Catherine Connolly breeds seagulls and trains them how to rob sandwiches and chips, then releases them into Stephens Green
#smearTheBejaysus #speirgorm

It’s this multiple times a day

There's a reason why there were so many songs about murder.

God, imagine being driven by unevidenced fears of people you've made no effort to understand, making outlandish claims about who they are and what they do, then stoking those fears in others and making it all worse.

And then making a show about witches with Alice Roberts.

“For all his talk of reconciliation, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to accelerate the next wave of nation building has exposed a familiar fault line: when economic ambition collides with Indigenous consent, ambition usually wins,” writes Wendy Kaur. thewalrus.ca/a-subjugation-fi...

In Shrewsbury tomorrow night, 12 Oct, a solo performance of two great ghost stories by M R James - "Casting the Runes" & "The Residence at Whtiminster". Tickets here www.theatresevern.co.uk/shows/whatso...

“Public expression activities” forbidden in this space

UGH

So, over a decade ago, one of the papers, identified the bank account connected to his blog as being in Offaly under Tim O'Keeffe. At the time, it was brushed off as "his friend" by an alleged friend. But he has used the name "Tadgh O'Caoimh" in the years that followed.

Joe Brolly’s crude mysogyny & Ivan Yates “smear campaign” - reminds me of the time that Mick Clifford & others were discussing on Twitter about how women were being too shrill about #repeal & that they should be more composed in demanding basic rights or they’d lose the referendum. #speirgorm

The wonderful @sarahmaintains.bsky.social #speirgorm

llms aren’t doing math, python is doing the heavy lifting, catch the full video exclusively on collide.io/community #largelanguagemodels #aiinternals #machinelearning

Plato didn’t say that shit get the fuck out of here

Famously known for his work as a motivational speaker.

I had entirely forgotten that.

I think it's the way he seems to be looking at the person he wants a divorce from.

Shoutout to one of my fave tweets ever of all time

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

'In Fermanagh, the almost total disappearance of greys and re-emergence of red squirrels is being largely put down to pine martens.' This is a great story.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

How to succeed in business in the #18C #C18th :
1. Obtain government job awarding government contracts
2. Award the contracts to yourself
3. Make sure that when this is noticed you keep the contracts, but get a different lucrative government job, which technically ends the conflict of interest

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"Saying the quiet part out loud doesn’t make it brave; it makes it bleak. It teaches [...] campaigners that integrity is a liability and that reputational violence is a sign of savvy. It tells the public that truth is optional, empathy expendable, and that politics is just performance warfare."

Breaking my social media fast to tell you that the Oregon Humane Society has slashed adoption fees 50% this weekend to offset an intake surge in the aftermath of an animal hoarding raid. Go adopt a new bestie like Miles (link below).

First time I heard starving someone to death was not murder. Seems like a large loophole.

I was counting birds from the car for the #OctoberBigDay this morning when this beautiful Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (Merops leschenaulti) landed very near to me.
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #Ipoh #Perak #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #birds #nature #wildlife