George Hayes

I play other people’s music sometimes, Purveyor of fine house music since 1994. Construction, F1. Irish and Ulster rugby

[Squinter @squinteratn]

Relatable.

[Madchester @madchester_mdcr]

SWEAT IT OUT — ORIGINAL WAREHOUSE PIONEERS: THE ROOTS OF RAVE CULTURE

What you’re watching here is history being born — the Wilson–Donnelly tape. Filmed by Tony Wilson at the legendary Sweat It Out acid house rave on Store Street, 8 October 1988

Original. Warehouse.Pioneers.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[The Copeland Distillery @CopelandDistill]

The Peated Chapter Begins 🥃

Five years in the making.
Our first peated #irishwhiskey release is almost here.

To register for pre-release click below 👇

https://t.co/VIOhSMObg1

#whiskey
#FilledwithCoastalSpirit

[George Hayes @phunkassault]

@Number10cat #ulsterrugby

[Alex.Kane @AlexKane221b]

A very interesting piece on demographic decline.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[George Hayes @phunkassault]

@UlsterRugby and on wee go

[Ulster Rugby @UlsterRugby]

WE ARE GOING TO BILBAO!! 🔥

[BBC News NI @BBCNewsNI]

Smart electricity meters will be rolled out in Northern Ireland from 2028, according to the Department for the Economy https://t.co/3EWJKmJ8pF

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Here’s a picture of my doctor making house calls

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Practice any art… no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

- McKellen reciting Vonnegut

[The SETI Institute @SETIInstitute]

#PPOD: Ring of Gullion, Northern Ireland 🪉 🍀

Covered in heath, the solitary rocky hill known as Slieve Gullion rises above the farmland of Northern Ireland in this true-color Landsat image from May 24, 2001. According to Irish mythology, hunter and warrior Finn McCool bathed in the lake on Slieve Gullion and emerged decades older. However, we don’t need a dip in the lake to move through time. A glance at the landscape reveals millions of years of history.

Looking out from the summit of Slieve Gullion, the mythical Finn McCool (or anyone else who climbed to the top, for that matter) would see a ring of rocky hills surrounding the Slieve. From a satellite view hundreds of kilometers above Earth, the formation's circular shape is even more evident. Known as the Ring of Gullion, the ancient hills are nearly 60 million years old. They formed either when an ancient volcano collapsed—leaving a circular fault into which molten rock seeped—or when layers of magma built up in layers in the volcano. This type of formation is called a ring dyke.

Credit: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data provided by @USGS; Caption: Holli Riebeek

#planetaryscience

[Pet Paradise @Pet_Paradise0]

Incredible footage from a rescue boat captures a mother raccoon with her kits trapped on a pole amidst rising floodwaters. She takes a leap of faith to save them all.

[BangorBoat @BangorBoat]

A wee snippet on the story of how the Sir Samuel Kelly, famous lifeboat ended back in its hometown of Donaghadee.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
https://t.co/ZbUz96B8m2

[Dave Haslam @Mr_Dave_Haslam]

The story of what happened 25 years ago today when 800 people went to a film set in a warehouse in Ancoats to film the Haçienda scenes for '24 Hour Party People'. It was freezing but amazing!!!

https://t.co/Flsip1w1fH

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical.

It's a long one:

https://t.co/VFqxQUPsKG

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

Throwback when Kim Clijsters asked to man to return her serve 😭

She gave him her pants and he returned the serve..

This whole 2 minutes…🤣🤣🤣

[Jayroo @jayroo69]

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