Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

It's amazing how many people don't (or won't) understand that adding green energy has NO effect on ameliorating climate change unless fossil fuels are reduced. If its just feeding additional demand then its not green - its greenwashing.

The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time. That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

On precision vs accuracy amid uncertainty...

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"I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago," wrote Jane Goodall, "when I looked at the pork chop on my plate and thought: this represents fear, pain, death." Best as I can tell, not one obituary or article on her passing mentions this fact. It's worth knowing. news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...

"There's artificial intelligence. And there's actual intelligence."

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

"It is only by returning to the heart that a true ecological conversion can take place.” This transformation means shifting “from collecting data to caring; from environmental discourse to lifestyles inspired by faith and love of God.” youtu.be/97D5UI35XY0?...

'Donkey addressing the lions' (Baroque photograph by Aiko Bongolan).

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate. "Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

"Many of the at-risk properties have been built since 2020." This predictable disaster-to-be meets every single definition of the concept of 'stupidity'. It's also a clear example of gross negligence by the planners, regulators, builders, and others involved. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"Wank-speech is motivated, not by a desire to communicate or make a fact known, but by feeling: it aims to make the person speaking, in one way or another, feel better about themselves." deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_o...

First the orcas, now the squirrels. After centuries of specicide, the revolution against human supremacy has begun. I, for one, welcome our new furry overlords and offer them stale bread as tribute! local12.com/news/nation-...

The conscience of the world made starkly clear. This man is an instigator, architect and perpetrator of genocide, and he belongs in The Hague.

Wow!

“In this case, there’s no reason not to credit both scientists, who made original discoveries independently. But Foote got there first. Had she been given the credit she was due at the time-& the institutional support to match-there’s no telling how far her work would have taken her.” Eunice Foote

Substantially lowered consumer bills, with little impact on public funds? You'd think @darraghobrientd.bsky.social and his department would be all over this.

The reality is that activity on X sways very few voters. For any MP, the number of voters in your constituency who follow you will be tiny. It's all about speaking to journalists. If the MPs move, so will the journos.

I've been using DuckDuckGo for a year or two. It's a lot like early Google - without all the shite. And it doesn't advertise genocide. www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...

Thousands rally in Brussels for a free Iran – yet the media stayed silent When protesters lined the streets calling for a free Iran, Western media cowered under political pressure, silencing the voices of democracy By Laila Jazayeri @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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This is a nice illustration of how waste powers production. The idea of single-use, discardable plastic 'filling up landfills' was magic for producers. This is the same principle behind fossil fuel companies producing energy, and the tech companies that waste it www.jasontreat.com/plastic-1

During the night, Israeli occupation forces abducted more than 1,000 Palestinians, including children, in Tulkarm and nearby areas of the occupied West Bank.

Even more unthinkingly accepted are non-material 'invisible technologies' like money, academic grades, corporations, language and the like - all with powerfully distorting side affects that are almost completely unconscious to those immersed in them.

Flagging this in case anyone's not aware of it: the Ireland-Palestine Scholarship Programme, which supports 30 students coming to Ireland for a one-year Masters programme. Deadline = 5 Oct 2025 www.ireland.ie/en/ramallah/...

In a conflict between social normalcy and physical reality, physical reality will win every single time. A delusion held by most people is still a delusion - and physics will crush it. The deadlines are physical tipping points, not political agreements. Physics doesn't care about people or politics

I find it incredible that the EU would rather pay for the drones used against itself than seriously reduce its demand for fossil fuels. Last year the EU paid €21.9 bn for Russian fossil fuel imports (vs €18.7 bn of financial aid to Ukraine). energyandcleanair.org/publication/...

I see we’re having a flag “discourse” again at the moment in Ireland and the UK, and I think we do well to remember John Hume. Clip via @sdlp.bsky.social on Facebook.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

It would be great if Google Chrome did not ask my students if they want to cheat (oh sorry, offer "homework help" that's just an AI answer to any highlighted question) on every single page of my Canvas site.

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“This is information that the taxpayers have already paid for,” said @relindsey.bsky.social. “This administration is trying to hide it and take it away from us. It’s an abuse of government. It’s a waste of resources. People should be indignant.” Meet @climate.us: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@climate.us is the new @climate.gov climate.us

The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects

I’m with the late great Molly Ivins:

The EU spends more money supporting the Russian gas industry (and thus the Kremlin) than it does supporting Ukraine. As dire as the Russian threat to eastern Europe is, the addiction to fossil fuels is stronger. Behind every drone and missile is the casual use and waste of gas, oil, and electricity.

A 25% chance that AMOC collapse has already begun? It may be headlining the Dutch news, but there's no mention of it whatsoever in the Irish news.

The UK sold off its trains, its council houses, its water and so much else - and now all these things are fucked. It stopped investing in its people, and now its productivity, public health and social fabric are fucked. And it fucked itself with Brexit. Now its next PM may be Nigel Farage. WTF?

This is the voice of our President, using the limited but powerfully symbolic position of the Presidency to speak truth to power - we wil miss him when he retires. As far as I can see only Catherine Connolly would be a true replacement #speirgorm #aras25 president.ie/en/media-lib...

This looks very interesting, from Prof. of Industrial Ecology @malthus-enigma.bsky.social‬. It appears to be an analytic look at the philosophy and perspective needed to generate policy aimed at living within ‪@kateraworth.bsky.social 's Doughnut. On the list! www.amazon.com/Malthus-Enig...

Kudos to the headline writer www.thejournal.ie/justice-mini...

I get the appeal of the simple over the complex, the quantifiable over the unquantifiable, and the certain over the uncertain but in many, if not most important matters, things are not simple, quantifiable or certain.

Temperatures and carbon emissions continue to rise The Center for Carbon Management in Energy's director, Uni of Houston: “If all we do is keep inviting politicians to fancy hotels around the world to talk, we’re not going to get anywhere" insideclimatenews.org/news/1408202... More & more & more:

Wicklow Democratic School (WDS) Open day this Saturday11 am to 1,30 wicklowdemocraticschool.ie If you child is struggling in mainstream school, then look at WDS www.eventbrite.ie/e/august-ope... Rathnew, Co Wicklow. Ireland’s first democratic school for self-directed learning

Five multiple choice questions. Just takes a few seconds.

Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism. www.ft.com/content/0f61...

Righteous among the nations

“You are supporters of cancer … and we will make it known.” “We are accused of politicising cancer, of weaponising the disease. Yes, that is exactly what we’re doing because that is what’s necessary.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...