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Stephen Ryan 🌻🍉 🌍 Stiofán Ó Riain 🌻🍉 🌍

@stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social

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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.

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Stephen Ryan 🌻🍉 🌍 Stiofán Ó Riain 🌻🍉 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social · Jun 29

A couple of my photos from my first time seeing R.E.M. which was somehow 40 years ago #OTD.

@remhq.bsky.social @michaelstipe.bsky.social @millsish.bsky.social @bertisdowns.bsky.social @remonthisday.bsky.social

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4h

Hundreds of thousands of Americans died to stop “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"

80 years on, with Musk and Bannon saluting it, the enemy is truly within

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 9h

Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland.

But such a dramatic move would put him at odds with Sir Keir Starmer and would effectively lead to the collapse of Nato.
According to the sources, the President has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and would not be supported by Congress.
One source said: 'They have tried to distract Trump by talking about less controversial measures, such as intercepting Russian 'ghost' ships - a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Moscow to evade Western sanctions - or launching a strike on Iran.'
Diplomats have war-gamed what they describe as an 'escalatory scenario' under which Trump uses force or 'political coercion' to sever Greenland's links to Denmark.

Stephen Ryan 🌻🍉 🌍 Stiofán Ó Riain 🌻🍉 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social · 12h

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 20h

A global shift to plant-based diets could free an area of land as big as the US, China, the EU and Australia combined: restored ecosystems could draw down CO2, making our diets carbon negative. Average food emissions per person would be reduced from about 2,000 kg CO2eq/year to -160 kg CO2eq/year.

From nuts to kelp: The 'carbon-negative' foods that help reverse climate change

Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving the climate in a better place. Could we eat more of them?

www.bbc.co.uk

Stephen Ryan 🌻🍉 🌍 Stiofán Ó Riain 🌻🍉 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social · 15h

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social Loving the programme today, especially the @chrisgpackham.bsky.social interview, and particularly the namecheck for Rathlin Island, listening here on Rathlin. Thinking now of this amazing track Injured Bird by Vic Chesnutt and Michael Stipe: youtu.be/oP0Sd8Cyy9c?...

Injured Bird - Vic Chesnutt with Michael Stipe

YouTube video by DeckardWill

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 20h

From nuts to kelp: The 'carbon-negative' foods that help reverse climate change

Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving the climate in a better place. Could we eat more of them?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d

I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 24

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:

"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

Stephen Ryan 🌻🍉 🌍 Stiofán Ó Riain 🌻🍉 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social · 1d

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David Bowie - "Heroes" (Official Video) [HD]

YouTube video by David Bowie

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

Trump has:

- Illegally & unconstitutionally attacked Venezuela

- Provided Netanyahu with $12B in arms sales

- Given Argentina's president a $40B bailout

- Approved the sale of jets & tanks to Saudi Arabia

- Given Qatar an Air Force facility in Idaho

America first? Really?

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 1d

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet.
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

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@BFthoughts • 1 hour ago
In this video, it seems obvious why an officer could fear she was going to run into him with her vehicle. Wow! I hadn't seen this angle. He had a reason to feel threatened. It is done.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: The Capital Planning Commission is concerned the 89,000 square foot ballroom is going to dwarf the rest of the rest of the WH. Do you worry about that?

TRUMP: No no. People love the ballroom. We need it. If we would've had the ballroom today, we could've had all the oil companies there.

Stephen Ryan 🌻🍉 🌍 Stiofán Ó Riain 🌻🍉 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social · 2d

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing & sharing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same?

I've signed this petition calling for the government to stop X allowing their chatbot Grok to ‘digitally undress’ women and share sexualised and illegal photos of children. Will you sign too?

my.uplift.ie

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 2d

If a Pakistani Muslim owned X, distributed indecent images of girls on a platform where govt do their PR, where some receive payments for posts, they would have distanced themselves by now. X would be shutdown and Braverman and Farage would be calling for a ban and investigation into Pakistani men.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Rep. Ben Cline: "Any time you have a loss of life it's a tragedy, but what we have here is law enforcement engaged in enforcing the law. What we need is for Americans to respect that."

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Brendan Nyhan, Stephen Ryan , and 3 more Richard S.J. Tol, Brendan Nyhan, Stephen Ryan, Maria Abreu, James Cameron, Colin Woodard

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 2d

A headline to sum up our times:

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

Edit and Create Image now a 'premium perk' the AI chatbot says.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

www.theguardian.com

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Stephen Ryan, Kristina McElheran

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.

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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 3d

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Reposted by Bruno Amable, Steve Peers, John McLaren , and 8 more Bruno Amable, Steve Peers, John McLaren, Gerald Friedman, Scott A. Imberman, Stephen Ryan, Michael D. McDonald, Henry Jones, Pam Jarvis, Virginia Sapiro, Stuart Shapiro

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 3d

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles.
Absolutely vile.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 3d

My word. (Again.)

Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 3d

Van Gogh distrusted varnish. He left his paintings matte, which he considered closer to the natural appearance of the paint and more aligned with his artistic vision.

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StephDickenson.bsky.social @stephdickenson.bsky.social · 3d

I was looking at our MEPs - Aodhán Ó Ríordáin @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social left X a good while ago (🙏), whereas Lynn Boylan, Barry Andrews and Regina Doherty still seem to be on it? And to have posted on it in the last 24 hours 😕

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"

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Sid Griffin @sidthesquid.bsky.social · 4d

The new Long Ryders album, High New Hymns, is out March 13 but you can pre-order now via Cherry Red Records
and Amazon, etc., worldwide3 😎
I can assure the listening public it really is our best work and one you will dig the maximum utmost. Tour to follow! Thx, folks, the Long Ryders exist on your❤️

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4d

One of the obvious concerns about the administration's killing spree at sea was that if the US government would lawlessly kill people on the high seas just because the administration spuriously labeled them as "terrorists", it might do so elsewhere—including in the United States.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 4d

This angle shows Trump’s ICE agent standing on the side of the vehicle and firing into the open window at the driver. This was murder.

Reposted by Elizabeth Sharrow, Nandita Sharma, John McLaren , and 11 more Elizabeth Sharrow, Nandita Sharma, John McLaren, Alan Richardson, Gerald Friedman, Stephen Ryan, James Goodwin, Brian Keegan, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Karen L. Cox, Patrick Stokes, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Martin S. Flaherty

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

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