MarBenCel1
@marbencel1.bsky.social
Retired, living my best life beside the Atlantic in West Clare.
No D/Ms please
No D/Ms please
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The Cabinet will discuss measures to protect children online, with Minister for Culture, Communications, and Sport Patrick O'Donovan updating the Government on a plan to introduce an age-verification mechanism.
Online child protection to be discussed at Cabinet
The Cabinet will discuss measures to protect children online, with Minister for Culture, Communications, and Sport Patrick O'Donovan updating the Government on a plan to introduce an age-verification ...
www.rte.ie
December 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The Cabinet will discuss measures to protect children online, with Minister for Culture, Communications, and Sport Patrick O'Donovan updating the Government on a plan to introduce an age-verification mechanism.
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A new online training course has been launched to help HR professionals and managers support employees undergoing a cancer diagnosis or treatment.
New workplace course to support workers with cancer
A new online training course has been launched to help HR professionals and managers support employees undergoing a cancer diagnosis or treatment.
www.rte.ie
December 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
A new online training course has been launched to help HR professionals and managers support employees undergoing a cancer diagnosis or treatment.
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I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
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"Say it!"
"No!"
"Say it, Hans."
"My name's not Hans!"
"I WILL drop you."
“Fine, okay, you win!”
“I need to hear you say it.”
"Die Hard is a Christmas movie!"
"No!"
"Say it, Hans."
"My name's not Hans!"
"I WILL drop you."
“Fine, okay, you win!”
“I need to hear you say it.”
"Die Hard is a Christmas movie!"
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Say it!"
"No!"
"Say it, Hans."
"My name's not Hans!"
"I WILL drop you."
“Fine, okay, you win!”
“I need to hear you say it.”
"Die Hard is a Christmas movie!"
"No!"
"Say it, Hans."
"My name's not Hans!"
"I WILL drop you."
“Fine, okay, you win!”
“I need to hear you say it.”
"Die Hard is a Christmas movie!"
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Whisper it...
• J.R.R. Tolkien •
• J.R.R. Tolkien •
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Whisper it...
• J.R.R. Tolkien •
• J.R.R. Tolkien •
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We will shortly be announcing the first recipient of the prestigious new annual ILT Peace Prize. The yet-to-be-revealed honouree has resolved 14 international literary feuds in the last six months alone—an extraordinary feat by any account.
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We will shortly be announcing the first recipient of the prestigious new annual ILT Peace Prize. The yet-to-be-revealed honouree has resolved 14 international literary feuds in the last six months alone—an extraordinary feat by any account.
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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
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December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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👀 Can you see me now?
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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"We all have our own life to pursue,
Our own kind of dream to be weaving,
And we all have the power
To make wishes come true,
As long as we keep believing."
~ Louisa May Alcott
The Winter Forest (1912)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted
Our own kind of dream to be weaving,
And we all have the power
To make wishes come true,
As long as we keep believing."
~ Louisa May Alcott
The Winter Forest (1912)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"We all have our own life to pursue,
Our own kind of dream to be weaving,
And we all have the power
To make wishes come true,
As long as we keep believing."
~ Louisa May Alcott
The Winter Forest (1912)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted
Our own kind of dream to be weaving,
And we all have the power
To make wishes come true,
As long as we keep believing."
~ Louisa May Alcott
The Winter Forest (1912)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted
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On the back of a pub toilet door in south London: If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
On the back of a pub toilet door in south London: If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
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(from ‘Preludes’)
“And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.”
“And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
(from ‘Preludes’)
“And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.”
“And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.”
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Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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“The story sings from end to end like a happy man going home; and, like a happy and good man, when it cannot sing it yells. It is lyric and exclamatory, from the first exclamatory words of it. It is strictly a Christmas Carol.”
(‘Charles Dickens: Dickens and Christmas’)
(‘Charles Dickens: Dickens and Christmas’)
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“The story sings from end to end like a happy man going home; and, like a happy and good man, when it cannot sing it yells. It is lyric and exclamatory, from the first exclamatory words of it. It is strictly a Christmas Carol.”
(‘Charles Dickens: Dickens and Christmas’)
(‘Charles Dickens: Dickens and Christmas’)
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Happy Thanksgiving! Seven members of our coffee klatch gathered to connect together before we went our separate ways today, and they voted for this photo looking slightly north taken 8 minutes before sunrise. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Seven members of our coffee klatch gathered to connect together before we went our separate ways today, and they voted for this photo looking slightly north taken 8 minutes before sunrise. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!
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That moment when you drive your Chevy to the levy and the levy isn’t dry. This is what happens when you drink whiskey and rye.
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
That moment when you drive your Chevy to the levy and the levy isn’t dry. This is what happens when you drink whiskey and rye.
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Norman Taurog's film adaptation of the George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's stage musical "GIRL CRAZY" the last of nine movies with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as co-stars was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1943
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Norman Taurog's film adaptation of the George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's stage musical "GIRL CRAZY" the last of nine movies with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as co-stars was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1943
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer