Rupert MacCarthy-Morrogh

Aurora over county Cork, 19th of January 2026

The old gods are angry

Plus a bunch of crazy Irish monks

Spotify paid us 0.29p per stream, so we exposed its unfair model Streamers are accused of making megastars rich at everyone else’s expense. Now the staunchly independent Los Campesinos! are laying out exactly what they earn

Am I having a stroke or does the Sunday Times have a serious maths problem

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Two people search for fossils

Help scientists at @ucc.ie uncover Ireland’s hidden fossil treasures!

The Great Irish Fossil Hunt is asking members of the public who find any fossils to take a picture and send it to the research team.

Submissions close on 31st August 2025.

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He gets a load of flack here, ranging from the 'stay in your lane' to the 'notions' I think its mostly people not wanting to hear stuff that makes them uncomfortable and that they may have to do something that about. (which they generally won't)

As a sparks (and Colin Robinson fan) I wholly endorse this. No one cares about the quality of PVC tape until you are pulling a 125amp 400v cable in the rain and feel that 'special tingle'

Suzanne Harrington: Trans women are not a threat — there is plenty of room for all TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being

“TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being.”
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

YouTube video by Cool Ideas Unitree G1: The Kung-Fu Robot That Will Roundhouse Kick You to Oblivion 🥋🤖

Unitree G1 has all the moves. We might as well just surrender now:

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I was there pushing a dolly around in a circle like a fairground attraction on the Kerry College stand.

Well if you start on the far right, everyone who isn’t a nazi must be a socialist, if not a full on communist.

They have 12x Torped 62 torpedoes, that'd do.

Its weird, as a life long space geek I find myself chuckling every time his uber rockets explode

Starfleet engineering uniform...

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Graphic for Enterprise Partnership Scheme says 'Opening soon: Enterprise Partnership Scheme (Postgraduate). Call opens: 26th February 2025.

A webinar for the Enterprise Partnership Scheme (Postgraduate) will take place on Wednesday, 26th February at 1pm. The Enterprise Partnership PG scheme is a national initiative linking excellent researchers in all disciplines to enterprise. Register here: https://buff.ly/3QwgcJ3

I was there, you did, I laughed, we all fucking laughed, t'was pure class.

So 3rd term for Obama in 2028....

Worryingly I think the later is most likely

Is that an actual thing?

A French Napoleonic uniform

You are indeed on acid

This is starting to get very very f@cked up.

HH 30 . This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disc that is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud.

Nothing I can say will describe how f@*king cool this is from Webb HH 30 (MIRI & NIRCam image) 🧪(www.esa.int/Science_Expl...)

Man pushing a camera dolly

New toy this week. Disadvantage of being based in a little city on the edge of a small island in the North Atlantic is that there aren't that many facilities for film makers. On the other hand it means you end up being the facility for film makers and get to keep all the fun toys.

I blame Deakins

The player is supposed to not be geo blocked to allow the promotion of the language but nobody told TG4 that ;(

Yup, I had to find it by looking for it in the alphabetical listings

Scéalta Grá na hÉireann | Player | TG4 | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile Following the success of season one, Scéalta Grá na hÉireann is back for a second season. With six new couples and six captivating stories of love and loss set against the backdrop of historic events ...

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