Colm Mulcahy

I wouldn’t say that in English!

So how come Wikipedia ignores this Emmylou Harris & Carl Jackson album? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmylou... I've Always Needed You (2008)

So let’s list bands whose first two hits were very similar, but they went on to do even better stuff. I’ll go first: The Kinks, the Zombies, the Damned.

‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers. Reliance on few foreign companies reduces economic resilience, makes govts powerless. China/India building alternatives. UK/EU need to do the same. Fiscal rules prevent public investment

I wouldn’t say that in English!

Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau chemical #engineer designed 1st commercial penicillin production plant. 1937 1st woman to earn PhD in chemical engineering @ MIT Later 1st woman member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers. b. #OTD Oct 27 1910 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

Get to know the Cork City Magic Hour, explained and updated daily at the bottom of the home page now: corklight.ie #Cork #Photography #Speirgorm

Day 450 of my cover challenge: Jackson Browne at Theatre Within's 30th Annual John Lennon Tribute, Beacon Theatre, NYC, November 12, 2010. #MusicSky youtu.be/Vx8KT3epvfI?...

Elon Musk can whine and threaten me all he wants, but I'm still going to call out his bullying and abuse of power.

Ivy Cummings claimed that in 1913 age 11 she was youngest person to lap @ Brooklands in her dad's car when he wasn't looking. Grew up to be successful racing driver, ran garage in 1920s on #Putney Bridge Road where repaired & sold cars. b. #OTD 27 Oct 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Cum...

(1979) #MusicSky youtu.be/0Vo4lNb0w48?...

Absolutely brilliant to see. Yet fossil fuel use and emissions are STILL increasing, because capitalist economies require endless growth. On a finite planet, that can only end one way. Without system change, much of our efforts are little more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Rick Moranis left Hollywood at the peak of his fame to raise his children after his wife passed away. Original post

Nobody Knows What Third Light Switch Does

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Four Tops performing “Standing in the Shadows of Love” in 1967. The song was considered a reworking of the 1963 Suoremes’ 1963 B-Side “Standing at the Crossroads of Love”. It reached #2 on the U.S. R&B chart. On the album Reach Out. #Motown #SoulMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=r80i...

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#5CoverSongsTrick #MusicChallenge 1 Rainy Days And Mondays Cracker Slowing a Carpenters’ song down and making it even sadder www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c3b...

(1987) Joe Strummer wrote and performed the song "Tennessee Rain" featured in the film "Walker" directed by Alex Cox. It stars Ed Harris as William Walker, an American mercenary fueled by "Manifest Destiny",he invaded & made himself president of Nicaragua in 1856. ##MusicSky youtu.be/BvYpKJLnatY?...

Gimme the Small Faces song whose chorus says this!

Mariana Trench Once Again Named Worst Place To Raise Child https://theonion.com/mariana-trench-once-again-named-worst-place-to-raise-ch-1819575833/

Today, 48 of the roughly 60 villages and towns within Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon are mostly levelled, a NYT analysis has found. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wasn’t Richie Havens the opener?

Picture sleeves were only starting to appear in the UK then. Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever two months later was the first I recall.

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

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Margaret Partridge electrical #engineer & contractor wrote "for sheer exciting experience give me a town to light". @wes1919.bsky.social founder Supported female #apprentices incl Beatrice Shilling. Changed international law on night work for women d #OTD 27 Oct 1967 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

Galway Bay this morning. #SpeirGorm

I am not certain all the fishermen they killed at sea were running drugs either. IMO that is straight up murder

Come along to not one, but two history seminars this week. First up we have Dr John Regan (University of Dundee) who is speaking on 'Sir John Temple (1600-77), and the historiography of the Irish rebellion (c. 1917-23)', Wednesday 28 October at 2.30pm in the Bridge Room, Hardiman Research Building.

When in 1968 was Soul Yogi LP by Freddie McCoy *released*?

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Not drawn to (time) scale. Ireland, Britain and a Europe were connected at that stage.