I blame Mother Nature. If she hadn’t given these 2 plonkers genitalia like inadequate hamsters, they wouldn’t be this desperate to prove their manhoods. I wonder if boy babies with tiny todgers were thrown back at birth, would the world be better? [There’d certainly be fewer Irish & more Dutch]

Excellent to see trans ppl & ppl with disabilities, in particular, appointed to the board of the IHREC [Irish Human Rights Commission]. Commissioners determine priorities, oversee policy, and decide when to exercise powers. The new appointments bolster the depth of expertise:

This is grotesque. It’s the bloodthirsty beast of raw capitalism for the starving, as Elon Musk is given $38 billion in US citizens’ taxes, to play with rockets. Corporate Communism for the elite.

It’s a stunning day in the city & I’m working my way through three medical consultants in one day. Halfway there! It is amazing how advanced medicine is in my lifetime. Even 30y ago I’d be pushing up daisies. The point is to continue to fight the good fight & listen to the experts!

New mural at the Royal Canal, Dorset St. it’s by Shane Sutton

The media’s normalisation of evil really irks me. This tulip meets every definition for a Neo-Nazi - at the very least he should be described as a fascist, or far right. ‘White nationalist’ ignores his antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-miscegenation & Holocaust denial.

The only differences between the vast majority of billionaires & you are inherited wealth & enormous good luck. Most self-made billionaires [the ones not born to ruby mines or friends on the IBM board] are v clear on that. Those same actual achievers give their money away. The irony here is…

Hope your morning is mellow & your men ravishing.

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I’m begging all you Trump ‘resisters’ to stop using fake AI slop, AI memes & AI vids. You’re helping generate bribes for him & benefitting his AI Tech Bros, & most importantly you’re destroying the livelihoods of creatives, such as graphic designers, etc. In fact, you’re no better than he is.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Billionaires may control the media [like the far right Forbes owner], but they don’t control your mind. The biggest difference between post colonial people & the countries that colonised them, is the former are anti-authoritarian & are not influenced by the media. Decolonise your mind.

It’s worth noting that the President-Elect of Ireland got twice as many votes as the right wing runner-up. The latter introduced transphobia* & US style smear tactics to an Irish presidential election, for the first time. Connolly, a Queer advocate, won by 63% to the right’s 30%. Transphobia fail.

A dangerous tool, in a positive way

President-Elect Catherine Connolly, meets President Michael D Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin The two former socialist politicians have received the highest ever number of votes in Irish history, in their respective elections. This year is the 14th & final for Michael D’s term.

California passes proposition 50, which will mean multiple anti-LGBTQ+ Republican congress people will likely lose their seat. A continual bloodbath for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans tonight.

Making color-color photometry plots of Crayola crayons, as one does.

New #GBRedList for vascular plants is out now as a special issue of #BritishandIrishBotany, the @bsbibotany.bsky.social's Open Access scientific journal: britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi... Also available (cost £10) as an eBook: bsbi.org/publications... Press release: bsbi.org/wp-content/u...

Top Tip: Do not get sucked into a TikTok loop of Americans visiting Ireland. Just as a public advisory ▪️the rain does NOT heal your soul One of Ireland’s biggest exports is Prozac, you may need it.

Free Nelson Mandela

Make America Great Again!! 👀

Congrats to Mamdani & NYers for seeing sense. Murdoch’s NY Post is clearly printed on acid tab paper [reference there for fellow Hippies] if they think he’s a Communist. In Europe we’d just call him a centrist. Thoughts & prayers with the billionaires. Won’t someone please think of the billionaires?

I want these musicians to be performing forever on MY ceiling! And their parrot. And dog! Great painting by Gerrit van Honthorst, born OTD 1592.

In 1652, Margareta Maria de Roodere paints her father while mom watches. And is in turn painted by her teacher Gerrit van Honthorst. Today is his birthday.

Art & music make a house a home. Visit my shop to see more of my work & the inspiration behind these one-off ink on paper drawings: robbohan.etsy.com

Same energy:

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Daleks trying to board a London bus (1963). 📷 Het Parool.

The UK Labour Party’s war on Queer ppl is such that about 26% of trans ppl are planning to leave the UK. Many are coming to Ireland to escape Labour’s nastiness. Details on Brits rights to live in Ireland are given below.

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For all horrified by the fire in an Ipas Centre in Drogheda and wishing to help those impacted - a go fund me has been set up - see 👇🏼#speirgorm www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-dr...

Remember the lad who threw a sandwich at an ICE paramilitary in DC? The court case is beyond ridiculous:

Born this day in 1592, in Utrecht, Gerrit van Honthorst. Known in Italy as Gherardo delle Notti for his A+ nighttime scenes, as here in 1620.

The Big Apple needs an authentic voice! Vote!

I was thinking we should pay politicians according to their ability. The fewer food banks necessary, the higher they get paid. Then, as I cooked dinner, I realised that they would just shut down all food banks. Food banks* are both a symbol of empathy & of great failure.

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My wife @zoandbehold.bsky.social in NY Mag today!!!

Wild Roses of Great Britain & Ireland (latest title in the series of #BSBIHandbooks for tricky plants) is due out this month! Final proofs now with authors Gareth & Roger. Interview with them about the new Handbook here: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/inte... £16 for #BSBImembers until 24 Nov.

“I’m going to put my teeth in now” after giving a great concise sensible interview on why she, a 91 year old Jewish daughter of a Rockette (!), voted for Mamdani

Really sad to hear of the passing of Sister Stan. She was legendary to Dubliners & a true voice for those who lived in poverty & loneliness. Her Christianity was one of example & friendship. Few lives are as significant as hers. She will be missed. ✝️ Ar Dheis Dé Sr Stanislaus Kennedy (1939-2025)

Mamdani already making good on providing more housing! Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post & his Fox News drama channel always at it.

The ESB* van is circling so somethings being done! I really want coffee! Ireland has invested significantly in wind power to wean us off natural gas. We’re now number 2 in Europe with 33% wind power, Unfortunately gas keeps our charges going up! *Electricity Supply Board

Most Ultra-Catholic & far right voices one hears constantly in British & Irish media are at least in part funded by the US Heritage Foundation, or their billionaire donors fund them another way. Trans panic - them; anti-Climate science - them; refugees - them; austerity - them. They fund MPs too*

Looking right at you from 1775: Jean-Siméon Chardin, portraying himself at age 76. Today was his birthday.

Anyway, my headache, painkillers & acid absorbing gut are not conducive to fine thoughts & the electricity being off is not helping, so I’ll make a grand performance when the lights come back on, all over Dublin!

I have it on good authority that the Department of Arts, Gaeltacht & Arctic Rolls has switched the funding from the Angelus on RTÉ to this new publication to reflect the government’s commitment to ensuring that Ireland will remain a homosexual & feminist utopia. #Craic

It’s funny how when power cuts happen nowadays it’s always building work or roads. In the ‘70s I remember it was strikes, bad weather & less robust supply. Even with one quarter of all of Ireland’s electricity going to data centres! Yes the power is out, I’m guessing it’s a grid connection.

Celebrating the glories of the brioche in 1763 with Jean-Simeon Chardin, who was born on this day in 1699.

Just one little moment from the 1970s. You might think Northern Ireland has moved on, but you’d be wrong. Nowadays the Alliance Party & Sinn Féin have joined with the Unionists in campaigning against Queer ppl. They banned prescriptions for life saving puberty blockers for trans kids*