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The upcoming BBC mini-series "Dope Girls", about the 1920's Soho, is partially based on the career of Kate Meyrick, the Cork woman who was the proprietor of the infamous 43 Club www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4_...

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Important News - Beamish is being served in Gibney's London and Daffodil Mulligans (near Old Street)

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After goggling Gritty a few times, I started getting notifications about Flyers games thanks to AI. I am now a Flyers Fan. Fate has ordained it.

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Just two days left to get your talk or tutorial for PyData London 2025! Deadline 24 February. Register as a speaker now pydata.org/london2025/cfp

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Ireland can beat wales with 12 men? Ha. Nemesis had a good chuckle reading this On "Off The Ball" it was claimed that this Ireland team could beat Wales with "13 or 12 men" and ex-Ireland internationals were among those to criticise the comments www.irishmirror.ie/sport/rugby-...

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This Is Good Science

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Zuckerberg philanthropy ends DEI programs thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thehill....

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Finally someone is talking some sense

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George Mobley’s image of a stylish, 92-yr-old Georgia O’Keeffe with her painting ‘Black Place III’. O’Keefe lived mainly in New Mexico, and its landscape inspired many of her works. After a long career, she was still doing pencil and charcoal sketches into her 90s

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West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys Great streets capes of London in 1984. youtu.be/p3j2NYZ8FKs?...

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Fans of Sinead O'Connor would probably like this TV ad from Ireland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7sm...

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UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025. Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025 useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. user2025.r-project.org/call #RStats

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UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025. Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025 useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. user2025.r-project.org/call #RStats

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European Boycott of FIFA World Cup 2026? Certainly on the cards now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FI... #football #fifa

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"The Battle of the Green Fork" in the Game of Thrones provides an interesting metaphor for being tricked into fighting the wrong battle - tactical victories that yield strategic defeats. I reckon this well describes what the progressive left reeling in this decade

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I am not an Elmo Mush Fan - but I reckon a bit of DOGEing should be considered in Ireland, particularly for the Arts Sector

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This article mentions Genocide 27 times underthepavingstones.com/2024/08/16/t...

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I have a feeling that after Twitter crashed out, many people decided to opt out of that type of social media altogether. They viewed it as a vice that propagated through convenience. Once the convenience factor vanished - the impetus directed them to just quit, what they wanted to do anyway

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Oh....Today is Croissants + AI day

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PyData Global - the global Pydata conference that takes place online every december - is an excellent tactic. It increases the profile of PyData around the time of year when subsequent year budgets are being finalized - and gives decision makers a timely reminder to reserve some budget allocation.

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I asked Gemini AI for about the Poisson Distribution, but it heard it as the Croissant Distribution. The response was a fairly solid definition of a PDF for a random variable that does indeed look like a Croissant. (Straight-forward Piecewise function of two intersecting lines)

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Is Cinema still a relevant medium of culture? Same question for scripted television. I worked on the Dublin Film Festival between 2003 to 2012. Planning to go back for the first time since, but I was absolutely stunned about how drastic the changes were over the intervening period.

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""Seven Premiership clubs are balance sheet insolvent, finance report warns"" (Guardian Sept 2024) Ten clubs collectively lost around £30.5m in 2022-23 London Irish (+ Worcester Warriors) being allowed to join the URC by England RFU is actually highly likely www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/s...

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Night Czars - We need one of these for #limerick city. www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

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The Elephant

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The Brooklyn Dodgers were previously nicknamed the "Superbas" apropos of a (notionally) London Irish Circus Act @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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🚨 13 days left ! Register as a speaker for #PyData #London 2025 📷 pydata.org/london2025/cfp Conference Dates: Fri 6th June to Sun 8th June 2025 Website: pydata.org/london2025 Venue: Convene Sancroft, St. Paul's. Diversity App Deadline: Sun 2nd Mar 2025 Volunteer App Deadline: Fri 25th April 2025

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