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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Data centres • Increase our electricity bills • Pollute our water • Increase unemployment via AI • Accelerate climate + eco collapse • Offer NOTHING to ordinary people in return Why is the Irish government pushing us headlong towards them? www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
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New data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’
Oireachtas committee hears projections suggest installations to account for about 35% of electricity demand by 2035
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
you're welcome www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFl...
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DOUNANA (without us) SIBA & MONKYMAN
YouTube video by MONKyMAN
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel is a safe haven for Jews* * as long as they commit themselves to absolute ethnosupremacy over indigenous Palestinians www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
just say the rings will end humanity, they'll be queueing around the block for the shares. Simples.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Compare this to how one-off 'drone incidents' are treated as evidence of escalating hybrid warfare. "We cannot keep treating extreme events as one-off emergencies, simply repairing the damage while people continue to live in fear of the next major event." www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...
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Ireland must prepare for climate extremes, CCAC warns
Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, the Climate Change Advi...
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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JP McManus ls laughing at the puniness of this effort.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Indian dairymen were summoned...today for allowing their cattle to stray on the paddy fields [at the top of Silom Road where it converges with Rama IV Road]." Might these "Indian dairymen" be related to the Hindu-Muslim cattle operation that founded Sri Maha Mariamman a 20 minute walk away?
A map showing the intersection of Silom and Rama IV Road as being a 22 minute walk from the main Hindu temple that served as a community center for Indian herders around the turn of the century
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Big Tech wants us talking about about whether AI will usher in "superintelligent" heaven or killer-robot hell so we won't talk about the harms their technologies are already unleashing. @arimelber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaja88xxirY
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AI psyop? Author calls BS on 'end times' warnings
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
better products at cheaper prices The American, Japanese, German car manufacturers once knew this Now it seems that only the Chinese & Korean car makers know how to deliver value to customers Tesla's Market Cap ~$1500 billion BYD's Market Cap ~$120 billion cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/explorer.html
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 27/09/2026
I hope that people power has stopped the Orange Order today. We are in a dangerous moment with powerful forces trying to drag people back into sectarian violence for political gain. PBP will continue to stand with Garvaghy Road residents and against sectarianism.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Three years without Kate. Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. -Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides #everynightapoem #fragment
a stack of letters and photos with Kate Laird, 1968-2023.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 27/09/2026
Latest news at Garvaghy Road is very hopeful. It appears the PSNI have told the Orange Order they won't be able to march because of the size of the protest. It's not clear if there will be an attempt later or not. Residents are continuing to protest. People power in action.
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love ravens. The always feel ancient and ageless.
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wrong tree, wrong place, an Irish forestry specialism. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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How windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish forests
Windthrow can reduce the climate benefit of forestry by removing trees that would have kept growing and disturbing the carbon-rich soils beneath them
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 26/09/2026
Great response to our stall against any more data centres. More and more people are waking up to the cost they impose on all of us - higher electricity bills, unbuilt housing, missed climate targets. Come to our meeting Tuesday night 7pm in the Plaza Hotel.
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Fiona Murphy @fcemurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If Israel is commending you your definitely doing something wrong #stopthegame #fai #coybig #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer... www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland v Israel build-up live: Israel commends FAI for playing game saying ‘football has won’
Goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu told the Irish team that he does not want to play fixture, with others believed to share his position
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seamusflynnj.bsky.social @seamusflynnj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I said this already, the Aviva has to be empty for the next game against Austria
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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can understand people's disappointment but how surprising is it that players have failed to behave differently from the government, our tech sector, the GAA and everyone in Irish society whose interest in holding Israel to account disappears when their own financial interest is at stake?
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Malachy McKeever @malachymckeever.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The players shouldn't have been put in this position, yes... but they had a chance to do the right thing on all our behalves and they didn't. They were also happy for the FAI to go in front of the press and say as much. Very disappointed... won't be watchin Ireland for a long time now...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... >>
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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 24/09/2026
Supports also need to be expanded to those who currently can't benefit - it's scandalous that there is still no minimum efficiency standards for renters, for example.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
I think if you make a statement like a piece of automated software "wanted" something, you should be able to fully explain the mechanics of how that can actually occur
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
This is precisely why hundreds of experts demanded that during Ireland's presidency of the EU our country not be allowed to handle tech policy. Ireland is the trojan horse for US Big Tech lawlessness in the EU. It's really as simple as that.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
i'm tired of seeing “escalating ai capabilities” reported as if it is a fact. let's be clear this claim does not rest on transparent, well-defined, independently validated metrics, but is inferred from model behaviours elicited by humans and measured through opaque, poorly designed evaluations
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jewish Peaceniks dedicate public Yom Kippur fast to people in Gaza www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/09/2…
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Jewish Peaceniks dedicate public Yom Kippur fast to people in Gaza
Three years into Israel's colonial genocide in Gaza, Jewish peace campaigners have dedicated a public Yom Kippur fast to Palestinians
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That makes sense.
Finland got its name because when it was discovered in 1692 the country was populated by nothing but fish.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is so upsetting. It impossible to keep up with the ways in which the Irish government appears determined to sell out our future - to big tech, fossil fuels, big ag, and anyone else with €€€.
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Andy Walker @redwalker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This captures perfectly the priorities of the FFFG government. Corrupt to its core, with the interests of capital and their own self interest always competing for supremacy. The interests of the Irish people featuring nowhere at all.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Migration is humanity's oldest, most reliable, and most effective tool when dealing with climate change, full stop. Can't find food here? Don't like the weather? Babies dying of diseases? Move somewhere else. There are always intermediate steps and causal factors, but it's almost that simple.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 18/09/2026
We need to organise now to make sure we can confront when in every county on this island. Join our meeting on Monday to talk about how we can resist data centres and what you can do to get involved. Sign up for the online meeting here:
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Online Public Meeting: Make the Data Centres Pay - Workers Petition
Join us online at 6pm on September 21st for an online public meeting on the upcoming Dáil motion to make data centres pay the same for a unit of electricity as ordinary consumers.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Role of agri minister and his officials is largely for handshakes & photo ops; the real decision-making is in hands of senior agri-PLC executives & farming lobbyists” My take in today’s @irishtimes.com. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Irelands farmers shifting from right to very right politics. Won’t do them any good…
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany - yet the German government now spends €2.5billion on fossil fuel subsidies. Meanwhile, here in Ireland, we don't even know how to calculate our heat-attributable deaths, and are expected to spend a whopping €7.5billion in fossil fuel subsidies this year!!! 🤯
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Faszinierendes Gespräch mit Naomi Klein und Astra Taylor über ihr neues Buch : End Times Fascism And the Fight for the Living World.
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Episode 578: X-Risk Premium | TrueAnon Podcast
X-Risk Premium: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Liz to discuss their new book End Times Fascism And the Fight for the Living World. We get
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026
Es ist auch pace Glissant gar keine Überraschung, dass das vor allem im Lokalen und Regionalen funktioniert, und nicht im Gefäss des Nationalstaats. Das ist vielleicht der Fehler des Habermas‘schen Verfassungspatriotismus - der kann sich kulturell nicht vom nationalen Ballast lösen.
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026
Der Universalismus von Souleyman Bachir Diagne, Édouard Glissant oder auch Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o basiert im wesentlich auf der Idee der Übersetzung - konkret sprachlich, aber auch im übertragenen Sinn.
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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
goddamn when sahra wagenknecht is saying that about _you_
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jochen @jochen.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
new york times headline zur berlin wahl
Mass killings of landlords
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
TSCHÜSS FRANZI
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Socialization has been deemed legal by an expert commission, yet the referendum remained without consequence to date. (3/3)
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This has been a housing affordability election. The Left’s agenda? Socialize the housing stock of corporate landlords. Socialization has been the expressed will of the majority of voters in a referendum. (2/3)
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our constitution allows the socialization of means of production for the common good because a key lessons of the Nazi era was: democracy needs an economic defense.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People struggling financially have voted predominantly for the AfD in recent elections. Not in Berlin. The Left put socializing corporate landlords on the ballot, and won the election and this group.
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need someone of Melville’s caliber to write an update of The Confidence-Man.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They really got the Saudis by the balls and they're trying to call in every favor to get em to stop twisting just a little bit. It's unclear whether any of it will work.
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Den M @mousketeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'Staying over there and making our tech.'
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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Conversion of Europe by Richard Fletcher is a fine book on the subject. It wasnt always a brutal process.
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