Lauren Beehan

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The full moon against a black sky with some clouds crossing it

The full moon against a black sky with some clouds crossing it

Maybe the real eclipse was the clouds we met along the way...

Stood on a hill for 45min, got stung by nettles, saw only clouds, gave up and went home... and then I turned around in my front garden and there was the effing moon. About three minutes after the main eclipse ended. Typical 😅

A wide shot of the sea with some low waves coming up to the shore, with a hazy low sun in a blue sky

A slightly hazy photo of huge sprays of waves behind the Wild Atlantic Way sign for Ballyheigue Beach. The sea is all churning and frothy and the sky quite cloudy

The difference between high tide on Sunday (left) and Monday...

Huge plume of sea spray as waves hit the sea wall at the end of Ballyheigue beach as more high waves form behind

Two waves clash into a big spray about 10m from the shore. The rest of the sea is very choppy around the railings that normally lead a set of steps down to the beach

A huge wave crashes into spray a little before the shore

A lifeguard's red flag flying against a blue sky

They weren't wrong about the high seas on the Atlantic!

(Off Ballyheigue, Kerry yesterday)

I can hear The Sims loading music just looking at it...

Famine grips Gaza’s largest city and is likely to spread, crisis authority warns amid rapid increase in child malnutrition The world’s leading authority on food crises has said the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restric...

Famine grips Gaza’s largest city and is likely to spread, crisis authority warns amid rapid increase in child malnutrition

www.independent.ie/world-news/m...

(Sorry, my Catalan isn't good enough to reply!).

Explanation here - it was a jokey article about 'bocata culture' and the author argued that saying you were going for a bocata had a different vibe to saying you were going for a bocadillo. Very difficult to translate to English though!

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

The dreaded translation IIRC was a playful article about 'bocata culture'. So it had sentences that would translate literally as 'getting a sandwich isn't the same thing as getting a sandwich or making a sandwich...'

(I think I decided to leave the word 'bocata' in Spanish in the end)

I think, in Spain at least, bocata & bocadillo can both refer to a baguette-style sandwich (which in Ireland I'd call a roll). Bocata is more colloquial though, and I *think* usually refers to a large roll.

And sándwich or emparedado would be the two slices of bread with something in between kind.

Just realised I've reached that paradoxical time of upheaval that comes in every Irish woman's life... simultaneously too old and haggard to be the Rose of Tralee, and too young and sprightly to run for president 😅

This thread is incredible and I can only imagine the chaos if they let Irish people do the same here

Took my post-evening-shift tea out into the garden to watch the #Perseids 🌠

I counted 7 in about 90min, despite the suburban light pollution and the big bright Sturgeon Moon. Only the second time I've ever seen them. Space is amazing (and a bit terrifying. But mostly amazing)

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

This episode gave me flashbacks to my hardest undergrad Spanish translation exam, which featured a text about why a 'bocata' is not a 'bocadillo' and not a 'sándwich' either. (All of those translate to 'sandwich' in an English dictionary)

I still can't order sandwiches in Spain without shuddering 😆

An Instagram follow request from an account called "kroegerchad818" using a photo of Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger as its profile pic

I guess you could say this scammer never made it as a wise man...

I have found my people (standing in the corner of a party telling acquaintances 'No but really, look at his Wikipedia, like obviously he has the band and all, but he's worked on HIV cures, and somehow he's also a pilot, and then there's also the hot sauce thing...')

This is like something from the early 2000s Internet and I kinda love it 🐠

It does make me worry even more about all the things that AI has been rushed into without as scrupulous a process as that one...

This is a really interesting read - even when they actively tried to be ethical and build an AI algorithm that was as fair as possible (to screen welfare applicants...), it still gave flawed results with biases

A yellow full moon rising against a dark sky - it's about halfway up and peeking out from behind the silhouettes of trees on a mountain top

A bright yellow full moon rising against a dark sky - it's almost fully up, but some silhouettes of trees are just brushing the bottom of it

I swear I try to find other things to photograph, but I can't resist a moonrise.

(Or should I say... can't fight the moonlight)

#moon #buckmoon

Screengrab from Google Maps showing the Walkinstown Roundabout labelled as a 4.2 star tourist attraction with 29 reviews

I have so many questions for whoever set the Walkinstown Roundabout up as a tourist attraction on Google Maps - and the reviewers who made it a 4-star attraction...

Though between that and Jimmy Eat World 2 weeks ago, I'm this close to putting on my Converse and bangles and setting myself up at Central Bank again 😅

And I don't know how to describe it, that experience of listening and screaming along to those songs from your teen years that you never expected to hear live, in a room full of people who know them too. A bit surreal...

EN: When I was 16 I discovered a Mexican punk band called Allison on the 2008 Warped Tour compilation album. I listened to them through all my years studying Spanish, before every single college exam.

Never ever ever thought I'd see them live (esp not in Dublin).

But 17 years later... here we are!

Aunque después de eso y Jimmy Eat World hace 2 semanas, yo estoy a punto de ponerme las Converse y las pulseras y instalarme a Central Bank...

Y no sé como describirlo, esta experiencia de escuchar y gritar a esas canciones de tus años adolescentes que nunca esperabas escuchar en vivo, con una sala llena de gente que los conocen también... un poco irreal.

The band Allison on stage in front of a crowd in Workman's tonight

Cuando tenía 16 años, descubrí un grupo de punk mexicano llamado Allison en el compilado de Warped Tour 08. Les escuchaba durante todos mis años de estudios de español, antes de cada examén universitaria.

Nunca en la vida pensé que les viese tocar (mucho menos en Dublín).

Pero 17 años más tarde...

Dare I say it has... passed S7?

The wardrobe malfunction, the ongoing bit about Fatiha & Greg's wedding, Javie Martzoukas, the yoghurt task (worst thing I've ever seen 😅), Rosie misunderstanding so many tasks but still flying it, the TWIST task, the bingo card... It's been SO GOOD #Taskmaster