Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪
@telescoper
Theoretical astrophysicist specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it. Based in Ireland. Personal account. Call me old-fashioned but I don't like fascists. He/him/his. Blog: telescoper.blog
I remounted this nice watercolour of Green's Mill in Sneinton, Nottingham, home of the famous mathematician (of Green's functions, etc.)
The "Molly House", a 2023 artwork by Argentinian-British artist Pablo Bronstein is an exuberant camp acrylic and ink reimagining an 18th-century "molly house", clandestine tavern or club where gay men and gender non-conforming individuals socialized in Georgian London.
Whistler's Mother seems to be holding court... #TateBritain
The Raphael Cartoons are quite good, but not very funny. I couldn't see the joke in any of them!
There are #Pride flags all over London, even at the HQ of the Elon Musk Appreciation Society...
Bumped into a protest by union members of #UNITE at the #InstituteforCancerResearch and promised to post a picture in a spirit of solidarity, which I am happy to do... #ICR
Went out in the garden just now: the scent of the honeysuckle is just gorgeous! "And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown."
It's going to be warm tomorrow, even in Maynooth, though nowhere near as hot as France...
Just spent a pleasant couple of hours at the Staff BBQ. I must say it was nice of the President to pay for it all out of her own pocket.
Friends and colleagues in mainland Europe will be amused by the red warnings given by Met Éireann for temperatures of 25°C...
Whenever anyone mentions #Uruguay I think of Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney pies. (Fray Bentos is a place in Uruguay, though the pies have been made in Britain since the 1960s...)
Indeed. I've never been in the top 3% of anything. I think is what all the scraping of my blog has led to.
The weather is conspiring to keep the rain falling over Maynooth...
