Eccentric Tesla CEO Elon Musk has changed his job title to ‘technoking’

Elon Musk, the quite daft billionaire
Thought his his title could do with more flare
And he felt technoking
Had a dignified ring
That would make him appear debonair

John Moynes

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This evening.

Earlier…

Earlier…

This afternoon.

Earlier…

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly

This morning.

RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, the minister said that new information emerged about four cases in Norway late on Saturday evening.

The National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) and the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) acted quickly and decisively, he said, and “for what is hopefully a very short period of time”.

He said a combination of healthcare workers and those in Cohort 4 (at high risk due to underlying conditions) will not now get the vaccine this week. Mr Donnelly said he hopes that they can be rescheduled very quickly.

Meanwhile…

Around 30,000 people face AstraZeneca vaccine deferral (RTÉ)

RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Last November.

Good times.

This afternoon.

Temple Bar, Dublin 8.

World renowned fiddler Frankie Gavin and piper Louise Mulcahy lament the 1st anniversary of the Pandemic. The Temple Bar company today called for a Dublin City Centre recovery plan to help the city reopen when public health guidlines allow.

Where is your mask, Frankie?

OK.

keep it on.

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Wyvern Lingo – Rapture

We’ll always have Berlin…

Wyvern Lingo decamped to the German capital to record their second album Awake You Lie. The video for the song Rapture was shot by Aodhagan O’Flaherty and Sierra Graves and features the band – Caoimhe Barry, Karen Crowley and Saoirse Duane – making their way around Berlin.

The trio from Bray, County Wicklow, toured as Hozier’s backing singers and support act and most recently featured on the Women In Harmony cover of The Cranberries’ Dreams.

The band write:

“A recurring image during this album writing process was light, the lack thereof, and wanting to see things more clearly, for ourselves and others. We called the album “Awake You Lie” because it evokes an image of night-time when someone should be sleeping but can’t, due to restlessness or worry. Things are always clearer in the light of day.”

Nick says: Bray of light.

Wyvern Lingo

Behold: a spectacular and unusual multicoloured, banded aurora. To wit:

In mid-March of 2015, an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection directed toward a clear magnetic channel to Earth led to one of the more intense geomagnetic storms of recent years. A visual result was wide spread auroras being seen over many countries near Earth’s magnetic poles. Captured over Kiruna, Sweden, the image features an unusually straight auroral curtain with the green colour emitted low in the Earth’s atmosphere, and red many kilometres higher up. It is unclear where the rare purple aurora originates, but it might involve an unusual blue aurora at an even lower altitude than the green, seen superposed with a much higher red. Now past Solar Minimum, colourful nights of auroras over Earth are likely to increase.

(Image: Mia Stålnacke)

apod

Stop that!

Saturday.

Dublin city centre.

Karl Ffrench writes:

Some colour in the city… Ahad Jassani (top left) and Tayo Toriola (top right) sharing the colours of Holi (Gulal) to celebrate the 18th birthday of Khiaran Kulasingham (above and top centre)…

Where are your masks?

Harrumph.

Pics by Karl Ffrench

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