The (Jim) Jones Act

when exactly did everyone's brains melt?

Of course. That's why I would be cautious about assumptions made re direction of this conflict. There are so many interdependent factors and vast levels of agitprop in both sides

I'm skeptical.

Honestly though, listening to colleagues, I think how we campaign for active travel needs a drastic change.
Like a lot of people now are gagging to put a pitchfork through the nearest cyclist simply for being there

Hate to say it but US markets increasingly US centric, and they can well afford to pressurize Trump in a direction that benefits only the US to assuage local investors at the expense of global markets. Aka subsidized oil for US only etc

‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan Experts argue sensor and satellite data reveal targeted attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on farming communities were intended to prevent villages producing food

‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan | Global development | The Guardian share.google/x9Bzol5qSpxH...

Almost 60 ghost estates remain two decades on from crash Nearly 20 years on from the financial crash, almost 60 ghost housing estates remain across Ireland.

Almost 60 ghost estates remain two decades on from crash share.google/lkOA80bUr7FL...
The taking in charge problem actually predates the bust though, some 80s/90s estates took decades to pass to council controls

Love to see it

Full cost of each and every scan charged right back to the platform who enabled it. Hit them in the pocket book

An Irish influencer in Dubai shared this - and while i wish them no harm, I just can’t stand them

Can't stop thinking about the idea of people fleeing *into* Syria

working on something which I honestly assumed would take me like 20 minutes and it's been nearly two hours and I'm not even done yet and

Not really surprising? Restoration of period homes is incredibly expensive compared to late 20th century homes

And many of those peddling this over new builds mysteriously also happen to work in period home restoration

It's hard to comprehend how completely lighting a fire has gone out of vogue in just 30 years

Plumber wins by-election for Greens

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

There's an Irish political connection there too!

Correct and that was due to two different things happening together at the same time. Most of what is sold as "coal" is now manufactured ovoids which are 80s biofuel/renewables mixed in with about 20% coal dust and coal particles

And unfortunately that's likely to only get worse as fewer people rely on what becomes a more niche way of hearing homes

10-20% increases so 20%-40% on pre-taxed input, what is really shocking is the 80-100% increase in heating oil (where tax is a much lower %) such that kerosene is more expensive that highly taxed road diesel. Probably points to a market failure in heating oil supply, too few wholesalers? #speirgorm

Opinion: The traditional arts degree has had its day. It needs to be reinvented, not dumped A narrow definition of value has crept into the debate about the worth of third-level courses

No disrespect to my colleague but a lot of this really just boils down to a vague idea we should transform arts and humanities education ‘to prepare students for an AI world’, when if we are being honest, nobody really understands what AI will look like in a decade www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

How would the Iran crisis play out in a world powered by renewables not fossil fuels? This conflict exposes the fragility of the global fossil fuel economy and how renewables create resilience.

This, absolutely. It would be different
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How would the Iran crisis play out in a world powered by renewables not fossil fuels? This conflict exposes the fragility of the global fossil fuel economy and how renewables create resilience.

How would the Iran crisis play out in a world powered by renewables not fossil fuels? share.google/jnQ9NmUP5kYe...
This

Post summarizing the core arguments from my recent book

theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

potentially, but it looks like the regime in Iran has decided to go out with a bang

yeah they are ultimately chasing a minority of maybe 1/3 of the electorate - with the rest doggedly using FPTP tactical votes to keep them out

Thank you

Also "It was developer-led planning and zoning, he said.". This is nonsense. We don't have "developer led" planning, we have landowner led planning which is not the same thing. These were not developers, they were two brothers who no longer wished to farm their lands and saw an opportunity

Fwiw there's two elderly brothers who own this land, one of them is a member, has a lot of health problems, bit of a character. They are quiet elderly so good chance some of if not all of that land gets sold to council one way or another. Hard to do much without that additional land

Yeah this is not very accessible, partially because there's quite a lot of unused farmland in between Knocksedan & valley. Owners did want to develop & offered to gift some of it to council, but zoning refused so they didn't. Technically council could offer to buy some of that land to open up access