Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor. Some changes that they can look forward to:

@communitywetlands.bsky.social lots on next weekend Abbeyleix Bog

While it's great IKEA now electric vans get your own chargers _ second time now 2 vans charging Blanchardstown .

If you're in Mayo and interested in things deathly, I'll be speaking at The Keening Festival 2025. There will be ghosts! www.mulrannyarts.com/the-keening

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

Great turn Monaghan Peace Campus for Regeneration this region

Snipe in the Flow Bog , Co Cavan . Camaflague , blink and you’ll miss it @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Israel’s chilling message shames us all who look away: Neither the US nor Europe cares about Gaza. The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza vanish. No one will feel for you, and no one will ask about you. You are left alone to face your inevitable fate.

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Oh dear www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Great turn out Grassroots _ empowering eco-health Tourism @ Sligo City Hall

Morning from Kyiv. I had a slow #warcoffee and read the news (nothing good is there). Today is International Women’s Day. I am sending my solidarity hugs to every woman who sees this message. We can do more than we think. The painting: 🇺🇦 Seraphym Charkin, Amazon Woman, 2019

Can you imagine if Michael was unofficial govt Rep.... www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Every time I see the latest news from the US

“Countless human lives could be at risk if companies like Meta are left to their own devices.” techpolicy.press/metas-new-co...

this is exactly why i wrote my book. the regulations we have in place - building codes, land use codes - and hurdles around insurance and financing... make developing climate adaptive places basically impossible in the US context. i hope this changes in my lifetime. bsky.app/profile/holz...

Donald Trump signed an EO to take the US out of the Paris agreement www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24...

NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH

DAA application to ⬆️ passenger cap at Dublin Airport from 33M to 36M - would ⬆️ emissions by 8% to 3.86MtCO2Eq- non aviation transport emissions last year in Ireland were 11.63Mt- see more at bottom of this report Bid to boost Dublin Airport passenger cap ruled 'invalid' www.rte.ie/news/busines...

I wrote about the push to "billionaire-proof" social media, including plans for a new nonprofit to build out "an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps" running on Bluesky's protocol. Gift link to today's Tech Brief: wapo.st/40fTk4X

24 % potential market share for Ireland @tourismireland.bsky.social Local People , Food & Culture , hidden gems ...sounds like real sustainable tourism

“As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires.” techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/f...

Get ready for Donald Trump to tell everyone to inject bleach up their ass.

Jack Frost arrived Meath last night -7 Chilly !

Early days admittedly, but here’s a strong contender for the worst piece of greenwashing nonsense of 2025 – an airline that’s using a lower weight paint to save…27kg in overall weight on an 80,000kg aircraft, and getting PR coverage for this “green” initiative. www.rte.ie/news/environ...

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it: -keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice. -do not feed them raw dairy -do not feed them raw meat

I’m convinced that the only way to get rich countries to act on climate is to pose it as a competition with China.

How Shell greenwashed gas with sham Chinese carbon credits www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...

Breaking News: California declared a state of emergency over a bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle. The virus has been detected in 645 herds.

“If someone had walked into the pub back when me and Kneecap were still dreaming up what this movie could be - and they told us five years later we'd be in the running for an Oscar, we’d probably have asked for a blast on whatever they were smoking“ www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Gosh, this place has come to life! Happy to celebrate by first announcing here that the new issue of Passive House Plus is out and available to read online. Irish edition: passivehouseplus.co.uk/issuu/irish-... UK edition: passivehouseplus.co.uk/issuu/uk-edi... #passivehouse #passivhaus

A few months agoTrump was threatening to send Zuckerberg to prison “for life” if he interfered in the election Now Zuckerberg is funding Trump This is how it works www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Here's an indication of how quickly BlueSky is growing. Three weeks ago, there were 10,000 Starter Packs. Now there are over 182,000.

@jenniecstephens.bsky.social Congratulations nice to be at Hybrid Launch # lessons of Hurricane Katherina 1995.Climate Crisis & Polycrisis @maynoothuni.bsky.social Love looking at mission statement _ rare find good tourism one

Maybe also relook from.local sourcing less plastic etc

"Simply the most exciting, novelistic, well-researched and engaging Irish popular history book in recent memory." Thank you to James Patterson for these kind words about Hotel Lux and featuring the book on this list! In great company. www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

Do you know why peatlands are important? Read Peat Hub Ireland's factsheets to learn the essentials: www.ucd.ie/peat-hub-ire... They're linked to the PHI Database which compiles 900 publications! A great resource 🎉 @abogslife.bsky.social @peatlandconserve.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social

Shoes Of The Children at Stormont now.

This is wildly dismissive of scholars, activists, and journalists whose critiques go well beyond “it sucks and it’s fake.” Moreso, substantive critiques about it sucking often point out not that it’s “fake” but that it’s used for tasks it’s not suited for to the detriment of people it’s used against

The practice of dry stone wall construction in Ireland has been added to UNESCO's list of protected cultural heritages around the world

flicked over to this post from Microsoft Excel, where instead of inserting a new row I accidentally clicked on the fucking Copilot button for 43920432th time The pushy desperation with which AI prompts and buttons are being crammed into once-useful software is a sign of their problems

Was an Interrail (Eurail) Pass a good gift for Christmas? My blog on how my sons reacted to and acted upon my Christmas gift a few years ago. www.ethicaltraveller.co.uk/2022/12/inte... #traintravel #railtravel #Interrail #Eurail #responsibletravel #sustainabletravel #nofly #trains #çhristmasideas

“This merger of state and tech power isn't just another shift in the landscape. It's a fundamental challenge to democratic governance in the digital age.” techpolicy.press/on-the-comin...

Jack Frost came meath last night.Chilly

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"