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YouTube video by Avie Sheck Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

A Rarity Reclaimed: Stolen Stradivarius Recovered After 35 Years For decades, virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg played his prized Stradivarius around the world. Then one day in 1980 it was snatched. Gone. But in June, the FBI called his daughter with news.

Mine is the theft of the Ames violin it’s almost too perfectly a moral lesson. Student steals rare Stradivarius violin from teacher* at school, but can never publicly perform with it, occasionally plays it locked in room alone for decades

*Nina Totenberg’s father Roman
www.npr.org/2015/08/06/4...

@juliethecranky.bsky.social now here's a brooch!
#brooch

Bagsy rounding up the cuties... seahorses, fritillaries, hedgehogs, snowdrops ... though they'll probably all be eaten by the hedgehogs anyway...sort of reality bites 😀

Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

Yes, by 1000. I don't want to listen to your podcast either. I read far faster than you can speak.

All that lovely unexploded ordnance in Beauforts Dyke acknowledged as a risk factor then - along with the geoeng & political factors ...

Archive on 4 - How the Muppet Show Began in Britain - BBC Sounds Louise Gold celebrates The Muppet Show’s anarchic birth in Britain in the mid-1970s.

If you have BBC access and haven't yet heard this it's worth a listen
Source: BBC share.google/zV0goAvrCEPt...

A promotional image for the book, Steel-Plate Subversive, based on the front cover. The background is the surface of the sea at night, the view is from above, looking down at the deck of a small, steel-grey submarine, cutting diagonally across the lower half of the frame. The hatch in the low-profile turret is open. A bearded white man in a green woollen jumper and brown flat cap is standing waist-deep in the open hatch, holding up a Thompson submachine gun. He’s lit from below by the red light inside the submarine. The title is in orange below the hatch, and my name is in white below that. In the top half, against the dark water, the text reads: ‘The Black and Tans, brutal squads of men with little or no police training, committing random acts of violence.

'Little more than mercenaries, these ex-soldiers became known as the Black and Tans, the nickname inspired by their improvised uniforms. With little or no police training, these men were prone to using violence to get things done, and quickly developed a reputation for brutality.'

Visiting the teeniest, tiniest, sweetest, most romantic, saddest, dotiest wee Chapel in Ireland (and possibly the second smallest in the world) the Costello Memorial Chapel in Carrick-on-Shannon #Leitrim #Ireland. Gorgeous

For the day that's in it, an important woman from Irish literature, long before the time I came to Ireland. I knew about the old one-punt note with Queen Medb, but I hadn't realised that the reverse features a facsimile of Lebor na hUidre p. 77b (www.isos.dias.ie/ga/RIA/RIA_M...), an excerpt...
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Daily Spell is amusing

Appeal for citizen scientists to track oystercatchers The Marine Institute is seeking the help of "citizen scientists" to track the movements of oystercatcher birds in Dundalk Bay.

www.rte.ie/news/regiona... #birds

But I need to specifically be adored by one nice man aged 33-38 in Kerry who'll occasionally have the dinner put down for me

@musicologyduck.bsky.social

a blockbuster store with a man walking in front of it Alt: a blockbuster store with a man walking in front of it

Life tip: If you miss going to video libraries and borrowing videos or dvds, I'm delighted to tell you that *actual* libraries have dvds, *and* you can reserve films to borrow (whether they're new or old).

*Additionally* they have loads of films that aren't on streaming.

This is one for all the #WomeninSTEM. If you are happy to, could you share some of the more awkward and unusual questions you have been asked? The ones your male colleagues would never be asked.

I'm running an event @helmholtz.de with the awesome Michelle Browne for #IDWAGIS

A tale about the Russian Crown Jewels
@juliethecranky.bsky.social
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Thanks for this @musicologyduck.bsky.social a for real #Storytime

What rewatching ‘The Wire’ taught me about nostalgia for a lost America The best show to understand the Trump era turns out to be the best show of the pre-Trump era

‘The Wire asked us, what happens to a society where you can break the rules and get away with it? The real world gave us the answer. The best show to understand the Trump era turns out to be the best show of the pre-Trump era.’
www.ft.com/content/0e86...

@berniemccarthy.bsky.social @craftyirishwoman.bsky.social
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Please share #Speirgorm

Oh these are almost perfect matches! Meath and Italy are both steeped in history and culture while also administratively tortured by bitter regional divides.

Waterford and Denmark are both full of vikings!

Belgians and Offaloonatics both love chocolate and filling in forms.

Then: constitutional law should be boring, not exciting.

Now: constitutional law should be boring, not terrifying.

A4 manuscript with ‘The Window, Catherine Crichton, December 2025’ printed on the cover. Another document headed ‘Stairwell Books’ can just be seen lying underneath.

Photo of a highly detailed stained glass window with glowing colours. It’s divided into eight panels and depicts scenes from early 20th century Irish literature. Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window.

I can hardly believe it, but I have found a publisher. My novel, about stained glass artist Harry Clarke’s ill fated final masterpiece, is due to publish early next year with @stairwellbooks.bsky.social
So happy.

The Boyne, flowing through Meath in Ireland. You can’t walk along its banks for long without falling over one site or another of ancient significance, including some of the oldest buildings in the world. I wrote a time travel ghost story set with a corpse on a boat on the Boyne for this anthology.

Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft When the 50-year-old Voyager probe stopped sending messages home, Nasa had a problem. No one remembered how to fix it

‘My dad worked on Voyager, and there are all these boxes in our garage. Do you want me to mail them to you?’

This heartwarming story about Voyager 1 is what we all need this weekend
on.ft.com/3WxOMoC

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.

Once upon a time, Europe was at war.

Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers.

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

@juliethecranky.bsky.social Thoughts?