MarkMaguire

@MarkMaguire@mastodon.ie

Works #Museum #education. Here for the #art, #culture, #heritage, and sundry.
Photos my own unless otherwise credited.
I may follow back followers but I’m preferential to accounts with Bio, activity and intro.
#AltTex Profile Pic: B. & W. photo of bespectacled, bald, white guy, looking away. Header Pic: hill-like, grass-covered ancient Irish tomb; a tree grows out of its side, a human walks upon it.
https://justmytoots.com/@MarkMaguire@mastodon.ie Also: https://pixelfed.social/MarkMaguire

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mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

♥️♥️♥️Shoutout to the staff of the hotel I stayed at for expertly de-escalating a Karen situation!

♥️♥️♥️And shoutout to the white hotel guests that stuck around to make sure that hotel security heard exactly what she was trying to do. My favorite comment: "Wow! A Karen situation in real life! I've only ever seen these online! This is surreal! What is she thinking?"

End result, yours truly did not get kicked out of the hotel for no reason, and feels slightly better about the state of the world.

MarkMaguire,

@mekkaokereke Still, sorry you had to go through that in the first place. Glad it got deescalated in the end.

MarkMaguire, to random

When I was about 11 or 12, Tina Turner was omnipresent. She was on the TV and the radio, looking out from covers on every newsstand. You never needed to buy any of her records, her voice was all around. Around then, I got pneumonia and spent a week in hospital. I can hear right now “We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” echoing through the corridor from the nurses station. True icon. #RIP #TinaTurner #TinaTurnerRIP

yurnidiot, to random
@yurnidiot@mstdn.social avatar

mischievous is a 3 syllable word right or am i the asshole here?

MarkMaguire,

@mcmullin @yurnidiot It’s lucky this is text-based social mejya because we may not understand each other much verbally 😅

MarkMaguire,

@yurnidiot You’re definitely being mis-chie-v-ous for sure.

MarkMaguire,

@yurnidiot None of yous is from Dubilin and it shows. We pronounce ev-er-y syllable of the Engilish language. And we add a syllable if it fee-els right. And it ALWAYS fee-els right. We’ll have none of that Quee-en’s Engilish arou-ind here, thanking you.

MarkMaguire,

@yurnidiot Don’t worry, just go with the flow and we’ll have you talking properly in no ti-ime. 😜

MarkMaguire, to ireland

Fourknocks Passage Tomb this evening in heavy rain. We’ll return, earlier in the day, and when the weather is more forgiving. #Tomb #PassageTomb #Grave #Mound #Hill #FourKnocks #NaFuarChnoic #Mastodaoine #Meath #Ireland #NationalMonument #WhatTheFliuch #IrishSummer

Stone doorway to grass mound. A path surround monument. Hedges and trees in distance.
Grey sky, green trees on horizon in a cluster, golden field beneath.
Grey sky, green trees far away and misty mountains in far distance, golden and green field in front.

MarkMaguire, to kevin

How are all the Kevins of the Mastodaoine holding up this fair morning.
#Kevin #Mastodaoine
(I’ll be checking in on all the Conors and fellow Marks later).

MarkMaguire, to art

At the launch of Creative Connections in the Irish Architectural Archive, Merrion Square, Dublin. Three painters from Zambia - an ongoing partnership between Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin and Evelyn Hone College, Lusaka. It’s on until Saturday.

Patrick Mumba at lectern beside large sash window in heritage green walked room with wooden floorboards and his paintings partially in frame.

grammargirl, (edited ) to random
@grammargirl@zirk.us avatar

This will be a fun poll to finish before this week's Grammar Girl podcast:

What do you think of the way "contact" is used in the following sentence? Is it acceptable in formal Standard English?

She called an officer at the Naval Intelligence Service, who in turn contacted the FBI.

I'm not asking if you'd use it yourself. I'm asking if you'd think it was wrong if you saw it used this way in a textbook or a serious magazine.

MarkMaguire,

@grammargirl Sounds fine to me. I get that this is probably one of these shifts in word usage which irks some people (actually me being one of those people usually - but I don’t remember a time when contact wasn’t used as a verb, so this one has zero annoyance for me).

FSonder, to random

It is worth noting that even under the “high migration” scenarios given by the CSO, which assume a net migration of 30,000 people a year from 2017 onwards – a figure that includes all immigration, not just refugees, and not just from Africa –it would take more than 130 years to reach a figure of 4 million migrants.
https://www.thejournal.ie/infowars-4-million-africans-refugees-migrants-ireland-white-genocide-population-projection-6163424-Sep2023/

MarkMaguire,

@FSonder Thanks for posting. From listening to Knowledge Fight pod, the core part of Jones’s and his lackeys’ grift is to refer only to headlines from publications and sites which they can wildly misinterpret according to whatever lies they’re making-up that episode. They never actually engage with the content in the body of these articles or papers because even the most minor effort to do so (as you’ve shown) would betray their scam. Jones et al are really unmitigated pricks.

MarkMaguire, to Pixelfed

I’m also at Pixelfed now: https://pixelfed.social/MarkMaguire

MarkMaguire, to random

Just wondering, do our Northern cousins send us a text when they get this famous Emergency Alert from HM Govt? “Emergency Alert, pass it on.” Or does the emergency stop at the Border (land? sea?) #EmergencyAlert #EmergencyAlertTest #UK #Partition #EireTheEmergency #Mastodaoine

MarkMaguire, to twilight

A beautiful end to a fierce hot day, so it was. #Sunset #Sundown #September #twilight #Dusk #HereComesTheNight #Dublin #Ireland #Mastodaoine

MarkMaguire, to ireland

Fenster Freitag - a view from the quarantine quarters. A house almost full of Covid-19 this weekend. Lashing outside, matching the indoor vibes. 🤒 #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FuinneogFriday #Dublin #Ireland #Mastodaoine #WhatTheFliuch #ForFliuchSake

Back yard pavement sodden with heavy rain. The image is blurred by rain. There are blue and brown plant pots towards the top of the image.

MarkMaguire, to pizza

TGIF - pizza night for my kids including our youngest with PKU low protein diet. Margherita pizza, no protein: Mevalia low protein pizza base, Violife Mozzarella flavour topping, Tesco pizza sauce.:chefkiss:

MarkMaguire, to comics

This turned up in an attic clear-out. 2000 AD poster, 1993. #2000AD #2000ADcomics #Tharg #Comics #DanDare #StrontiumDog #ABCwarriors #JudgeDredd #RogueTrooper #BillSavage #BritishComics #Fleetway #1970sComics #1980sComics #1990sComics

MarkMaguire, to twilight

Wexford tonight. Almost a Silent Sunday for once. Beautiful as usual and a second stunning sunset in a row.

helvick, to random

I just saw a huge black dragonfly flying about the garden here. I’ve never seen a dragonfly or damselfly here before. We get plenty of butterflies, moths, and grasshoppers but I’ve never seen one of these here before.

It was very large with green or yellow patches on its body. Definitely much bigger than the common iridescent blue ones I sometime see at it hiking. 8 maybe even 10 cm long. It’s abdomen was quite bulky too.

No chance of getting a picture sadly.

#Waterford #Biodiversity

MarkMaguire,

@helvick Mahoosive yoke hovering around our front garden yesterday - Northside Dublin

MarkMaguire,

@helvick I remember very, very rarely seeing big ones like yesterday but it was decades ago. Usually in rural parts, in summer. Until yesterday, never saw one that big in suburbia. Also like you, I blinked and it was gone.

MarkMaguire, to random

I think I’ll start a thread of actors with Irish connections turning up in stuff I’m watching. Last Friday I went full insert Leonardo di Caprio pointing at TV meme when Fiona O’Shaughnessy turned up in Foundation on Apple+. #Foundation #FionaOShaughnessy #IrishActors

MarkMaguire,

Foundation this week had Orla O'Rourke as Empress Winnoset II and Doireann May White as an ensign. #Foundation #DoireannMayWhite #OrlaORourke #IrishActors #Mastodaoine

Young Ensign on a spaceship deck turning to a commander saying “Imperial switchbacks.”

MarkMaguire, to ireland

Car boot sale this afternoon in Raheny’s All Saint’s church grounds. #AllSaints #Gargoyles #ChurchArchitecture #Raheny #Northside #Dublin #Ireland #Mastodaoine

Bat-like gargoyle in grainy grey stone against a grey stone wall. Three leaf foliage around gargoyle (shamrocks?)
Bat-like grey stone gargoyle biting a three leafed plant (shamrock?)
Gothic-like church grey stone and slate roof in cruciform with one storey external building at the back and tall elaborate bell tower and spire at front. Blue sky above.

MarkMaguire, to random

The end is nigh. #HotStreak #RidersOnTheStorm #ItsTheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt #Mastodaoine #september

MarkMaguire,

@soheb With you on that. The weather gods have heard our pleas and we will be soon deluged. But a bit of moderation would be fine with me.

MarkMaguire, to Seinfeld

Costanzaaaaaaa!!! Jason Alexander pops up in the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and delivers a magic moment with Tony Shalhoub’s Abe Weissman. :chefkiss:

Sandy beach with surf bar in background. Abe Weissman sitting in deck chair with his old friend who’s standing behind him leaning over him, patting Abe’s cheeks gently. His old friend says “You’re still a mensch.”
Sandy beach with surf bar in background. Abe Weissman sitting in deck chair with his old friend who’s standing behind him, patting Abe’s cheeks. His old friend staring into the distance says “Gives me hope.”

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