Mill Glen
@millglen.bsky.social
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Happy Christmas. Here is Anois, Os Ard's 30 favourite Irish releases of 2025 ✨
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AOA’s Best Irish Music of 2025
A personal overview of the albums and EPs that made 2025 such a significant year for Irish music
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December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Happy Christmas. Here is Anois, Os Ard's 30 favourite Irish releases of 2025 ✨
anoisosard.substack.com/p/aoas-best-...
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Step 1: Manhattan.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Step 1: Manhattan.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
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Good Day!
A Moonlit Winter Landscape by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Date unknown
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
A Moonlit Winter Landscape by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Date unknown
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
December 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Good Day!
A Moonlit Winter Landscape by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Date unknown
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
A Moonlit Winter Landscape by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Date unknown
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
Always had a soft spot for Chris Rea, in a Dire Straits kind of way.
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Chris Rea - The Road to Hell Pt 2 (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Chris Rea
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December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Always had a soft spot for Chris Rea, in a Dire Straits kind of way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcW-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcW-...
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I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
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If we're to turn the tide on nature loss, we're going to need a government that treats it with the level of priority that was given to holding on to the nitrates derogation
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Habitats report a stark contrast to nitrates decision
Biodiversity collapse is not a lost cause, but Government failure to prioritise it is devastating for all those working on nature restoration
www.irishexaminer.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If we're to turn the tide on nature loss, we're going to need a government that treats it with the level of priority that was given to holding on to the nitrates derogation
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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New substack: why so many people are content with economic stagnation: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/wallowing-...
Wallowing in poverty
Why we're not bothered about economic growth.
chrisdillow.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
New substack: why so many people are content with economic stagnation: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/wallowing-...
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Current* conditions near Whitefish, MI:
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Current* conditions near Whitefish, MI:
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Chuffed to see the inclusion of the Birds In The Brickwork EP 'Coastal Study #1' in this lovely article from Stationary Travels!
Again, loads of stuff I've yet to discover too.
Have a look!
stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/2...
Again, loads of stuff I've yet to discover too.
Have a look!
stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/2...
2025 in Review: A Sense of Place and Time
The act of creating a sense of a place or capturing a moment in time is a relatively common motif in the realm of instrumental music, especially in the ambient and adjacent genres, but this co…
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December 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Chuffed to see the inclusion of the Birds In The Brickwork EP 'Coastal Study #1' in this lovely article from Stationary Travels!
Again, loads of stuff I've yet to discover too.
Have a look!
stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/2...
Again, loads of stuff I've yet to discover too.
Have a look!
stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/2...
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Your 'doom quote' for today:
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer-updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irrep…
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December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
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My Brian Wilson memorial for @mojomagazine.bsky.social is now online. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
"Music takes what’s inside me and puts it into the world..."
MOJO celebrates Brian Wilson: a true genius who hymned the American dream and its shadow flipside with raw spirituality and symphonic sophistication.
www.mojo4music.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My Brian Wilson memorial for @mojomagazine.bsky.social is now online. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
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Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?
Yeah, as I was saying...
Yeah, as I was saying...
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?
Yeah, as I was saying...
Yeah, as I was saying...
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'Cobbled Bridge' by Trevor Grimshaw (1947-2001).
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
'Cobbled Bridge' by Trevor Grimshaw (1947-2001).
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The huge polar amplification of heating continues
Tipping of the Greenland Ice Sheet all but certain now, locking-in an eventual ~7m rise
Say goodbye to much of Florida, and coastal towns and cities across the planet
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Tipping of the Greenland Ice Sheet all but certain now, locking-in an eventual ~7m rise
Say goodbye to much of Florida, and coastal towns and cities across the planet
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The huge polar amplification of heating continues
Tipping of the Greenland Ice Sheet all but certain now, locking-in an eventual ~7m rise
Say goodbye to much of Florida, and coastal towns and cities across the planet
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Tipping of the Greenland Ice Sheet all but certain now, locking-in an eventual ~7m rise
Say goodbye to much of Florida, and coastal towns and cities across the planet
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Thamesmead - The First Areas. This is undated, but appears to be from around 1976: A GLC brochure outlining the work done on the initial Thamesmead areas (I, II ,IIA and IIID). This first phase of work produced nearly 4,200 dwellings.
December 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Thamesmead - The First Areas. This is undated, but appears to be from around 1976: A GLC brochure outlining the work done on the initial Thamesmead areas (I, II ,IIA and IIID). This first phase of work produced nearly 4,200 dwellings.
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Ireland back, again, at the European Court of Justice, this time for failures in our sewage treatment plants
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www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
EU seeking financial sanctions on Ireland over wastewater
The European Commission is to refer Ireland back to the European Court of Justice and is seeking financial sanctions to be imposed because of Ireland's failure to comply with a 2019 court judgement fo...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Ireland back, again, at the European Court of Justice, this time for failures in our sewage treatment plants
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...