The thing is...
When I'm in charge of budgets for shows, having a surplus is nearly AS BAD as having a deficit.

It shows that you budgeted poorly.

A fucking 9.2 billion Euro surplus with over 5 and a half thousand homeless children is nothing to be proud of.

They're a disgrace.

It's actually as simple as this.

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No 5. Energy credits? Why?...if there is such a surplus, why just hand the money directly over to energy companies, why not invest directly in private solar and public renewables. Energy credits is lost money.

I have other thoughts but that's enough.

#Speirgorm #Ireland

Amazing lengths to go to, to keep in with the RCC! 😂

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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

We need more of this and better local journalism generally which has been in decline for decades.

If we can have a better grasp of local issues that also feeds into a better understanding of national issues.

The problem with Europe’s Big Tech breakup: It’s still hooked Thanks to Trump, EU governments are trying to break their overreliance on U.S. technology. It won’t be cheap or easy.

The problem with Europe’s Big Tech breakup: It’s still hooked

High time.

Despite fine words, some young people still face homelessness when leaving state care “You’re building the next generation of long-term homeless,” says one charity official.

Despite fine words, some young people still face homelessness when leaving state care. “You’re building the next generation of long-term homeless,” says one charity official.

Internet in Australia is rapidly becoming unusable without a VPN due to age verification. You need to verify your age to use some weather and calculator apps now. Scam apps and phishing sites are starting to realise they can just ask for your ID straight up and people will give it up. Insane shit.

Glaciers May Flow into the Ocean More Quickly Than We Think - Eos New research found that adjusting a key model variable may give more accurate predictions of glacial retreat.

Will glaciers raise sea levels faster than we think? New research adjusts a key model variable to find better ice flow and sea level change predictions.

eos.org/research-spo...

50% off electricity prices in Ireland*
*Special offer that only applies to data centres. Everyone else can pay some of the highest electricity prices in the EU (because fossil gas).

Hope everyone on board is ok.

Amazing inarticulateness.

Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, South Africa, Ghana, Ireland and the EU Council is quite a line up.

This is the work that we need to enhance, develop, improve and update for our times.

We need to organise and mobilise like never before ✊🏼

He’s an encumbrance himself. 🙄

The long but largely forgotten history of Irish seaweed disputes Current controversies over access to Irish seaweed are a reminder that such disputes are a vivid part of Ireland's colonial past

Great new piece on RTE Brainstorm by my @historytcd.bsky.social PhD student Ciana Devitt on long colonial history of seaweed extraction in Ireland and It’s contemporary resonances www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Isn’t this amazing? ❤️

Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels

Well, well… And in Ireland? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Ouch! Looks like the Gulf Stream may be in trouble: more climate uncertainty ahead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

SNP promises a minumum wage for comedians Party set to follow Ireland's £14,700-a-year plan

SNP promises a minumum wage for comedians

That’s not joy, it’s the gloating of bullies.

GAA President says Orange Order ‘evokes exactly the same sense of community’ as Gaelic games The GAA President has explained how he believes the Orange Order “evokes exactly the same sense of community, identity - all those values that are important to us - as the GAA does to us”.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/gaa/ga...

It’s the exclusion and ghettoisation of social tenants. Classism/snobbery of the nth degree.

Adolescent inpatient unit at St Vincent’s hospital in Dublin 3 to be closed by the HSE - just as mental health in teens reaches crisis levels

#MorningIreland #WhoCares #mentalHealth #Speirgorm

There are technical and legal hurdles to overcome here but the Germans have shown us the way, there just does not seem to be Irish political will, perhaps because part of that is a tenants right to solar in Germany trumps the landlords/management company's right to object on aesthetic grounds.