Paul Tighe
@paultighe.bsky.social
BSc. Environmental Chemistry, Reader, Writer (when the notion takes me). Born at ~326.32ppm since this seems to be a thing now.🤷
Mayo/Waterford.
Mayo/Waterford.
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Have another old #painting. "Ballina I", was so called because I went on to paint more paintings of the County Mayo town. I get to visit the place every year so have a replenishing stock of experiences from which I can make new paintings. And it's good to look into the Moy. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Have another old #painting. "Ballina I", was so called because I went on to paint more paintings of the County Mayo town. I get to visit the place every year so have a replenishing stock of experiences from which I can make new paintings. And it's good to look into the Moy. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
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A cross-party group of lawmakers will urge the European Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous software in favor of a European alternative
www.politico.eu/article/get-...
#digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveränität
www.politico.eu/article/get-...
#digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveränität
Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.
“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A cross-party group of lawmakers will urge the European Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous software in favor of a European alternative
www.politico.eu/article/get-...
#digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveränität
www.politico.eu/article/get-...
#digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveränität
Surprise surprise!!🙄
World’s biggest arms producers increased revenue last year to record level, report says
World’s biggest arms producers increased revenue last year to record level, report says
Revenue increased by almost 6 percent for the biggest weapons-producing companies.
dlvr.it
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Surprise surprise!!🙄
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
An excellent thread, well worth a few minutes to read.
🧵 As we look towards the #LateLateToyShow next week, it's time to remember that everyone - including the State - will expect us all to donate generously to the very worthy causes supported financially by the Toy Show Appeal. Let's think about this.
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
An excellent thread, well worth a few minutes to read.
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Rename Herzog Park
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Rename Herzog Park
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Kenny's Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway city is celebrating 85 years as a family business this weekend.
Kenny's celebrates 85 years of selling books
Kenny's Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway city is celebrating 85 years as a family business this weekend.
www.rte.ie
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Kenny's Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway city is celebrating 85 years as a family business this weekend.
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Sally Rooney is one of the best things Irish right now.
It's called *integrity*.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
It's called *integrity*.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
Irish author Rooney says her books could disappear from UK stores altogether
www.irishtimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sally Rooney is one of the best things Irish right now.
It's called *integrity*.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
It's called *integrity*.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵...
The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵...
The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
To infinity and beyond
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
To infinity and beyond
This is what's missing from international relations!!
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is what's missing from international relations!!
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Ahaaaa, he's real!!😆
November 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ahaaaa, he's real!!😆
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Falling from a mountaintop: ‘I didn’t feel my body hit the rocks, I just heard the sound’
Falling from a mountaintop: ‘I didn’t feel my body hit the rocks, I just heard the sound’
Jean Muenchrath sustained catastrophic injuries in 1982 accident; the intervening years have been a time of healing
www.irishtimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Falling from a mountaintop: ‘I didn’t feel my body hit the rocks, I just heard the sound’
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Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
share.google
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
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📢Hundreds of organisations and movements from different regions from around Europe are united in their call to national governments:
“Fix the housing and climate crisis”
Read the joint letter, which we have co-signed, here: buildbetterlives.eu/2025/11/26/n...
“Fix the housing and climate crisis”
Read the joint letter, which we have co-signed, here: buildbetterlives.eu/2025/11/26/n...
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📢Hundreds of organisations and movements from different regions from around Europe are united in their call to national governments:
“Fix the housing and climate crisis”
Read the joint letter, which we have co-signed, here: buildbetterlives.eu/2025/11/26/n...
“Fix the housing and climate crisis”
Read the joint letter, which we have co-signed, here: buildbetterlives.eu/2025/11/26/n...
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Candlesnuff fungus, rising up like a ghostly apparition from the rainforest floor and waving its limbs.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Candlesnuff fungus, rising up like a ghostly apparition from the rainforest floor and waving its limbs.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
😆😆 Private Eye on form again!!
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
😆😆 Private Eye on form again!!
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An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
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Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'.
But it's the *total* opposite.
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But it's the *total* opposite.
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“A beehive is as natural as a pasture of grazing sheep.” Why beekeeping is causing a huge problem for wild bees – according to scientists | Discover Wildlife
A dramatic rise in the number of managed beehives is negatively impacting wild pollinating insects
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November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'.
But it's the *total* opposite.
share.google/1csfRNfR3lnL...
But it's the *total* opposite.
share.google/1csfRNfR3lnL...
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FG, FF, SF and II all vote to give €100 million of public money to the horse and greyhound racing industry.
That's three times more money than the core funding for all our sports!
€20 million is going to the cruel greyhound racing industry.
Shameful.
That's three times more money than the core funding for all our sports!
€20 million is going to the cruel greyhound racing industry.
Shameful.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
FG, FF, SF and II all vote to give €100 million of public money to the horse and greyhound racing industry.
That's three times more money than the core funding for all our sports!
€20 million is going to the cruel greyhound racing industry.
Shameful.
That's three times more money than the core funding for all our sports!
€20 million is going to the cruel greyhound racing industry.
Shameful.