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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 3h

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 6h

>99% at this rate

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 8h

*disproportionate rate

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 8h

"We don't have enough construction workers!" scream the housing crisis apologists, while giant energy vampires continue to be built at a completely disproportionate across Ireland. Fuck these data centres and the AI bubble they rode in on.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 8h

Not only are these data centres devouring energy & water – and feeding the AI bubble that'll blow up our economy when it bursts – they're also wasting vast construction resources (human, materials & admin) that could instead be building homes, solar farms, wind farms etc.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 8h

Data centres costing €5.6bn have planning approval but no electricity, industry warns

Access to electricity and gas restricts because of risk of blackouts due to power-hungry sector

www.irishtimes.com

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely nothing dodgy going on in Doonbeg. No sir. All good, clean, highly profitable business. Certainly not being used as a conduit to buy favours from a king, or launder money, that's for sure. And sure fair play to them, ye're only begrudgers is what ye are. jrnl.ie/6841727

Holiday cottage on Trump's Doonbeg golf resort sells for triple its 2021 price

It was a private sale and purchasers have to be a member of Trump Doonbeg before they can buy a property on the resort.

jrnl.ie

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely nothing dodgy going on in Doonbeg. No sir. All good, clean, highly profitable business. Certainly not being used as a conduit to buy favours from a king, or launder money, that's for sure. And sure fair play to them, ye're only begrudgers is what ye are. jrnl.ie/6841727

Holiday cottage on Trump's Doonbeg golf resort sells for triple its 2021 price

It was a private sale and purchasers have to be a member of Trump Doonbeg before they can buy a property on the resort.

jrnl.ie

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 2d

This is the intolerance that's driving our boys into the manosphere.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3d

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt
US #BlackHistoryMonth

Textile artwork featuring standing two figures facing forwards, a Black man and woman, the man wears a patterned suit in vivid colours and the woman wears a long coat in similar patterns and colours and she wears a large rounded hat, all against a patterned pink background

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 3d

There might not be any other option except to go feral when this bubble pops. Instant bankruptcy for Ireland's economy.

If it's any consolation, I reckon all the AirBnB landlords will be proper fucked.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 3d

Bubbles within bubbles.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing to see here.

Kayla @toothpastevixen.bsky.social · 4d

hey do you think it might be a sign of anything that two banks in the past 24 hours or so (BoE and JP Morgan) have warned about a potential stock market correction around the ai bubble

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 4d

Social factors aside, the virus has literally damaged people's brains, affecting things like concentration ("brain fog"), cognitive ability (judgement, e.g. speed & distance), impulse control (road rage), and empathy.

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks

This study explores the linkage between acute SARS-CoV-2 and car crashes across U.S. states, correlating with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, vaccination rates, and Long COVID prevalence. This investi...

journals.plos.org

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 4d

There's a trick that works for me >90% of the time: When you feel a sneeze coming on, stick your tongue up to the roof of your mouth. Stops the sneeze impulse somehow.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 4d

Jim Gav

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 5d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 5d

I think the basil plant might be in trouble.

A severely dessicated basil plant sits dejectedly in a small plastic pot on a kitchen countertop.

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Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 7d

Oh lordy. No, these are not "heat pumps". They are *water* pumps installed in conventional fossil-fuel heating systems. 🤦‍♂️

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 7d

'Urgent' recall as 114,000 homeowners warned of heat pump electrocution risk

The recall is one of the largest product safety alerts ever issued by the CCPC, and one of the most serious

dlvr.it

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 7d

That last line; ouch!

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 7d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 7d

Big Jim has his whetstone near worn out, no doubt.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 7d

Ah no, there will be several Maria angles on this story, don't worry.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 8d

Is it anything to do with the ongoing Covid-19 surge, which has hospitalised a couple of hundred people a week for the past several weeks? (Because it certainly isn't flu season yet.)

A chart showing Covid cases and hospitalisations over the past 12 weeks in Ireland.

A chart showing flu cases and hospitalisations over the past 12 weeks in Ireland.

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