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18 Aug 16:06

When The Boys Came Out To Play by John Mackel

I went to plenty of great sessions when I was in Belfast. One of the best was during Belfast Tradfest, out at The Hatfield with Bríd Harper, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, and Michael Rooney. I ended up sitting next a lovely local fiddler named John. I saw him again the next d...

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18 Aug 15:06

Ordinary Abundance

ordinaryabundance.com/

All the items in this room were once out of reach; some not yet invented, others too rare or costly for the vast majority of people. Today, most of us lucky enough to live with them walk past without a second thought.

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17 Aug 20:00

Monday session

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17 Aug 17:27

Reading Paddy on the Hardwood by Rus Bradburd

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16 Aug 11:42

Polytropus

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey comes at just at the right time for me. I spent the last two years reading the Robert Fagles translation, finishing it just a few months ago. When I heard that Christopher Nolan was adapting Homer’s poem, I thought it made perfe...

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15 Aug 09:42

Chíne tréile

When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made. The emphasis at Oideas Gael is on conversational Irish, so our teacher would often put us into groups of ar...

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13 Aug 17:00

The Computer That Helped Win World War II - IEEE Spectrum

spectrum.ieee.org/colossus-computer-ieee-milestone

The unveiling ceremony is scheduled for September 29th:

The Milestone plaque recognizing Colossus is to be displayed outside Block H at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, England.

The plaque is to read:

Six Colossus codebreaking computers operated in this building in 1944–1945. Designed by Thomas H. Flowers of the British Post Office, they enabled deciphering of encrypted radio messages transmitted between German commands across occupied Europe, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. The resulting military intelligence saved countless lives and helped shorten World War II. As the first successful large-scale application of digital electronics to computing, Colossus anticipated subsequent computer developments.

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13 Aug 17:00

Oh Hello Ana - Towards a personal online third-space

ohhelloana.blog/mkdn/

I’m quite touched that I make an appearance in this great talk from Ana.

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13 Aug 17:00

Against Doomerism – Terence Eden’s Blog

shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/against-doomerism/

Doomerism always feels to me like a psyop designed to keep people dispirited.

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12 Aug 16:51

> By the side of the train tracks the stinging nettles are suffering from the drought. They look sad — like they never knew what they are but have just been told. — Denise Wilton

By the side of the train tracks the stinging nettles are suffering from the drought. They look sad — like they never knew what they are but have just been told.

— Denise Wilton

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12 Aug 10:30

Blink and you’ll miss it, but apparently I was in a BBC news report from Belfast last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyg3Gu1f-p4

Blink and you’ll miss it, but apparently I was in a BBC news report from Belfast last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyg3Gu1f-p4

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11 Aug 16:24

xkcd: Holes

xkcd.com/3266/

Exactly one of these ridiculously deep holes in the Earth is dug by hand.

It’s about 2 miles from my house.

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10 Aug 16:39

An tuath ’s ceart

I spent the last three weeks in the north of Ireland. Myself and Jessica flew to Belfast where we spent the first night. We managed to get to a session that evening where we were warmly welcomed. The next day we travelled to Donegal. A train from Belfast to Derry. A bus fr...

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09 Aug 12:00

Girls In Their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien

I really liked Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls so when I saw a copy of Girls In Their Married Bliss for £1 in a local charity shop, I snapped it up even though it had the worst cover you could possibly imagine. This is the second and final sequel to The Country Girls which...

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08 Aug 17:12

Reading When The Boys Came Out To Play by John Mackel.

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07 Aug 18:12

Friday evening street session in Belfast

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07 Aug 13:12

Fiddletastic Friday afternoon session in Belfast

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07 Aug 12:03

Witchy Friday morning session in Belfast

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06 Aug 21:36

Róis agus Huartán beo i mBèal Féirste!

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06 Aug 16:27

The Taoiseach just gatecrashed our session.

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06 Aug 13:09

Thursday morning session in Belfast

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06 Aug 09:15

Radiant Star by Ann Leckie

I absolutely loved Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, particularly the first book, Ancillary Justice which blew me away when I first read it. Since then I’ve enjoyed the other books she’s written in the same universe, dealing with the fallout of the events in the original...