Thinking today about how there are people alive now who were already born when the 1926 census took place, and that there were people in the 1926 census who were alive during The Famine.
Two degrees of separation.
It's defined legally by the Dublin City Development Plan and associated documents.
If he meant any of this he'd just retire from commentary because that's the only rational response to getting it this wrong, but instead he's just gonna endorse Vance next year because of under-the-hood articles about how he opposed the war
Just stumbled upon my new favourite social media account...
lol ok so:
- Alistair Campbell invited JKR on to his podcast to talk about being a GC leader
- She (as always) said no, because she can't stand up to scrutiny
- She attacks him for not inviting NOBODY GCs onto his podcast
- All her followers call his daughter a misogynist AND a whore
A 1.2km bridge for trams, walking, and cycling has opened in Helsinki with an estimated cost of about €130 million for the construction of the Kruunuvuori Bridge itself, and a total cost of €326 million, including two other bridges and a tramway! www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl....
Artist: Dennis Goris
How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...
Same! I wanted to (re)make the point of Dublin City Council's lack of quick network building.
Fully agree with the point, but if you post on social media and don't allow any interaction, have you posted on social media at all?
Yes, but the images aren right -- both look too wide:
"voters who just want prices to come down" and were tragically lured into voting for men who openly announced their plans to trash the country...
Dublin City Council's chief executive gets paid €234,262.
If Watt needs €297,000 for just the city centre, it suggests the chief executive -- who has the power of a mayor but isn't elected -- is underpaid?
I will be taking no questions at this time.
'Dublin city centre' should always be written as 'Dublin City Centre' because it's the full name of a legally defined space (basically, within the canals).
This is the case even if most people do not share the understanding and think it's some vague idea of where the core of the city centre is.
There's other more proven measures that suit more cities, and are still needed in cities with congestion charging:
-- Systemic reallocation of space (Paris, Amsterdam, London, Utrecht etc).
-- Traffic circulation planning, including larger schemes (Ghent) or slower rollout (Amsterdam, Utrecht etc)
There's other more proven measures that suit more cities, and are still needed in cities with congestion charging:
-- Systemic reallocation of space (Paris, Amsterdam, London, Utrecht etc).
-- Traffic circulation planning, including larger schemes (Ghent) or slower rollout (Amsterdam, Utrecht etc)
This - every time I would coordinate a street closure I made sure we had sign that said "Street Open for People"
there is a lot of intimidation in rural Ireland we don't talk about when it comes to politics. when the far right were on the move in Tipp, me and so many people I know got hit with abuse and threats, online and off, followed around when we were outside, etc. I know someone whose car was burnt out
Clean-energy technologies shaved 3bn tonnes off global CO2 emissions in 2025 (~9%)
Fossil-fuel demand would have been 7% higher without clean-energy deployment since 2019
9/10
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
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.
electrek.co/2026/04/18/m...
With the call to allow oil exploration again, how much were the Irish fuel protesters organisers influenced by this UK propaganda push?
We thought we were good on this front but moving house proved otherwise: bsky.app/profile/kend...
"I have never witness anything as bad as the abuse" -- when this is said by @aidanobrien.bsky.social, it's really worth listioning:
people get hella mad when you say adult drivers should be more responsible than children on our streets.
The last 2 weeks have seen a relentless amount of disinformation & hate speech on Irish social media. And yes the international angle is disturbing but the primary sources of these narratives have been Irish influencers. And it was Irish people organising these protests not Tommy Robinson…
I mentioned gamergate upthread. The bigotry, racism and misogyny targeted at Senator O’Flynn is *deeply* evocative of that campaign.
How quickly this spread to major American influencers speaks to how Irish far right influencers are now embedded in the international far right online ecosystem.
Other deeply concerning things I’ve seen this week include; the doxxing of Garda, state employees, as well as outside contractors. Journalist reporting on the protests have been subjected to targeted harassment.
This is pure intimidation on a scale I’ve never personally witness before.
This piece is deeply troubling when read in tandem with the weird Palentir manifesto championing “religious belief” (white technofascist Christianity maybe?) here: bsky.app/profile/ayou...
