A Dürer-drawn celestial chart on a broadside with text and image parts. The image part looks like long lines travelling.
You see a Dürer-drawn celestial chart: an analog computer from the early sixteenth century. Have a seat, and enjoy this short paper instrument's 🧵 for #skystorians and more:
A cast of William Blake's death mask currently on display in Dublin.
Blake's spirit seemed to project into our own time this morning... (Death mask on display at the National Gallery in Dublin). #williamblake #dublin #romanticism.
Detail showing the sun from William Blake's 'Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils'.
Looking closely at William Blake's 'Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils' in the National Gallery in Dublin you feel the heat of his mental fire as if the image would be hot to the touch. #williamblake
Samuel Palmer's 'A Hilly Scene' currently showing as part of the William Blake exhibition at the National Gallery in Dublin. 2/2
Close up image of the crescent moon in a Samuel Palmer painting.
Fascinated by trying to work out are those intended features on the surface of the moon or artifacts of the artist's technique? As a physical image it continually flickers back and forth between these two possibilities in front of you. 1/2
Dark building frame a triangle of morning sky by the docks in Dublin.
April triangles. Morning light down by the docks in Dublin, 20.04.26
#light #perspectice #shadow
Photo showing Tori Amos performing in Dublin, 19th April 2016
Photo showing the last light of the day over the Grand Canal Basin in Dublin before the Tori Amos concert.
Lights before and during the Tori Amos concert in Dublin last evening. 19.04.2026
#toriamos #dublin
Photo showing light patterns and reflections on the waters of the Grand Canal Basin in Dublin. 19.04.2026
Photo showing light patterns and reflections on the waters of the Grand Canal Basin in Dublin. 19.04.2026
Apt light on the waters before the Tori Amos concert in Dublin last night.
#swirl #toriamos #light #sound
I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
Photograph of a nonchalant pile of books effortlessly improving a messy room.
A tower of #books generates its own metaphors. If you build enough of them eventually your house will qualify as a #henge.
Very interesting thread, especially given the Irish government's subservient relationship to U.S. tech companies
Photograph showing the low morning sun on the land surmounted by a double rainbow.
Prismatic April: low morning sun on the Galway road surmounted by a double 🌈16.04.26
The Arbitration Bill, which govt is guillotining after 1hr of debate tonight, is a threat to Ireland.
The Bill only exists because the previous attempt to ratify CETA was unconstitutional.
Yet Govt are denying proper legislative scrutiny of the new version.
www.socialdemocrats.ie/government-r...
My interview with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social is now live! Tune in to hear me talk about the lore of the stones in my new book, 'Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany,' which will be published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on 20/04!
Who gets means tested and who doesn't when it comes to State supports is worth a study.
17C Dutch painter Gerrit Dou depicts astronomer working into the night, with an hourglass at his side, as he holds a candle to illuminate the text he's consulting, & measures out a distance on his celestial globe (detail, Astronomer by Candlelight, 1650s)
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Early Morning Light In The Garden St Margarets: watercolour and pencil
The Lady of Elche — an iconic Iberian limestone bust from the 4th century BCE.
The intricate headdress, layered jewelry, and calm expression make it one of the most striking pieces of pre-Roman art in Europe.
#AncientIberia #Archaeology #Museums #PreRoman
Listening to the astronauts talking earlier about the colours thry could see in the vicinity of Aristarchus and there they seem to be!
THE NOTEBOOK: A HISTORY OF THINKING ON PAPER, by Roland Allen, on a green background
I’d not be doing social media at all if it wasn’t part of the ‘being a conscientious author’ job description. By which I mean, an author who wants to help their publisher get their book read by as many people as possible. But what’s my book about, and where did it come from?
The Long Good Friday (1980) John Mackenzie
Thanks being there to highlight how our press and broadcasters fail the citizen in acting as the PR Dept. for corporate Ireland. Not so much in thrall to capital as committed members of the same circle.
Another Ryanair growth story.
Another aviation headline.
More free advertising.
Another piece that blissfully skips over the emissions and real-world harm tied to flying.
This is grossly irresponsible.
Photo showing a golden rising moon with telephone cables and tree branches silhouetted in front of it.
Rising gold and lines. 01.04.2026
#luna #selene #lune #القمر #Gealach #ماه
Moonrise, E.Galway 3 hrs before #Artemis is due to launch.
I think a desperate all-hands-on-deck moonshot effort to build EVs affordably is the only thing that could save any western automaker from being completely cooked
Hey, billionaire tech guys; if arts degrees are so worthless why do you keep stealing all the work we created with ours?
Not horror or sci-fi, but one of my favorite movies. 45 years ago today, The Long Good Friday (1981) was released in theaters in the UK., the U.S. release was a year later. Bob Hoskins gives an acting master class in the last scene without saying a word. Pierce Brosnan’s film debut. #HandmadeFilms
A rook looks toward the eastern horizon.
A pale moon rises through veils of citrus.
A rook hears the sound of the rising moon through veils of cirrus. 29th March, 2026.
#moon #gealach #luna #corvid
Image showing the star Regulus in conjunction with Earth's moon on the March sky.
Moonwaxing in conjunction with the star Regulus. 29.03.2026.