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bbcstever.bsky.social
My musical tribute to the legendary singer and pianist Roberta Flack who has died at the age of 88.
Tribute to Roberta Flack
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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February 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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theguardian.com
Roberta Flack’s performances softly burned with the fire of life itself
Roberta Flack’s performances softly burned with the fire of life itself
The soul singer was ambitiously diverse in her musicianship, and enthralled at every turn – whether doing desolate folk cover versions or lighter, sophisticated pop
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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irishtimes.com
So the North still says no. But for how much longer?
So the North still says no. But for how much longer?
The South has no hesitation saying yes to unity – as long as it doesn’t cost any money or involving changing a flag or an anthem
www.irishtimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
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I had endeavoured to introduce some vegetal variety to their dinner, in the hopes that their – in fairness, long-established – distaste for peas had worn off. This was folly. The moment I’d sat the offending orbs down in front of them, their grief-stricken faces told me that their hatred for peas had not abated. Absence had not, in this instance, made their hearts grow fonder. No, since their last exposure to the concept of peas, they had clearly spent every waking moment seized by torrid nightmares of their return. My daughter merely burst out crying and threw her plate asunder, casting the spherical projectiles everywhere around. My son looked at me like I was forcing him to eat human flesh. ‘You can’t be serious’ he said, scanning the room for hidden cameras. For the next 20 minutes, catatonia reigned, as they wailed with such ferocity that my heart began to harden. Gone was the gentle urging and soft, coaxing voice. I became as implacable as a tax collector, glaring at them dead-eyed while they sobbed into the table, trapped in one of those pathetic parenting standoffs to which one instantly regrets committing, until there was naught but silence and stifled, sniffled sobs.
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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saucyseventies.bsky.social
A funky drive to the airport in an Austin Princess.
January 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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kevverage.bsky.social
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when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
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January 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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anyoldname.bsky.social
...and a happy new year.
‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years
Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Just when you thought Brexit could do no more harm, a new economic threat looms and this time to the valuable all-Ireland foreign tourism industry. And it’s the north again that potentially has the most to lose

www.irishnews.com/news/busines...
Brexit threatens one final painful sting: All-Ireland tourism
All non-European tourists crossing the border into the north will need an ETA from January 8 2025
www.irishnews.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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colmcille.bsky.social
Where is the oversight on this?
And when is Stormont going to release the £700m the North West needs to build the 10000-seat university Stormont promised us would be ready by 2030?
(Keep it up, Garrett!)
November 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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tomhayes.bsky.social
Here is some food for thought. (Not good at techie stuff so not sure how this comes out when posted).

2020 Biden Trump
81,283,500 74,223,975

2024 Harris Trump
70,356,521 74,264,010

Trump's vote hardly moved. The Democratic vote collapsed.
November 9, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
For no other reason than I've just remembered it, my favourite Michael Flatley anecdote.
When the divorce came through, Flatley was touring Lord of the Dance in Australia, a huge hit but a physical wreck. He was drinking a lot and taking temazepam, a tranquiliser that allowed his throbbing body to relax when he went to bed, instead of twitching through the night. On-stage, he once mistakenly called out "We love you, Temazepam" to the Tasmanian crowd.
November 8, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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mikephilpott.bsky.social
The last paragraph is a gut punch, but be sure to read the rest of it first. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The moment I knew: he hid his emotions – but after a week apart he said ‘I missed you’
In the 1960s, Marilyn Hewish and Dean bonded over stars, shells and science fiction movies. She didn’t expect declarations of love – then he returned from a trip away
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
Despite being itself extremely poor, 177yrs ago the Native American Choctaw people sent $170 to starving Irish families during the ‘great hunger’ (more commonly known as the potato famine).

A sculpture by Alex Pentek in County Cork commemorates their generosity & kindness.
October 6, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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cjharvey1.bsky.social
A Civil Rights March in Derry.
Northern Ireland Civil Rights ASSOCIATION A CIVIL RICHTS MARCH WILL BE HELD IN DERRY ON SATURDAY, 5™ OCT. COMMENCING AT 3-30 p.m. ASSEMBLY POINT: WATERSIDE RAILWAY STATION MARCH TO THE DIAMOND Where a PUBLIC METTING will take place
October 5, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
82 Candles 🎂 today for one of my favourite Actors - the wonderful IAN McSHANE
September 29, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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2tone4real.bsky.social
Inevitable really...
September 13, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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williamcrawley.bsky.social
This is how BBC News flashed the announcement of the IRA ceasefire on 31 August 1994.

Justin Webb was anchoring and correspondent Gary Duffy brought the IRA statement, followed by political reaction:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGW...
BBC News Report - IRA Ceasefire
YouTube video by David Boothroyd
m.youtube.com
August 31, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
I wrote this when Nell McCafferty turned 80 in March. She was fierce and funny and she was right - so often - when it was a very dangerous thing to be.

Nell was a giant whose impact on all our lives is likely incalculable.

Her loss is Derry's, Ireland's, and everyone's. RIP.
In the past century, few people can claim to have been present for more of Ireland’s social and political upheavals than Nell McCafferty. Fewer still can claim to have been the active agent of said changes. A key figure in the Northern Irish civil rights movement – who returned to Derry from London the day after The Troubles started and immediately joined the riots – and the fight for women’s liberation, she also campaigns for the rights of children, is a tireless champion against the stranglehold of Catholic Church institutions and an advocate the rights of LGBT people on both sides of the Border. Throughout she’s also been a prolific and astute writer, inarguably one of the most important of her, or any other, time – whether documenting the Troubles, championing the cause of the Kerry Babies, or spinning yarns of delicious humour and rare candour in her memoir, Nell. For many years, the price she paid for being on the right side of history was to be reviled in whatever present she stood. Charged at by soldiers, politicians, journalists and priests in opposition to her numerous stands, she also found conflict within her own movements. In the closed world of male republicanism, her feminism was rebuked. To some of her feminist allies in Dublin, her republicanism was a liability. As always, she put this best herself. “In the south” she wrote, “I could be a feminist; in the north I could be a fighter”. Her fight, it turned out, was everyone’s. Her life and work continue to be an incredible gift to everyone who’s come after. And, though her chronicling of injustice and social change is an invaluable resource for us all, Nell McCafferty is no mere witness to history. More than almost anyone else I can think of, Nell McCafferty helped build the future.
August 21, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
This is very painful for UK PoTUS election watchers. It is the CURSED RATIO.
owenwntr.bsky.social Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · Aug 15
Our presidential forecast is back! We give Kamala Harris a 52% chance of winning the election www.economist.com/interactive/...
August 15, 2024 at 9:29 AM