@autofac
Stranger in a strange land - aren't we all? Engineering academic #Decarbonisation #ComplexSystems. #CarbonAbolitionist #AndACyclist he/his Why "autofac" you say? Well ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac And: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~mcmullin/
A livable Earth is fast slipping away
Scientists detect a sudden acceleration in global warming
During the past decade, global temperatures have climbed at an estimated rate of about 0.35°C per decade
Compared to just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
“We can take them at their word…”
This fuckin’ guy….
Trump: “Now we have low cost interceptors effectively combating Iranian drones.”
Oh, do you? Interesting where those came from.
BuT diD YoU sAy ThAnK yOu?
Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.
#illegalwar #trumpmurderschildren
To be honest, it still astounds me that this hasn't been standard for as long as code existed.
thegist.ie I said CJEU judgments were succinct. But one of the ways they manage this is to be very information dense. To expand on that paragraph a little- where a person has a right covered by the Charter of Fundamental Rights or any other provision of EU law and access to those legal entitlements is being blocked by a failure to correctly record their gender (in line with the definition at paragraph 32 above as being defined by "lived gender identity, and not to the identity assigned to them at birth") then whatever national law that is causing that impediment is to just be set aside. It is a dead letter. Every_court, every. state body, every individual official has to behave as it it didn't exist. That's the consequence of incompatibility with EU law.
On discourse about trans people’s right to access to accurate ID, I’d like to remind that the EU’s top court, using data protection’s most fundamental principles, has declared that someone’s “lived gender identity” is what must be recorded to describe them.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
Hang on a minute
Bad take. UBI is unconditional access to resources. It says, "I trust you. Show me what you can do." It is the power to refuse until the pay is right. It is the freedom to choose paid or unpaid work. It fosters community and societal participation.
And ending survival fear is a psychological need.
Title: "The Haters" panel 1. Two round characters sit in a cinema. Yellow blob "I hate this!" Red Blob "Me too!" Panel 2. They have left the cinema Red blob "I hated every minute of that film! It was nothing like the book!" Panel 3. "Did you like the book?" asks Yellow. Red replies "I hated it!" then asks "You?" Panel 4. Yellow blob "I've not read it. I hated the film purely on its own merits." Panel 5. Red blob "I'll lend you my copy." Yello blob"That's very kind." Panel 6. Caption: "Later" Yellow, reading the book "I hate this!" Red (happily) "I knew you would!!"
"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com
I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach
Longish thread about cycling a cargo bike around Limerick and the bike itself. After trialing a cargo bike Pat and @limerickecargobike.bsky.social - we decided to buy this bike from Decathlon. We have over 1000km done since October. We go every morning - regardless of the weather.
Refreshingly honest article indeed, and a good overview for future historians. Here's the Google translation for your & US embassy's convenience. Spotted only minor errors. Had to condense the alt texts a bit though!
As someone with a PhD in philosophy & who studied the hard problem of consciousness, can I just say I’m so f*cking tired.
[Untethered capitalism just doing its thing. Definitely doesn't have to be this way: we built it, we can change it...]
Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry threaten councils with legal action over public information campaigns on the harms of #airpollution
- "Straight from the playbook of tobacco" says Jemima Hartshorn, at Mums for Lungs
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There is a religious dimension to the way that some MAGA fanatics are framing the US-Israeli war against Iran that bodes ill for Europe, raising the risk that it inflames the Trump administration’s “civilisational” war against the continent. My latest on the Ayatollah of the West
Superman flies through a window to confront a criminal: WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT OF ME? IM GOING TO GIVE YOU THE FATE YOU DESERVE, LUBANE, FOR PROMOTING THIS WAR AND PROFITEERING UPON THE DEATH AND MISERY OF OTHERS:
Morning Bluesky.
Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps:
1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups.
So even small supply changes = big price effects
6/ reminder that even while fighting to maintain a safe climate & wanting to quit fossil fuels ASAP, any energy system/price shock is bad, and worse the poorer or more vulnerable you are. Recessions hurt, and energy underpins economic activity.
See @isabellamweber.bsky.social i/v
Chart showing the exponential collapse of the lag, extrapolated to 2.0C. Reference points show 10, 20 and 30 year lag scenarios projecting 2033, 2043 and 2053 respectively.
1/🌡️ Global warming passed a milestone on 17th Nov 2023 that barely made the news
For the first time ever, the world's daily average temperature was 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels
Here's what the data says about when that becomes the annual norm, & whether it's coming sooner than anyone expects🧵
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦♂️
thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...
Suppose it’s simply asking far too much to expect a senior RTÉ business journalist in 2026, as the #climate crisis deepens by the month, to have grasped that continuing to drill for fossils fuels is shooting ourselves in the head, never mind foot?
www.independent.ie/business/iri...
And of course the ever relevant @irishcycle.com: irishcycle.com/2026/03/03/w...
Also a shout out to urban mobility expert Marco Te Brömmelstroet, urging political leaders (!) to be prepared to clime the #HillOfHysteria: lnkd.in/eHPNWu_w
Urg. Well good luck and safe onward travels!
For anyone at all interested in this project, the Council vote will be tomorrow evening (Mar 9 '26): do consider dropping an email to Councillors encouraging them to show leadership! www.dlrcoco.ie/council-demo...
Oh lordy Peter: what an experience! Hope you get off real soon! (Not sure if it applies, but if your train ticket shows CIV you *might* persuade #eurostar to rebook you at no added cost. Maybe worth asking anyway. 😕) www.seat61.com/european-tra...
Sadly, there is a lot of disinformation circulating about the proposed #CabinteelyGreenway. Thankfully @cabinteelylife.bsky.social has take the time to debunk and offer the positive, constructive, inclusive, vision: cabinteelylife.org/2026/03/07/t...
