It was such a difficult time. Always think of this photo as well as online teaching to lonely students who were often staying with their elderly relatives and super-isolating to keep their grannies safe.

What about the retrofit to comply w environmental standards for EU civic buildings?

A friend said ‘I reject Santa and all his evil
works’ when becoming(?) a godfather during a christening ceremony and it reminds me of that!

Adam and Santa

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

every time a journalist discusses the 'fuel crisis' they should lead with the number of people killed and displaced by this illegal war

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 E 29, the Book of Fermoy. Commissioned by David Mór Roche, it includes poems and prose relating to the medieval Roche family as well as a duanaire (poembook) containing copies of poems attributed to Gearóid Iarla, 3rd earl of Desmond (1338-1398).

Israel’s Latest Genocide Is Against the Shias of Lebanon. Why Is the World Silent? Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends?

"We cannot afford to look away. If the West truly believes in universal human rights, then those rights must apply to Shia Muslims in southern Lebanon as much as they do to Jews in Israel, Yazidis in Iraq, or Ukrainians in the Donbas."
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Watch The Finishing Line - BFI Player In this surrealist short, John Krish and Michael Gilmour tell a perilous tale at the railway station. Mind the gap - this is going to get scary.

Thanks, really great and so succinct. One of my earliest memories was of horror-filled British public safety films aimed at children including the notorious 'Finishing Line' about railway trespassing (1977) that was particularly brutalising for a young audience player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A US soldier's Zippo lighter from the Vietnam War (1972). 📷 google images

chat w Iranian friend earlier - so so distressing including the overwhelming focus on oil prices rather than horrific suffering

I will never forget the time I told an archivist that I was interested the history of threatening letters, and they brought out these paper effigies with tiny nooses round their necks that had been sent anonymously to a mine operator in C19 California 😳 🗃️

I’d never thought to use primary sources for historical research. Very cool.

Glad he knows it would be respectful to up his clothing game too @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Oh, British Museum, would you just give the things back to Greece. Athens has a superb museum now, and spaces created for them to be displayed

You have loads of other stuff your ancestors stole from other cultures,

you’ll be grand

can you do the commentary instead of Ronnie W?

From the vault, lets remind ourselves of how Ronnie Whelan watched the World Cup

Uncomfortably it seems...

A Giant Vulva Is Walking the Streets of Europe Dressed in flowing pink robes, artist and activist Dee Mulrooney — or “Growler” — is urging the British Museum to return a Síle na Giġ statue back to Ireland.

here's someone doing her best to repatriate at least one object in the British Museum for Ireland hyperallergic.com/dee-mulroone...

In fairness...National Museum of Ireland have been far better than many British museums at repatriation actions and policies.

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.

From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Book Launch: Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 A book launch for Stephen O'Neill's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, with guest speaker Dr Tom Walker.

the Dublin launch of my book: 22 April, 6.30 at Notre Dame Dublin, O'Connell House, 58 Merrion Square. Bígí Linn.
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You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her.

Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women

Congratulations Jessie Buckley on her big win! Great to see a focus on 17th century women. Check out this article on Irish women alive during the time of Hamnet 💚

@clodaghfinn.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

yes...v passionate sculptor proud of his work on the statues, her final act of love is to make them come 'alive' for believers distraught by the Land War. He's deeply devout so he's conflicted re the sex but happy his work has re-animated belief, she goes & creates her own visions through film...

Black and white image of statue of Christ hoisted on crane, still from Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960)

the apparitions were very tied in with new statues being installed in a nearby church so could be fellini-esque

well done everyone, that was amazing

Lady Lavery or Markiewicz prob a bit obvious tho LL & Collins having a fling during the Treaty negotiations would be fun...but sthing obscure would be better. A woman who set up a magic lantern in Knock to fake the apparitions and then escaped to become a secret pioneer of film making would be cool

Queen Maeve, Táin Bó Cúailgne, duets with Iarla Ó Lionáird

there was a musical called the Pirate Queen about her - music by Schönberg and Boublil (of Les Mis), but it was one of the biggest ever flops in Broadway history...