“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves." #OnThisDay, 27 Sept 1962, Rachel Carson's influential book 'Silent Spring' is published, documenting the environmental impact of pesticides. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️ 1/2

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

Today‘s walk - Annamoe Parade if you’re around till 3.30pm this day Saturday 27th Sept. Murals, music & more

This by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on ID cards is very good And it also kindly links to my post setting out how an incoming illiberal government would not need to force through primary legislation, given what they could do with statutory instruments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

A lot more sunshine this year. Interesting that my solar PV stats show my system has already produced more power this year than the whole of last year. A super month of May helped a lot.

A world that protects refugees is a world that is safer, more stable and more just. UNHCR stands with those forced to flee—today, tomorrow and for as long as they need us. This is our promise.

Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:

To expand the learnings for #CargobikeSharingBETA, there is now a public, electric, cargobike in #Stoneybatter. @bleeperactive.bsky.social have registration info here bleeperactive.com/pages/shared... We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions if you use it, and please spread the word! 🙏

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Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

An additional benefit of the temporary traffic management arrangements for #25playstreets #d7playstreets is they make crossing roads like this (Old Cabra Road into lower Cabra Drive) much less intimidating for pedestrians.

Today, traffic divides communities, children spend most of their childhood indoors and people rarely get chances to meet their neighbours. The goal for me is to make it easier for parents to let their children play on the street again without the help of Dublin City Council.

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Israel’s attack on Yemeni newspaper complex kills 31 media workers

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Cargo bicycle share trial expands to Dublin’s northside with new hub in Stoneybatter A cargo bike share scheme, which is being run as a pilot project by bike hire company Bleeper for Dublin City Council's Beta Projects, has been expanded to Stoneybatter. The new location in Stoneybatter is on…

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Scientists are urging a rethink of Ireland's proposed next carbon budget [plan for emissions cuts], warning it goes too easy on the country & won't comply with national law or international agreements m.independent.ie/irish-news/s...

Discover the hidden voices of St Brendan’s 🗝️ Join us for Grangegorman and Genealogy: Searching for Patient Voices 📅 Sat 4 Oct, 10am–1pm 📍 East Quad, TU Dublin 🎟 Free | Part of #DublinFestivalofHistory 👉 bit.ly/3KsijO4 @ria.ie #NationalArchives

If you’re not talking about infrastructure, you’re not talking about Ireland in 2025. Between housing, water, power, transport - a vast amount of problems for our society and the economy and they deepen exponentially.

Today’s (Grangegorman, window box) bee.

I gave a talk this week on the vulnerability of UK institutions to a populist govt and I was told by an audience member that the US and Hungary couldn't happen here. I said it absolutely could and Reform are learning fast. The complacency is scary

because the US derives part of its power from ensuring everyone else is dependent on oil, and thus is discouraging a transition off of it

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

First the Dublin Airport cap, now this... The Irish government seems hell-bent on worsening the climate and biodiversity crisis.

Booklovers in Ireland have been urged to vote for their favourite local bookshop in the An Post Bookshop of the Year category in this year’s awards https://www.thejournal.ie/bookshop-awards-an-post-vote-6818542-Sep2025/

From a book I'm reading, Is a River Alive, by Robert MacFarlane: 'I am tired of fighting the long defeat. I want hope. I thrive on it!'

The minister is not telling the truth - to invoke SAF (“sustainable aviation fuel”) as a mitigant against climate emissions is misleading and dishonest. It is not possible to produce CO2-neutral aviation fuel at scale. The minister knows this.

DCC Cllrs voted for a resolution not to endorse any of the candidates for presidential election in a 50 to 9 vote.

Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien, has just been on @rteone.rte.ie news insisting on the need to grow Dublin Airport capacity from 36 million passengers per year to a potential 60 million, liberally sprinkling his speech with the word 'sustainably'. These people are living on another planet.

If the government lifts the passenger cap, it will lose what little legitimacy it has left on climate action. Such a move would be a betrayal of current and future generations in Ireland and around the world. There is no boost to the economy on a dead planet.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary . Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

Really positive review of THE LIE OF THE LAND in today’s Irish Independent by Caroline O’Doherty.

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Can't find a similar skeet or tweet for Melissa Hortman, a Democrat politician who was murdered three months ago.

Pollinator-friendly spring bulbs which you can be planting this autumn for spring flowers & bees, as recommended by the All Ireland Pollinator Plan pollinators.ie/wp-content/u...

From club nights to squash tournaments, there's something for everyone! 👉 buff.ly/vXPFmqD #GCNnews

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

#Aras25 will be one of the first votes under digital ad "bans" coming as companies try avoid the EU's new rules on Oct 10th What will campaigning look like? Does it matter when it feels like 1938? Featuring @clareodv.bsky.social & @worklesshard.bsky.social www.thebriefing.ie/campaigning-...

Apartment residents deserve the same chance at cutting their bills with solar power as homeowners. The Green Party is calling for a straightforward grant and one simple ESB rule change to make it happen. Read more below 👇 @smytho.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2jk2tbcc

Reform showing their true colours here www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

This is both profoundly stupid, and profoundly dangerous

“The gentle anthology film follows three sets of siblings as they visit parents in the United States, Dublin & Paris. That middle section & sees Cate Blanchett & Vicky Krieps driving through recognisable streets – Blanchett’s car breaks down in Stoneybatter.” www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

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