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Serial Killer

April 5, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

There is a serial killer at large in Munster. There have been ‘wanted posters’ and full page ads in the local press that offer a reward. The 19th century-style campaign for justice is seeking information that will stop the murders by conviction. It’s such a big reward (and such a horrible crime) that it made the news.

Buzzard hunting above Hawk Cliff
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bird watching, birds, birdwatch ireland, buzzard, npws, pesticides, photos, pigeons, travel, ungrievable

Plant Brains

March 13, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

You probably have enough oxygen to realise that conscious thought becomes increasingly difficult as the level of oxygen decreases. You’ve probably always known that brain death happens very rapidly. You may even know that decay starts within 5 minutes of an interruption to the supply of oxygen. In short, you might not know it as hypoxia. Yes, brain hypoxia can cause severe brain damage or death surprisingly quickly.

How smart is this?
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: christof koch, daniel dennett, irish times, kavli prize, michael viney, photo, plants, scientific american, ungrievable

Grievable Pigs

March 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

There may be a photo out there somewhere of me sitting by a deer, holding the rifle I used to shoot it dead. That’s because I was brought up as a hunter and such a photo would have been a trophy. In truth, my family started my hunting early.

My preferred trophy: Andrew Carnegie donated the 1905 cast of the Diplodocus skeleton to the Natural History Museum in London and I was lucky enough to dine beneath it several times.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: fishing, hunting, judith butler, karachi, natural history museum, photos, the pig site, travel, ungrievable

Historicity and Othering

August 17, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

If a people has a culture, it also has a present and therefore a history. While the present does not guarantee a future, recording the present helps establish the historicity of a culture. The authority that is conveyed through authentic observation tends to help preserve cultures when those presents are continuously documented. Perhaps the idea of historicity is another concept to add to grievability when we think of human rights.

Grey Heron on a grey day.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: aridity line, climate justice, colonialism, edward said, eyal weizman, historicity, lrb, naomi klein, tutankhamun, ungrievable

Controlling Robots

August 12, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

New gatekeepers have emerged to fill the vacuum created by a media increasingly needing ‘likes’ for a codependent life-support system based on advertising revenue support. Such codependency is maladapted and objectivity is a price the media seem prepared to pay. The Bellingcat group is good place to look for accurate reporting. But how did we get to needing citizen journalists for our truths?

This Morning’s Walk in Dún Laoghaire.
Third and final view, it was clearer than yesterday but not quite Summer.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: bellingcat, isaac asimov, judith butler, ungrievable

Ignobility Index

June 16, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We heard the siren call of the seals this afternoon. Pod, rookery or harem, there were upwards of a dozen of the pinnipeds basking in the diffuse light on rocks exposed by a very low tide.

It was befitting of Bloom’s Day to see the seals in Sandycove where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. ‘A sleek brown head, a seal’s, far out on the water, round’ was his description of Buck Mulligan in Ulysses. Could this have been inspired by the Sandycove ancestors of these seals?

Sandycove Seals
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