Iarratas eile faoin Acht um Shaoráil Faisnéise ar Údarás na Gaeltachta 🙃 #FOIFriday

At some point in the future, Dublin surely is going to need to reply on desalination for water (not a distant river). Amazes me to see people posting about how farmers should stop complaining about the 'lovely weather' and just use irrigation. Same people whining about hosepipe bans in their gardens

Cartoonist: Bill Bramhall

Ár n-iarracht beag féin:

Ní oirfidh an freagra dó. Bheadh ar rud éigin a dhéanamh faoi.

Inniu an naoú lá den deichniúir 29ú den mhí órga sa bhliain CCXXXIV den fhéilire Phoblachtach. Lá na cruithneachta

Postáil beirt carachtar a chuireann Lúcháir ort #booksky

Ceoldráma as Gaeilge sa Phéacóg 16 - 19 Meán Fómhair www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/sao...

Mura bhfuil cuid againn ag éisteacht le focal Íosa Críost sa lá atá inniu ann, is dóigh nach bhfuil aon rogha ann ach éisteacht leo siúd atá ag labhairt faoin ngéarchéim aeráide atá buailte linn. tuairisc.ie/an-biobla-ag...

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Saorstát Éireann agus p ⁊ T le chéile... @[email protected]

Ag ag innse na fìrinn, ma tha cuideigin cho gòrach AI a chleachdadh airson ceist mar sin, 's fhiach a thoirt air falbh on gene pool #DuaiseanDarwin

🤔 An bhfuil an beacán seo 🍄‍🟫 inite? 🤖Tá. 🤢🤮☠️ 🤖 Tá an ceart agat. Tá an beacán sin nimhiúil. Brón orm faoin mearbhall! Ar mhaith leat níos mó a fhoghlaim faoi bheacáin nimhiúla 🍄🍄🍄?

Ar an Camino @gaelchlo.bsky.social

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Bhí baint ag comhghleacaí liom i CAPTEC leis seo.

🧵 Ba cheart do craoltóir seirbhíse poiblí bheith íoctha as acmhainní an phobail, agus an buiséad sin a bheith ilbhliantúil agus cosanta ó ladar pholaitiúil.

🧵 Samhnasach agus baolach.

Ní buaic chultúrtha é bia na Gearmáine de ghnáth, ach ba iad ceibeabanna Bheirlín na cinn is fearr. nos.ie/news/tar-lio...

“use of a machine that encodes racist, sexist, white-supremacist ideologies & always regressing to the mean; is destroying the environment; and concentrating power in the hands of few broligarchy” is what i hear when i see “use of llm-as-a-judge” 🤷🏾‍♀️

Smaointe Fánacha Aonghusa: Papillion Scannán nach raibh feicthe agam go dtí gur thug easuan an deis dom. https://aonghus.blogspot.com/2026/07/papillion.html

We are not much more than a week past being told we could not ban hare coursing because that would cause issues and make the situation worse. Also money. Invisible money.

Colby's thrashing continues in full swing. This from a Danish MEP is precious, especially the ending. 😘🤣

‘A pity we can’t use our own language.’ Mar a dúirt sí féin.

Dé hAoine beag seo (17ú) an spriocdháta - má tá suim agat bheith id' iriseoir nó id' eagarthóir nuachta do phobal na Gaeltachta & na Gaolainne, anois do sheans!

Against English: The Irish Poets Who Have Refused Translation https://www.wasafiri.org/content/against-english-the-irish-poets-who-have-refused-translation-by-ellen-corbett/

De réir a chéile tá gach brabach á phríobháidiú i líon síor laghdaithe lámha (fireann, geal, gránna) agus an brabach á dhéanamh le cúnamh bonneagar phoiblí agus tacaíocht stáit. Creachlathas atá sa chaclathas atá á riaradh ag na caipitlithe faire.

separately to all that, they use public infrastructure which ends up being subsidised by all of us -- this applies to all utilities they consume

... and on top of that even the systems where they use mostly reclaimed water they still need to “top-up” w/ potable water to keep the level of minerals in the open-loop water below the threshold it damages the mechanical cooling systems

there's more to it: because it's not >necessarily< using potable water, folks will keep telling you that they >don't< use potable water, which is a subtle difference potable water has advantages because it doesn't build up as much mineral deposits in the cooling towers

Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink. Plenty for the data centers But none for kitchen sinks. Apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge

15 July: feast of Swithun (d. 862) torrents of rain at the translation of his relics are probably basis of the legend about the meteorological significance of the day (Kingsgate) #otd

I knew it was bad but holy God I just found out that those useless AI slop datacentres don't just need water but need DRINKING WATER

Ceann eile a raibh captec ag obair air (roimh m'am leo)

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Very interesting use of the word "fear" in this article - only quoted from a local journalist and a politician yet repeatedly used by the author who admits many of the people approached weren't interested in talking to him. A misleading, unhelpful headline in my opinion.

Roimh a hocht ar maidin, i gcuntas Dé!

A transport company forced drivers to bike their own routes. Feeling a car scrape past at speed changed how they drive forever.

Inniu an seachtú lá den deichniúir 27ú den mhí órga sa bhliain CCXXXIV den fhéilire Phoblachtach. Lá na gairleoige

Lol. 😭

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"Ireland's Enterprise Minister Peter Burke attended a private dinner with tech giant Meta at the US ambassador’s residence in February to discuss the “digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency,” amid a US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech." www.independent.ie/business/min...

Voyager 1 wide-angle view of Jupiter & Io (March 4, 1979) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/24Xw5A8

Bhí léirsiú ar siúl inniu i Buswells eagraithe ag ceoltóirí atá míshásta faoin ngadaíocht atá ar siúl ag Intleacht Shaorga ar ealaíon atá faoi chóipcheart intleachtúil na gcumadóirí. Labhair Colm Mac Con Iomaire lenár dtuairisceoir Jack Basquille.Éist linn ag a 5 ar RnaG: www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/t...

In 2021, Meta’s data centre complex in Clonee, Co. Meath, used more water from the mains than Irish Water said was being used by all Irish data centres combined. “Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?”, by @lokapila.bsky.social www.dublininquirer.com/does-irish-w...

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