The UAE is storing solar electricity as heat inside molten salt at 565 degrees — generating power through the night without burning a single molecule of gas. Photovoltaic for daytime baseload, concentrated solar thermal for evening and night dispatch, battery storage for rapid response #ActOnClimate

‘Peace and quiet’: Residents welcome Manna drone ‘pause’ Drone deliveries in Dublin and in cork have raised concerns among residents over planning and lack of consultation with residents. “It’s like a tractor overhead” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Doorbells should be made illegal in commercials. Dog owners know what I'm talking about.

10 years from now big NY Times thinkpiece “How Norway raised a generation that is lapping American kids”

One of my formative political experiences was at a selection meeting when someone asked about the proliferation of takeaways and charity shops in the town. An excellent candidate gave a thorough answer, about local plans, what you can change, what you can't. The balance between planning and market

This reaction to Starmer's Father's Day post (as below) reminds me of the Facebook replies this week about Kidderminster having its first Muslim mayor. A guy who has been a lawyer in the town for decades. More than 1.6k comments on a local paper's post, most with vitriolic racism. Depressing.

The highway between the Russian-occupied cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol in Ukraine has become a shooting gallery for Ukrainian drones, decimating Russian logistics and strangling the Russian occupation across Ukraine‘s occupied south.

In addition, one for the “banning anonymity would make social media less toxic” crowd to ponder. These are all adults posting under their own names!

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

Metallica Dublin poster for night two is even cooler! Gwan Molly!! @selkies.bsky.social see this?

I haven't the foggiest idea what to do with myself.

That the UK might one day again join the EU will only become a possibility when all the Brexit actors, on both sides, have left the stage. And who knows what state the world will be in at that time? All political calculations will be different. www.ft.com/content/ac01...

The June solstice is today, 21st June, 2026. Today the sun will be directly above the most northerly latitude of the Earth for a moment, before heading off south again. And that moment is now, 09:24 Dublin time (i.e. 09:24 IST, 08:24 UTC).

The RTB told a woman who is homeless that it will close her case because she can’t provide an address.

We are digging coal

Richard Claremont Oil on canvas #art

Near the grandest of stretch tonight. 7 secs to go. #TheGrandslStretch #Sherkin #StretchMaxxing

Lightning struck a camp in Baden-Württemberg as temperatures soared around the country. Several people were injured. #EuropeNews ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/5Uvh

MELONI, to Trump: “.. my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”

Comparisons between Andy Burnham and Boris Johnson are unfair. Johnson was never a genuinely popular Mayor of London, while Burnham is not a bone idle, liar, grifter and cheat.

SpaceX is a rocket company, a complex financial instrument, and a meme, @cwarzel.bsky.social argues. He examines the company’s bewildering valuation, and how Elon Musk’s own image has boosted its appeal:

News you can use from the opinion editors of the Italian right-wing daily Libero: "TRUMP IS AN ASSHOLE" www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/esteri/...

"Assembly" installation in the old Cork Savings Bank on Lapps Quay. Concept is around creating a space for assembly and discussion. Beautifully crafted structure. #Speirgorm #Cork

The great @jonathanpienews.bsky.social here encapsulates Trump's (and America's) humiliation by Iran like nobody else can.

Ballybunion, Co Kerry bringing the blue sky right now. #speirgorm

The centre-right leaning are a huge force in British politics. At the very least you need them to be happy enough with your side to stay home. It's not clear Farage can do that.

One of the nice things about the GAA is seeing an all time great Gaelic footballer humping goalposts around on a Saturday morning for a kids mini league.

You think you look cool in your new bandana until your east Belfast mum looks you up and down and says you look like the Plymouth Brethren.

Nearly two-thirds of France is now under an orange heatwave alert as people battle extreme temperatures across the country. #EuropeNews

To give an idea of just how much power these new mega scale AI campuses pull, one would consume all yesterday's renewables. Even small AI DCs would consume half of solar compared to say 20 typical "streaming" data centres and maybe 100 old fashioned, but still common, "computer centres". #sperigorm

🇮🇪 Yesterday wind was ~19% of Ireland electricity generation (18GWh). Solar was ~6% (5.5GWh). Source: EirGrid #Ireland #windenergy #solarenergy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has given Belarus a one-week ultimatum to remove relay equipment on its territory that he says is helping Russia attack Ukraine, warning that Kyiv will otherwise intervene itself to halt the transmissions.

To expand on my theme slightly, people often misunderstand the purpose of a law degree. It is, emphatically, *not* to learn "The Law." That changes daily. By the time my first degree was over, Irish property law (as an example) had been overhauled beyond recognition. What a law degree is for is...

#SpeirGorm RTÉ recently up dated the RTÉ News app. the menus on the bottom i’ll get used to but i can’t zoom in to see photos better any more and just why, why, why did they do that? ☹️

Interesting piece this. Depressing for those of us who have had much of Spain beyond the beaches to ourselves up to now, but the right strategy for the country. It will collapse when the (far) right takes power and building and environmental controls are abandoned for get-rich-quick speculation.

Everyone massively overreacted to the Uxbridge by-election. Looking back, Starmer's response was an early warning sign, while Khan's showed us someone with genuine political sense and bravery. The Burnham win has spared us countless articles getting the Aberdeen South result wildly wrong.

17yr old ELIZABETH TAYLOR washing her dog - Amy - in 1949.

alright, fucking fine, I've cracked, I've bought a fan

EXCLUSIVE I toured the world as a pop star but I prefer my life now as a roofer via The Mirror

Good point from @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com: “The push to tax billionaires comes not from a zero-sum mentality, but from witnessing massive wealth weaponised against liberal democracy itself.” economist.com/letters/2026...

Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok — increasingly synonymous with the remnants of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s fallen regime — is vowing to resist the new government’s efforts to force him from office.

A celebration of the magic and messiness of misspent youth, this museum is for every teenager that once scrawled RAWR on their wrist, wore their eyeliner too thick, and refused to accept the world as it was. #Art

Zürich has come to a standstill. It was 40°C here today, it is now pouring rain, and the wind is so high that tree branches have fallen across the streets. The police have cleared the roads.The lobby of my hotel is filled with drenched people wrapped in towels. It looks like a disaster film.

Coyne: I don't know how many times we have to keep relearning this lesson that the flatter Trump strategy doesn't really work.

Americans – whether leftist, liberal, MAGA or anything else – really, profoundly do not understand how they are looked upon by the rest of the world. No nation is looking over and thinking "I want me some of that".

I heard that there are thousands and thousands of cases of Rep. Claudia Tenney drowning kittens in her kitchen sink. It happens all the time. But Rep. Claudia Tenney will tell you it doesn't happen because you can't prove it.

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."