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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like Landmark Trust did at Astley Castle? www.landmarktrust.org.uk/properties/a...

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They were Israeli military. They were heavily armed. How can they have been overwhelmed? Couldn't they just call in a missile strike? Or run over the #Zionist terrorists in a tank? And if the terrorists were 'violent' no question. Bomb them to dust. Palestinian kids are shot for holding a stone.

Israeli forces overwhelmed by violent settlers in ‘terrorist attack’ on Palestinian family

Settler violence in West Bank makes everyday life ‘untenable’ for Palestinians, says ICRC after assault on family trying to return home in Jalud

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, apparently there is actually a 'sausage tree' - grows in Africa (Kigelia africana)

fruit like white puddings hanging on a tree

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dear @theguardian.com Would you report a jewel robbery by saying "Brick gains unauthorised access to jeweller's shop"? Or a murder by saying "knife hacked man's chest cavity"? No. People do these things. " OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hacked Australian Medicare system." #OpenAI #AI

Headline: Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s Medicare and took months to disclose breach

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi #History and #historians on Bluesky - and #theological #bluesky I'm working on a project involving the location of #stainedglass windows. My life would be easier if I could acquire lists of all current and former non-conformist and Roman Catholic places of worship in the British Isles.

Christ the Good Shepherd by Michael and Arthur O'Connor, about 1880, in the Church of St Mary, Angle, Pembrokeshire. Photo (c) Martin Crampin, from https://catalogue.stainedglass.wales/object/432

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The drones had an Appointment in Samara - but who with?

The speaker is Death
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions
and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master,
just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd
and when I turned I saw it was Death that had jostled me. She looked at me and
made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from
this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me.
The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his
spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the
merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd
and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating gesture to my servant
when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it
was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an
appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To be fair, it's been a long, tough summer. The dedicated officers of Hampshire Police must be exhausted. They deserve a bit of a break. But....perhaps not a good idea to let the entire force go on holiday for three weeks at the same time. Otherwise they'd have nicked the lot of 'em. Shirley?

Two tier policing: three police officers carry off a woman for holding a sign. 2nd picture of a group of black-clothed, masked, fascist thugs blocking the road without any police in sight.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear @moderation.bsky.app Please see attached re @helpcatsmsallam.bsky.social I know the account holder well. The appeal for funds is genuine. (It would be easier to appeal if you quoted the 'offending' post!) This was a malicious report.. Please reverse this decision at once.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's an incredible, and unbelievable, journey. This puts Saul on the Road to Damascus in the shade. Yesterday she wanted to deport all immigrants. Today she supports a Nation of Sanctuary. I don't believe it. If it's genuine, she's too erratic to be a Plaid AS. 10 own goals for Plaid.

A book called the incredible journey. Two dogs and a cat in the woods

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's nothing new under the sun. Free movement in the EU? Schengen? from the Globe 20 April 1872 Yes, 1872!

PASSPORTS from this day, it is understood, will
not be demanded from British subjects landing at
the Channel ports, or entering France at the Anglo-
Belge-French frontiers. But J. M. Cook writes to
call the attention of Earl Granville and M. Thiers to
the fact that this order of service is not an entire
abolition of passports, and to urge upon the French
Government, now that they have accepted the prin-
ciple of abolition, to at once perfect their order by
coupling with it a supplementary order including the
abolition (so far as British subjects are concerned)
at the Swiss-Italian-German frontiers.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Digging through the old papers again Dublin Evening Mail 24 September 1864 It's a nice little story. It's the last line that made me go "Whut?|"

GALLANT RESCUE BY A YOUNG LADY.—A young lady, named Miss Fanny Churchward, very gallantly rescued from drowning Miss Mary Pritchard, of Abergavenny, who on Monday last was bathing on the Plymouth Hoe. Miss Pritchard was fast being carried out to sea by the tide, when Miss Churchward plunged into the water, without waiting to divest herself of any clothing, and brought her safe on shore. This is the third life this young woman has saved during the present summer.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rhaid i'r bobl tu ôl i'r botiau sy'n gwerthu rwtsh wedi'i bersonaleiddio ar eBay wneud gwrs "Understanding Your Customer"

Crys-t gyda'r neges 'Made in Caernarvon' gyda Jac yr Undeb a choron Loegr

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@areena90c.bske.social Dear @moderation.bsky.app How many times do we have to report this bot scammer? Reposting random posts within milliseconds of posting. And an account at bskE.social? Come on... can't you work out an algorithm to stomp on this? It's been going on for months.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I dunno, I think the dim lighting of a gig is very appropriate in the home of "The Light of the World"

Holman Hunt's painting 'The Light of the World' in St Paul's Cathedral, depicting Christ carrying a lantern in the darkness.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear Andy Burnham. Please, please, please...only you can save us! You MUST authorise more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea at once Encouraging the road haulage industry with cheap road tax would help as well. Under NO circumstances do anything to encourage more solar PV and batteries.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The facing page is interesting - how many of these have actually happened? They didn't have 'First female archbishop' down. Can we add 'first female pope' to the next list?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I once had to visit for a family wedding - everyone else was too old and sick to fly!

A map of the USA - Ohio is turquoise, the rest is yellow (meaning not visited)

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dear all, Please can you help our friend Mo in Gaza? This is NOT a scam. Despite the unimaginable (to us in our safe & comfortable homes) difficulties of everyday life that he faces, he & his family still manage to care for 17 homeless cats. Can you help buy their food? paypal.me/animalrescue...

🚨 ON THE VERGE OF THE ABYSS: Day after day under this suffocating siege, and our campaign remains frozen at 44%. The numbers are completely stuck, and honesty compels me to speak: due to the drastic shrinking of financial support, we are about to enter a catastrophic dead-end. 💔

While the bombs continue to rain down and daily lawlessness unleashes brutal murders across North Gaza, the walls are closing in on us from the inside. Extreme inflation has turned a single meal into a luxury, and with support hitting rock bottom, I am rapidly running out of options to keep our sanctuary alive. My son Ayman and I are fighting with everything we have, but the reality is clear—without your solidarity, our resilience is being starved out. Our 17 innocent cats have no one else to stand between them and annihilation. 🐾

We are holding a breaking front line of mercy, but we cannot sustain it alone. To rescue these helpless survivors from this immediate crisis and secure their 6-month strategic reserve, we desperately need to break this freeze through our Campaign: chuffed.org/project/184107… —while their immediate daily critical food supplies depend entirely on your direct support via PayPal: paypal.me/animalrescue703

We are staring into the abyss, and time is running out. Please be our voice today before the silence wins. Retweet, share, or donate—your empathy is our only shield. 🙏⏳

#Gaza #GazaCats #Survival #StopTheWar #NorthGaza

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Surely there are better ways of doing this than volunteers scrabbling on their hands and knees? Something like the garden 'leaf vacuum cleaners' fitted with a suitable sized mesh/bag so that any sand drops through back onto the beach, and the plastic stays inside? Or even a wheeled version

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The rainbow is nice. But who is the ghost in the middle? Looks like Adolf...

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Like this sort of thing. (No names, no pack-drill) They're a very good eatery. But an actual photo of one of their breakfasts would be a lot more convincing than this, which basically says "our breakfasts are rubbish. Here's a computer's idea of a dream breakfast instead"

AI gnerated image of what a full English might look like

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As movie quotes go, it still doesn't beat the classic apocryphal John Wayne as the Centurion in The Greatest Story Ever Told, saying "Truly, this was the Son of God" Director: "No, John, say it with awe!" "Awww, truly this was the Son of God"

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

To doubtfully raise an eyebrow while questioning a decision in the manner of the late English actor John le Mesurier

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Stories drop off the news, but the facts continue. The #Zionist war-criminals are still crushing Gaza, killing people, destroying property, seizing land. We don't hear about it because the journalists are dead. PLEASE can you help Mo to feed the cats he cares for? paypal.me/animalrescue703 Pls share

There were also other raids on Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat, Al-Mawasi, Al-Bureij, Al-Maghazi, and everywhere else in the Gaza Strip...
The army also advanced the "yellow line" east of Deir al-Balah and in the Zaytoun neighborhood to the north, occupying additional territory..
This is what I’ve been saying for some time: the war isn’t over. However, the pace of shelling has intensified over the past week, and things are gradually reverting to how they were during the war...

The first thing I do when morning breaks is check on the cats... those poor creatures—I do not know what they have done to deserve such terror. Whenever a raid occurs, I see them running at full speed... I do not know how long their suffering will last.😢
I remain adamant: if my area were to be invaded, I would never leave. I would rather die beside them than live in a tent..
I simply want your support to bolster our resilience by stocking up on food for them.
The campaign isn't going well, friends... We’ve only reached 20% of the campaign goal..
Your support is what helps us hold firm and enables me to face the dark days ahead.
chuffed.org/project/184107…
Or , you can support me directly via the PayPal link to help cover their food and routine veterinary care costs at this time.
paypal.me/animalrescue703
Your support rewrote our destiny from despair to survival; thank you for ..
We are profoundly grateful for the hearts that refused to let us perish in the dark.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"A democratic country" And how many votes, pray, did this 'leader' get in a popular election?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Funny you should say that... Back in 1900 Capt Pryse Pryse Pryse (no, honestly) went hunting. The fox went to earth (dived into a burrow). Pryse³ was miffed, stuck his arm down the hole, and dragged the fox out by its tail. It bit him. He died in agony some days later from rabies. Karma?

Newspaper cutting: South Wales Daily News, 13 January 1900
Text: LATE CAPT. PRYSE PRYSE. THE FUNERAL. The burial of Captain Pryse, eldest son of Sit Pryse Pryse, Bart., of Plas Gogerddan, who died on Tuesday from blood poisoning following the effects of a bite from a fox, took place yester- day afternoon at th Church of St. John, Penrhyncoch. The funeral was attended by hundreds of persons from all parts of North Cardiganshire. The service was entirely in Welsh, and was con- ducted by the Rev. George Blackwell, curate-in- cliarge. By the expressed wish of the family the ceremony throughout was marked by unusual simplicity, though some two score wreaths, received from all classes, were an eloquent testimony to the love and esteem in which the family, and especially the deceased, was held by the people.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#familyhistory time again. I've just had a reply from the RAF Museum about an enquiry I made about my grandfather's service at the Central Flying School in WW1. They had a note that he had influenza in November 1918. That was the Spanish flu which killed 250,000 people. I dodged a bullet there...

Taliesin Mordecai, while working at the Gwalia stores c.1915

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I suspect turnout will be low! We just need to make sure the racists scrabble amongst each other, while the normal anti-fash turn out in droves to vote BIN

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A good start would be that ALL perv-specs must be bright dayglo orange, in an Edna Everage style, and have a permanently blinking red LED Something like this

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I presume you're familiar with Jonathan Hicks' detailed history of Mametz Wood, day by day. 45 pages on 7th Jult, detailing every unit in action. 'The Welsh at Mametz Wood' @ylolfa.bsky.social ISBN-13 ‎ 978-178461238

Cover of the book The Welsh at Mametz Wood showing a carved red dragon

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Maen nhw'n amateurs! Nôl yn y 19eg ganrif, bu gan dre fach Tregaron 14 o dafarndai, un ar gyfer pob 52 o bobl! Mwy am hanes tafarndai Ceredigion i gyd yn peint-o-hanes.cymru/cy/index.php

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Which is going to seriously impact their business model? 3 cases a year, all against small businesses. Charges against a multi-billion dollar foreign company? Dream on. If the directors don't go to jail, it's pointless. onlinecpdacademy.co.uk/blog/corpora...

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today's glorious AI image This is from an article which claims to explain the structure of mediaeval university study - the Quadrivium and the Trivium. Given these illustrations, how much should we trust the text? www.theeducationalwarehouse.com/post/underst... For this we're burning the planet?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Happy to help. It always feels a bit strange helping AFU buy important equipment, but I realised it's not very different to when people sent extra equipment to family and friends in the trenches in World War I! This was basically the 1915 equivalent of an observation drone!

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Good idea, but you'd really have to standardise on the very first one. (Possibly with local text in the middle)

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Interesting. BBC weather for that week in West Wales suggests almost perfect weather!

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There's nothing really new. Compare with this photo of a V1 "Doodlebug" dropping down on London around 1944. A lot less sophisticated (they flew in a straight line until they ran out of fuel), but the feelings of people seeing one going overhead must have been the same.

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