Blue-Green algae is filling rivers with toxic sludge.

Harmful algal blooms are taking over as the world warms and grows richer in carbon dioxide—and there’s no easy fix.

“It’s starting to build. Tomorrow, you’ll find that there’s clumps like that all over the river—and then the day after that there’ll be more and more”.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/blue-green-algae-northern-ireland-climate-change-toxic-sludge

#NorthernIreland #Ireland #Rivers #Water #CarbonDioxide #Algae #Science

The EU will unlock more than €1bn in funding to boost reconciliation in Northern Ireland, days after military-grade equipment was seized that police believe was intended to kill officers in the region.

Ireland’s taoiseach Leo Varadkar, EU VP Maroš Šefčovič and UK’s N. Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, will launch the new €1.14bn plan in Belfast, the latest instalment of a programme begun in 1995 to support peace and reconciliation

https://www.ft.com/content/d09a1a94-dfbe-4237-88b3-103219cf2f4b

#NorthernIreland #Ireland #EU #UK

Thoughts

1) #BaldursGate3 #BG3 is going to steal so much of my free time for the foreseeable future! Even with all the amazing reviews and what pc players said before it came out on #PS5 I still never expected to be so absorbed by pretty much every little story beat or background detail!

2) #Ahsoka is shaping up to be the best #StarWars live action I have ever seen, only Andor out does it and that is a different beast entirely.

3) The weather in #NorthernIreland this week can do one!

Great video to watch before my second upcoming Northern Ireland vacation #Belfast #NorthernIreland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jIXa6a_Ffo

The summer weather decided to show up again in #Ireland #NorthernIreland and the Nepeta (Catmint) Walkers Low is proving to be a start attraction for the butterflies and bees on the nursery.

The Department for Education has launched a consultation on Relationships and Sexuality Education in Northern Ireland.

This whole subject is currently a battleground, with some very well organised people and organisations who are extremely anti-queer, anti-trans, and anti-feminist trying to create a narrative of threat around children receiving a usable, inclusive education. So... you know what to do: #NorthernIreland #education

https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/news/consultation-relationships-and-sexuality-education-launched

Took myself off to the Imperial War Museum for their exhibition on the Troubles and just a really interesting insight into how people viewed the situation at the time and what the future holds for Northern Ireland. #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #History

The Women's Policy Group NI is doing a survey about Violence Against Women and Girls - specifically, about attitudes to reporting it.

The definition of VAWG includes things like stalking, cat-calling, online abuse, spiking, honour-based abuse and all forms of domestic abuse, not just more overt physical violence.

It takes about 5 - 10 minutes to complete and we have until 3rd September. Please share.

#NorthernIreland

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoTCKiRov_XnXEwXSed_LPdi1aeqLbl95Xfrz6M1r0k1VF4g/viewform?pli=1

ATTENTION BELFAST: there's a rally on Saturday at 2pm in Dunmurry Park, in solidarity with our Muslim community who have been intimidated with Nazi flags.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwSixqJIsjf/

#Belfast #NorthernIreland

There's a consultation on how it might work if they provide us with free period productsin #NorthernIreland

https://www.womensregionalconsortiumni.org.uk/2023/08/16/consultation-on-the-provision-of-free-period-products/

The British Dental Association is doing a survey on access to high street Health Service (i.e. non-private) dental care in Northern Ireland.

Tell them how fucked it is, please. #NorthernIreland

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/dentistryinNI/

The Palm House, Belfast. #glasshouse #botanical #garden #Belfast #UK #NorthernIreland #blackandwhite #photography #photo

10,000 N Ireland police officers and staff have their details exposed after spreadsheet screw-up.

https://grahamcluley.com/10000-n-ireland-police-officers-and-staff-have-their-details-exposed-after-spreadsheet-screw-up/

#privacy #databreach #northernireland #police

"The 2023/ 2024 budget represents an act of fiscal violence enforced by Westminster onto the most vulnerable in our communities. In the absence of a functioning Executive and democratic processes in Northern Ireland, unelected civil servants have been pushed to deliver a suite of budget cuts, in line with the Secretary of State’s 23/24 budget, that will have detrimental impacts on everyone in Northern Ireland, but particularly the most marginalised." #NorthernIreland

https://wrda.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/WOD_-Media-Statement-July-23-2.pdf

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘ Cushendun, Northern Ireland’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
#Illustration #NorthernIreland #landscape

We need to talk about this BBC NI article about the PSNI no longer walking in the Pride parade in uniform, because it's missing some very significant context re: the PSNI's recent withdrawal from the Stonewall Diversity Champions Scheme, and it utterly fails to acknowledge that many of us in the local community actually welcome them not being in the parade as an organisation.

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#LGBTQIA #NorthernIreland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66201072

Discover our new page related to the Protocol on #Ireland and #NorthernIreland
One page where you can find all the documents that have been published on @EURLex
📑 https://bit.ly/3O77xdg https://t.co/IORmYNGilL

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EURLex/status/1679445630677299201

Love this advice for young writers of #HistoricalFiction from our 2023 #WalterScottPrize winner Lucy Caldwell, author of THESE DAYS (@faberbooks): remember, your characters are living on the cutting edge and know nothing of the future. See more tips for young writers in our YouTube playlist
https://bit.ly/YWSPadvice

#books @Books #LucyCaldwell #TheseDays #NorthernIreland #ww2 #writingCommunity #creativewriting #youngwalterscottprize

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Cushendall’
Artist: SR Badmin
#Illustration #nature #landscape #NorthernIreland

Tonight's Youtube entertainment is brought to you by Ugly Kid Joe and some blowup dolls 😂 #music

Everything About You
https://youtu.be/byEGjLU2egA

Cats in the Cradle which might strike an extra cord for people from #NorthernIreland
https://youtu.be/B32yjbCSVpU