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Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

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I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Suspected case of bird flu detected on Monaghan farm via @RTENews It’s really important that airborne precautions are being adopted for the Monaghan workers in this modern poultry farm where 430 birds suddenly died within the last two days -they are being tested for avian flu but precautionary

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Nearly a month after #StormEowyn, I tried three routes to my friend’s house, she’s bedridden after a fall in #StormDarragh. I wanted to bring books, videos, magazines, baked goods, and home made meals for her freezer, but all three roads were blocked. Sitka is killing nature and communities.

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Politicians accusing other politicians of being politicians is one of my favourite politician ouroboroses.

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I've had two MAGA hat sightings; one on Ashford castle grounds & one in Ballinrobe. I would love to see an outright ban on these MAGA hats which undisputedly represent hate & intolerance of diversity; but they are useful in identifying who to ostracise on grounds of being extremist Nazi assholes.

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Covid-19 wastewater levels have (happily) been declining in Ireland in recent months, reaching their lowest levels since 2021, but there are indications that a new Covid wave is now beginning. Samples from Dublin, Drogheda & Cavan show distinct upticks in recent weeks. (Source in next post.) 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It's surreal seeing Americans on their holidays in Ireland right now while their country is being captured by Billionaire/Russian/white supremacy interests. The bar is so low in terms of how people can demonstrate their resistance to the coup. So many people are still oblivious to what is happening.

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Go to sleep to news that one of them was wielding a chainsaw on stage, wake up to news that one of them did yet another Sieg Heil on stage, at what point do people with the power to do something start treating them like they actually believe in the things they're very clearly saying and doing

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

submitted 3 days ago • 1132 comments

"In 2014, Ireland and the EU quickly banned trade in goods and services with the Russian-occupied territory and this ban was implemented within months of Russia's illegal actions in Ukraine. Why should there be a double standard?" - Senator Frances Black www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I love seafood and federal science.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I spent weeks looking at the transmission dynamics of H5N1 in California and came to exactly the same conclusion, namely that the scale of transmission could only be fully explained if long-range airborne transmission was a factor. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Changed everything....more or less. Despite the vast scientific evidence of viral #AIRBORNE transmission, researchers still face resistance from many politicians, physicians, and public health specialists.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 5 days ago • 1195 comments

A build cost of just over €107k per apartment on average. Not possible in rip-off Ireland (allegedly).

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Housing delivery 'number one priority' - Martin, Harris (2025) Housing crisis ‘number one priority’ -Coveney (2016) www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20... www.rte.ie/news/politic...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Why is it that it is OK in academia to expound anti fascist and progressive views on all topics except one - the need for higher education and society in general to protect each other from COVID and Long COVID?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The Irish government is reportedly preparing to buy US LNG from fracked gas, by allowing the construction of a commercial import terminal, in exchange for economic concessions from Trump. We need to cut dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible - not lock it in for decades.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

The convict stoking mass lawlessness and mob rule. A call to arms for Americans to take the law into their own hands in the name of all things MAGA. Considering his pardons for insurrectionists and labelling political opponents, immigrants and press as MAGA enemies, this is phenomenally dangerous.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Health security is national security. Degrading a nation's ability to respond to threats posed by existing and / or emerging pathogenic threats betrays an absolute lack of understanding of the fundamentals of strategic security; it is handing an advantage to adversaries.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Article from ‘23 when WHO estimated deaths from COVID and revised the figure upwards. The Economist has estimated deaths to be even higher at over 28 million. Ask yourselves why neither figure is ever in the media? Political pressure was clearly brought to convince 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

Good news everyone: When the AirBnB vampires have finished sucking your housing dry, they're coming for your democracy! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Seems exactly the type of "internal destruction" Putin has repeatedly promised for the USA. He provably interfered with US elections in 2016 & 2020 &... but his overall plan is and has been using a sophisticated complexity approach that is enabling PuTrumpkin to dismantle the US. Do write on it!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It's awful that you have to go on the radio before your request to extend the deadline is taken seriously. Fundamentally, 100s of HGVs shouldn't be going through Cong daily as a matter of public safety; alternative routes already exist. This is just time wasting. shows.acast.com/64ff33ba1c48...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

There are 7 million deaths per year caused by air pollution. This is a global problem. #CleantheAir

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We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

submitted 10 days ago • 779 comments

Launching! 🚀 Today I'm launching a new service for landowners in Ireland who want to rewild their land. I hope this will be the start of a network that will promote rewilding in this country - the time is right! New social 🙋‍♂️ @rewildyourland.bsky.social take a look 👇 www.rewildyourland.ie

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

MOWI is offering a bounty to catch their escaped farmed salmon, but where are the penalties on MOWI for causing such environmental destruction? They should be paying major fines?! I hope them paying this bounty isn't considered by the authorities to be an adequate penalty.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I spoke to a friend yesterday. ‘I’m on my 7th Covid infection and have pneumonia, when are we gaining immunity?’ We aren’t ever gaining lasting immunity. I told her to campaign for clean air.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

submitted 12 days ago • 316 comments

www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir... such an enormous cop-out

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Bewley's Café among those impacted by FSAI closure orders via @RTENews wouldn’t it be great if HSA or FSAI had the same authority in respect of #CleanAir Get CleanAir livestream air quality scores at entrances and at intervals throughout buildings. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Eamon Ryan was in a position of real power to change a disastrous sitka-based forestry model, but did nothing. (The Green Party's Pippa Hackett was in charge of a review.) Now he's lamenting our disastrous sitka-based forestry model??? Words fail. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Using the word 'biodiversity' is now problematic in the US. In the midst of a human-caused mass extinction event.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

paging @irishtimes.com, @news.rte.ie @independent.ie - when are you going to delete your Twitter accounts?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

it's neoliberalism all the way down

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With all this preposterous talk about large-scale tree removal to 'protect' power lines, surely serious questions should be asked about the large plantations of shallow rooting non-native sitka spruce, often on peat soil. Can we have that conversation now? www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments