Will Derham

Monkeying about in London …
#Design #Architecture #London

In a similar way to the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, it’s like somebody is saying the quiet part out loud …

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

I’m sure it would great in my 1950s hallway in Ballyfermot 😜

Now THAT’S a frame!

What the job? I totally want to do this tour 🤣

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?

Hi Mark, Back in the day, we barely went a day in school without passing handwritten notes to our friends in class and in the hallways. And just like hair scrunchies, handwritten notes are making a comeback—but with a hi-tech twist. Handwrytten has created a card and letter sending service that will learn your handwriting and signature. It also utilizes AI that will help you write the card, and robots that will put the pen to paper and put on the stamp, giving handwritten notes the revival that it needs. Would you be interested in learning more about Handwrytten and trying it out for yourself?

Love this new AI "handwritten note" service that takes everything special out of sending/receiving letters in the mail.

LS Lowry believed his paintings would be worthless, interviews reveal Exclusive: Sir Ian McKellen portrays artist in BBC documentary that draws on trove of previously unheard recordings

Fours years worth of previously unheard interviews - an historian’s exhilaration!

Also beautifully touching in what they reveal.

#History #Heritage #Art #UK #Lowry

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

So many countries reminding the USA of all the things the USA is supposed to be…

But you catch yourself just in time, yeah? 🫣

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Ultimately, we are all our own bin men.

My everyday life has so much rubbish I don’t even get that far. You, Sir, are on another plane 👏🏻

And, double misfortune, sometimes one posts something only to realise that on reflection.

I never noticed the mosaic during the daylight hours (probably never properly looked). I was wondering if they were a light effect tonight. What a lovely detail.

The zesty lighting atop Liberty Hall this evening #Dublin

(zoom in to appreciate the pattern on the soffit, which I had never noticed before) 🩵

Brad Pitt shooting One For All a thriller about a man racing against time to spend vouchers as they're losing value but hardly any shop he likes will take them.

Pretty much what I was getting at yesterday …

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

Who gets to read or hear us online is decided by algorithms. If speech were truly free, algorithms wouldn’t exist. We’d just see and hear from those we followed in the chronological order they posted things.

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

You can almost say or type what you want, but speech is a two way thing. If nobody can hear you say it, does it even count as speech?

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

“the EC means to strangle free speech by a systemic assault on US companies"

Am I in a minority by thinking that anything posted on any social media platform is more “controlled” speech than free speech?

Every post everywhere is controlled in the way it appears to others.

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

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This series of talks and tastings at Dublin Castle orgsnisec by my brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social colleague Dr Susan Flavin will be excellent. highly recommend signing up

A bloated, much-married, philandering, orange-coloured megalomaniacal narcissist, possibly mentally impaired later in life, Henry VIII died #OnThisDay 1547.

Can nature help stop flooding and are you tipping too much? Podcast Episode · Behind the Story · 28/01/2026 · 35m

Everyone worried about #flooding in #Ireland right now should listen to Professor Mary Bourke on @news.rte.ie “Inside the Story” and then ask your politician why they don’t care about #ClimateChange 🌧️

podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/b...

James Browne is in FF. Instead of whinging that met eireann didn't give flood alerts he could get off his hole and look around at the lack of action that his party has taken on climate for decades.
There will be more severe, unpredictable flooding. Yet JB and FF are content to nothing

The BM catalogue says 'Tortoise, and separate view of a walled, coastal town in the Veneto' for this by Melchior Lorck, mid-16th century.

I'm sticking with giant flying tortoise myself.

I look forward to reading this - was only discussing it on Thursday evening with some interested friends.