@ruadhgrian.bsky.social
Retired academic, cat lover, left of center. Formerly dismayed but now horrified at the lack of critical thinking skills among the general US population.
Staircase in Leith. Pic: Erm Dea
05.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 117 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 0The Isles of Great Cumbrae, Bute and Arran from Blackhouse Moor, Ayrshire. Pic: Quintin Lake.
05.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 100 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
05.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 36880 🔁 16644 💬 797 📌 2355Footbridge from West Canal Street to Bank Street in Coatbridge. Pic: Stevie Spiers.
05.10.2025 08:25 — 👍 43 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
Koala and her baby!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
#bluesky #animals #nature #wildlife
here's today's post: "make no mistake, this is the Project 2025 shutdown" — once again, Donny is about to punch himself in the face.
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Stop by the gift shop to check out our cool new merch. We are saving up to buy a rhinoceros.
03.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 321 🔁 48 💬 12 📌 3As much as possible, we should do things fascists cannot do.
As much as possible, we should not do things fascists want us to do and we should do things fascists don't want us to do.
Never accept the fascist offer.
www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...
here's today's post: "fuck off, stop pretending this shit is Joe Biden’s fault."
sorry, clowns — we're not as gullible as your cultists.
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Baby owl!
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#bluesky #nature #animals #wildlife
Screenshot from article linked below.
“Keeping clocks on Standard Time year-round would reduce the prevalence of obesity and strokes.” #DitchDST #SaveStandardTime
03.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 1572 🔁 420 💬 126 📌 481950 railway poster of Loch Katrine and Ben Venue by Jack Merriot.
04.10.2025 07:38 — 👍 79 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 3Clachtoll Beach, Lochinver. Pic: Luke & Zaneta.
04.10.2025 07:15 — 👍 48 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Attn Black people, stop scrolling.
This is not a drill: Chicago
'The Unknown' sculpture by Kenny Hunter in Borgie Forest, Sutherland.
04.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0Stop the Nexstar-TEGNA merger!
www.change.org/p/stop-the-n...
As I was saying…
24.09.2025 04:27 — 👍 36243 🔁 7960 💬 1718 📌 810Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
23.09.2025 01:56 — 👍 31874 🔁 8726 💬 1360 📌 539Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
will every pundit who mentions ICE today begin with stern admonishments that violence is never the answer, because it sure seems like ICE sees violence as the answer
20.09.2025 10:20 — 👍 555 🔁 167 💬 16 📌 4A history of comedy
2023 - You can't say ANYTHING anymore!
2024 - You can't say ANYTHING anymore!
2025 - oh shit you really *can't* say anything anymore
2026 -
2027 -
2028 -
"What is it about this murder that makes so many people remember that violence is never the answer—particularly when those same people usually spend their time explaining why most instances of empowered violence, while regrettable, are inevitable, even necessary?"
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just leaving this right here for no reason at all
11.09.2025 00:01 — 👍 2843 🔁 930 💬 97 📌 51The Wedge in Millport - 'the world's narrowest house.' Pic: Finlay Fraser.
11.09.2025 06:09 — 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
10.09.2025 23:41 — 👍 50151 🔁 12637 💬 1279 📌 539