Rúairí Ó Súilleabháin
@ruairios.bsky.social
Former medievalist (#PhD #vitacolumbae) turned software engineer. Runner (barely), redhead, board game lover, husband, exhausted parent, and cat friend. He/him
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Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...
May 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...
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Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
May 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
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1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
May 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 40% off as part of the LudoNarraCon event on Steam!
It's an honour to be part of this great event, massive thanks to @fellowtraveller.games 🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
It's an honour to be part of this great event, massive thanks to @fellowtraveller.games 🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
May 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 40% off as part of the LudoNarraCon event on Steam!
It's an honour to be part of this great event, massive thanks to @fellowtraveller.games 🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
It's an honour to be part of this great event, massive thanks to @fellowtraveller.games 🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
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What will it mean if we know even more accurately how we are changing Earth? Will we take notice? Will we at least stop voting for politicians who don't want to know or just don't care?
eos.org/articles/tra...
eos.org/articles/tra...
“Transformational” Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Surface Changes - Eos
The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around the globe.
eos.org
April 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
What will it mean if we know even more accurately how we are changing Earth? Will we take notice? Will we at least stop voting for politicians who don't want to know or just don't care?
eos.org/articles/tra...
eos.org/articles/tra...
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
How did I miss the existence of Gentleman Broncos for fifteen years?
February 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
How did I miss the existence of Gentleman Broncos for fifteen years?
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I don't expect my American friends to explain or defend their President's actions and I don't demand that my English mates explain why their sausage-fingered king talks to plants.
If McRedmond is truly tired, maybe she could tell these incredulous people to fuck off?
If McRedmond is truly tired, maybe she could tell these incredulous people to fuck off?
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I don't expect my American friends to explain or defend their President's actions and I don't demand that my English mates explain why their sausage-fingered king talks to plants.
If McRedmond is truly tired, maybe she could tell these incredulous people to fuck off?
If McRedmond is truly tired, maybe she could tell these incredulous people to fuck off?
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I sent emails to Government Minister’s two years ago and again last year about lack of planning for extreme weather and no flood warnings. Today I sent the below email, hopefully we will finally see some more planning, resourcing and real adaptation.
January 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I sent emails to Government Minister’s two years ago and again last year about lack of planning for extreme weather and no flood warnings. Today I sent the below email, hopefully we will finally see some more planning, resourcing and real adaptation.
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Dúnfar an cuntas X/Twitter ar an 4ú/5ú de mhí Eanáir.
Beidh muid ar fáil anseo ar Bluesky – chomh maith le LinkedIn, Instagram agus trí r-phost (mar a bhí cheana).
Beidh muid ar fáil anseo ar Bluesky – chomh maith le LinkedIn, Instagram agus trí r-phost (mar a bhí cheana).
December 24, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Dúnfar an cuntas X/Twitter ar an 4ú/5ú de mhí Eanáir.
Beidh muid ar fáil anseo ar Bluesky – chomh maith le LinkedIn, Instagram agus trí r-phost (mar a bhí cheana).
Beidh muid ar fáil anseo ar Bluesky – chomh maith le LinkedIn, Instagram agus trí r-phost (mar a bhí cheana).
30 minutes into Xmas eve. Time to tuck into a cheeseboard.
December 24, 2024 at 12:31 AM
30 minutes into Xmas eve. Time to tuck into a cheeseboard.
FF and FG backing Verona Murphy as Ceann Comhairle is disgraceful and unsurprising in equal measures.
December 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM
FF and FG backing Verona Murphy as Ceann Comhairle is disgraceful and unsurprising in equal measures.
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There is a whole world in this paragraph (from Kitty Holland’s reporting from the Capuchin Centre, who ran out of food by 9:30 this morning)
December 11, 2024 at 3:38 PM
There is a whole world in this paragraph (from Kitty Holland’s reporting from the Capuchin Centre, who ran out of food by 9:30 this morning)
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"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’
www.scotsman.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 AM
"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
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📖 To celebrate the migration to Bluesky I will put everyone who reposts this before Dec 2nd into a random drawing & send the winner a free paperback copy of my 2021 book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship anywhere they happen to be in the world. 📖
November 26, 2024 at 1:10 PM
📖 To celebrate the migration to Bluesky I will put everyone who reposts this before Dec 2nd into a random drawing & send the winner a free paperback copy of my 2021 book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship anywhere they happen to be in the world. 📖
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This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
November 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
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Welcome, new followers, exiles, & outcasts who feel like they've suddenly woken up in some kind of absurd alternate reality that would be laughable were it not so grimly dystopian.
Here's a recent-ish illustration depicting a scene I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more of in the coming months/years.
Here's a recent-ish illustration depicting a scene I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more of in the coming months/years.
November 9, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Welcome, new followers, exiles, & outcasts who feel like they've suddenly woken up in some kind of absurd alternate reality that would be laughable were it not so grimly dystopian.
Here's a recent-ish illustration depicting a scene I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more of in the coming months/years.
Here's a recent-ish illustration depicting a scene I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more of in the coming months/years.
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They can't house the homeless or fund operations on kids with scoliosis, but millions of our tax money are just gleefully handed over to an industry rife with animal cruelty and abuse? Integral part of society my arse: www.thejournal.ie/dail-greyhou...
Dáil told greyhound racing is 'integral to our social fabric' as it debates additional funding
The government was asked why it continues to prop up the declining industry.
www.thejournal.ie
October 22, 2024 at 8:43 PM
They can't house the homeless or fund operations on kids with scoliosis, but millions of our tax money are just gleefully handed over to an industry rife with animal cruelty and abuse? Integral part of society my arse: www.thejournal.ie/dail-greyhou...
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Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit:
Sen. Budd (R-NC)
Sen. Blackburn (R-TN)
Sen. Hagerty (R-TN)
Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL)
Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
Sen. Budd (R-NC)
Sen. Blackburn (R-TN)
Sen. Hagerty (R-TN)
Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL)
Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
October 1, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit:
Sen. Budd (R-NC)
Sen. Blackburn (R-TN)
Sen. Hagerty (R-TN)
Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL)
Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
Sen. Budd (R-NC)
Sen. Blackburn (R-TN)
Sen. Hagerty (R-TN)
Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL)
Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
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We desperately need a mass movement, like the Water Charges, MarRef and Repeal movements, to force the Catholic Church out of ownership of Irish institutions. It’s the only way change comes in Ireland.
I am seething over the schools abuse report.
It is going to take me a few days to articulate a practical road forward.
For the moment, all I can say is that at each previous similar moment a show of state sympathy has been followed by a long war against survivors, to protect institutions.
It is going to take me a few days to articulate a practical road forward.
For the moment, all I can say is that at each previous similar moment a show of state sympathy has been followed by a long war against survivors, to protect institutions.
September 5, 2024 at 8:55 AM
We desperately need a mass movement, like the Water Charges, MarRef and Repeal movements, to force the Catholic Church out of ownership of Irish institutions. It’s the only way change comes in Ireland.
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The thing I love is how the "hard working older generation" is now located almost exactly in the 1960s and 1970s, better known as the decade of "people striking at the drop of a hat"
You know who’s responsible for all the world’s problems? Young people.
August 19, 2024 at 8:22 AM
The thing I love is how the "hard working older generation" is now located almost exactly in the 1960s and 1970s, better known as the decade of "people striking at the drop of a hat"
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I really feel we are not paying enough attention to shellfish reefs (both as carbonate factories and in general). Many of them have been destroyed by unsustainable practices, so news like this is interesting and exciting. 🧪⚒️
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Devon mussel farm could be reviving shellfish reef - study
An mussel farm off the Devon coast could be changing the seabed, a study suggests.
www.bbc.com
August 19, 2024 at 7:37 AM
I really feel we are not paying enough attention to shellfish reefs (both as carbonate factories and in general). Many of them have been destroyed by unsustainable practices, so news like this is interesting and exciting. 🧪⚒️
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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