Heath Ryan
@heathryan16.bsky.social
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Writer, journalist, father, cyclist, thinker & supporter of Ukrainian 🇺🇦 charity Voices of Children. Holding the powerful to account and calling out hypocrisy. Books include: 'Car is Guest' and 'Her Honour Refuses Your Request'. Australian and Canadian 🇨🇦
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heathryan16.bsky.social
Thanks for following me. I will mainly use this account to promote discussion & awareness of cycling safety, active transport, progressive urbanism and action on climate change, But I will also post or repost things that interest me.

I will also promote my books; many will be free ePDFs.

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heathryan16.bsky.social
Yes. But I still want to see him bomb Greenland.

Just for the entertainment value.

LOL.
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margaretmorgan.bsky.social
In one hour's time, either the bottomless pit of Trump's need for approval will have its biggest fillup in its wretched history, or Norway's going to need to rapidly develop anti-missile capacity.
heathryan16.bsky.social
Does he think Greenland is part of Norway? not Denmark?

Oops. Silly question.
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diplomatofnight.com
Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.
Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.  
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.  
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.  
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
The western media always refers to “the hostages” as those held by Hamas.

Apparently they are too lazy to access the readily available evidence,
or so imbued with an attitude of dehumanising and ignoring Palestinians (aka racism),
that they rarely mention the hundreds of hostages held by Israel.
diplomatofnight.com
Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.
Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.  
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.  
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.  
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.
heathryan16.bsky.social
While we’re there, the medical benefits of circumcision are BIGLY exaggerated.

Just ask almost any European or other non-American male, or their partners.
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heathryan16.bsky.social
Stay strong. Stay safe.
heathryan16.bsky.social
Another question:

If I report AFP officers to NACC, am I “eroding our country’s social fabric”?

Because I have done that already.
heathryan16.bsky.social
A question for the AFP:

If I post, online, material that “humiliates” a Federal MP, am I going to be investigated for terrorism?

I’m an advocate for safer roads. Is my advocacy going to “erode our country’s social fabric”?

Is calling for all drivers to have proper insurance anti-social fabric?
heathryan16.bsky.social
“Commissioner Krissy Barrett said the AFP had … blah blah … foster an environment for violent extremism or terrorism.

“There are current & emerging groups … eroding our country’s social fabric by advocating hatred, fear, and humiliation,” Commissioner Barrett said.

www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/...
heathryan16.bsky.social
A question for the AFP:

If I post, online, material that “humiliates” a Federal MP, am I going to be investigated for terrorism?

I’m an advocate for safer roads. Is my advocacy going to “erode our country’s social fabric”?

Is calling for all drivers to have proper insurance anti-social fabric?
heathryan16.bsky.social
“Commissioner Krissy Barrett said the AFP had … blah blah … foster an environment for violent extremism or terrorism.

“There are current & emerging groups … eroding our country’s social fabric by advocating hatred, fear, and humiliation,” Commissioner Barrett said.

www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/...
AFP launches National Security Investigations teams to target groups causing harm to social cohesion | Australian Federal Police
The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parl...
www.afp.gov.au
heathryan16.bsky.social
A question for the AFP:

If I post, online, material that “humiliates” a Federal MP, am I going to be investigated for terrorism?
heathryan16.bsky.social
“Commissioner Krissy Barrett said the AFP had … blah blah … foster an environment for violent extremism or terrorism.

“There are current & emerging groups … eroding our country’s social fabric by advocating hatred, fear, and humiliation,” Commissioner Barrett said.

www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/...
AFP launches National Security Investigations teams to target groups causing harm to social cohesion | Australian Federal Police
The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parl...
www.afp.gov.au
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incrediblemelk.bsky.social
Community group writing to & calling their local MP, or protesting outside their office, to get them to act on pressing moral issues:

Cops: You have committed a Crime Against Social Cohesion

Big business lobbyist:

You get direct access to MPs to push your profit agenda, as a fun lil sports club!
AFP launches National Security Investigations teams to target groups causing harm to social cohesion | Australian Federal Police
The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parl...
www.afp.gov.au
heathryan16.bsky.social
I hope God’s also gives me the ability to proof my posts and add apostrophes where appropriate.
heathryan16.bsky.social
Fingers crossed.

As Robbie Williams said in the lyrics of one of his songs, “Lord make me good, but not yet.”
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jonathan-cook.bsky.social
The BBC still furiously peddling the fiction that Trump "railroaded" Netanyahu into a peace deal.

No, the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs.

Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled.
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2fbs.bsky.social
Give the Nobel Peace Prize to Greta Thunberg and watch his head explode in glorious 4K
heathryan16.bsky.social
Friendlies are good, but if they’re too friendly she might end up vomiting again. Awkward.
heathryan16.bsky.social
Greta this year. Zelenskyy in 2026 after Ukraine successfully de-militarises Russia.
heathryan16.bsky.social
I’m going out tomorrow night to celebrate the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Smart money is on Greta Thunberg.

No. Not Trump.

Never Trump.
heathryan16.bsky.social
Wasn’t his point that higher ups were escaping responsibility for allowing/turning a blind eye to war crimes allegedly being committed by lower-ranked soldiers under their command?
heathryan16.bsky.social
“Being kicked out of the club for raising concerns around gambling lobbyists buying access to the club shows the influence vested interests have here in parliament and just how normalised this has become,” Pocock said.
kazcooke.bsky.social
How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.
australia.theguardian.com
Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
heathryan16.bsky.social
How to say “I shouldn’t have a drivers license anymore” without saying “I shouldn’t have a drivers license anymore”.

“It happens. Especially to those of us who are horrible drivers.”

He has a medical condition which should see his license cancelled immediately.
I shouldn’t be driving.