Want a sober reminder of where we are in addressing the climate crisis? Over the last 50 years the oil & gas industry has made $3 billion in profits every day. $52 trillion in pure profit: buff.ly/3iXkJwm Time to unplug fossil fuels.#ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity

Just sharing in case it's of interest to anyone: the British Red Cross Summer School on International Humanitarian Law held in Cambridge University. I did it a few years ago & learnt a lot (I was the only journalist on the course but it is open to journalists). www.redcross.org.uk/about-us/wha...

1,468 people walking or cycling were killed or seriously injured in Dublin between 2016–2024. This is a political choice. Safer, better cycle lanes, lower speed limits, and proper enforcement would save lives. We know what works. Source: Road Safety Authority collision statistics, 2016–2024.

I finally got one of those accounts that just spams X with shitty shortform videos to talk to me about why they do it. www.garbageday.email/p/everything...

Russia has ruled a K-pop omegaverse fic to be illegal, sentencing its author to 18 months in a labor camp. So is it worth reading? Get the link I tracked down in today's @garbageday.email and decide for yourself! www.garbageday.email/p/everything...

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Lil' reminder that the discount code for my vehicle's lil' limp is still valid - enter the code FECKINGCAR at checkout for 10% off any print orders 🛍️ bsky.app/profile/ciar...

Your regular reminder (as Ireland is about to significantly increase flights in and out of Dublin) that emissions from flying are many times greater than the airlines and airports own up to. #SpeirGorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Writing about the Dublin by-election: grand, easy, straightforward variation of outcomes, simple to express in clear language Writing about the Galway by-election: horrendous, confusing, no definitive answers, wild speculation, no longer able count

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

The AI bros are always just out here telling on themselves.

An interactive map of the 134 sites on Dublin City Council’s Derelict Sites Register: experience.arcgis.com/experience/7...

I've always felt the best way to get people subscribe to @dublininquirer.com, is just to publish good articles and wait and hope. But I'm told, that people are busy and might have other things on their minds than us, so I'd better make a pitch, better ask. So here goes. 1/

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Queen Medb of Connacht, famed for her role in the Táin Bó Cúailnge and flanked by bulls Finnbhennach and Donn Cúailnge - formidable warrior queen, shrewd leader, seductive beauty, and one of Ireland's most powerful, strong-willed, and legendary women 🐂 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

I am once again proposing this. If it works well, we can lower the threshold to $500 million.

Nothing demonstrates the weird nature of working as a writer or book illustrator better than our enthusiastic approval of a publicly-funded institution that gives our work away for free.

A reminder that Nick is a bit unclear about what is and isn't illegal.

The Taoiseach has signalled there will be no change in the State's support for the Aughinish Alumina plant in Co Limerick, despite an investigation indicating its exports to smelters in Russia, where it is used to make aluminium, end up with Russian arms manufacturers.

6th June 2026 has become available due to cancellation, with €100 off regular price! If you or someone you know is getting married snap up this date for wedding caricature entertainment before it's gone! Please share! #speirgorm #weddings #ireland #galway #Spéirghorm

In 1966 Joseph Weizenbaum developed ELIZA, a chatbot. He programmed a doctor script that simulated a therapist by rephrasing replies as questions. In 1976 he wrote the attached quote in his book. Whenever someone says they asked ChatGPT or Claude I think of this quote.

Sure, billionaires destroyed American news media on purpose, but at least now we get to watch a bunch of dumb assholes humiliate themselves every day. It’s not a trade I’d have taken willingly, but it’s what we have. www.todayintabs.com/p/where-is-e...

The front cover of tomorrow's Irish Times magazine. I'm still feeling the warmth of her conversation with Fintan O'Toole in last week's @phizzfest.bsky.social @sallyhayd.bsky.social

Absolutely incredible headline.

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet. Hope you'll read it

This is so awful and incredibly bad form. Imagine causing the closure of an excellent, much loved cafe after 25 years of business through thoughtlessness and lack of forward planning? And yet, utterly typical of our current government.

This will be the first search for a new James Bond that won't involve the film's long-standing producers, the Broccoli family. Which is a shame, because they had an interesting way of screentesting all potential new Bonds with a really odd scene, for a really clever reason. Mini 🧵

Outrage may be a cliché on social media but that is, I think, an appropriate response here.

This is maybe the sixth time I've admired this.

Beautiful aurora on the SFO-DUB flight last night. Everyone else sleeping. I decided to see where we were, not thinking it would be dark enough for an aurora or that we'd have a decent one, and wow. I missed getting the initial massive curving arcs over the plane. Very very active.

The council has shot down a proposal for emergency solar panels on council homes before winter, to keep electricity bills down for its tenants. Officials pointed to money, government grant rules – and GDPR.

In Phibsborough, pilgrims gathered at a shrine to the housing gods. It started with a chicken baster, says artist Alison Byrne, which she would take with her to house viewings for luck.

So turns out now would be a VERY good time to treat yourself to a print, if you've had your eye on one - and there's 10% off when you use the discount code FECKINGCAR at checkout for a limited time. Shop here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints #SpéirGhorm

This - THIS- is the news I crave. Anyone else got a window open? Will post my own evidence shortly.

A man (80s?) wearing neat suit trousers, a paisley waistcoat and a long-sleeve green shirt, is making his way down a long, flat stretch of beach. A walking stick in one hand, the other holding a straw hat in place as a gust of wind carries the scent of nearby pine trees to the sea. (4)

I'm just trying to imagine if there was anti-social behaviour, or crime, in a settled neighbourhood, and the council went in and knocked the houses the people involved were living in, or dumped piles of rubble on them to make sure no one could live in them.

Privileged to have been part of this conversation - we need to talk about data centres with @antaisce.bsky.social // Recording of the panel, transcript and some brilliant slides all online. If you're looking for a way to do something positive for climate and environment - join An Taisce #spéirghorm

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Federal judge blocks US sanctions against UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese https://aje.news/3itjuv

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No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time. It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day. It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

They are bad people with bad intentions governing badly

I would actually sue her again for spelling my name two different ways but that's just me

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Good people of London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Sheffield - the great @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social is coming your way next week, reading from her latest book FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. Jan is a warm, funny and wonderful writer and her events are just brilliant! 📚🎤😍

We are asking readers to get in touch and write a Money Diary to help us understand how they are dealing with the cost of living right now. If you’re interested, send an email to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you. jrnl.ie/7033081

Waymo doing valuable work here, bringing the experience of drowning in a broken underwater vehicle to the masses. A few short years ago this was an exclusive arrangement only available to billionaires.

if you specifically say "people from the congo" shouldn't be allowed into ireland than roger casement's ghost gets to make your life a living hell. think that's in the bylaws