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Wireless charging on my Irish rail train today. Very impressed. New train. Very comfortable
July 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Israeli forces have taken command of a charity vessel that had tried to break a naval blockade of Gaza, and the boat with its crew of 12 including activist Greta Thunberg is now heading to a port in Israel, officials have said
Israeli forces seize activist ship carrying aid to Gaza
Israeli forces have taken command of a charity vessel that had tried to break a naval blockade of Gaza, and the boat with its crew of 12 including activist Greta Thunberg is now heading to a port in I...
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June 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Israel's defence minister has ordered the Israeli military to block an aid boat headed for Gaza with 12 activists on board, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg
Israeli military to block aid boat from reaching Gaza
Israel's defence minister has ordered the Israeli military to block an aid boat headed for Gaza with 12 activists on board, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.
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June 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him
Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him
AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone...
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June 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.
May 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Cabinteely park. Stunning this morning.
May 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
So, Google is offering me €20 off if I spend €99 or more for an item in a game.
Who the feck is spending €100 like this. What the hell can be worth that.
April 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Just out from Sinners at the lighthouse. Fantastic fun.
April 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves

www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
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April 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tomorrow seems like a beach day (if at all possible). Not planned, just essential .
April 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Think the Met Éireann app is messing with me .
March 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ok, the resident on netflix is actually very enjoyable. Time to open a bottle and settle down for a few episodes.
March 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Barkley debrief from Laz 👌🏻

#BM100
Barkley debrief from Laz page 1 Lazarus Lake 4h • 0 barkley debriefing to say the course won this year is an understatement. and since the smoke cleared, revealing a battlefield littered with the corpses of hubris and overconfidence i have been thinking back over the past year and especially the past week seeking to understand what went wrong... and i came out with some definite opinions about what triggered the massacre of 2025. that doesn't mean i am right but i think the cat ass trophies of 2025 can be greatly attributed to a few mistakes repeated by a lot of athletes. sure, the course got tweaked. it gets tweaked every year. and i knew going in that this was a difficult barkley course. but, while it had a little more climb it was also shorter. i was actually not certain we would not have another mass finish! but in the leadup to the race i saw errors being committed that lowered my optimism for the field. 1) taking bad advice. i saw it written over and over, until it took on a life of its own. "follow a veteran" Barkley debrief from Laz page 2 better to develop your own navigational skills. how do you know the veteran you follow did not become a veteran by following veterans? and even if you latch on to someone with serious navigation skills if they leave you out in the woods, all that happened was that they led you a long way from safety and the main thing you learned was what the right direction looks like when someone's ass is in the middle of it! 2) take a picture of the map, and retreat to your own tent to copy it. that one is so stupid we arent even going to allow it next year. first, it is going to be nearly impossible to mark the checkpoints accurately from a phone picture. if you make it small enough to see where the mark is, you cannot tell the exact location. if you make it large enough to see the exact location, you cannot see enough of the whole map to see where it goes. and exact placement of the checkpoint locations is critical! second, what everyone lost was the discussion that normally goes on around the master map. following a veteran might be a fools errand. having them tell you what to look for when locating checkpoints or selecting your routes can be worth its weight in gold. which gets back to navigation and the checkpoints. i don't think the athletes realized how critical it is to: mark the checkpoints accurately navigate to them. Barkley debrief from Laz page 3 great pains are taken to place the marks on the exact location of the checkpoint. and i think many of the athletes with rudimentary navigation skills are unable to look at the map and exactly visualize a location. contour lines are not merely a record of elevation change. they are a picture of how the ground is configured. what i kept hearing was; "i shot a bearing" shooting a bearing is the most rudimentary form of navigation. if it is not pitch black night, or white-out fog i would not use a compass to navigate at frozen head. i would look at the map and match the contours with my surroundings. then, instead of a straight line through all obstacles i would pick the best route to reach my destination. old trails and logging roads are easy to follow. in the absence of human-made routes if you look at the contours for the "easiest" route you are almost certain to find game trails going the same way. animals always choose the easiest route to go from here to there, that is how game trails are formed. and game trails also take out a lot of the briars and undergrowth. there is an additional benefit to following the contours. you know what the ground should look like as you approach the location. we heard a lot of known excellent navigators comment that they passed clusters of virgins "turning over every rock" nowhere near the next checkpoint. no amount of searching will help if you cannot identify the checkpoint locations! Barkley debrief from Laz page 4 3) trying to brute force error correction. some people searched for checkpoints for as much as 5 hours, going back and forth over the same ground. then came home with a description that did not sound like they were ever in the vicinity of the actual checkpoint! checkpoints are not "hidden" they are not probably in plain sight, and they have to be placed where hogs cannot get to them. but the map markings and directions are intended to make them easy to locate. in a race with zero margin for error, i would not look more than 5 minutes before consulting the map. find a nearby landmark that is easily identifiable. or even a couple of more distant peaks that you can see... if these do not match what you should see from the checkpoint, then you are searching in the wrong place! my conclusion about the weekend is not that kind. but sometimes what you need to hear and what you want to hear are not the same. barkley is out there on the edge of possibility. but it is not impossible. for most athletes the 100 is not going to be in their future. the best ability, preparation, and execution might not be enough. but most of them should have been able to knock out one loop under the time limit! the 2025 field left a lot of cards on the table.
March 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Revenge..
keithdunn.bsky.social Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · Mar 20
The 2025 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Under one hour left for the Fun Run and we have yet to see a runner’s light. #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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March 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Tomo and John have passed the Fire Tower; John about 30 minutes behind Tomo. #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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It's been a busy few hours here... @barkleycourse.bsky.social and I have been doing quite a job so far. A lot less victims left to work over tonight though 😈 #BM100
keithdunn.bsky.social Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · Mar 19
Ten runners completed Loop 1 within the time limit; 9 continued to Loop 2. 14 runners have been tapped out; 16 remain on Loop 1 and will be tapped out when they return. #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The first runner has returned to camp on quitters road and faced the bugler. (He was not the human sacrifice.) #BM100
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
How many people have added this page to their favorites in the last couple of months.
March 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Breaking: Two Irish athletes have won medals in the last few minutes at the European Indoor Championships - Sarah Healy won gold in the 3000m and Mark English took bronze in the 800m

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Sarah Healy claims 3000m gold as Mark English win 800m bronze at European Indoor Championships
Sarah Healy has won a magnificent gold medal for Ireland in the 3000m at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
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March 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Sarah Healy has won a gold medal in the 3,000 metres at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in the Netherlands
Healy wins gold for Ireland at European Indoors
Sarah Healy has won a gold medal in the 3,000 metres at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in the Netherlands.
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March 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Looks like a very serious one southbound on the m50 (near the toll bridge). Closed southbound and very slow northbound
March 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Have y'all seen this?
Have y’all seen this?
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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March 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM