Brendan

Reports suggest 30 to 40 trucks per day dumping at this location. Apparently nobody noticed 🤷‍♂️

All true, guess it's hard to find the motivation to go out and vote when the only choices support ongoing genocide.

Bird flu kills half of South Atlantic's breeding elephant seals, sparking fears for future of species Population in South Georgia has plummeted by 47%, researchers found

This is a story deserving of more media attention 😟

Bird flu is an ecological disaster with consequences for animals, and people potentially. The way the capitalist system treats chickens and other domesticated foul is abhorrent - we’re asking for trouble.

www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

One straight from the script of Yes Minister.

Shocking "Scientists estimate that between 1996 and 2020, 9.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere due to bottom trawling — about 370 million tons annually, double the emissions from fuel combustion of the entire global fishing fleet of four million vessels."

Shocking "Scientists estimate that between 1996 and 2020, 9.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere due to bottom trawling — about 370 million tons annually, double the emissions from fuel combustion of the entire global fishing fleet of four million vessels."

Here is President Catherine Connolly's speech in full President Connolly’s first public address touched on a wide range of issues, including housing, migration, and a united Ireland.

President Connolly’s speech in full is available here www.thejournal.ie/president-ca... #Áras25 #PresidentConnolly @President.ie

The Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury We can calculate the amount of money flowing into AI. But what will the full cost be to society when the bubble pops? This is the Gist.

New Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury

I try to explain all of this AI thing in one article, and suggest why it is hostile to democracy, to humanity and also happily likely to end with the would-be tech Sun Kings taking trips to the financial guillotine.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...

YouTube video by Channel 4 Documentaries Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen: Read by Christopher Eccleston | Remembering World War 1 | C4

It's the time of year we're told to remember millions killed in war. Referred to as "the ultimate sacrifice", "bravery", "patriotism" etc, few point out they died because of classisim, fascism, and financial power.
The mantra "They died for their country" and "lest
1/2 youtu.be/qB4cdRgIcB8?...

Image of Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup from Royston Vasey. A local shop for local people.

Local homes for local people!

Even I thought this was one of mine!

The Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities and @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social Rewilding collaboration concludes on the 26th of November with a keynote talk by Professor Jens-Christian Svenning.

Tickets are extremely limited so book ASAP if you want to attend.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/rewilding-...

Great write up. Fear mongering from the fossil fuel lobby was always going to be wrong about battery life. My i3, the third I've owned, is now 7 years old and has 85k miles on it. Actual range achievable in real world driving is unchanged from new.

A great update from Adam highlighting the inconsistencies, omissions and misinformation in Gates' argument against climate action. Gates released his views on the back of his attendance at Trump's broligarch round table - and didn't Trump just lap it up.

Who knew, did mainstream media report this. Maybe I just missed it?

Bill Gates defends contentious climate shift "I'm glad people are listening," he said, before adding that it was hard to convey "nuanced positions nowadays."

As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵

We built our timber frame house in Ireland 20 years ago. While it is great, and we love it, I wish we could have incorporated this #strawhouse approach to both insulation and cladding - this is fantastic. Might have to find an excuse to build another one 😂

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

“a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk pegged the # of excess deaths at 2% above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate…that’s 120K unanticipated dead people per year in North America. That’s roughly 2 fully loaded standard commercial jets crashing & killing everyone aboard each day.”

Discussion on mitigating any such risk is hardly productive without a full understanding of what the motivation and circumstances were for this horrendous attack. Though let's just jump to uninformed conclusions as normal. Thoughts with those injured and traumatised.

The impact of AI in the short term is likely to be damaging. Certainly for the environment but also for employment (if AI delivers in job cuts) and financial stability if, and when, the wheels come off.

How dies this scan?

”This week an Imam admitting sending messages in an Islamist chat room. He discussed bombing churches and shooting white people in the head.

He was given 150 hours community service.”

This ⬆️. As a distant observer I find the current outrage about Epstein puzzling. Previous US administrations have had the chance to expose the information but chose not to. Can't see it happening until all the offenders are dead.

Reporter on BBC Breakfast just mentioned that the Sandringham Estate is around the same size as the city of Nottingham, which just seems absolutely insane to me.

Make no mistake about this. Knowing what we know about the Genocide in Palestine, if you still intend to vote Labour, Tory or Reform you are part of it, you are complicit, you are guilty.

There’s no excuses anymore.

Whilst a lot of what Bill Gates wrote in his memo makes a certain amount of sense, his main point that short term emissions reduction is not the priority is based on flawed and out of date data.

I’ve scribbled on his graph below to add a very important line - reality.
#climatechange #acceleration

Our next door neighbour was Auntie Martha, no relation, lovely lady.

Mick replies "I did, but we've still got £50 left so we're going to the cinema!" 🙈

Mick says "no worries" and drives off with the monkeys on his truck. 2 hours later, Billy is still by the side of the road and sees Mick coming the other way, with the monkeys still on his truck. Billy says "Mick, I asked you to take those monkeys to the zoo!".../2