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Clearyb
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Writer/researcher, cochlear implant recipient Work👉#MedSafety #MedsInPregnancy #VTE #Pharmacoepi #Pharmsky #Writing👉 http://noisysilence.ie Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill https://rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/ #HelpUsHear dDeaf/gigs
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · Oct 20
Delighted with coverage of the long lost Bram Stoker story Gibbet Hill. @nytimes.com link to Sarah Lyall’s piece👇. All proceeds benefit the Charlotte Stoker Fund (newborn deafness research) Now to figure out how to get a copy to @stephenking.bsky.social & @scalzi.com www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/b...
A Fan Discovers a New Story by the Author of ‘Dracula’
The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.
www.nytimes.com
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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jhelvy.bsky.social
There I fixed it
Bar chart showing Total U.S. Steel Production in millions of metric tons (Mt) comparing 2024 and 2025. The y-axis correctly starts at 0 and extends to 90 Mt. The 2024 production (red bar) shows 80.9 Mt, while 2025 production (green bar) shows 81.7 Mt. With the properly scaled y-axis, the visual difference between the bars accurately represents the modest 0.8 Mt increase (approximately 1% growth), in stark contrast to manipulated charts that use truncated y-axes to exaggerate small differences.
February 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
clearyb.bsky.social
Poor Lady Wilde. What a sad end. The lack of mourners was at her own request apparently (and the number varies with reports) I wonder who this old friend of the family was? Florence Stoker there on behalf of Bram? London Correspondence. | Freeman's Journal 8 February 1896 British Newspaper Archive
THE LATE LADY WILDE. London, Friday. Although advancing years and failing health had compelled Lady Wilde to live more in retirement of recent years, she maintained to. the last the interest in literature that had been an absorbing passion of her life, and she was, as we learn, projecting a new book of collected essays when death overtook her. Of late year the doceased lady had resided in Oakley street, Chelsea, with her son, br William CE Wilde. Her end was perfectiy peacefal, and she retained mental conscious-nesg to the last. By her expross desire the funeral, #hich took place yesterday, was purely private, the remains being followed to Kongal Green by Mr and Mrs William Wilde and an oid friend of theramily.
February 2, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social
I recently co-edited an introduced, annotated collection of her poems for @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
February 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
clearyb.bsky.social
No thanks VW. Maybe you could help users by not turning basic features of the car into a subscription service?
15:27 C Reply To: Voll へ く Help us with your permission If this email is not displayed correctly, please click here. Help us with your permission: Your vehicle data can improve the driving experience Hello Brian, thank you for being part of the Volkswagen family. We want to provide you and all our customers with the best possible driving experience. We are constantly working to make Volkswagen even better for you. For this, we also need non-personal data generated in the vehicle (such as road conditions, battery status). For example, we use non-personal vehicle data to improve our products or develop new innovative solutions (such as improved driver assistance systems). permission be required once the EU Data Act
February 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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tweetld.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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colmori.bsky.social
A cloud of Brent geese descend from the pale blue sky on the shallows of Dublin bay at dusk on Imbolc. #Speirgorm
A flock of geese flying in formation over the silhouette of the crest of a hill against a pale orange to pale blue evening sky.
February 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
February 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
Happy Imbolc 🌱

Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Drawing of a woman with green hair blowing a flame from her hand, with the word imbolc in gold letters #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #imbolc #imbolg
February 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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cingraham.bsky.social
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Pretty extraordinary to think about how much cardiovascular researchers figured out, and how that turned into public health campaigns, medicines, surgeries, and emergency care that changed millions of people's lives.
ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...
Reduction in cardiovascular mortality rates in the US since the 1950s
January 31, 2026 at 2:54 PM
clearyb.bsky.social
Brought the kids to the Tower of London and was sickened by the loot on display and the “here are some gifts that we received from our friends around the world” way that the whole thing is presented.
crymsondawn.bsky.social Raitama @crymsondawn.bsky.social · 2d
And in many cases, they literally obliterated the loot.

The British, royals & public, were so gaudy that, after forcing a 10 yo boy to turn over India's millennia old cultural symbol, they destroyed nearly half of it.
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
Margot Robbie is wearing Mughal queen Nur Jahan's necklace. It was gifted by her husband King Jahangir (r. 1605-1627), Akbar's son. Cartier acquired it (harummmph). Cartier's president later gifted it to Liz Taylor..blah blah.

Colonial loot around your neck.
'The obliterated shall be remembered'.
January 30, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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theashpreston.bsky.social
On this day, 2 years ago. I sat in bed and said to myself, 'Why haven't you finally made that compilation of Jim McDonald from Coronation Street, absolutely battering people to Motörhead? So I did.'

Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.
January 31, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Do you sometimes think "oh boy, I would really like to hear Julia ramble some more about the topics about which she doesn't stop talking to begin with?"

The wait is finally over! @guruspod.bsky.social and had a chat about open science, causal inference, and apparently birth order effects.
Open Science, Psychology, and the Art of Not Quite Claiming Causality with Julia Rohrer - Decoding the Gurus
In a rare departure from our usual diet of online weirdos, this episode features an academic who is very much not a guru. We’re joined by Julia Rohrer...
decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm
January 30, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
I wrote about one of the saddest evenings of my life: seeing Christine Maggiore, who opposed HIV medicines, speak in San Francisco. She was one of the HIV denialists who met President Mbeki at the International AIDS Conference in Durban in 2000; she died of AIDS

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
January 29, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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jasondashbailey.com
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Catherine O’Hara and John Candy, circa 1978
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in

Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files

more to follow

www.ft.com/content/c950...
Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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oisinmcgann.bsky.social
I've never understood how nobody has ever written a novel about this before, but there was a brief time when the *Irish republican movement* possessed the first fully functional submarine.

Yes, you heard that right.

A short thread . . . 1/

#SpeirGorm #JohnPhilipHolland #Submarine
The full cover, back and front, of my novel, Steel-Plate Subversive. Overall, it’s a deep blue and sea green, the colour of sea at night. On the front, the view is from above, looking down at the deck of a small, steel-grey submarine at night. The hatch in the low-profile turret is open. A bearded white man in a green woollen jumper and brown flat cap is in the open hatch, holding a Thompson submachine gun. He’s lit from below by the red light inside the submarine. The title is vertical, in orange, down the left side, and the tagline is in white, much smaller to the right: ‘Irish revolutionaries, British spies, German mercenaries, and a submarine that shouldn't exist.’ My name is in white at the bottom. The back cover shows the same submarine in the harbour of a small town at night, racing away at speed. The blurb reads: There's something out there in the water. A shaky truce has been established in Ireland's War of Independence. In 1921, as negotiations begin in London to finally free the Irish from British control, a young intelligence agent named Esther Sinclair discovers that a nightmarish weapon has gone missing in France. Akiko Regan and her cousin Liam O'Leary have made their own discovery: Akiko's father, Michael, is the leader of the mysterious rebel group known as the Selkies. Michael is an engineer who trained under the famous John Philip Holland in New Jersey. At the start of the century, Holland's designs had established the submarine fleets of five nations. But the Irishman's very first submarines were built for the Irish republican movement. The Royal Navy have no idea that a Holland vessel has heen operating in the Irish Sea. Michael had hoped to shield Akiko and Liam from the ongoing violence. Now, however, the family find themselves drawn into a crisis that threatens not just their lives but the future of their country. There’s an Arts Council of Ireland logo across from the barcode, to acknowledge funding for the writing of the book.
January 28, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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irishlittimes.bsky.social Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d
Fighting Words: We’re thrilled to announce the Brendan Behan Celebration on Saturday, February 7th from 11am to 3pm!
Join us as Dublin City Council unveils a new plaque honouring Brendan Behan’s legendary contributions to Irish literature at Behan
Square, the site of Brendan's childhood home.
January 30, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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irishlittimes.bsky.social
Fighting Words: We’re thrilled to announce the Brendan Behan Celebration on Saturday, February 7th from 11am to 3pm!
Join us as Dublin City Council unveils a new plaque honouring Brendan Behan’s legendary contributions to Irish literature at Behan
Square, the site of Brendan's childhood home.
January 30, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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jaseomcn.bsky.social
Ná déan é seo dom
Teachtaireacht béil (5 nóiméad 6 soicind) Albert Mac Raghnaill Buachaill a bhfuil tráma air tar éis Éirinn in aghaidh Sasana 1995 Íosa ag fulaingt
January 30, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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kenlowery.bsky.social
20 years into the future, nursing home staff blasting the Beastie Boys's "Sabotage" to get all the seniors up and at 'em for breakfast
January 30, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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clearyb.bsky.social
Got to experience the future of #accessibility at the @abbeytheatre.bsky.social last night thanks to Dermot & Derek. #Auracast Bluetooth streamed high quality sound to my cochlear implant with no perceptible latency. What a show too.
Auri Auracast Bluetooth receiver- like a small black flip phone. Two cables connected via 3.5mm jacks. One to MiniMic 2+ and one to headphones Dublin Gothic advert and tickets outside the Abbey Theatre World Premiere Abbey Theatre production «An awesome, unforgettable story" Sunday Independent Dublin Gothic Written by Barbara Bergin Directed by Caroline Byrne MUST END 31 JAN 2026 On the Abbey Stage abbeytheatre.ie ares funding theatre Photo shows a group of people in late 19th century garb
January 27, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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tortietabby.bsky.social
Thanks so much @niamhcullen.bsky.social for the lovely review of my book ❤️
January 28, 2026 at 8:22 PM