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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 20h

You let someone in when you are speaking to someone who doesn't have English as a first language. (Annoying habit of an otherwise delightful colleague.)

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But they're using renewables! a) they're not, they're all quietly pivoting to dedicated natural gas plants, built by their oil buddies, b) renewables should be used to power useful shit c) this makes it so that renewables don't displace fossil fuels, they just add to supply for increasing demand

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not good at all. But really important to know - and prepare for. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sup...

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Out for a run yesterday. Saw a guy in a car on his phone at a junction. He was still on it as he turned into the main road. His window was down so I called out "Put your phone away!" Got a thumbs up. Success?

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

6 months of the year I have my retinas burned out of my head. I also find more and more people just driving along with their full beams on constant. Such is their ignorance, they don't switch them down when they get flashed.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026

I still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data...

Investing.com -- Data centers in the United States are projected to consume more natural gas than most countries within the next ten years, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.

Natural gas consumption for electricity generation at data centers is forecast to increase by 15 billion cubic feet per day in the decade ending in 2035, even when accounting for planned projects that may never be completed. This volume exceeds the current gas consumption of all nations except China, Russia, Iran and the United States, based on data from the US Energy Information Administration. The projection is more than double BloombergNEF's December forecast of 6.9 billion cubic feet per day.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Me: *Clicks Update and Shut Down* Laptop: "Restarting" Me: "Motherf....!"

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They weren't confused. It's just that the acceptability of their level of racism hasn't arrived yet.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just hate our spineless government so much! Only in it for themselves and for business interests.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

by the way you will hear talk of public transport needing to be ‘sustainable’ or ‘viable’. this is free-market neoliberalism speaking. public transport should be properly funded and to not do so at a time when we have billions in surpluses is a deliberate ideological choice

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ok. I've just had my FOURTH incident of finding a spider on my person in the last 2 months. This time it was a giant house spider 😨 Previously, it was false widows. What the hell is going on?

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So the guy was trying to pay attention to the meeting, the summary of the meeting and the reply suggestions all at the same time. Not surprised he got flustered and shared the wrong screen.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I see gmail is pretending there are new emails in the Updates and Promotions folder all the time now, on top of freaking out that my storage is 87% full after 23 years. Yeah. I'll get right on that...

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JFC! Part 1 NB. They survived 📹 via Deepak Kumar (@talktokumarjpr)

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A County Sligo #painting now. "Benbulben I" is, as you might guess, the first time I painted the iconic Irish mountain. It's featured in a few more of my paintings since, but I suspect I'm not finished with this corner of the world yet. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Stand-alone long flatish steep sided mountain of green with its upper slopes being steeper and rocky rendered in warm greys and grey-greens with alternating shadow crevices of darker greys and greens, of which about a dozen snake down into the bright green lower slopes. Across the middle of the brighter stone sheer slopes is a strata of pale orange which is not visible in the shadow fissures. Sky is very pale uniform blue. Lower two-thirds of painting has a narrow orange horizontal band at the base of the mountain and the lower half of the painting is then an alizarin field with orange grasses, including a sizeable clump in the bottom left with long orange and red blades exploding in all directions. Signed in dark blue in the bottom right, Liam.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act.

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Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and Al-generated child pornography.
ASHLEY BELANGER - 27 AUG 2026 21:52

- An inflatable effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, protesting Musk's Grok Al, stands in Times Square in New York City. Credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU /
Contributor AFP

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 5 Simpsons lines I've uttered most off the top of my head 1. Willie hears ya. Willie doesn't care. 2. Do *I* know what rhetorical means?! 3. Like a little Rory Calhoon 4. See you in the car, Millhouse (with an eyebrow wiggle) 5. Ahhh. The hammock district

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don't have to create a profile and sign in to read my book. I don't need to remember a password. My book doesn't send me notifications. If someone next to me is reading a book and they put it down, I can pick it up and read it too without being in their account.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sorry. No. We're just going to have to fix climate change. My skin is DESTROYED by the office air con. This is IRELAND. A window propped open when it's not raining should be ENOUGH!

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The news that you shouldn't crowd your powerpoint slides with text just hasn't filtered through 😭

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“And now the weather…”

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#speirgorm Do we know if this woman is ok? I don't need to know who she is, just that she got away and is ok.

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Am I Being Gaslit?

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel · Episode

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Why is this still a thing? Every year I ask and note that, in this case, it is 2026.

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 12/08/2026

🚨 Irish solar generation dipped noticeably during the partial solar eclipse earlier this evening, bottoming out at just 8MW. Overlaying today's generation with yesterday's, we see a clear notch around 7pm when the eclipse was at its greatest 🌑 ⚡️ #SolarEclipse #SpeirGorm

A chart of solar generation on the island of Ireland during the partial solar
eclipse of 12 August 2026 compared with the previous day. A blue line on a second y-axis shows the eclipse day as a percentage of the previous day. A shaded grey area marks the eclipse, with a dashed vertical
line at the moment of greatest coverage.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Shaded area
represents the partial eclipse, and the dashed line the moment of greatest
coverage. Source: EirGrid

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tell you what though. If I'm still around for the eclipse in 2090, I'm gonna look at it!

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ah lads. Too comments of "Oh but you should never mess with a fairy fort." They're not real either!

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

All 8 of them should be banned from driving for life. They were dumb enough to get into that car, they clearly have no road sense.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 08/08/2026

ellecordova on Instagram

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

*Start washing machine* *Find dropped sock on stairs*

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've just added another 25 paintings to the print shop I'm trying out after a year of no income, which brings the total number of paintings there now to 50. I'm not yet committed to it, but if it goes well I will add more paintings. #SpéirGhorm fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-l...

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The state of the housing market. It's not that the toilet is *outside!* It's not even a nip across the yard. It's out the front door and round to the back of the house. ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND!

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Liskeelty, Grange, Grange, Co. Waterford, P36DV21 is for sale on Daft.ie

Liskeelty, Grange, Grange, Co. Waterford, P36DV21 a 2 Bed Detached is now for sale by Brian Gleeson MIPAV MMCEPI REV on Daft.ie with an asking price of €175,000

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I need to re-up this to #Speirgorm This is the Limerick Leader using an AI generated image and attributing it to their photographer. WTF?!

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I need to re-up this to #Speirgorm This is the Limerick Leader using an AI generated image and attributing it to their photographer. WTF?!

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The bang of ai off that image got me downloading. The *filename* is ChatGPT-Image-Jul-29-2026-12_40_22-PM

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

So the priest had actual magic powers? Wow. I bet he did a lot for the community... Just the football curse, was it? But he must have healed a lot of sick... No? He only used his power to curse a football team. Just that one time. Sounds bang on for the catholic church in 1951 to be fair.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

... and now we move on to liars. Ah no. Great speech. Top volume.

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Damian Stack @damianstack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Anybody in the economy"... We are a nation of citizens, it's our home, it's not simply an economy. Says much about how and for whom this country is governed

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Have your say. And that say is "stop showing me variations of Beethoven!"

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If you're wondering why there's now rain on the forecast, it's because I started an outdoor DIY project. You're welcome!

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David Firth @davidfirth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

22 years ago today I released Salad Fingers.

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Irish Fiscal Advisory Council @fiscalcouncil.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

1/6 The Council is today releasing a new working paper: The hidden costs of inaction—why a failed climate transition will prove costly.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Lads. The heckins is going on with the rain radar?? #Speirgorm

The rain radar has formed a bullseye over Shannon

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Nothing as hot and humid as this week’s Europe wide heatwave has ever happened before and it would have been impossible without Climate Change. #SpeirGorm #Climate #Heatwave Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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