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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦

@woodpigeon.bsky.social
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Storyteller, occasional photographer, astronomy, history and science geek. Learning Ukrainian. Living in Cork, Ireland with a rake of cats.

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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I haven’t blogged in a long while. Thinking about a united Ireland with no symbols, parades or flags. Let governments concentrate on the stuff that really matters to most people. passiveimpressions.com/2026/10/04/i...
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Imagine there’s no symbols
I’ve been thinking about the future prospect of a united Ireland and it got me thinking: what if the new Irish state had no flag, no national anthem, no ceremonies, no parades, no pledges? What if …
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My brain, reading about forthcoming tax changes in the budget: “Cavernous snoops will degrade by 5.5 percent, as choglative prefesternations increase comigularny by 4.5 basis points. Posaturating dividenders can expect misturations to take effect in 2027”
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine if they just stopped reporting him - full stop. Just an old ghoul waving his fists at the clouds. And nobody reporting it. Just silence, as he launches spit-flecked missives into the ether.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I had never heard of Hyrox before this week. Now I’m not sure if I ever want to hear about it again…
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Has the fucker gone home, is all I want to know.
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As a relatively new Irish Citizen, this is so disappointing. It smacks of some surface-level attempt to look tough on immigration. If you haven't a parent or grandparent, getting citizenship is difficult, time consuming and often very expensive already. This is lousy politics.
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"I want to see more citizens". No you don't. That's a lie. You're lying. You can't want to see more citizens and then in the next breath say you want to restrain growth in that number. That's the opposite thing. Does he think we're stupid or something?
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have to say I’m a bit disturbed by these citizenship rules. What problem are they attempting to solve, exactly? Is it really that big a problem? Are the many honest seekers of citizenship being disadvantaged because of some tiny (or even nonexistent) minority?
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I feel completely disgusted and enraged today as more information emerges about these five dead thugs and their stolen car.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Seems to me that certain elements in the media hounded a man to his untimely death. This is where we are, folks.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Greek Orthodox priests all look like retired bikers. Cool as you can get.
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pierredelamer.bsky.social @pierredelamer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My late father taught me that the danish word "krabat" (meaning "an unruly person") was derived from "croat"
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
TIL the French word for necktie, “cravat”, is named after Croatia (Hrvatska). A type of knotted handkerchief was worn by Croatian mercenaries during the Thirty Years War. This was noticed by the French, and soon it became part of French attire.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Just saw the Odyssey today in Greece. (Fortunately it was subtitled). I enjoyed it thoroughly right to the end. I wonder what the locals thought of it as that story is theirs and they probably all know it from childhood.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
TIL that Bulgaria and Hungary have nearly the same size and shape.
Outlines of Hungary and Bulgaria superimposed over each other.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We can ban under 16s from social media, but children are not the most at risk from radicalisation www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/07/we-c...
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We can ban under 16s from social media, but children are not the most at risk from radicalisation - The Skeptic
While the UK has moved to restrict access to social media for children, Facebook and Twitter continue to radicalise people of all ages.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
SLIDEX
Graph of SpaceX stock price continuing to slide
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just attended a wonderful talk by @medievalgill.bsky.social on the folklore of banshees and the tradition of keening that died out in recent years. Thank you Dr Gill!
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
He has to insert himself and his planet sized ego into everything.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Maybe it’ll be a bit better for the 500th anniversary.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This News Agents video is extraordinary. Meta’s silencing of Sarah Wynn Williams. youtu.be/BgkClZU_Urg?...
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Exclusive: The whistleblower silenced by Facebook hits back | The News Agents
YouTube video by The News Agents
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Even the shoeshine boy is building his own AI dashboard.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’m sorry we just beat India?!? RTÉ News: Ireland make history as they stun world champions India at Stormont www.rte.ie/sport/cricke...
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Ireland stun world champions India at Stormont
The Ireland men's cricket team have beaten T20 world champions India by 34 runs at a sweltering Stormont - their first win over them in their 20th meeting across all formats including nine T20 interna...
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In the aftermath of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe / Evan Bernstein controversy, Hayley Stevens has written a great essay on skepticism as a process, not an identity. www.theghostgeek.com/p/critical-t...
theghostgeek.com
Critical Thinking Is Not a Personality Trait
What the latest 'famous skeptic man turns out to be idiot' episode can teach us all
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Hashtag
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Moscow: Фук Ароунд, Финд Оут.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
There won’t be a cow milked in Congo tonight. What a hugely impressive performance. 🇨🇩
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Huge attack on Kyiv last night, targeted on civilians. Russian terrorism pure and simple. Long live Ukraine.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Vyshyvanka Day. Slava Ukrainii 🇺🇦
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I’ve gone down a sovereign citizen rabbit hole lately. Mainly watching videos of sov cits making complete eejits of themselves. As crazy cults go, this is one of the craziest.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sperm Whales speak a complex language - that has similarities to Mandarin Chinese. youtu.be/Hm9ADZ28Wgo?...
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The Discovery of the Sperm Whale Phonetic Alphabet
YouTube video by Anton Petrov
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Are you a person of a certain age? Do you have younger relatives or friends? Have you checked with every one of them that they are registered to vote. Historically younger people don’t turn out as much as older voters. Many have given up & don’t see how voting can matter. Text them to register.
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Eamonn Noonan @duhallow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My home town football club is more alive to the anti-social essence of X than the general run of Irish & European public bodies. And leaves. Be like Cork City FC.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 09/05/2026
I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 08/05/2026
We need to normalise people saying “That’s just not true though. It’s just bullshit someone invented to make you angry. Where did you get that crap from anyway?”
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Great interview with Fiona Hill. Probably one of the most insightful thinkers on modern current affairs. youtu.be/7hSrc598Et8?...
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Fiona Hill: Trump, Putin, and Genghis Khan | Foreign Affairs Interview
YouTube video by Foreign Affairs
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I want to follow more people here on Bluesky. Who else should I follow?
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Funny that so many English people have voted Reform. I expect you can’t place it all at the door of older people, and that it’s quite a large cohort from all ages and backgrounds. Do they not know any foreign-born people at all?
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Petition asking the Irish Government to stop providing public info on private social networks. I really think it’s well past time that government agencies stop posting on Xitter etc. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pu...
my.uplift.ie
Public Info, Public Access - Stop providing public info on private social networks
How this affects you: Public transport and government services are public goods. But right now, vital updates—like train cancellations, road closures, and emergency alerts—are often shared on private ...
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Oul’ Enoch not looking that great these days.
Enoch Burke with a very sad face
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A bracing story about this man’s survival from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. There are some totally disarming moments as he tells his story. youtu.be/THM79lwDPrw?...
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I Jumped Off The Golden Gate Bridge and Survived | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
YouTube video by LADbible Stories
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
So basically Project Hail Mary is a story about a guy and his dog. Pretty intelligent dog, mind.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Rory has lost his lead in the Masters. From a record margin yesterday, it’s pretty incredible.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Shane Lowry just hit a hole in one in the Masters! Has leaped into second place
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Pentagon threatened Pope Leo with the Avignon Papacy. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentag...
thelettersfromleo.com
The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
A much needed amount of scepticism over the AI hype. youtu.be/h5_dAsXk4jE?...
youtu.be
Industrial Grade Dunning Kruger
YouTube video by Kiraa
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Goodbye Coco. You were part of the family and you’ll be dearly missed.
Ginger tabby cat looking up to the left, surrounded in darkness
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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @woodpigeon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Here, Kitty.
Kitten looks furtively out from her cat tunnel. Ground is sunlit in front of her.
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