David Cordial
@davidcordial.bsky.social
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"That's accurate" - Murray Kinsella
"That's accurate" - Murray Kinsella
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Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?
This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?
This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
Each man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind
Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee
- John Donne
Strength in community
Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee
- John Donne
Strength in community
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Each man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind
Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee
- John Donne
Strength in community
Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee
- John Donne
Strength in community
I think this should be a much louder rallying cry
The youth of today, teenagers right up to people in their 30s, have been and will continue to be saddled with governmental failure to deal with housing, cost of living, and capitulation to private equity
Why would you fight to defend that system?
The youth of today, teenagers right up to people in their 30s, have been and will continue to be saddled with governmental failure to deal with housing, cost of living, and capitulation to private equity
Why would you fight to defend that system?
"None of us want to die for a country that doesn't really care about us," Levi tells me.
He says the government has ignored their calls for climate protections and better social conditions, so he feels no allegiance to them.
He says the government has ignored their calls for climate protections and better social conditions, so he feels no allegiance to them.
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I think this should be a much louder rallying cry
The youth of today, teenagers right up to people in their 30s, have been and will continue to be saddled with governmental failure to deal with housing, cost of living, and capitulation to private equity
Why would you fight to defend that system?
The youth of today, teenagers right up to people in their 30s, have been and will continue to be saddled with governmental failure to deal with housing, cost of living, and capitulation to private equity
Why would you fight to defend that system?
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Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
No essential supplies in truce: Gaza’s healthcare system broken by Israel
Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
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Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
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Scottish friends! I'm looking for a voice actor (roughly 30-40 years old, female) for an unannounced game✨
You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.
This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.
This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Scottish friends! I'm looking for a voice actor (roughly 30-40 years old, female) for an unannounced game✨
You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.
This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment.
This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting
Quick question
If taxis drive slowly across the city, in protest, and bring the city to a standstill, how will that be different to what they do everyday?
#busLanesForBuses
If taxis drive slowly across the city, in protest, and bring the city to a standstill, how will that be different to what they do everyday?
#busLanesForBuses
Taxi drivers are set to stage another protest across Dublin this afternoon in opposition to Uber’s fixed rate charges.
The planned demonstration follows last week’s protest, which brought rush-hour traffic to a standstill in parts of the city.
#VMNews
The planned demonstration follows last week’s protest, which brought rush-hour traffic to a standstill in parts of the city.
#VMNews
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Quick question
If taxis drive slowly across the city, in protest, and bring the city to a standstill, how will that be different to what they do everyday?
#busLanesForBuses
If taxis drive slowly across the city, in protest, and bring the city to a standstill, how will that be different to what they do everyday?
#busLanesForBuses
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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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Tired of rugby analysts being happy with a lack of knowledge of the scrums
So I called up a scrum expert to get the verdict on Ireland's Springbok capitulation
TLDR: Ireland shouldn't be worried, but the 'Boks are ludicrously powerful. What makes them so good?
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
So I called up a scrum expert to get the verdict on Ireland's Springbok capitulation
TLDR: Ireland shouldn't be worried, but the 'Boks are ludicrously powerful. What makes them so good?
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
Scrums for dummies: What goes on in there and why Ireland needn’t panic after Springbok ordeal
Former Ireland tighthead Mike Ross talks us through the finer details of the scrum as well as the ‘PR campaign’ against Andrew Porter and lessons from the loss to South Africa
www.irishtimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Tired of rugby analysts being happy with a lack of knowledge of the scrums
So I called up a scrum expert to get the verdict on Ireland's Springbok capitulation
TLDR: Ireland shouldn't be worried, but the 'Boks are ludicrously powerful. What makes them so good?
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
So I called up a scrum expert to get the verdict on Ireland's Springbok capitulation
TLDR: Ireland shouldn't be worried, but the 'Boks are ludicrously powerful. What makes them so good?
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
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Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic
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okay this is legitimately very dudes rock
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
okay this is legitimately very dudes rock
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The majority of an Irish city’s new protected cycle lane schemes do not impede ambulance drivers and have, in some cases, enhanced accessibility for emergency services, a new report has found
Majority of new cycle lane projects “maintained or enhanced” ambulance accessibility in city, new report from Irish council finds
The designs “effectively facilitated the movement of emergency vehicles by ensuring adequate carriageway widths and junction radii” while also enhancing pedestrian and cyclist safety, Limerick City Co...
road.cc
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The majority of an Irish city’s new protected cycle lane schemes do not impede ambulance drivers and have, in some cases, enhanced accessibility for emergency services, a new report has found
Always great to break down the match with Jeff
It was an odd one, but maybe littered with more hope than I thought at first glance
It was an odd one, but maybe littered with more hope than I thought at first glance
I was joined by @davidcordial.bsky.social looking back over Dragons v Leinster, with topics including…
🏉 Penny for our thoughts
🏉 Rainy night in Newport
🏉 Attack plans
🏉 JJ & RG
🏉 Dodgy discipline
Check it out here > harpinonrugby.blog/2025/12/01/4...
#DRAvLEI #URC
🏉 Penny for our thoughts
🏉 Rainy night in Newport
🏉 Attack plans
🏉 JJ & RG
🏉 Dodgy discipline
Check it out here > harpinonrugby.blog/2025/12/01/4...
#DRAvLEI #URC
476 : Dragons v Leinster wrap
28 November 2025; Joshua Kenny of Leinster scores his side’s second try during the United Rugby Championship match between Dragons and Leinster at Rodney Parade in Newport, Wales. Photo by Br…
harpinonrugby.blog
December 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Always great to break down the match with Jeff
It was an odd one, but maybe littered with more hope than I thought at first glance
It was an odd one, but maybe littered with more hope than I thought at first glance
Reposted by David Cordial
I was joined by @davidcordial.bsky.social looking back over Dragons v Leinster, with topics including…
🏉 Penny for our thoughts
🏉 Rainy night in Newport
🏉 Attack plans
🏉 JJ & RG
🏉 Dodgy discipline
Check it out here > harpinonrugby.blog/2025/12/01/4...
#DRAvLEI #URC
🏉 Penny for our thoughts
🏉 Rainy night in Newport
🏉 Attack plans
🏉 JJ & RG
🏉 Dodgy discipline
Check it out here > harpinonrugby.blog/2025/12/01/4...
#DRAvLEI #URC
476 : Dragons v Leinster wrap
28 November 2025; Joshua Kenny of Leinster scores his side’s second try during the United Rugby Championship match between Dragons and Leinster at Rodney Parade in Newport, Wales. Photo by Br…
harpinonrugby.blog
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I was joined by @davidcordial.bsky.social looking back over Dragons v Leinster, with topics including…
🏉 Penny for our thoughts
🏉 Rainy night in Newport
🏉 Attack plans
🏉 JJ & RG
🏉 Dodgy discipline
Check it out here > harpinonrugby.blog/2025/12/01/4...
#DRAvLEI #URC
🏉 Penny for our thoughts
🏉 Rainy night in Newport
🏉 Attack plans
🏉 JJ & RG
🏉 Dodgy discipline
Check it out here > harpinonrugby.blog/2025/12/01/4...
#DRAvLEI #URC
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Close to 1 full goddamn gigawatt of gas (open-cycle, so the most inefficient kind) for the "Project Jupiter" site in New Mexico.
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Close to 1 full goddamn gigawatt of gas (open-cycle, so the most inefficient kind) for the "Project Jupiter" site in New Mexico.
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
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Everyone should have a home
Yes, everyone means everyone
We have over 160,000 vacant & over 20,000 derelict homes in Ireland
Use them or lose them
ffud streetart for #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
Sligo Town, Ireland, 2025, with @judesherry.bsky.social
Yes, everyone means everyone
We have over 160,000 vacant & over 20,000 derelict homes in Ireland
Use them or lose them
ffud streetart for #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
Sligo Town, Ireland, 2025, with @judesherry.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Everyone should have a home
Yes, everyone means everyone
We have over 160,000 vacant & over 20,000 derelict homes in Ireland
Use them or lose them
ffud streetart for #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
Sligo Town, Ireland, 2025, with @judesherry.bsky.social
Yes, everyone means everyone
We have over 160,000 vacant & over 20,000 derelict homes in Ireland
Use them or lose them
ffud streetart for #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland
Sligo Town, Ireland, 2025, with @judesherry.bsky.social
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I'm all for road safety but you could have every cyclist in the land wearing a full suit of Christmas lights and drivers fucking around on their phones will still knock them down
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I'm all for road safety but you could have every cyclist in the land wearing a full suit of Christmas lights and drivers fucking around on their phones will still knock them down
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
How poor is the quality of politician in Europe, that she's the Commission President??
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
How poor is the quality of politician in Europe, that she's the Commission President??
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happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it
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Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.