Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ

if we want to take road safety seriously, we need elevated levels of human fluorescence so that everyone remains highly visible at all times (my proposal is to augment the water supply, something akin to fluoridation, to produce the necessary bioluminescence)

"Pedestrians should wear high-vis in urban areas, even on the edge of Dublin City Centre, according to the Assistant Garda Commissioner" Mental stuff from An Garda, suggesting everyone wear high-vis because drivers can't be arsed not running people over. #SpéirGhorm irishcycle.com/2026/10/24/s...

" #Lula ’s extraordinary victory in #Brazil… is the most important defeat for the #farright we have seen anywhere in the world in recent times, and its impact will be felt worldwide… The next stage will be difficult… #Bolsonaro is refusing to recognise the results" links.org.au/lulas-extrao...

#Lula 's win is not only a win for the left & democracy over the #farright menace, but a win for life in this planet. A #Bolsonaro win would have meant the destruction of the #Amazon. Lula has reduced #deforestation by 70% since 2022, & will reduce it further. 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

“ #Cuba mocks US 'desperation' calling on Cubans to work with #CIA … Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio wrote… “There must be a great deal of desperation or misery within the agency for it to be forced to sell its services like a tube of toothpaste." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

#Lula ‘s victory in #Brazil has halted Latin America’s #farright wave, but in #Ecuador the war on #democracy intensifies Opposition leader #LuisaGonzález has been arrested for “money laundering”, weeks before regional elections (from which her party has been banned) www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

With 81.2% of the vote counted in #Brazil 's presidential election, it seems the improbable is becoming the inevitable. #Lula (PT, centre-left): 51.3% (+0.3) #Bolsonaro (PL, right): 48.7% (-0.3) (+/- vs 72.8% counted) #BoraLula #LulaPresidente

Voter suppression in #Brazil. #Bolsonaro allies have closed public bus services to suppress the #Lula vote, flouting court orders. 29% of #SãoPaulo 's municipal bus fleet remained in garages. The Supreme Court has ordered a nationwide two-hour extension of voting, but many booths are already shut.

" #Serbia 's longtime leader, strongman Aleksandar #Vučić, conceded defeat to a student-led movement in the country's parliamentary elections on Sunday in what represents a seismic political shift" www.dw.com/en/serbia-el...

“ #Meta faces election interference allegations in #Brazil after restricting #Lula ‘s Instagram while recommending #Bolsonaro ‘s accounts. Researchers uncovered 1613 foreign-funded political ads generating 171 million impressions” #LulaPresidente2027 #Lula13 #BoraLula www.yacnews.com/meta-accused...

Ignoring repression, vilification, curfews, bans, & 70000 police, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of #France today. This movement will not be bowed by an arrogant centre, a growing #farright, or state violence. It will grow, & it will win #FranceProtests www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

"German police have arrested a suspect after a fire ripped through Adolf Hitler’s former mountain retreat in Bavaria, leaving the historic Nazi meeting place – known as the Eagle’s Nest – largely destroyed." Oh, what a shame! 🙃 Anyway... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Absolutely heartbreaking news. Vale Donal Lunny. Tá croíbhrón orm. Tá laoch imithe ar shlí na fírinne. Go raibh suaimhneas síoraí ar a anam ceolmhar. Mo chomhbhrón lena theaghlach, a chomhghleacaithe agus a chairde. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

#Sweden: Christian Democrats leader Ebba Busch has called on the Social Democrats to support a renewed (continuation) centre-right govt of the Moderates, Christian Democrats, & Liberals. I don't even have the words to describe the amount of stupid it takes to suggest this. www.dn.se/sverige/ebba...

About one third of claimed carbon capture just dumped secretly into the atmosphere by chevron

“‘Pure arrogance’: anger in #Finland as #Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for #datacentre… After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area… all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Ireland ‘s govt has forced through a vote, after guillotining debate, on scrapping the #triplelock on deploying Irish troops. The move is a threat to #IrishNeutrality, another step on the road to military escalation, & a betrayal of the Irish electorate. #SpéirGhorm www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

“Prime Minister Pedro #Sánchez’s chances of staging a poll-defying election comeback have suffered a serious dent #Spain ‘s notoriously fragmented far left has failed to unite on a single ticket ahead of November’s election… #Podemos did not join” #FrenteAmplio #Sumar www.politico.eu/article/spai...

"The ‘Total Strike’ Has Come for #France… The people are in revolt, and the entire social order is collapsing… Four decades of neoliberal rot are now coming to a head at this point of terminal crisis" #17octobre #franceprotests tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/the-...

"Is #France burning down? The French revolt, rioting and the radical left… Eight hundred thousand people joined demonstrations in dozens of towns on October 17… Where the police left the protests alone, nothing got smashed up" #protests #17octobre www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1465/wo...

"Residents of a remote town in #Norway that is in one of the fastest-warming places in the world… told they must no longer drink tap #water due to heavy metal contamination…linked to the thawing #permafrost" #Longyearbyen #Svalbard #drinkingwater #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"‘Damaging’ to claim White Paper and #CitizensAssembly will deliver #Irishunity, Taoiseach says" #MicheálMartin is a partitionist who refuses to take any steps towards a #UnitedIreland because he can't control & suffocate it Useful as a chocolate teapot #SpéirGhorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

" #IanPaisley said in 2021 he knew of a Donaldson ‘victim’ — and used that information for political ends" The #DUP knew #JeffreyDonaldson was an abuser, for years. The #GarvaghyRoad/ #Drumcree dispute was a conveniently-timed distraction. #SpéirGhorm www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

#Canada: in a non-binding vote, more than 2/3 of voters in #Alberta have voted against initiating the process to hold a binding referendum on secession. The #farright populists behind the move vow to keep pushing for independence for the #oil -rich province. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

"the #Berlin District Where the Left Broke Through #Neukölln is a working-class, multicultural district of Berlin that embodies the turnaround in the German left… This has also made it the target of efforts to demonize… #DieLinke and disqualify its Muslim voters" #Germany jacobin.com/2026/10/neuk...

#Sweden: parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlen has asked Center Party (C) leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist to try to form a govt of the "middle" after talks led by the Social Democrat's Magdalena Anderson failed twice because C refuses to work with the Left Party. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

“US corporate lobbyists mounted ‘blitz’ to dilute landmark EU #deforestation law, report finds Environmental watchdog Mighty Earth reveals two-year effort to postpone and weaken EU #DeforestationRegulation” #EUDR #Forests #transparency #corporatelobbying www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“We were never supposed to stand on the #GarvaghyRoad again… It has shown me the courage of those who came before us, the responsibility carried by those of us who came after them… that solidarity is not an abstract political idea” #SpéirGhorm #Drumcree www.anphoblacht.com/contents/28832

“ #Berlin ‘s #LeftParty, #Greens and #SPD have reached a historic preliminary agreement that could pave the way for one of #Germany ‘s most ambitious #housing reforms” #DieLinke www.thelocal.de/20261019/how...

“As #PaulineHanson ‘s #OneNation mounts its biggest-ever Victorian election campaign, candidates have been cleaning up their social media histories. Unfortunately for them, journalists got there first” #Farright conspiracists, #racists, & crooks galore… searchlightmagazine.com/2026/10/why-...

“ #Spain ‘s #farright #Vox unveils plans to privatise public #pension system… With Spaniards heading to the polls in a snap general election on November 29” www.thelocal.es/20261008/spa...

“After opening an investigation into political strategist #FernandoCerimedo, “ #MAGA ‘s man in Latin America,” for attempted femicide and drug ties, #Bolivia ‘s attorney general was arrested by his own government. Even the vice president now fears for his life” #Trump jacobin.com/2026/10/boli...

"For British socialists, there remains a clear responsibility to campaign for Irish unification and an end to British-imposed partition… Labour Movement for #IrishUnity has launched a new campaign: “Ireland 2030. Let the People Vote.”" #SpéirGhorm #TradeUnions morningstaronline.co.uk/article/putt...

A study in the South China Sea found that a deep-sea mining trial significantly disrupted the microbial ecosystem, altering nutrient cycling and energy flow. 🌊

" #Sweden ’s Left Faces a Political Deadlock In September, Swedish voters defeated a governing coalition that the far right had propped up. But the Center Party is now blocking a new government because it wants to keep Left Party ministers out of the cabinet" jacobin.com/2026/10/swed...

Yesterday, @Walter Baier met The Palestine Liberation Organisation representatives Qasem Awwad and Jana Jarrar, alongside Vincent Boulet @pcf.bsky.social , for a friendly exchange in Paris. The European Left wants to make the PLO’s voice heard in Europe.

“’How do you explain the deletion of 130 million names?’…Anger at electoral roll changes has boiled over, sparking a crisis for Narendra #Modi ‘s Hindu nationalist government…”a national harassment exercise designed to throw Muslims off the electoral roll”” #India www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

" #Drumcree exposed the failure of supremacy - not the failure of #Irishunity… Irish unity does not depend on indulging those who demand supremacy. It depends on building a country in which supremacy has no place" #GarvaghyRoad #SpéirGhorm #UnitedIreland senmacbrdaigh.substack.com/p/drumcree-e...

40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...