Micheál's previous job before "refounding" the Bethlehem Steel Company, was as a staffer for Lindsay Graham. he's a stooge for US interests and should be treated as such

We are thrilled to announce this year's rendition of the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition - an online lecture series organised by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project! The first talk will be on November 10th, with Jane Ohlmeyer, Tom Truxes, and John Shovlin on the Amity Papers!

Our PhD studentship applications are open for 2026 entry and I'm keen to hear from outstanding candidates in history of early modern conflict and/or creative histories.

"A spokesperson said funds had to be raised by April 2026 and they needed the public's help to secure it." AKA You give us your hard earned cash & we'll give it to two people. BTW £3.5 million is c.100 curator salaries. #Archaeology #Detecting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

#LimerickCity #SpeirGorm

Sun and moon in pageant, from a 1596 manuscript about the eight lavish pageants held for the christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, 1596. One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/sun-and-moon-in-pageant/

An escaped lion in Co Clare. Definitely one for @weratedogs.com

CFP alert! If you're working on digitization, replicas and reproductions, living history practices, or other forms of surrogate sources, we'd love to see a proposal for organized sessions at the 2026 Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. #DigitalHumanities #LivingHistory #CFP #MedievalSky

Moist evening at Gabhal Luimnigh

The best Dick Cheney story. www.google.com/amp/s/www.hu...

#Antrim born #IrishSlaveholders updated Oct 2025 martinebrennanresearch.weebly.com/irish-slaveh... #speirgorm

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

#SpéirGorm Story from Journal.ie

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

The new episode of Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast is live! In this episode we take a look at the unusual but enormous success two 19th century Irish emigrants had in creating and building, of all things, a billiards empire: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

This man’s social media platform… which he uses to pump this garbage into our society… continues to be used by the Irish Government, its agencies, media organisations and journalists, universities, politicians and business/union leaders. Leave X now.

LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires. Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.

Every Irish politician needs to get off this racist’s website *immediately*. There is no excuse. #speirgorm

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

Sorry could I get two gin & tonics, 2 pints of Guinness, white wine, a jameson and 3 packets of tayto thanks

A heart shaped darn by my granny on a Lydons of Galway blanket. She died nearly 20 years ago, but would be glad to see the blanket is still going strong.

Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch, ‘All Saints’ Day’, 1914 - from National Gallery of Hungary

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Demodoggie awaits a snack of human flesh. Or cheese.