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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Keith Tipton RIP. He was professor of biochemistry in TCD when I was in 1st year. His wit was sharp and often hilarious and sometimes savage.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I have battled Tobacco addiction for over 50.years. I finally got off it by vaping. The usual dose has 5 ingredients, none carcinogenic or known to be harmful and used to cost 4 euro. The Irishc**nts Government just raised to price to 11.5euro Thanks a load

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I saw them live just once, complete with "go go dancers". I vaguely recall that some of them worked in the Golden Dawn just off Temple Bar, Dublin's only macrobiotic restaurant. Full marks for effort by them but I need to check out that song

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Thanks Johann. Bizarre and horrible affair!!

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Thanks Rosena. It was a great turnout in a great location.

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Rivers of London series by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is original and funny and witty and gripping

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Murphy -Beckett The Borstal Boy -Behan At Swim Two Birds -O'Brien The Committments -Doyle Portrait of the Artist -Joyce

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

To be fair, I have heard Italians refer to Venice as the Monasterevin of Italy

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

To quote an old Brian Clough quip... every time you see him on the TV from now on, you can say: "He's met me"

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is a 2 hour video that is part odyssey, part road trip, part investigation of why birders keep lists and is hilarious and witty and cleverly put together. What's not to like? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

YouTube video by owen reiser

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Excellent thread on how to consume stories about autism causes.

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𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎 @loulayorke.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

got a bit of light morning vintage procrastination viewing tee’d up. the opening segments look highly promising

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Percy Grainger's free music machine

YouTube video by Robotussin Vintage Synths

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Penncat @pennicat.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Damn it all, their advantage is so huge that mildly athletic men have been switching gender in droves just to get to the Olympics. Like you DON’T, because that would be weird and much too much to do with your entire life if you weren’t actually trans. And, as the numbers prove, isn’t happening.

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The Sabine's is overexposed both to the elements and my camera

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I'm just back from 8 days seawatching from the Bridges of Ross in the west of Ireland. 355 sabine's gulls on one of the days.

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

She's an Irish woman - Kitty O'Brien is her name.

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

You really aren't going to get a better example of how the British media works than the contrasting coverage of two Irish authors this week. The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.

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KevTheRev @kevtherev.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The entire journalistic team from Al Jazeera stationed in and reporting on Gaza, has been killed. 💔💔💔 🙏🕯️

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2025

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 07/08/2025

📣 Palm oil is a *terrible* climate solution! I don’t repeat topics in my column, but this month I made an exception. HVO is being marketed even more aggressively as a miracle “drop in” fuel for everything from homes to buses to data centres. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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HVO is a climate ‘quick fix’ that could be worse than fossil fuels

At a Time of Climate Crisis: There are serious questions over the sustainability of hydrotreated vegetable oil and the industries that are promoting its use

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

So I'm watching a modern London version of a Sherlock Holmes story and I see a front door with the number 221b. I Google the address of SH and I see variants of the search including "Where did the real Sherlock Holmes live"? And there I was thinking it was fiction

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

It was beautifully wet and windy, courtesy of Storm Floris

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

First day this year seawatching. 31 wilson's petrels seen from the Bridges of Ross from 6.30am until 6.30pm

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Suzanne Beech @suzannebeech.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The Irish Border, almost invisible except for the two different tarmacs. North on the right, South on the left.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

That is a superb track. I just listened to it again for the first time in nearly 40 years (I got into jazz after leaving school). It brought back a flood of memories. That was peak Sabbath

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

RIP Ozzy. This was the sound of my mid teens complete with guest piano by Rick Wakeman. youtu.be/noUYAPdLMp0?...

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Black Sabbath "Sabbra Cadabra"

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

That video is superb. A lot of the bioinformatics in the early Chinese papers was done by a former PhD. student, Weifeng Shi. The science is accurate and beautifully explained.

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

800 Palestinians killed waiting for food in the past 6 weeks. Am I anti-semitic in finding this appalling

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I've been found out. I always was a great fan of a manly knee sock

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Marcas Tardigrade-17 Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It’s heartening to see that @deshiggins.bsky.social’s influence in the world of men’s fashion is as strong as ever.

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

He might have gone off to form a pupa/chrysalis?

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Looking great. It's already full of Prunella vulgaris. Yes, the border mowing helps keep it looking neat.

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It's very difficult to get detailed information on-line for this. I can see individual case studies but otherwise just general statements that it should return but might not. The symptoms are hard to be precise about. It's as if my taste mechanism can see the price tag on the wine bottle :-)

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I have had this lack of wine taste since October 2024. I can taste cheap wine but anything tannic tastes dead and very heavy. I think my sense of smell is fine. I feel like a spoiled middle class jerk complaining that I can't taste expensive wine. It used to be my weekend treat.

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Aargh no. I can nearly taste it but the nice stuff still tastes cheap. I can taste Guinness ok :-)

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I went past this view hundreds of times over the past 55 years and never looked up. You can smell the malt being roasted at certain times of the day. Those big vertical white tanks are full of Guinness. This is on the western outskirts of Dublin City centre upriver along the Liffey.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Hey people with platforms , they are starting to take the trans positive books out of the libraries. Now is the time to stand up or just accept that you don’t care - and here is to the millionaire comedians who have helped oil the wheels of hatred

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 30/06/2025

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This is it. It is the endgame. Once established it gives absolute power. Expect arrests at polling stations. It is all so prosaic and easy and happening in front of everyone and everyone will do their "duty" or look away

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valentine @dozygay.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

24th or 25th may. I remembered them well because the male was simply stunning: big, barred and with crazy bright eyes. Those mountain valleys delivered a series of cracking birds in rapid succession

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

On the left hand side as you walk up the valley? We had them there 4 weeks ago :-))

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Twitch to Tory Island, 10km off N coast of Ireland today to see Ireland's first ever Song Sparrow (n American passerine). Found by @robertvaughani.bsky.social

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Astounding Rob!! I have to hope it stays tonight.

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Des Higgins @deshiggins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

When I was a student in late 1970s ireland, a friend organised an expedition to the midlands to look for these. It had not been recorded in Irl for decades. Paul Harding came over from Monks Wood to help. We found them in Thyme clumps in Tipperary...in the woodlouse Atlas as a couple of dots.

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