Reposted by Tom SweeneyParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 2hFor those wondering why I have not condemned Donald Trump's decision to buy Russian deisel, it's just that I think it's a great idea because I too am a Russian stooge and a traitor. 13433112
Reposted by Tom SweeneyJustin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Cuba uses around 5 GW of power. Total. The idea that they can't power the island with solar and storage is nonsense. "it will always need large thermoelectric plants."" Who would make a statement like this? 35815
Reposted by Tom SweeneyPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The decline and fall of the American empire is following predictable patterns. 1216539
Reposted by Tom SweeneyCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10h‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’ 281469343
Reposted by Tom SweeneyCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10hNEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/ 16848692014
Reposted by Tom SweeneyOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens. 671003266
Tom Sweeney @tsweeney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026A lot of truth in here, about the infantile budget. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comDavid McWilliams: We have just seen a perfect example of Ireland’s fiscal incontinenceThe Irish State has become a monstrously bloated organisation that has lost all sense of value for money 000
Reposted by Tom SweeneyBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.comeconomist.comForget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transportPedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war 9494159
Reposted by Tom SweeneyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reporter: “Did you personally authorise or approve the livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan?” Trump: “Did I approve? Absolutely, i did” 3524685
Reposted by Tom SweeneyEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Data centres are a cancer on nature and local communities. Yet their electricity consumption in Ireland is almost 10x the European – and well over 10x the global – average. 311234
Reposted by Tom SweeneyIrish Expat @irishexpat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026$250 Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg buys castle in Ireland for €50 million, donates €150,000 to local sports clubs. Meanwhile the Irish Data Protection Commission has fined META €2.5 billion since 2022, but the judgments remain under appeal and only €17 million has been collected so far. 0133
Reposted by Tom SweeneyEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30 18274132
Reposted by Tom SweeneyEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026By Dec 2024 it had: Reached 10.8 million family planning users Averted 5,412 maternal deaths Averted 7.11 million unwanted pregnancies Prevented 2.31 million unsafe abortions Resulted in better Value for Money than expected. That sounds pretty successful! 10/ 1559
Reposted by Tom SweeneyEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Feels like a no-brainer to try and support a rapidly growing developing country to grow less rapidly in the face of limited resources, global instability and a climate crisis which will likely drive millions of climate refugees in the years to come. So what did it achieve? 9/ 1452
Reposted by Tom Sweeneymqb2766.bsky.social @mqb2766.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Couldn't have been too bad, especially as they (israel) "gifed" you/reform £50k to "find out" theres no famine in gaza. novaramedia.com/2026/07/09/i...novaramedia.comIsrael Spent £50k on Lobbying Trips for ReformIsrael spent £50k flying members of Reform UK out for tours designed to win their political support and whitewash the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 063
Reposted by Tom SweeneyParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026On the anniversary of the Hamas attack, I will mostly be forgetting that my former schoolmates said I marched through a village shouting Hitler Youth songs, hung around outside Jewish prayers to abuse Jewish boys by making hissing noises and singing “gas ‘em all”. 5593179
Reposted by Tom SweeneyFeljin Jose @feljin.ie · 06/10/2026The BusConnects Dublin Road project in Galway has had planning permission for over a year. No mention of any funding to build it in #Budget2027 or the press releases. It would have greatly improved bus journey times and cycling safety in Galway. #speirgorm 1397
Reposted by Tom SweeneyConor Molloy | 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @conormolloy.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Bring back the Galway Tent at least things got built 😡? #Speirgorm (Horse & Grey hound racing increased, active travel static since 2020, they just don't get how to reduce costs do they). 173
Reposted by Tom SweeneyIrish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is exactly what it is. Pumping money into an industry that ruins people's lives. 051
Reposted by Tom SweeneySaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Don't be confused, this is just a public grant to gambling companies 720975
Reposted by Tom SweeneyAdrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Say what you want about the Energy Commissioner and the President of the European Commission (who just posted the same message) but much of their messaging is bang on. 1) Dependence on fossil fuels is the problem 2) Protect the poorest 3) Electrify. But what can they do to achieve it? 1168
Reposted by Tom SweeneyJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ireland's chronic over-dependence on HGVs for freight leaves us at mercy of every fuel crisis & cutting diesel prices is only a short-term salve. We need to shift to rail freight & electrify our HGV fleet, as I explain in @irishexaminer.bsky.social today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comSubsidies for diesel are lost money when electric trucks are the futurePumping taxpayers' money into diesel-guzzling trucks is fair to nobody when we should be subsidising companies to transition to electric vehicles 14494125
Reposted by Tom SweeneyConor Molloy | 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @conormolloy.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Well written @thinkorswim.bsky.social Battery electric trucks will beat a diesel powered freight train CO2 except on long runs (see North West to Waterford Port twice weekly). Shortage of drivers is bigger issue. More ports need to facilitate rail but no money for them either. #Budget2027 033
Reposted by Tom SweeneyPaul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"On a per capita basis, Ireland is subsidising fossil fuels at a rate up to 5 times the EU average." "The total fossil fuel subsidy figure for 2026 may well now be more than €6 billion." Compare: the new Children’s Hospital cost €2.24 billion & the total Education Budget for 2026 is €13.5 billion. 35032
Tom Sweeney @tsweeney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's going in the right direction, but it would be so much better if the change was quicker; then we need to further decarbonise electricity generation - still 40% gas for electricity gen. today! Hopefully we will soon see a reasonable amount of EVs in the second hand market (for people like me!). 000
Reposted by Tom SweeneyHannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 05/10/2026🚨 Half of all new cars registered in Ireland in September were fully electric (49.3%)! Car sales here are concentrated in January and July, so a single month is misleading, but I pulled out the BEV sales share for July-September sales for the past years: 2024 - 14% 2025 - 22% 2025 - 35% 📈↗️👆‼️ 611235
Reposted by Tom SweeneyEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is really great! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comComedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in picturesA selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari... 314952
Reposted by Tom SweeneyParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are." 472356696
Tom Sweeney @tsweeney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Holy god, how much of my life do I waste waiting for Windows 11 to do something! 110
Reposted by Tom SweeneyGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied. 361377619
Tom Sweeney @tsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Irish government will only ever deal with what is right in front of it. There is never a holistic approach to even medium term problems, never mind long term issues. 010
Reposted by Tom SweeneyGreen House @greenhouse49.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ireland doesn't do National Security in any way, shape or form. Regardless of who or what threatens it! 012
Reposted by Tom SweeneyClimate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How did intelligent humans create societies like this? Behaving like idiotic morons is going to result in a deadly combination. of floods and droughts and wildfires destroying the Irish economy. But this is what Irish people keep choosing. People deserve what they choose. Choose better, Ireland! 145
Reposted by Tom SweeneyJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks. 491367254
Reposted by Tom SweeneyEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin... 17341611400
Reposted by Tom SweeneyMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/09/2026The countdown is on for a traffic-free Oxford Street. Monday 26 October marks a new chapter for the nation’s high street as it becomes pedestrianised. 23693130
Reposted by Tom SweeneyDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249752754
Reposted by Tom SweeneyGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026With many thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social for clipping it - a feat that is entirely beyond me. 01709
Reposted by Tom SweeneyGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Another entirely rational and proportionate response. 2922113
Reposted by Tom SweeneyLong John Dipshit 💀🎃 @wokeoaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“It’s not going to improve people’s lives here is it?!” I dunno man I’ve been watched children get murdered for three years straight now, it probably would improve our mental wellbeing if we stopped running cover for the murderers and maybe tried to do something about it 831559
Reposted by Tom SweeneyParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Don't worry Jess, once Reform are in power you will have no employment rights at all, which should make the process of sacking you much simpler and less upsetting. 😁 551144233
Reposted by Tom SweeneyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026He attacks Mayor Mamdani. The Israeli delegates clap and whoop. 143
Reposted by Tom SweeneyParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is four years today since Liz Truss launched the budget that sent the financial markets into meltdown. Who could have guessed that someone who couldn't find their way out of a room might not be the best person to put in charge of a major economy? 31753166
Reposted by Tom SweeneyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Putin has been invited to the G20 summit in Miami in December. “We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with the President, but with other world leaders.” The Trump team is working so hard for Putin they deserve a medal. 87556189
Reposted by Tom SweeneyClimate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The first 2 minutes of this exceptional documentary are a very good indication of the high quality of this brilliant 1 and a half hour journey through fear and despair and arriving at hope. 414763
Reposted by Tom SweeneyCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Deeply disappointing to see Libdem leader now supporting more drilling in the North Sea - it will add to global volume of climate emissions, drive climate breakdown & send a dangerous signal to the rest of the worldnews.sky.comSir Ed Davey says Jackdaw gas field 'makes sense' as decision looms for governmentA consultation on the gas field - located 150 miles northeast of Aberdeen - closed last month, with the prime minister set to make a decision. 36565190
