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Every day is Earth Day, dumbass

"What Europe needs is not yet another scramble for new sources of fossil fuel imports, but a fundamental shift away from the demand that makes these shocks so damaging in the first place."

and even if that was true, sick people deserve to live too

its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

This is a completely insane proposal.

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

But what if you want to funnel a load of money to hoteliers

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵

I’ve be involved in various capacities in counter disinformation and counter hate speech activity on Irish online spaces for over 8 years. I have never witness anything as bad as the abuse directed at Senator Eileen Flynn… it’s gamergate levels of targeted & coordinated harassment.

20-04-1914 USA: Ludow Massacre in southern Colorado, one of the deadliest attacks against striking workers in U. S. history. Tent colony of displaced strikers and their families beaten and fired upon by Natl Guard and private agency. Two dozen men, women, children killed.

Pro Putin party in with 44% of the vote in Bulgaria 💀

Documents show deputy first minister did not raise human rights once on trip to Gulf state accused of fuelling Sudan’s brutal war https://www.theferret.scot/scottish-government-uae-sudan-human-rights/

I spoke to the Sindo about the unprecedented scale of disinformation we witnessed during the fuel protests & the disinformation economy. It's not enough to get this content removed post-hoc; we need to hold the platforms accountable for promoting disinformation & hate speech. archive.ph/AOVHC

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

“…Irreversible for hundreds to thousands of years” “Irreversible”. This is infinitely more consequential than Trump, oil prices, Hormuz etc. yet we continue to ignore it.

The sad reality is evictions are a result of government policy No different from our former colonisers Putting profit & property rights over the right to a home Disgusting #DerelictIreland #speirghorm

This is worthwhile reading. It really conveys one of the things that I keep coming up against when considering whether I can incorporate AI into my work.

i'm horrified by this. for about four different and compelling reasons that I probably don't need to explain to Bluesky this is an horrific idea, but if you're a FF-FG decision-maker those reasons will probably be dismissed because jobs, corp tax, not upsetting USians, etc.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Listening to arguably the biggest weekend radio show on the national broadcaster, and the tsunami of abuse suffered by an elected representative was not mentioned during the panel discussion. I'll repeat: Irish media/politics has no idea about the far right, and that is a danger for democracy.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I do find this insistence on contingency and hedging survivors’ accounts really tedious. Andrew Cuomo was found to have sexually harassed Lindsay Boylan—and many others—by the New York Attorney General.

Going to start @ing @gavreilly.com for status updates on the Straight of Hormuz like it’s the gyms during COVID. #Ireland #Speirgorm

Community-owned energy projects with people names are my favourite thing right now.

One of the ways protests work is by sheer numbers. It takes a lot of people to block a city, ergo a lot of people feel strongly about an issue. When 11 fascists with massive vehicles block a motorway it presents a disproportionate picture of the level of support.

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Green Party council candidate in Lambeth. In a normal world, it would not be sustainable for a Party which claims to be "anti-racist" to ignore this, or to try and punt it away by telling everyone that everything is ok because Zack Polanski is Jewish

Accountability is the right thing to do for its own sake, and because it might discourage repeats of the same malfeasance. Setting the bar for accountability at single-handedly fixes everything forever is ridiculous, and effectively an argument for no accountability at all.

Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen. Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons for @thenerve_news. 👏

I hope every government in Europe is doing the same.

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘣𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 … 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 “They’re actually justifying war crimes. Unbelievable.”

On April 21st the 27 EU member country leaders will vote on whether to suspend the EU's Free Trade agreement with Israel. The agreement that sustains Israel’s economy. The agreement that commits both sides to respecting human rights.

Is it, though?

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

The ticket sales must be truly horrific if Infantino is leaking this.

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

And it's a bit concerning that he is a major investor in Substack. Marc Andreesen is shaping media into his vision and some of y'all are just letting him. You are letting SS use your left leaning journalism to launder right wing extremism. It's making me nuts.

Italian government to Trump…

Shoutout to @jdportes.bsky.social for getting this info as Govt. have been refusing to publish economic impact assessments. That £600m "saving" will end up being spent on managing hate crime/community cohesion and trying to fix an utterly decimated care system. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Not only are they appeasing the hauliers they’re sacrificing accountability to do so

People are dunking on this but he's correct - the government caved even after breaking the worst of the blockades. However I don't think "more militant action" is the lesson from this. This group was treated very differently by the state to other militant actors - as Paul knows first hand!

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈