Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's a poor show. But doesn't every party essentially stack their advisor teams with party loyals? Its like the Seanad but jobs for the active party members who don't run. The actual brains of operations are usually department employees, these folks are more "how not to piss off the members" advice. 000
Reposted by ConorJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 149148636402
Reposted by ConorDaryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 06/10/2026And yet Jennifer Carroll-McNeill just said on #rtept that the State can only afford to give a shingles vaccines to immunocompromised over 85s. #IrishPol 46237
Reposted by ConorChubby cuddlebot Lemma! @lemmaeof.gay · 07/10/2026the 1979 IBM training document stays true as usual 0468
Reposted by ConorElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120253574
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The did a raise of 100M in 2025, and their burn rate is about 20M a year, so likely Series C raise between now and 2030 010
Reposted by ConorJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026In particular, where one big reason rents are rising is a housing shortage, rent controls do nothing to address that and may worsen it. Here’s my full article on the right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisis www.ft.com/content/437c...ft.comThe right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisisEvictions and spiralling rents are the symptom, not the underlying disease 617817
Reposted by ConorPatrick Meighan @patsweetpat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My former mayor once told me: “people hate all the problems in this town. The only thing they hate more are the solutions to those problems.” 05910
Reposted by ConorAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2024the october surprise is october being tomorrow 381844318
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Agreed, both above Bojack. And Attack on Titan, Bluey or A:TLA. 021
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Fair comment, it's more I'm grasping at straws for what known reps actually represent that wing anymore. Most FF reps that got shut out are already gone mostly independent or elsewhere in some form up to now. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Also the complete lack of any animated media. Seems like it's Bojack Horseman and that's the height of it. 120
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What complicates the math is that FF itself internally is fractured, the minority want to be more Republican, the majority of it wants to lean the FG direction, but the discontent in the O'Cuiv view of FF who would have an Aontu bias. They're the minority, but the more likely to flip. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The growth in II is a reaction to today's government, SFs struggles are a fight to keep everyone on side despite the forseen fallout of the possible next government. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026To a degree, but they're a bit more FFG coded. In my mind the II/Aontu divide is essentially still along civil war politics lines. They're both anti-establishment oppositions, but reactions to the perceived failures of the parties, rather than PD style gap in the market logic. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are both more votes available on the "preserve/improve" and is the alignment of their potential coalition partners, is an easy predictor of which voters is going to abandon SF the second they ever actually get in government. The implication of that math is that Aontu support *will* increase. 110
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Like that day Ireland legalized drug possession where the Irish language version took precedent. But this time, some new electric scooter law when AI translated into Irish automatically got prompt injected and instead it signs all state owned roads over to ownership to some crypto billionaire. 000
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Multiple countries with public representatives who, blindly vote along party lines, are going to vote in bills, laws and acts containing AI generated wording those representatives (and maybe even their policy researchers) never read, aren't we? 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If an oil company accidentally causes an oil leak, they get regulatory fines/legal proceedings. Accidental corporate AI hacks should be the same. Just saying you didn't know what your own property was doing is not an excuse, it's corporate negligence. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...smh.com.auOpenAI ‘climbed the fence’: taskforce scrambles after long delays flagging Medicare hackNo penalty has been imposed on US artificial intelligence corporation OpenAI after one of its AI agents infiltrated Medicare in June, as the government scrambles to learn if any laws have been broken. 012
Reposted by ConorO @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button. 4901233
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I did assume that. Meanwhile there are solar farms underway at Barryscourt, Ballinrea, and Inniscarra, all in your driving distance there abouts. So multiple groups are following the logic of building beside and connecting to the higher voltage power lines. 000
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026> 608 residential units Not at all that whole area > On the 29th of March 2018, An Bord Pleanála issued a Grant of Permission They doing anything about, I dunno, building that anytime soon? 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Mostly because I don't have a good example of British biodiversity possibilities with that. For all the woes of what Ireland has paved over, the Brits have even Ireland beat in that department. 000
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And in that same radius, just zoomed out to the other side of that main road, with the same exact same power connections to that very industrial estate but half the cost. Half the money going to companies for the same outcome. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My point was that the sooner the gas supply is removed from the energy mix, the sooner the electric heating costs come down, reducing that hypothermia. The corps are for profit, but they'll also shank more extractive businesses for their own competitive benefit where the market enables it. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Fine. I'll cop to that in a effort to get things fitting in the format and stay on topic. 200
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Disagree, fine. But I was trying to find a common ground, somewhere, and ya just weren't having it. So not going to continue. Score points? Nobody cares about my little debates, come on. The other person, na, I just don't have time or respect for the ad hominem. Yell into the void for all I care. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So happy we agree so www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...ecoticias.comTwo Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-foldMinnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Everyone is struggling with that upfront capital investment. Even the businesses trying to do it at scale with the way interest rates are. Reducing the upfront costs is the path to getting the electricity prices down, and getting off gas, by maximizing where the money gets invested. 200
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You are not alone, deeply unfortunately. Many, most, people also can't afford the up front capital cost. Because the retrofitting, the planning, labour, the price of land, the bullshit, is now 98% of the cost, not the panels. 300
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The agricultural land in these greenfield sites already paved over nature. The only difference is tarmac vs grass monocultures. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You also specifically said you want solar but can't afford it. What do you think is the root cause for that is when 20 450 watt panels are on Alibaba for €100? It's the rest of the build. 300
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Of course you're not. You're hostage to what you can afford. Buy go on, imagine away and build it yourself so. I give you gracious permission. Ignore the engineering assessments saying that its double the cost per watt. You have FEELINGS. That's what really matters. 000
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Which is the reason France did it at the end of the day with their strong farming lobby. 000
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My "I could see them do it in limited places" isn't a personal lobby, it's a "I can see FF capitulating to go ahead and do it because on the farming lobby and rural vote, not because it solves the energy problem better". 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Honestly, that's my concession response. If you want the blunter answer; Ripping out existing infrastructure, building and filling back in will always be more expensive than building fresh on greenfield sites. Every time. The "so what" is the opportunity cost of spending more money to achieve less. 300
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I can imagine it, in specific cases like say in industrial estates, but not at a scale that powers the country, electrifies transport and heating still to come online, and nullifies the need for solar farms in fields in general. 100
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Lots of small daisy chained residential cables vs one large power source cable are different infrastructure. Unless the carpark is for the Croak Park or a Hospital, a Spar car park has no need for 50MW of power coming into them to power some light bulbs and such cable capacity was never built. 110
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Someone needs to be liable for accidents. And if the driver is no longer the licensed driver, either the manufacturer or the insurance company is the one that's legally on the hook for a death. Which, ha, you've *met* corporations right? 000
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Sinn Fein saw it worked for SD with the three day wait bill earlier in the year. Even doing things a day earlier gets you the credit. 000
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Routing around existing pipes, digging up tarmac for hooking high voltage electricity lines to a transformer station, local traffic interruptions & 300 planning permission appeals from the higher population density directly affected requiring extra meetings, paperwork. I can think of a few. 300
Reposted by ConorDermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The €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 13255108
Conor @conorforde.bsky.social · 19/09/2026www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/kor...koreajoongangdaily.comKorea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenueCompanies behind major negligent data leaks can now face fines of up to 10 percent of annual revenue under revised privacy rules. 000
Reposted by ConorHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I know I say all the time that people who talk like this aren't so much stupid as they think YOU'RE stupid but Kirk thinking anybody will buy him saying "I don't know anything about Ted Cruz's political views" is an UNPRECEDENTED stress test of this theory 5966105
Reposted by ConorGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 18/09/2026The people voted almost 50 years ago to widen the Seanad electorate - and only 13 years ago to save it from extinction. But now that the electorate HAS been widened, only 9% of potential voters have signed up. That says many things - including that the upper house is out of favour again.jrnl.ieA million people can now vote in Seanad elections, but they're not signing upThe biggest reform to Seanad elections in a generation has opened the university panels to graduates from more than 80 institutions. So far, it’s not gone to plan when it comes to the numbers. 8233