Reposted by TimDen M @mousketeer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026There now. That wasn't hard. All the minister had to do was stop insulting 300,000 people, give up thinking playing political chicken was a butchly impressive tactic, and say "ok, we'll put wages first on the agenda". I am available for consultancy work. 2121 0
Reposted by TimSteph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Can't wait to spend less time with patients and more time doing efficiency paperwork 13512 0
Reposted by TimWear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not. 869286168253 0
Reposted by TimThe Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Sometimes we get so caught up in the ethical and wider consequences discussion of AI that we forget the immediate proximate effect: it is extremely shit 2427 0
Reposted by TimGwen @ionceposted.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Part of me is like yes accelerate to a border poll but the reality is they are fascists and like the US with their neighbours will begin a new era of escalated aggression on Ireland. 021 0
Reposted by TimTom @photaculous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ok, a fuel crisis might be just one of our problems. A mental health crisis similar to that experienced during COVID may be on the cards as people struggle to account for the consequences of predictible actions, and instead reach for conspiracy. 041 0
Reposted by TimPhilip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In case you were wondering why the Irish government is fine with a CSAM-generation app having its HQ in Dublin. They're captured, every one of them. #SpeirGorm 13416 0
Tim @tomahony.bsky.social · 21/09/2026#SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm youtu.be/NBhj83vzs0I The gist: Stop relying on far-off offshore wind/wave/nuclear fantasies and focus on what works. Onshore wind and solar at scale, which can be scaled up in the next four years to much of the country’s electricity demand.youtu.beThe future of Offshore Wind in IrelandYouTube video by Decarbonize! 030 0
Reposted by TimRuo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026just in case anyone wanted a table for regulatory capture 0175 0
Reposted by TimJen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The waiting list for a fully funded home retrofit under Ireland's Warmer Homes Scheme is 24 months. A full deep retrofit can take up to 20 years before it pays itself back in costs lowered, depending on the improvements made. 3245 0
Reposted by TimJen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Here's some figures, apropos of nothing. Median cost to retrofit a mid-terrace is €55,250, rising to €60,805 for a semi D. Median salary in Ireland is €41,500. Senior minister salary is €217,136. 38148 0
Reposted by TimGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/09/2026As of Cabinet yesterday, one now needs the ability to communicate in order to be considered a citizen. Yet in the first three months of 2026, not a single child in ten counties was given a plan on how the State would deliver them with speech and language therapy. This week’s column @thejournal.ie:jrnl.ieGavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add upThe eye-watering numbers of children waiting for Assessment of Need in this country expose a broken system offering little hope to families. 13276142 0
Reposted by TimJoe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️⚧️ @freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Way past time we took a long hard look at Prepay Power outfits. Parasites. 021 0
Reposted by Timkarlmonaghan.bsky.social @karlmonaghan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Shame on the buffoons proposing this. #spéirgorm 012 0
Reposted by TimShazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 07/07/2026www.thejournal.ie/data-centre-... #SpéirGormthejournal.ieData centres accounted for almost a quarter of all electricity usage in Ireland last yearData centre consumption has grown every single year without exception, experts said. 8175 0
Reposted by TimGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/09/2026There’s a reason people in the industry talk about P(doom). 174 0
Tim @tomahony.bsky.social · 08/09/2026#Spéirghorm #Spéirgorm Diem25 supports multiple mera25 parties towards an economic federation of European states that can fund a green public works and universal living income. A stimulus we will need as corporation taxes dry up and Irish fascism finally has the kindling it needs for middle classes 000 0
Reposted by Tim🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry. 9699523083 0
Reposted by TimQuest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My sleep paralysis demon is an open mouth YouTuber 18119293 0
Reposted by TimDagmar Fischer @dagmarfischer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Local Green Party councillor Feljin Jose said the flooding was “very significant" ... But the drains are full. There’s nowhere for the water to go. There’s much, especially around Cabra, that has been tarmacked over and concreted over. It can’t take all that water. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...irishtimes.comKillarney experiences ‘worst flooding in a lifetime’ as ‘significant’ water levels seen in CabraCo Kerry town saw its main tourist route close last night as 57ml of rain fell in four hours 066 0
Reposted by TimSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act. 9933324 0
Reposted by TimVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 26/08/2026meanwhile hundreds of people died this very morning in a flash flood/mudslide in Nepal 116650 0
Reposted by TimAisling @ashalinggg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Me: everyone is different and that's okay 🧚 ✨ Also me: people who are weird about cats are freaks 064 0
Reposted by TimUn-American @bennevis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026www.dw.com/en/academic-...dw.comAllegations of plagiarism against German minister of defenseAn online forum has questioned the authenticity of Ursula von der Leyen's academic dissertation. But the minister of defense has signaled that she would voluntarily cooperate with an investigation int... 064 0
Reposted by TimEsheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Why is there or wasn’t there an investigation into how Toby Young failed to get the requisite grades into Oxford, appealed and only when his dad the baron intervened that they suddenly found a place for him? 617580 0
Reposted by TimGvnzng aka Victor @gvnzng.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Anthropic reportedly planning IPO of *puts pinky finger to mouth* $2 trillion fortune.com/2026/08/13/a...fortune.comAnthropic reportedly plans a $2 trillion IPO in October—the largest ever—that will eclipse SpaceX | FortuneEverything you need to know before you reach the office this morning. 001 0
Reposted by TimJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“Global warming, not #climate policy, is bad for business, experts warn”. Now, can someone sit Jack Chambers , Micheál Martin & Simon Harris down and explain the above, in as simple terms as possible? www.politico.eu/article/econ...politico.euThe economic toll of Europe’s infernal summerGlobal warming, not climate policy, is bad for business, experts warn. 412750 0
Reposted by TimJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Ah yes, as Irish government cuts the “green crap” and does the bidding of mega-polluters, water temperatures in Mediterranean Sea top 33°C. Europe is edging ever closer to the brink of #climate collapse, yet still we whistle nonchalantly past our collective graveyard. 17428 0
Reposted by TimIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x 14078882410 0
Reposted by TimSon of the Wolf @sonofthewolf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Why am I not surprised? #speirghorm 21614 0
Reposted by TimLynn O'K @lynnok.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Alternative headline 'Irish men raping trafficked women in every town in Ireland' 0102 0
Reposted by TimGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 30/07/2026A couple of months on, an update: the current system allows TDs to lodge PQs simply by sending the text to an designated email address. After the recess they’ll have to use a gated online system to supply questions instead, making it more cumbersome to lodge multiple interrelated questions at once.jrnl.ieOireachtas officials had to overhaul the system for TDs to ask questions to clamp down on AI useThere has been a sharp rise in the number of PQs submitted this Dáil term, with departments saying they are under pressure to keep up with them. 33710 0
Reposted by TimTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The hype says Chinese open-source AI is catching up. JJ Jasser's reply: Kimi K3 is not open-source. It's "open-washing"—borrowing openness's credibility while withholding the transparency that justifies it.techpolicy.press‘Open-Washing’ Is Everywhere in AI. Four Criteria Cut Through It"Open-source" is not a marketing register. It is a standard with specific criteria that must be met to earn the label, writes JJ Jasser. 2148 0
Reposted by TimJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 25/07/2026As the billionaire-controlled media undermine renewable energy at every turn, the world is literally going up in smoke around us. You can ‘risk blackouts’ or you can barrel ahead and lock in global #climate collapse. One or the other. 56330 0
Reposted by TimSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Again, they signed up to the plan when implementation was in the distant future. Then they failed to act in the first few years, requiring the steps to be more severe in the later years to compensate. Now, as actual action looms, they attack the whole thing as extreme. 14716 0
Reposted by TimCian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Not weird at all that both the German and UK Governments and justice systems are protecting a company linked to genocide* bsky.app/profile/cian... (*= according to this UN report: www.un.org/unispal/docu...) 0154 0
Reposted by Timdgold @dgold.eu · 22/07/2026People Of Ireland: Please, we're begging you, give us housing, give us hospitals, functioning public services. Please. FFG: How about ... Tax Cuts!!!! POI: No, repeat after me: houses, hospitals, services... FFG: how, ho, hu... <deep breath> TAX CUTS!!!! 031 0
Reposted by TimNiamh Ní Cheallaigh 🇮🇪 ♿️ 🇵🇸 @niamhnicheallaigh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Your energy bills are never coming down again, ever. Billionaire tech bros need you to keep subsidising them so that they can continue to rape the planet while they live in luxury on your dime. #SpéirGorm #DataCentres 196 0
Reposted by TimMarie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Some people have no idea, like... *everything* smelled bad. Everything. We lived in a hazy, toxic, smelly public world where the furthest you could get from cigarette smoke in busy places was to be in the 'non-smoking' part of a café, which was the same room as the smoking part. 28512144 0
Reposted by TimRick @calder12.bsky.social · 15/07/2026That wasn't the artists and the bands, that was the record companies. 1762 0
Reposted by TimGodspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Hey remember how I kept saying "protecting women" in politics is reactionary, because you can just fill in whatever you need to "protect" them from? Perfect example. Women need "protection", for their own good, you see. They can't be allowed to have agency. 1258 0
Reposted by TimOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Apart from ruining the study of the night sky and the increased risk of the Kessler sydrome . . . The average Starlink satellite lasts about *five years*. Think of the impact of constant rocket launches, and countless tonnes of precious and toxic materials being left to burn up in the atmosphere. 35236 0
Reposted by TimYou Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Shit like this is why I refuse to listen to fuckers who say Labour is the lesser of two evils compared to Reform 0112 0
Reposted by TimTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I hear RTE DG Kevin Bakhurst has today admitted to the Oireachtas (that RTE is bankrupt) what we reported on the Tortoise Shack in January 2025. Important to note that exactly 0 mainstream media outlets picked up on our reporting. 141 0
Reposted by TimGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵 692930802 0