Anne B Ryan

Writer, learner/foghlaimeoir; bunioncam/basic income; food sovereignty; fair taxes; philosophy and practice of enough; sharing for prosperity.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Today, X has been full of people claiming that Ireland is antisemitic and that its recent statements and actions prove this. Israel's liberal newspaper disagrees.

[L'Humanité @humanite_fr]

L'Humanité du 19 décembre : Gisèle Pelicot, merci madame

📰 https://t.co/HlQqUuQ1TE

[William Crawley @williamcrawley]

As a professional interviewer, I feel his pain.

[Floyd Marinescu 🔰 @floydmarinescu]

The late, great Fred Foldvary.

What this man had to say will be worth listening for a long time.

[Alexis FitzGerald @Alexis434Alexis]

After almost 10 years of work, my first book has finally arrived, Flora of County Monaghan, published by Wordwell - with 310+ colour images and 7 intro chapters, there are over 1,200 species accounts included, all about the many plants that make or have made Monaghan their home

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Haaretz editorial
'These 2 moves by Ireland do not demonstrate antisemitism, but a diplomatic and moral stance that should be taken in full seriousness. Israel has been acting with a degree of violence and destruction in the Gaza Strip that long ago exceeded its security needs.'

[Hedgerows Ireland @hedgerows_ie]

Christmas presents sorted! We're delighted to see a whole chapter on hedgerows & field boundaries in the new @farmfornature handbook. It covers planting, managing, and rejuvenating hedgerows—plus creating 'bee scrapes' on sunny earth banks at their base for solitary bees 🐝

[GFI @GF_IRE]

This simple video explains the cap and share idea, a just and fair approach to climate finance ... no misleading offset, no loopholes , no tech silver bullets ... 👉 @SCC_Ireland @IrishEnvNet @foeireland

[Dr brid connolly @brid_connolly]

What a revelation, @siobhra, thank you for contributing to @RTESunMisc, I need to read more about this!

[Anne B Ryan @EnoughPlenty]

an-chraoladh, maith thú!

[Síobhra Aiken @siobhra]

Many thanks to @RTESunMisc for broadcasting my essay on how Irish revolutionaries experiencing 'nerves' were sent for gynaecological examinations and the ethics of reading and writing about these intimate, but publicly available, medical records.

[Linda Ervine MBE @ErvineLinda]

TWO PLACE-NAME EVENTS ON THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER

6.30 PM at PRONI the launch of The Townland Atlas of Ulster.

8PM in Room 02/018 of the Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB. Thomas Hughes, will talk on 'Múscailte ag an Ghaeilge,: understanding Belfast’s street names through translation

[Ecofact @EcofactEcology]

More footage of River lampreys (Lampetra fluviatilis) blocked at Annacotty weir last week. People have asked me why I don't put the camera down, net them, and move them over the weir—or why other locals don’t do this themselves with nets to ‘sort this out.’

I note that some netting did occur last week, but I have advised local people not to engage in this. Unfortunately, there may have also been instances of poaching. I’ve provided the following reasons why ad hoc netting is not recommended for this site:

Reason 1: Netting without a license is illegal.
Reason 2: Netting would need to be done every night, not just once, to address the issue.
Reason 3: Without proper recording, the lampreys’ plight won’t be highlighted, which diminishes the case for a long-term solution.
Reason 4: Unlawful, unplanned netting could encourage lamprey poaching for use as fishing bait.
Reason 5: Improper handling could result in the lampreys being washed downstream again.
Reason 6: Netting is inefficient and ineffective, as lampreys will scatter as soon as netting begins.
Reason 7: Netting and handling can harm the lampreys.
Reason 8: It’s dangerous to walk on a slippery weir.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to address this issue. My original proposal for an interim solution involves using a trap. The lampreys are naturally drawn to the old sluice gate area of the weir, making it relatively easy to trap them here and move them upstream in a planned, managed way.

[Anne B Ryan @EnoughPlenty]

I'm attending a @UBILabArts event: Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland - What have We Learned after 8 months?.

RSVP here: https://t.co/8GXdAFnoM2

[Environmental Pillar @Env_Pillar]

The environment, climate change & biodiversity loss have got sucked into the culture wars. We need to adopt clear & simple messaging that outlines benefits of protecting nature, the environment & taking climate action & offers a vision for a better future https://t.co/R0ZbHroMGm

[Common Wealth 🍁 @CommonWealth_ca]

We should see UBI as a type of common wealth dividend.

It has no cost. Rather, it's a payment to us from something we own in common, like natural resources, sovereign wealth funds, and AI dividends.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

"What Basic Income ultimately proposes is to detach livelihood from work. Its immediate effect would be to massively reduce the amount of bureaucracy in any country that implemented it."

(From the book, Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber).

[Common Wealth 🍁 @CommonWealth_ca]

Homes can't both be affordable and great investments.

But our politicians like to pretend they can.

[James O'Driscoll @JODarchaeology]

If you like prehistory, then our new book on the Baltinglass landscape has it all - irelands largest causewayed enclosures, largest group of cursus monuments, earliest and largest hillforts, incredible stone circles, burials monuments…it goes on and on! Out the end of this week!

[Common Wealth 🍁 @CommonWealth_ca]

A compelling case for Land Value Tax:

[Elaine McGoff @ElaineMcgoff]

This is another fascinating thread on the lobbying power of the meat industry.

Serious questions should be asked of @teagasc regarding their role in hosting this summit.