I'll be on @drivetime.bsky.social after 16:35, talking about the work we did on this

The Wedding Present in Whelan's this evening. Great gig revisiting their 40 years, done in reverse chronological order. That was probably the most middle-aged moshpit I've been in.

Not an expert (I'll leave that to @greencollective.io) but the RESS 5 results look good to me. Is the €99/MWhr price for this an all time low? It must be close. Interesting that it's 860MW solar but only 219MW onshore wind.

The 'Asian Hornet's Nest in Cork' story is doing the rounds. According to this Guardian article they arrived in Bordeaux in 2004 hidden in a shipment of pottery from China. There are now half a million nests in France. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a gig by a band called Adebisi Shank

Interesting evening last night at Gibby Haynes Plays Butthole Surfers. There were definite School Of Rock vibes from his teenaged backing band, but they were note perfect Evicshen isn't to everyone's taste, she was like an atonal arhythmic Autechre delivering performance art. Personally, I loved it

I'm walking down Francis St, miles away from the Oasis gig, and I think I can hear it fairly clearly. So I pop into a pub and it dawns on me that they're playing Definitely Maybe on their PA.

Certainly made the right moves recently

Mogwai in Vicar St this evening. I haven't seen them play My Father My King is a good while. Certainly blew the cobwebs out of the rafters.

The best band of brothers playing in Dublin this month. Next month too, probably. @sparksofficial.bsky.social at The National Stadium tonight.

I'm still convinced that NI Electricity missed out on a gigantic source of renewable energy by not wrapping Ian Paisley's coffin in copper wire

In London for the day, I'm reminded of the Thames Television ident.

How many brits are laughing at what the yanks are doing to their country while they themselves sit in boiling water?

Rod The Prod! @kneecapceol.bsky.social with a name that'll stick at #glastonbury

More bike friendliness in Freiburg. We're in a cafe atop a 2 storey bike parking garage. That's a bike bridge crossing the 11 platforms at the main train station. Just out of shot is another bridge, for trams, and of course there's a stop on it for most of the tram services in the city.

Lizzie's on a box, on a box, on a box.

Safe to say Freiburg is bike friendly.

Looking forward to this. C'mon #Leinster

Dublin now has fish shops called Wrights and Rongs.

If you’re rioting or even just protesting because a foreigner has been accused of rape, but you never rioted or protested when a white Irish bloke was accused of rape, you are not a defender of women and are - quite literally - just a racist

Highlight of In The Meadows so far: The Scratch. Had to leave early because my youth is calling: Slowdive in a tent up next

What goes around comes around. The late 80's long bowlcut hairstyle,worn by House Of Love and many others, has become fashionable again. Gilla Band at In The Meadows

So many people smugly posting that they said this would happen all along. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can predict what religion the pope's gonna be when I wake up tomorrow, too, don't go thinking you're special.

That might explain it. Trump's Adderall got swapped with Musk's Ketamine

Meanwhile, TSLA is shitting the bed.

To be honest I'm worried about my daughter, she's doing a course in International Relations. The textbooks are out of date every week.

Just checking the news from across the way..

New paving slabs at Capel St bridge that light up to indicate if it's safe to cross or not. Obviously aimed at people who are always looking down at their phone.

Great setup with beers and people to match at Boundary Brewing's #Jubliate festival. I doubt there are any spaces like this in Dublin, which is a shame.

First boundary of the day crossed.. #jubilate

Our fathers, our Kings

Me - can you make me a waxwork that shows both Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder and The Fall live in concert? Madame Tussaud - Will this do?

Belfast is a great day trip for beer aficionados from 'down South' This is an excellent intro to the beer scene there Looking forward to heading up soon for Boundary Brewing's 10th Birthday festival

If you are an EU citizen please sign this petition today calling for a proposal to ban conversion therapy: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... I thought the petition was dead in the water early this week, gaining only half of the 1 million signatures required, but now it's just 70k short!

Yes, it's an excuse to go there on a Tuesday, but there's something about a pub quiz in your regular pub..

new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*

Pope Donald the First, surely?

How long will it take for the List Of Popes article on Wikipedia to be updated? Under 10 seconds for sure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... #Pope

Nice day for it.. #LEIvNOR

Looks like droves of world leaders will be calling up Trump with requests after all. Not about tariffs of course, just a request for endorsement of their opponents.

An important long-read about two related judgements last week. One that was received with much ballyhoo and the other roundly ignored. It is, of course, the latter which will have a much wider impact.

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Looks like yesterday was an all time record for the amount of solar energy on the Irish grid The new record is 760MW, which is 6 times the record just two years ago (127MW in March 2023) This excludes domestic solar, which could be another 50% www.greencollective.io/records @greencollective.io

God save us from Brussels wonks and their opinions. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

This won't be well received here in Ireland. It won't be well received in the US either. It'll take years to move the manufacturing of Botox and Viagra, to name just two, from here to the US.

Whaaaaat? Some of my fundamental knowledge found to be unsound. With everything else going on, I could have done without knowing this

It's been a while since this flag was seen in Croke Park. Directly opposite Hill 16 too.

The 'Tariffs Charged to the US' column' data here is this administration's version of the hurricane chart with Sharpie on it.

Ireland bucking the international trend, with Tesla sales up 5% so far this year, the market as a whole is up by 3.7% Small numbers all the same, Tesla's market share in Ireland is just over 1% More details from SIMI here: stats.beepbeep.ie