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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 8h
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social have been researching the Irish housing crisis since we returned in 2018 This piece in todays The Journal is by far the most shocking Realising how badly we treat the most vulnerable should put a chill down the spine of every reader www.thejournal.ie/the-housing-...
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Do we care where people with disabilities live?
Being disabled and homeless has long been normalised in Ireland, it is just largely hidden from us.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5h
True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 9h
Here's the liquid gas industry framing its product as a "just transition". This would be sidesplittingly funny if it was not apparent that this message is getting through to politicians.
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 6h
So getting involving in volunteering with a youth group last year (and showing up to the inaugural Parents' Association meeting at my kid's primary school this year) is being a real eye-opener for how much unpaid work is involved in making a community where community events and shit can happen.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11h
“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart.” #Switzerland 🇨🇭 #ClimateEmergency
theguardian.com
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 18h
This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 30/09/2026
Trump weighs diesel export ban as US fuel crisis deepens
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Trump weighs diesel export ban as US fuel crisis deepens
Trump at centre of lobbying fight between Big Oil and top Republicans warning of voter anger at high fuel prices
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every month of 2026 has been warmer than average in the UK. #climatecrisis
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UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Rob Cross @robcross247.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The original Victorian Phibsborough Post Office was located at 336 North Circular Road. Designed by the Board of Public Works surveyor and architect J. Howard Pentland, it was built between 1892 and 1893, before it was unceremoniously demolished in 1974 to make way for the current post office.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 29/09/2026
New data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’
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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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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ok, I wasn't sure if I live in an AI bubble but went totally electronics free in class. Turns out, the students haaattteee AI and the reasons are all the ones we know- they don't like being robbed of thought, they think the AI companies are evil, and they are worried about the environmental impact.
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Cycling In Kilkenny @cyclinginkilkenny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is bizarre that some people will still claim human driven climate change is not real. Yet here we are just about to enter Oct and the UK is expecting daytime temps of 26c and nighttime temps not to drop below 20c. Insane.
bbc.co.uk
UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This isn’t just a US issue, and that’s what really bothers me. You don’t have to censor research if you can shape the funding and networks around it. The fossil-fuel industry understood that a long time ago, while we’ve been slow to recognise what it really means. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For years 90% of excess heat being retained by our climate system - due to the blanket of carbon pollution - has been going into the oceans. Much of that ends up in the West Pacific Warm Pool, so when the trades slacken and the Pacific rearranges itself, that heat comes back to haunt us. #elnino
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026
This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this year
theclimatebrink.com
The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño
El Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And Nottingham University start on Wednesday...
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do the people resisting the phasing out of fossil fuels realise that it's not a choice between infinite "dirty" energy or infinite "clean" energy. We do eventually just run out of oil.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Utterly mad how most of society just bumbles along, ignoring the monstrous future realities being locked in place, day in day out.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
lemonde.fr
Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
From Bordeaux to Paris, organizers say 120,000 people took part in 260 demonstrations 'for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 26/09/2026
Bangkok declared disaster zone after more than 30cm of rain in 48 hours
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Bangkok declared disaster zone after more than 30cm of rain in 48 hours
Bangkok has been declared a disaster zone after parts of the Thai capital saw more than 30cm (12 inches) of rain in 48 hours, causing flooding across much of the city.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'More than six-in-ten voters (61 per cent) say that the building of data centres should be stopped “for the time being at least”, while 23 per cent disagree." www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Majority of people want data-centre construction to stop, Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll shows
More than two-thirds of respondents say they support Ireland’s ‘current model of neutrality’
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Leafybatter @leafybatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today! Saturday 26th Sept, 11am-12.30pm, it’s our September Book Swap at An Síol, 19 Manor Street. As usual we’ll have a great range of books for all ages. Do pop along to pick up a new-to-you read, or just for a browse or a chat.
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kelly @earley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
so we need thousands of staff for transport infrastructure, thousands of staff for nursing homes and thousands of young people are leaving the country... and we are turning away people who want to come to ireland to work, while making those who are here wait longer for citizenship. ok grand
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 25/09/2026
Hands up please if you *haven't* been hacked by an OpenAI agent.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Intriguing new study by @schneidermayers.bsky.social finds New Yorker short stories rarely feature climate change — about as often as mass-market films, believe it or not. There's no censorship, no climate hushing. Wrote about what might be going on: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/new-yorker...
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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot
The climate silence is coming from inside the house.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Money from foreign students (who pay multiples of the domestic and EU fees) is a critical source keeping Irish colleges afloat. The Minister for Higher Education’s complaint is another thinly veiled effort to address the synthetic bot army of X, and their demands to see fewer brown or black people
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
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Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK  - Carbon Brief
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 24/09/2026
🥔 Chips are down – summer drought knocks over 3M tonnes off UK and Europe's potato crop Lost production could cost farmers over €800M as Europe faces one of its smallest potato harvests on record eciu.net/media/press...
eciu.net
Chips are down – summer drought knocks over 3 million tonnes off UK…
Lost production could cost farmers over €800 million as Europe faces one of its smallest potato harvests on record
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StephDickenson.bsky.social @stephdickenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Speirgorm
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
Germany commits for first time to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045
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Germany commits for first time to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045
Campaigners say plan marks a ‘notable shift’ away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
post by @ItsAndyRyan


Her: who's your favorite literary vampire?
Me: the one in Sesame Street
Her: he doesn't count
Me: I can assure you that he does
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New polling from the National Youth Council of Ireland: - 68% of 18–24-year-olds are considering emigrating - 71% believe they'd have a better quality of life outside Ireland - 83% support stronger government regulation of AI - 89% agree the housing crisis disproportionately affects young people
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RED C: 7 in 10 young adults considering leaving Ireland for a better quality of life - National Youth Council of Ireland
RED C: 7 in 10 young adults considering leaving Ireland for a better quality of life - National Youth Council of Ireland Young people are responding to unaffordable housing, the rising cost of everyda...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🌊 Ocean acidification has now joined the list of exceeded planetary boundaries. That makes 7 of 9. These are interconnected Earth-system pressures, collectively eroding resilience and shrinking humanity’s safe operating space. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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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 Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wildlife would be affected by the current drought for years even if we returned to the conditions it's all adapted to But we have a big El Nino coming...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[IPCC]working group III includes five authors from the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, a Saudi government-funded think-tank.....whose stated mission is to “advance Saudi Arabia’s energy sector” Why am I not even a little bit surprised? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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StephDickenson.bsky.social @stephdickenson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“The ‘jaw-dropping’ El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s official, the 2026 El Niño has broken a record for the highest ocean anomaly in 170+ years… Incredibly reaching that threshold a full 2 months ahead of 2015’s record of +3.02C set on Nov 18th. See that red line? That’s 2026. Every other bold line are the strongest El Niño’s on record. 1/
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rafaelmelchor.bsky.social @rafaelmelchor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How do you evacuate almost 2 million people and in time🧐 🌱🕊️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
bbc.co.uk
Japan typhoon: More than 1.9 million urged to evacuate as Dujuan batters Tokyo
The rain has eased after a full day of downpours, but more than 50,000 households are still without power.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At the same time that the Minister for Justice is trying to cut off our access to the economic engine of immigration, the Minister for Finance is warning about the very demographic problem immigration is solving. While ignoring its existence.
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"By 2050, just 24 years away, Ireland will look a lot like Italy or Japan does today. In such a society, growth will be lower, costs will be higher and the burden on taxpayers - our children - will be immense, Harris will say. "There is no way of avoiding that fate and that is why it is so important that we continue to run surpluses and invest in our sovereign wealth fundạẠỊi
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The amount of local craft groups using AI to advertise is actually baffling. If only creatively making things was a hobby of some sort 🤔
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 18/09/2026
Visitor restrictions in place at Naas Hospital due to high number of patients with respiratory infections www.independent.ie/county/kilda...
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Visitor restrictions in place at Naas Hospital due to high number of patients with respiratory infections
Visiting restrictions have been implemented at Naas General Hospital in Co Kildare following an increase in the number of patients presenting with respiratory infections.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
France’s wine production nears a 70-year low, as a record-hot summer and severe droughts hit the country's world-famous wine industry hard. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/...
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France’s wine production nears a 70-year low, leaving winemakers with tough choices
As the French wine industry reaches a crisis point, key players are considering new markets, products and generations.
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ClimateChangePost @climatechangepost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Todays news: Cloudburst in Florence: rain pours into the Uffizi and historic Palazzo Pitti www.euronews.com/culture/2026... Musea and bad weather (/climate change): lessons learned from the Netherlands www.climatechangepost.com/news/how-to-...
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How to protect our cultural heritage from flooding? Experience in the Netherlands
Staff of Dutch museums and monumental buildings, and climate, flood and crisis management experts shared their experiences on how to protect valuable collections and buildings in times of crises.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 19/09/2026
Opinion: Why do farmers wield such disproportionate power in Ireland? Look at Leinster House
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Opinion: Why do farmers wield such disproportionate power in Ireland? Look at Leinster House
Four per cent of the Irish workforce is employed in farming - but 15 per cent of our elected national politicians are farmers or landowners, according an investigation by The Irish Times
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trying to describe what it’s like working inside British universities at the moment is very hard. One small vignette: not a single week of my teaching this semester looks the same as any other. We have virtually no courses/modules that are taught by
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