Will Derham

I never noticed the mosaic during the daylight hours (probably never properly looked). I was wondering if they were a light effect tonight. What a lovely detail.

The zesty lighting atop Liberty Hall this evening #Dublin

(zoom in to appreciate the pattern on the soffit, which I had never noticed before) 🩵

Brad Pitt shooting One For All a thriller about a man racing against time to spend vouchers as they're losing value but hardly any shop he likes will take them.

Pretty much what I was getting at yesterday …

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

Who gets to read or hear us online is decided by algorithms. If speech were truly free, algorithms wouldn’t exist. We’d just see and hear from those we followed in the chronological order they posted things.

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

You can almost say or type what you want, but speech is a two way thing. If nobody can hear you say it, does it even count as speech?

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

“the EC means to strangle free speech by a systemic assault on US companies"

Am I in a minority by thinking that anything posted on any social media platform is more “controlled” speech than free speech?

Every post everywhere is controlled in the way it appears to others.

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

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This series of talks and tastings at Dublin Castle orgsnisec by my brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social colleague Dr Susan Flavin will be excellent. highly recommend signing up

A bloated, much-married, philandering, orange-coloured megalomaniacal narcissist, possibly mentally impaired later in life, Henry VIII died #OnThisDay 1547.

Can nature help stop flooding and are you tipping too much? Podcast Episode · Behind the Story · 28/01/2026 · 35m

Everyone worried about #flooding in #Ireland right now should listen to Professor Mary Bourke on @news.rte.ie “Inside the Story” and then ask your politician why they don’t care about #ClimateChange 🌧️

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James Browne is in FF. Instead of whinging that met eireann didn't give flood alerts he could get off his hole and look around at the lack of action that his party has taken on climate for decades.
There will be more severe, unpredictable flooding. Yet JB and FF are content to nothing

The BM catalogue says 'Tortoise, and separate view of a walled, coastal town in the Veneto' for this by Melchior Lorck, mid-16th century.

I'm sticking with giant flying tortoise myself.

I look forward to reading this - was only discussing it on Thursday evening with some interested friends.

Absolutely charming 👌🏻

Seeing these around Dublin these days is so incongruous 🍊

This is so bloody frustrating 🤨 Why not refurbish what’s already there?! 🤦🏻‍♂️
#History #Heritage #Housing #Ireland

“Girl Going by Trinity in the Rain” (1959) by Una Watters - a wonderful recent acquisition by the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social

The Gallery is open for free every day, and on days like those depicted (such as today), it’s a lovely place to escape from the reality outdoors ☔️
#Art #Dublin #Ireland

Brewing Power: Food and Drink in Sixteenth-Century Dublin Castle is delighted to present a six-part public lecture series exploring how food and drink shaped everyday life, social relationships and authority in sixteenth-century Ireland.

For any of you interested in early modern beer, Dublin Castle, or just history and food in general, this series of talks and tastings I have helped put together might be of interest 🍻🧐
#History #Heritage #Food #Beer #SpeirGorm
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No, but could put you in touch with colleagues there. DM if needs be.

Brewing Power: Food and Drink in Sixteenth-Century Dublin Castle is delighted to present a six-part public lecture series exploring how food and drink shaped everyday life, social relationships and authority in sixteenth-century Ireland.

For any of you interested in early modern beer, Dublin Castle, or just history and food in general, this series of talks and tastings I have helped put together might be of interest 🍻🧐
#History #Heritage #Food #Beer #SpeirGorm
www.eventbrite.com/cc/brewing-p...

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It made me laugh, out loud. Hope it makes you smile.

100% 👌🏻

Nothing on the cartouche in the bottom right corner?

Like a modern day Don Quixote

Yet another reason that all European countries should be pivoting as fast as possible to renewable energy. Even if you don’t care about the climate, energy security (and the cost of energy) should be on your mind when you next vote ☀️
#Europe #Energy #Security

If you haven’t seen the documentary “The Last Emperor” it is well worth a watch. It catches all of the talent, the glamour and the creativity, but also the drama and some of the childish petulance. Such is the world of fashion I surmise.

Quite possibly the funniest thing I have seen this year 🤣
#History #Satire #Trump