my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

And as ever, sharing the brilliant @ria.ie Confessio project where we can read St Patrick’s own words & his experience of being trafficked into Ireland as a child - sadly as relevant as ever today w so many children displaced due to violence, war & climate change. #speirgorm. confessio.ie

SPOCK: you are being.. highly illogical

ME (WATCHING TV): ok he's got you there kirk

KIRK: but mr spock, mankind did not, endeavor to, reach out and, touch the stars, armed only with, cold hard logic, but driven, by our passionate impulsive, illogical humanity

ME: hey yeah fuck you spock

Single people after Valentine's Day: Well, at least that's over.

Kerry and Cork on Shrove Tuesday night: Hold my pancake

I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

if your beans didn't soften while cooking it's not because you salted too early. it's not because you added too much acid. it's not because the beans are too old. it's because you're impure of heart and the beans Know

finally got my film from december developed. merry christmas Queso

4) 2400 years ago, one Scythian wanted a plush bird toy and someone painstakingly made them one by hand out of three different colors of reindeer fur and felt, with contrast stitching. I think people will always do these things for each other. (Apparently Scythians loved plushies? Bitches, man.)

This absolutely jaw-dropping mosaic of doves drinking from a bronze bowl is so detailed that it almost seems like an oil painting. Found in Hadrian’s villa, the piece is thought to be a copy of the famous C2nd BCE mosaicist from Pergamum, Sosos.

#MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky🏺

Nature really outdid itself #thisdaylastyear with a stunning mirage / omega sunrise and a beautiful moonset. A sunrise mirage happens when the Sun's rays bend as they pass through layers of the Earth's atmosphere with different temperatures. Photos taken from Omeath, Co. Louth, Ireland.

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

#Storm Over The Irish Sea, 2022 by Welsh land and seascape painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt #StormÉowyn

A touch of colour by the North Bull Lighthouse and a posing cormorant (I think) greeting the morning.