Jo
@awedandflawed.bsky.social
compulsive/procrastinator, bleeding heart would-be...
Fan of sea/sky pictures and crappy arting and crafting
Fan of sea/sky pictures and crappy arting and crafting
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Saw a clip of Micheál Martin responding to Holly Cairns today, where she raised a moral issue, and says "you don't have a monopoly on empathy", which is a line I've seen him use about 800 times now.
Also it's nuts how the way he responds to women isn't discussed more.
Also it's nuts how the way he responds to women isn't discussed more.
July 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Saw a clip of Micheál Martin responding to Holly Cairns today, where she raised a moral issue, and says "you don't have a monopoly on empathy", which is a line I've seen him use about 800 times now.
Also it's nuts how the way he responds to women isn't discussed more.
Also it's nuts how the way he responds to women isn't discussed more.
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This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.
What is even more striking is that data centre demand has matched 93% of the growth in renewable electricity generation (wind + solar + hydro) over the past decade. If we measure since 2020, data centre demand has grown nearly 3-times faster than renewable electricity growth.
July 7, 2026 at 2:12 PM
This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.
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Ireland has the most expensive electricity in the EU.
The percentage share of total metered electricity consumption used by data centres rose to 23% in 2025 up from 22% in 2024 and just 5% in 2015
Data centres account for 23% of electricity usage - CSO
The percentage share of total metered electricity consumption used by data centres rose to 23% in 2025 up from 22% in 2024 and just 5% in 2015.
www.rte.ie
July 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Ireland has the most expensive electricity in the EU.
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i would take a bullet for this puffin
Anyway, that's all a bit heavy so here's a puffin carrying a little flower back to their burrow
July 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
i would take a bullet for this puffin
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⚠️ "Dr Hussam Abu Safiya's son has issued an emotional appeal calling on governments, international organisations and people around the world to act urgently to save his father's life, warning that his health condition is severe." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
The West must act to save Dr Hussam Abu Safiya from being killed by Israel
Dr Abu Safiya must be immediately released. So too should all Palestinian detainees, including the 82 other healthcare workers still in Israeli prisons
www.middleeasteye.net
July 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
⚠️ "Dr Hussam Abu Safiya's son has issued an emotional appeal calling on governments, international organisations and people around the world to act urgently to save his father's life, warning that his health condition is severe." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
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Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures.
Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025."
In ONE year.
The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025."
In ONE year.
The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too.
A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI:
ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too.
A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI:
ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
July 2, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures.
Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025."
In ONE year.
The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025."
In ONE year.
The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
July 4, 2026 at 11:44 PM
this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
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“Restoration without pollution control is not a policy, it’s a gesture, and an incoherent one at that. It spends public money cleaning up what private and public polluters are permitted to dirty, in a publicly-funded loop without end.”
By me for @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
By me for @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
Ireland punishes tax evaders. Pollution should be just as risky
Nature absorbs the impact of polluters because the political will isn’t there to make the consequences serious enough to stop them
www.irishtimes.com
July 5, 2026 at 6:08 AM
“Restoration without pollution control is not a policy, it’s a gesture, and an incoherent one at that. It spends public money cleaning up what private and public polluters are permitted to dirty, in a publicly-funded loop without end.”
By me for @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
By me for @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
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"Make no mistake: the GENOCIDE in Palestine could be stopped if the European Union, Israel’s largest trading partner, suspended trade agreements, imposed crippling sanctions, and imposed an arms embargo."
July 5, 2026 at 4:05 AM
"Make no mistake: the GENOCIDE in Palestine could be stopped if the European Union, Israel’s largest trading partner, suspended trade agreements, imposed crippling sanctions, and imposed an arms embargo."
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Leopard denies spots.
July 5, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Leopard denies spots.
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We the people paid for the Cork Harbour limited cleanup.
The Irish Steel/Ispat scandal is a case study, or should be.
Cork enviro groups saw it coming and were were calling for action from the Council and others for decades, only to be told it was all grand.
It wasn't grand. Not for us anyway.
The Irish Steel/Ispat scandal is a case study, or should be.
Cork enviro groups saw it coming and were were calling for action from the Council and others for decades, only to be told it was all grand.
It wasn't grand. Not for us anyway.
June 30, 2026 at 8:25 AM
We the people paid for the Cork Harbour limited cleanup.
The Irish Steel/Ispat scandal is a case study, or should be.
Cork enviro groups saw it coming and were were calling for action from the Council and others for decades, only to be told it was all grand.
It wasn't grand. Not for us anyway.
The Irish Steel/Ispat scandal is a case study, or should be.
Cork enviro groups saw it coming and were were calling for action from the Council and others for decades, only to be told it was all grand.
It wasn't grand. Not for us anyway.
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"Ooooh momma, is this reeeeally the end?" - a question many people ask listening to a Bob Dylan track. And the answer is, "No, there's six more minutes."
June 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
"Ooooh momma, is this reeeeally the end?" - a question many people ask listening to a Bob Dylan track. And the answer is, "No, there's six more minutes."
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30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel.
Now no one dares.
Now no one dares.
June 28, 2026 at 6:49 PM
30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel.
Now no one dares.
Now no one dares.
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Footage this morning from “the safest country in the world for …”
June 17, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Footage this morning from “the safest country in the world for …”
How wholesome.
Via Irish News
'Some of the children and young people who took to the streets during racist disorder in Belfast last week were there to clear debts for drugs and loans to paramilitaries, according to the Commissioner for Children and Young People.' [3/n]
'Some of the children and young people who took to the streets during racist disorder in Belfast last week were there to clear debts for drugs and loans to paramilitaries, according to the Commissioner for Children and Young People.' [3/n]
June 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
How wholesome.
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Given the stories from 1954 about Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, et al being recorded pissing on Sandymount Strand while absolutely rat-arsed, it sounds like the ukuleles are the only new addition.
June 16, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Given the stories from 1954 about Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, et al being recorded pissing on Sandymount Strand while absolutely rat-arsed, it sounds like the ukuleles are the only new addition.
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Today I'm celebrating Bloomsday by recreating Joyce's favourite activity: not being in Dublin.
June 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Today I'm celebrating Bloomsday by recreating Joyce's favourite activity: not being in Dublin.
@micheal-martin.bsky.social so FF already knew this in 2017. And the ensuing obfuscation about legality of the OTB had its answer before it was started. Are you going to address this?
A leaked memo shows the European Union has known since 2017 that it had the legal right to freeze Israel's trade deal due to Israel's persistent violations of international law in the occupied West Bank.
euobserver.com/221434/stric...
euobserver.com/221434/stric...
Leaked memo: EU has known since 2017 it had legal right to freeze Israel trade deal
A "strictly confidential", but leaked, EU legal memo from 2017 said Europe was entitled to freeze Israel science grants and free-trade perks over its West Bank aggression. "What was then a legitimate ...
euobserver.com
June 16, 2026 at 6:19 AM
@micheal-martin.bsky.social so FF already knew this in 2017. And the ensuing obfuscation about legality of the OTB had its answer before it was started. Are you going to address this?
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There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.
June 12, 2026 at 10:12 AM
There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.
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Apparently the youngest person the PSNI had to rescue from the flames was a 2 month old baby.
Elon Musk knows that as he and other billionaires continue to accumulate more and more of the total wealth of humanity, there are bound to be riots.
That's why he is using his resources to ensure that anger is directed at the most vulnerable ones, not at the ones who are hoarding wealth and power.
That's why he is using his resources to ensure that anger is directed at the most vulnerable ones, not at the ones who are hoarding wealth and power.
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors.
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
June 11, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Apparently the youngest person the PSNI had to rescue from the flames was a 2 month old baby.
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The domestic abuse backgrounds of arrested rioters is even starker for Belfast
Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse
The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%).
www.thedetail.tv
June 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
The domestic abuse backgrounds of arrested rioters is even starker for Belfast
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It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
June 10, 2026 at 9:51 AM
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
This may seem obvious, but has anyone considered that subjecting immigrants, perhaps refugees, who have trauma, to the stress and elevation of sustained racist attacks and hostility is far more likely to trigger violence than proving them with an accepting community?
Or is that exactly the intent?
Or is that exactly the intent?
June 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
This may seem obvious, but has anyone considered that subjecting immigrants, perhaps refugees, who have trauma, to the stress and elevation of sustained racist attacks and hostility is far more likely to trigger violence than proving them with an accepting community?
Or is that exactly the intent?
Or is that exactly the intent?
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Ever seen a group of immigrants behave like this?
There is a video showing a crowd of men kicking in doors in Woodvale.
June 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Ever seen a group of immigrants behave like this?