Patrick McCormack
@patrick-mcc.bsky.social
A wanderer, wonderer and picker-up of unconsidered trifles.
“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
Trump and Musk both want to control America's history
The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI
salon.com
Rain is forecast🤞 But Binks is asleep in the outdoor chair, so I can't bring it in! What to do? 😸 #caturday
A scene from Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, photo by Fergus Bourke, Irish documentary photographer (1934-2004).
"Larry likes his breakfast at 9, brunch at 1030 and lunch at noon with plenty of snacks in between. The rest of the job is a doddle"
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
Good morning. May your shelves be filled with kittens and books.
I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH
Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Happy Adlestrop Day! "Yes. I remember Adlestrop The name, because one afternoon Of heat, the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June." May the blackbird - and all the birds wherever you are - sing for you today 🐦⬛🎶 #adlestrop #poetry #edwardthomas
Eglwys Newydd / St Michael & All Angels, Hafod, Ceredigion. #tombsontuesday #tombtuesday #ceredigion #cymru #cardiganshire #wales
Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂
“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past”. The Ulysses quote that sticks with me most as I find it reassuring to conceive of myself as a portal through which time passes. Here’s the great sweet mother sea at Vico Road. #Bloomsday2023
Summer 1940, painting by Sheffield artist Harry Epworth Allen, 1894-1958 (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery).
Padraig Mulholland of NIPSA has said if the attacks on migrant workers do not stop, the Unions will bring the country to a standstill.
" .. and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again." Given the choice, I would have been much tempted to remain on the isle, and not return to Milan's "brackish joys" 🏝
Nick Acheson@themarshtit.bsky.social · 2mo agoBe not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-moons-last-phase-1944
Saw this and, having read his 'Echolands', thought of @theduncanmackay.bsky.social walking from Cambridge to Colchester!
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2mo ago😄
Wayland's Smithy, Jun 2018. A distinct feeling of the long past, as if the stones themselves had roots like the sheltering grove of beeches'. #tombtuesday #waylandsmithy #wiltshire
