We are launching a big project today with MIT — The Electricity Price Hub! You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020. electricity.heatmap.news

When will the calendars change to refer to today as Peak AI Slop Day?

Fish on a Friday, 2026 edition

Well aren’t we kicking ourselves we kicked switching fuel provider down the road *a few days*. Still the cheapest option but like, come on…

Must be a smokey fire lit in every second house in Cabra and Phibsboro tonight. The air is thick.

Backstreet’s back, ALL RIGHT!

Switched over to The Oscars and seems we hit the mass card section 😭

Trying to imagine the war on cars radio hours that would be spent if this was done on a road.

David. Byrne.

Same dose of a man with boatloads of privilege and no children believes “procreation is the reason we’re here” so maybe no need to give this any oxygen?

“The importance of voting is very important.” My doom scroll this AM.

“Podcasting is perhaps the last major media format that is open, free, and not easily able to be captured by authoritarians. The stakes couldn’t be higher. All it takes now is a few decision makers pushing to do the right thing, not just the easy thing, to protect an entire vital medium.”

Today is the last day to submit on the college Green public consultation. It’s super quick and easy to do! engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec... @cbyrnegreen.bsky.social @greenparty.ie

Looks like Dublin City Council has bought Camden Yard, a site on Kevin Street, with a plan to built itself new offices there, relocate its Wood Quay HQ there -- per a message from teh council's CEO to councillors.

I remember a few industry lights on the design end of the tech industry advocating for unionisation maybe 10 years ago? They were mostly organising in the U.S. but it seems like a no brainer conversation topic for Ireland too given how many of us work in this space. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-tech...

Ah Musgraves, those absolute bastions of quality…

Northbound Green Luas stopped at Westmoreland due to a bit of an incident with someone on the track. Might be stalled for a while.

Energy independence is within our gift, if we wanted it.

As I have mentioned previously, the current government is composed of the stupidest remnants of the ancièn régime running on momentum and reactionary muscle memory.

Put it all in the bin www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

New milestone incoming…

Just when you think you've seen the most brain-dead hysterical media reporting on nonsensical anti-renewables "fears" whipped up on deranged Facebook groups, along comes the epic nonsense below:

Watch how this continues to shape the gov’s positions for the foreseeable. Not good.

There is a discussion to be had about the workload of local authority members, who are paid about €31,000 a year and have no secretarial or administrative assistance. Using AI is a byproduct of how Ireland underresources its politicians.

You love to see/hear it, but surely The Poxton aren’t relying on a good local rep in any case? Surely not with their €13 sad sambos? www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...

Olympics Dog was chasing the motorized camera they have to capture the competitors at the finish line, then decided to chase some competitors instead

Feels like we are in the thick of a weird age dominated by dependency and/or addiction. ChatGPT, vaping, TikTok, GLP-1, etc etc etc.

My most optimistic of perspectives on AI for general use is currently this: it takes resources (skill and time mainly) to get anything close to useful or worthwhile out. You put garbage in, you get garbage out the other end. And I’m seeing more of the latter as people try to ride the wave.

Can you people not do anything for yourselves

Follow the scramblers/ebikes/e-scooters and find the drugs/cash/weapons. Micro-mobility innovation has been particularly beneficial to the drugs trade. www.thejournal.ie/garda-arrest...

Shouldn’t Gardaí be stepping in and taking evidence? This is harassment. www.thejournal.ie/thai-masseus...

Those drawing up and submitting these plans could surely anticipate they were going to be refused on these grounds. I can’t understand this pattern which repeats in Ireland again and again. www.thejournal.ie/rotunda-hosp...

Just logged into Instapaper for the first time in 10 years.

This is why we had to remove the passenger cap 🤪

Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like. It is still a yellow weather alert. #SpeirGorm

I can't be the only one who immediately thought of Belfast when I saw that photo.

Couldn't agree more, also the prioritisation of Greenway reveals the official view that cycling is a recreational activity to be monetised and not a routine mode of transport

“Gda Galvin said Brett was wearing a high-vis jacket and helmet. It was a dry day, the road conditions were good and there were no obstructions.” Turns out high vis and helmet may not save you from SUV drivers taking an illegal right turn. www.thejournal.ie/courts-cycli...

As a newly minted (well, since 2020) Irish citizen, I hate to watch what happened to America start to repeat itself here. The media has a HUGE role in normalizing fascism in the US. Trans kids were the low-hanging fruit, both in 🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧.

Noticing both professional and personal scenarios where emails are not arriving into different Gmail and Microsoft accounts. Mostly mailing lists of sorts, including identity provider one-time passcodes. The baby is being thrown out with the bathwater?

Shame nobody could join the dots prior to shutting down their previous venue? Some of these buildings were in fine working order within the last decade but have been wilfully left derelict since by the government.

We’d a good show last night on @tonightvmtv.bsky.social, digging in to the case of Irish citizens detained under ICE in the US and whether the government’s own policies undermine its efforts to address them.

Mind boggling at people I thought I knew going on “badly-needed” winter breaks to Florida in 2026…

Another day, another IT journo bemoaning how boring Irish politics is compared to UK politics. All he seems to want is carnage and entertainment value.

The Olympic Games should not be behind a paywall, even if the paywall is low.

The luge: on a fertiliser bag going down a frosty hill #IrishWinterOlympics

Trains are just great. Even our limited network of diesel-chuggers beat the car any day. I don’t think I’m ever as focused as I am on a quiet train pootling along. Tay optional.

Based on a data set of one taxi journey today, the “make all cyclists wear helmets and high vis because they are the road safety issue” narrative has emboldened the “cyclists shouldn’t be on the road” class of taxi driver. Same lad couldn’t believe there were trains to & within Co. Clare either.

We need to do something to waterproof the An Post carts. Letters and packages have been absolutely chewed by the rain this week.