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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 35m

taking my prison schtick to a group of criminology students in Cork this morning

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 21h

Going to a Protestant primary school (very much a jolly hockeysticks millieu) has fairly inocculated me against the charms of the GAA, but it's also meant I don't really understand its pull on Irish society

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 21h

GAA exceptionalism has definitely been due a peg-lowering.

The phrase "centrist rugby Dad" speaks to a fantasy where GAA is this benignly egalitarian, progressive and welcoming space. This is not everyone's experience but good luck to them if they say so.

www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism

Micheál Martin had his head turned by Gavin’s football success, forgetting it’s just a sport, no better or worse than the rest

www.irishtimes.com

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 1d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 1d

any justice would have Persico winning the sprint after the Dutch women's shenanigans

Emma Bianchi 🍉🌈 @cyclartist.bsky.social · 1d

Lorena Wiebes doing Lorena Wiebes things!! Gutted for Shirin though, for a moment we really thought she had it

Lorena Wiebes celebrating over the finish line as she wins the 2025 gravel world championships

The podium with Lorena Wiebes, Marianne Vos and Silvia Persico

Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 1d

quite the double rec by the algo

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 1d

r u in Dublin?

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: People on bikes aren’t swerving to annoy drivers, they’re just trying not to die or destroy their mode of transportation.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.

broken up piece of road next to the sidewalk.

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 1d

Climate action has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.*

*ripping off Chesterton's famous quote

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 2d

The full quote as reported:

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change,” he said.
“This might be controversial, because I believe in addressing climate change....

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 1d

the Taoiseach's Gavin debacle took all the media oxygen this week but this is far more consequential, throwing in the towel

Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 3d

The Taoiseach admits that he has given up on climate mitigation. This is genuine nihilism. You know what's "socially polarising"? The soon-unstoppable erosion of the literal ground on which society is built. archive.ph/kCt0M

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 2d

wait until they hear about going to a restaurant by bike, having a meal and drinks and then cycling home

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 3d

i had actually forgotten Ivan Yates existed

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 4d

when were the new prison spaces revised up to 1,600? I have been waffling to people about 1,100

Also, it certainly communicates something to co-locate a place of incarceration and an accommodation centre for people seeking asylum

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 4d

i really enjoyed my weekend in Galway

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 4d

writing down an amazing title for a penology paper I might write in five years, no substantive ideas just the title

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 5d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 5d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 5d

fair enough I guess, takes longer to go from Derry to Belfast by train than from Belfast to Dublin on Enterprise

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 5d

Flights from Dublin to Derry to start again next year after 15-year gap

Daily flights between the two cities were stopped in 2011 in the wake of the economic crash

www.irishtimes.com

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 6d

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 5d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

bit.ly

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 6d

extra style points for CC doing it in heels

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 6d

correct position

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

It's funny to me that I'm one of the biggest e-bike defenders on this site and I don't even own an e-bike (yet).

I just see their potential to get people out of cars and I want to fight for their expansion!