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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 53m

Guy here in Galway told me that Catherine Connolly did this to his tin foil.

#Smearthebejaysus

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Connolly Shared Netflix Account Password To Numerous Non Subscribers http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/10/exclusive-catherine-connolly-shared-netflix-account-password-to-numerous-non-subscribers/

EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Connolly Shared Netflix Account Password To Numerous Non Subscribers

In more damning revelations about the queen of political controversy, left-wing Presidential hopeful Catherine Connolly was unavailable for comment today after her team was pressed about possible corruption charges relating to her Netflix streaming service. Information …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 1d

Grand rhetoric isn't enough and making targets isn't enough. Climate leadership requires being willing to challenge the power of polluting industries. That doesn't have to be divisive, but certainly will be as the government still drags its feet.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

The dissonance that bothers me more are the numbers of people who answered "yes" to the above questions but voted for this government.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was @seamas.bsky.social who said he looks like somebody cast as a character in a BBC Troubles drama set in the 1970s

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

It's a strawman. Like you say, nobody is "challenging everything because of climate", but it's much easier to argue against that false version of reality than to tackle reality.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

*They* should be. Already discussed on here, but once the shit hits the fan, control of the bunker passes from the billionaire to the most psychopathic/ruthless member of their security team.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's more things like airport expansion, road building and agriculture that he wants to handwave away.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of the polarising that has happened is because of politicians like Martin pretending that difficult choices don't exist, and when the consequences arrive people get angry.

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 1d

i'll tell you what's going to be "polarising" – crop losses, coastal flooding, more destruction and extended blackouts like storm éowyn

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

No conviction about anything, just wants climate to go away so he doesn't have to do anything hard to actually decrease emissions by what's needed.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

There's something funny about the slightly po-faced response. Nobody believed that she thought the Reichstag was the same building, people were just pulling the piss. They should have just make a joke about it and moved on.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

He's also wrong about "nothing to lose". It makes them look even more desperate and out of touch plus it contributes to the general pundit worldview that politics is all a bit of a game that's almost entirely about jostling for position with very little expectation of delivering anything.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 1d

I really don't have strong opinions about her but stuff like this isn't great given that she's already so incredibly successful. I get it that artists don't control every aspect of their products but a bit of top-down restraint wouldn't go amiss.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 2d

Just read this from Bill Burr (who performed there)

"The general consensus is, ‘How dare you go to that place and make those oppressed people laugh, you fucking piece of shit'"

Not sure if he's intentionally missing the point or he's stupid (which I never thought previously).

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot of "whatever you're having yourself" logic at play. You'll definitely hear talk of bypasses when comparing Galway with <insert small bypassed town>, but like you say, they flip to different language when they want to justify pulling even more single-occupant cars into the city.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 2d

The journalists involved have already sorted every person who has ever lived into "hire"/"don't hire" categories so they can catch her out if they run out of other questions to ask her.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 2d

This is a stupid fucking question to expect her to answer perfectly on the hoof. What the fuck even is this?

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously, because the majority of those drivers need a bypass there are equivalent volumes of traffic moving outbound on the other side of the city (spoiler: there aren't)

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 2d

For those that haven't seen it, there's a great diagram by @hannahritchie.bsky.social that shows the sources of emissions for different foods. As you say, it's not plants (even imported ones!) that is the problem.

ourworldindata.org/food-choice-...

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local

“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce your diet's carbon footprint. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it comes from?

ourworldindata.org

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 2d

This article is just bollocks, isn't it? There are lots of good reasons not to eat many Doritos, but the carbon footprint of the corn going into them isn't one of them, because eating almost anything else would be worse.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together, making it difficult to examine their true cost

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, and it leads people who are about to order fast food think that the ultraprocessed plant burger is worse than the "natural" beef version.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely think that camera based enforcement is anathema to a lot of agencies and politicians because they sincerely believe that a bit of red light breaking or speeding by otherwise "decent" people is no biggie.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 3d

😂. It's can't be antisocial if it costs more than €50k, right?

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