Hello me darlin' delectables! welcome to another little open thread, a fuzzy-headed bit of fluff reaching out to common interests in the interest of creating community. Just another backwater in the Great Orange Cesspool where even the Russian bot trolls can find a warm, comforting bowl of borsch.
This week I've been actively finding positive ways to tune out the pathetic, pouting putz. You may not be familiar with a thoughtful YouTuber who goes by the name of Shaun, but he has a lovely collection of insightful videos on a number of different subjects all infused with his mellow, monotone delivery and dry, British sense of humor. I find his videos very watchable and I've learned a lot— among other things, about the lies, unscientific surveys and cherry-picked data that the folks spreading all this ridiculous trans-hysteria rely on to maintain their ignorant fearmongering. Shaun has been streaming live over on Twitch all this week from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM GMT. He has sort of a dual life online with intelligent commentary videos on YouTube and the occasional fluffy gaming stream on Twitch. What's unusual this week is that Shaun is doing a live charity event where he plays a variety of goofy games while encouraging his viewers to donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. I suspect there will be some talk of this charity event bopping around the online world— because, while I'm writing this diary, Shaun's just getting his Friday stream up and running and he's managed to raise over $360,000 for PCRF. This may go on all weekend, but at the time this diary posts I suspect Shaun will be sleeping.
Anyway, I've got more photos from Ireland this week and I'll be out in the country chopping wood and baking pizzas on a laptop that may not be allowing me to interact with Daily Kos, but you've been trusted with the keys to the liquor cabinet before. Surely I can trust you again.
Clonmacnoise
This extensive site was an important monastery founded by Saint Ciarán in the 6th Century. It became a center for learning that attracted students from all around Europe.
The original Cross of the Scriptures is displayed in the visitor's center and museum that serves as an entrance to the site.
Another of the original high crosses preserved in the museum.
Passing through a gate at the far end of the site into a newer section of graveyard, looking back across the wall to the towers of the old monastery.
A short walk from the main site, down a country road lined with hedges, lies The Nun's Church
Back to the main site ...
Just outside the grounds of the monastery there are the ruins of an Anglo-Norman castle, built in 1214 to guard a bridge over the River Shannon. The presence of the Normans meant that the Catholic monastery city's glory days were done.
Thanks for stopping by. Maybe I'll be online for this one, maybe I'll pick on you folks on Wednesday. At any rate, I hope you have a great weekend.
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