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By the time you finish reading this post you will have been confronted with some 26 examples of an Irish invention, can you guess what it is?

Found cat in Francis St in Dublin 8

Found cat in Francis St in Dublin 8

Cat found on Francis St area of Dublin 8.

If anyone knows this cat please DM me

Please share and share

#MissingCat #FrancisStreet #Dublin8

Not all the angelic powers are in Heaven, y'know? There are days when God says ro one or another of them, "Hey, it's *your* day to walk with the one who flies the Bat."

Brilliant, geeky, healthy news... well done to @bengoldacre.bsky.social et al.

Print featuring a tabby cat with back to the viewer sitting next to a small harbour with a boat and houses to the far side, a lobster pot is to the left side of the cat

Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

Nobody needs A.I. but you know what we did actually need? Those new washing up liquid bottles that stand on their head and are always ready to squeeze and don't dribble. Can we do more of that stuff and less tech bro stuff please

Someone wearing a Lithuania Olympics uniform by Issey Miyake. There's a cape across the back that says "Lithuania." Also pleated, flowy sleeves, puffy chest, cinched torso, and close fitting shirt below the waist point. Wearer has metallic pants and white sneakers.

The hood on the uniform is pleated, so it has lines everywhere. The hood is half zipped, so it's covering part of the person's face.

Bunch of athletes in the Lithuania Olympics uniform. The capes across the banks say "Lithuania." There's a Olympics logo on the seat.

Similarly shaped Olympics uniforms for different countries, so they feature different colors in accordance with those countries.

Lithuanian Olympic uniforms by Issey Miyake for the 1992 games in Barcelona. This was Lithuania's first time in the Olympics after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Fabric was cut and shaped using heat, not scissors or sewing machines.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This effort has raised significant 💰 💰 💰 for the Charlotte Stoker Fund. The fund is supporting research that will prevent hearing loss in vulnerable newborns. Exciting updates coming soon.

The question isn't whether people should wear high-viz/helmets. People should wear whatever makes them feel safer. Question is whether mandatory high-viz/helmets is good public policy - it's not

Protected lanes, safe junction design, more cyclists, and better driver behaviour are good public policy

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

A flock of geese flying in formation over the silhouette of the crest of a hill against a pale orange to pale blue evening sky.

A cloud of Brent geese descend from the pale blue sky on the shallows of Dublin bay at dusk on Imbolc. #Speirgorm

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.

In the Irish language, the goldfinch is known as 'lasair choille' (pronounced 'lasser-quilla'), which means...

The Flame of the Forest! 🔥

And once again, a personal appeal if anyone knows a hay supplier in any county around Dublin/Wicklow, I’ve lost mine for the coming months (rain crisis) and only have about a 3,week supply left for a small equine herd 😳

Today is 2026-01-31, the sun sets at 17:05:55 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 hour, 00 mins and 12 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack

A detail from St. Wilfrid & St. John Berchmans, a 1927 stained glass window by the inimitable Harry Clarke. Originally in the Convent of Notre Dame, Glasgow, and now in the Stained Glass Museum, Ely.

A round gold brooch with an enamelled portrait in the centre. Hanging from the bottom are three amethyst beads

This exquisite 6th-century brooch features an oval sardonyx stone cameo with a female portrait bust positioned in the centre of a gold disc. This is decorated with a cabled border and circles and shapes made of fine wire, or filigree.

Why don’t we ever see snakes slithering in the snow? 🐍

These cold-blooded creatures can’t hibernate - but they do have their own special skill to survive the snow and cold. ❄️

Find out all about it in this week’s Surprising Science!

Letter to Irish Times The notion that ever more garish clothing will compensate for distracted driving is a convenient fiction. No amount of fluorescent fabric can counteract the motorist scrolling on their phone or the driver travelling too fast.

“The notion that ever more garish clothing will compensate for distracted driving is a convenient fiction. No amount of fluorescent fabric can counteract the motorist scrolling on their phone or the driver travelling too fast.”

Sophie McDermott
#cycling #driving #danger #roadsafety

Letter from Dr John Legge responding to the recent discourse on proposals to mandate high-visibility clothing for vulnerable road users.

The first treatment for childhood leukemia, the immunosuppressant that made early organ transplants possible, the anti-viral used to treat chickenpox and shingles, an anti-malaria drug that treats pneumonia in HIV/AIDS patients, and techniques that led to AZT. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🦠

An téacs 'Aire a thabhairt duit féin sa bhaile' ar chúlra glas. 'Lig do scíth. Bain úsáid as paraicéiteamól nó iobúpróifein le pian nó fiabhras a mhaolú. Ól neart uisce chun go leor uisce a choinneáil sa chorp'.

I gcás an-chuid gnáththinnis laethúla, amhail slaghdán, casacht nó scornach tinn, ní gá antaibheathach a ghlacadh agus is féidir iad a chóireáil sa bhaile.

Faigh amach cén chaoi iad a chóireáil sa bhaile agus cathain ba cheart cabhair a lorg: bit.ly/49KkTYZ

Public consultation launched on introducing 30km/h zones in Cork The public consultation is open now until Friday, 13th February.

Thanks to 96fm for reporting my comments on the public consultation open now on 30km/h zones in the city.

The guidelines talk about residential areas, but for many areas the consultation will be very important. Speak up and don't assume where you live will be automatically considered "residential".

Clodagh Finn: Why Abbey playwright Teresa Deevy deserves to be a household name Teresa Deevy's plays about people on the margins looking for a voice were out of favour in the conservative Ireland of the 1930s, writes Clodagh Finn

Teresa Deevy, the playwright once described as 'the Irish Chekhov', died #otd in 1963. Teresa lost her hearing when she was 19 but learned to lip-read in the theatres of London. She returned home to write plays that gave voice to women in the margins.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Sunrise is back to before 8:30am tomorrow and in 10 days time sunset will be after 5pm again 🙌

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I don't use LLMs. They're just stochastic parrots that deliver a string of text that looks like the most likely response to a question that a consensus-human would emit. It's not an answer, it's an answer-shaped object that's wrong 25-75% of the time. Utterly useless to me.

“We are here, and this is now.”