Adrian Kelly
@adokel.bsky.social
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Another layer off bureaucracy will definitely improve things
Daa Chief Executive Kenny Jacobs has called for the establishment of a strategic transportation planning unit to oversee major infrastructural projects
Call for unit to oversee major infrastructural projects
Daa Chief Executive Kenny Jacobs has called for the establishment of a strategic transportation planning unit to oversee major infrastructural projects.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Another layer off bureaucracy will definitely improve things
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Una Mullally: Media outlets need to break ties with X
Una Mullally: Media outlets need to break ties with X
The presence of media outlets on X does not have a diluting effect on the concentration of misinformation on the platform. If it did, then we wouldn’t be where we are
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Una Mullally: Media outlets need to break ties with X
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For starters - no Irish State/Gov agencies/politicians should be on Twitter. None. They could do this today and it would actually be more than just empty words.
The Minister for Justice has said that he wants social media companies to do more to ensure their platforms are not used to "freely spread incitement or hatred of others"
Call for action against spread of hatred on social media
The Minister for Justice has said that he wants social media companies to do more to ensure their platforms are not used to "freely spread incitement or hatred of others".
www.rte.ie
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
For starters - no Irish State/Gov agencies/politicians should be on Twitter. None. They could do this today and it would actually be more than just empty words.
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
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Smashing Pumpkins release the “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” album 30 years ago today.
Billy Corgan said “1979” was about “being 17, 18 — this weird feeling of having a job and a car, .. but I still had the tethers to home.”
Why “1979?"
“I have no idea, I had to call it something.”
Billy Corgan said “1979” was about “being 17, 18 — this weird feeling of having a job and a car, .. but I still had the tethers to home.”
Why “1979?"
“I have no idea, I had to call it something.”
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Smashing Pumpkins release the “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” album 30 years ago today.
Billy Corgan said “1979” was about “being 17, 18 — this weird feeling of having a job and a car, .. but I still had the tethers to home.”
Why “1979?"
“I have no idea, I had to call it something.”
Billy Corgan said “1979” was about “being 17, 18 — this weird feeling of having a job and a car, .. but I still had the tethers to home.”
Why “1979?"
“I have no idea, I had to call it something.”
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Hm. Not sure this is really a killer argument for reversing the ban.
October 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Hm. Not sure this is really a killer argument for reversing the ban.
@bhgreeley.bsky.social i think small vendors demand cash to avoid tax not because of exchange fees no?
October 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
@bhgreeley.bsky.social i think small vendors demand cash to avoid tax not because of exchange fees no?
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"From a peak share of 51 per cent of the UK’s new car market in 2012, diesel vehicles now account for only 3 per cent last year"
Astonishing progress
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How many lives is this saving?
Astonishing progress
on.ft.com/47l1rlm
How many lives is this saving?
UK dieselgate motorists prepare to go to court against carmakers
Hundreds of thousands of claimants aim to prove that VW was not the only manufacturer cheating in emissions tests
on.ft.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"From a peak share of 51 per cent of the UK’s new car market in 2012, diesel vehicles now account for only 3 per cent last year"
Astonishing progress
on.ft.com/47l1rlm
How many lives is this saving?
Astonishing progress
on.ft.com/47l1rlm
How many lives is this saving?
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I’ve been saying for years that we need to move to an impact based warning system like the UK Met Office use. The winds we saw yesterday have a much bigger impact this time of year and also when peak of storm is during work day. The Met Éireann system is based on specific thresholds being met.
October 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I’ve been saying for years that we need to move to an impact based warning system like the UK Met Office use. The winds we saw yesterday have a much bigger impact this time of year and also when peak of storm is during work day. The Met Éireann system is based on specific thresholds being met.
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This is a big reason I am the way I am.
September 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a big reason I am the way I am.
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Pal if you can share the secret of how to control a group of 3yos that’ll make you more cash than any AI project
Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton at world’s biggest AI conf AI4 in Las Vegas. Is asked what could AI gain control of soon?
“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
August 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Pal if you can share the secret of how to control a group of 3yos that’ll make you more cash than any AI project
Probably the stupidest take you’ll see online today. There are no text based apps growing except Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Substack and if you broaden your perspective slightly - LLMs. All of which twitter was ahead of in 2012 and could have devoured if it wasn’t managed horrifically
There isn’t a text based internet social media site that’s actually growing, it’s a dead medium that’s only used by elder millennials, media and bad faith actors
I really don't like the wagon-ciricling response that happens when people point out that Bluesky feels smaller and smaller every day. I can feel it, and I know you can feel it too. You should want this place to grow because it's better than the other options.
August 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Probably the stupidest take you’ll see online today. There are no text based apps growing except Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Substack and if you broaden your perspective slightly - LLMs. All of which twitter was ahead of in 2012 and could have devoured if it wasn’t managed horrifically
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there’s no shortcut around therapy, but in a pinch you can listen to “Maps” with the volume all the way up
August 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
there’s no shortcut around therapy, but in a pinch you can listen to “Maps” with the volume all the way up
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My hot take is that I think wind turbines are beautiful. Like if you’re going to tilt against windmills because they ‘ruin a landscape’ my counter argument will be “no they don’t they’re gorgeous”.
The Guardian will publish scary headlines about ice sheet and AMOC collapse on a Friday, then stuff like this on a Monday: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How are people supposed to navigate this? Is climate change an urgent problem, or not?
How are people supposed to navigate this? Is climate change an urgent problem, or not?
Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins
Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My hot take is that I think wind turbines are beautiful. Like if you’re going to tilt against windmills because they ‘ruin a landscape’ my counter argument will be “no they don’t they’re gorgeous”.
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“What about China?” For years this was the go to excuse for people not to support action on climate change.
Sure China still uses a lot of coal but that appears to have peaked and when it comes to installing renewable energy tech China leads globally hands down.
Sure China still uses a lot of coal but that appears to have peaked and when it comes to installing renewable energy tech China leads globally hands down.
June 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“What about China?” For years this was the go to excuse for people not to support action on climate change.
Sure China still uses a lot of coal but that appears to have peaked and when it comes to installing renewable energy tech China leads globally hands down.
Sure China still uses a lot of coal but that appears to have peaked and when it comes to installing renewable energy tech China leads globally hands down.
@robarmstrong.bsky.social
Taco emerges on Italian TV “Taco’s Fault”
Taco emerges on Italian TV “Taco’s Fault”
May 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Taco emerges on Italian TV “Taco’s Fault”
Taco emerges on Italian TV “Taco’s Fault”
Let’s start a thread. Coolest ever Later with Jools performances.
1. Desert Sessions
youtu.be/ZafH1qXKxMg?...
1. Desert Sessions
youtu.be/ZafH1qXKxMg?...
Desert Sessions (Josh Homme & PJ Harvey) - I Wanna Make It Wit Chu
YouTube video by Tony Montana
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April 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Let’s start a thread. Coolest ever Later with Jools performances.
1. Desert Sessions
youtu.be/ZafH1qXKxMg?...
1. Desert Sessions
youtu.be/ZafH1qXKxMg?...
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Nothing you don’t already know but from October 2016. www.tumblr.com/rajakorman/1...
Post by @rajakorman
💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 6 · Capital, the Nation-State and the Crisis of the Right · Nothing like a nice title that uses the word Capital, is there? This post picks up on about two years' worth of conversatio…
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April 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Nothing you don’t already know but from October 2016. www.tumblr.com/rajakorman/1...
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NEW DATA: China's wind+solar overtakes thermal capacity🙌
39GW of solar added in Jan-Feb - a million solar panels per day🤯+ 9GW of wind
Thermal generation still dwarfs wind+solar, but new wind+solar (+nuclear+hydro) is broadly meeting elec demand growth, halting further rises
39GW of solar added in Jan-Feb - a million solar panels per day🤯+ 9GW of wind
Thermal generation still dwarfs wind+solar, but new wind+solar (+nuclear+hydro) is broadly meeting elec demand growth, halting further rises
March 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
NEW DATA: China's wind+solar overtakes thermal capacity🙌
39GW of solar added in Jan-Feb - a million solar panels per day🤯+ 9GW of wind
Thermal generation still dwarfs wind+solar, but new wind+solar (+nuclear+hydro) is broadly meeting elec demand growth, halting further rises
39GW of solar added in Jan-Feb - a million solar panels per day🤯+ 9GW of wind
Thermal generation still dwarfs wind+solar, but new wind+solar (+nuclear+hydro) is broadly meeting elec demand growth, halting further rises
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I want to say something precise: I have never seen evidence of any kind that CEOs in general are anything other than replacement level thinkers, and significant evidence that the typical CEO is way below replacement level. That doesn't mean they *all* are, but hoooooo boy is it a skinny right tail.
March 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I want to say something precise: I have never seen evidence of any kind that CEOs in general are anything other than replacement level thinkers, and significant evidence that the typical CEO is way below replacement level. That doesn't mean they *all* are, but hoooooo boy is it a skinny right tail.
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“In the past six months Russia has been humiliated in Syria, failed to dislodge three Ukrainian brigades from the Kursk region, and taken more than 200,000 casualties in advancing roughly the distance from central London to Heathrow airport.”
"To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it." www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
Now is the time for Europe to show strength, not division, argues Sanna Marin
Finland’s former leader makes the case for stumping up tens of billions more for Ukraine
www.economist.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“In the past six months Russia has been humiliated in Syria, failed to dislodge three Ukrainian brigades from the Kursk region, and taken more than 200,000 casualties in advancing roughly the distance from central London to Heathrow airport.”
Movies you’ve watched more than six times, using only gifs
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a checkered wall with his arms outstretched .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a checkered wall with his arms outstretched .
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February 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Movies you’ve watched more than six times, using only gifs