@renebatt.bsky.social
Artist, feeder of two cats,walker of my wife’s dogs, love art, poetry, James Joyce, St.Patrick’s Athletic, Leinster Rugby ( why are my teams so far away from where I live???) I live in Sligo, Nth West of Ireland: where W.B.Yeats is buried.
Good. Now let’s try a hard one:
“ Nu-clear!
Nu-clear. Not “ Nu-cul-ar”
“Nu-clear weapons”…
As you use AI to simplify easy yet mundane tasks, like writing emails, you get increasingly dependent on it.
You get lazy, less skilled, use your brain less, and (you may not want to hear this) get stupider as a result.
Don’t let them take away your ability to think. Stop using it. Now.
Day 2189 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Kisho no Fuji, Nishi Izu" (1937) Kawase Hasui. Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art. This landscape print was created during Japan’s Shōwa era. Framed by delicate cherry blossoms and gentle hills, the sacred mountain Mount Fuji appears calm and luminous against a clear sky,
“What I think is actually important for everybody to understand is that the US has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don’t like the European Union” @kajakallas.bsky.social told @financialtimes.com. “This is a very complicated relationship we are having"
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Iceland, Netherlands join ICJ genocide case against Israel share.google/JCuBWvZxQ1Sv...
Setting Sun, Autumn in Eragny
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Dublin City Council has said that efforts to enforce rules on Bull Island have "proven futile", a remarkable statement.
Would we tolerate people running amok in the National Gallery or at Newgrange? Hardly, so why can't we have rules at important nature sites?
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May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your crotch if you’re using ChatGPT as a search tool.
And the rest of you, have a great Friday!
Israeli warplanes launched strikes on Al-Fawwar neighborhood in Sidon, south Lebanon.
Yes. He was. But that doesn’t invalidate his-and the Commission’s choice of it as the symbol of the New Ireland.
Yeats’s commitment to the success of the post treaty Ireland is often underestimated. He said that his Nobel Prize win was a recognition of the arrival of Ireland on the world stage.
In 1926, as a member of the Irish Senate, W.B. Yeats enthusiastically took charge of the committee designing new coinage for the Irish Free State. Yeats decided the different denominations should be symbolised by different animals (was he consciously thinking of this as the “tails” side?) 1/2
Senator Yeats also chose the harp for the other side, because he wanted “ …no crowned heads or self-important men” on our coins.
The harp is now the symbol of Official Ireland: we are the only nation with a musical instrument as our National symbol, as a result.
Have you started driving? Is this what the post is about?
(“Love” that guy who drives along the Collooney/Coolaney road in a heap that’s been messed with to sound like a 1980’s racing car… it drives my wife’s dog insane!)
This is Summit. He is a friend to pretty much everyone he meets. But has a special soft spot for the little critters who stop long enough for him to say hello. 13/10 (IG: bakerbarnes)
Here’s more of it. “Latest attacks” - by whom? leave nearly 400 dead” - civilians were KILLED, not “left dead”.
Only attribution of actual killing? Oh yes, two Israeli invading soldiers.
This is latest evidence of systemic bias and blame-shifting that is rife in Western media reporting.
Imagine for a moment that an Iranian missile strike had butchered 160 Israeli or US schoolgirls.
It’s be front page news worldwide, we’d see pics of the kids, interviews with their distraught parents etc.
But when innocent victims of US mass murder are “only” Iranian, whoopsies, accidents happen!
omg
Not derelict according to Cork City Council
Because its clearly a work of art
Legends
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
Literally Nazi Behavior!
I’m finishing up an article for 972 arguing that Israel’s goal is to destroy the Lebanese state itself
Meanwhile: “Israel: If you do not restrain Hezbollah, we will attack government infrastructure. The responsibility lies with the Lebanese state."
Lebanon called for direct negotiations with Israel. Israel said no.
Israel knows that Hezbollah will not surrender its weapons under these conditions.
You put two and two together and it is easy to see that Israel wants Lebanon itself destroyed.
Not just Hezbollah. Lebanon itself.
They obstruct the roads so Palestinians won't be able to leave their homes
Then they can easily conduct pogroms in their villages without them being able to escape
This is evil on earth.
"If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.".. (quote Tony Benn).. (cartoon Dave Whamond)
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
Do we actually believe these people will ever change?
Why did we ever allow them near our children?
Out of our schools. Out, out, OUT!
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Irish home heating fuel prices have increased 8 times higher than EU prices have in the last two weeks. Via #sixone
If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about this country I don’t know what will.
Note the absence of Ireland from this list despite government parties committing to do so before the last election...
As Saint Patrick's Day approaches, I would like to know who YOU believe is the English person* most popular with Irish people.
* spudbabies like Steve Coogan and the Gallagher brothers don't count! If the list was all spudbabies it'd make us really, really bad so be cool.
Note: the phrase "700,000 people" refers to 700,000 actual human beings who have been forced to abandon their homes, flee, live in fear and worse.