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Coriander and hummus products recalled over listeria The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has issued a recall alert for a number of potted coriander products along with a single hummus product due to the possible presence of listeria monocytogenes.

All this Listeria might cause people to panic and become listerical.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/08...

The Nazi camps were hidden from the world, but as @susanabulhawa.bsky.social writes, “Israel is committing the holocaust of our time, and it is doing it in full view of a seemingly indifferent world.”

Cricket Limbo

Since moving to Ireland I haven't seen much cricket, though I do follow some games on the internet and watch the highlights from time to time. Yesterday's final-day victory by India over England by just six runs at the Oval brought to an end an excellent series of five Test matches,…

People don't understand extremely large numbers so when teaching Astronomy you have to use comparisons and illustrations.

One that I use a lot is that there are more galaxies in the observable Universe than there are episodes of Midsomer Murders.

...or possibly John Ellis.

It's obviously just an old tablecloth with a picture of Billy Connolly on it...

Autumn Repeats I’d welcome comments for or against whether resits/repeats should be capped/uncapped and on what practice is adopted in your institution.

Autumn Repeats

I’d welcome comments for or against whether resits/repeats should be capped/uncapped and on what practice is adopted in your institution.

Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

a woman stands in front of a whiteboard with the words " there are some changes " ALT: a woman stands in front of a whiteboard with the words " there are some changes "

Much earlier than in previous years, I already have some idea what my teaching timetable will be for the forthcoming semester.

We used to call this "Tea". Any food later than that was "Supper".

"Dinner" was only for posh people.

This is absurd. Everyone knows FTM means Fourier Transform Method.

‘It’ll be carnage’: why Sydney Sweeney’s risky political moment may backfire Hollywood star’s ‘more is best’ attitude to commercial tie-ins is one thing, but politics and celebrity rarely mix well

Actress I'd never heard of admits to being really horrible person...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Damping Wing-Like Features in the Spectra of High Redshift Quasars: a Challenge for Fully-Coupled Simulations" by Nick Gnedin & Hanjue Zhu (University of Chicago, USA)

doi.org/10.33232/001...

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Spectroscopic Analysis of Pictor II: a very low metallicity ultra-faint dwarf galaxy bound to the Large Magellanic Cloud" by Andrew Pace (U. Virginia, USA) and 32 others based in the USA, UK, Canada, Chile and Spain

doi.org/10.33232/001...

Lá Saoire i mí Lúnasa

Today, Monday 4th August 2024, being the first Monday in August, is a Bank Holiday in Ireland. This holiday was created by the Bank Holiday Act of 1871 when Ireland was under British rule. While the August Bank holiday was subsequently moved to the end of August in England…

No more proper cricket until September, when the County Championship resumes. All because of The Hundred...

As Laundry Umpire, I have determined that there is enough of a breeze to make for good drying conditions, but not so much wind as to send my washing flying into next door's garden.

That was quite a finish! Well played #India!

I think a drawn series is a fair result actually..

#ENGvIND

Lá Saoire i mí Lúnasa

Today, Monday 4th August 2024, being the first Monday in August, is a Bank Holiday in Ireland. This holiday was created by the Bank Holiday Act of 1871 when Ireland was under British rule. While the August Bank holiday was subsequently moved to the end of August in England…

Weekend Water Worries My heart sank a little last week when I received notice that Uisce Éireann would be doing major repairs to a main water pipeline in the Greater Dublin area over this bank holiday weekend. The plann…

telescoper.blog/2025/08/03/w...

RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community

‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/

I've done my bit by drinking only wine this weekend.

The hate-group LGB Alliance is instigating a pile-on against ally pub the Lion and Lobster in Brighton.

Any way you can, please show them support

Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm Company says extra payments relating to work for Kelda Holdings were covered by shareholders not billpayers

England's water companies circumvent rules on exec pay.

Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm.

UK company law is weak The payment not disclosed in annual accounts.

End the circus. Nationalise water.

Uisce Éireann completes repairs on major pipeline that serves Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow Specialist teams worked through Friday and Saturday night to replace 35 metres of damaged pipeline and repair five leaks.

Fair play to them. Job done, and despite the warnings I noticed no disruption.

www.thejournal.ie/uisce-eirean...

On this day, August 3rd, 1916, Roger Casement was executed at Pentonville prison in London for treason. 1/3

Avi Loeb is the perfect argument against tenure. He brings shame on the Harvard astronomy department every time he opens his mouth, and Harvard can't do anything about it.

If you need a definition of "woke", this is it...

I feel the same, but with physics rather than chemistry...

The word "earn" is the problem here...