Bríd Heffron
@bridnotbird.bsky.social
Avid reader, lover of theatre, dogs, nature, poetry.
I only found the man himself with some help from Wikipedia 😄 Fascinating painting.
This painting is one of the most iconic images from Wales's visual culture – but can you spot the devil in the shawl? 😈
Read more 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/salem-337662
'Salem' by Sydney Curnow Vosper (1866–1942) 📷 Lady Lever Art Gallery
Read more 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/salem-337662
'Salem' by Sydney Curnow Vosper (1866–1942) 📷 Lady Lever Art Gallery
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I only found the man himself with some help from Wikipedia 😄 Fascinating painting.
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Niche content, but his story is SO interesting. Thinking of telling next season. A
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Niche content, but his story is SO interesting. Thinking of telling next season. A
Sea turtle 😍
September 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sea turtle 😍
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Feeling better about my commute this week because I can listen to this 😊
🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
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Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 01/09/2025 · 1h 35m
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September 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Feeling better about my commute this week because I can listen to this 😊
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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...
August 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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...
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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The Scot from Paisley who photographed The Bear - way back in the 1880s! My bit on the great William Notman @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social @timadamswrites.bsky.social @englishsettlement.bsky.social @allanjenkins21.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
William Notman and the invention of Canada | The Observer
The pioneering Scot documented the wildernesses of the young nation through the embryonic medium of photography. But it was in the studio that his true g...
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July 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Scot from Paisley who photographed The Bear - way back in the 1880s! My bit on the great William Notman @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social @timadamswrites.bsky.social @englishsettlement.bsky.social @allanjenkins21.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
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🆕 AESOP II: A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other 🐬
Is truth a set of facts? Might something fake be authentic? Can you contruct a truth out of lies? And why are unreliable narrators more compelling?
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Is truth a set of facts? Might something fake be authentic? Can you contruct a truth out of lies? And why are unreliable narrators more compelling?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4hZ8...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
8. AESOP II - A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 26/07/2025 · 1h 13m
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July 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🆕 AESOP II: A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other 🐬
Is truth a set of facts? Might something fake be authentic? Can you contruct a truth out of lies? And why are unreliable narrators more compelling?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4hZ8...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Is truth a set of facts? Might something fake be authentic? Can you contruct a truth out of lies? And why are unreliable narrators more compelling?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4hZ8...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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AI overviews are destroying search, destroying websites, and are easy to game. Really bleak stuff here: www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
www.404media.co
July 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
AI overviews are destroying search, destroying websites, and are easy to game. Really bleak stuff here: www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
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Greetings and good morning it’s the Saturday rush hour with Mo & Letty-Lou
July 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Greetings and good morning it’s the Saturday rush hour with Mo & Letty-Lou
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Greetings and good morning it’s the Wednesday farm rush hour with baby donkey Letty-Lou & mum Nutmeg
July 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Greetings and good morning it’s the Wednesday farm rush hour with baby donkey Letty-Lou & mum Nutmeg
This podcast is wonderfully crafted, can't recommend it highly enough. Delighted the new episode is up!
📜 New AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? 🏛️
Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...
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Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 13/07/2025 · 44m
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July 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This podcast is wonderfully crafted, can't recommend it highly enough. Delighted the new episode is up!
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📜 New AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? 🏛️
Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 13/07/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
📜 New AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? 🏛️
Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Let joy be unconfined!*
After weeks of sleepless battle that nearly broke me, with the story and fables of Aesop, a Nolanesque epic trilogy is coming atcha.
"Aesop, Part I" drops tomorrow, Sunday, lunchtime, with Part II and Part III the following two weekends.
Or should that be "unconfirmed"?
After weeks of sleepless battle that nearly broke me, with the story and fables of Aesop, a Nolanesque epic trilogy is coming atcha.
"Aesop, Part I" drops tomorrow, Sunday, lunchtime, with Part II and Part III the following two weekends.
Or should that be "unconfirmed"?
July 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Let joy be unconfined!*
After weeks of sleepless battle that nearly broke me, with the story and fables of Aesop, a Nolanesque epic trilogy is coming atcha.
"Aesop, Part I" drops tomorrow, Sunday, lunchtime, with Part II and Part III the following two weekends.
Or should that be "unconfirmed"?
After weeks of sleepless battle that nearly broke me, with the story and fables of Aesop, a Nolanesque epic trilogy is coming atcha.
"Aesop, Part I" drops tomorrow, Sunday, lunchtime, with Part II and Part III the following two weekends.
Or should that be "unconfirmed"?
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Pun intended.
July 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Pun intended.
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After a self-care break for both me and the contributors the slate is 12/7, 26/7, 9/8. Thank you for asking. A x
July 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
After a self-care break for both me and the contributors the slate is 12/7, 26/7, 9/8. Thank you for asking. A x
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New episode tomorrow with the superb Rosemary McCabe, and it's a good one as we encounter possibly the worst book that Áine and I have ever encountered.... Venus Envy by Louise Mensch (neé Bagshawe).
a close up of venus 's surface with a black background
Alt: a close up of venus 's surface with a black background
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June 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
New episode tomorrow with the superb Rosemary McCabe, and it's a good one as we encounter possibly the worst book that Áine and I have ever encountered.... Venus Envy by Louise Mensch (neé Bagshawe).
@seanronayne.bsky.social a wonderful show tonight in Newbridge; fascinating, moving and thought-provoking. Also at times infuriating to realise how much more we should be doing in Ireland to protect nature.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
@seanronayne.bsky.social a wonderful show tonight in Newbridge; fascinating, moving and thought-provoking. Also at times infuriating to realise how much more we should be doing in Ireland to protect nature.
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BOOK NEWS!
Susie Dent @susiedent.com has a new book coming out in September.
"Words for Life".
Offering year's supply of verbal vitamin shots guaranteed to entertain and enlighten!
And Susie will be doing SIGNED & DEDICATED copies exclusively for us!
Order HERE. tinyurl.com/3b2rtkc4
Susie Dent @susiedent.com has a new book coming out in September.
"Words for Life".
Offering year's supply of verbal vitamin shots guaranteed to entertain and enlighten!
And Susie will be doing SIGNED & DEDICATED copies exclusively for us!
Order HERE. tinyurl.com/3b2rtkc4
May 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
BOOK NEWS!
Susie Dent @susiedent.com has a new book coming out in September.
"Words for Life".
Offering year's supply of verbal vitamin shots guaranteed to entertain and enlighten!
And Susie will be doing SIGNED & DEDICATED copies exclusively for us!
Order HERE. tinyurl.com/3b2rtkc4
Susie Dent @susiedent.com has a new book coming out in September.
"Words for Life".
Offering year's supply of verbal vitamin shots guaranteed to entertain and enlighten!
And Susie will be doing SIGNED & DEDICATED copies exclusively for us!
Order HERE. tinyurl.com/3b2rtkc4
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Delighted that @ulysses80.bsky.social is back again this year. It helped me to finally read Ulysses, after several unsuccessful attempts over the years. And the weekly talks were so interesting. A set few pages a day over 80 days was manageable for me, it was just too intimidating otherwise!
May 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Delighted that @ulysses80.bsky.social is back again this year. It helped me to finally read Ulysses, after several unsuccessful attempts over the years. And the weekly talks were so interesting. A set few pages a day over 80 days was manageable for me, it was just too intimidating otherwise!
Another wonderful book by @lauracummingart.bsky.social beautiful writing and fascinating subject matter. I love books that help you see the world differently.
April 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Another wonderful book by @lauracummingart.bsky.social beautiful writing and fascinating subject matter. I love books that help you see the world differently.
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Just under a month ago I rescued Maria as she was about to die.
She hadn’t been to the toilet in weeks and she could no longer eat.
Things look bleak. To see her today is just remarkable… (1/10) 🧵
She hadn’t been to the toilet in weeks and she could no longer eat.
Things look bleak. To see her today is just remarkable… (1/10) 🧵
April 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Just under a month ago I rescued Maria as she was about to die.
She hadn’t been to the toilet in weeks and she could no longer eat.
Things look bleak. To see her today is just remarkable… (1/10) 🧵
She hadn’t been to the toilet in weeks and she could no longer eat.
Things look bleak. To see her today is just remarkable… (1/10) 🧵