Here's better video of that crash in Idaho. youtu.be/WO7FvvP33r0

Michael McDowell is at it again I see, and the trolls at Newstalk are only too happy to indulge an Urban/Rural divide piece. Of course on Facebook he's seemingly a hero of rural Ireland now for this..

This is an incredible resource. So far I've been reading up on Coal mines and plants.

🇬🇷 Greece's largest coal plant, Agios Dimitrios, is shutting down today. One coal plant remains until Greece exits coal this year. Renewables have been beating coal on cost for a while. The country is expected to hit its 2030 solar target early this year! balkangreenenergynews.com/ag-dimitrios...

the claudes are having sex in my mentions

"Super glad you brought all your fuckboys with you so I can tell everyone to their faces at once. Your country is in permanent decline and China will rule the world. Thanks for coming, please exit through the gift shop."

A LOT of people's dads didn't hug them growing up and, as adults, they go looking to fill the void Please hug your kids.

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Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 70% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 79% at 04:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 35% of demand. 7% of generation was exported, 0% of demand was met by imports.

It has become crystal clear to me that the push for climate action has to come from the bottom up because it is not working to wait for it to happen from the top down.

Well that's going to go down well.

We fight on. Because the women of Ireland deserve better.  Tonight, Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael chose not to support women, not to trust women, not to show compassion to those so cruelly forced to travel abroad for care.

New York subway rule: dogs can only travel if they go "in a bag." New Yorkers took it very seriously... and became incredibly creative. 🐶

A big fuck SF from me on this. I would have considered them as part of a strategy to oust FFG but you are right this shows them spineless and snivelling and toadying. Disgusted.

And so it continues; FFFG just do whatever the fuck they want in favour of corporations and don't bat an eye about overwhelming public opposition 😫🤬

Fuck Sinn Fein and fuck government TDs for keeping the three day wait. I hope to God you never have to deal with it

For anyone who thinks Sinn Féin are a solution to any of our problems, take a long hard look.

Members of the Oireachtas climate committee are concerned that the government's Private Wires Bill is being proposed "primarily for large energy users" and will "optimise the delivery of renewable energy to data centres". jrnl.ie/7028856t

Energy usage by data centres is 'cannibalising any increase in renewable capacity', according to the Climate Change Advisory Council. The body has also warned that Ireland is 'exposed to global energy shocks' due to a reliance on imported fossil fuels jrnl.ie/7037689

Tá an ceart ag an tUachtarán. Rivers are the ultimate truth tellers, and the story they're telling us is not a good one. www.thejournal.ie/connolly-env...

All the UK politicians currently having loads of fun, completely ignoring what's going on in the world. Meanwhile....tick tock. Brent pushing back towards $110/bbl, gas prices ticking along at 116p/th, piling cost onto the next price cap and the *real* market dislocation is *still* coming.

Kinda tired of everything getting more expensive, but wages stagnating, at least in my case. Not sure how this can be sustained for many more years. Fed up really, and doing everything possible to cut costs. €458.37 this year System needs a reset.

Wow, I knew the people working on the ICC case lost access to their Microsoft email, but I hadn’t realised it went this far. Anything touching a US service was fair game to be weaponised 😬

More than anything else, Farage is a creature of 24-hour news. He wouldn't have got anywhere in, say, 1971 or 1984. TV news orgs have far too many minutes to fill than is democratically healthy.

People complaining about the 127k for a bike parking facility obviously have not tried to buy a window or get any work done recently. This seems like it's just anti public services sentiment with a particular anti cycling flavour to it.

I don't know what the maximum sentence is, but it wouldn't be enough for this example. Horrendous lying and a total avoidance of responsibility, they certainly should never be left behind the wheel of a car again.

Weird that you don't hear the "it will grow the deficit" or "we can't afford it" arguments around the Iran war, because I've been hearing those arguments about every *good* thing the US has tried to do for decades now. It's funny when money matters and when it doesn't.

UPDATE: Swarm of Bees now taking seats off Labour

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

The Bezos Post is essentially becoming Jeff Bezos’ personal blog to whine about people who criticize the idle rich like him. A hit dog will holler. Imagine arguing that hoarding billions of dollars is the peak of “human potential” with a straight face.

Very well said. The attempts to divide and cast out the views of those who don't conform are very apparent. Glenroe actually represented the mix very well for it's time, but that representation is long absent.

Saudi Arabia will restrict US access to bases and airspace until it “provides proper protection” from Iran’s attacks, Saudi sources tell i24.

I got a Google Alert for my name yesterday, pointing to an article for an outlet I’d never spoken to, full of quotes I’ve never said. It’s now corrected…but the editor told me ‘I asked Google to find an expert but I think it used AI.’ Isn’t it your job to check..?

Quite a haul. There is no doubt that scramblers are being used by criminal gangs for drug/weapons logistics.

People too often think of genocide just as mass killing. While that is a big part of it, the defining feature is that genocide is aimed at destroying the entire social structure. In that sense the D9 is the most pure instrument of genocide, it exists only to flatten the social structure of Palestine

Argentina races to find origins of cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, amid reports some passengers have returned to US

Awaiting the Trump evisceration that will surely be pointed at the Saudis, just like it has been at the UK, Spain, Germany etc al. .... .... ....

This is the vid. It was also verified and broadcast by Sky News. The destruction of civilian infrastructure is a war crime in international law. In this case it's a Christian village, the purpose is to drive the population out by depriving them of water. A daily occurrence carried out with impunity.

Thanks Bono..

Hundreds of workers in Google’s UK artificial intelligence division have voted to unionise over concerns that its technology is being used by the US to wage war on Iran and by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza.

An article worth reading, I didn't get a paywall so maybe it's open access.

The Iran War started because of the decades-long wealth consolidation that gave billionaires the power to install Trump. That same wealth consolidation is ignoring the impending doom that it in effect instigated.

The REAL problem here is that grid operators don't want to pay electric vehicles for avoiding grid congestion. Because they find that hard to think about and it might lead to a new business model they are not comfortable with. THAT is the problem. The unwillingness of grid operators to modernize.

Question. "The price of gas is set on the international market, whether it comes from the North Sea... Or is imported" As we are continuing to link up international Grids, are we not in danger of repeating this "market price" mistake with electricity? Solar Roof excluded.

I will never forgive all the media who made the Iona Institute a voice of authority instead of a shower of mad people who should create a trad Catholic theme park for themselves and leave the rest of us alone.

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

Brought to Israel? The Israeli act of piracy, off the Greek coast, led to these people being kidnapped and brought to Israel against their will. RTE needs to call this what it is

Good morning to everyone who doesn't know what a MARC bike car looks like on the inside, and wants to know.