Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Are you sure it's not Cthulhu?

Allianz Hurling League Live GAA Results stats from RTÉ Sport

www.rte.ie/sport/result...

1. Sligo, 2. Longford, 3. Leitrim, 4. Cavan, 5. Monaghan, 6. Lancashire, 7. Warwickshire

The Allianz Hurling League Division 4 has a couple of interesting counties (at the bottom)

I feel obliged to stand up for the "GenZ" person I know best: he reads very quickly, greatly prefers print to digital, makes notes with pencil and paper, and avoids all social media. IMHO generational generalisation aren't very useful...

(I'm a Boomer, I suppose)

If I understand correctly, Keith Chegwin has lost the Portuguese Presidential Election.

"On this day 100 years ago, The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey premiered at the Abbey Theatre."

Shaun Evans

John Thaw

Shaun Evans (Morse in Endeavour) and a young John Thaw. It's not a perfect resemblance but it's not bad...

Chief Inspector Morse must have been very perplexed in 1997 to see Denis Cornford in "Death is now my Neighbour" looking exactly like a younger version of his old boss Fred Thursday...

Newton Emerson: EU ‘used Ireland as a battering ram’ against Britain. It’s time to repair the damage The implication that Brexit has been a setback for unity runs counter to received wisdom, but it makes sense

The Newton is a unit of force and it seems the Emerson must be a measure of thickness.

I suggest that the Newton Emerson, having the same dimensions as mechanical work, must measure the work done churning out one of these halfwitted opinion pieces.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

The Week in Pictures… The Quickening of the Year Rain Warnings MU Library Cat Peter Mandelson (as seen by Spitting Image) Bad News at STFC P.S. The pink flowers in the first picture in front of the daffodils are examples of Lenten Rose (Helleborus Orientalis), all parts of which plant are poisonous...

The Week in Pictures…

The Quickening of the Year Rain Warnings MU Library Cat Peter Mandelson (as seen by Spitting Image) Bad News at STFC P.S. The pink flowers in the first picture in front of the daffodils are examples of Lenten Rose (Helleborus Orientalis), all parts of which plant are…

10 Years of the Open Journal of Astrophysics The visit of my former PhD student Mateja Gosenca to Maynooth last year reminded me that she was co-author of the very first paper published by the Open Journal of Astrophysics. The date of publication for that paper was 8th February 2016, i.e. excactly10 years ago today. Here is the overlay: In those days OJAp was very much an experiment, and we used a protoptype platform which I had paid a developer to set up but it never really progressed beyond a "beta" version owing to stability and other issues.

10 Years of the Open Journal of Astrophysics

The visit of my former PhD student Mateja Gosenca to Maynooth last year reminded me that she was co-author of the very first paper published by the Open Journal of Astrophysics. The date of publication for that paper was 8th February 2016, i.e.…

As Editor of @ojastro.bsky.social I'm impressed by how many referee reports we get at weekends.

But, folks, you should be taking your weekends off!

Yes, it wasn't a good shot but still it was on target so well done the goalie.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Sketch for “Composition II” by Vasily Kandinsky, 1909
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137333

Only today I realised that the role of investigative journalist Dorothea Frazil in the detective drama series Endeavour was played by Abigail J. Thaw, daughter of John Thaw who played the original Inspector Morse.

Bus home...

He looked different in Star Trek...

A saved penalty in #hurling is quite a rarity but that was one! It always seems like the goalie is facing a firing squad...

#CORvTIP #GAA

I think it may have been raining in Rome.

#ITAvSCO

#SixNationsRugby

SayUncle has really gone downhill recently.

Times report: Allies of Rayner said they believed that Wes Streeting, the health secretary, would be “ruined” by the mass disclosure of all communications with Mandelson in coming months. Streeting and Mandelson were close allies for years.

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

The Week in Pictures… The Quickening of the Year Rain Warnings MU Library Cat Peter Mandelson (as seen by Spitting Image) Bad News at STFC P.S. The pink flowers in the first picture in front of the daffodils are examples of Lenten Rose (Helleborus Orientalis), all parts of which plant are poisonous...

The Week in Pictures…

The Quickening of the Year Rain Warnings MU Library Cat Peter Mandelson (as seen by Spitting Image) Bad News at STFC P.S. The pink flowers in the first picture in front of the daffodils are examples of Lenten Rose (Helleborus Orientalis), all parts of which plant are…

I do like it when students say "thank you" when they leave a lecture. It makes me feel like someone important, such as a bus driver.

Ryan Tubridy announces details of new show with Times Radio Former RTÉ presenter will host a weekend slot on the UK digital radio station

Why so many stories about Ryan fucking Tubridy?

www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

He'll have to find a conscience before he can grapple with it.

Countless numbers? His powers of arithmetic are not very strong!

Puppet with the head of Peter Mandelson and the body of a snake

I think Peter Mandelson's Spitting Image puppet was uncannily accurate:

This one has certainly generated a lot of traffic to the blog!