February 15th is #SinglesAppreciationDay! Today is an (unofficial) holiday celebrated by single people worldwide. It is a celebration of #love in all forms – recognising the love between friends, family and loving yourself.
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— National Library of Ireland (@NLIreland) February 15, 2021
Happy Singleton Appreciation Day!
It comes around so fast.
*weeps copiously*
A very pleasing video by James Mabery and Elizabeth Laferrière for ‘Les Choses Invisibles’ by Alfa Rococo.
Quite brilliant and easily the maddest thing you’ll see today – the animated video for French black metal/breakcore artist Gautier ‘Igorr’ Serre’s ‘Very Noise’ created by art collective Meat Dept.
A single from the recently released album Dandanista by Chap Hop superstar Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer, who also animated the video.
OECD report Taxing Wages 2018
This morning.
The OECD has published a report called Taxing Wages 2018.
Fiona Reddan, in The Irish Times, reports:
Single workers with no children are bearing the brunt of Ireland’s personal tax regime, a new study shows. And Ireland’s experience reflects the position across the 35 OECD states where households with children face a lower personal tax burden than those without.
Taxing Wages 2018 measures the so-called tax wedge – the difference between a person’s take home pay and what it costs their employer to employ them.
…The new study shows that one-income families on the average wage (€ 36,358) and with children give up just 1.2 per cent of their income on tax.
…According to the survey, across the OECD, the average single worker paid just over one-quarter of their gross wages in income taxes and social security contributions, a ratio that has remained relatively stable over the last two decades, the OECD said.
Single workers bear the brunt in Ireland’s personal tax system (Fiona Reddan, The Irish Times)
Read the OECD report in full here
Crazy In Love – Patrick Bergin
A new single by Irish actor Patrick Bergin, currently of EastEnders.
Any excuse.
A vibrant four-minute dose of nightmare fuel for the Mastodon track Sultan’s Curse created by Hey Beautiful Jerk and illustrator Skinner taken from from an hour of animation created for the Atlanta metallers’ recent world tour.
Sound up. Hair down.
In Love At Christmas Time – the debut single from brand new Dublin band HoneyPie.
(Thanks Fiach Moriarty)
Trick Mist – Cracking Settlement
Of this latest video from his EP ‘Jars in Rows’, Manchester-based Irish trad/electronica Gavin ‘Trick Mist’ Murray writes:
I’ve invited film makers to give their own visual interpretation of each song, entirely free from my input. The video for this tin whistle driven, electronic song was made by Graham Patterson. It’s stark and manages to be both restless and serene. If anyone in Spiddal saw some fella running around in the middle of the night with a torch and an iphone at arms length it was probably Graham making this video!
Previously: Another’s Tale
