THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND. The international community would do well to pay attention to Uactaran na hÉireann. We are a people qualified to lecture others on genocidal famine and deliberately imposed mass starvation.

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

"It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government," sneered the woman to the people who elected her to be their voice in the federal government.

Brilliant.

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

“For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire” This is a really compelling perspective - worthy of your attention if not your agreement www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

African American inventor Isaac R. Johnson patented the folding bicycle frame in 1899, "so that it can be compactly stored -- as, for example, in trunks or compartments, or other small places, or conveniently carried, as in elevators, cars, or the like." 🎉February is Black American History Month🎉

"A 9-year-old child can cycle here peacefully" Last week, an advanced Dutch-inspired roundabout in France opened in Bures-Sur-Yvette. There are currently around 10 examples of these in France, providing users with clear and safe separation from traffic. 📸 Stein van Oosteren

California is leading the transition away from fossil fuels in the US, but unfortunately also leading a transition toward greater use of first-gen biofuels made from food crops, which *increase* rather than decrease GHG emissions relative to fossil fuels. We need true decarbonization instead.

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Today, Jan 20th, seemed the perfect day to finally quit Twitter and pitch my tent permanently here at Bluesky. I explain why in my @irishexaminer.bsky.social piece.

Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X. 1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.

I’ll say this, we need to protect Wikipedia at all costs&try to help other entities not owned by billionaires (Onion/Propublica etc),try to buy up/expand as much as they can.Boycotting isn’t enough.

If you have ever wondered what colonization was like—the violence, the dispossession, the massacres, the genocide, the displacement, the famine, the dehumanization, the racism—you are watching it in real time in Palestine. It is among the most depraved of all possible acts.

We have always relied on the oil and gas industry to self-report methane emissions. Now we have independent ways to of measuring those emissions and it turns out they were lying about the emissions. By a lot. The blue lines are actual measurements. The pink are industry numbers.

They put solar panels over some French vineyards, resulting in: ➡️ Yield increase of 20-60% ➡️ Irrigation reduced 20-70% ➡️ Frost mortality reduced 25-50% Hard to find a downside here. HT @billmckibben.bsky.social www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

It's been an odd night. As I was going to bed, someone named Katie Hannon tagged me in a post I didn't understand. I woke up at 1:30 to pee and saw that 30 strangers in Ireland were following me. I woke at 4:30 to pee again (yes, I'm old) and saw that even more Irish are following me...

"So within 5 years, I would say, we'd have wiped out the chance for 2C. Because if we say 1.5C is impossible now, effectively 2C in the early 2030s is in the same position" - @kevinclimate.bsky.social !!!! 😨 youtu.be/yULdkWpjmM0

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

For many climate-experts when we express ‘cut emissions as hard as we can’ I suggest there’s a critical but tacit caveat; ‘provided it doesn’t impact my life style & hi-consumption norms’. I see this as one of the key reasons the expert community seldom discusses deep social/cultural or value norms.