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Stephen Ryan πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 StiofΓ‘n Γ“ Riain πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍
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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 πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 StiofΓ‘n Γ“ Riain πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social Β· 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 πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 StiofΓ‘n Γ“ Riain πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social Β· 6h
Used really well in this ad.
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Birrificio Angelo Poretti UK 'Welcome to the Lake' 2025 commercial
YouTube video by Bull N Bear
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Stephen Ryan πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 StiofΓ‘n Γ“ Riain πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social Β· 6h
I'm fascinated with that song.

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social Β· 10h
And don't call it the Epstein Administration

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social Β· 13h
Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
www.nytimes.com

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social Β· 1d
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Β· 2d
Musk clearly thinks Farage is a bit "woke"
Elon Musk has thrown his support behind Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain. Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe formally unveiled his Restore Britain party on Friday night. The Tesla billionaire was among the first to endorse the party with a post on his X social media platform that has been liked 145,000 times. 'Join Rupert Lowe in Restore Britain, because he is the only one who will actually do it!' wrote Musk, Lowe announced the creation of the party with a seven-minute long campaign video published onto his social media. Dressed in a wax jacket, Lowe spoke from his farm in Withington, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire -'because places like this represent what proper Britain is about', he explained. he said his party would not include "failed ministers" or those "tainted by failures of the past" in an apparent swipe at Reform's Tory defectors. He added that nothing had shaped his thinking more than Restore Britain's independent probe into the rape gangs - which he said had been created only "because the political system itself would not act". Mr Lowe went on to pledge that his party would field "hundreds of qualified candidates from outside the existing political establishment" at the next General Election. "They will not be failed ministers. They will not be politicians. They will be men and women who have succeeded in their own fields, and want to deliver a

stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social
Stephen Ryan πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 StiofΓ‘n Γ“ Riain πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social Β· 2d
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Cinema’s greatest scene: β€˜Casablanca’ and β€˜La Marseillaise’
CasablancaΒ is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 listΒ and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exac…
seveninchesofyourtime.com

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social Β· 3d
Houses in Auvers - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14797

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Β· 3d
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

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Public Sector Lawyer @publicsectorlawyer.bsky.social Β· 3d
Palantir: too bad to be untrue.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com Β· 3d
β€˜The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
β€˜The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
www.theguardian.com

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social Β· 3d
β€˜Former Washington Post staff writer Gillian Brockell has been tracking the movements of ICE-contracted aircraft and documenting repeated stopovers in Shannon since last May.’

- Colin Sheridan @gbrockell.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Shannon Airport and ICE deportation flights raise fresh questions over Irish neutrality
ICE deportation stopovers at Shannon Airport reignite debate about neutrality, accountability and Ireland’s complicity in US removals
www.irishexaminer.com

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atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Β· 4d
Trump: "We won World War 1. We won everything. World War 2. And everything before, during, and a little bit after except we fought a little bit differently. We fought to be politically correct. We were a politically correct force with the presidents. But now we have a real force."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Β· 4d
Trump speaking at Fort Bragg: "The first time, I won but they say I didn't win the popular vote. You know I did. I won it by a lot."

stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social
Stephen Ryan πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 StiofΓ‘n Γ“ Riain πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social Β· 4d
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Flickers of Obama: Is Georgia senator Jon Ossoff a Democratic presidential runner?
Ossoff has skilfully walked the tightrope of thriving as a liberal in a conservative state as he seeks senate re-election
www.irishtimes.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Β· 4d
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

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@kensweeney @kensweeney.bsky.social Β· 4d
Sad to hear β€˜Weaver D's’ closing. The Athens, Georgia diner whose owner Wexter Deaver slogan to customers β€˜Automatic For The People’ - local band R.E.M used for their eighth album. #REM #StipeBuckMillsBerry pic making 2017 @rteradio1.bsky.social doc #REMOutOfAthens www.rte.ie/culture/2017...

stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social
Stephen Ryan πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 StiofΓ‘n Γ“ Riain πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social Β· 5d
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Stephen Ryan πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 StiofΓ‘n Γ“ Riain πŸŒ»πŸ‰ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡± 🌍 @stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social Β· 5d
Ffs

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 5d
The Republic of Ireland will play Israel in 2026-2027 UEFA Nations League as well as matches with Austria and Kosovo | Follow live
Ireland drawn with Israel in UEFA Nations League
Heimir Hallgrimsson's Republic of Ireland learned their fate for the 2026-27 UEFA Nations League with matches against Israel, Austria and Kosovo to come. Read here.
www.rte.ie

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com Β· 5d
Rather inevitable that the FAI, who asked for Israel to be suspended from UEFA, are drawn against them in this autumn’s Nations League. Austria and Kosovo also in Group B3.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Β· 6d
Ministers, advisers and civil servants are braced for political fallout from the impending release of tens of thousands of documents relating to the disgraced peer Lord Peter Mandelson and his appointment as UK ambassador to the US

www.ft.com/content/ffcc...
Westminster fears release of β€˜embarrassing’ exchanges in Mandelson data dump
Ministers, advisers and officials will see their communications about former peer’s appointment as UK ambassador released
www.ft.com

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social Β· 6d
No such thing as a good billionaire.

As the rest of the world's super-rich advertise what repulsive human beings they are, Ratcliffe is clearly feeling left out.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.
news.sky.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Β· 6d
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social Β· 6d
Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children.

Recognised refugees.

Denied the right to reunite with their children.

It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied.

So yes, he’s hated.
zoejardiniere.bsky.social Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social Β· 6d
What these β€œbut why do people hate Starmer SO MUCH” takes come down to is so shallow.

Starmer doesn’t sound or look like a firebrand so what’s the big deal?

Immune to questions of SUBSTANCE - he’s liar, enabled a genocide, pandered to anti-migrant politics & global Fascism.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Β· 6d
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social Β· 6d
Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration

bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time
Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role
bylinetimes.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org Β· 7d
Given Wes Streeting's links with Mandelson and Palantir, both stronger than Starmer's, the question MPs ought really to be asking themselves is, if we replace Starmer with Streeting are we hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire?

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Nature Of Rathlin @natureofrathlin.bsky.social Β· 7d
This year's NI Science Festival is almost upon us, and once again there are several fantastic events being hosted on Rathlin, this year between Friday 13th & Friday 20th February.

Check out the details here: rathlin360.com/visit/ni-sci...

#NISF26
@niscifest.bsky.social

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Β· 7d
Now that members of Congress are able to see what was redacted they are learning how Todd Blanche failed to comply with the law in countless instances, and it’s now about to get real because what DOJ was hiding is the most incriminating stuff.