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Ellen Reynor

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PhD, academic, Dyslexia, UDL. formerly Dublin City University. Retired. Tennis fan, rugby too.

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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 38m
What a match 💪👏
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I don’t have any idea what the solution to the bigger problem for literature is, but it strikes me as completely outrageous that the Atlantic would level such a serious charge against an author without an iota of actual evidence. And no, a black box analysis by another AI program is not evidence.
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Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story
Article in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 16/10/2026
Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social
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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Brave, courageous Sally Rooney 🙏 Hurray for the Streisand effect! #palestine #censorship #uk
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The CEO alone got a pay bump of 118,000 euro in the latest budget. Surely at that level of renumeration they should be able to handle JOC appearances in-house, and not be the cause of yet another EU infringement against Ireland? www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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Pay to Uisce Éireann CEO surges to €391,953 for 2026
The CEO of Uisce Éireann Niall Gleeson will receive an overall pay package this year of €391,953 - an overall rise of €118,000 on his pay package for 2025.
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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Love Casper 👏
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Urgent appeal to get Gaza students added to the evacuation lists before the deadline on October 15th. Add your name to the petition or send a letter to Minister Helen McEntee and your local reps. academiaforpalestine.org/support-for-...
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Urgent: Get the Gaza Students on the Evacuation List
We urgently need your help to get students added to evacuation lists before the deadline on October 15th. As part of our support for students from Palestine seeking to continue their education in I…
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
*REMINDER* public consultation on latest apartment standards reduction closes tomorrow 12 Oct at 5:30pm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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Amended Draft Apartment Standards 2026: Consultation
Participate in the public consultation for the Amended Draft Planning Design Standards for Apartments National Planning Statement, 2026
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ireland has the highest concentration of water and power ravenous, pollution-spewing, data centres per head of population in ALL Europe. We need to unite and fight this.
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Jeremy Wates @jeremywates.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Save the ICC! Block Trump’s sanctions now!
Trump is treating the ICC like a terrorist organization—for daring to arrest Netanyahu. He wants it destroyed. And his sanctions may soon make it impossible for the court to pay its staff or keep its
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He might be onto something
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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good God he vould have broken her neck. What's wrong with those men???
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ireland: The spin and misinformation around the triple lock is eye-watering - @tomclonan.bsky.social
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The spin and misinformation around the triple lock is eye-watering
Suggesting there is ‘no link’ between the triple lock and our neutral status is akin to suggesting there is no link between the steering wheel and the brakes on a car, writes Senator Tom Clonan
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☔️⚡️Emily Cross 💜🌛 @emilycross.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#speirgorm #speirghorm Lads, we are not angry enough over this BS Including Harris 10 special advisors all on big money
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gaza is experiencing sheer terror tonight—terror beyond measure. Media does not even cover it. /HasanEssam29636
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Seanfhear míshásta 🇵🇸 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦📎 @seaghano.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After a series if shambolic national budgets, including the most recent, this is to be expected.
jrnl.ie
Ireland's EU presidency criticised for ‘little progress and no meaningful new solutions’
Siegfried Mureșan said the EU budget “must be guided by political vision, not a narrow bookkeeper’s mentality”.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why has the EU not protected the Court from sanctions by activating its Blocking Statute, as requested by Akane seventeen months ago?
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Omair Ahmad @omairahmad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tens of thousands of protestors are facing off against tens of thousands of police in the capital of India, as they demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner who has illegally deleted millions of people from India's electoral rolls. Biggest democracy story on the planet, not in BSky.
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Angela C @angelacoraccio.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Urgent appeal for #speirgorm #spéirghorm: I am looking to get advice from someone in the civil service who is autistic (with official reasonable accommodations). Please dm me! #ireland #irishsky
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 10/10/2026
Gavan Reilly: ‘We need to keep ourselves going for as long as possible to care for our daughter because the public system has given us virtually nothing’
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Gavan Reilly: ‘We need to keep ourselves going for as long as possible to care for our daughter because the public system has given us virtually nothing’
The broadcaster on caring for his autistic child, covering the pandemic lockdowns and being insecure about his chin
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Help Wanted: In May 2025 International Criminal Court President publicly asked for help from the EU. Specifically, to implement its own law that would protect Judges from sanctions being imposed on them *within the EU*. The EU has ignored request for help. We are 17 months on.
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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Doireann Ní Ghlacáin might have some advice for Min of Justice also...#spéirgorm
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 09/10/2026
We try to write stories about Dublin that matter, about things that affect your life and the lives of your neighbours. And we try to write them with care, and with an eye to solutions. If you appreciate this approach, please subscribe now to help us do more. www.dublininquirer.com/membership/
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Many Israeli citizens were killed by Israeli forces on October 7. 28 Apache helicopters used all their ammunition and had to be reloaded. Mainstream media will never tell you about the Hannibal Directive. Double Down News
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But a lot still needs to change in Killarney NP. There's plenty of evidence of heavy browsing of tree seedlings, and large bands of goats were present in and around the park. Designated one of the worst invasive species on Earth by the IUCN, there should be *no* goats at all in any national park.
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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Spéirgorm
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
I'm also on Mastodon. Read today's thread there at: mamot.fr/@pluralistic... eof/
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you t...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/10/2026
Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.
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What is ‘Herod's Pool', and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank?
Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House, was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison for raping young boys he coached in the 60s 70s 80s The Hastert Rule is still a guiding principle of GOP governance (look it up)
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/10/2026
It’s been nearly a year since the so-called ceasefire in Gaza was brokered by Trump. "So far, only one item of the 20 items on the Trump plan has been fulfilled, and that is the release of every single Israeli hostage in Gaza," says writer and analyst from Gaza Muhammad Shehada.
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“Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local autho...
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Beyond The Pale have uploaded this book - for free - Garvaghy: A Community Under Siege Published in 1999 and written by Garvaghy Road residents Powerful testimony www.beyondthepalebooks.com/shopnewbooks...
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Garvaghy: A Community Under Siege — beyond the pale books – books on Irish society and politics
Published in 1999 and written by Garvaghy Road residents, this book presents a graphic description of life in a Catholic/nationalist area of Portadown under siege in the late 1990s. Forcing unwanted O...
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We have nearly 1500 names now. Last day to sign
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/10/2026
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI’s safety team, resigned from the company this week. “I believe we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture,” he writes:
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Your reminder that Brenda Power is an adjudicator for the International Protection Appeals Tribunal which currently has a number of appeals before it from transgender Americans
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times
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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Frightening! Support your organic farmers #spéirgorm #greenearthorganics
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It doesn't matter that Ireland only has miniscule fragments of native forests left, or that these are mostly in a dying state. When it comes to fixing that, everything takes forever and is piecemeal, if it even happens at all. It's always plenty of talk and written reports, but little or no action.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s
Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Add your support here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road
An open letter to the Rt Hon Chris Bryant MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Helen McEntee TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, was sent at 8pm Thursday 1 October 2026. We will co...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are reportedly 100s of feral goats – as well as countless sika deer – in Glengarriff's upper reaches. Both are highly invasive alien species, devastating what remains of the natural rainforest ecosystem, promoting rhodo infestation, and spreading Lyme disease. How is all this still ignored?
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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Arya Satheesh, an 18-year-old student from Letterkenny in County Donegal, Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...
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This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades
Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution
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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Important article on the human cost of DTs www.thenerve.news/p/slough-dat...
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Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital
Surrounded by facilities in a town with fast planning applications and faster data links, local people say their quality of life is being ruined by strange and unsettling noise pollution. Brenna Spain...
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Ellen Reynor @ellenrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Idiots running all aspects of the country. These urgent times are not suitable for ignorant public reps and politicians. Our future is at stake.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Earlier on Sunday morning, more than 1,100 settlers entered the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of Israeli forces english.ajel.sa/world/1y5j2l...
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Israeli minister Ben-Gvir enters Buraq Wall plaza under heavy security
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the Buraq Wall plaza in Jerusalem under tight security during Sukkot.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Social media users have been sharing Google Maps satellite imagery of Gaza over the past day. The damage visible on the map reflects the scale recorded by UN assessments. "It doesn't need scholars, it doesn't need anyone to justify this as a genocide because you can see it from Google Maps."
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yesterday uk PM Burnham sent an A400M military plane from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus to Nevatim Air Base, Israel An A400M can carry a payload of 81,600 lbs & 116 troops Netanyahu is indicted by the ICC of which Britain is a member for war crimes x.com/kennardmatt/...
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Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) on X
Yesterday, PM @AndyBurnham sent an A400M military plane from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel Nevatim is the central node through which the Gaza genocide was supplied and...
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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ireland vs Israel ⚽️: a case study in sportswashing
YouTube video by Meditations for the anxious mind
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fergal Keane: 'For Bazunu to refuse to play is a sacrifice that required immense moral courage. Ultimately, he was the lone voice who said no, and that will be remembered in the broken alleys of Gaza.'
After his time in the West Bank, he went back to Gaza and trained young footballers. Then October 7, 2023 happened. Then the war. On August 6 last year, he went to queue for food at an aid distribution site in southern Gaza and was killed by Israeli fire.

Suleiman al-Obeid left behind his wife and five children. He is not the only Palestinian footballer to be killed. Local officials put the death toll of players in the hundreds. Sports facilities and school playgrounds have been destroyed.

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Gavin Bazunu in training last week © Sportsfile

Gavin Bazunu and his colleagues on the Ireland team surely know about Suleiman al-Obeid. They share with him something precious: the knowledge that the moment you don your country’s shirt, in whatever code, you become a representative of the nation. It is a privilege and a responsibility.

For Bazunu to refuse to play is a sacrifice that required immense moral courage. Ultimately, he was the lone voice who said no, and that will be remembered in the broken alleys of Gaza.
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