people who successfully extort money with strong-arm tactics are famous for doing it just the once

There is not a snowball’s chance in hell of any of these payments actually helping ordinary people with the cost of living, but they will embolden the company owners to demand even further concessions to line their own pockets. Slow clap to everyone who scolded the left for not supporting them

It looks like the 17th century Basque-Icelandic pidgin is basically an extremely sweaty Minionese

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This is very good, on the blockades

I am once again asking when the fuck are Apple and Google going to properly support Content Credentials?

two weeks shy of a year ago, I recorded Tom in the racist X Space of Off-Grid Ireland, freely talking about wanting to rally the far right from across Ireland to converge on Dublin and topple the government I'm not saying that's what's happening, but it's what Tom and the far right want to happen

We need to get these lads back down to the countryside smartish otherwise who’ll cut the hedgerows down to ground level during nesting season

I may have to make my kids watch The Right Stuff after this

Sorry folks you can send as many robots to Mars as you like, but nothing is as cool as this. Amazing stuff from Artemis II

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

also. A reason the lads on the fuel blockades aren't happy with the government's existing cuts on excise for fuel is because it's a tax rebate. You have to be _paying tax in the first place_ for a tax rebate to work. Guess what they're not doing

These spokesmen for the fuel blockades are a lovely bunch. www.boards.ie/discussion/c... "These are the lads that kept the country going? They kept the Gardai, Revenue and legal profession busy anyway"

If we want the gardai to clear the blockades at the refineries, we’re going to have to do the unthinkable: gently drape a Palestinian flag over one of the trucks

Buggy operators demand invention of new, fancier type of horsewhip before they remove their contraptions from the roads. “Also, the whip should grant wishes,” added a man you wouldn’t trust with an egg, let alone your hopes for a fairer nation

Blockade Supermacs. See how they like it with no breakfast

Just recorded a great pod, and I gotta say ... solar and batteries are going to win. They are the main dish. Everything else is a side dish. In 10 years, you won't be able to find anyone who disagrees with this.

1/2 This is not a genuine protest, it is organised by elements of Irish fascism who have finally found an issue they can latch on to without coming accross as the oddballs and weirdos they actually are because with this...

IMPORTANT ARTEMIS II HOT SAUCE UPDATE Thanks to Carlie Kollath Wells’ reporting out of Axios New Orleans (which I confirmed via email since there are two versions of the article out) …. WE HAVE OUR LIST. It’s these 4 pictured, plus Heinz Hot Taco Sauce! www.axios.com/local/new-or...

The paid ads promoting the #IrishFuelProtests blocking Irish ports and streets are being funded by a tow truck company At least the one we could find is; we can't know who else is putting money behind this because Meta "banned" ie. hides, political ads www.thebriefing.ie/who-is-fundi...

I remember some homeless kids squatting in Dublin and AGS sent up a fecking helicopter. This softly, softly with the right wing is so annoying. Absolutely two-tier policing.

Thing is, those tractors blocking O'Connell Street ARE a climate change protest, it just so happens the protesters don't believe in climate change and so they are protesting against their perception that too much is being done to mitigate against it (that "too much" being a modest carbon tax).

Have any Irish journalists done a report on the main spokesman for the tractor protests and the contents of his Facebook page? www.facebook.com/christopher....

Lol. The idea that the truck protests are trying to avoid impact on the travelling public in Ireland is absolute horseshit! They have parked lorries across the M8 motorway and it's entirely shut down. Gobshites

The Irish Fash are only delighted with themselves that they managed to have their own version of the Canadian Truck Convoys

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

So are the gardai going to get around to impounding a tractor or two today, I wonder

In Jan 2024, Die „Letzte Generation“ staged a climate protest in Leipzig where they sat on toy tractors so they'd be treated the same as these other protestors The police were not fooled

Had a look at one of the speakers' social media, and it's all I love Charlie Kirk/And Enoch Burke Too/Climate Change Is A hoax/English Has Fallen stuff. This has little to do with tax and is more a get-together for the dads who went nuts post-COVID.

"Even if you produce more oil than you consume, you still pay the same global price for oil everyone else pays & thus still suffer from supply constrictions & high prices." This basic, elementary fact -- global energy markets 101 -- refutes basically the entire GOP energy policy & worldview.

Um OKAY. Breathtaking photos from the Artemis II crew's lunar flyby and eclipse viewing

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

@msleedy.bsky.social hey are you at the B&S gig tonight?

I presume "the reality of women like me" refers to coming from a wealthy family, marrying into another wealthy family, owning a multi-million euro house featured in the family newsletter, The Irish Times, and absolutely having the financial luxury of being able to give up your job.

When you step back for a minute, it is absolutely insane that the government, instead of fixing the housing crisis, came up with 'have you thought about living in a shed, though?' And then, not even thought that out correctly

The crew aboard Integrity heading upwell

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

I've written a followup to my #atmosphereconf talk that discusses what software I think should be open source and why. tl;dr we've neglected workers' rights for too long. bsky.app/profile/agen...

public holiday here in aus & it would be remiss of me not to offer the appropriate seasonal greeting: happy Elon Musk Got Rejected From Berghain Day to all who celebrate

Angine de Poitrine sold out in milliseconds it seems

Since everyone is a moon fan now, may I interest you in moonmoons www.newscientist.com/article/2182...

Hopefully for Artemis 2 NASA will be printing a new version of the iconic Space Mickey chart I have hanging on the wall here

The best part of this regexp is the ? on the third line (which applies only to the g). alex000kim.com/posts/2026-0...

this guy's writing is dogshit but i think it's great that in a world where 3 body problem--reactionary nationalist propaganda!!--is a huge hit there's really popular sci-fi about how aliens and us would probably get along and work together to save the galaxy :) that's political and it's good!

People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.

Listening to pca.st/episode/1779... and this is literally "Tech Company: at long last, we have created MMAcevedo"

Flat earthers learn their misogyny from the manodisk.

Advice for Google Family admins -- don't share storage with other family members if you can avoid it. This bug means if one family member uses all the space, you can't undo it or clear it up: www.reddit.com/r/GoogleOne/...