You don’t have to sell your body to the night.

Sunday evening.

Fountainstown, County Cork.

Bioluminescent plankton light up Cork beach (BBC)

Bioluminesence?

Pics: Joleen Cronin

Charlie Bird

This morning.

RTÉ Radio One’s Today with Sarah McInerney.

Former RTÉ journalist Charlie Bird – responding to reinforced restrictions on the elderly – said he wears a mask and downloaded the Covid Tracker App…

“…even though a couple of days after I took it, it practically ran my mobile phone down where it nearly burned.

But I’m doing everything they’ve asked me to do…I’m sensible. I’ve got five grandkids, I don’t want anything to happen,

I don’t want anything to happen to my neighbours or to anybody else but that does not mean I should stay inside. I live in a part of Wicklow where I can walk out and see nobody for hours…”

It’s all very well to say we’re going to throw away the key on 70-year-olds again and I hate the word, absolutely hate the word ‘cocooning’...my former colleagues in the media are giving the Government an easy ride on this.”

Mr Bird repeatedly called for people to listen to Professor Jack Lambert’s interview on last night’s Drivetime on RTÉ Radio One.

Earlier….

This morning.

The National Public Health Emergency Team’s (Nphet) will today reccommend a number of measures to ‘curb a resurgence’ of Covid-19.

Via Independent.ie:

Older people will be asked to restrict their movements and avoid congregated settings under new advice from public-health experts.

Nphet has also recommended that only six people should be permitted in a home from three separate houses in a bid to clamp down on house parties and outdoor home gathering should be reduced to 15 people.

People who can work from home will also be asked to do so for the coming weeks. The Cabinet will meet to discuss the recommendations today.

Meanwhile…

‘A Cabinet source said there were concerns at the highest ranks of Cabinet that Nphet had “departed from the European mainstream in the severity of their advice” as they are “under pressure from academic commentators as opposed to solid science“.’

Older people will be told to limit time outdoors and family gatherings to be reduced to six to try to stall resurgence of Covid-19 (Independent.ie)

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From top: Dublin’s Thomas House. Thomas Street and Kimchi Korean restaurant.

 

Last night

Update:

A short 68mm film (recently published by MoMA) from 1902 featuring the town of Wuppertal in north west Germany which – while the rest of the western world was busy investing in trams – went for the more complex but infinitely cooler  Suspension Railway option.

This footage of the town as seen from its train – 12 m above the ground –  is uniquely drone-like in scope, unlike the stationary camera angles favoured at the time.

The Schwebebahn is still in use today, carrying 25 million people a year along its 13km track. 

kottke

A former CIA officer has been arrested and charged with selling secrets to China over several years

If you’re looking to top up your pay
After working for the CIA
You could ask the Chinese
But there’s no guarantees
That events will all work out your way

John Moynes

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