🌧️ The rain has finally returned! A huge thank you to our nursery volunteers in Wicklow, Roscommon, Carlow and Waterford who spent months watering thousands of young trees through the dry weather. From seed to saplings, and expanding ancient woodlands. None of it possible without you!💚

Just received to the W. of Ireland this beautifully produced literary artefact from @swanriverpress.bsky.social in Dublin. Hopefully it will explain some things.... #booksky #weirdliterature

There are some days I wake up and think this is the best song ever written. Today is one of them. youtu.be/UflFsC5LDGQ?...

Next Time Around

YouTube video by Sandy Denny - Topic

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Severe, systematic animal abuse has been uncovered at UK 'award-winning' dairy farm supplying Tesco and Müller - exposed by @JoeyCarbstrong The only answer is to #GoVegan 🌱

The greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/

These revelations led to further revelations leading to more NI journalists suing the PSNI for spying on them (if you live outside Ireland, had you heard about this? probably not) www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan...

'A tremendous victory for journalism': Ex-BBC correspondent awarded £20,000 in damages

Vincent Kearney, now RTÉ's northern editor, secured award after MI5 admitted it unlawfully obtained his communications data, with a tribunal finding the breaches occurred repeatedly over a number of y...

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Harbour and Room http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-harbour-and-room-t03206

I just think this is the coolest thing!

Cassini wide-angle camera RGB view of Titan in Saturn's shadow taken on 2009-11-30. A certain Dave Bowman could have made a comment about the number of stars visible. Full quality image available at flic.kr/p/8HmgV9

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920. She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

It's very hard to find stuff you're not looking for

Conor Gallagher@conorgallagher.bsky.social · last wk.

A Government investigation into Aughinish Alumina was unable to get hold of "confidential" documents from Sweden relating to the plant's alleged ownership by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska It turns out the documents are available publicly for a €25 admin fee www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Jupiter 's Circumpolar Cyclones - North Pole - NASA's Juno PJ65 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qjjjrc

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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My SKRAWL 3 story original art page, done with graphite pencils, colour inks, soft pastels and colour pencils. 🤖🐩🐩🤖

Gustaffo Vargas@gustaffovargas.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey folks, this Original Page from my story for SKRAWL #3 and @russellmarkolson gorgeous Cover will be available to catch today at Noon! Just go to www.kickstarter.com/projects/rus... 🔗🐩🐩 #skrawlmagazine

PIPO. Poison in, poison out...

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Interesting LARGE manuscript of astronomical tables that appears to have been copied out years after the earlier publication of the print version. Link to the digital copy of the MS and a slightly longer video description here: find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949... #HistSTM #MedievalSky

Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies@sims-mss.bsky.social · last wk.

Today's manuscript is a copy of the Calendarium and Ephemerides as published by Regiomontanus in 1474. The Calendarium, for 1475-1530, gives information on lunar and solar eclipses, the length of days, and the signs of the zodiac and planets. #medievalsky 🔗 https://bit.ly/44BxXxN

My op-ed in today's "Irish Examiner" The report on the Russian alumina plant in Aughinish allows Irish ministers to claim they examined the issue while sidestepping the harder question of how governments should respond when the evidence is incomplete but the potential consequences are profound.

Monumentally human. The concentration of feeling in Käthe's work speaks through time and informs the present.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · last wk.

Artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) used the genre of Expressionism to stress the emotional toll of poverty, war and grief #womensart

One of our favourite episodes. #NorfolkDay

Radio Lento@radiolento.bsky.social · 2y ago

This week's episode is only 14 minutes long. The light on the beach was fading fast and we didn't want to get lost so we had to pack up! The sound we caught was too precious to keep to ourselves. Please listen and enjoy on repeat! Episode 239 Intertidal zone - night approaching bit.ly/LenDune

London loves, won’t you join us please to discuss this extraordinary book, finally being republished to the admiration it so richly deserves

Martin Koerner@koernputer.bsky.social · last wk.

This book is absolutely miraculous. Delighted to say we have an event at Foyles on the 13th August with @amykey.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social Alice Vincent and Megan Hunter- also 🤞🏼, we shall be recieving a phone call from Joan Barfoot during the event! www.foyles.co.uk/events/unear...

A growing chorus of psychologists, contemplatives, and systems thinkers argue that most of us, and most of our institutions, are running an outdated psychological and spiritual “operating system,” one never built for the converging ecological, economic, and cultural crises we face.

Mr. Gibbons - as always - worth reading, especially when highlighting with such clarity the wilful avoidance of reality here.

John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · last wk.

“While EU states like Denmark, Holland race ahead in green transition, Ireland is mired in the past. Our politicians seem more focused on engaging in populist follies like facilitating chaotic rural one-off housing” My take on #climate crisis in @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/wildf...

René Lalique for House of Worth. Perfume bottle Dans la nuit (In the Night), c. 1924.

Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Seven Sisters Dreaming, 2016 from tbe Shared Skies Exhibition #WomensArt

Anyone interested in one of the hardback copies, here you go: www.abebooks.com/book-search/...

Looking at footage from the various parts of the world currently on fire alongside routine headlines about the unchecked growth of data centres and their energy/water usage, it's as if we're burning the planet in order to livestream it's death. 1/2

Revisited Robert Altman's eerie psychological rural horror IMAGES (1972). Big Polanski vibes with the claustrophobic nightmare logic and shifting identities, enhanced with an excellent Penderecki-esque experimental sound design by Stomu Yamashta (working alongside the score by John Williams)...

This legislation was revoked because Ireland’s application to join the EEC could not proceed with such a misanthropic law on our books. Europe (particularly the ECHR) has been instrumental bodies in the fight for equality and human rights for Ireland.

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 2w ago

This Day in Labor History: July 25, 1973. The Irish Minister of Finance, Richie Ryan, introduced the Civil Service (Employment of Married Women) Act, which ended the nation’s long-standing ban on married women working for the government. Let's talk about this important moment!