Alvean E. Jones

A gorgeous photograph. The dog looks very cuddly, how cute!

🏛️ An Ottoman Glass Hanging Lamp, 17th Century

Just pointing out like an awful pedant that this isn't daylight savings time. The summer is daylight savings time. We have returned to standard time. And I love it.

My pleasure! They asked me for more tours next year.

I enjoyed yesterday's tours as the guide, thanks to @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social Open House Day, they enjoyed the visit to the Eavan Boland Library and Nellie's Flat, thanks, IAF.

Watching the canvassers knock on each door in the neighbourhood and bypass my house, not even saying hello, I was in the front garden. I must be on a list somewhere, DEAF HOUSE, DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS PERSON,. It happens quite regularly to Deaf people at election time. I know who NOT to vote for.

@irisharchitecturef.bsky.social fb.watch/CCC-erJXG0/ ISL tours Open House Dublin Saturday 18 October 2025: #OpenHouseDublin
#OHD25
#FutureHeritage Watch Video for ISL information.

Gallarus Oratory • Visitor Guide 2025 • Archaeology • Dingle Gallarus Oratory is one of our most iconic examples of early Irish Christianity and a popular highlight of the Dingle Peninsula.

You can read more about this wonderful site in our article here:
www.tuatha.ie/gallarus-ora...

'Against stupidity we are defenseless.' - Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

I've been thinking about that quote a lot recently.

Gallarus Oratory on a sunny day on the Dingle Peninsula

One of my favourite places on the Dingle Peninsula, Gallarus Oratory, is always worth a visit.

The church was constructed some time around the 9th—11th century, from a single continuous corbelled vault, with the splayed walls of the base supporting the roof, giving it the shape of an upturned boat.

Anyone in need of some ancient art to brighten up your day? In need of some _cute_ ancient art?

How about this marvel from (probably) the first century CE Rome, currently held in the Getty museum, of a bronze mouse nibbling away!

The perfect combo: the entrance to the steps to the Chapter House at Wells Cathedral is fronted with a delightful medieval door. I don't think I've seen any photographs that include it. So it took a pic..📸

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Goddamn.

You have to actually SAY THE THING for change to occur. No more friendly acronyms or umbrella euphemisms. Say "Anti-Black racism". Stop trying to create soft and gentle terms for what is actually happening and ungently harming real people.

Giving a talk on Deaf people in the long 18th century, you're more than welcome to attend. This would be of interest to those into Georgian history, those into Irish Deaf history. 14henriettastreet.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

I promise this is an actual photo I took

#Nikon Z7ii | 57mm | f/7.1 | 1/400 | 1000 ISO

#photography #sunset #landscapephotography

Prints: kerrigorsnaps.darkroom.com

Looking for experts in early Victorian Irish working class clothing, I have a few questions. would a carpenter renting a shop for his business necessarily wear a waistcoat?

Exactly.
The US ceased to exist on January 20th.

Now we have this clown show of a musical comedy dictatorship, with no adults in charge of anything. Wanna be autocrats, two-but grifters, psychopaths, drug addicts, drunks, all low IQ racist homophobes.

That's how fast things can fail.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Illustration featuring all the women of the Mini Mná series. #art #blueskyart #speirgorm

A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.

And that it causes your immune system to forget what it's learned about other diseases, making you much more vulnerable to everything else. Fun! 🙃

Everything is off the rails right now, but news of physical intimidation at scientific conferences by MAGA shows how far things have already gotten. #StandWithScience

The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church - Medievalists.net Hidden away for centuries in a Transylvanian church tower, a forgotten medieval library has come to light, revealing treasures as old as the 9th century. This extraordinary discovery of manuscripts, b...

Hidden away for centuries in a Transylvanian church tower, a forgotten medieval library has come to light, revealing treasures as old as the 9th century, a rare glimpse into the intellectual and cultural life of medieval Romania. www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost...

Starfleet Eliminating All Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs To all Starfleet personnel, It is with great enthusiasm that we announce Starfleet’s commitment to moving beyond so-called diversity, equity, and i...

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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sta...

Amazing picture of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander languages as per the 2021 census, from HotsanGget on Reddit:

www.reddit.com/r/Linguistic...

ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent


WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?

ZELENSKYY: Yes

My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪

An ornately decorated architectural feature depicting a human face with a moustache set within a wall

A face from the past.

A 12th century Hiberno-Romanesque head incorporated into a wall at Kilteel Church, Kildare.