Bill Allen
@billallen.bsky.social
Retired IT bod. Deoraí fm Tipperary. Wildlife volunteer, sporadic allotmenteer Interested in Irish history . Like a ramble and a beer. Living in Herts
Reposted by Bill Allen
Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error.
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error.
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
Reposted by Bill Allen
Factoid: Compared to the 964, the 993-gen 911 was a decided visual improvement bringing back the grace of previous generations (the work of Yorkshireman Tony Hatter which is something I’d forgotten about).
Of course more important were the substantial rear suspension changes….
Of course more important were the substantial rear suspension changes….
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Factoid: Compared to the 964, the 993-gen 911 was a decided visual improvement bringing back the grace of previous generations (the work of Yorkshireman Tony Hatter which is something I’d forgotten about).
Of course more important were the substantial rear suspension changes….
Of course more important were the substantial rear suspension changes….
Reposted by Bill Allen
Belfast City Hall.
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Belfast City Hall.
Reposted by Bill Allen
Pomegranates, Hammersmith.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Pomegranates, Hammersmith.
Reposted by Bill Allen
Amazing letter in The Times (also an unbelievable play fwiw)
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Amazing letter in The Times (also an unbelievable play fwiw)
Reposted by Bill Allen
Below Faisal Islam simply copies Chris Mason’s homework in the equivalent of making a trip to Tesco, a political expose showing how terrible BBC want us to believe Labour are and vulnerable Reeves is
It’s not journalism, it’s reporting news.. it’s creating a narrative to suit the right wing agenda❗️
It’s not journalism, it’s reporting news.. it’s creating a narrative to suit the right wing agenda❗️
OBR head's resignation leaves potential landmines for Reeves
Chancellor's next mission to find a respected and credible economist to run the OBR will require careful balance
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Below Faisal Islam simply copies Chris Mason’s homework in the equivalent of making a trip to Tesco, a political expose showing how terrible BBC want us to believe Labour are and vulnerable Reeves is
It’s not journalism, it’s reporting news.. it’s creating a narrative to suit the right wing agenda❗️
It’s not journalism, it’s reporting news.. it’s creating a narrative to suit the right wing agenda❗️
Reposted by Bill Allen
Cork looking stunning and magical tonight #SpéirGorm
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Cork looking stunning and magical tonight #SpéirGorm
Reposted by Bill Allen
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Heaven Can’t Wait
Heaven Can’t Wait
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Heaven Can’t Wait
Reposted by Bill Allen
Today I inadvertently saw 2 videos of him, one in Leinster House saying words about the housing plan while walking down the stairs with the camera centered on his pants, & the other with him on a rowing machine in Millstreet with a man clapping like a seal next to him.
No wonder Paschal left.
No wonder Paschal left.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Today I inadvertently saw 2 videos of him, one in Leinster House saying words about the housing plan while walking down the stairs with the camera centered on his pants, & the other with him on a rowing machine in Millstreet with a man clapping like a seal next to him.
No wonder Paschal left.
No wonder Paschal left.
Reposted by Bill Allen
Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sadly relevant today.
Reposted by Bill Allen
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by Bill Allen
🎶Pass the poitín to the left-hand side🎶
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🎶Pass the poitín to the left-hand side🎶
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
Reposted by Bill Allen
Reaper drone pilot - sitting in Texas - must have feared for his life?
White House: strike conducted on boat was conducted in self defence
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reaper drone pilot - sitting in Texas - must have feared for his life?
Reposted by Bill Allen
There’s a beauty in the raw cold months that’s all its own. The lean pallet. The tiny flicks of life, and colour. The small plants that hang on. The fragility of small existences. Each one in its own way a miracle
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
There’s a beauty in the raw cold months that’s all its own. The lean pallet. The tiny flicks of life, and colour. The small plants that hang on. The fragility of small existences. Each one in its own way a miracle
Reposted by Bill Allen
Artist, member of Cumann na mBan, revolutionary and an Irish Jewish woman - rename that park after the wonderful Estella Solomons #speirgorm jewishmuseum.ie/jews-of-irel...
Estella Solomons – Irish Jewish Museum
..
jewishmuseum.ie
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Artist, member of Cumann na mBan, revolutionary and an Irish Jewish woman - rename that park after the wonderful Estella Solomons #speirgorm jewishmuseum.ie/jews-of-irel...
Reposted by Bill Allen
The low lifers who did this to a working migrant family #spéirghorm - who were providing a service in the community - deserved to be handed up by that community ....https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/12/01/familys-food-truck-destroyed-by-arson-attack-in-dublin-nothing-is-left/
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The low lifers who did this to a working migrant family #spéirghorm - who were providing a service in the community - deserved to be handed up by that community ....https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/12/01/familys-food-truck-destroyed-by-arson-attack-in-dublin-nothing-is-left/
Reposted by Bill Allen
AI can kill people.
Examples include posts about:
Mushroom identification
Medical diagnoses
Safe routes for walking on hills...
Examples include posts about:
Mushroom identification
Medical diagnoses
Safe routes for walking on hills...
This is a heads-up about fake AI accounts which have proliferated across social media.
The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies.
The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.
The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies.
The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
AI can kill people.
Examples include posts about:
Mushroom identification
Medical diagnoses
Safe routes for walking on hills...
Examples include posts about:
Mushroom identification
Medical diagnoses
Safe routes for walking on hills...
Reposted by Bill Allen
Very fair summary.
Amid ongoing chatter in London about some Labour figures wanting to go further in EU relations, what does Brussels think of the UK... I've drawn a typical consensus view based on many conversations including with the few there who really care...
encompass-europe.com/comment/ever...
encompass-europe.com/comment/ever...
Everything Brussels really thinks about the UK
Mostly, the Brussels bubble does not consider the UK too much. That rather amorphous group of those working in and around the institutions whether for government or other organisations, that…
encompass-europe.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Very fair summary.
Reposted by Bill Allen
Good morning.
Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.
The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!
Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.
Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.
The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!
Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Good morning.
Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.
The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!
Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.
Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.
The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!
Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.
Reposted by Bill Allen
Social media, eh? Actually from a pamphlet published in Berlin, in around 1828.
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Social media, eh? Actually from a pamphlet published in Berlin, in around 1828.
Reposted by Bill Allen
Dingle signpost, Castleisland, Co. Kerry (1957)
Photo: Edmund L. Mitchell / Boston Public Library
November 29, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Dingle signpost, Castleisland, Co. Kerry (1957)
Photo: Edmund L. Mitchell / Boston Public Library
Reposted by Bill Allen
One word - vetting. And the absence of it
A bit weird to read about threats to your life in a national newspaper. Not for the first time. It has slowed down a bit as most anti-vaxx loons have graduated to far right/racism
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
One word - vetting. And the absence of it
Reposted by Bill Allen
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Reposted by Bill Allen
Ten-month-old Susan Torkington, of Regent Road, Stockport, gets a tow on the snow-clad slopes of Lyme Park, Disley, from her three-year-old sister Linda, January 1960 (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk).
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Ten-month-old Susan Torkington, of Regent Road, Stockport, gets a tow on the snow-clad slopes of Lyme Park, Disley, from her three-year-old sister Linda, January 1960 (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk).
Reposted by Bill Allen
You would think that someone with a degree in history would understand that renaming a park cannot and will not erase any history of any community or group, similarly to how the taking down statues of slavers has not erased the history of slavery! #speirgorm
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
You would think that someone with a degree in history would understand that renaming a park cannot and will not erase any history of any community or group, similarly to how the taking down statues of slavers has not erased the history of slavery! #speirgorm