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Time to unleash the chaos! #chaoswithedmiliband

MASSIVE 600 ton Liebherr mining excavator converted from diesel to electric Lloyds Metals and Energy have successfully converted a massive, 650-ton class Liebherr R 996 excavators from diesel power to electric.

If a 600-ton excavator can be converted from diesel to electric, pretty much anything can.

And thanks to Dementia Don and the oil crooks pulling his strings, the world is now - finally - scrambling to break decisively with fossil fuels.

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strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

Jennifer Horgan: We have set a new standard for what angry men can achieve. It's terrifying Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

Foreign policy should not be driven by the whims of one man. The interagency process I saw during the Obama administration—where many voices talked, debated, and worked through the consequences of decisions—is all but gone. This over-personalization of foreign policy is dangerous

Fossil fuels face higher taxes than electricity under looming bill The initiative would drive the EU toward more renewable sources of energy in the long term.

Electricity will be taxed at a lower rate than fossil fuels across the bloc under a bill that the European Commission is poised to unveil next month, according to two EU officials.

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era.

Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/

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I am 50 and I endorse this message.

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

He likes winning elections, but not enough to want to win another one!

As the post mortems begin, I feel not enough attention has been given to the fact that the minister for justice announced the Army had been called out before actually telling the Army

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]

An X post from Gript linking to a story. The geadline PETER CADDLE: EU 'Grows Stronger' After Orbán Ousted in High-Stakes Election

Peter Caddle's author bio on Gript. It reads Peter Caddle is a journalist specialising in European speech and technology policy. He has formerly served as a director of Free Speech Ireland.

A screenshot from the Danube Institute's website showing Peter Caddle is a visiting fellow 2025-present

Gript will tell you that any news outlet that got a Local Democracy grant to fund a reporter at council meetings is in the pocket of the state, but will publish a guy who's on the Orbánist payroll at a think tank funded by Hungarian public money to cover his election loss without disclosing it

Frederick Jackson Turner’s Groundbreaking Frontier Thesis Was a Flop When He First Read It Chicago. July 1893. It was already warm when Mae Turner left the University of Chicago campus and joined some friends to spend the day at the Columbian Exposition (known more popularly as the World…

Want to read an excerpt from the Prologue of THE WESTERNERS before committing to the whole book?

If so, get thee to @literaryhub.bsky.social!

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Given idiocy of last week from #fuelprotest and Govt (delay, caving) this from @hannahdaly.ie is worth reposting.
Straits are still closed, no new fuel is available, what will we do next?
(Hint drive less, turn off heat etc).
#StopBurningStuff #SUVskam #Speirgorm #ReduceYourUse

Tonight I'm thinking of the many Hungarians I've met over the years - many of them abroad against their wishes, many of them queer - who haven't stopped fighting, for sixteen years. For most of us, Orbán was an on-and-off nuisance on TV - at best. For them, he was a constant nightmare.

Article Link: The Blockade Is the Message, How a fuel price spike became a fascist audition

I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼
#Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism

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Marathon's the one place you should have an advantage over Iran!

The Trump administration is made entirely of people who think this guy was the real hero in Die Hard

How Ireland's far-right movement got involved in the fuel protests and tried to hijack them While many are protesting fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

What a well written article that details the far-right element of the fuel protests. Well worth a read.

www.thejournal.ie/ireland-fuel...

Can the government cut carbon tax, and what would happen if it did? Carbon tax is back on the agenda. Here’s what any changes would mean in the short and long term.

Yes this Government needs to do more to help in the cost of living crisis, but abolishing the Carbon Tax, the one tax that is ring fenced to help the most vulnerable, would be the wrong thing to do.

Can the government cut carbon tax, and what would happen if it did? jrnl.ie/7007865

Sooner or later we're gonna have to start skipping the bit where people pretend the people with a track record of bad intentions actually have good intentions

Listen, I know that the cost of living is insane and our government are mostly absolutely useless. I know there are huge issues to solve.

But I also know that it is beyond crazy that we are all being held to ransom by like 40 dudes and their big trucks. All 5.5 million of us at the mercy of them.

Ciarán O'Connor: Why are social media accounts linked to Iran, Russia and China posting about Ireland? Recent analysis highlighted an Iranian information operation targeting Ireland, while accounts linked to Russia and China posted about the fuel protests

Ciarán O'Connor: Why are social media accounts linked to Iran, Russia and China posting about Ireland?

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Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says The European Union should focus on regulating large social media platforms instead of imposing bans for minors to use them, Estonia’s Education Minister Kristina Kallas said on Friday. Europe…

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

This is so well done. 👌