Joe Fitzmaurice
@joefitzmaurice.bsky.social
Sourdough baker, teacher, and fire lighter. Riot Rye Bakehouse & Bread School, Cloughjordan Ecovillage co-creator. Building community. Always willing to take questions, and share the sourdough love 🌾🌳💚
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I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite.
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
Explore live radio by rotating the globe
Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
radio.garden
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite.
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
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Goldfinches (the European species) in the winter’s morning sunshine. Ink and watercolour.
#artAdventCalendar
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December 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Goldfinches (the European species) in the winter’s morning sunshine. Ink and watercolour.
#artAdventCalendar
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#artAdventCalendar
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This is a really nice piece in Hot Press about how we're differently to other businesses and why. It'd be great if you could read and share. My perhaps naive hope is that a big business might see it and copy us. It works. #speirgorm www.hotpress.com/lifestyle-sp...
Imbibe Coffee Roasters – proving that a different way of doing business is possible: "There's huge satisfaction in giving" | Hotpress
The founder of Imbibe Coffee Roasters, Gary Grant, explains how they have built a flourishing business selling great coffee, while also supporting an array ...
www.hotpress.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is a really nice piece in Hot Press about how we're differently to other businesses and why. It'd be great if you could read and share. My perhaps naive hope is that a big business might see it and copy us. It works. #speirgorm www.hotpress.com/lifestyle-sp...
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ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
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ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests
Our member organisation operates in full accordance with international law ; its primary role is to support farmers in Palestine.
viacampesina.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
@viacampesinabe.bsky.social
viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
@viacampesinabe.bsky.social
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UCD School of Archaeology 2025 Research Day is on, “Home and Away: The reach and range of archaeology at UCD” @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
UCD School of Archaeology 2025 Research Day is on, “Home and Away: The reach and range of archaeology at UCD” @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Cabbages, Co-Ops and Decolonisation – Feeding Ourselves Hits the City.
My personal take on our fab event in Dublin 30th October.
#FeedingOurselves .
A step forward & up for food sovereignty & other progressive ways to approach land, rural, farming, food and health.
sustainable.ie/cabbages-co-...
My personal take on our fab event in Dublin 30th October.
#FeedingOurselves .
A step forward & up for food sovereignty & other progressive ways to approach land, rural, farming, food and health.
sustainable.ie/cabbages-co-...
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Cabbages, Co-Ops and Decolonisation – Feeding Ourselves Hits the City.
My personal take on our fab event in Dublin 30th October.
#FeedingOurselves .
A step forward & up for food sovereignty & other progressive ways to approach land, rural, farming, food and health.
sustainable.ie/cabbages-co-...
My personal take on our fab event in Dublin 30th October.
#FeedingOurselves .
A step forward & up for food sovereignty & other progressive ways to approach land, rural, farming, food and health.
sustainable.ie/cabbages-co-...
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Read: Building sweet gingerbread memories in #IrishCountryLiving. I wrote about our family gingerbread house tradition - heading into our 15th year - for the gorgeous Christmas food magazine in this week's #IrishFarmersJournal.
www.farmersjournal.ie/food/recipes...
#BibliocookGingerbreadHouse
www.farmersjournal.ie/food/recipes...
#BibliocookGingerbreadHouse
Caroline Hennessy: 'building sweet gingerbread memories'
Starting a new tradition turned out to be more difficult than planned for Caroline Hennessy, but 14 years later a gingerbread house is an essential, and delicious, part of family Christmas.
www.farmersjournal.ie
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Read: Building sweet gingerbread memories in #IrishCountryLiving. I wrote about our family gingerbread house tradition - heading into our 15th year - for the gorgeous Christmas food magazine in this week's #IrishFarmersJournal.
www.farmersjournal.ie/food/recipes...
#BibliocookGingerbreadHouse
www.farmersjournal.ie/food/recipes...
#BibliocookGingerbreadHouse
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Today 15 brave smallholder Kenyan farmers who appealed a Seed Act which criminalised them for saving,sharing&selling their own seeds won their case in the High Court.
Glad that my PhD findings were submitted in this case and assisted in the win.Here's a video of it!
drive.google.com/file/d/1amIf...
Glad that my PhD findings were submitted in this case and assisted in the win.Here's a video of it!
drive.google.com/file/d/1amIf...
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today 15 brave smallholder Kenyan farmers who appealed a Seed Act which criminalised them for saving,sharing&selling their own seeds won their case in the High Court.
Glad that my PhD findings were submitted in this case and assisted in the win.Here's a video of it!
drive.google.com/file/d/1amIf...
Glad that my PhD findings were submitted in this case and assisted in the win.Here's a video of it!
drive.google.com/file/d/1amIf...
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Of course CAP simplification is being done with scant regard for democracy - and now its official.
This has implications for EU Climate Law and for the CSDDD too.
Thanks to @clienteartheur.bsky.social and @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social for taking this case.
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
This has implications for EU Climate Law and for the CSDDD too.
Thanks to @clienteartheur.bsky.social and @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social for taking this case.
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
EU watchdog slams Commission's undemocratic environmental rollbacks | ClientEarth
View the press release
www.clientearth.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Of course CAP simplification is being done with scant regard for democracy - and now its official.
This has implications for EU Climate Law and for the CSDDD too.
Thanks to @clienteartheur.bsky.social and @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social for taking this case.
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
This has implications for EU Climate Law and for the CSDDD too.
Thanks to @clienteartheur.bsky.social and @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social for taking this case.
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
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Take a minute.
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Take a minute.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Anyone know what these are? There's a few outside rural houses in Portugal...
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Anyone know what these are? There's a few outside rural houses in Portugal...
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As writers and illustrators find it increasingly tough to make a living in traditional publishing, there's a growing variety of alternative publishing projects that offer different ways to get paid for making books. My latest piece for The Bookseller.
#Booksky #ChildrensBooks #Writing #Illustration
#Booksky #ChildrensBooks #Writing #Illustration
Non-traditional book projects can help writers and illustrators diversify and get paid, says Oisín McGann in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky
Publishing, but not as we know it
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November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As writers and illustrators find it increasingly tough to make a living in traditional publishing, there's a growing variety of alternative publishing projects that offer different ways to get paid for making books. My latest piece for The Bookseller.
#Booksky #ChildrensBooks #Writing #Illustration
#Booksky #ChildrensBooks #Writing #Illustration
Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.
We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.
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Watching Airplane! And this scene never fails to make me laugh. Also, I wish I could record off the TV and it not go blue 🤬
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Watching Airplane! And this scene never fails to make me laugh. Also, I wish I could record off the TV and it not go blue 🤬
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Today I endeavoured to speak for the rivers, to provide a counter balance to the lobbyist's narrative on the polluting nitrates derogation.
Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution
www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution
www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Today I endeavoured to speak for the rivers, to provide a counter balance to the lobbyist's narrative on the polluting nitrates derogation.
Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution
www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution
www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
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My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: Saying nuclear power is better for the environment than solar is ludicrous
The idea that intensive dairy farming is some kind of pastoral idyll with no impact on the environment has been allowed to take hold to the point that serious people are now suggesting nuclear reactor...
www.irishexaminer.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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"Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts"
The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: Saying nuclear power is better for the environment than solar is ludicrous
The idea that intensive dairy farming is some kind of pastoral idyll with no impact on the environment has been allowed to take hold to the point that serious people are now suggesting nuclear reactor...
www.irishexaminer.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts"
The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Fantastic insights today into Ireland's broken agrifood systems and failures rooted in colonialism - as well as the groundbreaking sustainable initiatives out there! 🌍
Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾
Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Fantastic insights today into Ireland's broken agrifood systems and failures rooted in colonialism - as well as the groundbreaking sustainable initiatives out there! 🌍
Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾
Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾
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Seeing so many acorns sowing themselves in local woodlands, natural regeneration. Tree planting is not always required!
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Seeing so many acorns sowing themselves in local woodlands, natural regeneration. Tree planting is not always required!
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts.
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts.
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25