Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I thoroughly enjoyed meeting the world's press: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsa...youtube.comCount Binface meets the world's pressYouTube video by Count Binface 761799398
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.social🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I don't know who needs to hear this, but did you know the word "Chicago" is cognate to the word "skunk" via Proto-Algonquian *sekakwa (literally: "piss fox") 56418
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialCarausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This Roman ring, wishing good life to Senicianus, was found in Silchester. It’s now on display in The Vyne. Its fame derives from the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler consulting Tolkien on it in the ‘20s. Tolkien was inspired by the idea of a lost cursed ring & the rest is literary history. 🕰️C4thAD 7461136
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.iemy.uplift.ieVisa for Gaza studentsI'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? 000
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Since 1973, Irish agriculture has received net transfers from the EU of close to €40 BILLION, dragging the entire sector out of poverty. Doubly sickening to see a recipient of this taxpayer largesse lecture anyone on “looking after our own people first” 314964
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York. 1008389549564
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialWilliam Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The Song of the Banyan Tree @jasonsinghthing, the Mozart (or maybe Brian Eno) of Biosonfication, attaches electrodes to our banyan tree to record its biofeedback and turn into a soundtrack for Tishani Doshi to dance to @oliviafraserart's British Council show, A Journey Within, opening Thursday 34615
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialCarlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 05/02/2026A parliamentary question in the Dáil yesterday raised by TD Aidan Farrellly remains unanswered with answer overdue… 1222
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialGylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026quality. 041
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025I see your “Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness” and raise you my “Journal of Earth and Flatness” 4538
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest. 1304255353762
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialDr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025"Make America Healthy Again" will make not only America but the entire world sicker. RJK Jr and the MAGA movement are modern Lysenkoists, and the consequences of their anti-science agenda will be severe, as I write in @emboreports.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... 1123
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Sale ends in 30 minutes on Amazon.co.uk 011
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialDáiligh @dailigh.eurosky.social · 27/06/2025We should repeal it, but we can also get the government to legislate for birthright citizenship - problem is, none of them will touch it with a barge pole & it isn’t a big issue for most people by a long way. It should never have gone to referendum. 031
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Can someone give me the definition of delusional, please? 2521128
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialCarlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Disappointing to see new car parks installed next to Met Éireann weather station at Shannon Airport. The station is now surrounded by tarmac car parks which is likely to influence the temperature in that area. Time to relocate station to a more open area surely? 1633
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialSteven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 23/06/2025Dear #mathsky, if you repost this, it will let people see the article for free. Thanks! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHow Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem (Gift Article)Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 dimensions. 28666
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Just discovered Acts of Violence by @ryandavidjahn.bsky.social thanks to @ravencrime.bsky.social and now will have to purchase all his books. Brilliant. Delighted to discover that Apple is making a movie of one of his books. I will read it anyway. 120
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 20/06/2025"If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth" - Joseph Goebbels AI literally equates repetition with truth. Can people not see how incredibly dangerous this is? 512644
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6263661411259
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 17/06/2025My grandson just this book by @gregjenner.bsky.social and is begging his parents to let him stay up and keep reading it. A huge success. He is five. 110
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 07/06/2025It is 2am and it is all the fault of @callummcsorley.bsky.social because I can’t put down Paperboy! 110
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025The broligarchs’ high-minded excuses for supporting Trump have collapsed. All they have left is “grubby self-interest”.apple.newsSilicon Valley got Trump completely wrong — VoxLast year, a coterie of tech billionaires rallied behind Donald Trump’s candidacy. Many had not been lifelong Republicans. In 2016, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared Hillary Clinton the ... 1116632
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialProf John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025It is way beyond time the European Council finds a way to throw Hungary out of the EU. It is in serious AND persistent breach of its obligations under Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union. Orban pillages EU funds while thrashing our values. Enough! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.comMEPs call for EU court to suspend Hungary’s Pride banVisiting delegation find ‘hostile atmosphere’ for LGBTQ+ people and say country heading in ‘wrong direction’ 37019
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialDr. Olaf Bachmann @falo2.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Btw, bsky is different from twitter, repost rather than like it. the like is a private information to the author, but not more. on bsky only repost increases visibility. 244
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Thank you @tomdoorley.bsky.social for your recommendation of the Montepulciano last Sunday. It was truly a beautiful wine. The best if its kind I have tasted. 110
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialThomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social 20784073866
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialArieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 27/03/2025Trump and Rubio want to send this Russian Harvard academic to his death in Putin's prisons. 812873
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialKennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025www.kennys.ie 5647330
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialKennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street. Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist. Support local, not the billionaires. 12714342
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialProf John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Sinn Fein is back to its default position: trying to deny the Irish Parliament’s ability to take decisions about Irish foreign policy. No other neutral state offshores its foreign policy to the US, China and Russia. But Sinn Fein is convinced it is the right thing for Ireland. Completely baffling. 2224
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025If you don’t already like Zelenskyy enough: He said "fuck you bitch (suka, blyat)" to JD Vance during their argument. 1153097618
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/02/2025A study in Nature suggests that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) may be able to withstand future global warming and could avoid collapse. This important ocean current has a role in regulating temperatures around the planet. go.nature.com/4blFMKA 🧪 26320
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialRichard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 23/02/2025More SF brooding - If a hostile alien species had sent a crash team to Earth to leverage the extinction of human civilisation, reckon they'd lay off whatever embryonic plans they already had, and instead be following Trump around taking notes, mouths (or whatever) gaping open in worshipful awe. 33113
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialSmile You Are On Candid Camera @kajamm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025 199105546620
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/02/2025KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053 2198719849
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 17/02/2025If you sit and watch while others fight and die, you'll just have to do the fighting and dying on your lonesome later in the day. Turning up late to an existential conflict is never a great idea. 1112
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/02/2025finally an hhs that will listen to the measles' side of the story 32936129
timbrophy1946.bsky.social @timbrophy1946.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This is a really good book and well worth your while purchasing. Visits some of the remote spots of History and is guaranteed to amuse and exucate you. 110
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialProf John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Facebook is ushering in “a world without facts” says Nobel winner. She’s right: Zuckerberg and Musk care only about profit and power, and they are acting as haindmaidens of authoritarian regimes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comFacebook is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winnerMaria Ressa says ‘dangerous times ahead’ for journalism and democracy after Meta’s move to end factchecking in US 0169
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialProf John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Tomorrow Elon Musk will further seek to destabilise European politics by rigging the algorithms to provide a huge boost to the leader of Germany's modern fascist party in advance of Germany's federal election. The EU simply has to take emergency action to exclude X. www.politico.eu/article/elon...politico.euPressure mounts on EU to use legal weapons against Musk’s interferenceEuropean Commission says it will study whether X gives unfair boost to far right in German election. 04010
Reposted by @timbrophy1946.bsky.socialNeil Michael 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇱🇧🇬🇱 @anewshack.bsky.social · 24/11/2024The @carlowweather.bsky.social warns we will always suffer the worst of floods in Ireland because of the State’s inability to operate a national early warning flood system. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...irishexaminer.comEarly warning system 'would have helped people better prepare for floods'Carlow Weather's Alan O'Reilly said if such a system was in place people in areas worst hit by Storm Bert could have been better prepared 0165
