Seán Fearon

Strike and demo in Barcelona - solidarity with global Sumud Flotilla.

“Israel’s illegal seizure of boats participating in the Global Sumud Flotillas mission to bring humanitarian aid to the starving people of Gaza is another brazen breach of international law. “It has been reported that Irish citizens are amongst those abducted by Israeli forces. The Department of Foreign Affairs must immediately demand the release of all those taken illegally by the Israeli military. “There have been enough words. The Irish government and other governments must take action to face down Israel’s genocidal campaign and to protect all those on the flotilla. “All those abducted must be released and the flotilla must be given safe passage to complete its humanitarian mission to ensure the people of Gaza receive the food and other humanitarian aid they so desperately need.”

Statement from Catherine Connolly following reports of Irish citizens among those abducted by Israeli forces this evening.

AA Book Launch: From the Bog to the Cloud The green digital transition is underway. But what does this transition look like when dictated by the demands of monopoly tech?

Pat Brodie and I have a book launch event for 'From the Bog to the Cloud' in London on October 22nd.

Please come along if you're interested in bogs, data centres, monopoly tech, postcolonial development, eco-imperialism, green capitalism, Ireland....

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aa-book-la...

Politicos, hacks, news organisations and buffoons like Stephen King still clinging on to pretending it’s alright to *PAY* Elon Musk to use his platform - or be on it for a start.

You’re funding a man calling on hundreds of thousands of people to carry out acts of violence.

Jesus...

State of the Art | CUSP Newsletter, September 2025 As CUSP turns ten, Tim Jackson highlights the troubling shift in UK research funding away from post-growth inquiry. He argues that questioning growth remains vital in an era of climate crisis, inequal...

📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out! Alongside a round-up of news from across our network, CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary—and warns of a troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry.

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Time Use in a Post-Growth World: Towards Sustainable Wellbeing | Paper by Seán Fearon et al In this paper, Seán Fearon et al. use time use analysis combined with emissions and wellbeing data to model 2050 lifestyles in Finland, France, and the UK, ...

How will we use our time in a #postgrowth future of sustainable wellbeing?—New study by @seanfearon.bsky.social et al models how lifestyle choices to 2050 could shape wellbeing and emissions in Finland, France & UK. ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf...
cc #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #PlanetaryBoundaries

Check out the preprint of our new paper, exploring the time use requirements for a life of wellbeing within planetary boundaries.

The bottom line? Lifestyle changes can lower emissions & improve wellbeing, but are insufficient to live well within ecological limits. We need radical system change.

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition.

Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

On Thursday I’ll travel as an independent observer of the latest Freedom Flotilla to Gaza.

Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel.

These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸

two in three Keir Starmer tweets are dog whistling about migration.

A government out of ideas, adopting far right messages for no political gain, while imprisoning grannies for denouncing genocide.

The fact that we instantly ended homelessness during the pandemic, and then let it return as some intractable problem straight after, is something we really don’t talk about enough.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Next time someone says data centres are necessary.

Microsoft data centres in Ireland & Netherlands were used to store terrabytes of Israeli military data used for mass surveillance in the West Bank and identification of strike targets in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

2. Absurdity is a hallmark of authoritarianism. It's not just that those who believe absurdities commit atrocities. It's also that those who endorse atrocities become absurd.
This is where Keir Starmer's government now finds itself.

Moygashel Bonfire

This is the Moygashel 12th July bonfire. Many bonfires receive huge funding and backing from loyalist paramilitary groups. The PSNI facilitate this and councils clean up after them.

This paramilitary backed hate is being justified live on BBC Radio Ulster. The state is rotten to the core.

Things you love to see. The Gaza walk from Lurgan to Newry earlier tonight. Well done to all involved 🇮🇪 ✊🇵🇸

Revealed: “Shocking” scale of Big Tech’s influence over Labour Science and technology secretary Peter Kyle asked Google boss to “sense check” AI policy and told Amazon he’d “advocate” for them to competition watchdog

🚨 New: 'Shocking' scale of Labour’s Big Tech ties

In its first 6 months, Labour ministers and top officials met with tech giants an average of *six times a week.*

We’ve got the documents. 🧵

New on Democracy for Sale with @lucasamin.bsky.social

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

Diary of a Gazan family's descent toward starvation Mervat Hijazi and her nine children didn't eat at all on Thursday - save her underweight baby who had a sachet of peanut paste.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

An excellent writeup.

These are repulsive double standards from the British state, guilty of all manner of state terror, to young Irish artists. They represent a proud & radical political culture which does not conform to the sterile & 'Paddy'fied shadow of Irishness acceptable to liberal Britain.

Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex | The Observer The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness – one that suggests a smiling, darkly sexy bunch with flattened political views

Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex.

The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social.

Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp

Good to be home.

Incredible. A hospital complex bombed, scores of medics & civilians massacred, yet the image chosen to accompany this massacre isn’t the broken bodies of victims but rather, random militants waving AK-47s.
Media complicity costs lives.

#KneecapAbú

Labour's biggest issue is neither being too socially conserative or not socially conservative enough. It's cuts. People have had enough.

A bizarre thing to glimpse into the scale of disruption in a large city caused by total power outage, when everything - travel, infrastructure, past times, homes - depends upon it.

You can only begin to think of the consequences for some of the largest cities on earth in a climate-changed world.

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/
@brisunipress.bsky.social

Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.

For anyone in and around @maynoothuniversity.ie next Wednesday (30th April), Kevin Anderson is giving a talk on his recently published book - with Eamon Slater, Eoin Flaherty, Chandana Mathur and myself.

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''Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.''

-Joan Robinson

scrapping it would add GBP 2.5bn yearly to government spending. That is 25bn over ten years.

Only last year, the Treasury paid the Bank of England around 40bn for its 'losses' on the QE gilt portfolio.

It didnt have to. No other central bank expects to be compensated.