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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I'm going to start calling all multi story car parks 'car sheds'
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The Kerry's Eye keeps running stories about a rift between the Brothers Healy-Rae. Presumably one will now nail a list of 95 potholes to a local church door and form a separate Healy-Rae faction where toasters are kept in cupboards
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 12/03/2026
The deadly strike on a girls' primary school in Iran - which killed at least 175 people - was the result of a targeting error by the US military, according to preliminary findings of a US military report.
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Watch: Strike on girls' school a 'targeting error' - US
The deadly strike on a girls' primary school in Iran - which killed at least 175 people - was the result of a targeting error by the US military, according to preliminary findings of a US military rep...
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 10/03/2026
It's still one of the most unbelievable moments in Irish legal history. Read our full story from when it happened: jrnl.ie/1983239
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The sheer gormlessness of Ireland proposing to build a massive LNG terminal when even the right wing WSJ says it’s lunacy for Europe to depend on the US for anything important really is something to behold. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Europe Needs to Learn Its Lesson: Stop Relying on Imported Energy
Growing reliance on American gas looks foolish given how unpredictable the White House has become.
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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I cycle both rurally and in Dublin city centre. This is how I'm usually kitted out - out of fear for my life. I'd feel a lot safer if I knew the government were planning on building proper, segregated cycle lanes, than if this gear was made mandatory. A mandate on this would solve nothing. 🚴
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Our statement regarding last week's proposal to introduce a mandate on helmets and high-visibility gear for people who cycle 🚴‍♂️ Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road. Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Absolutely honoured to be named @attitudemag.bsky.social trailblazer of the year in their #101 list. As a gay man, I know it's a worrying time for our LGBTIQA+ community. We are under attack. When they come for one of us, they come for all of us. And we will stand together.
Attitude magazine. Zack with his arms crossed.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/02/2026
You cannot overstate the significance of this repeal. I also think it's wrong to say the 'free market' and cheap renewables pick up all of the lost momentum. Many good people will be fighting this and hopefully they have some wins earth.org/why-the-us-e...
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Why the US Endangerment Finding Matters | Earth.Org
The US will repeal the endangerment finding, the legal framework that underpins the government's power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The Dept website has just yesterday evening changed the status of the massive arramara application from 'applied' to 'withdrawn' this is good news but both Arramara and Bioatlantis still have applications in for seaweed rights in mayo, galway, and kerry
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
So in a week of catastrophic flooding the government have decided to move climate from its own section to a subsection under infrastructure and lift the Dublin airport passenger cap. Mighty
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/11/2025
Seriously nuts: the US threatened African and small Pacific and Caribbean island diplomats with cancelled visas and refused entry if they didn't vote against a shipping carbon price. "Bullying" doesn't do this justice. They're gangsters and criminals. www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

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	A phalanx of US officials intimidated African and small Pacific and Caribbean island countries into dropping support for the framework, which would have imposed a carbon emissions levy on shipping, according to people present at the talks at the headquarters of the UN’s International Maritime Organization in London. The US group included eight people, according to one person present.

The intimidation included approaching country officials during coffee breaks to warn them they might not be able to transit via the US, or that they and their families could face restrictions on entering the country if they acted against American interests, according to five people at the talks, including two from countries that were directly threatened.

US President Donald Trump has branded the framework a “global green new scam tax on shipping”, and in a social media post last month called for it to be blocked.
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
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You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Let's look inside. #biobased #renewablematerial #strawhouse #carbonstorage 🧵 1/ of a lot, be sure to like and share this post so others can see that climate adaptive building is in the pipeline for elderly people, child care and social housing e.g.
straw panel building behind a scaffolding
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16/10/2025
The grandson of Oscar Wilde will collect a British Library pass symbolically reinstated to the celebrated Irish writer 130 years after it was revoked when he was convicted for being gay
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Oscar Wilde grandson to collect reissued library pass
The grandson of Oscar Wilde will collect a British Library pass symbolically reinstated to the celebrated Irish writer 130 years after it was revoked when he was convicted for being gay.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I forgot to restrict replies under this video. I had to spend 12 mins blocking & hiding transphobic, homophobic & far right comments under it! One reply threatened Ruth & another one, me. It is amazing just how much more toxic Twitter has become.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I’ve got a too 100 Irish Twitter account, I use it as an archive but also to share important information regarding LGBTQ rights. I’ve been updating on the Irish presidential election, giving that one candidate is a feminist & pro-LGBTQ rights. The other is not.
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The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
424.19 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 11-Oct-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
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The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Yes.
“Everyday we wake up 
and collectively make 
a world together; but 
which one of us, left to 
our own devices, would 
ever decide they wanted 
to make a world like this 
one?”  

— David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Trump is now gloating about meeting with Russ Vought of "PROJECT 2025 Fame" to apparently determine which "Democrat Agencies" he wants to cut during a shutdown. Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass?
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Project 2025: The MAGA Plan to Take Your Freedom | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
One of our members caught the soon-to-be-cut Paris–Berlin sleeper train... Sad to see the service go, but very on brand to be reading @thinkorswim.bsky.social's fabulous new book, The Lie of the Land, along the way. Available in any good bookstore as John would say!
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.
“History shows it clearly, 
austerity creates the conditions 
in which fascism thrives. When 
Gov'ts strip away public services, 
weaken safety nets and deepen 
inequality, people lose hope 
in democracy and turn to 
authoritarian strongmen.’”
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  - Richard Murphy
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.
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joedmills2.bsky.social @joedmills2.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I was happy to wake up to this apple.news/AoFMid2pwTQG...
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Delegates walk out as Netanyahu speaks at the United Nations — ABC News
Israel's prime minister said remarks were broadcast in Gaza via loudspeakers.
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Frank McDonald @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Visiting Notre-Dame de Paris for the first time since it was restored so beautifully, the excerpt below from its vivid 14th century carved timber choir enclosure caught my eye. It shows King Herod and the apocryphal massacre of the innocents, and I thought of the mass murder of children in Gaza ...
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 20/09/2025
Greta Thunberg and Irish comedian and activist Tadhg Hickey sum it up in 28 seconds
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Two weeks after its release, THE LIE OF THE LAND climbs six places to no.3 on national non-fiction bestseller list! Pleasantly surprised to see there is real public interest in a book about Ireland and the #climate emergency.
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Mel Reynolds @maoiliosarey.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“In Dublin city, of the 3,350 new homes built in 2024, 111 apartments were sold to household buyers and just 44 new scheme houses. That’s it.” @irishtimes.com
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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Oh look – it is the beginning of what @georgemonbiot.bsky.social calls an onanocracy – including one guy suing another for $15bn for pointing out he’s a pervert, but all friends in power really.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The dam of silence over open Israeli war crimes and genocide is cracking, and will burst. Europe is at last finding its conscience.
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Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Listen to Greta Thunberg 👇
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla Steering Committee have called on the world to keep its eyes on Gaza following an Israeli explosive drone that fell directly on one of the flotillas
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It has taken a long, long time to get actors to come together against genocide, but now they have: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... \
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Actors and directors pledge not to work with Israeli film groups ‘implicated in genocide’
Exclusive: Hundreds of film workers sign pledge they say draws inspiration from South African boycott over apartheid
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
US Holocaust museum removes anti-genocide post amid Gaza atrocities www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
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US Holocaust museum removes anti-genocide post amid Gaza atrocities
Holocaust Museum LA says the post was misinterpreted as a ‘political statement’ and promises to ‘do better’.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Don't mention the children. "Israel bans radio advert listing the names of children killed in Gaza"
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The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
425.08 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 04-Sep-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
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The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. 

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"Let's Call the 'GREAT' Gaza Post-War Plan Exactly What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing" The ridiculous and leaked 'Riviera' proposal offers Palestinians just $5,000 to leave & includes projects like the 'Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone,' writes Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu for Zeteo.
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Let's Call the 'GREAT' Gaza Post-War Plan Exactly What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing
The leaked and ridiculous 'Riviera' proposal offers Palestinians just $5,000 to leave and includes projects like the 'Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone' and the 'MBS Ring.'
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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is the 3rd story I have read *this week* where an AI chatbot successfully convinced someone to kill themselves. But this one is the first I read where the suicide also involved a murder. And not a single lawmaker has proposed banning this technology? As a parent, I am deeply worried.
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🍂 Shel-leaf 🍁 Ca-pumpkin 🎃🚫🧊 [Seasonal Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is Not Good; Very Bad! "The research found that if carbon emissions continued to rise, 70% of the model runs led to collapse." Intermediate level of emissions = collapse in 37% of models. Low future emissions = #AMOC shutdown in 25% of models. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn. Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space.” Cities need smart, specific strategies to manage vehicle size. It’s about space & safety.
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Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn
Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 25/08/2025
The headline is purely inaccurate and so so dangerous. Those without status don't and have never qualified for HAP. Being assessed as unable to meet habitual residency condition (seemingly the core issue here) is not the same as being undocumented, or as the Mirror calls it, "illegal"
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It’s not just about the death of journalists in Gaza. It’s about the death of journalism in the West. And each cowardly journalist drove a nail into that coffin. I got a bit heated on today’s #EchoChamberPod, but I stand over every single word.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 28/08/2025
“Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels”
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Those giant American style pick up trucks are the new midlife crisis indicator
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Anyone remember the #ExtremeCivilisation hashtag @georgemonbiot.bsky.social had going on Twitter a few years ago? "The travel trend involves flying out first thing in the morning and exploring a new place for several hours before flying home in the evening on the same day." Climate crisis anyone?
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Public transport cost pushes Britons to fly abroad for day trips
Meet members of a Facebook group for travellers taking
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