iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

✈️ This week, our London and Stafford volunteers visited RAF Museum Midlands for our annual Volunteer Reciprocal Visit. Tours, friendship and shared experiences were topped off by a thank-you speech from CEO Maggie Appleton. ❤️ To learn more about volunteering with us please visit : bit.ly/3Q8RIc6

151

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This #VolunteersWeek, we’d like to say a huge thank you to all our wonderful RAF Museum Volunteers 💙 Your passion, time and dedication help make the Royal Air Force Museum a welcoming and inspiring place for everyone who visits ✈️ Thank you — we truly couldn’t do it without you 🙌

061

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Looking for a rewarding volunteer opportunity? ✈️ We’re currently recruiting for Archive, Library & Research (London) and Collections Information Digitisation (Midlands) Volunteers. These are just two of the opportunities available at our sites. 👉 Find out more at rafmuseum.org.uk/support-us/v...

032

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Stephen’s Green shopping centre is iconic, particularly the front face shown here. I’m a little sad to see the interior change, but change happens. It would be heinous to change the exterior. I can’t understand how these plans have gotten as far as they have. The city is against it.

011

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I have an appointment in town at 16.30. The Northern Line is running but with “severe delays” which could mean anything from deviations in the timetable to the train stopping altogether!! Should I risk it or go the long way? #tubestrike #northernline

000

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Happy 1926 Irish census day! This is an amazing resource, huge undertaking by the NAI. Managed to find all eight of my great-grandparents. Interestingly, my great-grandmother’s father had filled their form in Irish so took a bit longer to locate them. nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

nationalarchives.ie

Search the Census | The National Archives of Ireland

Search through historical census records with The National Archives of Ireland, offering access to essential data for genealogy and historical research.

0289

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Heritage Volunteering Group @heritagevols.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

😀 Step forward as a workshop host at #HeritageVolunteering26 & share your experience, spark ideas and shape the future of volunteer engagement. 📝 Apply to host a workshop before 17/4: heritagevolunteeringgroup.org.uk #LoVols #VolMngmnt #VolunteerEngagement #Volunteerism #Volunteering #Volunteer

011

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Today marks 10 years since I quit smoking 🎉

A screenshot from an app called Smokefree showing it has been ten years since I quit smoking. It also shows some health improvements including decreased risk of heart disease and lung cancer and a 66% decreased risk of heart attack.

120

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2026

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

986214889

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

weisselberger @weisselberger.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Priorities

481353233

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

“Looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK”: The US is explicitly in its Colonial era again. Wants oil, will travel.

011

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Nick Slawicz @ellingtonelms.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

5579631840

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What in the ever-living fuck reality are we in? The continued rantings of an egomaniacal madman who is clearly not mentally fit for office, but there seems no solution to stop him and the fawning, twisted-minded fanatics in his cabinet.

A screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald Trump posted on 7 April 2026 at 8.06am. It reads “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”.

100

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’m so sick of hearing this self-inflated idiot deliver updates to the press via over-written, high school debate opening statement-like speeches, delivered as though he’ll be remembered for his oration skills as if it’s an entirely normal way for a member of the US cabinet to carry out their job.

101

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Attending Trans-Inclusive Culture event for Trans Day of Visibility. I'm grateful and inspired to be a part of the Trans-Inclusive Culture in Museums project as an employee of @rafmuseum.bsky.social @sabahchoudrey.bsky.social

An image of a Teams call showing a still moment from Trans-Inclusive Culture’s Trans Day of Visibility event.

011

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A fantastic opportunity for museum volunteering in London!

000

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Eight weeks ago today, my Dad died. Nothing about that statement has sunk in for me yet.

A photo of a middle aged man with a fine head of hair looking off camera to the left and holding a three-ish year old girl with short brown hair over his shoulder. She is smiling at the camera. She is me. It’s me and my dad.

101

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yes, the world is crap, but look at this cat

A long haired mackerel tabby cat leaning into her human’s hand for neck scratches

000

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Once again, modern Republicanism failing to beat the addicted to homoeroticism allegations.

2258178

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

it’s generally considered polite to conduct your rimming circles in private when all participants are this ugly

251065129

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Just an FYI: I wrote a book about what "pro-American content" looked like in the mid-century when we had these conversations during HUAC/McCarthyism. It's subtext that you can (and should!) train yourself to read, and I fought for the book to be Open Access (free!) because it's that important.

degruyterbrill.com

Selling Out Santa

Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...

0198

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Media literacy is a survival skill. Please practice with loved ones!

1144

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Volunteer Paul Crozier reveals life behind the scenes at MOD Stafford — handling everything from Douglas Bader’s personal effects to bomb aiming gear and even a German aircraft panel turned tally board! 💙 Read his story: raiselysite.pulse.ly/taitisg4b7 #TheCrateEscape #Volunteering

041

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Source: Kattheamazingcat on Tumblr

511829

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I will happily listen to a ten-part podcast based entirely on analysing this chart.

000

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

POV: “Alpha-male” podcast host on how to attract a “high-value” wife by holding doors and buying flowers to secure a marriage in which she cooks, cleans, & has babies while still looking beautiful for you and never says “not tonight, I have a headache”. FFS how is this the world right now?

000

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This dude is intense and correct

9491382932

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Miller has decided to wipe the 20th century from memory. (Except maybe the Antarctic Treaty??? For now, at least.)

021

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It's weird that the administration is pushing Americans to have more (white) babies at the same time it's putting Stephen Miller on television, when scientists have proven that listening to his whiny shit-weasel voice for more than thirty seconds will make any adult sterile.

76999134

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 17/01/2026

“This conclusively demonstrates that this widely publicised concern as part of the culture war against trans people is not supported by documented evidence from service providers," @translucent.org.uk

422069

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Given the world right now, cute cats are necessary. #cats

Two mackerel tabby cats curled up asleep on a couch with their bums touching. One is short haired and the other is a fluffy floof

020

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Protection racket foreign policy

21696147

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks (Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)

268575187

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 06/01/2026

Today is the twelfth and final day of Christmas, known as Little Christmas or Nollaig na mBan. Will you do anything to mark the occasion? jrnl.ie/6919170

jrnl.ie

Will you do anything to celebrate Nollaig na mBan?

Historically, 6 January has been a day for women to rest after the busy Christmas period.

121

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone! We're back for another year and still in our celebrating era because we just turned 75, which is a grand age for anyone, even a museum

1539827

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This makes Marco Rubio the Sec. of State, Acting National Security Advisor, Acting National Archivist, and now the Co-Viceroy of Venezuela? He must be really good at time management.

110

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 03/01/2026

Don’t be fooled: you can’t both claim this was simply the execution of an arrest warrant AND say the U.S. is now "running" Venezuela & grabbing its oil resources. Trump just admitted this was a clear regime-change play to enrich U.S. oil companies & his billionaire buddies.

1192531785

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The Larry the Cat social account condemned the US action in Venezuela faster and more definitively than Kier Starmer. @number10cat.bsky.social

000

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Men will invade Venezuela before going to therapy

411617

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"Have the creators of each new iteration followed Mary Shelley’s Promethean lead, nurturing a beloved creation, or have they followed Victor’s, embracing their ambition above their creation’s well-being?" The first in our series A Time Of Monsters, from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social

contingentmagazine.org

To Invent Immortality

Frankenstein yearns to live.

04819

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

PEEBleguese PEEBleguese @thehumancentipeeb.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Future episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? Will be like I've found some new information on your great grandfather from his online kink survey. It says here that he was 75% Brat Tamer. Wow. Okay. I never knew this about him.

09516

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I was pleased to facilitate a workshop on fostering a volunteering community & identity across multiple sites & departments this morning. There were some great ideas & resources discussed & shared via whiteboards & chats which attendees will receive after the conference. #HeritageVolunteering25

100

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Happy to take your spare penguins.

714023

Dara (Dí) Howley @didihowley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Can we all not just agree on where to put the switch on lamps?

000

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🎄🎄🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄 My book on Christmas films, McCarthyism, and how our cultural media works comes out on November 17th! I'd love to come talk about it on podcasts, blogs, and history sites in essays, film spaces, and more! In person in eastern MA, online everywhere!

indiepubs.com

Selling Out Santa

Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for ...

1115

Reposted by Dara (Dí) Howley

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/10/2025

Yeah, ID, that's why I can't buy a house 🤪

420823