🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠
🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠
@johnhyphen.bsky.social
climate justice | video games | struggling in Iodáilis, in francese & en gaélique | Etymology Expert™ | (he/him) 🗺️: Brussels/Dublin
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data centre eejit thinks books are bad, what a surprise haha
"So Sally Rooney has published six and a half million books - that's quite a lot of books, well done - but that's about 15,000 tonnes of emissions." Ireland's data centre industry boss has lashed out at writer Sally Rooney for her opposition to the sector www.thejournal.ie/sally-rooney...
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recently spoke to our 6-year-old about consent for things like this, as i saw her look a bit uncomfortable with an air-kiss on the cheek from a friend (we're in belgium, 'la bise' is very normal) i told her that she can always say no, even to family – and she said she thought she couldn't!
Adverts run by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre looking at consensual hugs between children and their grandparents has been suspended after criticism. Aontú's Peader Tóibín called the ad "bonkers", as he urged a "need to build resilience" among children. www.thejournal.ie/grandparents...
recently spoke to our 6-year-old about consent for things like this, as i saw her look a bit uncomfortable with an air-kiss on the cheek from a friend (we're in belgium, 'la bise' is very normal) i told her that she can always say no, even to family – and she said she thought she couldn't!
Adverts run by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre looking at consensual hugs between children and their grandparents has been suspended after criticism. Aontú's Peader Tóibín called the ad "bonkers", as he urged a "need to build resilience" among children. www.thejournal.ie/grandparents...
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"Divert, distract, dehumanise and scapegoat are the oldest tricks in wily politicians’ playbook. The well-worn recipe is simple: take a social crisis, remove its economic content, replace it with a face, a religion, a border. Then offer an enemy, not a solution" Expect more when climate chaos bites
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The central story is not only the scale of destruction It is also the courage of people who have resisted genocide, occupation, colonisation & political indifference Militarism, fossil-fuel power, colonial extraction, corporate impunity & racism are not separate crises – they reinforce one another
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opened this article expecting a lot of regurgitated corporate PR, basically amounting to free advertising for one of the most despicable companies in the world (which i did find) but wasn't expecting to see mcdonald's absolutely body the taoiseach and tánaiste like that
McDonald’s uses Ireland to test hand-breaded chicken in Europe
this is pushing up people's energy bills, AND making it harder to get dirty fuels out of our energy system how is it possibly worth it?
data centres "support the national grid, help bring large-scale renewables onstream"?? lies, lies and lies!
democracy doesn't begin and end at the ballot box! the right to organise, protest and withdraw your labour is a key part of a healthy democracy too!!! big businesses spend millions lobbying to tip the scales of "democracy" in between elections, protest is ordinary people's way to push back!!!!!
Another example of Martin turning legitimate, public action into a 'threat to democracy'. "There doesn't need to be a picket, and I'm saying to all concerned, parliamentary democracy matters, and we shouldn't be just lightly chipping away at it." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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big "Europa, erwache!" vibes
let's be honest, we don't restrict ourselves to yanks when it comes to telling fibs (they're just fairly easy marks)
Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.