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StephDickenson.bsky.social @stephdickenson.bsky.social · Feb 10
“It’s all connected. We are living through an information crisis. It’s what underpins everything.”

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IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
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Ed Davitt @davitter.bsky.social · 11h
Come work with me!
greenpartyie.bsky.social Green Party / Comhaontas Glas @greenpartyie.bsky.social · 11h
We're hiring!

The Party is looking for a Press and Strategic Communications Officer to help us shape and get our message out as effectively as possible.

Deadline for applications is Thursday 6th November. Find all the details below.

#GreenJobs
Job opportunities and Internships | Green Party
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StephDickenson.bsky.social @stephdickenson.bsky.social · 10h
Today’s walk
Carved turnip heads! Stuck onto black railings outside a house.
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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 20h
Our reporters and editors spend hours sifting through thousands of documents, we knock on doors and send repeated requests for interviews.

This kind of work takes time and it takes resources...

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The Journal invests time, expertise and passion in long-form investigative journalism. Our work has led to changes in legislation and State policy. We’ve sought and received apologies for wrongdoing…
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d
A wealth of Irish authors from across the island have been named on the shortlist of this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards.

Celebrating its 20th year, the awards continue to champion and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible.
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Reporters, rugby stars and an ex-Taoiseach among nominees as Irish Book Awards shortlist unveiled
A diverse range of authors across a wide range of categories feature in the awards shortlist.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d
You can *care* about many things and you can only take concrete & sustained action on 1 or 2 things.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 2d
Good news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 9.7% in September! That's four months of solid data showing the pedestrianization pilot is good for business.

Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going this fall and winter: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...
seating on Pike Place flowers and farmers market on pike place, last one was in September sadly
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 4d
Poster in Central Dublin #aras25
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d
China has electrified faster than almost any other country - electricity’s share of its energy use is up 10% in a decade.

Since 2019 it’s built 40% of global wind & solar, boosting their share in power generation by nearly 20% points.

Energy independence meets industrial strategy.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d
Big Tech oligarchs are coming for your job.

Jeff Bezos will be replacing 600,000 jobs at Amazon with robots. His vision: fully automate operations.

Amazon's not alone. That's the direction of every major corporation.

AI & robotics must benefit workers, not the top 1%.
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 2d
In Saggart tonight there's a large group of masked men who just want to protect women and children who also happened to be determined to murder a hotel full of women and children
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d
Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 2d
People who come out with this stuff about who is “truly” Irish should maybe reflect for a minute on how it might maybe come across to members of immigrant communities or Irish people of non-Irish descent
fionasmall.bsky.social Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 2d
This is just sectarianism against Irish Protestants dressed up in academic jargon
Fontaines D.C. bassist Conor 'Deego' Deegan Ill has taken to his Instagram stories to issue support for Catherine Connolly ahead of the presidential election this Friday. "Catherine Connolly is the candidate of the uncolonized Irish mind; Heather Humphreys is the candidate of the mind colonised by Britain," he wrote in a statement posted yesterday afternoon.
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Performing Arts Forum @pafireland.bsky.social · 2d
***LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER***

Performing Arts Forum & Indigo Ltd is delighted to present the results of Act Green!

Join us to discover how cultural organisations can deepen their understanding of climate leadership in the arts.

🔗 Register below

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Act Green Presentation | 22 October
Performing Arts Forum, in partnership with Indigo Ltd, is delighted to present the results of Act Green Ireland, a nationwide audience research initiative exploring public attitudes towards the…
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d
Good piece by an Irish journo on how Irish journalism works when it comes to Catherine Connolly (but not other candidates):

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The usual suspects in the media are eating it up too. No less than six columns appeared in the Sunday Indo this week maligning Connolly. The Irish Daily Mail compared the left-wing independent to Donald Trump. During debates, Fine Gael texts out attack lines to journalists. They’re often forwarded directly on to me by colleagues in journalism and minutes later the very queries Fine Gael direct them to ask appear in the Connolly press inbox. If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry. By Saturday, we’ll know how the country voted and it’ll all be over. The effect of the campaign will be longer lasting. People’s general derision of the mainstream newspapers will increase. We malign the death of our industry yet continually treat customers, or potential customers, like idiots.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d
"a kind of celebration of ignorance"
Sagan quote from "The Demon-Haunted World"
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Dr Jo Swabe @joswabe.bsky.social · 2d
45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds euobserver.com/green-econom...
45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds
Global meat and dairy production's environmental footprint dwarfs that of all EU member states and the UK combined, according to a new report.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d
I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d
EXCEPTIONAL SUMMER WARMTH IN CANADA

Incredible and unprecedented heat for this time of the year with temperature locally above summer averages
like 29.0C at St Anicet ,Quebec
and 28.2 Ormstown

More warmth on the way
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StephDickenson.bsky.social @stephdickenson.bsky.social · 3d
Today’s walk - heading up into Phibsboro
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 3d
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
Denise C. @SpudBenBean · Follow A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat. The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 3d
Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan has given a staunch defence of the cab-rank rule in the last few minutes, telling reporters it's an "obligation" and "absolutely essential".

"I don't think it's correct or fair to criticise lawyers because of the actions of others".

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 3d
Imagine the story if she'd broken the rule: "Connolly revealed to have breached Code of Conduct of the Bar requiring impartiality, Humphreys says it proves she can't be even-handed in the Áras".
rebelalliance77.bsky.social 🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 3d
Pat Leahy of the Irish times is now on radio one also making a fool of himself and running down Connolly saying there’s ways around the rules she could have used.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d
What could possibly go wrong share.google/WNHqecAd9ngn...
X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles
X is launching a Handle Marketplace where Premium subscribers will be able to search and request usernames that have been unavailable.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 5d
The biggest global gathering of nature organisations, scientists and governments, which takes place every 4 years, has just concluded. Once again, there was no representative from the Irish government - why have we opted out of participating in these events?

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IUCN World Conservation Congress concludes in Abu Dhabi with ambitious vision for nature conservation
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15 October 2025 (IUCN) – The IUCN World Conservation Congress closed today in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, setting the vision for nature conservation for the next ...
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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 4d
ICYMI: “Even with the cool, wet conditions of early fall, there were still six wildfires burning on Vancouver Island this past week.” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/w... - @timescolonist.bsky.social

#Bamfield #BCWildfire #PortAlberni #VancouverIsland #Wildfires
Wildfires still burning on Vancouver Island amid serious drought
“Fairly severe drought conditions” on Vancouver Island contributed to a pair of high-profile fires with common characteristics this past summer.
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