Niall Murphy
@nmurphy.bsky.social
Computer Scientist, interested in computation in biological and quantum systems. Ireland based.
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Absolutely riveted by this video of women filmed in the 1970s reminiscing about their young adult life in the 1890s
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo
1970: VICTORIAN TEENAGERS reminisce | Yesterday's Witness | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Absolutely riveted by this video of women filmed in the 1970s reminiscing about their young adult life in the 1890s
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo
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Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
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“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”
Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
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Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...
waterfordwhispersnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”
Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
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The Physics Nobel goes to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for a discovery that paved the way for quantum computers. Our reporters dive into the science
October 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Physics Nobel goes to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for a discovery that paved the way for quantum computers. Our reporters dive into the science
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Un-frigging-believable. I have waited for something like this for so long!
October 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Un-frigging-believable. I have waited for something like this for so long!
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It doesn't get much greener on the Irish grid: up to 6pm, renewable generation today has equalled 83.1% of electricity demand. Only a dozen or so prior days have done better. With lower weekend demand, there's a chance we'll see an all-time low for daily carbon emissions.
#StormAmy #SpeirGorm
#StormAmy #SpeirGorm
October 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It doesn't get much greener on the Irish grid: up to 6pm, renewable generation today has equalled 83.1% of electricity demand. Only a dozen or so prior days have done better. With lower weekend demand, there's a chance we'll see an all-time low for daily carbon emissions.
#StormAmy #SpeirGorm
#StormAmy #SpeirGorm
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Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 65% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 77% at 00:00. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 32% of demand. 2% of generation was exported, 5% of demand was met by imports.
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 65% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 77% at 00:00. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 32% of demand. 2% of generation was exported, 5% of demand was met by imports.
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Calvin & Hobbes is such an incredible body of work and it never feels locked to the era of its creation.
When you think of the middlebrow award winning films, plays and novels from the time the strip was being written (Out of Africa, Driving Miss Daisy) it is stark how well it has held up.
When you think of the middlebrow award winning films, plays and novels from the time the strip was being written (Out of Africa, Driving Miss Daisy) it is stark how well it has held up.
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Calvin & Hobbes is such an incredible body of work and it never feels locked to the era of its creation.
When you think of the middlebrow award winning films, plays and novels from the time the strip was being written (Out of Africa, Driving Miss Daisy) it is stark how well it has held up.
When you think of the middlebrow award winning films, plays and novels from the time the strip was being written (Out of Africa, Driving Miss Daisy) it is stark how well it has held up.
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Me: i’m Autistic
Them: Oh you take things literally
Me: No that’s kleptomania
Them: Oh you take things literally
Me: No that’s kleptomania
July 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Me: i’m Autistic
Them: Oh you take things literally
Me: No that’s kleptomania
Them: Oh you take things literally
Me: No that’s kleptomania
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It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL.
Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is.
www.aena.es/en/press/sta...
Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is.
www.aena.es/en/press/sta...
September 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL.
Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is.
www.aena.es/en/press/sta...
Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is.
www.aena.es/en/press/sta...
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"In Our Time" is the best radio show in the English language. More than 1,000 episodes archived and available online.
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
September 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"In Our Time" is the best radio show in the English language. More than 1,000 episodes archived and available online.
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But you know that it was only made up in the 19th century to amuse, and attract, tourists? Before that it was just another Llanfair "Mary's Church".
August 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
But you know that it was only made up in the 19th century to amuse, and attract, tourists? Before that it was just another Llanfair "Mary's Church".
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This impressive crest of #Mirasaura had densely overlapping individual appendages with feather-like contours. But our work shows these are unlike true feathers and indicate an independent evolutionary origin 🦎🪶
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This impressive crest of #Mirasaura had densely overlapping individual appendages with feather-like contours. But our work shows these are unlike true feathers and indicate an independent evolutionary origin 🦎🪶
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the feds threatened aaron swartz with 35 years in prison for downloading j-stor, hounding him til he killed himself
now tech bros burn ridiculous amounts of energy and plagiarise EVERYONE'S work to make search engines that are wrong all the time and pictures that look like garbage
now tech bros burn ridiculous amounts of energy and plagiarise EVERYONE'S work to make search engines that are wrong all the time and pictures that look like garbage
July 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
the feds threatened aaron swartz with 35 years in prison for downloading j-stor, hounding him til he killed himself
now tech bros burn ridiculous amounts of energy and plagiarise EVERYONE'S work to make search engines that are wrong all the time and pictures that look like garbage
now tech bros burn ridiculous amounts of energy and plagiarise EVERYONE'S work to make search engines that are wrong all the time and pictures that look like garbage
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A Snakelocks anemone (Anemonia viridis) in a lowtide rockpool.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
July 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A Snakelocks anemone (Anemonia viridis) in a lowtide rockpool.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Wow! For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an exoplanet by directly imaging it. The newfound world has a mass similar to Saturn and orbits inside the debris disk surrounding a very young star just 111 light years away. via @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 disk - Nature
Using the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument, a study reports evidence for a direct detection of a cold, sub-Jupiter-mass planet in the disk of the star TWA 7.
www.nature.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wow! For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an exoplanet by directly imaging it. The newfound world has a mass similar to Saturn and orbits inside the debris disk surrounding a very young star just 111 light years away. via @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It was a pleasure to share a planet with you, Brian Wilson.
Today we’re revisiting Episode 142: “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys, where Andrew attempts to do one of Wilson’s greatest contributions justice.
Listen on Spotify, Apple and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Today we’re revisiting Episode 142: “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys, where Andrew attempts to do one of Wilson’s greatest contributions justice.
Listen on Spotify, Apple and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
June 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It was a pleasure to share a planet with you, Brian Wilson.
Today we’re revisiting Episode 142: “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys, where Andrew attempts to do one of Wilson’s greatest contributions justice.
Listen on Spotify, Apple and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Today we’re revisiting Episode 142: “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys, where Andrew attempts to do one of Wilson’s greatest contributions justice.
Listen on Spotify, Apple and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
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Please listen to this podcast about Brian Wilson, Good Vibrations, the theremin, the Cold War, contingency, creativity, the senses, and ~everything~, because I promise—I promise!—you will be glad you did. By @andrewhickey.500songs.com 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
Episode 146: “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys
Episode one hundred and forty-six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys, and the history of the theremin. Click the full post to read liner n…
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June 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Please listen to this podcast about Brian Wilson, Good Vibrations, the theremin, the Cold War, contingency, creativity, the senses, and ~everything~, because I promise—I promise!—you will be glad you did. By @andrewhickey.500songs.com 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
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In honor of Brian Wilson's passing, here are the four categories of Beach Boys songs:
1. surfing is great, you should try it
2. I have a good vehicle
3. I reach beyond myself into the ineffable, and that's where I find you, my love
4. sloop john b
1. surfing is great, you should try it
2. I have a good vehicle
3. I reach beyond myself into the ineffable, and that's where I find you, my love
4. sloop john b
June 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In honor of Brian Wilson's passing, here are the four categories of Beach Boys songs:
1. surfing is great, you should try it
2. I have a good vehicle
3. I reach beyond myself into the ineffable, and that's where I find you, my love
4. sloop john b
1. surfing is great, you should try it
2. I have a good vehicle
3. I reach beyond myself into the ineffable, and that's where I find you, my love
4. sloop john b
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God Only Knows (Remastered 1996)
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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June 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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RIP Brian Wilson - so much pleasure and wonder. This is my favourite Beach Boys track with vocals isolated to get its full splendour www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOQQ...
Heroes And Villains (A Cappella)
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
RIP Brian Wilson - so much pleasure and wonder. This is my favourite Beach Boys track with vocals isolated to get its full splendour www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOQQ...
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UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!
May 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!
EU to require phone to have decent support and repair options, and energy efficiency ratings. energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list...
April 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
EU to require phone to have decent support and repair options, and energy efficiency ratings. energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list...