The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

What a beautiful photo ♥️

Absolutely magical. Handel's Messiah on Dublin's Fishamble Street this lunchtime, 284 years after it was first performed. Proinnsías Ó Duinn, 85 years young conducting, a living legend.

In Springsteen’s words: everybody has a Hungary heart

Pathway beside the walled deer enclosure in Jenkinstown Park, Kilkenny. This photo was taken under a piercing blue sky, with dappled sun shine casting shadow on the ground through the native Irish broadleaf trees. It’s a lovely Spring afternoon in the sunny South East after +50 days of rain

If you go down to the woods today ♥️☀️🌿🙌🏻

Every child in Ireland will know the Choctaw story after the new Cartoon Saloon film - such a wonderful idea for a story and such a lovely legacy.

What will Tomm Moore do next - Mary Elmes? Rosie Hackett? Saint Brendan? Fungie?

A pair of St. Brigid's crosses on a countertop, next to a mug. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

For the uninitiated, these are Irish Throwing Stars, an ancient weapon wielded by St. Brigid during the 1916 Rising, striking fear into the hearts of the British, and responsible for the eventual smiting of both Cromwell and Thatcher.

Some giant cathedrals have no soul despite the grandeur. Some tiny grottos have a sacred spirit in them, which makes you feel a divine presence. This Paddy’s Day, let's visit the tiny Oratory of the Sacred Heart.

#aurora #northernlights

What.

Black-and-white photograph of American physicist and inventor Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), the first woman to receive a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, working in a laboratory. She is shown in profile, intently focused on adjusting a scientific apparatus with her left hand while peering into a large glass tank possibly filled with liquid. She wears cat-eye glasses, a short-sleeved blouse with a scalloped Peter Pan collar and white cuffs, and her hair is neatly styled in soft waves. The background reveals shelves lined with glass bottles and lab equipment, capturing the mid-20th-century research environment at General Electric where she pioneered non-reflective glass coatings and thin-film technology. The image conveys concentration, precision, and pioneering scientific dedication.

Side-by-side demonstration of Katharine Burr Blodgett's 1938 invention: non-reflective glass. Left: three colorful yarn balls (red, blue, yellow) are clearly visible through coated glass with no glare. Right: the same balls appear blurred and distorted by reflections through ordinary clear glass. A powerful visual proof of the invisible coating that revolutionized lenses, windows, and screens.

Physicist/chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett invented non-reflective glass in 1938.

It revolutionized optics & led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. First woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. She was born #OTD in 1898. #WomenInSTEM #inventor

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

A photo of Marguerite Perey, seated and looking directly at the camera. Her right hand rests on her lap and her left hand is in her pocket. She is wearing a long white lab coat that is tied at the waist.

Physicist Marguerite Perey discovered Francium #OTD in 1939. It was the last element to be found in a naturally occurring state, rather than synthesized by humans. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

Image: Musée Curie/ACJC Collection

Me too! 👌🏻

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.

Let's. Go.

Every woman's purse is an unlicensed pharmacy. One time after a wedding I was able to scrounge two solpadeine, a motillium, a berocca and what later turned out to be the pill by mistake.

Gorgeous winter sun through the trees 😍

I lost one of mine only 10 weeks ago and she too loved the water ♥️ Sending some love to you and wishing you many fond memories today 🌊

Three little Santa gnome decorations that my wife has put in what I can only describe as "an attack formation"

My wife has become obsessed with these little Santa gnome things. I thought they were cute too until she started putting them in groups. Now I find them inexplicably menacing.

Happy Third Sunday of Advent or what is also known as Gaudete Sunday, from latin "rejoice". The lighting of the rose candle today is for "joy". Sisters/brothers in times of sadness or tragedy may you find moments that bring you joy especially in the most simple things.

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm. How it all began.

Jenkinstown on a bright morning ♥️
#loveautumn

My friends:
“Not everyone understands his genius, but it’s real” 🔥

🎃just discovered this’s being released in February & I’m going to get it show my enormous respect for her courage & strength in the face of utter betrayal.What a woman 👏👏👏😊💙📚 #GiselePelicot #booksky #books #courage #read #womensrights

happy bday poet Sylvia Plath, b.1932, Boston.

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

"There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, than the will of evil."
- Gandalf the Gray

happy bday writer Ursula K. Le Guin, b.1929, Berkeley, CA.

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”

Always…!