“We will separate your head from your shoulders if you don’t leave the south”. Amal Khalil reported despite the threats. Israel hunted and killed her this week. By @sallyhayd.bsky.social

Screw That Data Center,And Others. Shorter Showers, All While Much Of The Country Is In A Very Bad Drought, Stupid Waste Of Resources, FOR RICH INVESTORS........

Yes, yes & yes! "western govts...redirected state support away from productive industries & towards profoundly unproductive ones...While China invests in the technologies of the future, the west continues to subsidise its own decline." It could be so different. From @graceblakeley.substack.com

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices. The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026. Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice. This is digital sovereignty being taken back

I dunno if I had €9b++ knocking around during an energy crisis I might be in China figuring out how to put solar and batteries on every roof in the country. I'd have an emergency team plotting out scenarios & building contingency plans for epic amounts of shit hitting the fan #spéirghorm #speirgorm

Denmark joins the line of countries that Irish Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke doesn’t have on his radar. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

Thanks to RTE's morning time radio show ( David mcCollagh's) for having me on to discuss food shortages and fuel crises. You can listen to it here www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

This deathtrap is the kind of thing that was rented *before* the government decided to scrap planning for shed-based housing. It wasn't up to code but someone desperate rented it anyway. How much more dangerous will the dwellings become when apartments like this are the NORM? #spéirgorm

Died #Onthisday 1932 Margaret Pearse, nationalist, teacher, businesswoman, TD & mother of Patrick and Willie, both executed after #EasterRising. She started the presses for the Irish Press's first edition in 1931. Her funeral was the largest in the state's history.

Developers who already have the most subsidised housing market in the EU (up to €144k per unit), want an additional €20k. The sad thing is that the Govt will probably give it to them. They will do anything to avoid building homes themselves.

Published this dull but worthy op Ed, which despite the headline is really about the peculiar process by which the Irish president considers whether to refer bills to the Supreme Court to decide their constitutionality www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

In Loughshinny, the council wants people to walk to planned new playground, but says building good footpaths isn’t feasible. “How are kids meant to walk to a playground if it’s cut off?” asks Robert Kelly, the chairperson of the Lougshinny Community Association.

Per Sightline, of the 114GW of announced data center capacity due to come online by end of 2028, only 15.2GW is under construction. This also means that there's only space for $285 billion of NVIDIA GPUs - meaning hundreds of billions are being warehoused. www.wheresyoured.at/four-horseme...

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

Yesterday I spoke on RTÉ Liveline about the book and video promoting Sitka sent to every primary school in Ireland. One thing I didn't get to mention is that the tree is also highly invasive. Coincidentally, I later found one in my own place. We may as well be planting rhododendron everywhere.

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park." The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

"It took years to accept that Ireland is indeed a tax haven. We must now stare a new grim reality in the face: Ireland is the backdoor for some of the most dangerous companies in the world to poison Europe’s politics [and] to break the spirits of Europe’s children" Galling, frightening and true

By the way, there are two ICE charters headed to Africa right now. The Afghans in the NYT story aren’t onboard since they are in Qatar. But hundreds of immigrants who had been living in the US, sometimes for decades, have already been sent to 8 African “third-countries,” most of which are unstable.

Warning: Do not run AI Agents on any device used to access Signal or other content that you want to keep safe + unsurveilled. We made this graphic to be posted in your Signal groups to explain what the threat is. Share it widely if you can. More at AISnitches.org

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich." Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

We can't do affordable houses or anything useful so how about some juicy CCTV?

Genocide. Co-funded by our money via the EU.

We can't avoid reckoning with the amount of crops globally used to feed farmed animals. They require massive inputs relative to the output in calories.

Defend the Defenders! Defend those who defend the defenceless! By sanctioning Francesca Albanese, 8 ICC judges, and Palestinian NGOs for providing evidence of US and Israeli war crimes – the US is assaulting International Justice. You can help! Sign the petition petition.qomon.org/0b54a0b8-dem...

For the past four and a half months, Nicolás Maduro has been in a federal detention center in New York—which has also held the likes of Luigi Mangione, Ghislaine Maxwell, and R. Kelly. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I thought I could save my little one's life as quickly as possible, but I didn't realize how incredibly difficult it would be. My child's condition worsens every day, and I'm still far behind. I don't know why people haven't donated. Please share this link with your friends. gofund.me/7656b5ee6 🙏🏻

The EU must suspend the EU-Israel Trade Agreement and stop enabling apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians. You can sign the European Citizens Initiative calling for that here ➡️ eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

In Science & Climate in @irishtimes.com, @whittledaway.bsky.social looks at how Ireland's hillscapes have been savaged by sheep and by policies that fail to offer upland farmers a viable alternative...... www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Read Zach Helfand’s Profile of McMahon, whose mission is to destroy the Department of Education and put herself out of a job:

Thanks to China’s green subsidies, renewables are cheaper than ever. Our subsidised oil companies and arms manufacturers have just pushed us into *another* war - and energy crisis. Politicians in the west keep blaming China for their own stupidity. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

Good morning with good news: Solar globally grew by 600 TWh in 2025, largest ever rise from any source, excl rebound yrs. RE & nuclear growth was more than total electricity demand growth. Fossil fuel generation DECLINED! RE = coal generation! iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/ade8f... #energysky

The European Commission literally copy-pasted Microsoft's proposed confidentiality clause word-for-word into EU law, blocking public access to data centre environmental impact data. Legal experts say it violates the Aarhus Convention on environmental transparency.

If a 600-ton excavator can be converted from diesel to electric, pretty much anything can. And thanks to Dementia Don and the oil crooks pulling his strings, the world is now - finally - scrambling to break decisively with fossil fuels. electrek.co/2026/04/18/m...

New report just out from @investigate-europe.eu: Microsoft and DigitalEurope (a tech lobby group) decided they don't EVER want anyone knowing the energy consumption of individual data centres So they lobbied successfully to get their own wording copy-pasted into regulations in the EU.

Data centres are turning out to be a dirty business. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Classic story of the housing crisis and the greed which both exacerbates it and is profiting from it. Property owned by the main man behind hip music venue The Sugar Club. Those who play and attend gigs there might take that into consideration. His excuse? "It's a hard time to make money."

This weekend in Barcelona, Pedro Sanchez gathered the world's left leaders for an anti-Trump rally - including the presidents of 🇧🇷🇿🇦🇲🇽🇨🇴. But Sanchez was the only European leader there. Because he's the only real left PM Europe has. Will the Trump effect end decades of conservative rule over the EU?

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

Are we hearing this message, Ireland??? We could well be in *very* deep trouble if we don't.

In case you missed it (somehow I did) this is an excellent overview of France's ambitious plans (PPE3) to electrify everything. Yes, a lot of nuclear, but also new factories manufacturing solar panels, heat pumps, and EVs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdF5...

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

there is a lot of intimidation in rural Ireland we don't talk about when it comes to politics. when the far right were on the move in Tipp, me and so many people I know got hit with abuse and threats, online and off, followed around when we were outside, etc. I know someone whose car was burnt out

1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report. WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :) that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵

This is very bad. She is an especially dangerous piece of shit