@iamreddave.bsky.social
Irish data nerd.
Everyone has their Dublin character that they miss - like "Bang Bang" for example.
For me it would be Pat Ingoldsby. Had some truely wild conversations with him years back.
youtu.be/hAuIRGIXW4I
Happy St Brigid's weekend! To celebrate we bring you a journey through Europe w/Prof. Jean-Michel Picard, UCD. He has unreal stories of hunting down manuscripts (incl. Napoleon & nazis!) & helps us understand the appeal of Brigid in lands far from Kildare! #brigid open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4...
30.01.2026 11:16 β π 38 π 18 π¬ 3 π 0en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimon...
Antimony is a powerful laxative.
In the 19th century people would buy a small pill made of it, every time someone in your family was sick they'd swallow it, shit their brains out, then wash it off and put it back in the medicine cabinet.
People would inherit them
Screenshot from Irish Times article: "The researchers said the high volume of rain that fell in the seven days up to and including Storm Chandra turned the heavy but βnot particularly remarkableβ rainfall into a βdevastatingβ flood event. They found the magnitude of the rainfall over the full week was 9 per cent greater than it would have been in the cooler Earth that existed before climate change. βWe would have expected similar seven-day rainfall to happen once in every 150 years,β they said." #Ireland #Climate #Environment
Truly feels like we're sleepwalking into our own annihilation
30.01.2026 07:22 β π 264 π 75 π¬ 14 π 2
They told us our music was worth nothing. Now they say it's worth 13 trillion. Class action? www.nme.com/news/music/s...
30.01.2026 07:53 β π 29 π 10 π¬ 0 π 2
Interesting video youtu.be/UP4nXlKJx_4?...
29.01.2026 19:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
this is still the best hellsite post ever tho
29.01.2026 15:31 β π 2192 π 766 π¬ 6 π 6
Brigid performs an abortion
The miracles of St Brigid are brilliantly odd. From Cogitosus' Life of St Brigid translated by Liam De Paor
29.01.2026 11:59 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
From Cogitosus' Life of St Brigid translated by Liam De Paor in case the prove it crowd arrive
29.01.2026 11:47 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Met a very optimistic racist earlier who told me Ireland is half full
29.01.2026 09:21 β π 56 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0
Portrait format in acrylics on mat board. View down urban lane with backs of buildings on the left, 2 redbrick terrace houses facing out on the right, and a single-story rear entrance to pub straight ahead. Loosely painted. Road surface is warm grey with, on left, double yellow lines and dark green parked car seen from behind, and on right, several silver/grey cars facing forwards and backwards. A black horizontal sign runs along the top of the pub with in faint orange letters are the words, Frank Ryan & Son. Below the sign a dark blue canopy extends over the door and window. Behind the dark green of the rear of pub are the backs of three and four story buildings, white on left and brown brick on right, with a jumble of architectural features like balconies and extensions. The sky is cloudy pale yellow-grey. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly
Have a #painting from a few years ago. The name of this street in Dublin is "Coke Lane", and it's just off Smithfield. That's a fine pub down there but I've always liked the lane in and of itself, so I painted it. #art #SpeirGhorm
29.01.2026 00:00 β π 82 π 14 π¬ 2 π 0
Design rant: when cars move from analog shift levers to digital, they maintained the order of reverse, neutral, drive. But Park is no longer on top so you enter this trifecta in neutral effectively. as a result you push the lever forward to go backwards and pull the lever backwards to go forward.
28.01.2026 17:11 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 4 π 0Convert the burns to a rocky horror style script
28.01.2026 12:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My friend runs Nottingham data science. Is that too far south? Or do you want an intro in case you can share speakers etc
28.01.2026 11:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
When it rains, it now rains more.
For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall.
And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.
Ah, thanks!
27.01.2026 20:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social sorry fixed some spelling
27.01.2026 20:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Stanley eventually went blind (from the disease) and Tallulah sent him a statue of her she had. "So he could still see her by touching her".
You see stories of her affairs, drug addictions and STIs but I've never seen her kindness to a very ill fan outside of this book.
Don't fence me in is the book it's on Google books
Tallulah Bankhead with Stanley stein
Leper is still a synonym for an order to be shunned. But we can't even imagine how reviewed they were at the time.
One inmate plucked up the courage to write Tallulah fan letters. She not only replied to invited him to visit her
Tallulah Bankhead was famous as the most hard partying Hollywood actress ever.
But there's an amazing story about her in the history of Americas last leper colony 1/
It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
27.01.2026 11:01 β π 107 π 42 π¬ 3 π 4
Experience the Mystical Music of Hildegard Von Bingen: The First Known Composer in History (1098 β 1179)
27.01.2026 08:23 β π 42 π 14 π¬ 0 π 2OMFG that's amazing!
26.01.2026 17:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Made a little bath corgi PSA from the drawingsππ
(Please excuse terrible voiceover quality, I recorded it on my crappy phone.)
Sea Corgis
C's latest leaflet raised new and troubling questions
25.01.2026 11:03 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland.
Tell your friends. This isnβt just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.
News anchor shocked by corgi reporter
25.01.2026 11:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
News show
There's now a corgi reporter
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