Colm Mulcahy

Elon Musk can whine and threaten me all he wants, but I'm still going to call out his bullying and abuse of power.

Ivy Cummings claimed that in 1913 age 11 she was youngest person to lap @ Brooklands in her dad's car when he wasn't looking. Grew up to be successful racing driver, ran garage in 1920s on #Putney Bridge Road where repaired & sold cars. b. #OTD 27 Oct 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Cum...

(1979) #MusicSky youtu.be/0Vo4lNb0w48?...

Absolutely brilliant to see. Yet fossil fuel use and emissions are STILL increasing, because capitalist economies require endless growth. On a finite planet, that can only end one way. Without system change, much of our efforts are little more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Rick Moranis left Hollywood at the peak of his fame to raise his children after his wife passed away. Original post

Nobody Knows What Third Light Switch Does

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Four Tops performing “Standing in the Shadows of Love” in 1967. The song was considered a reworking of the 1963 Suoremes’ 1963 B-Side “Standing at the Crossroads of Love”. It reached #2 on the U.S. R&B chart. On the album Reach Out. #Motown #SoulMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=r80i...

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#5CoverSongsTrick #MusicChallenge 1 Rainy Days And Mondays Cracker Slowing a Carpenters’ song down and making it even sadder www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c3b...

(1987) Joe Strummer wrote and performed the song "Tennessee Rain" featured in the film "Walker" directed by Alex Cox. It stars Ed Harris as William Walker, an American mercenary fueled by "Manifest Destiny",he invaded & made himself president of Nicaragua in 1856. ##MusicSky youtu.be/BvYpKJLnatY?...

Gimme the Small Faces song whose chorus says this!

Mariana Trench Once Again Named Worst Place To Raise Child https://theonion.com/mariana-trench-once-again-named-worst-place-to-raise-ch-1819575833/

Today, 48 of the roughly 60 villages and towns within Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon are mostly levelled, a NYT analysis has found. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wasn’t Richie Havens the opener?

Picture sleeves were only starting to appear in the UK then. Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever two months later was the first I recall.

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

Surprise 😃

Margaret Partridge electrical #engineer & contractor wrote "for sheer exciting experience give me a town to light". @wes1919.bsky.social founder Supported female #apprentices incl Beatrice Shilling. Changed international law on night work for women d #OTD 27 Oct 1967 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

Galway Bay this morning. #SpeirGorm

I am not certain all the fishermen they killed at sea were running drugs either. IMO that is straight up murder

Come along to not one, but two history seminars this week. First up we have Dr John Regan (University of Dundee) who is speaking on 'Sir John Temple (1600-77), and the historiography of the Irish rebellion (c. 1917-23)', Wednesday 28 October at 2.30pm in the Bridge Room, Hardiman Research Building.

When in 1968 was Soul Yogi LP by Freddie McCoy *released*?

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Not drawn to (time) scale. Ireland, Britain and a Europe were connected at that stage.

You can tell so much about an algebraist by whether they prefer ℤ/nℤ, Cₙ, or μₙ.

Looking for a new high horse from which I can radiate smug disdain on social media. Anyone have recommendations? I'd hate to miss out on this highly valuable activity.

Everyone: Still everyone: nlab: Who wants a hyperbolic tangent and a limit in their absolute value definition?

Fun exercises: 1. Why is L(m,n) order-isomorphic to L(n,m)? 2. Why is L(m,n) self-dual?

Here's a slice of Young's lattice — integer partitions with at most m pieces each of size at most n — as a little Sunday treat: e-infinity.space/young-lattice/ It's built as the quotient of the Boolean lattice Bₘₙ by the action of 𝔖ₘ≀𝔖ₙ ≤ 𝔖ₘₙ. 🧮

OpenAI released a (purported) proof of the Kakeya conjecture in all dimensions 😮 github.com/openai/math/...

For me, the most compelling open triangle is tomato / lime / cottage cheese. tomato + lime = salsa tomato + cottage cheese = budget Caprese salad lime + cottage cheese = Grandma's lime jello salad tomato + lime + cottage cheese: get the fuck out of here.

Instead of discussing racist comments from asshats, read about Iranian Fields Medal winner, Maryam Mirzakhani. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_...

I just analyzed 1.9M recipes and can now report that the yummy simplicial complex is arguably *not* flag. The following flavor trios have far fewer recipes containing all three ingredients than the recipes with pairs of ingredients would predict.