Will Derham
@willderham.bsky.social
Would-be architect, printer, gym-goer, baker... actual curator & author, among other things. Currently working in a castle. Views are my own.
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Dublin Castle looking stunning for the presidential inauguration today, all credit to @opwireland.bsky.social @willderham.bsky.social, curators, tradespeople, maintenance & cleaning staff #Aras25
St Patrick's Hall in Dublin Castle looking immaculate ahead of the inauguration of President elect Catherine Connolly
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Dublin Castle looking stunning for the presidential inauguration today, all credit to @opwireland.bsky.social @willderham.bsky.social, curators, tradespeople, maintenance & cleaning staff #Aras25
‘According to Amnesty International, there is an “execution crisis in Iran, which has reached horrific proportions” […] Last year, Amnesty recorded 972 executions, marking the highest number since 2015. More than 800 people have been executed so far in 2025.’ #Iran
Olympians call on Iran to halt execution of boxing champion
Olympians call on Iran to halt execution of boxing champion
Sports personalities including Martina Navratilova and the swimmer Sharron Davies sign letter condemning Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani’s death sentence
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
‘According to Amnesty International, there is an “execution crisis in Iran, which has reached horrific proportions” […] Last year, Amnesty recorded 972 executions, marking the highest number since 2015. More than 800 people have been executed so far in 2025.’ #Iran
This is quite an enjoyable story to start the week with …
Who is ‘fedora man’? Dapper French teenager in viral Louvre heist photo unmasked
Who is ‘fedora man’? Dapper French teenager in viral Louvre heist photo unmasked
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux was captured looking suave in a picture outside the Paris museum on the day of a crown jewels heist
When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realised an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself.
Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30km (19 miles) from Paris, Pedro decided to let the mystery linger. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This is quite an enjoyable story to start the week with …
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Loving the honesty of the new branding by McDonalds
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Loving the honesty of the new branding by McDonalds
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Short answer, yes - and by a number of our politicians too.
#Housing #HousingCrisis #Homelessness #DerelictIreland #Ireland
#Housing #HousingCrisis #Homelessness #DerelictIreland #Ireland
“Have we all been gaslit by the construction industry?
Centralising power among a few politicians & lobbyists risks edging towards autocracy. Access to the courts is not an obstacle to progress – it is a safeguard that allows citizens to hold power to account”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
Centralising power among a few politicians & lobbyists risks edging towards autocracy. Access to the courts is not an obstacle to progress – it is a safeguard that allows citizens to hold power to account”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
Have we all been gaslit by the construction industry?
‘As a planning consultant, I’ve seen first-hand how public participation strengthens communities’
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Short answer, yes - and by a number of our politicians too.
#Housing #HousingCrisis #Homelessness #DerelictIreland #Ireland
#Housing #HousingCrisis #Homelessness #DerelictIreland #Ireland
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Mamdani's speech is SO GOOD: respectful, generous, sparkling.
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Mamdani's speech is SO GOOD: respectful, generous, sparkling.
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Another 15 years
No better case for use it or lose it so when it comes to the 180,000+ empty homes across Ireland
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
No better case for use it or lose it so when it comes to the 180,000+ empty homes across Ireland
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Another 15 years
No better case for use it or lose it so when it comes to the 180,000+ empty homes across Ireland
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
No better case for use it or lose it so when it comes to the 180,000+ empty homes across Ireland
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
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100% this. The housing crisis just benefits too many landlords to put an end to it. Borders counties, and Leitrim in particular is just abandoned home after abandoned home, just waiting to be fixed up and breathed life into.
Another 15 years
No better case for use it or lose it so when it comes to the 180,000+ empty homes across Ireland
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
No better case for use it or lose it so when it comes to the 180,000+ empty homes across Ireland
#DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
100% this. The housing crisis just benefits too many landlords to put an end to it. Borders counties, and Leitrim in particular is just abandoned home after abandoned home, just waiting to be fixed up and breathed life into.
For 125 years, the preservation of the White House has functioned as an agreement between the influential and the powerful, with no accountability.
When Donald Trump demolished the East Wing, he showed once again how unconstrained the Presidency really is.
When Donald Trump demolished the East Wing, he showed once again how unconstrained the Presidency really is.
White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.
For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Oh. I say …!
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Oh. I say …!
“The John Lewis Christmas advert, […] arrives 10 days earlier than last year’s after a general shift towards an earlier Christmas launch in recent years by rivals including Marks & Spencer and the big supermarkets.”
Milking memory for cash and calling it “festive” 😒
(Yes, I am that grinch)
Milking memory for cash and calling it “festive” 😒
(Yes, I am that grinch)
John Lewis ad kickstarts Christmas countdown to the tune of 90s club classic
John Lewis ad kickstarts Christmas countdown to the tune of 90s club classic
Department store chain banks on nostalgia to get customers into festive mood with Where Love Lives
John Lewis is hoping that a dash of nostalgia will get consumers into the festive mood this year as it officially kickstarts the countdown to Christmas with the launch of its 2025 advert to the tune of the 1990s club classic Where Love Lives.
The department store chain is appealing to ageing clubbers – and their teenage kids – with this year’s ad focused on a middle-aged dad transported back to his clubbing days after receiving a vinyl record from his son. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“The John Lewis Christmas advert, […] arrives 10 days earlier than last year’s after a general shift towards an earlier Christmas launch in recent years by rivals including Marks & Spencer and the big supermarkets.”
Milking memory for cash and calling it “festive” 😒
(Yes, I am that grinch)
Milking memory for cash and calling it “festive” 😒
(Yes, I am that grinch)
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Errrrr … how many times God?
God: none actually. Closer to what ICE is doing in American cities.
God: none actually. Closer to what ICE is doing in American cities.
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Errrrr … how many times God?
God: none actually. Closer to what ICE is doing in American cities.
God: none actually. Closer to what ICE is doing in American cities.
😂😂😂😂
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
😂😂😂😂
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If you’ve broken in, and deliberately set the stairs on fire, you’re trying to prevent people (including little children) from escaping and hoping that the inhabitants burn to death.
Also, this is an attack on a state-sponsored facility. When are we going to call it - it’s terrorism?
Also, this is an attack on a state-sponsored facility. When are we going to call it - it’s terrorism?
An investigation into an arson attack at an IPAS centre in Drogheda is continuing, after gardaí confirmed a fire had been deliberately started in the building on Friday night.
Investigation continues into arson attack at IPAS centre
An investigation into an arson attack at an IPAS centre in Drogheda is continuing, after gardaí confirmed a fire had been deliberately started in the building on Friday night.
www.rte.ie
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you’ve broken in, and deliberately set the stairs on fire, you’re trying to prevent people (including little children) from escaping and hoping that the inhabitants burn to death.
Also, this is an attack on a state-sponsored facility. When are we going to call it - it’s terrorism?
Also, this is an attack on a state-sponsored facility. When are we going to call it - it’s terrorism?
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This is not what someone does if they are a "concerned local".
And every "protestor" at asylum seeker accommodation is part of the road leading up to something like this being done.
And every "protestor" at asylum seeker accommodation is part of the road leading up to something like this being done.
So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children.
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children
Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released
www.thetimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is not what someone does if they are a "concerned local".
And every "protestor" at asylum seeker accommodation is part of the road leading up to something like this being done.
And every "protestor" at asylum seeker accommodation is part of the road leading up to something like this being done.
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Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
That’s quite the look you’re getting from Mr Haughey 😉
If you're in the vicinity of @dculibrary.bsky.social, please pop in to see an exhibition selected from the archive material I've donated. It relates to my first book, The Destruction of Dublin (1985), and the Dublin Crisis Conference I helped to organise in February 1986. A blast from the past!
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
That’s quite the look you’re getting from Mr Haughey 😉
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We think these memes are Going Places. 🧳
📖 The Torment of the Proud - Valley of Burning Sulphur (detail) from Visions of the Knight Tondal, 1475, Simon Marmion. Getty Museum, Ms. 30 (87.MN.141), fol. 15v
📖 The Torment of the Proud - Valley of Burning Sulphur (detail) from Visions of the Knight Tondal, 1475, Simon Marmion. Getty Museum, Ms. 30 (87.MN.141), fol. 15v
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We think these memes are Going Places. 🧳
📖 The Torment of the Proud - Valley of Burning Sulphur (detail) from Visions of the Knight Tondal, 1475, Simon Marmion. Getty Museum, Ms. 30 (87.MN.141), fol. 15v
📖 The Torment of the Proud - Valley of Burning Sulphur (detail) from Visions of the Knight Tondal, 1475, Simon Marmion. Getty Museum, Ms. 30 (87.MN.141), fol. 15v
The cover artwork is beautiful 👌🏻
(And the story isn’t half bad either 😉)
#Ireland #Dublin #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #TheDead #Books
(And the story isn’t half bad either 😉)
#Ireland #Dublin #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #TheDead #Books
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Copies in stock now, ahead of release date next week! A VERY handsome edition of Joyce's The Dead, from @newislandbooks.bsky.social , and introduced by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social . Get one!
Copies in stock now, ahead of release date next week! A VERY handsome edition of Joyce's The Dead, from @newislandbooks.bsky.social , and introduced by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social . Get one!
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The cover artwork is beautiful 👌🏻
(And the story isn’t half bad either 😉)
#Ireland #Dublin #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #TheDead #Books
(And the story isn’t half bad either 😉)
#Ireland #Dublin #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #TheDead #Books
Not that I use LinkedIn all that much, but I’ve just stoped them using my data for ‘generative AI improvement’ (see below).
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
November 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Not that I use LinkedIn all that much, but I’ve just stoped them using my data for ‘generative AI improvement’ (see below).
“During the break for lunch, we met a man who is part of a group of about a dozen retirees from around the country who meet up regularly to attend court cases of interest.”
What an interesting pastime 🧐
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
What an interesting pastime 🧐
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Miriam Lord: Halfway through the account of DJ Carey's career as a swindler, the atmosphere changed
Former Kilkenny hurler sits motionless in the dock as stories of his cold exploitation unfold
www.irishtimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“During the break for lunch, we met a man who is part of a group of about a dozen retirees from around the country who meet up regularly to attend court cases of interest.”
What an interesting pastime 🧐
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
What an interesting pastime 🧐
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
What a throughly enjoyable #LongRead
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
What a throughly enjoyable #LongRead
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November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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