Colm Mulcahy

I’m a @duolingo user for over 5 years.

For the first time in ages I tried the Irish there.

The AI audio is atrocious and often incomprehensible. Shame on them for dumping the fine native speakers they had earlier.

A total embarrassment.

YouTube video by Paddy Eels - Novocaine For The Soul - Glastonbury Festival 2011

The Eels performing "Novocaine for the Soul" live at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival. Reached #1 on the U.S. Alternative chart and #10 in the UK fifteen years earlier. Song was the opening cut on 1996 album Beautiful Freak. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wqq...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Hundreds rally today at president house in Philadelphia, PA as several organizations are suing the Convicted FElon's executive order about slavery that removed signs about Washington's slaves. People are trying to bring the signs back.
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I think it’s time to bring back physical tickets sold from local guitar and music shops where people line up starting at 4am and you drink coffee and make friends and you never hear the phrase “there are 51,000 people ahead of you”

Kyiv Customs stops 5,000-year-old Trypillian vase illegal export Kyiv customs officers intercepted a Trypillian vase dating to the 5th millennium B.C. in an international mail shipment bound for Switzerland and, after court proceedings, transferred the artifact to ...

And where it was going?
To #Switzerland.

english.nv.ua/nation/archa...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Novel idea - don't ask/encourage/coerce people to use tools that have no verifiable evidence of being effective.

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

I wish I could be a substitute professor. How cool would it be to retire out doing that. You need a week or two or 6, I got you. Available for full semesters or just a few days. I’d love to visit all the campuses and not put extra work on your colleagues.

a man in a terry fox marathon shirt is running on a road . ALT: a man in a terry fox marathon shirt is running on a road .

Terry Fox Gym Class Heroes: We have walked/run 3153 km since October 8, 2025 [represents Atlantic Provinces + Quebec]. We have made it all the way to Hamilton, Ontario. Good running!! Tracking our progress to Terry’s hometown.

We are running for you, Terry ♥️

@terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

YouTube video by Sam Spade Emmylou Harris _ Amarillo 1976 HD

Emmylou Harris with the Hot Band performing "Amarillo" live on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1976. Written by Harris and Rodney Crowell. Opening cut on her 1975 album Elite Hotel. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQMh...

#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

I did the thing! I emailed, cold, the author of a book I liked to tell them it was good, and to say thanks. Know what? That's a good idea. You were all correct. Everyone should do that.

YouTube video by The Magnetic Fields - Topic 100,000 Fireflies

1991 song "100,000 Fireflies" by indie pop band The Magnetic Fields. Vocals by Susan Anway. Written by Stephen Merritt. The band's first single from debut album Distant Plastic Trees. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kRIy...

The urge to quit my job and pursue full time study is REAL this week.

The Little Black Book of Ancient Mysteries: Enigmas, Puzzles and Artifacts from the Dawn of History The Little Black Book of Ancient Mysteries: Enigmas, Puzzles and Artifacts from the Dawn of History - Kindle edition by Mayer, Bob. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Little Black Book of Ancient Mysteries: Enigmas, Puzzles and Artifacts from the Dawn of History.

Coming soon-- over 35 years of research for over 100 titles. Culled from all that. #AncientMystery #ancient amzn.to/4rkNuLZ

YouTube video by BBC Music Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Glastonbury 1998)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds performing "Red Right Hand" live at the 1998 Glastonbury Festival. Used as the theme to British show PEAKY BLINDERS. Song originally on the 1994 album Let Love In. Covered by many including Arctic Monkeys and Laura Marling. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qa-...

I decided to finally try chili crisp a while back. I bought a jar two weeks ago and it's almost gone. Okay, I totally get the hype.

Ate too much cake, goodbye.

Ida B. Wells - Wikipedia

#BlackHistoryMonth Ida B. Wells. Born into slavery, emancipated as a tot, educated, kept her family together after an epidemic, teacher, investigative journalist who described the root causes of racism and lynching, feminist, activist....
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YouTube video by DarkSideOfThe Moog The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God - HD 1080p

The Pogues performing the rousing "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" live at London's The Town and Country Club on St Patrick's Day in March 1988. Title track to their third studio album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Ny...

Black-and-white historical portrait of Dr. Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (1854–1929), the pioneering Dutch physician and women's rights activist, shown in a circular frame with a textured border. She has curly dark hair piled up, a serious expression, and wears a high-necked dress with elaborate floral embroidery on the bodice. As the first woman to officially attend a Dutch university and earn a medical doctorate in the Netherlands (graduating in 1879), she became one of the country's first female doctors. In 1882, she opened the world's first birth control clinic in Amsterdam, advocated for women's suffrage, better working conditions for women, the regulation of prostitution, and international peace efforts.

Dr. Aletta Jacobs was born #OTD in 1854.

+ First woman officially to attend a Dutch university
+ First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879
+ Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882
+ Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns

#WomenInSTEM

Impossible by Degrees: Cohomology & Bistable Visual Paradox The Penrose triangle, staircase, and related ``impossible objects'' have long been understood as related to first cohomology $H^1$: the obstruction to extending locally consistent interpretations arou...

arxiv.org/abs/2602.09313
/Impossible by Degrees: Cohomology & Bistable Visual Paradox/
Lewis Ghrist, Robert Ghrist

YouTube video by Vibracobra23 The Teardrop Explodes - Peel Session 1979

Four-Song Peel Session of Liverpool new wave band The Teardrop Explodes from October 2, 1979. Length: 10:53. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2mrx...

THIS STATUS IS JOY

I have confused
the letters
that were in
the poem

and which
you were busily
scribbling
for a book

Forgive me
they were a pale view
so sad
and so exact

#anagram

YouTube video by Garland Green - Topic Jealous Kind Of Fella

Mississippi-born soul singer and pianist Garland Green has died at 83. Recording with the Revue, Uni and Spring labels from the late 1960s to early 1980s, his biggest hit was 1969 U.S R&B top five hit “Jealous Kind of Fella” #RIPGarlandGreen m.youtube.com/watch?v=4rk4...

YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Ennui Death By Milkfloat - Peel Session 1987

Four-Song Peel Session of Hull punk rock trio Death By Milkfloat from August 9, 1987. Band member Jonny Dawe would later join band Collapsed Lung. Length: 9:11. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEA...

Report: U.S. added nearly $700 billion to national debt in four months - NewsBreak (The Center Square) – The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January

STEALING OUR MONEY!

tRumpstein ADDED $696 BILLION TO THE NATIONAL DEBT OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS ...

Borrowing $94 billion in January alone!!!

100% of Gross Domestic Product! The HIGHEST PERCENTAGE THE NATIONAL DEBT HAS EVER MADE UP OF GDP WAS 106%, and that was immediately following World War II

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#DIBLives One of the first female surgeons in New York city, Gertrude B. Kelly (b. #OTD 1862) worked in slums & tenements where she frequently assisted poor patients. Her experience undoubtedly contributed to the development of her activist political views. www.dib.ie/index.php/bi...