David Toms
@daithitoms.bsky.social
Writer. Pacemaker (Banshee Press, 2022). Arts Council Ireland Literature Bursary Award 2023. Maddock Fellow at Marsh's Library, 2024. New work coming soon. 🇮🇪 living in 🇳🇴.
https://davidtoms.substack.com
https://davidtoms.substack.com
open.spotify.com/playlist/3U2... here's my Christmas music playlist which includes some classics and some oddities. What am I missing? I also love songs that are just midwinter songs. The vibe is that it is dark almost all day in December in Norway.
Christmas
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December 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
open.spotify.com/playlist/3U2... here's my Christmas music playlist which includes some classics and some oddities. What am I missing? I also love songs that are just midwinter songs. The vibe is that it is dark almost all day in December in Norway.
It's been over a week with illness of varying degrees in our house and I am well and truly miserable. We both are. Just can't shake this bugger.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's been over a week with illness of varying degrees in our house and I am well and truly miserable. We both are. Just can't shake this bugger.
My tuppence worth, if it's worth tuppence any more, is that actually it is a bad idea to re/dename Herzog Park. There are very few signs of Ireland's Jewish history. As someone who has been involved for years in trying to get a blue plaque up to the Waterford community–something that's on pause–
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My tuppence worth, if it's worth tuppence any more, is that actually it is a bad idea to re/dename Herzog Park. There are very few signs of Ireland's Jewish history. As someone who has been involved for years in trying to get a blue plaque up to the Waterford community–something that's on pause–
Jeg latter som om det er det, og ser bare tv nyhet en gang om dagen. Har også startet med å lese nyheter på mobil kun tidlig om dagen og sent om kvelden.
Eller vi kunne KUN hatt denne ene nyhetssendingen per dag. Det hadde ærlig talt vært det beste.
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Jeg latter som om det er det, og ser bare tv nyhet en gang om dagen. Har også startet med å lese nyheter på mobil kun tidlig om dagen og sent om kvelden.
Tom and Stoppard are dead.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n... << we shall not see his like again etc etc; oh to have such a brain
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tom and Stoppard are dead.
Er det noen der ute med erfaring med å abonnere på New Yorker i Norge? Er det mye forsinkelser med levering osv?
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Er det noen der ute med erfaring med å abonnere på New Yorker i Norge? Er det mye forsinkelser med levering osv?
I learned about this from the excellent book The World the Plague made. There's a whole bit on how precisely this fact complicates ideas of assumed plague transmission!
Fun fact: The oldest rat bone ever found in Iceland only dates back to the 17th century.
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I learned about this from the excellent book The World the Plague made. There's a whole bit on how precisely this fact complicates ideas of assumed plague transmission!
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Alt Text is an AI-training tool disguised as an accessibility feature ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Alt Text is an AI-training tool disguised as an accessibility feature ❤️
Reposted by David Toms
Edward Hartwig (1909-2003): Ulica Ztota in Lublin, 1954
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Edward Hartwig (1909-2003): Ulica Ztota in Lublin, 1954
My commute is almost exactly the length of Vikingur Olafsson's recordings of the Goldberg Variations.
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
My commute is almost exactly the length of Vikingur Olafsson's recordings of the Goldberg Variations.
I have made the horrible horrible discovery of two Norwegian translations of Fairytale of New York. One is at least vaguely based on the original and retains the paired voices though the lyrics are quite different and its generally quite schmaltzy
open.spotify.com/track/5VGde0...
open.spotify.com/track/5VGde0...
Et Juleeventyr
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November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have made the horrible horrible discovery of two Norwegian translations of Fairytale of New York. One is at least vaguely based on the original and retains the paired voices though the lyrics are quite different and its generally quite schmaltzy
open.spotify.com/track/5VGde0...
open.spotify.com/track/5VGde0...
Today is the day my soul left it's body with the unrelenting darkness of the winter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is the day my soul left it's body with the unrelenting darkness of the winter.
Koka Björn on Disney is how I relax apparently.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Koka Björn on Disney is how I relax apparently.
Reposted by David Toms
The forelegs are way too short for a brachiosaurus, also the neck is too short for most sauropods. The proportions and spinal plates do match the traditional stegasauridae profile pretty well, except for its unfortunate lack of the trademark thagomizer.
Maybe a wuerhosaurus that's all clubbed out.
Maybe a wuerhosaurus that's all clubbed out.
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The forelegs are way too short for a brachiosaurus, also the neck is too short for most sauropods. The proportions and spinal plates do match the traditional stegasauridae profile pretty well, except for its unfortunate lack of the trademark thagomizer.
Maybe a wuerhosaurus that's all clubbed out.
Maybe a wuerhosaurus that's all clubbed out.
Snakke med meg om dette temaet, gjerne!
Snakk gjerne med en som har kommet til Norge som arbeidsinnvandrer. Systemet er så ladet mot deg på så mange måter at det er umulig å ikke sitte igjen med en følelse av at det er ment å skremme vekk så mange som mulig. Formalitetene endrer seg med prinsippet er likt
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Snakke med meg om dette temaet, gjerne!
@eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social any of these a must?
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social any of these a must?
Assume that the Ireland game in Prague is going to be played at either the Sparta or Slavia ground but surely it'll be Sparta's.
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Assume that the Ireland game in Prague is going to be played at either the Sparta or Slavia ground but surely it'll be Sparta's.
Reposted by David Toms
Luke Wadding of Waterford, Franciscan, theologian, historian, founder of two Irish Roman Colleges died in Sant’ Isidoro (1625) #otd 18 Nov 1657.
Here he is, twice, in Fra Emmanuele da Como’s 1672 fresco series in the Aula Maxima.
Here he is, twice, in Fra Emmanuele da Como’s 1672 fresco series in the Aula Maxima.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Luke Wadding of Waterford, Franciscan, theologian, historian, founder of two Irish Roman Colleges died in Sant’ Isidoro (1625) #otd 18 Nov 1657.
Here he is, twice, in Fra Emmanuele da Como’s 1672 fresco series in the Aula Maxima.
Here he is, twice, in Fra Emmanuele da Como’s 1672 fresco series in the Aula Maxima.
Reposted by David Toms
18 Nov 1657: d. Luke Wadding of #Waterford - allegedly only #Irish man to get votes in Papal election, brilliant #Franciscan theologian, got St Patrick's Day made a universal feast, founder of two #Irish colleges in #Rome Many of his papers are in
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November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
18 Nov 1657: d. Luke Wadding of #Waterford - allegedly only #Irish man to get votes in Papal election, brilliant #Franciscan theologian, got St Patrick's Day made a universal feast, founder of two #Irish colleges in #Rome Many of his papers are in
@ucdarchives.bsky.social
@ucdarchives.bsky.social
Seeing Once was a weird reminder of how distant and how near in the past 2006 was. Also, the camera work is so shaky at times, it's almost comical 😂
Has the fun task next week of giving an introduction to a film club screening of "Once" to a Norwegian audience!
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Seeing Once was a weird reminder of how distant and how near in the past 2006 was. Also, the camera work is so shaky at times, it's almost comical 😂
Hot drinks season
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Hot drinks season
Has the fun task next week of giving an introduction to a film club screening of "Once" to a Norwegian audience!
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Has the fun task next week of giving an introduction to a film club screening of "Once" to a Norwegian audience!
On the one hand it is hideous and weird that my child's barnehage updates us about her day through an app, on the other, I am jealous that she started an afternoon nap 20mins ago.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
On the one hand it is hideous and weird that my child's barnehage updates us about her day through an app, on the other, I am jealous that she started an afternoon nap 20mins ago.