Richard Jacob
@idahonua.bsky.social
Founder of StyleBarn.ie with his wife, Mairead.
Interested in all things connected to sustainability and hospitality.
Interested in all things connected to sustainability and hospitality.
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That book is Steve Bannon’s inspiration, a fascist novel. Just openly laughing at everyone they hate
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
That book is Steve Bannon’s inspiration, a fascist novel. Just openly laughing at everyone they hate
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Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again.
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again.
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Sometimes people tell me that I exaggerate when I say that the US openly hostile towards Europe. The NSS speaks a very clear language though, and it is a hostile one.
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Sometimes people tell me that I exaggerate when I say that the US openly hostile towards Europe. The NSS speaks a very clear language though, and it is a hostile one.
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OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
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♻️ Sustainable never looked this sharp.
SLATED Packaging is fully eco-friendly—no shortcuts, no greenwashing, just the real deal.
Because if your product is going places… your packaging shouldn’t stay on the planet longer than you do. 🌍✨
#Sustainable #SLATED #Speirgorm
Slated.ie
SLATED Packaging is fully eco-friendly—no shortcuts, no greenwashing, just the real deal.
Because if your product is going places… your packaging shouldn’t stay on the planet longer than you do. 🌍✨
#Sustainable #SLATED #Speirgorm
Slated.ie
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
♻️ Sustainable never looked this sharp.
SLATED Packaging is fully eco-friendly—no shortcuts, no greenwashing, just the real deal.
Because if your product is going places… your packaging shouldn’t stay on the planet longer than you do. 🌍✨
#Sustainable #SLATED #Speirgorm
Slated.ie
SLATED Packaging is fully eco-friendly—no shortcuts, no greenwashing, just the real deal.
Because if your product is going places… your packaging shouldn’t stay on the planet longer than you do. 🌍✨
#Sustainable #SLATED #Speirgorm
Slated.ie
Genuinely sad to see “Singer’s Corner” becoming a Gala convenience store.
I know it’s great to have a business open in the City, but we are quite well sorted in the convenience department.
Just saying.
I know it’s great to have a business open in the City, but we are quite well sorted in the convenience department.
Just saying.
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Genuinely sad to see “Singer’s Corner” becoming a Gala convenience store.
I know it’s great to have a business open in the City, but we are quite well sorted in the convenience department.
Just saying.
I know it’s great to have a business open in the City, but we are quite well sorted in the convenience department.
Just saying.
@mikemoynihanex.bsky.social
I see you pulled a “clarification” from CCC on insta !!
😉
It’s always good to start a conversation about biodiversity.
I see you pulled a “clarification” from CCC on insta !!
😉
It’s always good to start a conversation about biodiversity.
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
@mikemoynihanex.bsky.social
I see you pulled a “clarification” from CCC on insta !!
😉
It’s always good to start a conversation about biodiversity.
I see you pulled a “clarification” from CCC on insta !!
😉
It’s always good to start a conversation about biodiversity.
I see that the “Cork Northern Distributor Multi-modal Route” route has been decided.
In plain English that means that Cork City Council plan to put a massive road through a special area of conservation and one of Cork city’s last mature woodlands in Glanmire.
@irishexaminer.bsky.social
In plain English that means that Cork City Council plan to put a massive road through a special area of conservation and one of Cork city’s last mature woodlands in Glanmire.
@irishexaminer.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I see that the “Cork Northern Distributor Multi-modal Route” route has been decided.
In plain English that means that Cork City Council plan to put a massive road through a special area of conservation and one of Cork city’s last mature woodlands in Glanmire.
@irishexaminer.bsky.social
In plain English that means that Cork City Council plan to put a massive road through a special area of conservation and one of Cork city’s last mature woodlands in Glanmire.
@irishexaminer.bsky.social
So many small Irish businesses support and promote each other on social media, it’s like the way we Irish acknowledge fellow walkers in the countryside.
Thank you all for being so sound.
#Speirgorm #shoplocal
Thank you all for being so sound.
#Speirgorm #shoplocal
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
So many small Irish businesses support and promote each other on social media, it’s like the way we Irish acknowledge fellow walkers in the countryside.
Thank you all for being so sound.
#Speirgorm #shoplocal
Thank you all for being so sound.
#Speirgorm #shoplocal
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Data centres. That’s all this is for. Not housing or anything else.
“The idea is that the emergency powers will allow government to intervene on critical infrastructure projects if they risk being delayed, & effectively green light them from government buildings” www.businesspost.ie/politics/eve...
Everything you need to know about the government’s new infrastructure plan
www.businesspost.ie
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Data centres. That’s all this is for. Not housing or anything else.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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This is very dangerous stuff …
“The idea is that the emergency powers will allow government to intervene on critical infrastructure projects if they risk being delayed, & effectively green light them from government buildings” www.businesspost.ie/politics/eve...
Everything you need to know about the government’s new infrastructure plan
www.businesspost.ie
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is very dangerous stuff …
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Anti-fascist posters appear in London
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Anti-fascist posters appear in London
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Patrick O'Donovan TD being utterly obnoxious on David McCullagh's @rteradio1.bsky.social Today programme just now.
It's perfectly clear why Judicial Reviews are being targeted in various media reports recently.
A major FF/FG campaign is under way, with the aim of ramming through numerous projects.
It's perfectly clear why Judicial Reviews are being targeted in various media reports recently.
A major FF/FG campaign is under way, with the aim of ramming through numerous projects.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Patrick O'Donovan TD being utterly obnoxious on David McCullagh's @rteradio1.bsky.social Today programme just now.
It's perfectly clear why Judicial Reviews are being targeted in various media reports recently.
A major FF/FG campaign is under way, with the aim of ramming through numerous projects.
It's perfectly clear why Judicial Reviews are being targeted in various media reports recently.
A major FF/FG campaign is under way, with the aim of ramming through numerous projects.
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Pretty much sums up the moment.
Current US Policy:
If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.
If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Pretty much sums up the moment.
If you are starting a new food business based on the idea of selling everything in single use plastic, you may be suffering from myopia.
#climatecrisis
#climatecrisis
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you are starting a new food business based on the idea of selling everything in single use plastic, you may be suffering from myopia.
#climatecrisis
#climatecrisis
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Government intend to by-pass citizens & the courts to fast-track energy & water infrastructure
What (& who) is this move for? #Speirgorm #Planning
What (& who) is this move for? #Speirgorm #Planning
🇮🇪 Ireland has effective moratorium on new data centres due to lack of capacity
Unrelated: Ireland’s govt plans emergency powers & limits on access to the courts
Unrelated: €3.5 billion budget for infrastructure
Unrelated: Meta & Amazon are building nuclear reactors to power data centres for AI
Unrelated: Ireland’s govt plans emergency powers & limits on access to the courts
Unrelated: €3.5 billion budget for infrastructure
Unrelated: Meta & Amazon are building nuclear reactors to power data centres for AI
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Government intend to by-pass citizens & the courts to fast-track energy & water infrastructure
What (& who) is this move for? #Speirgorm #Planning
What (& who) is this move for? #Speirgorm #Planning
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And this is just getting started on a global basis.
2026 will be a fascinating year in the world of energy.
2026 will be a fascinating year in the world of energy.
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
And this is just getting started on a global basis.
2026 will be a fascinating year in the world of energy.
2026 will be a fascinating year in the world of energy.
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Thanks to JJ O'Donoghue and Tripe & Drisheen for reporting the legal farce preventing the renaming of streets, parks and other places in Cork and across Ireland.
In 2011, the law was changed — but 15 years and 7 ministers later, regulations needed to give effect to this are still not in place.
In 2011, the law was changed — but 15 years and 7 ministers later, regulations needed to give effect to this are still not in place.
Bishop Lucey Park changed, the name didn't
In July, Cork City Councillors voted to rename Bishop Lucey Park. That was the easy part; now the process is caught up in legislation and a possible vote of the park's residents.
tripeanddrisheen.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Thanks to JJ O'Donoghue and Tripe & Drisheen for reporting the legal farce preventing the renaming of streets, parks and other places in Cork and across Ireland.
In 2011, the law was changed — but 15 years and 7 ministers later, regulations needed to give effect to this are still not in place.
In 2011, the law was changed — but 15 years and 7 ministers later, regulations needed to give effect to this are still not in place.
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So powerful and persuasive
Please watch this important new video from Youtube channel “Just Have a Think”.
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
So powerful and persuasive
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Survey: do you care about climate change
80% of People: yes
Black friday: want to fuck the climate anyway?
80% of People: fuck yes
80% of People: yes
Black friday: want to fuck the climate anyway?
80% of People: fuck yes
Looks like the “consume less” memo has definitely reached the 80% of people who pretend in surveys that they care a lot about taking more action on climate change.
And everyone is totally not pretending to care like they keep saying in surveys.
And everyone is totally not pretending to care like they keep saying in surveys.
Shoppers spent $1 billion more online shopping on Black Friday this year compared to 2024.
December 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Survey: do you care about climate change
80% of People: yes
Black friday: want to fuck the climate anyway?
80% of People: fuck yes
80% of People: yes
Black friday: want to fuck the climate anyway?
80% of People: fuck yes
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Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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These 'green beans' in Lidl are clearly disgusting and inedible, which makes the environmental cost of feeding them on desalinated water and shipping them from Morocco, with the profits going to European corporations, seem all the more tragic and insupportable. No beans is a much better solution.
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
These 'green beans' in Lidl are clearly disgusting and inedible, which makes the environmental cost of feeding them on desalinated water and shipping them from Morocco, with the profits going to European corporations, seem all the more tragic and insupportable. No beans is a much better solution.