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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Good photo of the man who bought Diane Keaton’s nailclippers
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
As prophesied, the power of #HarryHill
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Bowie / Jagger's Dancing in the Street video has been restored. Marvellous.
Jagger in the Dancing in the Street videoJagger in the Dancing in the Street videoJagger in the Dancing in the Street videoPhil Cornwell as Mick Jagger in Stella Street
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A sign that @zackpolanski.bsky.social's messaging around prioritising public services and reducing inequality is cutting through. The Guardian has picture editors. It was a deliberate choice to use a less-flattering photo of Polanski in which his mouth is open.
Zack Polanski
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Epstein files: Bannon saying he's an advisor to Farage, that his EU influence will allow them to "shut down any crypto legislation", & a convo between Thiel & Epstein appearing to say that Brexit is part of their plans for a return to tribalism.
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I've subscribed to @bylinetimes.bsky.social, as they were one of the only orgs to follow the money trail behind Trump's attack on the BBC. Thank you @nafeez.bsky.social Subscribe here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com/subscriptions/
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
British media keen to persuade us that charging the owners of a £3million house an extra £10,000 in "mansion tax" every year is a "fantasy" because wealthy people don't like to pay tax, or something.
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"... when they arrived for the wake, they looked around the rooms with older faces and young eyes." great line from Anne Enright, on the agony of clearing her family home www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I've written a quick explainer about why Coventry council is using Palantir AI. Transhumanism. Libertarian seasteading. The rapture. Coventry city council are all in. www.ciaranryan.com/why-coventry... #coventry #Palantir #Transhumanism
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
V&A East Storehouse.
V&A East Storehouse
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Comprehensive YT comment about the gap between Stevenson and Stewart by @ourhomevideos1461. Inc. "... Gary challenges not just ideas, but the entire worldview of the political and intellectual class Rory’s a part of... "
I couldn’t help noticing how much of Rory’s resistance seemed aimed at how Gary talks about the system, rather than what he’s actually saying. He kept circling back to tone, framing, and delivery- but rarely engaged the core economic arguments in honest and open exploration. It felt like the source of Rory’s opposition came more from emotional discomfort instead of a reasoned counterpoint. That makes sense in a way. Gary challenges not just ideas, but the entire worldview of the political and intellectual class Rory’s a part of- people with the freedom to study, speak, and govern from within elite institutions, but without direct exposure to the mechanisms of real economic power.

... At one point he questions whether Gary might be too shaped by class anger to see things clearly- but Rory himself seems triggered precisely because of his class position. His discomfort seems less about facts and more about the disruption of decorum- the rules of polite intellectual discussion that Gary unapologetically breaks. That, in itself, says a lot.

I also suspect Rory felt somewhat undermined by Gary’s wholesale rejection of certain institutions and disciplines- particularly when Gary dismisses large swathes of economic theory and academic orthodoxy. Rory, who has clearly invested much of his life trying to work within those systems to create incremental change, may have heard that as an existential table-flip. It probably lands not just as disagreement, but as a challenge to the worth of his own efforts- as if Gary is saying the entire game was rigged which Rory spent years trying to play fairly.

Outside of a few contrived bad faith arguments from Rory- it felt more about a deep paradigm clash. Gary speaks from the raw mechanics of lived experience and markets; Rory responds from the clouds of policy, philosophy and class decorum. Two very different vantage points- but only one of them is forced to live with the consequences of being wrong.
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
'Yeah!' but it's Medieval - USHER | Medieval Bardcore Version #Bardcore www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kq0...
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
CMAT performing Stay For Something at Glastonbury festival 2025. One of those moments. www.ciaranryan.com/cmat-at-glas...
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
From 2017... theonion.com/you-people-m...
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Dog. Acton, West London. #dog
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
17.26m - never playing this infernal game again #styscraper
Styscraper screengrab
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
16.85m! Fun game by Matt Round that has distracted me yesterday & today. #styscraper
Screenshot of game
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
on the sea bed
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Good evening New Jersey! We're the
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
#cartoon #AI www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?sear...
Cartoon about AI
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Corner Office movie - very good. #corneroffice
Corner Office movie screengrab
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Will a new useful Twitter emerge? Will one social platform achieve centrality, or will different communities gravitate to different platforms? Will it be X, Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky or something else? Stay tuned! Or don't because you're somewhere else and will never see this message.
Zombies climbing up a huge wall - World War Z (film)
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