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tommyw.bsky.social
Photographer, filmmaker and educator Ring the bells that still can ring.
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Paris, Marché Aligre. Kodak TMax 400

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This piece by @clarajeffery.bsky.social in @motherjones.com is a very thorough and well-written examination of why we created #TeslaTakedown, the tradition it grew from, and why (IMVHO) it matters.

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You don’t need no ticket. You don’t pay no fee. That was the river This is the sea. youtu.be/rx--j1F5Ppg

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Watched A Complete Unknown, by James Mangold. Spent most of the movie a blubbering mess, wept my heart out nearly every song. All we have lost, what Dylan opened up and laid bare, and then… where we find ourselves today. What have we done.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re trying to de-Meta your life right now, just a reminder that Zuck also owns WhatsApp - which is a very heavily used app for many of us. Talking to lots of people recently who had forgotten or had never known this was the case. Highly recommend Signal as an alternative.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Jerusalem Municipality - Light Train Station From the series "Through the Stations" (2017-2018) which documents the people of Jerusalem, passing through the different Light Train stations in the city - where Jewish, Arab, Christian and non-religious neighborhoods coexist. #mamiya #film #analog

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

There are regular Sundays, then there are Sundays you get an entry in Metropolitan Diary.

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vimeo.com/189672641?sh... Alain Renais’s quiet, steady, devastating short documentary on today’s Holocaust Memorial Day.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

“Select all squares containing J D Salinger books” - CAPTCHA in the Rye.

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

North Mayo, a truly extraordinary place, has become a site for the extraction of energy as the communities there are left to dwindle. This potent piece in the Western People deserves a wider readership.

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Two Irish filmmakers, Natalie Lichtenthaler and David Gleeson, and their kids, lost everything in the LA fires www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025.... Any support folks can give - gofund.me/a8a71cd3

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Two women, one newly elected and one serving VP, he made it all about him.

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Key quote from the article- “One lesson climate change teaches us again and again is that bad things can happen ahead of schedule. Model predictions for climate impacts have tended to be optimistically biased.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Very interesting profile of Pelevin in todays @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

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Yesterday’s Letters from an American on the events of Jan 6 is worth a read even if you are already thoroughly jaded about all this. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

submitted 58 days ago • 1369 comments

#newyears #haiku by Seamus Heaney Dangerous pavements But this year I face the ice With my father’s stick

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

Marc Almond singing Say Hello Wave Goodbye on the Hootenanny quite moving. The mix of new and old on the show, it really is a marker of time passing.

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Jimmy Carter was born before the New Deal. Before the electrification of the south. More than two decades before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball. He was 30 when Brown v Board was decided. He was 44 when MLK was assassinated. After his presidency, he had a 42 year retirement.

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

John Hume and Jimmy Carter, good men quietly progressing change.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.

submitted 65 days ago • 74 comments

Donegal, on the way to the abandoned village of Port.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Winter Solstice at Newgrange "To watch back the solstice go to the 1hr 15 minute mark on the YouTube video below." www.youtube.com/watch?v=776c...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Finally seeing The Kids Are Alright - youtu.be/kX-bVeojLEA?... Recalling Townsend’s eloquent autobiography, his observation that WWII left a generation of broken men, who survived the war but ended up on the streets in the Fifties and Sixties. Who knows what future damage current wars may bring.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

youtu.be/LA-ewdESrWA?... A lovely short piece by cousin @conorferguson.bsky.social for MQI, who do great work. Donations: www.mqi.ie

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

100%. Not that she got credit for it, quite the opposite really. The other cabinet partners seemed to act to ensure that she get as few 'wins' as possible. The RTE debacle pushed a lot of focus onto governance over bolder policies. BIA would be huge, but I can't have faith in the likely outcome.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The most concerning aspect to the anti-Green ‘backlash’ here, in the EU and I guess the US, is that we were already too little, too late. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

submitted 106 days ago • 161 comments

Christmas card design (left) from a few years ago based on original Cumann na mBan Christmas card design (right) 🎄

submitted 84 days ago • 6 comments

Cillín, Ardnaglass, Sligo, 2021 Cillíní are the burial sites in Ireland where unbaptised babies were buried, being denied access to official graveyards. They are a feature of the Irish countryside, from the 7th century up to the 1970s. More info at my site. - www.tommyweir.net/Cillin/

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

The French artist Louise Druhl explores 'the slope of the Internet', how in the early days of the web, we meandered widely but now a steeper slope funnels users into fewer and fewer sites. @kagi.com's tools, offer toeholds to gain traction. Druhl's work - internet-atlas.net#up

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting search engine @kagi.com post on the ‘small web’ shows some fresh thinking blog.kagi.com/small-web

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Muted him.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Gimme interesting folk any day of the week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL0I...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The Keeper of the Boneyard is 75 years old today. Happy birthday, Tom: Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

The definition of delightful, Seth Meyers has the grace to take it. And yes, Silo, you should watch Silo. youtu.be/W5xi_rKM0AA?...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

submitted 88 days ago • 80 comments

They only land a couple of times a year, but, by definition, each one is an epic. The @fallofcivspod.bsky.social podcast by @paulmmcooper.bsky.social, meticulously researched, excellently produced. The latest is in two parts, nearly 7 hours, and covers the Mongol Empire pca.st/podcast/6b96....

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

youtu.be/DLDvbnK_Sqk?... My Brilliant Friend finishes, I’ll recover at some point… but I think Max Richter will be in my playlist for a very long time.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment