What does a blackmailing operation of a cabal of child rapists have to do with Climate News?
Well, these blackmailers are heavily and extensively involved and invested in the fossil fuel industry, all across the world.
"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."
This is how you do a just transition.
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15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.
We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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Natural gas (methane) comes with natural benzene. Right into your home for no extra cost. Financial cost, that is.
"it is generally considered that the only absolutely safe concentration for benzene is zero."
American Petroleum Institute report (1948) published with Harvard.
They knew.
What is this Government’s vision for the future of young people in Ireland?
In at least one Dublin house, dozens are sharing overcrowded rooms and paying hundreds for a bed.
This is not a housing system. It is a return to tenement conditions.
A frog in a hat playing piano. Simultaneously childish and terrifying. That's Over the Garden Wall in a nutshell.
10 years after this foggy masterpiece aired it still gets under the skin. A kids' show with impeccable #folkhorror credentials
Full blog: https://link.content360.io/6sealfe
"Wondering why there are so many 'experts' in the news talking about expanding oil and gas in response to the Iran War?
According to our new DeSmog analysis, there's a common thread linking all those experts: a little known US group called Atlas Network."
a woman seemingly floating over a dirt road. She has one hand raised toward the sky and is wearing what could be either a nightgown or hospital gown.
Good morning
photo by Alberto Terrile
I live in Tipperary, I walk to and from work every day and I have a few questions on this motion from the councillors:
1. How does a vis vest stop the amount of gobshites speeding through red lights at pedestrian crossings?
Sam grinning and holding up a copy of Rabbit Test and Other Stories
Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳
'Think tank.' It's a sure sign that what follows is a free ad for the dumbest shit you ever heard. #speirgorm
Modular homes in back gardens.
Where is the study of the impact on the water, sewage and electrical systems?
Why can't the State build modular homes?
#spéirgorm
Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse - because viral hatred is highly profitable
In the space of a few weeks in 2025, Simon Harris required armed gardaí at his family home due to multiple bomb threats, while former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was subjected to a homophobic tirade by a self-styled citizen journalist who filmed the confrontation for social media. A man is due before the courts in July in connection with an alleged assault on Mary Lou McDonald and two canvassers the day before the presidential election last year. The incident was filmed and went viral online. So, last week when a video of Senator Eileen Flynn speaking about racism and nationalist propaganda went viral, a predictable and inevitable online pile on began, with posts attacking Flynn's "patriotism" or perceived
Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification (so called blue tick accounts), and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms like X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, that allows the company to "share" revenue. The more attention (likes, shares, comments etc) a post gets, the more revenue a user earns. Influencers also often have accounts on three or four platforms and post dozens of times a day, and can also benefit from tips, and paid subscribers so it is difficult to gauge how much they earn, but a single viral post on X can generate over €300 for an influencer, so this can become a quite lucrative activity for not a lot of work. Power
The abuse directed at Ms Flynn did not only come from Irish accounts; international social media influencers whose attention was already on Ireland since the fuel protests latched onto it too. Defiant Ls, an account run by a Macedonian influencer who promotes Maga content shared the video, as did the account LibsofTikTok, with the caption, 'Irish Senator Eileen Flynn says that she is "terrified" to see her nation's flag and thinks it's "disgraceful" to fly it', received more than 250,000 views and over 1,300 comments, mostly abusive. LibsOfTikTok has nearly five million fans and the account is run by Chaya Raichik, a right wing influencer who has previously targeted schools, hospitals and libraries across the United States. Victims of her attention have gone to be inundated with threats of violence.
I have a piece in the Examiner today on how content monetisation is fuelling a new wave of online harassment
Irish influencers with monetised accounts are mimicking the behaviour of people like Chaya Raichik, the owner of LibsOfTikTok, who has turned online abuse & harassment into a business model.
"The more gas we use to generate electricity to balance the demand of large energy users like data centres, the higher electricity prices will be"
Not only are they paying half as much for their bulk bought electricity, but data centres push up the price for everyone else too.
#IrishPol #Speirgorm
Guardian today about my topic - railway ticketing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's largely a copy-paste of this press release from @transportenvironment.org www.transportenvironment.org/articles/fla...
The report is solid on the WHY, less good on the HOW to fix these problems
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Dublin currently has ZERO cycle lanes under construction.
You'd think the climate crisis, collapsing AMOC, fossil fuel supply crisis, obesity epidemic, traffic jams or appalling road death increases didn't exist.
No urgency. Just subsidies for ... yep... more fossil fuels 😞
National Cinema Dictionary: T is for Thai Cinema.
Tears of the Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng, 2000). An Eastern Western.
“By stripping the right to asylum, nations are creating a growing underclass of placeless, rightless people to police in perpetuity, and an ever-greater policing apparatus with which to crack down on them—and, increasingly, everyone else.”
Absolutely essential reading on global borders and asylum.
Amazon's price predicting algorithm, "Nessie", was paused
during the holiday shopping season and Prime Day, when it feared customers or journalists might notice the price increases, then turned back on once attention died
down.
"The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with." —Renata Adler
"Much fiction depends on people who never forget. This clinging, this refusal to 'get over it,' is very useful in fiction, however inadvisable it may be in real life." —Joan Silber
Why the actual fuck does Kinahan look like a Trump Jnr it is freaking me out.
they accidentally sent me to korean youtube im not coming back
The absolute fucking opposite of what we should be doing
Intro to Researching at the National Library of Ireland
📅 Thursday, 23 April at 1pm:
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Join us for this free talk in the NLI's Joly Theatre introducing the National Library as a source for research.
A more accurate headline might read: 'Broccoli farmer has his facts wrong on solar energy & land use'.
For Ireland to hit its target of 8GW of solar power would require 0.25% of farmland.
Somehow the remaining 99.75% isn't adequate to maintain food supply...?
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
who could have seen this coming
I had the opportunity to speak to Alyx about this project last year, so it really breaks my heart knowing how much love and pain has gone into this just for BAFTA to pull it like this.
Absolutely ridiculous decision and as Lex says, a terrible look.
"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
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