Flooding reported in Bantry this morning and the OPW river level sensor shows highest water level since sensor started 3 years ago. Water level has dropped now.

A white and brown bunny sits next to a carved pumpkin with triangular eyes and a jagged mouth, outside in a fenced area.

I think to taint ESA being ‘sinister’ is a tatt hyperbole. Especially if compared to other governmental organisations across the pond.

..and Paul Simon's "You can call me Al" is still the best video of all times.

Thank you.

So, goodbye MTV. I will miss you. I watched you in awe in the early eighties when I visited the States, and I remember how excited I was when the advent of cable zapped it directly into my room in continental Europe. Ray Cokes and Kristiane Backer were my VJ heroes,
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Theresa Reidy: Catherine Connolly's victory has lessons for the Government, the left, and future candidates The election result sends a sharp warning note to the Government

Writing about what the presidential vote means in Irish Examiner today. Green shoots for the left, bad news for the government and warning signs from a potentially undemocratic far-right.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Happy to share a new peer-reviewed study on PubMed. Blessing eggs creates bigger and tastier chickens (p < 0.001). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035978/

That sounds quite like Williams' 'Leia's Theme' from Star Wars...

A gray and white bunny peeks over red bricks amidst vibrant pink flowers and lush green foliage.

Scribus is awesome. Worked very well when I was still editing a magazine.

Associate Professor of Cosmology at University of Oxford Recruiting now: Associate Professor of Cosmology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Cosmologists! We have a faculty job going here in Oxford - happy to answer questions. Brief version is that this remains a great & collaborative place to do science and the students are superb. 🔭 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP628/a...

Agree.

Mariner 9 narrow angle camera of Olympus Mons' central caldera. This image was among the first images to confirm that Olympus Mons was a volcano - the largest known in the Solar System. This image was taken on Mariner 9's 148th orbit around Mars, March 7, 1972. Image Credit: NASA / JPL / Justin Cowart

Mariner 9 - Olympus Mons Caldera - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/22JUAxQ

A true generation X problem.

After years of trying, I am now splitting the morning between BBC Radio 3 (classical music, very little talking, no commercials) and WDR 4 (no commercials, classic tracks from 70s and 80s, lacks the annoying artificially cheerful verbal bombardment from stations such as BBC 1 or 2).

Good morning Bluesky. Little query: what do you feel are the live radio streams most conducive to a happy relaxed working environment in the home office? Let's limit it to French, Dutch, English and German language stations.

Fair enough. Still, get one of your old machines out and give it a spin…..

You might want to give it a try. The quality and featureset of open source rendering and graphic design software available on Linux is astounding.

This is rather remarkable.

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

The amount of organisational memory and scientific knowledge shed in US academia at present is staggering and hard to comprehend. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility

I continue to not understand the current American administration’s war on science. Do you make America great again by dismantling the most impressive scientific machine ever? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

44mm on the Sheep's Head so far.

This is a shock, Jane Goodall (1934-2025) has died. One of my dad’s cousins knew her & would regularly give me updates on her adventures & chimps. She was a great force for good & part of my childhood. 91 is a good age, but it’s personal when your heroes die.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam

Maybe all the energy & water use would be worth it if we were getting major benefits like cures for diseases and saving endangered species

But we're wasting our drinking water and paying higher electricity bills for deepfake revenge porn, shitty ad voiceovers, cheating on term papers, & MechaHitler

Most people with DLD don't even know they have DLD!
Often they were told as children that they'd grow out of it. But DLD is a lifelong difficulty with understanding and using words and sentences.
Be part of the change!
#DLDday
#DevLangDis
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Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

Excellent long read on the effects of a fibre glass cable being destroyed in a remote and infrastructurally challenged part of the world. Recommended read. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics Trump's Far-Right Allies in Germany: Is History Repeating Itself?

Excellent interview with Gerald Knaus about the ultra-right's *pan-European* (& US-American) approach to destroy the democratic institutions that have secured peace & prosperity for 80 years.
It's all the same problem. The same approach.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIAu...

Painting of a geometric polychrome Roman mosaic with floral design within a central roundel

In 1971, a late 4th century AD mosaic was found at #Halstock in #Dorset

This painting, by Stephen Cosh, was made for the @antiquaries.bsky.social (Roman mosaics of Britain vol II 2005)

The original was reburied and sadly can no longer be seen

A lost little masterpiece for #MosaicMonday

But is it?