Geraldine Lavin

The Catherine Connolly campaign has reignited my urge to learn Irish. I have the Now You're Talking book and tapes from 25 odd years ago, but of course no tape player. Someone has handily converted the tapes to audio files you can listen to here: www.tripswithkevin.com/irish-on-you... #speirgorm

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

Kurt Vonnegut

Just epic!

Daniel O’D with t-shirt with a photo of CMAT wearing a t-shirt with his face on it!

Your timeline is hereby thoroughly cleansed.

Great shot from Edward. And my hawk moth version from 2005.

So that's it then. The biggest fish kill in the history of the State, and we're just going to move on, with no idea who or what caused it?

It would be better to label it a river kill.

Some major polluter is today breathing a sign of relief, while the river Blackwater remains half dead.

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& interesting that the editors choose to headline it?!

Oh man. I miss when propaganda felt a little inspirational 💀

Wouldn't it be great if we could hand experienced, expert investigators large pots of money (congrats!) and let them focus their efforts on that study rather than expecting them to immediately start looking for more money? Do funders really believe the FTEs they are told? What are we doing?

Do funders understand what it takes to be an excellent researcher?!

Rainbow in a dark sky.

Well I never... a rainbow appeared before sunrise, created just by the light of an orange and red glow in the east. There's a first time for everything. I've certainly never see such a thing before.

I'm trialling a new work schedule: I'll be working compressed hours in September, i.e. an hour longer Mon-Thu, and half-day on Fridays. Let's see how it goes. If you have any experience with this kind of work schedule, please share. What are common pitfalls/benefits & how well does it work for you?

If you wait long enough to cook dinner, everyone will eat cereal.

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Mariam Dagga, a journalist killed yesterday by the IDF left behind two sets of instructions: that her colleagues not cry at her funeral, and asked her 11-year-old son to make her proud.
Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.

Patriotism is about caring for your fellow citizens – all of them, not just the ones who buy peerages. It is about decently funding our national institutions and investing in our collective futures. It involves delivering a full and enriching education for the next generation, and providing decent care and respite for the elderly and vulnerable. It’s about ensuring we have a capable and well-founded health service, a justice system that is open to all – and which applies equally to all. Patriotism is about ensuring equality of life chances, and the possibility of a home and a family. It recognises that it doesn’t matter what colour, faith, gender or sexuality you are: every person in Britain is equally British, and division demeans us all. But simply being British isn’t enough. We live on this planet with billions of other people, and we have to make it work. So patriotism is building sound and convivial relationships with our neighbours and allies. It is tackling global climate change in congress with the entire world, not seeking ways to screw our rivals and condemn our grandkids to a terrifying heat death. Patriotism is about crushing corruption and fostering decency, rather than the other way around. Those things are patriotic. Not flags. Fuck your flags. Flags are just the wrapping paper around those things, and nothing more. Yet increasingly they’re wrapped around a hollowed-out nation.

Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.

Absolutely brilliant 👇😀😀😀

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

sunset over a Lema Ranch pond

I'm thinking 1 decent #LemaRanch pic deserves another. Here's a #cloudscape #reflection for #WetWednesday

#nature #outdoors #ponds #sunset

This is my education & training starter pack. Let me know if I’ve missed you or another a/c & I’ll edit the pack
go.bsky.app/2UEaY6G

#Education #Training #StarterPack #LearningAndDevelopment #LandD

#WordlessWednesday

Or Ireland 🤭 Waiting to do Griffeen parkrun 😬

"Hi, Momma... Hello, my dear. Mom, I'll come home and protect you, take care of you. Try to forget all the bad things, please..." — the first call of a #Ukrainian Defender returned from Russian captivity to his mother.

📹: Ombudsman of Ukraine

❗️⚡️Ukrainian Defenders return from Russian captivity!

If the Union is incapable of wielding such hard power as it has - and it’s strongest in trade and regulation - it has no shadow of hope of developing or wielding other more traditional tools of hard power in the defence of itself and its member states.

Seems like if you have as much money as Chan and Zuckerberg do, more money than thousands of people could spend in all their lifetimes, you should probably be able to find a way to make the world a better place rather than screwing over children who are already struggling

I am so over billionaires

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

Trump Wants to Cut the Kind of Cancer Research that Saved My Life More than 600,000 Americans will die from cancer this year. Trump's cuts to medical and other scientific research will have devastating consequences for millions more.

Trump Wants to Cut the Kind of Cancer Research that Saved My Life
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...