Mike McKillen

We went to see Sir. David Attebborough’s ‘Ocean’, with live orchestra accompaniment @ulsterorchestra.bsky.social. A story about the massive world-wide industrial scale over-fishing with hope that we act to create #MPAs with no bottom trawling.

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UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

Meanwhile, Irish agriculture system entirely incapable of meeting fundamental food needs of our population, with its export-based model predicated on massive fertiliser, animal feed imports.

We are shockingly vulnerable yet nobody is even talking about it.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The most recent El Niño was in 2023/2024.

2023 was the second warmest year on record. 2024 was the warmest year ever observed.

If an El Niño event were to develop later in 2026, it could result in another record breaking year, and possibly in 2027 as well, due to inertia within the climate system.

If you commit to a Safe System approach in your Road Safety Strategy then implicit in that are survivable speed limits where motors mix with people on urban/village roads. And that means 20mph except for where higher limits can be evidentially justified as safe. www.20splenty.org/guidance_2026

Cost of home-heating oil up 60% in a week, but suppliers and Government clash on blame No smoke and mirrors in price rises, umbrella group says, hitting back at ‘performative’ criticism

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International Energy Agency (IEA)".
www.nora.ie/nora

How is it that petroleum products' importers are passing on price rises almost immediately when we have strategic reserves?
NORA holds them for us. "NORA’s continued responsibility for the maintenance of strategic supplies of oil in line with the state’s stockholding obligations to the EU and

Increase in people using cycle lanes Olivia Kelly, Dublin Editor with the Irish Times.

Segment below where @rteradio1.bsky.social David McCullough chats to @irishtimes.com Olivia Kelly about the results of the National Walking & Cycling Index.

There is huge support for investment in active travel infrastructure across our 5 cities. 🚶‍♀️👩‍🦽🚲

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‘Hard-pressed drivers’ are over protected!

Bicycle parked close to a public defibrillator, Salthill, Galway.

One of these machines helps to reduce mortality from premature cardiovascular disease.

The other one is a defibrillator.

#PopulationHealth

I despair with media reporting of traffic impacts & I am left concluding that the absent driver is deliberate editorial policy.

#HiLumiLHC : full-scale tests start 💫

Listen to Marta Bajko, Head of the High-Luminosity LHC Inner-Triplet (IT) String project, as she explains what will happen in the next weeks.

Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ac...

Fergal Keane: veteran Irish foreign correspondent leaves BBC after 37 years Threats to a free press from oligarchs are now greater than ever, warns journalist as he departs reporting role

“We live in the age of deification of super wealth, the rise of a class of oligarchs who see the media they own as a corporate tool whose influence is to be traded for political favours. This is the great fight we must engage in" - Fergal Keane.

People riding e-scooters in a blue painted bike lane next to a couple of red buses.

TfL has published data today showing that since the launch of the e-scooter trial, "five million trips have been taken, totalling more than 10 million km - enough to travel around the world 250 times"

This is the mobility shift needed in cities to cut congestion and move people around.

(Not AVs!)

Water bottle from Italy with no obvious deposit return code or else it’s in the bar code but it is rejected by our machines.

Water bottle from Italy with no obvious deposit return code or else it’s in the bar code but anyway it is rejected by our machines. No wonder the unclaimed deposits pile up here.

A zonking great cry-for-help pickup truck labelled "Mobility" and a person on a little escooter labelled "micromobility"

A conversation earlier today reminded me of this slide I put into a recent talk. How did we decide the tiny human-sized machine is the special case, and the massive overpowered machine full of empty furniture is the norm?

2023: 63 cases. 2024: 283 cases. 2025: 2,279 cases. 2026: 1,111 cases (so far).

DENYING YOUR CHILD OF VACCINATION IS CHILD ABUSE.

This is data on measles cases in the USA by year.

says. “We’re building islands of homes that are totally disconnected”.

‘My son was nearly knocked down in front of me’: Kinsealy residents protest over dangerous road More than 100 people march over council’s failure to deliver footpaths, cycle lanes and a greenway

‘My son was nearly knocked down in front of me’: Kinsealy residents protest over dangerous road

“There’s no legislative framework in the country to obligate either a developer or the local authority to make a provision for footpaths to local amenities,” Hopkins

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

The question has to be asked why do media in #Ireland follow this same playbook?
What is the motive behind rarely mentioning the driver? Press Ombudsman & Press Council silent.

New study of media collision reporting from @patrickrerat.bsky.social

"Cyclists are placed at the center of the narrative, while motorists are either omitted or reduced to their vehicles... Making these biases visible is essential for challenging motonormativity"

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Road safety agencies really don’t appreciate/understand the draught effect of air vortex destabilisation of a bike user. Forensic crash analysis will conclude that a rider simply fell off their bike with no impact from an overtaking vehicle, such as a semi-trailer rig.

Chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way has never looked so gorgeous Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail

Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail

Why hanging around airports & flying are not good for your respiratory health.
Was at Bergamo airport yesterday afternoon (15h-17h) & then on @ryanairofficial.bsky.social flight to DUB (17h30-21h50). Unhealthy rebreathed air everywhere.

.@realgaz ““The problem isn’t about being seen, it’s about drivers, professional or not, looking, and looking longer and harder. Reduce speed limits perhaps.”
Please stop peddling #ViVisFail as a solution to careless driving.
Motor insurers love it for obvious reasons. Judiciary run with it too.

“Make everyone else visible so drivers can be dangerous”: Road safety authority’s “insane” hi-vis campaign criticised for “forcing industry level PPE” on children cycling to school; Cyclists vs Footba...

“The problem isn’t about being seen, it’s about drivers looking, and looking longer and harder”

Please stop using the phrase “struck by a car” when that vehicle had a driver behind the wheel. Such reportage sanitises the act of driving & enables continuing #motordom of our shared roads.

We call it the #WindscreenView of traffic.

No sign of the required #VisionZero measures to end this carnage. #motordom continues to be aided & abetted by our road safety agencies ’cause you know hard pressed motorists.

This is sadly real:

The Hi Glo Silver Pledge
When I walk or cycle, night or day,
after school or when I go to play,
I promise to make sure that I am seen,
in reflective clothing that is bright orange, yellow or green.
“Be Safe, Be Seen”