Excellent analysis mar is gnách. Still a grim political picture unfortunately. If only the left had a catchy slogan to rally under, something like "a lot done, a lot more to do" or "wake tf up people and stop voting FFG before they turn everyone into rent paying AI data centre serfs!" #IrishPol

Note that our government is doing nothing to reduce fuel *use*, just redirect our tax money to reduce our perception of fuel costs. In this, or the housing crisis, or any other problem, they will never do anything that stops money flowing to big businesses. They literally cannot think it. #speirgorm

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae Lovebirds / Éin Suirí #100DaysOfGaeilge

I watched Saipan, twice. I thought it was great. It's not a doc, lots of stuff isn't remotely true, but as a dramatisation of a crazy moment in the zeitgeist, it draws many arcs well. They did Mick dirty, possibly undeservedly. They did Delaney dirty, probably deservedly. Roy was R̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Roy.

Depluralize a movie. Alien

10-20% of the emissions ceiling of Ireland's energy sector to be used by ONE data centre in Ennis. Insanity. #IrishPol

Attended a workshop on fermentation and the microbiome today and learned some valuable antifascist strategy. If you encourage diversity and take up space, you help prevent unwanted colonisation by a harmful monoculture.

We've subsidised oil companies for decades as we "need" their products to run society, but now we dont, we need to use those same subsidies for heat pumps, EV's, solar panels, turbines, bio mass what ever else we can use to generate electric, it's only fair, we'd get to "net 0" real fast that way.

I saw Hozier sing in the Trinity Orchestra (covering Freddie Mercury🤘) in Vicar St in 2013 before he became Hozier. I saw Kodaline support Lianne La Havas in the Sugar Club in 2012 (which could have been their 1st gig as Kodaline).

I hear bluesky is dying. thank god

The game Litreach is a great way to learn more #Gaeilge vocabulary & spelling! You listen to the word in the 3 dialects & then attempt to spell it. www.litreach.ie #Speirgorm

Thread on how much different countries depend on oil & oil products, and how industries are about to halt as the last tankers are arriving. This feels like Feb 2020.

"Ireland free from the centre to the sea" Áit eile, troid chéanna. #SaoirseDonPhalastín

My whole existence in social media revolves around this simple fact: Decarbonizing MATERIAL production for buildings NOW (look at the first 🍊 bar) is SUPER IMPORTANT for CLIMATE ACTION. Operational emissions will decrease. But EMITTED is EMITTED. www.buildingmaterialsandclimate.com/chapte-2-lif...

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae Flamingo / Lasarairéan #100DaysOfGaeilge

The Silence of the Lamingtons

Add a food to a movie title. The Dark Chocolate Knight

Putting the (valid imo) historical reasons to cherish, protect, & promote the síneadh fada, it's v annoying that the using the fada online issue is due to lazy programming not wanting to deal with unicode encoding correctly. Great piece by Séamas on the downstream ramifications of this.

"That's really the test that I see in the end of the day...people look at him and they understand the whole thing and they still respect him" Yeah, that's the problem. Pity people didn't respect themselves more instead of reverting to selfish tribalism. #IrishPol

Happy Ēostre! Prints of this comic (and others) available in my shop - link in bio

"Harry Potter is now a byword for the industrial-scale erosion of the limited rights trans people had managed to win or squat in, and the equally galling mass indifference to that erosion. She has ruined it utterly." 👏

When you look at an image like this and realise this is *all* we’ve got, we need to jail every political leader and business executive that is hell-bent on destroying this jewel, our only home, for fossil fuel profit. To hell with them all, seriously.

The ring of truth here is like the bells of Christ Church. But it reveals something deeper. The parties in government are exhausted of ideas. They’re just casting about for something, anything, (a billionaire) suggested. They are empty.

What a stupid decision to take Craig off. Him & Crowley were the ones fighting & steering the fight back. Too many errors, not enough attacking shape, but also Exeter were unrelenting. Well done Crowley for playing like a demon at the end. #EXEvMUN

Full post prob Monday, but for now: Dáil Seat Projections for April 2026 Sinn Féin 44 (+5) Fianna Fáil 42 (-6) Fine Gael 41 (+3) Social Democrats 13 (+2) Independents 12 (-4) Labour 10 (-1) Independent Ireland 5 (+1) PBP/Solidarity 3 (nc) Aontú 3 (+1) 100% Redress 1 (nc) Green Party 0 (-1)

I'm begging you to stop rewarding (Irish) newspaper rage-bait with your attention. Ignore them, and they will quickly disappear into irrelevance - engage, and we will never be rid of them.

Watching Munster against Exeter is like watching a rolling river of lava slowly and sometimes explosively devastate a town. Munster are the town. #EXEvMUN

Contrary to what these letter writers might think, recommissioning gas and oil exploration, and turf-burning power stations is neither courageous nor does it provide energy security. Instead, it will increase emissions and harm human health. Time to end fossil fuels, not look fore more!

Lelia Doolan and Friends on Day 4 of her walk to Leinster house protesting US military use of Shannon Airport. #endusmilitaryuseofshannonairport #irelandpalestinesolidarity #spéirghorm

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae The Cage / An Cás #100DaysOfGaeilge

so what i am learning from github.com/axios/axios/... is that you should simply never join a Microsoft Teams call for any reason --- because of security

Cannot emphasize how much I have craved such a thing. #ThePitt

"Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated" - Frantz Fanon

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Spain accounted for 40% of the total economic growth in the EU last year, and their green transition has been a very important factor in that.

Well done Irish DF. A timely reminder that institutions of the state can act with decency rather than cruelty. I'd even argue that it is the natural tendency for most people to act with decency, & therefore bureaucracy & institutions that smother this tendency are badly designed and/or mismanaged.

Well now!

This, but journalism. The foundations of all success is failure - repeated, frustrated, sometimes mystical failure that is only ever resolved by experimentation and the application of previous experience. The greatest risk from AI is that it prevents future generations from learning how to think.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

A handy map tool for testing the efficiency of the positioning of solar panels.

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#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae Feathers / Cleití #100DaysOfGaeilge

Well done to these brothers, Dylan and Shane O’ Halloran! University of Galway must stop collaborating with Technion, the Research and Development wing of the Israeli military currently committing genocide against the Palestinian people. #BDS #SolidarityIsAVerb

So Israel has now killed very nearly as many Lebanese as Israelis were killed on October 7, including 100 children and there’s hardly a word of condemnation other than from Carney and Macron. Why no international outcry at the ethnic cleansing that’s taking place.

I know this, but it still tickles me to see it demonstrated in such a simple, graphic way.

It is gas that this is announced at the official opening of a petrol station* 😂 * The Banner Plaza is nice though, even though Pat McDonagh could pay people more. Check out the Clare Irish Traditional Music room upstairs. #IrishPol

I never thought the leopards would eat MY face.

Huge respect for Ed Miliband's refusal to back down to pressure over North Sea oil. The fact is drilling for oil in the North Sea will do NOTHING to fix the Iran crisis. The only long term solution to this crisis, and others that will follow, is renewables. Anyone who says otherwise has an agenda

Today, Israel is killing children again, like they do every day. Along with racist apartheid laws to execute Palestinians only. Don't stop taking action. Do all you can. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸