Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸
@kieranoconnor.com
Rushbrooke, Cork, Ireland. Mostly here for the mainstream media. Occasional reposts. Almost no original content. https://donate.unrwa.org/-landing-page/en_EN
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I’m in Bordeaux right now. A city of 1M with trams, busses, bikes and ebikes, and hardly *any* cars. It is just bliss.
Far too many U.S. drivers are simply unable to conceive of a world without widespread traffic deaths. They think it's impossible, and so much discourse reflects that. People just shoot down left and right ideas that have been proven to work in other places.
February 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I’m in Bordeaux right now. A city of 1M with trams, busses, bikes and ebikes, and hardly *any* cars. It is just bliss.
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Using nature to combat the harm we are inflicting on nature. How about reducing the nitrates at source? How shit do things need to get before that happens?
February 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Using nature to combat the harm we are inflicting on nature. How about reducing the nitrates at source? How shit do things need to get before that happens?
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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The US is shipping people across the Atlantic in chains through our country.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Shannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past year
The controversial agency chartered small private aircraft for the removal operations
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 AM
The US is shipping people across the Atlantic in chains through our country.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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The sun dips behind the Bronze Age stone circle at Ardgroom, Beara, as it has for 1,000s of years.
But we're living in a time unlike any before, of huge rising and intersecting threats: ecological and climate collapse, fascism, and AI.
Our strengths are each other, our numbers, nature, and love
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But we're living in a time unlike any before, of huge rising and intersecting threats: ecological and climate collapse, fascism, and AI.
Our strengths are each other, our numbers, nature, and love
✊️
February 8, 2026 at 5:30 AM
The sun dips behind the Bronze Age stone circle at Ardgroom, Beara, as it has for 1,000s of years.
But we're living in a time unlike any before, of huge rising and intersecting threats: ecological and climate collapse, fascism, and AI.
Our strengths are each other, our numbers, nature, and love
✊️
But we're living in a time unlike any before, of huge rising and intersecting threats: ecological and climate collapse, fascism, and AI.
Our strengths are each other, our numbers, nature, and love
✊️
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Nothing to see here just the British Home Office calling people who are totally legally seeking asylum (as is their right, enshrined in international law) "illegal immigrants"
Christ 🙄
Christ 🙄
February 8, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Nothing to see here just the British Home Office calling people who are totally legally seeking asylum (as is their right, enshrined in international law) "illegal immigrants"
Christ 🙄
Christ 🙄
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Why is this one of the funniest things I've ever read? 😭
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Why is this one of the funniest things I've ever read? 😭
Very proud of my sister in law. It’s been a long battle for her and her family www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
Woman turned down for a firefighter job awarded €8k over age and gender discrimination
WRC found Cork City Council's use of the ‘one-size-fits-all’ beep fitness test gives younger candidates an advantage
www.irishexaminer.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Very proud of my sister in law. It’s been a long battle for her and her family www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case
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It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.
If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream.
One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.
Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.
One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.
Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.
February 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.
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It's also fun to be bad at art because you can see yourself getting better at art and it feels good
February 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
It's also fun to be bad at art because you can see yourself getting better at art and it feels good
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I guess if I ran the transport for one of the few EU countries without a rail link to the airport from the capital; without decent cycle or walking infrastructure, in a car clogged pollution nightmare, this is the kind of badly researched ill-informed nonsense I’d be expected to produce.
All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...
All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms
— Plan was expected to be put to the Cabinet today before it was withdrawn from the meeting of Government Ministers. A reported plan by Ireland’s Government to make the wearing of helme…
irishcycle.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:47 AM
I guess if I ran the transport for one of the few EU countries without a rail link to the airport from the capital; without decent cycle or walking infrastructure, in a car clogged pollution nightmare, this is the kind of badly researched ill-informed nonsense I’d be expected to produce.
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Having lived in the Netherlands for 7 years - cycling close to every single day of that - what keeps cyclists safe is great cycle path design, the fact that every driver also cycled and the fact that if a car hits a cyclist the fault lies with the driver.
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Having lived in the Netherlands for 7 years - cycling close to every single day of that - what keeps cyclists safe is great cycle path design, the fact that every driver also cycled and the fact that if a car hits a cyclist the fault lies with the driver.
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People *really* want to believe that mandatory helmets are a good thing despite all the evidence and they really don't want to have to do anything more than that either
February 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM
People *really* want to believe that mandatory helmets are a good thing despite all the evidence and they really don't want to have to do anything more than that either
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"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:40 AM
"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
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I used to get very frustrated before Marriage Ref having to constantly answer the same basic things re same sex marriage/queer people and getting the same feeling today about cycling. People really don't want to accept that cars kill people and everyone has the right to move around in public safely
February 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I used to get very frustrated before Marriage Ref having to constantly answer the same basic things re same sex marriage/queer people and getting the same feeling today about cycling. People really don't want to accept that cars kill people and everyone has the right to move around in public safely
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It's going to be "but helmets are good!" all day from people who don't cycle and won't read anything about it, isn't it?
People who'll tell you the Dutch and the Danes etc got it all wrong and they should listen to the guy who is thinking about it today for the first time
People who'll tell you the Dutch and the Danes etc got it all wrong and they should listen to the guy who is thinking about it today for the first time
February 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
It's going to be "but helmets are good!" all day from people who don't cycle and won't read anything about it, isn't it?
People who'll tell you the Dutch and the Danes etc got it all wrong and they should listen to the guy who is thinking about it today for the first time
People who'll tell you the Dutch and the Danes etc got it all wrong and they should listen to the guy who is thinking about it today for the first time
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Get me this guy Shakespeare on the phone.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Get me this guy Shakespeare on the phone.
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Equally batshit is the notion that by Mahmood having grandly proclaimed this to the news media, people seeking asylum in the UK will now abandon their plans because they’re no longer going to get a free taxi to see the doctor
Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?
"Pull factors" on steroids.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Pull factors" on steroids.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 5, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Equally batshit is the notion that by Mahmood having grandly proclaimed this to the news media, people seeking asylum in the UK will now abandon their plans because they’re no longer going to get a free taxi to see the doctor
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And honestly, no offence, but if you don't cycle in a city regularly, I don't care what you have to say about it because you don't have enough knowledge or experience to comment
You wouldn't care what I have to say about rugby and you'd be right
You wouldn't care what I have to say about rugby and you'd be right
February 5, 2026 at 1:43 PM
And honestly, no offence, but if you don't cycle in a city regularly, I don't care what you have to say about it because you don't have enough knowledge or experience to comment
You wouldn't care what I have to say about rugby and you'd be right
You wouldn't care what I have to say about rugby and you'd be right
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Twenty years ago today I stood on a stage in Kilburn to play my first gig with Double G & The Traitorous 3, a nom de guerre for a newly gigging Scritti Politti. While onstage I took this photo, capturing a nervous Green Gartside and the back of Alyssa's head. It's been quite the thing. 1/X
February 5, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Twenty years ago today I stood on a stage in Kilburn to play my first gig with Double G & The Traitorous 3, a nom de guerre for a newly gigging Scritti Politti. While onstage I took this photo, capturing a nervous Green Gartside and the back of Alyssa's head. It's been quite the thing. 1/X
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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Sick to death of generative AI being shoved down our throats every single time you open an app or tool now. I want to write my own sentences! Fuck off!
February 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Sick to death of generative AI being shoved down our throats every single time you open an app or tool now. I want to write my own sentences! Fuck off!
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