Kieran Ryan

Flash #floods have hit #Corsica, #France after 600 mm of rain fell in 3 hours in the island’s east, more than half its average annual rainfall. The highest alert level has been issued for part of the island as rivers overflow as shows the #Copernicus #Sentinel3 image on Oct. 21.

Elon Musk aggressively pushes Twitter subscribers to switch from "chronological" to "algorithmic" feeds. Once this choice is made, the subscriber will find his account instantly flooded with right-wing political propaganda that reflects the thinking of Elon Musk, a Nature study has concluded. Musk's

I hope people are keeping note of the ones pushing back super hard on the very tame consent ad.

The things that the last general election campaign ignored (or that the news media ignored) are the things that are defining this current government.

We're only meeting (i.e. "not breaching") EU standards because we're not measuring. Go into any rural town on a cold, still evening and the air is choked with chimney smoke.

That Great Britain and the United States denied entry to hundreds of European Jews fleeing Nazi Europe in the 1930s and 1940s is an indelible and notorious stain on their moral record. Visa denial during an ongoing genocide is no less evidently racist and no less unconscionable.

Ms Abdualu’s mother and her two sisters and brother were killed in an Israeli missile strike in March 2024. Her grandparents, her aunt, and other relations were also killed in the attack. Ms Abdualu was buried under rubble beside the body of one of her sisters for hours before being rescued.

I can’t stress enough how deliberately insulting this statement is & how irredeemably toxic it will be to his relationship with solicitors. Arguing over money is one thing. This is, politically pointlessly, another thing entirely. Poisoning the well of discussion to play the big man for a headline

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Up the workers.

Mild conspiracy theory: I’m convinced that there’s more and more smoking on film & TV these days. I reckon the tobacco companies have realised rules aren’t being enforced, so they’re back to doing sneaky product placement.

The aim of this comms strategy is to create this narrative: 👐 Look at all the things we're doing about school attendance! 👐 Rather than: ⚠️ School attendance figures continue to be terrible, despite all the Action Plans and Ad Money we've thrown at the issue. ⚠️

A newly published wastewater report shows the extent of the Covid wave currently hitting Ireland. Ringsend in Dublin has seen a near-vertical rise in Covid levels, with its peak likely to exceed last year's wave.

OPW should be disbanded. I suspect it's beyond reform. Seems to be a vehicle for transferring State wealth to the well-connected. jrnl.ie/7179368

Chronic absenteeism: More than 75,000 secondary students missed 20 days in school year

Tusla has published its school attendance report for the 2024/25 school year, and attendance still hasn't recovered compared to pre-pandemic levels. Illness is by far the biggest cause of absence, accounting for 52% of explained absences in primary schools, and 57% in post-primary.

We're in a proper Covid wave here in Ireland at the moment with a significant number of hospitalisations each week. Flu cases are ramping up too. For all the recent news coverage of the flu vaccine shortages, there has been very little public acknowledgement of this Covid wave.

Straight out of JP's Oligarchy playbook. www.independent.ie/county/water...

Just a bit of tampering, no big deal.

Didn't think Packie Bonner's penalty save against Romania would ever be bested by an Irish goalkeeper, but here we are.

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

I'll be calling Jim O'Callaghan the cruelty man from here on out.

The way you can tell it's a Covid wave by how many of your favourite radio shows have fill-in presenters. 🤒

In Ireland, "Respiratory Virus Season" is officially considered to run from Oct to May, with reporting & vaccination programmes geared around that. But...the Covid wave that's currently overwhelming hospitals took root in *JULY* and exploded when schools returned. "Season" is an outdated concept.

Why is everyone sicker these days? ‘Relative to adults reporting no SARS-CoV-2 infections, those reporting two or more had significantly greater odds of being diagnosed with a new condition’ Gov of Canada, Sept 2026 www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Name a better content warning? I'll wait.

Like I said. Screwed.

Hanna Van Aelst, contemporary basket maker and artist making functional and sculptural work from willow based in Tipperary, Ireland. #WomensArt

The govt now uses this phrase exclusively as a dogwhistle for landlords, business owners, and anyone else who uses wealth to extract more wealth from society.

I visited the Hill of Uisneach yesterday, only to realise when I got there that it's on private farmland and you have to prebook a tour. The lesson learned? All property is theft.

This summer has made it clear how big a job of climate adaptation Irish farming has to do. I’ll break down what we learned in this thread, but the programme is worth listening to as a whole. #Climate #Drought #RTECountrywide Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/listen/show/...

It’s think for yourself thursday

The recent subsidy to fuel costs over €1billion. One of the arguments Eamonn Ryan used against making public transport free was that if they did that, people would use it too much. Meanwhile a recent survey found Dublin the most traffic congested EU capital city.

None of these things are unconnected, unfortunately.

Globally, the hottest August in observed history is just about to end. In Western Europe, the summer of 2026 (June, July, August) has been the warmest as well. Compared to this year, 1976 (the famous UK summer) and 2003 (the hottest EU summer so far) look like amateurs in terms of heat (1/2)