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I’ve seen this tweet a few times, but this is a genius way of using your voicemail should you ever get into trouble with low battery / no signal!
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Two wonderful and great Irish Poets gone to their heaven today RIP Brendan Kennelly and Máire Mhac An tSaoi. There will be some festival of words and music this weekend where ever they are.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh anam. Here they both are on last visits to Listowel Writers’ Week – at Kerry, Ireland
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How was Facebook scraped? Effectively, the attacker created an address book with every phone number on the planet and then asked Facebook if his ’friends’ are on Facebook.
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The Cistercian monks invented a numbering system in the 13th century which meant that any number from 1 to 9999 could be written using a single symbol
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In addition, Sanofi are to give over a German factory to BioNTech to make the Pfizer vaccine, further boosting global supply.
More companies may do this -- if, for example, a vaccine candidate they are currently developing does not work out. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Sad background to all this:
The Oxford researchers who developed the vaccine said their know-how would be granted in "non-exclusive, royalty-free licences" during the pandemic.
Ultimately an exclusive contract with AZ was signed innovation.ox.ac.uk/technolo…
astrazeneca.com/media-centre…
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A fired Stradis Healthcare employee sought revenge by tampering with shipping #data for desperately needed #healthcare PPE.
threatpost.com/healthcare-ex…
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The #FBI is warning that the Egregor #ransomware has already compromised more than 150 organizations.
threatpost.com/fbi-egregor-a…
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#WhatsApp is asking users to accept a new privacy policy that will share all of their data with #Facebook beginning Feb. 8 - drawing ire from some.
threatpost.com/facebooks-man…
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My awesome husband has made the best Christmas present for our 8 year old son. 4 months in the planning. Hopefully he’s going to love it. #TARDIS #DoctorWho #ItsBiggerOnTheInside #TheRoundThings @bbcdoctorwho
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Feel free to say thank you to those pushing for natural herd immunity, just ‘shield the vulnerable’, ‘focused protection’ & all those thinking there was an easy way out by just infecting loads of young people.
Viruses evolve faster in lazy countries that let them run rampant.
One variant (B.1.1.7) in the UK has acquired 8 mutations in a gene encoding the spike protein -- and that may help it spread faster.
Excellent piece by @kakape sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/…
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Do you remember when someone would breath all over a cake to blow out candles. And people ate it.
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Tim Severin whose Atlantic crossing inspired The Brendan Voyage. In 2013, with Liam O'Flynn and Shaun Davey we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first performance of The Brendan Voyage. Tim was a gentleman. May he rest in peace.
The Snug Project Calendar & Limited Edition Prints in aid of ALONE
Photographs by Finn Richards
thesnugproject.com/
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Mountjoy Gardaí ran a Christmas Card Competition with Primary Schools in the area. Over 500 entries were submitted. Winning entries will be made into a Christmas card and sent to elderly residents and frontline workers. Supt. Mooney has the tough job of picking the winners🎄🎅
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Broadcaster Pat Kenny pictured #OnThisDay in 1973
Photo by Ronan Lee
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Love you Phil
Photograph via @furtho
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Hey! 👋🏼 My name’s Madi. I’m a film photographer from New Zealand, and I’m new to Twitter! I have no idea what I’m doing, and I’d love if you could share my work while I get started ☺️ Instagram sucks now and you all seem so lovely. Here are some of my fave recent film photos – at Wellington City, New Zealand






























