Clodagh Tait

That dangerous tipping point: is this one article or several? Can I avoid losing the run of myself and rein it all back in? Tune in next time...

18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist as depicted with his symbol and with the incipit page.

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51: Irish Evangelary from St. Gall (Quatuor evangelia); 8th century; pp.128, 129 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Turns out that's if you're a knight. Nowadays you can get an act of Parliament, and maybe you don't want to remind parliament of this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrada...

I think to remove the title necessitates some kind of ceremony where the king's cook hacks his spurs off or something, so maybe easiest to just leave it.

Entering Gaza earlier today.

Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.

Will message you a reference to the 91st psalm or Lord's Prayer being pinned to clothing for various purposes.

Is it intended as a charm do you think?

The Lord’s Prayer written on a scrap of paper pinned to a page at the start of a recipe book (Joanna Sudell 1688, Clark Library UCLA)

'odourless and harmless' DDT powder to kill everything from nits to maggots (Church of Ireland Gazette, 1954).

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right

I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

Good plan!

Mary Hanafin gave all the schools a copy of a book on deValera

Angus Dei - he from Glasgow?

Why the long face?

I mean, it's all there in black and white (Church of Ireland Book of Common Prayer, 1878)

How many Books of Common Prayer do I have in this house? About 5.
How many can I find? 0

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

UPDATE: Israel Has Killed 500,000 People In Gaza. That's 24% of the Population. The International Court of Justice must move forward with a trial to determine allegations of genocide against Israel brought by South Africa and other countries.

"If same level of killing & indirect death [as in Gaza] happened in United States proportional to population, roughly 79 million Americans would have been killed... equivalent of every person in entire states of California & Texas, 2 most populous states"

stevendonziger.substack.com/p/update-isr...

Won't someone think of the woke middle-aged

The Privy Council have been dealing with one William Tidman of Dover who was reported for uttering 'certaine lewde speeches ... touching her Majesties privie Counsell'; they examined him and let him off and he went back to Dover and did it again, in the town marketplace! What can you do. 4/

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

"Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back"

(good piece here from @vanbadham.bsky.social )

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Met Éireann opens historic weather transcription project to all - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, is the leading provider of weather information and related services for Ireland.

If anyone has some time to help out in transcribing old, handwritten weather records.

www.met.ie/met-eireann-...

How do you carry an extremely long baby? Just stick him under your oxter and off you go.

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

'the importance of petitioning as a prosaic, everyday feature of early modern governance'

Don't have time to read this new article by @allankennedy.bsky.social right now but keen to learn more about the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Scotland! 🗃️

#OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1080/0260...

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

Congratulations!

It was a lot to live up to I guess.

The Belgian ambassador presenting his credentials to the Irish president. He's tall!