Robin Hegarty

Creative Director. Love a good idea anywhere/how, also design, food, sailing & play.

[Robin Hegarty @RobinHegarty]

@fallon_donal The Cramps on a properly baltic night, Feb 1995 https://t.co/YVXRhlkz4j

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@TracyEdwardsMBE @ineosbritannia @stephenmcivor5 @americascup Totally agree, need to check themselves on the women's AC (which is class btw) commentary also 🤦‍♂️

[Robin Hegarty @RobinHegarty]

@FridayAgency Looks smart folks, well done all.

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@TomDolanSkipper Awesome work, well done that man ✊

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@TomDolanSkipper @ClasseFigaro @LaSolitaire55e @Irish_Sailing Great job Tom, bring it in ✊

[Robin Hegarty @RobinHegarty]

@PantiBliss A bit of Beckett maybe.
“Vladimir: I don't understand.
Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you?
Vladimir uses his intelligence.
Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.”

[Robin Hegarty @RobinHegarty]

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[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."

"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."

"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?"

"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."

"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."

"No brain?"

"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"

"So... what does the thinking?"

"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"

"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"

"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."

"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."

"So what does the meat have in mind."

"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."

"We're supposed to talk to meat?"

"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."

"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"

"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."

"I thought you just told me they used radio."

"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"

"Officially or unofficially?"

"Both."

"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."

"I was hoping you would say that."

"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"

"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"

"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."

"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."

"That's it."

"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?"

"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."

"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."

"And we can marked this sector unoccupied."

"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"

"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotation ago, wants to be friendly again."

"They always come around."

"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone."

--

Terry Bisson, 1991

[Robin Hegarty @RobinHegarty]

Why we need to highlight stories of progress to build a better future, by @_HannahRitchie https://t.co/HCfttkC8yp

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

"42% of murders of women in Ireland is done by the 9% that are migrant men" is a made-up statistic.

It's spread to dehumanise immigrants as 'savages'.

I've compiled real stats on murders of women in Ireland, including prior criminal records, to counter this hatred and lies. /1

[Sally Hayden @sallyhayd]

Definitely not your usual Longform interview.

[Voice Of Irish Concern for the Environment @VOICE_Ireland]

🌟 A massive thank you to Helen O'Callaghan from @irishexaminer for beautifully capturing the heartwarming impact of our @pickerpalsworld! This article brings to life the dedication of young environmentalists like Rory Harrington who make a difference https://t.co/fIVpY6P2ld

[Sally Hayden @sallyhayd]

Think about this poem as I read news from Gaza while listening to the sound of Hallowe’en fireworks starting up across Dublin.

[Robin Hegarty @RobinHegarty]

@BBC6Music Great delusional & comedic breakup in 'Picking Up After You' by Tom Waits with Crystal Gayle. From FFCoppola's One from the Heart

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@MrAndrewCotter We're starting our @pickerpalsworld programme in UK to end this carry on. As Soctrates (sort of) said, 'change the old by building the new'.

[Reconsidering Cinema @coenesqued2]

Elevator To The Gallows (1958) score was composed and performed by Miles Davis in a one session recording while he watched a screening of the film. He took notes while watching the rough cut and then invited 4 fellow musicians without preparation to record it in one go. Genius.

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Climate deniers and climate doomers are more alike than they’d like to think, by @_HannahRitchie https://t.co/LpQc0Cpgry

[Picker Pals World @pickerpalsworld]

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Litter won't be stopped until enough people decide that it's easier and better for the environment to stop buying and throwing away multiples of disposable items, when one reuasble would do the job instead! @voiceireland @dept_ecc @bmwireland