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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.

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Stephen Ryan 🌻 🍉 Stiofán Ó Riain 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social · 6h

The earliest R.E.M. band pics that I can remember. I was confused as to who was who.

R.E.M. on this Day @remonthisday.bsky.social · 17h

A couple of Ed Colver photos taken around this time in 1983. “Shot on Santa Fe and Palmetto next to the Nate Starkman & Sons building, where Independent Project had their office and record label," he said.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6h

Fuck Farage.

#BackTheBEEB

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 16h

We wish the very best for their future to President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins as they leave the Áras for the last time. President Higgins opened the doors of Áras an Uachtaráin to us, to many of the brilliant Palestinian speakers, artists, lawyers and activists that came here to advocate

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R.E.M. on this Day @remonthisday.bsky.social · 17h

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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 23h

Certain cross-community & minority protections were understandable in 1998, but for votes like this now it just stunts democracy

A graphic showing Paul Givan and text saying:

PAUL GIVAN NO CONFIDENCE VOTE

58% of MLAS VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN GIVAN

But because Unionists voted against it, it does not pass

47 voted no confidence in Givan
(People Before Profit, Alliance, SDLP & Sinn Féin)

33
voted against the motion
(DUP, UUP & TUV)

THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

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

Haha, thank you. And also, don't tempt me.

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

And some time later...

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

And after a few hours in McCuaig's Bar, this...

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

Twenty jet skis on the beach at Rathlin harbour just now. Roaring in at very high speed, some of them blaring dance music as they come. Church Bay and Rathlin Sound is a precious marine habitat being abused by these selfish arseholes.

Stephen Ryan 🌻 🍉 Stiofán Ó Riain 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social · 3d

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 3d

Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli PM, ministers and army chief accused of crimes against humanity ‘perpetrated systematically’ in Gaza

dlvr.it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 4d

📌 Reality settling in for GOP ‼️

Yes indeed • Actually MOST

of you ~ shall go

to prison 💯🐥

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 4d

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

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R.E.M. on this Day @remonthisday.bsky.social · 4d

On this day in 1988, Green was released as the band's first album with Warner Bros.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5d

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6d

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 6d

Today is my birthday. 48. Is that old? Well, it's the oldest I've ever been.

Have I learnt anything worth sharing in that time? Let's see.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 7d

Listening to Tánaiste Simon Harris's comments on the way into Cabinet this morning - accusing parties on the left of the 'extraordinary' move of 'trying to shut down debate' on immigration.

(1/2)

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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 7d

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 10d

👻🎃👻 This year my forehead is going as Samuel Beckett

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10d

Blimey! The number of @bsky.app
users just passed 40 MILLION!! 👏

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11d

● Andrew Windsor remains 8th in the line of succession.

●King Charles III will privately fund his new living arrangements despite Andrew being very rich indeed

● Actually we don't know how wealthy Andrew is because his mother's will is sealed for 90+ years

● Sleep well serfs.

● Know your place.

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in a suit and tie .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in a suit and tie .

media.tenor.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11d

Let the campaigning begin.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 12d

Go NEW YORK CITY ZOHRAN FOR THE PEOPLE!!🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 13d

Love that the Burke family are such a national problem that the Irish Times has published an advice column on what to do if you're doorstepped by one of them -- because it could apparently happen to any of us, at any time.

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