New #missionimpossible movie
Cruise is the anti anti-god or stunts? Yes! Script? Ehhhhh....

Knight rider - Spanish guitar cover YouTube video by Bojan Marsetic

Spanish guitar KNIGHT RIDER is my new drivin' around theme

Sitting in a bar and I just realised I've been in this space in its various incarnations since 1997... Gawd.

Watching an "unofficial" stream of a sports game. It's in Arabic and my Palestinian wife is doing a live translation of the game commentary... #mixedfamily #winning

Anyone who hates libraries is full of shelf-loathing.

A love letter to libraries A modified and updated version of a post from early 2024 on the joys of libraries, especially for the many new subscribers since then.

A love letter to libraries, on Ireland Reads Day.

juliangirdham.substack.com/p/a-love-let...

Why public libraries are ideal spaces to promote media literacy A new project will upskill librarians to equip people with the knowledge and skills to navigate a media saturated age

Why public libraries are ideal spaces to promote media literacy - love this from Ireland https://buff.ly/4kdp0kE #MediaLiteracy

If you wanna know who the assholes are in any country, just look at those messing with libraries and trying to ban books. Those are always the assholes.

Think about libraries of things. In more and more libraries you can check out things like power tools, vacuum cleaners, cake pans. Commodities go in, the world we want comes out. More libraries please!

Solidarity with all fellow library staff. This is shameful and incredibly upsetting. #fightback #libraryjoy

@davidpierce.xyz re: Apple SE =stupidly expensive.

As best you can, ignore him.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. - Victor Hugo

The cure for everything is a little bit more reading. - Michael

Landscape format in acrylics. Very sunny day. Foreground is brilliantly lit uneven old graveyard with yellow and lime grasses, and black shadows on the unlit side of the gravestones. A very dark high stone wall is at the edge of it running across the picture sloping down from left to right. On the other side is a road with a row of several 2-story buildings, blue yellow and red, on the far side, retail and residential. Slate roofs are pale blues and greys, windows are dark blue with white or pale blue trim. Behind them green foliage of trees, very dark on shadow sides, reaches into the increasingly rich blue sky. Signed bottom left in red: Liam Daly

Things feel a bit grey today, so have a primary colour #painting of west Cork. "Glengarriff" came out of a time I'd spent a wonderfully serene night down by the water then cycled up to the village where I hung out at the cemetery before cycling on up over the Caha pass to Kerry.
#SpeirGorm #JanuArty

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"

Historians: "that's a nazi salute"

Average person: "that's a nazi salute"

The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

I keep my twitter account open to just peer into the abyss. The use of that sign.. that's just too damn much. #leave

'Solstice' by Michael Longley

Ooooohhh... Sensational stuff!

Tory top cafe on Marlboro Street.

Ok.. yeah... It's Christmas..

Removing books from rotation and I can't help but think that everything has it's time. As valuable or as vital as it was once, it moves on eventually.

Got the snow.. now worried about falling on my ass due to slipping on ice...

I'm hoping for an absolute tonne of snow!

On the bus home, the wife and I see a rainbow. To which she says " Quick, let's follow it! We might find the Irish economy..."

@reckless.bsky.social the show and tell seg..how about the "7 out of 10 round"?

Ooh oooh.. "what would dieter think?"

Hah. Says you.

I mean.. just look at it! #beamish