Dave Mathieson

And start doing that here right?

Just sitting with the fact that the data centre industry's top guy in Ireland took some time out of his day to see how many books Sally Rooney had sold, and then checked how many carbon emissions that represented, and thus imagined that he had alighted on an excellent point.

Show me your budget, and I'll tell you your policies.

Ireland has some responsibility on this. One of the greatest contributions we could be making to collective EU & global democracy & security (far more useful then disastrous attempts to remove the triple lock) would be having the courage to step up to our role as digital regulator in a serious way.

To be clear, "we" [i.e., IE Govt] are not actually engaged in any serious good faith *attempt* to end our fossil fuel dependency in any meaningful time frame. Always watch what "we" do, not what "we" say.

This is @tomflood.bsky.social's work, and it seems relevant here.

what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not

It's rare you see a post that manages, entirely accidentally and so perfectly, to achieve the logic and rhythm of a Viz letterbocks entry. I had a sausage sandwich this morning. Contrast that with man landing on the moon.

absolutely hate framing like this it's not a blow to "climate campaigners" in the way that a loss by a football team is a blow to their fans it's a blow to everyone who relies on a stable climate, breathable air and drinkable water climate chaos is a physical fact, it's not an issue of opinion

*and i get that there is a real issue with kids being injured on e-scooters - not discounting that - but where the hell are all the news reports on them having all of their space stolen. bsky.app/profile/tomf...

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... I'm none the wiser after reading this. A succession of average (mean) salaries for various professions, with caveats of "but of course this doesn't tell us the full picture", but no discussion of *median* salaries which might be a lot more revealing.

Ireland’s performance on #climate mitigation is the worst in Europe and will still be the worst in 2030. In this infographic that’s measured by the size of the gap between the left of the green bar graph (cuts achieved) and the blue dot (2030 goal).

I remind you again that, when asked about EU states relying on US tech companies, subject to US Government whims, Ireland’s Minister for Enterprise said he’d not heard any concerns raised about this in Europe.

We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!

Today a man high on meth juggling chainsaws in a childrens' playground killed 2 and injured 10. Commenting on the tragedy, Sean Canney says it's the responsibility of everyone using playgrounds to look after their own safety.

By January the governement will have spent more on giving in to the demands of fuel protestors than they've provided for in pay rises for the whole public sector. ( €1.2 bn )

Apparently another self driving car kills in Ireland. Weird how the motorist, the person controlling the car is not mentioned at all.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Show me an FFG min for transport and I'l show you someone who's never taken a bus in their life.

"Mind-boggling that there's so much demand for cycling and yet such a lack of infrastructure to keep them safe", is what was said - in a parallel universe where we have leaders who actually listen to evidence and care about public health and safety. A girl can dream.

The revealing part of this is that he clearly thinks there's too many bikes, and that he clearly knows that insisting on useless safety gear will discourage cycling.

senators increasingly making a case for their own abolition

Show me the money! Why do running red lights and driving down a motorway the wrong way have lower fines than high-vis on a scooter? Comment & Analysis: While road deaths and injury collisions involving motorists have spiked this year, there has been a classic moral panic against e-scooters -- and…

how can you not want to read to a kid, you get to do all the voices and shit like what tf is wrong with these people

Ireland cannot “credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of data centres” …or while cutting carbon taxes! www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Then why are we not future proofing with solar farms and 100% grants for solar at home and heat pumps?

I'm trying a new thing: Automatically posting updates when new transit lines open around the world. Follow @thetransportpolitic.com if you want to know when new transit lines open around the world.

If only we had some brutal fiscal correction in our nation's recent history to illustrate the hazards of propping up the Exchequer on a single industrial sector.

For some reason my parents let me watch this and it sh*t me up for years

Here's the liquid gas industry framing its product as a "just transition". This would be sidesplittingly funny if it was not apparent that this message is getting through to politicians.

Sinéad O'Sullivan: What one Kerry road tells us about road safety

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Compare this to how one-off 'drone incidents' are treated as evidence of escalating hybrid warfare. "We cannot keep treating extreme events as one-off emergencies, simply repairing the damage while people continue to live in fear of the next major event." www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...

Worrying interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social from the Climate Change Advisory Council on Morning Ireland. He was clear/damning about govt's lack of climate adaptation prep. Hopefully @rteradio1.bsky.social schedule follow up with Darragh O'Brien to ask him why govt are so far behind.

... Rural Ireland running on diesel is the problem electrification and renewable energy is trying to solve

Sports journalism, as a rule, is a cursed field of superficiality, tribal logic, and rushed deadlines. This searing piece by Gavin Cooney about the courage of Gavin Bazunu and the abject failure of every associated leader is the opposite: www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

"Cognitive dissonance" is the most charitable term for this stuff.... www.irishtimes.com/environment/... www.thejournal.ie/dublin-airpo...

I made an app that attempts to predict if current rainfall will move over where you are. No clever weather modelling or anything like that (I leave that up to met.ie). It just looks at the rain and "winds the clock forward" to guess when/if it'll hit you. Ireland / #spiergorm tinyd.github.io