Big oil are terrorists.

Grim reminder of acute vulnerability of intensive livestock systems to soaring global temperatures, not to mention the hellish conditions suffered by so many animals. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

It’s funny how the “it’s a complicated mix of factors” book (Etchells) which is probably closer to the truth gets less attention than the “it’s this one thing” books (Haidt, Gray). Humans are so in love with simple but misleading solutions.

Selkies are beautiful creatures from Irish, Faroese, and Scottish folklore who have the appearance of seals in water, but shed their skin to come ashore and reveal their human forms. If a human finds the skin and hides it, the selkie can't return to the sea 🦭 Prints: ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

They’re (ministers) like this with all public bodies. They take all the credit when something new or exciting is announced but if anything goes wrong it’s definitely nothing to do with them… 🙄

'Given the RSA’s statutory responsibilities with regard to road safety and awareness' Haven't these dopes tried to claim recently that the word authority wasn't apt for the RSA because it doenst have responsibility? #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

On a serious note though, it's concerning that Seán Canney doesn't appear to understand his role in road safety. He seems to think that's all delegated to the RSA. Like he's the guy in charge, no?

They could try wearing high-vis? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

'The official messaging in this country contributes to cyclists' jeopardy' #cycling #Ireland

The EPA says 10% annual emissions cuts now needed to meet budget

Yesterday @antaisce.bsky.social and @FIE launched a legal challenge to the new judicial review cost caps. These new caps mean, if a member of the public or eNGO wins their case, they will still have to pay tens of thousands to correct the mistake by the State. www.antaisce.org/News/environ...

Citizens: Can we get a pedestrian crossing on this street? Council: It's in our 20-year plan. Can we include permeability in this local greenway proposal? Council: It may be the subject of future consultation. Why did you remove that pedestrian crossing with no notice? Council: Because we can.

Beg button near the Spanish Arch, Galway. Rapidly removed by Galway City Council, without prior notice, consultation or explanation.

In some places when a pedestrian presses a 'beg button' the lights change immediately to allow them cross. Here, in the heart of Galway, large groups of people wait for up to 90 seconds after pressing the button. Why? To encourage people to drive. Result? Out of proportion traffic congestion.

This whole thread.

If I read one more reference to 'gold plating' of EU law in Ireland....Can anyone show me the evidence? Should we look to the over half our rivers and lakes polluted? The trend which is getting worse? The 25% of our most pristine waterbodies now lost? A 🧵 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

There is absolutely no justification for blood sports in Ireland. Ban hare coursing.

FF and FG have placed too much emphasis on individuals making changes to improve emissions, while dawdling on large scale projects. We now have less offshore wind energy production than we did 20 years ago. It's time we stop going backwards, and fast track the country's reduction in emissions.

Europe stifles in a climate crisis induced heat wave, with deaths in the hundreds and Ireland’s Minister for Environment announces that limiting air travel “does not serve the people of the region well”. #peakirony

How much hotter can Europe get? A lot hotter, for a lot longer, with extremes then on either side. Time to call climate crisis a shared emergency and accelerate phasing out fossil fuels and reducing GHGs ? Or will we continue to park it - delay, deflect and deny? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...

Revisiting this. Had the best gig #accessibility experience so far with the cochlear implant at David Byrne’s St Anne’s Park gig in Dublin a couple of weeks back.

“Wild salmon connect wild mountains to the sea, their presence or absence a verdict on how humans value, treat and manage the world. Wild salmon are the measure; when they go missing, it signals that things are completely out of ecological whack.“ By me, for @irishtimes.com

Apart from the fact that (unlike AI) cars are enormously regulated, there's also the fact that IT'S BAD THAT KIDS CAN'T PLAY IN THE STREETS ANYMORE My god these people are all spectacularly stupid venal idiots and yet they expect the whole world to bend to them

There’s been an enormous furore over plans to introduce mandatory age verification for social media. While many people think it’s a good thing but policy experts oppose to. To help explain why; the online gaming platform Roblox has provide us with a very timely case study. Brief 🧵

A massive shift is taking place here. Well-organised far-right terrorism is being treated as ordinary criminality, while conscience-driven protests against genocide are treated as terrorism. A highly conservative (and deeply weird and fantastical) Court of Appeal ruling embeds this shift.

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The world's first trillionaire is our next "hole in the ozone layer" moment. We need coordinated global effort to ensure he's also the world's last trillionaire and that he doesn't stay one for long.

hard to imagine a more obscene travesty of justice. a disgusting undemocratic stitch up, carried out in defence of the most barbaric war crimes of my lifetime. this judge and this government are the lowest of the low

Most motorists break the law every time they drive. Nearly 9 in 10 motorists routinely break 20mph limits. 50% routinely break 30 mph limits. Over 50% of motorists haven’t read the HC since passing their test, so are ignorant to their responsibilities. But cyclists… road.cc/news/drivers...

On the day before Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, all I can think about is that time in 2021 when the head of the UN World Food Program asked Musk to donate $6 billion to save 42 million people from starvation and he refused.

Health alone is enough to justify phasing out fossil fuels. Scientists attribute 9 to 19% of all human deaths to fine particulate matter and ozone from burning fossil fuels. Asthma, bronchitis, stroke, lung disease, lung cancer, heart disease, heart attacks. Risks highest for kids and the elderly.

"Incidents typically involved burning of land and vegetation, hedgerow removal, illegal peat extraction, unauthorised drainage works and land clearance, and damage to protected habitats" Release the fairies on them all 😡 #speirgorm

On the other hand: When some 22nd century Jared Diamond writes a new version of Collapse, they will point to things like this.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

New column: Now is the ideal time to make fossil fuel phase-out the organising principle of Ireland's energy and economic strategy. My piece in today's @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Wow! 200,000km² of ocean declared entirely off-limits to fishing in some of the most biodiverse waters on earth 🌏 That's a win 🙌 #oceanoptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

Cars don't belong in cities as the primary mode of transportation. They're dangerous whether moving or parked.

I really don't get how data centres are a "culture wars" issue. Are they not an economic and environmental issue, actually? I have to admit though, I am a bit hazy on the definition of "culture wars issue".

Right #SpéirGorm ...how do we build an Irish coalition and get our politicians to change direction?! “A habitable, equal 21st century is materially possible,”“What stands in the way is not technical impossibility but political choice and the hard but crucial work of building a coalition behind it.”

Irish Govt turns a deaf ear to environmental NGOs - perhaps it might pay more attention to the UN report on the impact of data centres in Ireland? Quite a different take on Minister view it's all'an opportunity' > #spéirghorm #DataCentres www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Beautiful timing, UN. Here is the report, documenting the global effect of datacentre proliferation driven by AI. unu.edu/inweh/news/e...

It's so infuriating to me that we can get massive data centres built so quickly when literally nothing else gets built quickly in Ireland - hospitals, road projects, community energy projects, wind turbines, bloody HOUSES. And elec bills are now up another 8%! www.independent.ie/business/mon...

Ireland's household electricity bills are 52pc higher than the European average - equivalent to an extra €480 a year. Large scale public-community renewable energy coupled with limit on data centre growth could mean low household bills. But F/FG. www.independent.ie/business/mon...

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Social media often functions like a funhouse mirror, amplifying the most extreme voices who dominate online discourse. As a result, people come to falsely believe those voices represent society and public opinion far more than they actually do: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Absolutely baffled by the passive language in this report, and in many other reports about deaths of cyclists, pedestrians and other road-users. What was the "incident"? And is it not easier and clearer to say "A cyclist has died following an incident" and then describe what happened?

NOBODY should get rich off war and energy chaos. It is time to hit these war profiteers with serious taxes on fossil fuel profits and use that money to cut bills and fund a fast, fair transition off oil and gas. act.gp/3QM1iSf

Plastic grass contain the following chemicals that pose a risk to human health not to mention what they do to birds cats Bees etc But this is what people want Over 21% of UK people are using or plan to use plastic grass

Triple it is then, Jeff.

There is no world where anyone should be able to accumulate 44 driving convictions. 44 convictions and he still was left back on the road to deliberately endanger someone's life. Now he gets a small fine and will be back on the road again in a few months. Our lives mean nothing to them #spéirgorm