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Lean left • Tom is fine • Far from the west of Ireland now • Fond of cats, jazz, old films, paintings, poetry, stout, & Sylvia • Sylvia most of all 🎷🧵 https://tinyurl.com/3bvnbyfb 🎬🧵 https://tinyurl.com/47stke59 • https://tinyurl.com/2jan4tzd

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · Jul 8

My wife, Sylvia, died this morning. 💔

“When the door
scraped shut, it was the end
of all the sounds there are.

You left me
beside the quietest fire in the world.”

Sylvia & Lily (Cork, Ireland, July 2007)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3h

“He [Kismet] is my family. He is absolutely fabulous, but you know, he can’t do the shopping or put out the bins.”

‘He is my family’: Woman living with MS says her rescue cat helps her stay positive

Mim Greene’s cat, Kismet, also suffers from ill health, and the Irish Blue Cross was able to treat him

www.irishtimes.com

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 3h

Issue 4 of my newsletter, this one a commonplace book issue full of quotes about parents and children, went out yesterday. Come for one of Waugh’s children calling him a sadist, stay for a comedian reflecting on making out in cemeteries as a teen.

Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · Aug 25

I started a newsletter, friends.

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This, Not That

Reccomending some good books, movies, music, and more

this-not-that.ghost.io

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 4h

This is fascinating.*

(*Maybe it’s because I was a hardware & software design engineer for so long. Or maybe it’s just because it’s fascinating.)

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Donald Clarke @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 20h

Me in conversation with the incomparable Diane Keaton from 2017. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Diane Keaton: ‘Where would I be without Woody? I wouldn’t be here’

An Oscar-winning performance in Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’ changed everything for Diane Keaton

www.irishtimes.com

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 23h

(🙂)

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite film ❤️

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn’t sure about I Know Where I’m Going the first time I watched it. Now I am. It is perfect. boxd.it/bkJTol

A ★★★★★ review of I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

I remember watching this the first time and being a bit baffled by it. It seemed weirdly theatrical, the Scotland unconvincing and clichéd, and I didn’t pick up on any chemistry between Wendy Hillier ...

boxd.it

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Billy Higgins’s birthday. He was a jazz drummer.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely Irish Times piece by @donaldclarke.bsky.social:

Rebecca Miller: ‘Daniel’s heart is in Ireland, so we go as much as possible’

The director behind documentary Mr Scorsese on her relationship with the giant of cinema, his early sense of being an outsider, and life with the Day-Lewises

www.irishtimes.com

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

“The door was open and the house was dark
Wherefore I called his name, although I knew
The answer this time would be silence.”

Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: ‘A process of finding echoes and associations’

This book contains Heaney’s unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published

www.irishtimes.com

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

(One day, God willing, you & I will have a conversation.)

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

(I cannot get over how much alike she & my Sophie are.)

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 1d

Film noir Tanuki. Your fate has found you out.

Our cat Tanuki, a white cat with gray smudges on her head, seen in high-contrast black and white.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

#NowPlaying* #TMCC™

(*Heaven.)

‘In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning’: youtu.be/Z_MuyKjaEKU?...

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

(. . . and I circle back around because that is what I do:)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

(. . . and since it’s also Harold’s birthday:)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

(And also this young man:)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

Week in wildlife: a bumpy snailfish, a slow loris and a whistle pig

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

www.theguardian.com

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

“Everything
on this shrinking planet favours the survival
of the small people, whose horizons
are large only because they are content to look at them
from their own hills.
I grow old,
bending to enter the promised
land that was here all the time.”

Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about this today, have always been obsessed with it.

A black and white picture of a picturesque isolated home. Hiraeth n. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them. It’s in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and it is everywhere.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

(My lame attempt at humour, D.)

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

#NowPlaying #TMCC™

‘You Go to My Head’: youtu.be/QAwSrAhlcMM?...

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

(And to the individual who, when I mentioned my first jazz purchase in That Other Place™, replied “Dave Brubeck is jazz for people who don’t really like jazz“:

I do still remember your reply, sir, but I don’t recall your name.)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2d

Since I can’t recall a regret, Ms P., I am going to flip your q around. When I got my first job in Dublin way back in ’88 I, on a whim*, bought a copy of ‘At Carnegie Hall’ (The Dave Brubeck Quartet) that began a lifelong love affair w/ jazz.

(*Nobody in my family knew the first thing about jazz.)

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