Gerard Harbison
@gerardharbison.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. Irish and American; raised in Dublin, though born in England. Happily married (hope my wife feels the same!) Travels, watching birds. Grows plants. Snarks. Lives in Melbourne Beach, on the Atlantic Coast of the stupid state
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Troy Parrott completes stunning hat-trick at the death to keep Ireland’s World Cup dream alive
Troy Parrott completes stunning hat-trick at the death to keep Ireland’s World Cup dream alive
Striker makes in five goals in two games as Heimir Hallgrímsson’s side earn place in Thursday’s playoff draw
www.irishtimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Troy Parrott completes stunning hat-trick at the death to keep Ireland’s World Cup dream alive
Well, on the one hand my wife was bitten by a snake (a non-venomous black racer), and the other hand Ireland had a miraculous comeback win to beat Hungary 3-2 in Hungary, thence qualifying for the World Cup playoff qualifier, so I have to say it was a pretty mixed day.
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Well, on the one hand my wife was bitten by a snake (a non-venomous black racer), and the other hand Ireland had a miraculous comeback win to beat Hungary 3-2 in Hungary, thence qualifying for the World Cup playoff qualifier, so I have to say it was a pretty mixed day.
Man Who Stuffed Parakeets in His Pants Faces Smuggling Charge
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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This is a particularly tiresome week.
No, I didn’t kill innocent Iraqi civilians in Fallujah. I don’t deserve your discount. Find some murderous SOB.
No, I didn’t kill innocent Iraqi civilians in Fallujah. I don’t deserve your discount. Find some murderous SOB.
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is a particularly tiresome week.
No, I didn’t kill innocent Iraqi civilians in Fallujah. I don’t deserve your discount. Find some murderous SOB.
No, I didn’t kill innocent Iraqi civilians in Fallujah. I don’t deserve your discount. Find some murderous SOB.
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The Democrats need to take out the trash. Now would be a good time, with a year to go before the midterms.
Tim Kaine would not ordinarily have been on my trash short list, but he's earned it.
Tim Kaine would not ordinarily have been on my trash short list, but he's earned it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The Democrats need to take out the trash. Now would be a good time, with a year to go before the midterms.
Tim Kaine would not ordinarily have been on my trash short list, but he's earned it.
Tim Kaine would not ordinarily have been on my trash short list, but he's earned it.
More @cnn.com stupidity: Ahmed al-Sharaa is not the first former terrorist to visit the White House. Menachem Begin visited in 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1982. Shamir visited in 1987 and 1989. Gerry Adams visited in 1994.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
More @cnn.com stupidity: Ahmed al-Sharaa is not the first former terrorist to visit the White House. Menachem Begin visited in 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1982. Shamir visited in 1987 and 1989. Gerry Adams visited in 1994.
Looking for Randy Fine's house (which is on our road in Melbourne Beach) I discovered that 'Pizza Hut House', ⅓ mile away, (you have to see it) belongs to Vanilla Ice. Expensive and tasteless; it seems just right for him.
Fine has hidden his address, although he himself doxes political opponents.
Fine has hidden his address, although he himself doxes political opponents.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Looking for Randy Fine's house (which is on our road in Melbourne Beach) I discovered that 'Pizza Hut House', ⅓ mile away, (you have to see it) belongs to Vanilla Ice. Expensive and tasteless; it seems just right for him.
Fine has hidden his address, although he himself doxes political opponents.
Fine has hidden his address, although he himself doxes political opponents.
@cnn.com just outdid itself. It gave the usual softball interview to a GOP bigot, Congressman Randy File, who has celebrated IDF murders of US citizens, is virulently Islamophobic (and hates the Irish), and has been corrupt since his days on Harvard student government.
www.tag24.com/politics/pol...
www.tag24.com/politics/pol...
Florida Republican Randy Fine celebrates Israeli killing of American citizen in West Bank: "Fire away!"
Florida state Rep. Randy Fine saw his X account temporarily suspended after making racist posts in response to Israel's murder of US activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. | TAG24
www.tag24.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@cnn.com just outdid itself. It gave the usual softball interview to a GOP bigot, Congressman Randy File, who has celebrated IDF murders of US citizens, is virulently Islamophobic (and hates the Irish), and has been corrupt since his days on Harvard student government.
www.tag24.com/politics/pol...
www.tag24.com/politics/pol...
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
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November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW
The economy of which city in the US is most dependent on air travel? And would be most impacted by the shutdown?
Would it be Las Vegas?
Wonder why among the 8 who caved on the shutdown were 2 senators from Nevada?
Would it be Las Vegas?
Wonder why among the 8 who caved on the shutdown were 2 senators from Nevada?
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The economy of which city in the US is most dependent on air travel? And would be most impacted by the shutdown?
Would it be Las Vegas?
Wonder why among the 8 who caved on the shutdown were 2 senators from Nevada?
Would it be Las Vegas?
Wonder why among the 8 who caved on the shutdown were 2 senators from Nevada?
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Ireland has joined a growing number of countries calling for Israel to be banned from European club and international football competitions. The Irish Football Association says Israel broke Uefa rules by allowing 'settlement clubs' in the occupied West Bank
Ireland joins calls to ban Israel from European football
The Irish Football Association says Israel broke Uefa rules by allowing 'settlement clubs' in the occupied West Bank
www.middleeasteye.net
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Ireland has joined a growing number of countries calling for Israel to be banned from European club and international football competitions. The Irish Football Association says Israel broke Uefa rules by allowing 'settlement clubs' in the occupied West Bank
Democratic spinelessness in the face of Republican evil is the one constant of US politics. Everything else is rage-bait for rubes.
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Democratic spinelessness in the face of Republican evil is the one constant of US politics. Everything else is rage-bait for rubes.
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Elon Musk talking drivel: must be a 'y' in the day.
Cad é 'hobbit' as Gaeilge?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Cad é 'hobbit' as Gaeilge?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Mark O'Connell: Elon Musk’s vision of pre-immigration Ireland: Lovely small towns full of ‘hobbits, frankly’
On Joe Rogan, Musk conjured up a vision of phalanxes of swarthy paedophiles descending on the bucolic villages of Britain and Ireland
www.irishtimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Elon Musk talking drivel: must be a 'y' in the day.
Cad é 'hobbit' as Gaeilge?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Cad é 'hobbit' as Gaeilge?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
…and yes, he was a total prick, and later in life was a gusher of racist, sexist and other crap. Smart people are sometimes assholes.
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
…and yes, he was a total prick, and later in life was a gusher of racist, sexist and other crap. Smart people are sometimes assholes.
If I have to read any more crap about Watson and Crick (1953) I swear I’ll shoot myself.
No, Watson did not discover DNA. He did figure out the structure; far more than that it was helical, which was widely known, but the significance of base complementarity and how it could convey information(1/2)
No, Watson did not discover DNA. He did figure out the structure; far more than that it was helical, which was widely known, but the significance of base complementarity and how it could convey information(1/2)
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If I have to read any more crap about Watson and Crick (1953) I swear I’ll shoot myself.
No, Watson did not discover DNA. He did figure out the structure; far more than that it was helical, which was widely known, but the significance of base complementarity and how it could convey information(1/2)
No, Watson did not discover DNA. He did figure out the structure; far more than that it was helical, which was widely known, but the significance of base complementarity and how it could convey information(1/2)
Targets rapidly disappearing in the rear-view mirror are more distant than they seem. They're dead, Jim.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30
Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Targets rapidly disappearing in the rear-view mirror are more distant than they seem. They're dead, Jim.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just wrote to the lead counsel in Orr v Trump, with details of my cousin, named Allen Harbison at birth in 1858, who transitioned to Aleen, sometime around 1880, became a lady's maid, and applied for (and was apparently issued) a US passport in 1915, as a woman. This is not a modern practice.
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Just wrote to the lead counsel in Orr v Trump, with details of my cousin, named Allen Harbison at birth in 1858, who transitioned to Aleen, sometime around 1880, became a lady's maid, and applied for (and was apparently issued) a US passport in 1915, as a woman. This is not a modern practice.
I've been saying this for years. What Americans call communism, Europeans call 'normal society'.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I've been saying this for years. What Americans call communism, Europeans call 'normal society'.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Second-day postmortems after an election are usually along the lines of "it wasn't quite as bad for the Republicans as it first appeared".
Happy to see that this time, they're more "Yesterday it looked bad for the Republicans. In fact, it was worse than we thought".
Happy to see that this time, they're more "Yesterday it looked bad for the Republicans. In fact, it was worse than we thought".
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Second-day postmortems after an election are usually along the lines of "it wasn't quite as bad for the Republicans as it first appeared".
Happy to see that this time, they're more "Yesterday it looked bad for the Republicans. In fact, it was worse than we thought".
Happy to see that this time, they're more "Yesterday it looked bad for the Republicans. In fact, it was worse than we thought".