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noisysilence.ie Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/ Cochlear implant recipient #accessibility dDeaf/gigs

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 15h
On the surface, this looks very bad. We need a clear explanation from @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 5h
Why I'm excited about this week's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: #Optogenetics might have huge implications in the future for cochlear implants, like moving from dial-up internet to fibre broadband.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 7h
This is how it’s done
Venn diagram of the overlap between Bank Robbers, Mom taking off your sweater, Preachers, and DJs

Bank Robbers
Everyone on the floor
I'm not asking twice
Put your hands in the air
Mom
Taking Off
Your Sweater
Are you with me?
If you don't listen to me there will be severe consequences
Preachers
@mattsurelee
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 7h
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Worth another look considering yesterday’s news.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Government promises that this budget will finally help parents, provided their child is a greyhound.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you happen to be near Kilkenny next week: Details in alt text
Poster for Finding Gibbet Hill event. 
A man with a cochlear implant is before a large open newspaper. 

The Lost Bram Stoker Story: A Conversation with
Brian Cleary
Irish Sign Language Awareness Week may have just finished, but we're already looking forward to welcoming Brian Cleary to Mayfair Library for a fascinating evening exploring his rediscovery of a long-lost Bram Stoker short story.
After experiencing sudden hearing loss, Brian pursued his lifelong passion for the author of Dracula and made an extraordinary discovery. Hidden within the archives of the National Library for over 130 years was Gibbet Hill, a forgotten Bram Stoker story that went on to attract international attention from the New York Times, The Guardian and the BBC.
Join Brian as he shares the story behind this remarkable literary find and the journey that brought it to light.
Thursday, 15 October 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Mayfair Library
Live ISL interpretation provided
Booking essential
056 779 4174
mayfair@kilkennylibrary.ie
#ISL #IDSL #IWDP26 #HomeofHalloween #Cultur2026
#kilkennylibraries
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That time is drawing near again, when the walls between the land of the living and the land of the dead grow thin . . . #SpeirGorm #Samhain #Halloween
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For Flann O’Brien’s (Brian O’Nolan’s) birthday: The Dubliners reciting The Workman’s Friend: When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night – A pint of plain is your only man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYud...
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A Pint of Plain - The Dubliners
YouTube video by stecaswell
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Optogenetics is amazing. So great to see it recognised with the Nobel Prize. It might pave the way to cochlear implants with way better sound quality👇 bsky.app/profile/clea...
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This week for my #calling353 series in @thejournal.ie I look at Seán Ó Cuirínn’s translation of Dracula into Irish. (I’m doing all spooky topics for October!) The tale behind the Irish translation of Dracula is something to really get your teeth into jrnl.ie/7180942
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The tale behind the Irish translation of Dracula is something to really get your teeth into
The scholar who carried out the translation was so respected that he was approached by the government and asked to take his pick of novels.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/02/3 Concepts of hell
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so cool!!! I was sent a review copy of a lost (now found) Bram Stoker story!!! 😍😍😍
Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker   Back cover explaining how the lost story was found.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Harvest
A sunny kitchen with a large silver bowl of red /green apples some with the leaves attachedLarge bowl of apples on a patch of grass
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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 01/10/2026
IT BEGINS. #Booktober 2026 kicks off with Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker, rediscovered in our amazing @nlireland.bsky.social 2 years ago by Brian Cleary, and republished in this beautiful edition with the proceeds going to the Charlotte Stoker Fund. #spookybooks #31sp #halloweencountdown
Gibbet Hill and a ghostly friend
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kieran Healy, on that tourism graph. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
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Trump Tourism Effects
In the past day or two on social media I kept seeing this graph from a Semafor story on the declining volume of international visitors to the United States. Semafor Graph. It seems to show, and was be...
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks for posting!!
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🙏 💙📚 rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine the pitch for this show: "It's a watchdog program with me ringleading a bunch of young guys in suits. We'll do hard-hitting investigations between showing phallic vegetables and a dog that says "sausages". Half the country will watch every Sunday."
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The soundtrack for the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show is now available. I loved the music in the show so I'm delighted this is out. By the hugely talented Oli Julian. open.spotify.com/album/4twL7m...
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Leonard and Hungry Paul (Music from the Programme) - Compilation by Oli Julian | Spotify
Oli Julian · compilation · 2026 · 14 songs
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
love this 1620s vision of luxury ... macaroons ... parmesan ... swan!
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A modest proposal
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Steve Schulze @sschulze.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Still makes me sad that we got so close to a Spielberg produced, animated Monkey Island movie
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is there going to be a pretend goalie?
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fair play to Bazunu for putting his head above the parapet and trying. Shame on the FAI.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The fact that he believes that evil implies competence tells you all you need to know about this guy.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"We each have responsibility to radically re-evaluate our own complicity in their power." I'm not normally one to recommend marking books but The Nerd Reich requires several different colour highlighters - there are so many quotes you will want to refer back to. My thoughts, condensed:
Absolutely essential to understanding what is happening in America, and the wider world, right now. Durán is an excellent journalist who, without hyperbole, lays out the facts, the timeline, and the men (it is mostly men) who are at the core of the concerted effort by intersecting parties to destroy America in its current form. He puts a spotlight on the motivating ideologies active in Silicon Valley, and how they connect and empower a disproportionately influential group of men (it is mostly men) in venture capital, crypto, Project 2025, the Republican Party, a new wave of "Christians", the military industrial complex, and a handful of billionaires. It is a clarion call to action, and ultimately hopeful. Durán offers broad solutions to set us back on the right path, as societies and as individuals: "We each have responsibility to radically reevaluate our own complicity in their power."
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s amazing! It’s currently doing the rounds in our house. I’ll be recommending it widely.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In the same vein👇 bsky.app/profile/clea...
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Looking forward to this book & their optimistic approaches to the situation we are in.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starting soon www.totallydublin.ie/festival/bal...
Free
FESTIVAL OF HISTORY
- 2026 -
Part of Dublin Festival of History
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 5.00 - 6.30pm
The Sue Ryder Shop, Five Lamps, Dublin 1
The Village that Vanished The story of the North Strand
Bombing with historian
Brian Tracey
Brian Tracey.
Bram Stoker Bloodlines
The family story behind Dracula with historian and genealogist
Douglas Appleyard.
NO NEED TO BOOK - JUST TURN UP
NORTH EAST INNER CITY
FÉILE NA STAIRE
BAILE ATHA CUATH |
DUBLIN FESTIVAL OF HISTORY
NORTH STRAND
Comhoirle Cothrach
Bholle Atne Clath
Dublin City Council
Bram Stoker Bloodlines
Douglas Appleyard explores the Dublin family history and extraordinary legacy of Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula.
Sue Ryder Shop, Five Lamps
5.00-6.30pm
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lidl Chocolate COATED Bourbon Creams
Biscuit packaging. Package photo has two bourbon creams thickly coated in chocolate
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Things are stirring.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Me, an intellectual, judging my family for watching Traitors while I read.
Me, an intellectual, meme image of a snooty 18th century gentleman with ruffled white collar and cuffs wearing a brown suit
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s a place in Clare which the English call Lisfarbegnagommaun. In Irish it is called Lios Fear Beag na gCamán, the ring fort of the tiny hurley-wielding men. Some say that mushrooms growing nearby made the little lads visible.
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From the deerstalker to the séance. Arthur Conan Doyle’s last novel was intended to convert readers to spiritualism and help avert the apocalypse, but has bewildered publishers and readers ever since. I spoke to Prof Christine Ferguson to find out more: www.thenational.scot/culture/2656...
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From séances to print: The strange journey of a lost Conan Doyle chapter
YOU’VE surely heard of Sherlock Holmes, but what of The Land Of Mist? Over a century after his creation, Arthur Conan Doyle’s deerstalker-clad…
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wee reminder that we are DOING A THING in November, do come! www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
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NCH Landmarks: The Jimmy Cake - Brains | National Concert Hall
The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.
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Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So delighted to see this feature on my new scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist In today’s National! Thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for the interview!
A newspaper article with a photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle
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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More from my PISA report dorking: Average reading scores for OECD-23 countries have plummeted from 501 in 2012 to 466 in 2025. Similar drops for math and science. What does a 35-point drop mean? The OECD says 20 points is about what 15-year-olds typically learn in one year.
Chart showing average PISA test scores for OECD-23 countries from 2000 to 2025. They are steady/rising slightly from 2000 to 2012, then decline sharply. 
E.g., reading was above 501 in 2012, 492 in 2018, 482 in 2022, and 466 in 2025.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can’t recommend this book highly enough. Absolutely loved it. Tied together disparate dipshits from N*zis to Jacob Rees Moggs’ father through to Thiel, broligarchs, crypto & AI tools & the grifter in chief. Read it & tell everyone about it.
THE NERD REICH
SILICON VALLEY FASCISM
AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY

Gil Durán

Bright red book. The Berlin TV tower is in the background. And the Berlin skyline looking west from AlexanderPlatz
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A thread of election posters from Berlin this week. Random order. Non-headshot posters only. Forgive my translations in the Alt text. TW AfD bullshit.
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FOR BERLIN TO WORK.
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