My family’s daily mantra: We will use as many glasses, cups, mugs and bottles as humanly possible all day long.

Electrification in Europe and US: slowing down over the last 15 years, and only progressing very slowly in recent years. Electrification in China: chugging along at a much higher speed, well exceeding the level in Europe and US now.

Climate knowledge has been taken hostage to prevent climate action. “It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”

My "Gaming is a Gateway" project is up and running! You're not going to believe this, but playing retro games with a lovely bunch of enthusiastic young gamers was loads of fun.

We shouldn't own animals as property or exploit them. AND the relationship that humans have with animals is the scaffolding on which we build the worst horrors we inflict on other humans. The very worst things humans have ever done to other humans we have normalized and practiced by doing to animals

‘Hits include . . . a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition.’ And: ’It’s just another tool for expression, particularly valuable for people like me who have something to say but lack traditional musical training.’ But it’s not *you* doing the expressing, is it?

One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector. 100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land. That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.

taoiseach says liquified gas imports can't come fast enough, though when you imported fracked gas, investing so much money that you tie yourself to it for decades, you're signing up for more frequent and more destructive storms and floods

This morning’s walk. Before the rains. Or after *some* rains but before the big Orange 21-hour rain/weather warning that starts in a few hours anyway. Dublin has a massive drainage problem doesn’t it? Water pooling everywhere.

“One in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tehran taps run dry as water crisis deepens across Iran reut.rs/4r1Sw0g

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

The Irish Times is the only Irish news organisation with a global network of full-time foreign correspondents. Sign up for our new morning newsletter written by our Beijing correspondent joining the dots of world news Monday to Thursday: www.irishtimes.com/world/2025/1...

All four Fine Gael MEPs voted with the far-right: Nina Carberry, Regina Doherty, Seán Kelly, Maria Walsh Independent Ireland MEP Ciaran Mullooly also sided with the far-right The centre-right abandoned talks with the greens, centre-left and liberals on an alternative deal

and we're all just okay with this are we

Chinese and EU emissions were more or less flat in 2025 (Chinese emissions may have actually declined slightly, but its too early to know for sure: www.carbonbrief.org/...). US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.

Rain clearing North after 39.9mm in Killarney and while many areas saw less than 25mm the impact was high, flooding reporting in many areas. Sadly over 60mm of rain is forecast Friday into Saturday in parts of East with over 100mm on Wicklow mountains with more flooding likely.

Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk reut.rs/4p41Kai

Zadie Smith.

Hello @support.bsky.team I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended. Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable. cc: @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team

“Food production is a big cause of climate breakdown, amounting to about a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Three-fifths of those emissions come from meat production.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In response to some of the comments: If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan. This is true regardless of your politics. Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Meanwhile, '3rd world' India has almost electrified all of its vast network in record time. infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/railway...

Is the newspaper arts review dying or could it be rescued by subscribers? @irishtimes.com #abbeytheatre www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president. He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron. The President’s term of office ends at midnight. ⁦‪@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

“Climate-related disasters displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 people every day. Floods, storms, drought & extreme heat are driving displacement, alongside slow-onset disasters threatening food & water security.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.

Today’s walk

This is brilliant!

"On July 20, the Tehran Water Authority reported that the capital’s reservoirs had reached their lowest point in a century, and last week, the authority’s head warned that dam reserves could sustain the city for only two more weeks if the dry spell continued."

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

One of the most beautiful things about the Irish is their respect for the arts. You find live music at most bars, I went to a literary pub crawl & saw monuments & museums dedicated to writers, poets, musicians, etc. They understand the value of supporting artists & I wish Canada did, too.

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Today’s walk - winter flowering cherry trees of Kirwan St, Stoneybatter

Typhoon Kalmaegi left a trail of death and devastation as it tore through the central Philippines this week, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and displacing tens of thousands of people. https://cnn.it/47FIZD5

Ms Murphy said that 80,328 to 164,000 vacant and derelict residential properties exist in Ireland, and that while their reuse could help meet carbon targets, it could also rejuvenate and regenerate communities.

Útóipe Cheilteach | Culture File Dennis Harvey & Lars Lovén on the music of a Celtic Utopia in their new documentary; plus Light Moves teams up w/ Catherine Young Dance + Palestinian company El Funoun, for a dance solidarity happening. www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

This really the cracking of speeches: a banger. Worth reading in full.

Today’s talk - a key takeaway for me from John Gibbons’ brilliant event about his book “The Lie of the Land” at @tudublinsustain.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social - “We’re facing into a future which is intensely local.”

Comics! Also art books! And comics! Also picture books! Here until 1 & 3-5! Tell friends and strangers about us! I get “when did you open” questions almost every day! From people who live in Stoneybatter! littledeercomics.ie

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING 65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction China is an outlier - but maybe not for long @e3g.bsky.social www.e3g.org/publications...

Fota Wildlife Park will remain closed until at least the end of November due to an "ongoing assessment of the national avian flu situation"

This morning’s walk

“Aviation greenhouse gas emissions amount to around 10% of Ireland’s total and have increased 500% since 1990, while the population grew just 44%.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Their emissions grew last year by 9% to 16 million tonnes of CO2, the most polluting airline in Europe. Media organisations make a choice to highlight their financials, but not their destruction of our stable climate.

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.