Stephen Ryan 🌻🍉 🌍 Stiofán Ó Riain
@stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social
Dubliner living on Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim. Recovering academic. Politics, history, sociology, music, Liverpool FC and some photos of an island. Was never a member of The Stars Of Heaven, sadly. #WeAreHopeDespiteTheTimes
🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...
Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Sea surface temperatures along European coasts reached record highs in July, which scientists have said poses an existential threat to many species native to Irish waters. jrnl.ie/7135089
Record high sea temperatures threaten 'mass mortality events' among Irish marine life
The rising sea temperatures are changing the distribution of wildlife in European waters, the researchers said.
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If we want to solve problems, we really really need to understand them. Contextualisation like this is extremely important. What's more, bad arguments that are easy to debunk always hurt the credibility of other, better arguments too.
Sentient@sentientmedia.org · 5d agoThe water required to get ChatGPT to draft an email for you is around one teaspoon, roughly 1% of a standard water bottle. Compare that to meat: two pounds of pork requires over 1,000 liters of water. Seth Millstein reports: buff.ly/fpNWoeH
I met Jason Arday in induction week in my first permanent academic job, at the University of Roehampton. We had been appointed during the same mass hiring, and spent a week together in more or less useless training sessions that felt like components of some kind of deranged summer camp. 1/
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · last wk.New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Irish Wildlife Trust are disappointed to see the number of newspaper articles reporting on this accident without giving the details of what happened. @irishenvnet.bsky.social @fairseas.ie #BlueShark #IrishSharks
Messing about with a sun telescope.
We’re celebrating 40 years of “Fall On Me” today (the first single from the band’s fourth album Lifes Rich Pageant was released on this day in 1986). The video was filmed & directed by @michaelstipe.bsky.social
Some beautifully colourful wild flowers up at the East Light today on Rathlin.
RTE news: All you need to know about next week's solar eclipse www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
All you need to know about next week's solar eclipse
The solar eclipse is a rare event at any location and it will not occur again in Ireland until 2090
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As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social has pointed out, somehow the 'legitimate concerns' phrase never gets used as regards climate change or pro-Palestine protests
Dr Nick@nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 2w agoLet's imagine I decide that Britain would be better off without these fascist thugs and their shit views and their pogroms. So I get a gang together and go raid their homes and/or set fire to them, attacking police who get in the way. Will the statements talk of legitimate protest and grievance? No.
692 The Rain Falls Far From Us Falls the Rain https://www.wikiart.org/en/friedensreich-hundertwasser/rain-falls-far-from-us
Ever get the feeling you're living through the intro sequence to a disaster movie?
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoBreaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG
Government To Recognise Data Centres As Religious Orders, Exempt From Tax And Criticism https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/08/06/government-to-recognise-data-centres-as-religious-orders-exempt-from-tax-and-criticism/
Missing jigsaw piece: the (former) Nazi now runs a popular satirical website where Badenoch is treated as some sort of cross between Boudicca & Margaret Thatcher while Labour & even Reform are constantly mocked. So this whole sorry mess is just another symptom of her being terminally online.
James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2w agoAnother glorious vindication of Kemi Badenoch’s impeccable political judgment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.
