Áine O'Keeffe
@aineokeeffe.bsky.social
Wandering and wondering.
In search of things that make my heart skip a beat.
Exploring coaching & listening @thesoundingboard.bsky.social
Belfast
In search of things that make my heart skip a beat.
Exploring coaching & listening @thesoundingboard.bsky.social
Belfast
In the same bin as the dj who talks over songs.
January 19, 2026 at 4:43 PM
In the same bin as the dj who talks over songs.
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A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice!
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice!
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
Writing Christmas cards with an awful ache for all those now absent over the past year.
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Writing Christmas cards with an awful ache for all those now absent over the past year.
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Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions
Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution
Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
www.apur.org
Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution
Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
www.apur.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions
Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution
Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
www.apur.org
Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution
Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
www.apur.org
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You can get 20% off my critically-acclaimed* Scrabble mafia novel ESCAPES direct from the indie publishers Unnamed Press using the code HOLIDAY20. An ideal present for people who like Scrabble/books/death www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
*3 critics liked it
*3 critics liked it
ESCAPEs — Unnamed Press
by Daniel Tunnard Published: October 06, 2020 ISBN: 9781951213114 Paperback $18.00
www.unnamedpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
You can get 20% off my critically-acclaimed* Scrabble mafia novel ESCAPES direct from the indie publishers Unnamed Press using the code HOLIDAY20. An ideal present for people who like Scrabble/books/death www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
*3 critics liked it
*3 critics liked it
A great read about 2 great people. Working with Carmel back in the day was an incredibly formative experience and I’m lucky to have had the benefit of both of their wisdom and generosity
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A great read about 2 great people. Working with Carmel back in the day was an incredibly formative experience and I’m lucky to have had the benefit of both of their wisdom and generosity
One for you @anthonygladman.com
Browse Thousands of Free Vintage Cocktail Recipes Online (1705–1951)
Browse Thousands of Free Vintage Cocktail Recipes Online (1705–1951)
Where do the hipster mixologists of Tokyo, Mexico City and Brooklyn take their inspiration?
If not from the Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux’ free collection of digitized vintage cocktai...
www.openculture.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
One for you @anthonygladman.com
An (almost) birthday treat to me from me this evening - The Köln Concert Revisited by Scott Flanigan at The Court House Bangor. I never tire of the recording so it’s fascinating to have heard it differently tonight #openhousefesrival
August 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
An (almost) birthday treat to me from me this evening - The Köln Concert Revisited by Scott Flanigan at The Court House Bangor. I never tire of the recording so it’s fascinating to have heard it differently tonight #openhousefesrival
Amsterdam has my heart now
August 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Amsterdam has my heart now
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Really good analysis of the "delete old emails to save water" nonsense that's been going around lately.
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water
You'd need to delete hundreds of millions of emails to save as much water as fixing your toilet
andymasley.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Really good analysis of the "delete old emails to save water" nonsense that's been going around lately.
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
“The problem with AI chatbots is that they often strip away historical and cultural context, leading users to be confused, alarmed, or, in the worst cases, misled in harmful ways.”
H/t @chrisbaraniuk.com
H/t @chrisbaraniuk.com
"AI companies used what amounts to the collective history of our species to create software that obscures its very richness and complexity."
www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT
AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.
www.wired.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“The problem with AI chatbots is that they often strip away historical and cultural context, leading users to be confused, alarmed, or, in the worst cases, misled in harmful ways.”
H/t @chrisbaraniuk.com
H/t @chrisbaraniuk.com
One for you @danieltunnard.bsky.social
On my lunch break I reread this article by translator Damion Searls about how translation works. It's an extract from his book, The Philosophy of Translation.
Well worth your time.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Well worth your time.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Damion Searls: ‘Nothing is untranslatable. Anything left untranslated is what you’ve decided doesn’t matter anyway’ | The Booker Prizes
In this extract from his book The Philosophy of Translation, the International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator explains how the boundaries of language are always permeable
thebookerprizes.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
One for you @danieltunnard.bsky.social
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Parents of 12 year olds!
Your children will be able to vote at the next General Election.
Please make sure they’re getting a rounded education about politics from today.
Your children will be able to vote at the next General Election.
Please make sure they’re getting a rounded education about politics from today.
July 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Parents of 12 year olds!
Your children will be able to vote at the next General Election.
Please make sure they’re getting a rounded education about politics from today.
Your children will be able to vote at the next General Election.
Please make sure they’re getting a rounded education about politics from today.
The acoustics in the Turbine Hall! www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
June 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The acoustics in the Turbine Hall! www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
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This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Who should do the fact checks with millions and millions of fake news? The nature of social media itself is the problem. However it probably is impossible to get rid of every social network and revert debates to pre 2010-status.
June 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
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This. Elitists and gatekeepers can sometimes be the loudest voices about the arts, but the vast majority of artists, performers, and writers are not occupying rarified spaces with expensive master's degrees. They simply have the drive to create, and they work hard.
I'm fervently anti-A.I. but I think it is wildly important that human-made books/illustrations/essays are NEVER talked about/considered a Boutique experience.
Making art is not Boutique, it's as natural as dirt. Don't tell me good soil is exclusive; it's the ground holding us up.
Making art is not Boutique, it's as natural as dirt. Don't tell me good soil is exclusive; it's the ground holding us up.
June 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This. Elitists and gatekeepers can sometimes be the loudest voices about the arts, but the vast majority of artists, performers, and writers are not occupying rarified spaces with expensive master's degrees. They simply have the drive to create, and they work hard.
When work and pleasure overlap
June 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When work and pleasure overlap
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Zoot suits could enhance almost two-thirds of British jobs, claims zoot suit manufacturer
AI could enhance almost two-thirds of British jobs, claims Google
Research commissioned by Google estimates 31% of jobs would be insulated from AI and 61% radically transformed by it
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2024 at 5:52 AM
Zoot suits could enhance almost two-thirds of British jobs, claims zoot suit manufacturer
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Taking the whole ROAD ✔️
Distracted (singing) ✔️
No helmets ✔️
No lights ✔️
No reflective vests ✔️
Riding in a pack ✔️
Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.
Distracted (singing) ✔️
No helmets ✔️
No lights ✔️
No reflective vests ✔️
Riding in a pack ✔️
Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.
May 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Taking the whole ROAD ✔️
Distracted (singing) ✔️
No helmets ✔️
No lights ✔️
No reflective vests ✔️
Riding in a pack ✔️
Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.
Distracted (singing) ✔️
No helmets ✔️
No lights ✔️
No reflective vests ✔️
Riding in a pack ✔️
Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.
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Couldn’t agree more. The writing *is* the thinking.
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Couldn’t agree more. The writing *is* the thinking.
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Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
August 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
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OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
April 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
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On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social presents a powerful challenge to us all to reimagine the world and the part each of us can play in creating it. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social presents a powerful challenge to us all to reimagine the world and the part each of us can play in creating it. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...