This is the right image to use for a heat wave; not one of children playing in the fountain or people frolicking on the beach.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

the author is 74 years old www.irishtimes.com/culture/2026...

updating your committee on your dissertation progress

bodycams will solve this as they never get turned off or footage lost www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I’m glad there is one (1) person who is truly using the opinion page as it should be used

The point made by @nlsj.bsky.social here is so easily overlooked: the State concentrated services in Dublin's north-east inner-city because of pre-existing class politics and now the people in wealthier neighbouring areas have a new level of judgementalism to apply www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

UK's enthusiastic decline as a serious country "... it means that private companies, effectively, are imposing injunctions which lead to large numbers of people going to jail.”

cars and bikes both form people, just in different directions

The peloton is such a beautiful thing.

hadn't clicked that Noel Thomas is the Inn-dependent Ireland guy

The Social Democrats are the ultimate "bit of a lefty" in the bio heads.

FF front benchers this afternoon

"mostly successful" lol

This week on The Explainer: why did rents just see a massive increase? Michael Byrne, UCD associate professor and author of Beyond Generation Rent, examines how tied this rise is to recent rent reforms. Listen wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/1452246930/e...

Thank you to Eoghan McNeill of @wereontheditch.bsky.social for speaking with humour and insight at our event on border violence this week AND for validating my life choices!

Irish judges

Niamh McCormack spoke on Morning Ireland on the report of Mr D, who died in custody in 2021. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

for all the design and material advances, bikes remain a simple thing

Decathlon bikes may suddenly develop lots of mech problems

Whiplash but with bicycles, take all my money

i don't understand, we have been good bois, haven't we

So Unai Emery has now won the 5 Europa Leagues with 3 different teams that all have "Villa" in their name: Sevilla, Villareal & Aston Villa

the lack of journalistic curiousity in our paper of record on the two redacted sections of the latest death in custody investigation www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

This company that has built an apparently unworkable system for Irish Rail, reportedly headed to the bin at the cost of €50 million, is the same company the NTA has hired to bring contactless payments to Dublin's bus system. www.dublininquirer.com/the-nta-has-...

McWilliams 2.0 got a lot of sharing in my policy circles, this is worth a read

I'm not saying you should vote for people based on how funny they are, but it's not an insignificant fact that one candidate in Dublin Central seems capable of normal human humour (bonus that they also are on top of the detail of policy & profoundly committed to the area...)

Hard to get my head around the fact a former Taoiseach said that we shouldn’t be letting Congolese people into the country and a week later a Congolese man has been killed George Floyd-style by security guards kneeling on him on Dublin’s traditional main shopping street

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

no one should ever be detained or restrained by private security for retail theft. let them go and catch them later, if it's worth the effort. because it definitely isn't worth this. a man is dead who would not be if his life, safety and welfare were valued more highly than inventory

INAR statement, including some description of the video referenced in the report. I have seen the video and the description is accurate. it was in the street, in broad daylight, and there were loads of people standing around watching, filming, talking, etc.

thinking again about how the pitch that Progress Ireland made to their investors was essentially that it'd be super duper easy to gain a lot of influence in Irish politics, just sooo fucking easy, barely any effort

it is wild what doesn't make national news [from Jan '26] www.limerickleader.ie/news/crime-a...

In June, Irish Penal Abolition Network are hosting three screenings of The Strike, including post-film panels w/ documentary makers and formerly incarcerated strike activists. Dublin - 17th Jun @ 2pm Belfast - 18th Jun @ 2pm Cork - 20th Jun @ 5pm See Eventbrite for deets and to book your tickets

Saw an AI bro refer to "brain-only writers" lol

there is a deep well of optimism in active transport that finding the right tech will save walkers and wheelers

Dublin, 2026

Energy usage by data centres is 'cannibalising any increase in renewable capacity', according to the Climate Change Advisory Council. The body has also warned that Ireland is 'exposed to global energy shocks' due to a reliance on imported fossil fuels jrnl.ie/7037689

'We must have the audacity to question self-serving narratives'. Our President challenged the normalisation of war, the emissions caused by ongoing conflicts, and the obscene profits being made on large-scale death and suffering. #DCUClimate2026

good to see Fianna Fáil's slippery language being called out www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

An important argument from @sineadmercier.bsky.social about the ways in which the "Ireland should have nuclear" discourse is a classic case of structured climate delayism www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

This is a new expansion of horrors, but also: this has been the case in our prisons for years and years. Secrecy breeds abuse

📺🚁 ⛰️🚴‍♀️ ANGLIRU Whoever was in charge of TV direction, showing almost entire 700-m La Cueña les Cabres (max 23.5 %) from helicopter angle was awesome decision! It took 5 minutes for fastest riders to get through it. _______________________ 🇪🇸 #LaVueltaFemenina

this may be the dumbest thing said by a public representative in 2026