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Dr Robert Bohan
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Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é

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🧵 After 48 hours I finished decorating my Christmas tree. This year I’m going minimal with just 40% of my baubles hung 👀 Here’s my tree & some of my art library.

Now I can focus on drawing again! Here’s a thread of my one-off drawings & how you can get them for Christmas! [1]
America’s president, not denying the accusation of being a child abuser, threatens the accuser instead.

Why is it the far right always claims to protect kids, yet keeps being accused of being members of child abuse rings? Maybe the Iranian protesters could take him down next?

Ironic it’s at Ford*
Amazing, a Ford worker called Trump a “pedophile protector” during his visit to an assembly plant in Michigan today.

In return, Trump, who has failed to release the Epstein files, yelled, “fuck you” and flipped off the worker.
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
If JMW Turner had an iPhone on holidays…
The sunset off the septa line in Philly always hits hard
January 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Untitled - Skull, (Broad Collection, LA) | Jean Michel Basquiat
January 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I know a lot of people are experiencing heightened anxiety. Anxiety is a dangerous medical condition at worst, at best it’s a standard part of human behaviour in order to protect us & weigh up risks that might hurt us. Sometimes if our anxiety is constant & severe it can become a base level…
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Flying to New Hampshire. Flew the heli and ran into a bunch of mountain flyers. Had to meet with social workers here dealing with ICE! It cleared up and was sunny on my return flight!
#FlyingTheHeli #NewHampshire #MeetingAboutICE #ColderUpHere
January 13, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Cúis mhór bhróin dom a chloisteáil go bhfuil an t-amhránaí cáiliúil agus an Gaeilgeoir Seán Ó Sé imithe uainn ar Shlí na Fírinne.
January 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Imagine a world without Dracula or the Picture of Dorian Gray, Orlando, Cabaret**, Rubyfruit Jungle, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, the Line of Beauty, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women & Feminism; And the Band Played On; & Howl & Other Poems*.

A stolen world:
Publishers are rejecting queer books amid bans and Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ stance
Publishers in the US are passing on LGBTQ+ works, amid book bans and anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment from the current administration.
gcn.ie
January 13, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I put Christmas tree branches into the coffin-sized box. Wouldn’t fit, so I stacked the remainder beside the box, in the wardrobe. Worried they’d get dusty, I wrapped them in a long detective overcoat & zipped it up. One day I’ll open the door, see the hidden PI & give myself a festive coronary.
January 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Note to self: Stop advising foreign powers, even your siblings ignore your shopping advice.
The thing that Iranian protesters definitely do NOT want is the US, or its allies, making statements like this. The US has done horrific things to Iran to help the moronic Shah, before the Revolution, & Iranians don’t forget. The Shah’s offspring should STFU too. That’s the ONLY help they need.
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
The thing that Iranian protesters definitely do NOT want is the US, or its allies, making statements like this. The US has done horrific things to Iran to help the moronic Shah, before the Revolution, & Iranians don’t forget. The Shah’s offspring should STFU too. That’s the ONLY help they need.
January 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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John Singer Sargent | The Old Chair, 1886, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection.
January 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
So I’ve taken the tree apart & have unstrung & unentangled the lights & then did a CSI Dublin on what was living in my tree. Those of you familiar with the 2025 sacred tree [bile] will be aware that it started having a life of its own on Christmas Day! And here’s what happened!
It’s taking a while to pack this behemoth away. But then again having half my flat back would be nice!
January 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Something to look forward to! Keep in mind, some exhibitions have reduced price hours. If your museum does not, write to them. Exhibits cost a lot to set up & insurance is nuts, so free entry might not be possible. IMHO it should always be free to see a museum’s permanent collection!
5 Essential Old Masters Shows for 2026 | Artnet News
Old Masters shows 2026: Five essential museum exhibitions—from Raphael at the Met to Zurbarán in London—plus tarot and Ovid-themed highlights.
news.artnet.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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It's a pity you can't go on a little trip to the US and buy things for people because secret police and stuff
January 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Breaking: Musk has renamed Twitter, yet again. In line with corporate policy the site was to be now be called XXX. However given pending prosecutions for child abuse imagery, the new name is Alleged XXX

All Twitter users may not be child abusers; but all child abusers use Twitter.
January 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Sometimes a photo of infrastructure is not just utilitarian, very rarely it’s an example of a perfect aesthetic composition. The more you look, the more you see & the more aesthetically balanced it becomes. Red indicator - green bridge; gray closet - gray fence - gray roof etc. The photo…
Semaphore at Workington. 10 February 2025. #railway #photography
January 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I think getting out of bed is where I went wrong. I’m going back up the wooden hill…
If you need me knock gently, as I’m still asleep. I’m planning to stay in bed, until 2027, just sleeping, drawing pictures* & shaking a walking stick at passing clouds, that I can see from my bed. Just have to convince DHL to collect & ship from my boudoir. Hopefully they have no feather allergies.
January 11, 2026 at 10:37 PM
They paved paradise & put up a parking lot.

1968 Dub City decides to build HQ
1969 Discover well-preserved remains of ancient Viking city of Dublin
1981 Annihilate Viking city to build ugly concrete HQ called ‘the bunkers’.
2026 Abandon ugly HQ
January 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Something lovely for the weekend!

Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me

#Archaeology
January 10, 2026 at 11:31 AM
It’s no surprise that the Trump regime’s paramilitary army, ICE, is behaving like a lawless hit squad. They’re advertising for recruits using far white White supremacist iconography. Interestingly a search for ‘far right groups joining ICE’ brings up claims that anti-ICE protesters are being paid! 😳
DHS deploys white nationalist, anti-immigrant graphics to recruit
The Department of Homeland Security’s deportation efforts under Trump have energized and validated some hate groups.
www.splcenter.org
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Stirrup spout vessel with bird (Moche (Peru), 200-600 CE)

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
January 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
If you need me knock gently, as I’m still asleep. I’m planning to stay in bed, until 2027, just sleeping, drawing pictures* & shaking a walking stick at passing clouds, that I can see from my bed. Just have to convince DHL to collect & ship from my boudoir. Hopefully they have no feather allergies.
January 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Opened social media, saw ‘the enemies of free speech’ & closed it, this morning.

The thing is every major platform is dominated by far right mindlessness’ they’re the ones who lie that they care about ‘free speech’. They won*, the grift is over. Will someone tell these clowns?
January 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
It’s taking a while to pack this behemoth away. But then again having half my flat back would be nice!
January 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Nice work if you can get it! 😜

Paschal Donohoe gave the World Bank an extra €10 million while he was still a government minister.

Donohoe resigned as Irish finance minister last November to take up a job at the World Bank.
Sinn Féin says Paschal Donohoe's decision to give World Bank extra €10m raises 'serious questions'
Pearse Doherty today called on the government to provide “full transparency” about how the decision was made.
www.thejournal.ie
January 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM