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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

Kant’s Categorical Imperative includes the Formula of the Universal Law and the Formula of Humanity. Act as if your choice/act will be repeated by everyone; treat other people as an end not a means. AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 10h

Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) Self-Portrait, 1924

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Trees sighing at last letting go of a summersweight of leaves readying for a long rest the deep deep relief of deep deep sleep

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Susan G @susangriff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the perfect #timelinecleanse for your Saturday scrolling. Delightful animal pics. Grab a coffee, sit down and enjoy.

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

More Frank 🖤

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

tl;dr - Electrifions ! "Intervention de Patrice Geoffron, professeur de sciences économiques à l’Université Paris Dauphine, sur l'économie lors de la première session de travail de l'assemblée citoyenne "Un commun accord", les 19 et 20 septembre 2026." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKIk...

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Économie, par Patrice Geoffron - 1ère session "Un commun accord"

YouTube video by Un commun accord

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

W Social? Any point? Any thoughts?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first

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Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law

Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.

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Tom Babin @shifter.info · 01/10/2026

Riding a bike in Chinese cities blew away my preconceptions youtu.be/f-ReivbR07U

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China's bike lanes are mind-blowing. But there's a problem.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I will probably (hopefully) never own a car, but if I did it might look like this fully-electric bare-basics Citroën Ami (which technically is not even a car). Just check out the margins around it in the parking place. A car-bloated SUV would bulge out over the edges of this space.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It rained, very mildly, today, for the first time in weeks, yet strangely France's long-running drought still gets very little press coverage. In one of the richest countries in the world there are tens of thousands of people without tap water.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Abandoned post box that used to connect France with the world.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Abandoned international trainline that used to connect France to Switzerland.

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Attac France @attac.org · 01/10/2026

« Manque de profs, classes surchargées, établissements dégradés : les lycéen·nes se mobilisent pour pouvoir étudier dignement. La réponse du gouvernement ? La répression. » @raphpradeau.bsky.social, porte-parole d’Attac, apporte son soutien aux lycéennes et lycéens mobilisé·es.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Student protests and bin fires all over France today. The town where I live and a few neighbouring towns are affected. Disruptions to bus services and school opening hours. Protestors are asking for better facilities and replacements for absent teachers.

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 01/10/2026

France appears unstoppable when it comes to electrification: in September, electric cars already accounted for 42 per cent of new car sales. Since the start of the summer, this share has been rising by several percentage points every month. Is the oil price crisis one of the factors behind this?

The graph shows the market share of electric cars and PHEVs in the French market, with strong growth from June 2026 onwards in particular

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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The world (and my bank balance) needs more Jeff. Deepest thanks for this absolutely ON IT response. I look forward to the extended mix. If we can't have more Jeff then the rest of you are going to have to step up and be LIKE Jeff. All good bookstores and so on . . .

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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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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oil is a sliding thing

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I hear Ai folks talk I had a tape recorder in the 80s that could talk without an organic brain. I mean, sure, it was just echoing my voice back to me, but that it could perform this feat at all surely means that it was conscious. And wait until you hear how smart my calculator-watch could be.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They tried their best to make the idea of having more things we want nearby, more options and choices in our cities and neighborhoods, seem like a conspiracy. But never forget what the REAL urban conspiracy has been — moving everything further away and making us car dependent. #1HourCityConspiracy

White text on black background reading “The real ‘urban conspiracy’ isn’t proximity, it’s distance. The ‘one hour city’ traps millions in long commutes, car dependency, and lost time. We need cities of proximity, time, and quality of life.” — @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social #UrbanTruth

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I emerged by the rocks after a long cold swim. Towelling myself off, I sneezed, and a long-limbed heron erupted from the other side of the rocks with blood-chilling primeval squawk, flapping its way into the distance, staying low over the water. I sneezed again, but no other heron appeared.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wait ... what now? You have poisonous explosive gas piped into your home? That's insane. Go electric.

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From Nepal's prime minister Balen Shah's UNGA speech about climate disasters, humanitarian assistance by China & India, how Nepal contributes very little to global GHGs but suffers disproportionally & the UNFCCC principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

99.9% of the time people use 99.9% they don't actually mean 99.9%

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here - "Ai? We hates it." At my workplace* - "I love it. I use it for everything." "Ai is kinder to me than my husband." "It's great that it's free, but honestly I would pay up to 60€ a month for it if I had to." "It's more interesting than scrolling on TikTok." *(real, verbatim quotes).

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why is there a North Korea? Let's find out - a thread.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exclusive: New report says Ireland could have built 50,000 new homes over the five years of the data centre boom - and cannot “afford” to continue building. Authors called for a moratorium on new data centres - and have hit out at government comparisons painting them as “our German car industry.”

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Eva Pau arrived in Ireland at just one month old & grew up playing in the aisles of her family’s Asia Market in Dublin - now she has written her first cookbook, with 80 approachable recipes from across Asia. Preorder & you could win a hamper of Eva’s favourite Asian snacks and drinks!

Bright red promotional graphic for Eva Pau’s Asian Cookbook. The book cover, featuring Eva holding a bowl and chopsticks, is surrounded by colourful packets, bowls and cans of Asian snacks and drinks. Gold text reads: “Preorder & win a hamper of Eva’s favourite Asian snacks & drinks.”

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/09/2026

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ireland - where there is a huge housing problem for humans, but no shortage of space for storing data; where you can struggle to find a charging point for an electrical vehicle, but no problem providing gigawatts of discounted electricity for data centres. This government is clearly misanthropic.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A windy morning with a choppy lake. I got in for a swim all the same, but didn't stay in for long. If I had I would have missed a squadron of close to a hundred cormorants flying low over the lake, heading east. Spectacular.

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