Julie Reidy

Old cartoon of woman leaning over a ballot box & holding a hammer Caption: “When she gets it, what will she do with it”

🇮🇪 Presidential Election Day

1918 was the first time Irish women were permitted to vote, & even then only ~women over 30 who owned property~

Is é do vóta do ghuth 🗳️ #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

'They're a very elusive species': The 10-year effort to photograph the rare hyena stalking a diamond mining ghost town Ten years in the making: The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena stalking Namibia's diamond ghost towns.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The steadily growing population of rare lesser horseshoe bats in the shed (roughly 100) attests to the level of flying insect life in the forest outside, since each bat catches around 3,000 per night.

Healthy nature depends on healthy, wild, functioning *ecosystems*.

Rewilding delivers that. 🌏

This is a shocking indictment of public policy.

More science good news!! A temperature-stable, single injection rabies vaccine is in animal trials and they hope to move to human trials soon. This would be a fucking game changer for vaccination programs!

Cyclist in collision with truck. Pedestrian struck by bus.

The driver is absent from the account. The vehicle is given agency. The vulnerable road user is positioned as the active party.

A subtle but powerful way of shifting blame, shaping how we think about road deaths diminishing accountability.

This only happens to you once

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.

He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.

Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.

Why?

Take a bow, @apnews.com - perfectly framed reporting.

Security concern as tens of thousands of phone locations for sale Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase within the digital marketing and advertising industries, an undercover Prime Time investigati...

Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase from companies working in the digital marketing and advertising industries, an undercover Prime Time investigation has found.

www.rte.ie/news/primeti... #spéirghorm

1956 university of Michigan Children’s Hospital. Three-year-old Peggy Kennedy enjoyed these ducklings paddling around in a tub. Peggy, a polio patient, wore a plastic chest respirator. The ducklings were donated by a local farmer to help cheer up the children.

This is what happens without vaccinations.

The ducks are adorable.

The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic.

And now preventable.

Madagascan Comet Moth (Argema mittrei). 20cm (7.9in) wingspan. This is a moth native to the rain forests of Madagascar. The adult moth cannot feed and only lives for 4 to 5 days. It is sadly endangered in the wild due to habitat loss. Brilliant photo shared by Stuart Gopee. #moths #nature #wildlife

Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.

Thus made me laugh quite hard. Surely a film in the making.

3 defiant nuns in their 80s fled the care home in Austria they said they were moved to without consultation to return to the convent where they had spent decades

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With 12,500 bike parking spaces, Utrecht Centraal Station is one of the best examples the Dutch have to offer of the seamless way they’ve chained the bicycle and the train into a single form of mobility that connects people to all of their daily needs: housing, employment, education, and healthcare.

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One day … everyone will have always been against this.

Heartbreaking 💔.

"Infants too young to be vaccinated rely on all of us to help protect them thru community immunity. Vaccination is not just about protecting yourself-it's about protecting your family, your neighbors, & especially children who are too young to be vaccinated."

Terrorism:
- picking up a flag
- putting paint on a war plane

Not terrorism:
- executing 250 journalists
- murdering 20,000 children
- bombing 37 hospitals
- allowing babies to decompose in ICU beds
- starving 2million people
- shoot people queuing for food

How Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of Mayan forest Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries

While Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of forest, Ireland continues to do little to protect the 1% natural forest coverwe have left. The same with all our other habitats + wildlife.

For nature, WE are the third world country.
www.independent.co.uk/news/mexico-...

Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year Helsinki has completed 12 months without a single traffic fatality, a milestone credited to lower speed limits, safer infrastructure, and years of consistent planning, officials say.

The capital of Finland hasn't had a traffic death in a full year. Lower speed limits, plentiful speed cameras, 1,500+ km of bike lanes, infrastructure for pedestrians, and a new tram line.
When you prioritize people and not vehicles, you can save lives while protecting the environment.

Rubble

"Children of Gaza are being intentionally starved as a weapon of war."

- Dr Mike Ryan, WHO.

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink!

Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back.

https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

The Predator in Monsters, Inc.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

a woman in a blue shirt is looking at a man in a pink shirt . Alt: a woman in a blue shirt is looking at a man in a pink shirt , scene from Notting Hill

I’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

A book is a tree that makes you hallucinate vividly

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

I love how music transcends not only every human but every species. That’s why I love all musicians because they share a message that resonates with every living being on this planet.