From today, the síneadh fada in Irish names is protected by law when dealing with public bodies.
— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) October 31, 2023
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31/10/23
Síneadh fada / an fada / the fada (Irish language accent)
30/10/23
Ciara Kelly (3)
Good column by Ciara today!
"I see people talking now about Israel and Palestine like they’re football teams, and they’re either on ‘#TeamIsrael’ or ‘#TeamPalestine’. Many are happy to condemn everything done by the opposing side but refuse to condemn even the worst atrocities committed by whoever they support.
If you can excuse the heinous actions of Hamas because of the bombardment of Gaza, then others can equally excuse the bombardment of Gaza because of the litany of persecution that’s been perpetuated against the Jews.
These are both deeply flawed positions to adopt. A heinous act remains heinous — irrespective of who perpetuated it. Talking up the suffering of one side and excusing its actions does nothing to bring about peace. It just means future generations will continue to fight this fight.
The only way forward is through truce and dialogue. That’s the solution to every conflict since time began."
29/10/23
Matthew Perry (1969-2023)
I loved him in Friends! And the way he was honest about his addictions. And he did great work along with his acting in Friends also. R.I.P Matthew.
28/10/23
Nicole LePera (40)
We're all masking in some way. Hiding parts of who we are. Performing for people. Trying to change ourselves to get approval. The happiest people in the world allow themselves to be misunderstood. They know authenticity feels better than false approval.
— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) October 27, 2023
Ar Mhuin na Muice on Near FM wins award at CRAOL - Community Radio Ireland Féile 2023
Great news! 😊
Órga is the Irish language word for gold.
Clár Gaeilge is the Irish language for Irish language programme.
26/10/23
Marcus Aurelius (11)
“You always own the option of having no opinion.” — Marcus Aurelius
— Daily Stoic (@dailystoic) October 25, 2023
Sadhguru (60)
Love is a process of Inclusion. Once I include you as a part of me, I will be to you just the way I am to myself. #SadhguruQuotes pic.twitter.com/kmqF1C0F3o
— Sadhguru (@SadhguruJV) October 26, 2023
Mark Manson (3)
To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain.
— Mark Manson (@IAmMarkManson) October 25, 2023
In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable.
24/10/23
Nicole LePera (39)
Sobriety is lonely.
— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) October 24, 2023
In a culture that revolves around numbing, soothing, and functional addiction— being sober can feel like being an outcast.
Normalize friendships where you hike, read, learn new things, and better yourself.
21/10/23
Peter Drucker (3)
The path is yours to create.#QOTD pic.twitter.com/izW1cbNWhw
— Entrepreneur (@Entrepreneur) October 21, 2023
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19/10/23
Richard Feynman (2)
In science, a failed experiment is nothing but a new direction.
— Prof. Feynman (@ProfFeynman) October 17, 2023
Sadhguru (59)
When your laughter is to mock or insult, you laugh and insult Life and the Source of Life. It is not of joy but sickness. #SadhguruQuotes pic.twitter.com/2sXdhYt2C3
— Sadhguru (@SadhguruJV) October 18, 2023
J Krishnamurti (229)
Psychologically you obey another because you are afraid.
— Krishnamurti (@K__Quotes) October 18, 2023
18/10/23
Incense for well-being
I haven't smoked grass or hash in around 20 years and even the couple of times I tried it around 20 years ago were rare times as I had stopped smoking it generally a couple of years earlier.
If I hadn't have got into burning incense sticks in the last several years I could well see myself on occassion smoking grass or hash again.
I find burning good quality incense sticks to have a wonderful effect on the body, mind and soul.
My favourite incense companies are Darshan and Hem. I bought Darshan Lavender and Patchouli today for the first time - I usually try the Hem versions of these.
Anyway I can vouch that they and Darshan White Rose are good quality. The cheap poor quality incense is rubbish in my experience. I cannot yet vouch for any incense brands apart from what I use from Darshan and Hem.
Watch with Patchouli though - it can smell like and the Darshan kind I bought today definitely does - like grass so people visiting your home may think you are smoking grass having burned it even if you don't smoke it.
I would strongly recommend Darshan and Hem incense (although again I generally stick with White Rose, Lavender and Patchouli so have not tried the or most of the other kinds they have) for people who believe in holistic mind, body and soul healing including as a therapy for people who have some kind of dis-ease whether that be from drug use or not.
A photo of the 500 Darshan incense stick I bought today below! 😊
17/10/23
Sadhguru (56)
When you say, ‘My Life is my Karma,’ you are saying, ‘My Life is my Making.’ This is the most dynamic way to exist. #SadhguruQuotes pic.twitter.com/WkwQ8zXtFp
— Sadhguru (@SadhguruJV) October 15, 2023
15/10/23
Youtube playlists
I found out today that we can see the all views of our playlists created on Youtube under analytics. A lot of my playlists have a lot of views (clicks of playlists don't register under normal view except for the people who click a video / podcast within the playlist) - cool! I was thinking that it was a bit unusual that my playlists on Youtube over the last 10+ years were usually going unnoticed - they aren't! 😊
Here are some of them as an example am not going to post them all. I can be corrected but I am fairly sure that the the "Views" column is the total views and the one before that "Playlist Views" is for public playlist views (i.e. of the people who clicked within a playlist).
13/10/23
Naval Ravikant (41)
"The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own names actually gain a lot of power."@naval
— Navalism (@NavalismHQ) October 11, 2023
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World Animal Day 2023 marked - The Northside People East and Southside People (11.10.23)
# Lisa O'Connor, Companion Animal Advocates.
# Cathal Leavy, Clontarf
# Carol Coleman, Party for Animal Welfare
Mackenzie Smith
I notice a huge decrease in my mental health when I stop taking action
— Mackenzie Smith (@smithhmackenzie) October 8, 2023
Sitting around, watching Netflix, not working towards anything
It destroys me
I get so unmotivated, so anxious, so down on myself
I'm telling y'all
Meaningful work is the key to happiness and fulfillment
08/10/23
07/10/23
Breaking the Heart Open: The Shaping of a Psychologist - Tony Bates - The Irish Times (2023)
Great article and words by Tony in The Irish Times from last week that I only found out about today. I interviewed Tony for a college article 20 years ago and spoke to him a couple of other times over the next few years as well as my Mam worked with him as a receptionist for years. Tony is also actually the person who recommended M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Travelled to my Mam for me when I was going through my late adolesence crisis and I went on to read nearly all of Scott's circa 15 books and he has since been my favourite author and the writer who has had the most impact on my life although I never met him. I even have a M. Scott Peck Facebook page which I started 5 years ago.
If you are interested in social justice and mental health you should read this article I believe and you should probably read Tony's new book as well if you work in the areas. 😊
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) October 1, 2023
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# Tony Bates
# Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist
'# M. Scott Peck
What’s eating Britain? A look at the issues gripping its soul - Mark Paul, The Irish Times (7.10.23)
Good column in The Irish Times today. What stuck out most to me is below.
"Whoever wins the next election faces a daunting task to jolt Britain out of its post-Brexit stasis. Its economic growth is anaemic while its national debt tops levels not seen in 60 years. Living standards are in the middle of their biggest two-year fall since the 1950s due to inflation. Infrastructure is creaking, industrial relations are sour and national morale is low after years of political psychodrama.
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Bale says the nation’s postwar political cadence has always moved to the same beat, and it goes like this. The Conservatives get into power and do not spend enough on public services, which eventually crumble. Voters decide they want better services, and do not care so much that it will cost extra taxes. Labour gets in, diverts resources towards public services and uses taxes to pay for it. Then people get fed up paying the taxes, and turn to the Conservatives again to change the dial.
“And so on, and so on. In Britain we swing back and forth, again and again. In a way, we’re still broadly in that pattern now. The underlying dynamics remain the same,” he says.
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Tomiwa Owolade recently wrote a book, This is Not America, in which he argued that US-style racial identity politics have been inappropriately imported into Britain via social media. A British man born in Nigeria who immigrated when he was a child, Owolade says his personal experience tells him “the vicious day-to-day racism” of the 60s and 70s is over in Britain.
“That is not to say that racism has completely disappeared,” he told The Irish Times. “But with racial violence, the US and UK are completely different countries. The US is a far more violent country anyway and because of its history of race and slavery, violence there tends to manifest itself in a racial way. But it is not the same here in Britain.”
Owolade says the problem is not how to integrate Black people into Britain, but to recognise that they are integrated already, in many avenues such as sport and politics: “The future is about trying to accommodate this fact. If a Black British person went to Africa, the most striking thing about them there would be that they are British, not that they are Black.”
Britain’s racial sin, insofar as he sees one, is to “homogenise” the experiences of people of different races. Owolade says white British people tend to, say, view Black Caribbean people and Black Africans as facing the same issues.
“But they do not. Black Caribbean boys, for example, are more than twice as likely to be excluded from school. Understanding these kinds of differences are crucial for fixing problems.”
Conrad Hackett
Adults ages 18-34 living in their parents' home
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) October 6, 2023
Greece 73%
Portugal 72%
Italy 71%
Spain 65%
Poland 64%
Ireland 62%
Turkey 56%
France 44%
Switzerland 39%
US 33%
Germany 30%
Finland 18%
Sweden 17%
Denmark 16%https://t.co/7T7qtdngnu pic.twitter.com/RUfe5zxLfn
John Hume
John Hume's daughter: I used to worry about Dad getting killed. So I remember saying, ‘Please can it be sudden, and please can it be that he does not have to suffer’https://t.co/b7VnyGsOlD
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) October 7, 2023
# John Hume
# Áine Hume
# Stephen Walker
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