Deserted streets.
Shuttered shops.
Closed boozers.
Flesh-eating Zombies wandering about (probably).
Lettuce pray.
Graham Moyrnes writes:
I made this wartime poster in response to [Green Party Leader] Eamon Ryan’s rousing salad speech…
Previously: Feverish
What a week!
In these “interesting” times, where would we be without music to offer an escape from the misery?
I’m inviting readers to post the song that instantly transports them to a happier place.
Here’s mine.
I’ve a glittering €25 Golden Discs voucher to offer to the winner, chosen by my pet goldfish.
Lines MUST close at 6.30am.
Please include video link if possible.
Nick says: Good luck!
‘sup?
This evening.
Achill, County Galway.
Sauvingon Blanc writes:
It’s like mid-Summer down here…
A metre distance.
Wake up, sheep.
This afternoon.
Wood Quay, Dublin 8.
ISR Media write:
Members of Anti Imperialist Action Ireland staged a Guerrilla Picket at Dublin City Council to demand an immediate freeze on all mortgage and rent payments and to call on the Working Class to organise an All Ireland Rent and Mortgage Strike if no payment freeze is introduced.
During the picket our activists maintained social distancing and wore masks and gloves to take advice of health professionals.
A mortgage holiday is no good we need need an immediate end to all payments now.
If Dublin City Council continue to refuse to implement a rent stoppage, more protest action will be taken.
FIGHT!
Anti Imperialist Action Ireland
Previously: Everybody Freeze
From top Frances McDonagh (left), Bank of Ireland CEO, and Colin Hunt, AIB CEO, leaving the Department of Finance after a meeting with Minister of Finance Paschal Donohue on Wednesday; AIB’s new fees and charges
This morning.
A series of tough new fees and charges were sent to AIB customers and Bank of Ireland business account holders were informed of a 33% increase in charges for cash lodgements or withdrawals.
SD writes:
Great comedy is all about timing…
Calls for AIB and Bank of Ireland to delay new charges (RTÉ)
‘sup?
This afternoon.
Sandymount, Dublin 4.
Seagulls forced back to the sea as food becomes harder to find in the capital’s streets.
Might put manners on them.
Meanwhile…
Great, Coronavirus is turning the daily shop into a Hitchcock film. #CoronaCrisis pic.twitter.com/j6zx7Xu5Pr
— Helen Dale (@_HelenDale) March 20, 2020
Behold: Messier 13 – the Great Globular Cluster in the constellationn of Hercules – one of the brightest in the Northern sky. To wit:
In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” (…/) Sharp telescopic views like this one reveal the spectacular cluster’s hundreds of thousands of stars. At a distance of 25,000 light-years, the cluster stars crowd into a region 150 light-years in diameter. Approaching the cluster core upwards of 100 stars could be contained in a cube just 3 light-years on a side. For comparison, the closest star to the Sun is over 4 light-years away. The remarkable range of brightness recorded in this image follows stars into the dense cluster core and reveals three subtle dark lanes forming the apparent shape of a propeller just below and slightly left of centre. Distant background galaxies in the medium-wide field of view include NGC 6207 at the upper left.
Large version here.
Previous MGIFOS: Omega Centauri, NGC 6752 and NGC 7089
(Image: Eric Coles and Mel Helm)
Sorcha Richardson writes:
As you probably know, Bandcamp are giving the revenue from sales directly to artists today so it’s a good day to support your favourites, if u can.
My album and some older stuff are here [at link below], including an album demo called limelight that didn’t make the cut.