AI knows about that scar on your left knee...

Lankum share haunting cover of The Specials' 'Ghost Town' | Nialler9 Lankum have released a once-off single a cover of The Specials' 'Ghost Town' which was originally written for a dance show.

Lankum share haunting cover of The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’
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50 min integration, ASI 2600 MC and GT 81 scope. 100x30s exposures

15 min integration, 60x15s exp, Samyang 135mm @f/2.8, Canon DSLR

Finally got a chance to image Comet Lemmon last night: cloud and sheer ill-luck has plagued attempts over the last month.

The Moon and the low elevation made it tough, as did my guiding camera refusing to work. Still, a nice way to say goodbye to this icy visitor. #astrophotography

From The People Newspaper 1936 STRAP-HANGING BY PLANE/ PASSENGERS' PLIGHT From Our Own Correspondent Cork, Saturday. MR. L O'SHAUGHNESSY, of Kilfinane, County Limerick, had a terrifying experience when he went for his first aeroplane ride with his brother in a demonstration plane at Tipperary O'Shaughnessy did not use straps with which people are ordinarily strapped into the machine and when at 3,000 feet the pilot manœuvred the machine for an upside-down flight he was pitched out of his seat. Just as he was almost out of the plane he grabbed two leather straps and held on for dear life. As soon as the machine was righted again he scrambled into the seat and thanked heaven for his marvellous escape. But worse was to come, for the pilot was unaware that his passenger was not strapped in, and up he went for more height and then looped the loop. Out O'Shaughnessy was pitched again, but managed to hold on to the straps. That was bad enough, but when he was once more congratulating himself that the worst was over the loop operation was repeated twice. Every moment that O'Shaughnessy was hanging on for grim death he thought would be his last. Still when he landed he did not seem at all dismayed by his adventure and said he would go up again, but next time he will be certain that he is properly strapped in.

Some absolutely incredible things being discovered in family archives this evening… including this absolute BATSHIT story about how my grandfather and namesake very nearly didn’t live long enough to sire my father or any of his siblings. 🤯

Letter from Kurt Vonnegut to high school students - "Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all! Kurt Vonnegut"

The Kurt Vonnegut letter to those high school kids is never wrong -

Cosmogramma

The #cowcushion is now listening to... #flyingLotus #vinyl

Nick Cave & the bad seeds

The #cowcushion is now listening to... #ghosteen #vinyl

Shoutout to one of my fave tweets ever of all time

Eno Byrne

The #cowcushion is now listening to... My life in the bush of ghosts #Eno #Byrne

Just add fruit

Some next-level marketing going on here...

Well don't I feel stupid

Was just reminded of the beautiful Robot and Sparrow comic from 20 odd years ago and lo and behold the author/artist has put the whole thing online. Make a cup of tea, get a biscuit and settle down mrjakeparker.substack.com/p/the-robot-...

It was when we stopped being able to degauss the monitor. All these problems, too much gauss.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Cloudsplash

Healy pass descent

Gour

Road to Allihies

Some pics from the #TourDeBeara last weekend. Plenty of climbing but worth the effort!

Sparrowhawk

Sparrowhawk throwing shapes at our glass screen

I wrote a Gist on this last time:

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...

“It was only when the Dutch spy agency actually came out and warned their own government it threatened the country's own cybersecurity that they flipped from support to abstain and the Hungarian plan lost its majority.”

Rigging up my coffin so whenever anyone approaches it at the funeral it plays a recording of me going "waaaay, there he is! They'll let anybody in here these days"

A blue/yellow nebula illuminated by a blue star

Just having a quick look at some of the test/shakedown data I took on Thursday night, after my long imaging hiatus.

This is IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula. It's illuminated by the variable star AE Aurigae, a runaway star kicked out of the Orion Nebula 2 million years ago. #astrophotography

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Airborne kitesurfer

#kitesurfing really taking off in Tramore today

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Film poster for A Revel, showing a giant chocolate monolith

My new favorite song about hydraulic jacks

Brilliant stuff.

This is an intriguing idea... must test it out!

Copper coast

Some interesting parts of the coastline you only get to see by sea... #kayak

Windows was better when Eno did the music and Beckett did the popups