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· Oct 22
Public to be advised how to survive 72 hours without services in plan for next Storm Éowyn
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Public to be advised how to survive 72 hours without services in plan for next Storm Éowyn
Review of Ireland’s most severe storm found lives were protected but aftermath was hard
www.irishtimes.com
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Buses have been free in Tucson for years now. City check: still standing.
Well, well, well, imagine this:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
@aniccia.bsky.social Do you think Brad means a bus, tram or train?
"I'd like to see some sort of shared service, leaving every 5-10 minutes carrying others to a similar location, where a set of personal Waymos would get all of us to our final destination. If two or more of us had the same destination we might use the same vehicle."
www.forbes.com/sites/bradte...
www.forbes.com/sites/bradte...
Riding A Waymo Robotaxi In Mountain View For The First Time In 13 Years
It took a while, but Waymo is now servicing its HQ and the place it was born. I worked there 13 years ago and have seen it grow up.
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
@aniccia.bsky.social Do you think Brad means a bus, tram or train?
"Shared mobility can help close the last-mile gap, connecting more people to public transit and help reduce congestion." ~Waymo, 2023.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Shared mobility can help close the last-mile gap, connecting more people to public transit and help reduce congestion." ~Waymo, 2023.
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Climate: Imagine how different things would be if politicians had to use public transport
Climate: Imagine how different things would be if politicians had to use public transport
Long lead-in times, a lack of sustained policy commitment, and start-stop approaches to big projects all contributed to where we are now
www.irishtimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Climate: Imagine how different things would be if politicians had to use public transport
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Posobiec is that very normal sort of "conservative" who happens to have a great admiration for a fairly obscure figure from the 1930s named Denis Fahey who is only remembered in, shall we say, one particular niche subculture. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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A secret.
Because rhododendron has rights, presumably.
Because rhododendron has rights, presumably.
This is a video I took at Abbey wood in Sept 24. Rhododendron remains an enormous issue in Killarney National Park and is likely to remain so. People are suspicious of the NPWS because work programmes and monitoring methodologies remain a secret, which is a shame. But this is hopefully progress.
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A secret.
Because rhododendron has rights, presumably.
Because rhododendron has rights, presumably.
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“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”
You don't buy beer. You only rent it.
Beer made from recycled shower and laundry water coming to Oregon stores
Beer made from recycled shower and laundry water coming to Oregon stores
Epic Cleantec describes itself as a “pioneer in onsite water reuse solutions for the real estate industry.”
www.wkrn.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
You don't buy beer. You only rent it.
Read this and weep. A clear and depressing takedown of the Quisling Trump administration, its abject subservience to Russia and betrayal of Ukraine, and by extension, all of us in NATO. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #160: The US Becomes A Mouthpiece To Pass On Putin's Demands
Vance To The Fore; The 28 Points—Is It More Interesting Who Backed Them?
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
'Not only has the Trump administration ended its “Long Con” —the con being that Trump and his acolytes were actually honest brokers and wanted to work with Putin and might hammer Russia— it has even gone further. It is now a mouthpiece for Russian demands and an agent to have Russian wishes met.'
Hi All, just released my free weekend update. Its fascinating who backed the Trump-Putin 28 point plan, and what it means about the US government being a mouthpiece for Russia. Plus, you cannot back Trump and Ukraine--if you back Trump, you can only have one master open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #160: The US Becomes A Mouthpiece To Pass On Putin's Demands
Vance To The Fore; The 28 Points—Is It More Interesting Who Backed Them?
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
'Not only has the Trump administration ended its “Long Con” —the con being that Trump and his acolytes were actually honest brokers and wanted to work with Putin and might hammer Russia— it has even gone further. It is now a mouthpiece for Russian demands and an agent to have Russian wishes met.'
What the hell is going on?
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What the hell is going on?
"Usually I’d dust off a fun spy caper from the ample Cold War literature. A favorite resource was a 1974 doorstop volume, 'KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents', by the former Reader’s Digest correspondent John Barron, said to be on more than nodding terms with the CIA."
New: We've translated in full a 1988 KGB training manual on how to infiltrate U.S. government facilities in the Middle East and North Africa. Something of a Russian growth industry these days, you might say. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions
Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Usually I’d dust off a fun spy caper from the ample Cold War literature. A favorite resource was a 1974 doorstop volume, 'KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents', by the former Reader’s Digest correspondent John Barron, said to be on more than nodding terms with the CIA."
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ACP cannot be trusted.
ACP cannot be trusted.
October 2025:
"An Coimisiún Pleanála has given the green light to plans for over 360 new homes on the *outskirts* of the Cork suburb of Carrigaline, despite concerns about the capacity of local road infrastructure to cater for the development."
Emphasis added.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/plan...
"An Coimisiún Pleanála has given the green light to plans for over 360 new homes on the *outskirts* of the Cork suburb of Carrigaline, despite concerns about the capacity of local road infrastructure to cater for the development."
Emphasis added.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/plan...
Planning permission given for almost 400 homes in Carrigaline despite road infrastructure concerns | BreakingNews
On the issue of the local road infrastructure, An Coimisiún Pleanála said that the development would not unduly increase traffic volumes in the area.
www.breakingnews.ie
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is brilliant, twitter introduced a feature where you could see the country an account posts from.
They had to disable it when all the sock puppet accounts were unmasked.
They had to disable it when all the sock puppet accounts were unmasked.
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Looking at the IPCC's statement on stranded assets, in the light of Ursula von der Leyen's comment on fossil fuels, it seems likely that business interests and their bureaucratic enablers will seek to trade off global temperature increase against preserving their assets.
Socialise the losses, iow.
Socialise the losses, iow.
The extent to which intelligent people can twist their brains in knots to avoid the obvious never ceases to amaze
For those willing to confront reality:
The IPCC is perfectly clear on the need to strand the majority of fossil fuel assets in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
For those willing to confront reality:
The IPCC is perfectly clear on the need to strand the majority of fossil fuel assets in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Looking at the IPCC's statement on stranded assets, in the light of Ursula von der Leyen's comment on fossil fuels, it seems likely that business interests and their bureaucratic enablers will seek to trade off global temperature increase against preserving their assets.
Socialise the losses, iow.
Socialise the losses, iow.
"The RSA & Electric Ireland have distributed over 250,000 hi vis vests to children. This has helped ensure that the youngest & most vulnerable are clearly visible on the roads and reflects Electric Ireland's commitment to promoting safe road use at all times."
m.independent.ie/regionals/du...
m.independent.ie/regionals/du...
Safety first for Holy Family pupils
YOUNG PUPILS at the Holy Family JNS in Swords are sporting the most fashionable thing to be seen in as the long, dark winter evenings approach – high visibility vests to keep them safe and sound on ou...
m.independent.ie
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"The RSA & Electric Ireland have distributed over 250,000 hi vis vests to children. This has helped ensure that the youngest & most vulnerable are clearly visible on the roads and reflects Electric Ireland's commitment to promoting safe road use at all times."
m.independent.ie/regionals/du...
m.independent.ie/regionals/du...
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A terrific analysis of what the interventions of the billionaire Collison brothers into Irish politics is really about, ie: the disaste of the ultra rich for democracy and laws.
t1/on-environmental-democracy-and-collisons-abundance-verse/
t1/on-environmental-democracy-and-collisons-abundance-verse/
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
A terrific analysis of what the interventions of the billionaire Collison brothers into Irish politics is really about, ie: the disaste of the ultra rich for democracy and laws.
t1/on-environmental-democracy-and-collisons-abundance-verse/
t1/on-environmental-democracy-and-collisons-abundance-verse/
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Stephen Miller watching the Trump-Mamdani presser
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Stephen Miller watching the Trump-Mamdani presser
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Mamdani looking down on Trump like you’d watch a dog try to open a locked door with their paws
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Mamdani looking down on Trump like you’d watch a dog try to open a locked door with their paws
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So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions."
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions."
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
Masterful demolition of John Collison's neoliberal rant published in (and promoted by) the Irish Times a while back.
Essential reading, not least because it goes well beyond a rebuttal of Collison to become a spirited defence of environmental democracy in its broadest and most profound sense.
Essential reading, not least because it goes well beyond a rebuttal of Collison to become a spirited defence of environmental democracy in its broadest and most profound sense.
The Collison front is all front - shameful how taken in the @irishtimes.com Editor has been by this ego-tripping neo-liberal puff - but good to see a very well-written, evidence-based taken down of the vague vacuum that is 'tech rich lads' Collisonism and its agenda elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Masterful demolition of John Collison's neoliberal rant published in (and promoted by) the Irish Times a while back.
Essential reading, not least because it goes well beyond a rebuttal of Collison to become a spirited defence of environmental democracy in its broadest and most profound sense.
Essential reading, not least because it goes well beyond a rebuttal of Collison to become a spirited defence of environmental democracy in its broadest and most profound sense.
Pskov, Texas.
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pskov, Texas.