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The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

An empty notebook is pregnant with possibility and hope, a £9.99 paperback might just be a glimpse into someone else’s misery or genius!

Bumping this - if you're in Dublin next Weds, and you're interested in contemporary Irish music, politics and culture. I'd love to see you at my book launch. A book that's already a bargain will be available at an even more enticing price!

“There’s no escaping it.”

Full conversation on YouTube!

DCC Cllr Gavin Pepper left a space by racist bigot Mick O'Keeffe last night, as it was too racist for him - shocker!

So he took his football home and runned away from the nasty boys...

I wonder if he's on notice from DCC. If not, then why not??

I love people’s “everyday carry photos.”

Just get a decent old Canon Powershot that shoots RAW!

Obviously you are less subtle with photos but probably more mindful too then.

Has anyone found a decent way to synch music from a Mac to a dumber android? I usedta use Media Monkey on a PC for it - but no similar tool for a Mac. It’s my big complaint.

Listening to Morning Ireland.

“Boots on the ground.”
“Into the weeds.”

If the housing crisis was going to be solved through oft repeated cliches this country would be in fine fettle.

Oh

“Job of work!”

The movement grows....

👇🏻

Happy may day to the workers of the world, pagans doing funny dances, and just generally anyone else having a good time today

Experimenting with a dumber old android flip phone. Have it set up for Tidal, mp3s get dumped on an SD, WhatsApp works. I keep my iPhone in a pencil case like a tablet and use it when I need to. Google wallet works off line for payments in shops etc if needed. In emergencies I can tether.

Such a great doc from @rasherst.bsky.social and crew. Getting me sceitimíní for Open Ear 2025! So grateful to the Open Ear crew for the opportunity to compose my piece, 'NEST', for the 2024 festival and perform it in the amazing Franciscan Friary on Sherkin.

More news coming on NEST next week! :))

YouTube video by Open Ear Island Rules: A Rewind To Open Ear 2024 On Sherkin.

Dropping at NOON! With just over a month to go until the 2025 edition kicks off, here's a documentary rewind to some of that golden summer magic from last year's Open Ear Festival on Sherkin.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-z...

Violet Gibson | Player | TG4 | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile The story of Irish woman Violet Gibson who shot and almost assassinated Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926.

Excellent Irish-language documentary on her by TG4:

www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...

I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.

We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?

Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.

I was actually thinking the opposite recently.

Then was left waiting in the airport for an hour for one to go back into town.

Like seriously, WTF sort of service is this for a capital airport?

Going out has always been fine for me.

Chronic crap like this from the IT forced my hand to put my subscription into a podcast like Tech Won’t Save Us rather than funding this absolute dinner party contrarianism. So dull. So boring. So vapid.

I wish there was some fancy economic term for when a person deliberately lowers the price of every single stock on the planet before then raising them all with a wave of their hand, in a manner you might say would grant immediate, near-infinite wealth to anyone informed of such plans beforehand.

It’s like one of those whacked out world building moments at the start of a 1980s dystopian sci-fi. The next scene is some lad called Snake being helicoptered off in shackles for refusing to follow orders and massacre a BLM demo.

IT.podcast.s14e02: Craig Gonzalez Ahead of the work we are doing with Detroit veteran Craig Gonzalez this year, here is a mix he’s done exploring new rhythms and soundscapes. We thought it would be prudent to share a mix of one of his

One of Detroit's most venerable, Craig Gonzalez, breaking new ground exploring "the sonic space between techno and drum & bass." Fresh stuff from I.T. HQ.

On the bleeding edge, pushing the sound forward. #TheOverload

The correct answer is to save embarrassment and ask them to collect them at the desk themselves!

This is beyond funny. Really sums up the hubris of the techbro’s solutionism. Here’s to scanning The Book Of Kells so we can have tourists pay to look at a PDF and save cash on silly preservation techniques.

Solidarity with Richard as he faces into cancer treatment over the coming months.
We will do our best to keep his seat warm for him while he's gone.
Our members in Dún Laoghaire and elsewhere will be continuing to campaign and put forward our ecosocialist alternative✊
#PeopleBeforeProfit

My auld lad would basically have a hierarchy of clothes. The “good suit” would become the everyday trousers wear at some point. Maybe with a softer cotton shirt. Never wore jeans in his life.

I’m sure Adobe Podcast AI can help.

Tarreeeeeeeeeeeef! TARRIF! Come in here, yer dinner’s ready!

Very apt. Given since plastic has such a bad name now the old world seems to think absolute thrash and disposable crap is fine if it’s for a bit of bamboo in it. Anyone for a bamboo torch or toilet brush?

Oh great. Lots of miserable people are being forced back to the office and traffic is rotten. What good news. At least the property overlords are happy! Whoopie.

I’d love to hear of a different iPhone App for doing so. Apple Music links to Recordbox for anyone who digitally DJs, so there’s an element of being trapped with that tool. I usedta use Media Monkey when with Android.