Martina Comiskey
@mmcomiskey.bsky.social
Originally from Co. Donegal. Living in US (Boston area) for almost 40 years.Approaching retirement and thinking of moving back to Ireland to be closer to family. Would love input from anyone who has moved back recently finance and tax advice.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
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Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days.
Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days.
Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
September 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
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CMAT relasing Euro-Country "was the end of Bertie's chances. By making the financial crash a culturally live issue again, she channelled 1.21Gws of raw artistic power directly into Bertie's campaign and sent it like a DeLorean, back into all those futures lost. "
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Presidential Selection
The time is ticking down to pick the candidates to replace Michael D. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
August 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CMAT relasing Euro-Country "was the end of Bertie's chances. By making the financial crash a culturally live issue again, she channelled 1.21Gws of raw artistic power directly into Bertie's campaign and sent it like a DeLorean, back into all those futures lost. "
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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Five years ago, a very close relative died of a glioblastoma brain tumor at the age of 13. Today would have been his 19th birthday. And now comes news that an mRNA vaccine is being trialed to treat this very (incurable) malady. Fingers crossed.
mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...
mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...
Vaccine triggers fierce response to fight brain tumor » McKnight Brain Institute » University of Florida
UF-developed mRNA vaccine quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack glioblastoma.
mbi.ufl.edu
August 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Five years ago, a very close relative died of a glioblastoma brain tumor at the age of 13. Today would have been his 19th birthday. And now comes news that an mRNA vaccine is being trialed to treat this very (incurable) malady. Fingers crossed.
mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...
mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...
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We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
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🎉 Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna! The Nobel Laureate has just received the @acs.org‘s Priestley Medal for her incredible work on CRISPR-Cas9 🧬 and contributions to unlocking the power of RNA. 🧪
@biosci.lbl.gov
@innovativegenomics.bsky.social
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@biosci.lbl.gov
@innovativegenomics.bsky.social
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Jennifer Doudna Wins American Chemical Society’s Priestley Award
The Nobel Laureate has received the American Chemical Society’s highest prize for her breakthrough work on CRISPR-Cas9
newscenter.lbl.gov
August 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna! The Nobel Laureate has just received the @acs.org‘s Priestley Medal for her incredible work on CRISPR-Cas9 🧬 and contributions to unlocking the power of RNA. 🧪
@biosci.lbl.gov
@innovativegenomics.bsky.social
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@biosci.lbl.gov
@innovativegenomics.bsky.social
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
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To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.
August 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
www.statnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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Dublin born Andy Byron, happily married with two children, was left shell shocked on Thursday evening when his phone blew up while he was on holiday with his wife.
There were hundreds of messages from internet users wrongly accusing him of cheating on his spouse.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
There were hundreds of messages from internet users wrongly accusing him of cheating on his spouse.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
Irish man faces backlash after being wrongly accused as man at centre of viral Coldplay footage
An Irish man has been caught up in a global viral internet scandal that saw a tech executive and his employee caught in an intimate embrace on a ‘kiss cam’ at a Coldplay concert.
www.independent.ie
July 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Dublin born Andy Byron, happily married with two children, was left shell shocked on Thursday evening when his phone blew up while he was on holiday with his wife.
There were hundreds of messages from internet users wrongly accusing him of cheating on his spouse.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
There were hundreds of messages from internet users wrongly accusing him of cheating on his spouse.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
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SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles?
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
June 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles?
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
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This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
- #OctavioPaz
- #OctavioPaz
June 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
- #OctavioPaz
- #OctavioPaz
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Check out our full UFO report here: youtu.be/wyY_RXMRKOg?...
June 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Check out our full UFO report here: youtu.be/wyY_RXMRKOg?...
Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/h...
Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.
www.nytimes.com
June 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/h...
Very worried about what is happening in LA. Hoping that there won’t be escalation. Good to see a voice of reason, not another attempt to stir up trouble, echoing historical efforts to create opportunity for oppression. We do know the history and we see what is happening. We see you. We see you all.
June 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Very worried about what is happening in LA. Hoping that there won’t be escalation. Good to see a voice of reason, not another attempt to stir up trouble, echoing historical efforts to create opportunity for oppression. We do know the history and we see what is happening. We see you. We see you all.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…”
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
Op-Ed: A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today
Everybody’s heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot.
www.latimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…”
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Ridiculous that Irish women are even having to have this conversation in 2025 and hope the GAA cope on in 2025 but great t-shirt, how do I get one? 😀
#Speirgorm #Camogie Match postponed till after Camogie Association vote.
May 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Ridiculous that Irish women are even having to have this conversation in 2025 and hope the GAA cope on in 2025 but great t-shirt, how do I get one? 😀