Brian Rooney
@brian-kieran.bsky.social
Striving to get to be older, kinder & wiser. Eclectic inerests: curious about people, the environment & social justice but also seeking awe.
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Here's our traditional start to #sundaymorning. Painted by one of the newest members of the Group at the time, Cecil Osborne, "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" dates from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton Museums & is also available as a card or print with 40% off: www.eastlondongroup.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Here's our traditional start to #sundaymorning. Painted by one of the newest members of the Group at the time, Cecil Osborne, "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" dates from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton Museums & is also available as a card or print with 40% off: www.eastlondongroup.co.uk
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In the year 1310, a woman named Marguerite Porete was led to a stake in the heart of Paris, surrounded by a crowd of thousands. She had been condemned as a heretic—the first person the Paris Inquisition would burn for refusing to recant.
Her crime was writing a book.
Her crime was writing a book.
January 18, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
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"The Church, if she wants to be Christ’s Church, must be a Church of the Beatitudes, one that makes room for the little ones and walks poor with the poor, a place where the poor have a privileged place (21)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
"The Church, if she wants to be Christ’s Church, must be a Church of the Beatitudes, one that makes room for the little ones and walks poor with the poor, a place where the poor have a privileged place (21)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
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"God grant that this tragic midnight of man's inhumanity to man will soon pass and the bright daybreak of freedom and brotherhood will come into being. Amen (1957)." #MLK #PrayForAmerica
January 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM
"God grant that this tragic midnight of man's inhumanity to man will soon pass and the bright daybreak of freedom and brotherhood will come into being. Amen (1957)." #MLK #PrayForAmerica
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This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
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FACT OF THE DAY. 17 January 1967. An article in the Daily Mail reported there were 4,000 holes in the roads of Blackburn, Lancashire. Beatle John Lennon used the article as the inspiration for lines in the classic song A Day in The Life on the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
January 17, 2026 at 9:23 AM
FACT OF THE DAY. 17 January 1967. An article in the Daily Mail reported there were 4,000 holes in the roads of Blackburn, Lancashire. Beatle John Lennon used the article as the inspiration for lines in the classic song A Day in The Life on the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
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The world needs a unified and coordinated response to Trump. There is no lasting stability in trying to appease an authoritarian leader, every concession will only encourage more extreme demands. Solidarity with Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
The world needs a unified and coordinated response to Trump. There is no lasting stability in trying to appease an authoritarian leader, every concession will only encourage more extreme demands. Solidarity with Greenland.
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#OtD 17 Jan 1942 Black radical and three-time heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, was born in Louisville, KY. During the Vietnam war, Ali refused to be inducted into the army and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Learn more about the mvmt: workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e...
January 17, 2026 at 9:40 PM
#OtD 17 Jan 1942 Black radical and three-time heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, was born in Louisville, KY. During the Vietnam war, Ali refused to be inducted into the army and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Learn more about the mvmt: workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e...
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1/17/1921 — b. Eloise Giblett, American hematologist, genetic scientist + researcher. Medical pioneer, discoverer first immunodeficiency disease; prof of medicine, Hematology Dept, Univ of Wash. Wrote a seminal tome on #genetic markers (1969) & 200+ papers #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #SciSky
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
1/17/1921 — b. Eloise Giblett, American hematologist, genetic scientist + researcher. Medical pioneer, discoverer first immunodeficiency disease; prof of medicine, Hematology Dept, Univ of Wash. Wrote a seminal tome on #genetic markers (1969) & 200+ papers #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #SciSky
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Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation
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The Jetty and Boat Cove, Ardmore, County Waterford, painting by Joan Jameson (1893-1953), Irish artist.
January 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
The Jetty and Boat Cove, Ardmore, County Waterford, painting by Joan Jameson (1893-1953), Irish artist.
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The 1883 poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus hangs on a bronze plaque at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. It's the poem that first gave birth to the idea of "The "American Dream". The same dream that Donald Trump and ICE have now destroyed.
January 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM
The 1883 poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus hangs on a bronze plaque at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. It's the poem that first gave birth to the idea of "The "American Dream". The same dream that Donald Trump and ICE have now destroyed.
UK:
January 16, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings....
Tough choice on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg, but when you see these you drink in history through your very eyes dear viewer. The escutcheons alone make it a winner #StPaulKewstoke #FerrousFriday
Tough choice on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg, but when you see these you drink in history through your very eyes dear viewer. The escutcheons alone make it a winner #StPaulKewstoke #FerrousFriday
January 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM
The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings....
Tough choice on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg, but when you see these you drink in history through your very eyes dear viewer. The escutcheons alone make it a winner #StPaulKewstoke #FerrousFriday
Tough choice on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg, but when you see these you drink in history through your very eyes dear viewer. The escutcheons alone make it a winner #StPaulKewstoke #FerrousFriday
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The Trump administration announced that it will be moving to “phase 2” of the ceasefire plan. And yet, during the past three months that the so-called ceasefire has been in effect, the Israeli military has killed over 400 Palestinians...
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
The Trump administration announced that it will be moving to “phase 2” of the ceasefire plan. And yet, during the past three months that the so-called ceasefire has been in effect, the Israeli military has killed over 400 Palestinians...
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Tory legacy
In 2025, 554,018 people were left waiting on NHS England hospital A&E trolleys for more than 12 hours - 48,626 in 2021.
The waiting times are the worst since figures began.
NHS suffers from lack of investment, drained by PFI and privatization profits.
In 2025, 554,018 people were left waiting on NHS England hospital A&E trolleys for more than 12 hours - 48,626 in 2021.
The waiting times are the worst since figures began.
NHS suffers from lack of investment, drained by PFI and privatization profits.
Half a million patients left waiting on hospital trolleys for 12 hours or more
Record numbers wait for NHS hospital beds, as Lib Dem leader Ed Davey demands: "Enough is enough. This is a national emergency."
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January 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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🔴 Last week the Free Speech Union got a High Court writ to prevent the publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit
Wanna see? 🫣
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit
Wanna see? 🫣
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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The winner for the diversity of doors and doorways award for the #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast is #StPaulKewstoke: Part II; doorway to rood stair. Wave moulded #Ogee surmounted by a Romanesque #Spolia head spewing hood mould #DoorwayThursday
January 15, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The winner for the diversity of doors and doorways award for the #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast is #StPaulKewstoke: Part II; doorway to rood stair. Wave moulded #Ogee surmounted by a Romanesque #Spolia head spewing hood mould #DoorwayThursday
On our flight today are a couple who are flying from Hamburg to Dublin, to fly to Zurich! They are doing this because going by train is now so beset with difficulties. It not so long since the trains, particularly, through Germany were like a gold standard of travel efficiency. What happened?
January 15, 2026 at 7:34 AM
On our flight today are a couple who are flying from Hamburg to Dublin, to fly to Zurich! They are doing this because going by train is now so beset with difficulties. It not so long since the trains, particularly, through Germany were like a gold standard of travel efficiency. What happened?
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The C13th chapel (with roots reaching back to the C6th) sits cockled onto the rocks of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire in Wales - a beacon of continuity amidst centuries of shifting tides.
January 15, 2026 at 7:00 AM
The C13th chapel (with roots reaching back to the C6th) sits cockled onto the rocks of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire in Wales - a beacon of continuity amidst centuries of shifting tides.
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Barn owl. One of two, possibly three, hunting at Margrove this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @teeswildlife.bsky.social #birds #ukbirds
January 14, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Barn owl. One of two, possibly three, hunting at Margrove this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @teeswildlife.bsky.social #birds #ukbirds