12-year-olds doing Model United Nations know more about global diplomacy.

Spectacular.

Enjoy my city! HMU for recs if you need them!

What’d you go for?

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.
The reason?

The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.

Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

At this point in the US, there are so many grotesque moral crimes for which no one has faced any accountability that it's getting difficult even to keep all of them in your head. We're too exhausted to catalog them much less seek any resolution or justice.

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

First US Tomahawk missile (of this war) fired on Feb 28. Thanks, Donald.

Already ‘sold out’ signs hanging on pumps at petrol stations around Dublin. Panic buying vibes in the supermarket. Thanks, Donny.

Hurray, a winter storm in April in the middle of a global fuel crisis.

Happy ‘World on a Terrifying Precipice Day’ to all who celebrate

Genuinely curious if any female readers are into Karl Ove Knaussgard. His autobiographical series is so odd. Car-crash reading, in a way.

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation:
"When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

It’s today. What’s next, tomorrow? Hah! That’s what they want you to believe.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Does he realize those countries fly tourists & businesspeople to his country? A country increasingly rife with summary arrests, measles, gun crime, economic instability, corruption and racism? More and more, an unappealing island between Europe and Asia.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 70% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 82% at 16:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 24% of demand. 2% of generation was exported, 7% of demand was met by imports.

How often does this happen before somebody thinks to investigate it

The world has been watching what ICE did in the streets of Minneapolis. Anyone considering buying a flight to America just started looking elsewhere.

Imagine a world where every flight to the US connects seamlessly with a flight to El Salvador

Here comes the sun 🎶🎵

Back in the habit of watching @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social as my primary news source.

Shout out to the handful of Fortune 500 CEOs who followed Zuckerberg and said they thought the future was in the Metaverse

Absolutely sticks the landing. 10/10, no notes. Bualadh bos mór.

Don’t like this one single bit

Patient zero for partisan politics serves up a satirical suggestion of nuking a new canal through the Middle East like it’s a real thing.

See also: food security

If economists modelling for $200/barrel oil prices doesn’t spur the Irish government into urgent action to pour resources into renewables and ease planning Leinster house should be cleared out. Cover every roof, barn and car park in solar, push offshore wind through.

Greatest country in the world

Curious what proportion of Threads visits are intentional and what proportion doesn’t realise they’ve left Instagram