Simultaneously lush & spacious, the latest @orenambarchi.bsky.social is a beaut… orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/cooked
Cooked, by Oren Ambarchi
2 track album
orenambarchi.bandcamp.com
Seán Clancy
@seanlclancy.bsky.social
Composer & performer working across the Hibernian archipelago. Ad Astra Fellow, Assistant Professor in UCD. Likes acoustic & electronic sound, minimal & experimental stuff. Formerly Senior lecturer in music at RBC
Wadada Leo Smith is 84 years old and his chops on this latest release are incredible… What a hero wadadaleosmith-bam.bandcamp.com/album/conste...
Constellations And Hemispheres, by Wadada Leo Smith
5 track album
wadadaleosmith-bam.bandcamp.com
One of the cool things about having an 8 year old is that you’ll find a Lego snake hanging from a lamp and think to yourself ‘now why did he think to put that there?’ Whilst simultaneously listening to him sing ‘fart, fart, fart, fart…’ to the tune of Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ in the other room…
Just booked my blood donation appointment on the website www.giveblood.ie - v quick & easy to do. If you can do it, it is really the easiest way to make a positive contribution this month! You just lie back and then get a bag of Taytos to recover! Win win! 🩸 @givebloodireland.bsky.social
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive through violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies, and the destruction of healthcare and vital infrastructure.
Three years on: Israel is asphyxiating Gaza and dismantling the means of survival | MSF
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive.
msf.me
Participating in a 1-hour walkout by #IFUT members over the Irish government’s refusal to enter into pay negotiations for public sector workers, including in #HigherEducation. ✊ #UCD
Members of my union, IFUT, will have a one hour work stoppage today, from 12-1, as part of the broader public sector union dispute. Read about it here: www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... - solidarity welcome on World Teachers Day
IFUT Public Service Dispute Hub 2026 | Irish Federation of University Teachers
ifut.ie
One of the great masters of music @daviesrhodri.bsky.social has joined Bluesky… give him a follow there…
Am blasting the latest by @sarahdavachi.bsky.social and of course it’s fabulous… sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/the-wi...
The Will of Tongues, by Sarah Davachi
13 track album
sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com
🧵🧵🧵 Some things I’ve enjoyed listening to over the past week or so part I Beautiful & distinct work from Sylvia Lim anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/flare
Flare, by Sylvia Lim
12 track album
anothertimbre.bandcamp.com
Great news! The article is subscriber only, so I can’t see the full story, but hopefully it can be used not just as a public performance space, but a place where young people can experiment and develop work.
Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · last wk.Irish National Opera has bought an old church on Abbey Street, to turn it into a performing arts space. The chapel on the ground floor is too small for a theatre “but it's the kind of place where you could have recitals, a piano player or string quartet”.
Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
wsj.com
I love this poem a lot… When I was a student I made an electronic piece with Frank O Hara reading it on a cracked version of Ableton 5… hard not to read the poem without hearing Frank O Hara’s voice…
RRRMMM@strongmisgiving.bsky.social · last wk.For National Poetry Day, Frank O'Hara
![Poem [“Lana Turner has collapsed!”]
By Frank O’Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
lana turner has collapsed!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:avdefhwuiifkhljghynjyah6/bafkreidu3ic42elfvmihjlbr43tln2azuxwozjjcbe37737ef4k3cblhem)
Was a real treat to catch the beautiful blissed out drones by @eimearreidy.bsky.social & @sunkenhum.bsky.social last night. Preceded by visceral drumming full of colour by @nyahhrecords.bsky.social. Another stunner by your favourite promotor’s favourite promotor @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social
Saw both of these ledges in Dublin last night, and they were fabulous. Highly recommended!
Baba Yaga's Hut@babayagashut.bsky.social · 2w agoNEXT WEEK! Saturday October 10th at The Old Church - @sunkenhum.bsky.social & @eimearreidy.bsky.social + Kit Grill Tickets on sale now via Dice link.dice.fm/S48525ba930d @nyahhrecords.bsky.social @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social
Georgian wine is excellent because the lads sing and dance to the grapes during all stages of the process…
Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · last wk.Batumi, Georgia where winemaking traditions go back 8,000 years. Per UNESCO, Georgia is where wine was invented dating back 6,000 B.C. The Qvevri wine-making technique is a cherished Georgian tradition, predominantly in villages with unique grape varieties. IG: @ earthpix
The kids were big into the Pope L. class today. This made me happy...
Over 100,000 public sector workers in areas such as health, education and local authorities are beginning industrial action today in the form of a work-to-rule
Over 100,000 public sector workers begin work-to-rule
Over 100,000 public sector workers in areas such as health, education and local authorities are beginning industrial action today in the form of a work-to-rule.
rte.ie
Data centres • Increase our electricity bills • Pollute our water • Increase unemployment via AI • Accelerate climate + eco collapse • Offer NOTHING to ordinary people in return Why is the Irish government pushing us headlong towards them? www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
New data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’
Oireachtas committee hears projections suggest installations to account for about 35% of electricity demand by 2035
irishtimes.com
It really matters that we continue to make spaces - physical irl places we can see and touch and occupy together - to organize in, unmediated by a screen.
20,000 secondary school teachers are starting industrial action next week because the government refuse to pay them properly but sure let’s spend €300m on training people to use the fraud machine that turns your brain to porridge
Irish Independent@independent.ie · 2w agoHigher Education Minister pushes for €300m to fund AI upskilling in budget talks www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
I’m in a group of about 50 people where the majority of what we do is send poor mobile phone photos of the moon to each other. Tonight is a good night for this group…
The Football Association of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Parades Commission making decisions this weekend…
Tax payers money being allocated in part by LLMs is a poor look…
John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 2w agoHad a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
So this service takes cars off the road? Reduces carbon emissions? Travels long distances in a short space of time? Drastically reduces commuting time thus improving the wellbeing of our citizens? No Let’s never build something like this and increase the cost of our existing poor public transport.
Conor@ernekid.bsky.social · 2w agoMicheál Martin riding the subway in New York when at the same time increasing public transit fares in Ireland
Exclusive: New report says Ireland could have built 50,000 new homes over the five years of the data centre boom - and cannot “afford” to continue building. Authors called for a moratorium on new data centres - and have hit out at government comparisons painting them as “our German car industry.”
Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 3w agoExclusive first look at a new report on data centres and Ireland coming up on @virginmedianews.bsky.social at 5.30pm. Its authors say Ireland cannot afford to continue the 'unsustainable' data centre boom - and have rejected Government comparisons with the German car industry.
New release from my teacher's teacher 🤘🤘🤘 recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/lumin-...
Luminétudes, by Ivo Malec
4 track album
recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com