

@cmccullough @LetsRoc also #Microsoft is not only a #PRISM collaborator, but subject to #CloudAct aka. "#Datacenter in #Ireland" isn't even a #figleaf!

@cmccullough @LetsRoc also #Microsoft is not only a #PRISM collaborator, but subject to #CloudAct aka. "#Datacenter in #Ireland" isn't even a #figleaf!
My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.
With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.
https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/
It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.
(Don’t hold your breaths.)
Raising Dublin Airport Flight Cap Faces Climate Challenge, Opponents Claim
For the first time the application by the daa to raise the current limit on passengers – at Dublin Airport – from 32 million passengers to 36 million passengers a year is to face opposition based on Ireland’s climate legislation
Pointing out that the High Court ruled recently that ‘business as usual’ is no longer possible because of the climate breakdown
The #AxisOfGenocide includes all the zionist supporting countries.
Canada has a chance to join Mexico as a supporter of human rights, since we don't need to so earnestly parrot American genocidal legitimacy.
We have so much more in common with Mexico now, more than maybe ever before!
PM Carney has a chance to change course profoundly!
@fesshole wild. In school in #ireland we were given a token each year for a free book. I don't know why I figured it would be the same elsewhere. Not sure if that's still done here for #worldbookday though.
Richard Chambers on Conor McGregor in the White House
"It’s very clear why Conor McGregor was in the White House… and why he was given freedom to spout a lot of guff about immigration.
It was a hostile act by the US govt against Ireland."
Via Richard Chambers: https://bsky.app/profile/virginmedianews.bsky.social/post/3lkqurcqk2r2b
Guns (outside the USA), Violence Culture
@livingshredder I think the crucial favtor is #ViolenceCulture & #Investigations.
Whereas the #USA has extreme violence culture.
The problem isn't the availability of guns (ask people in Northern Ireland) but the fact that said violence is frowned upon and prosecuted, not rewarded with airtime on live television [www.youtube.com]!
Promoting to @teslatakedown
Attention #Ireland:
“Anyone in Ireland involved in Tesla Takedown? Journalist seeking to chat to supporters/protesters for Sunday Times Ireland piece. Cheers. Jason.Johnson@sunday-times.ie”
https://bsky.app/profile/temporoad.bsky.social/post/3lkqezc5ops2c
Five key graphs that show 2024's spiralling climate change in Ireland and worldwide
Record levels of greenhouse gas concentrations, temperatures, rainfall and glacier loss were experienced last year
https://www.thejournal.ie/climate-change-report-explained-in-graphs-6653371-Mar2025/
While it’s difficult to avoid the asshats* (and “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” notwithstanding), given Amazon Ireland has launched this week, just remember that every euro you pay them goes toward fucking billionaire Jeff Bezos who is helping Trump dismantle democracy in the US and elsewhere. So please do your best to shop locally – or with smaller EU shops – and avoid Amazon as much as you can.
* I really need to get the media for my Mastodon server off of AWS. Another bloody hassle I don’t need right now. *smdh*
#Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council report:
"It warned that Ireland must be much better prepared for the next major weather event, with improved monitoring of climate events and their impacts required to radically improve preparedness for rapidly emerging #ExtremeWeather events."
Ireland needs to be better prepared for extreme weather – climate council
Staff Reporter
4–5 minutes
Ireland needs to be better prepared for the next major weather event, the Climate Change Advisory Council has said
BBC: Vehicles damaged at Belfast Tesla dealership (Ireland)
Smaller industries were also shut down in Canada's #BritishColumbia, #Ireland, #Hungary and #France, while bans will come into effect in #Romania, #Latvia and #Lithuania in 2027 and 2028. The three latter countries are minor producers of #mink. A ban on #MinkFarming has come into effect in #Bulgaria.
An EU-wide ban could be decided on next year, which has the potential to change the industry profoundly once more.
https://www.statista.com/chart/33876/supply-volumes-of-mink-fox-pelts-on-the-world-market/
Do not visit the USA unless you have no other option.
Third German detained by fascist US regime.
Via @fonecokid