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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 4d

So considerate of Taylor to bring Brat summer back

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 14d

On Monday, large-scale solar generation in Ireland reached a new high of 934MW; about 19% of the island's electricity demand at the time ☀️

This took us by surprise - it's nearly October! It seems transmission constraints on the grid were notably lower than usual, perhaps due to extremely low winds.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A treemap of solar generation on the island of Ireland. Solar farms are represented by a yellow box with its size proportional to the amount of solar each produced. Solar farms are grouped by county.

Footnote reads: Showing solar farms registered with SEMO, accounting for approximately 90% of the island's utility-scale solar generation.
Source: SEMO

A map of Irish uiltity-scale solar generation. Solar farms plants are marked with yellow circles of a size proportional to their output.

Footnote reads: Source: SEMO

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Fei Wang @feiwang.bsky.social · 16d

Great news! Congrats!

Fei Wang @feiwang.bsky.social · 16d

Well I certainly didn't expect solar output record to be broken on September Equinox in Ireland!

Green Collective @greencollective.io · 16d

🚨 A new high for Irish solar today as output exceeds 900MW for the first time, beating the previous high of 864MW set in July.

It seems to have peaked at 943MW at 12.45pm, equivalent to approx. 19% of all-island electricity demand at that time ☀️

More to follow!

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Trevor Johnston @beerwithsubtitles.net · 17d

Looking back a couple of episodes, never resolved: WHO'S YOKIE?!

#TraitorsIRL

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 21d

🚨 Batteries reached a new high of 275MW last night, finally breaking the previous record of 266MW set all the way back in January with Cork's Aghada BESS 2 in the lead with about 135MW 🏅

Together with Turlough Hill, storage was meeting about 9% of all-island peak demand at around 6pm 🔋⛰️

A chart showing a historical battery discharge records on the island of Ireland. Output is in orange and output to demand ratio in blue. Records are indicated with a large circle and the time between with dashed lines.

A chart showing a historical demand (load) records on the island of Ireland. Records are indicated with a large circle and the time between with dashed lines.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A stacked area chart of battery discharge on the island of Ireland. The area is divided up by individual plants.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Source: SEMO

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Ciara 🐈 @ciaraoh.bsky.social · 22d

Anyone who watches the UK version knows that every fucking series theres a blond girl who gets really overemotional whenever they get accused and then end up cosying up to a male traitor and protecting them right to the end #TraitorsIrl

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 25d

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson

Well worth a read

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...

Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

observer.co.uk

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Fei Wang @feiwang.bsky.social · 28d

Mentions of “alpha male” and “we can control her”. Oof so many exhibits!

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Aideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 29d

Gonna need a 1500 word thinkpiece on the gender dynamics going on in Slane Castle. They talk around it a lot on Uncloaked but why do we think Katelyn was put in the role of mediator between two aggro lads, why is Oyin underestimated, and why do Nick and Ben think they run the castle #traitorsirl

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Fei Wang @feiwang.bsky.social · Sep 8

I am particularly gagged by his audacity to label his company page (yes, he is posting on LinkedIn as well) as "Renewable Energy Power Generation."

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Fei Wang @feiwang.bsky.social · Sep 8

TIL this guy, who posted this message when we announced @greencollective.io's move from X to here, recently started a bot on X posting daily updates on electricity usage/generation in Ireland 🙃

(Fairly sure it's the same dude I blocked, who had 4 bsky usernames to be annoying in my replies in Dec)

A screenshot of a reply from November 9, 2024 on X in response to Green Collective/Irish Energy Bot's move to Bluesky, from Murtag (@HydCEng): "So long and thanks for all the fish. I hope you get lots of robust engagement over there on your journey toward net zero Neverland. I'll follow you over there (and your green party friends) when you start to appreciate the need for nuclear power or pumped storage for Ireland."

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · Aug 29

From our last monthly newsletter: July's county solar generation map.

For the first time in a while, the county rankings look set to shake up a bit in August; find out more in the next edition of "Irish Grid Monthly", available Monday to our newsletter subscribers.

Subscribe for free today! 📭

A county-level heatmap of Irish solar generation. Counties are divided into three tiers, according to how much solar energy each produced.

Footnote reads: Includes generation only from larger utility-scale wind farms registered with SEMO. Counties not listed here may have wind farms that are not registered with SEMO. SEMO tracks approximately 85% of the island's wind generation. Source: SEMO

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Fei Wang @feiwang.bsky.social · Aug 28

Bluesky 🤝 knitting 🧶: blocking is magic ✨

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Fei Wang @feiwang.bsky.social · Aug 23

istg it always feels like it takes forever to finish the last bit of a ball 🧶

A knitting project (Upstream Sweater designed by Alice Hoyle/ROWS Knitwear) work in progress: a grey sweater with wavy ribbing stitches all over and 2x2 ribbing at the hem. There is a small amount of yarn left in this ball.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.bsky.social · Aug 22

Same. I'm grateful I had the options I had. Not everybody is so lucky and I don't for a moment begrudge the ones who had to take a different route.

Eóin Cunningham @eoinmcunningham.bsky.social · Aug 22

I went abroad, did everything "right", and ultimately got citizenship in my adopted country. It took years, and was SO MUCH paperwork.
I absolutely DO. NOT. CARE. that some people didn't do the same, and think every single person should have some sort of path to citizenship, wherever they are.

Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · Aug 22

“But they came here illegally”

ON GOD i don’t care

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · Aug 21

Child labour was deployed to medicate all fourteen geese on three consecutive days, with weight-calibrated doses.

Thank you to @feiwang.bsky.social for the weighing and recording help!

A seven-year-old child carrying a small goose for purposes of medication. Her face is not visible. Behind her, her father is keeping the other geese in the house until they can be medicated and released.

The author, who still looks kind of pregnant, squirting coccidiosis medication down a goose's throat with the help of Child 1 and Bjoern Holzhauer.

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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hello to good ppl everywhere. Yes, I have 3 special colorways to support 4 families in Gaza and the Sameer Project. Crafting and creativity are powerful weapons. Making beauty reminds us of what we are fighting for while showing solidarity with Palestinians. 🧶

4 skeins of speckled green, black and red yarn on a white base. This yarn is called "Falasteen"

an angled shot of green, white, black and red yarn called "Palestine Solidarity"

2 skeins of yarn (a cream one called elegant eggshell and beside it a black, red and green skein called Vive la Palestine). There is a rainbow keffiyeh on the right.

Granny squares made with elegant eggshell (cream) yarn and palestine solidarity skeins.

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · Aug 20

After seeing this excellent chart from the folks at @data.ft.com, we had to see how things look across the water.

Irish solar in 2025 has already overtaken 2024 as of the second half of July, and it looks likely to exceed 1TWh later this year for the first time ☀️

A line chart of solar generation on the island of Ireland from 1029 through August 2025. There is one line for each year and each lines shows the cumulative total of solar generation through that point of the year.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes domestic solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 14

It definitely feels important to include the fact that Norway specifically is uniquely and disproportionately responsible for the nordic heatwave here, because we profit wildly from supplying the cause of the substance causing these deaths, injuries and environmental catastrophes

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say

Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms

www.theguardian.com

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Trevor Johnston @beerwithsubtitles.net · Aug 12

EirGrid's continued tacit conflation of 1-min/15-min data is a real pet peeve of mine. Be consistent or -- better yet -- publish the highest resolution data (trust me, we can handle it 🤣).

(@greencollective.io used to monitor some regions of the US where 5-min is the norm; 15-min seems so quaint!)

Green Collective @greencollective.io · Aug 12

Folks may have seen articles referencing a new solar record in July.

For anyone wondering why the figure (798MW) doesn't match that on our website (864MW):
- we use all-island figures, 798MW is ROI-only
- 798MW is based on "1-minute data" which EirGrid doesn't release publicly

We need an FAQ! 😆

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Trevor Johnston @beerwithsubtitles.net · Aug 7

As a long-time FT Weekend reader, it was a real treat to have the newspaper reach out to *us* at @greencollective.io for data to support this article which goes deep on datacentres' continued use of fossil fuels 🏭

Seeing our company name in today's edition was definitely a moment to savour ☺️

Green Collective @greencollective.io · Aug 7

Delighted to share that Green Collective supplied hourly Irish generation data to the @financialtimes.com for use in this just-published in-depth story on the continued reliance on fossil fuels by data centres, with a special Irish angle 📊 🗞️

on.ft.com/4lkAjXN

Inside the AI race: can data centres ever truly be green?

[FREE TO READ] Energy demand for training machines and running apps is driving a surge of investment into fossil fuels

on.ft.com

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · Aug 7

Delighted to share that Green Collective supplied hourly Irish generation data to the @financialtimes.com for use in this just-published in-depth story on the continued reliance on fossil fuels by data centres, with a special Irish angle 📊 🗞️

on.ft.com/4lkAjXN

Inside the AI race: can data centres ever truly be green?

[FREE TO READ] Energy demand for training machines and running apps is driving a surge of investment into fossil fuels

on.ft.com

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · Aug 3

This podcast on petromasculinity and the manosphere (lol) by @amywestervelt.bsky.social and Daniel Penny is characteristically informative and insightful, but also surprisingly funny. Just the theme song (HUUUGH!!!) cracks me up.

Carbon Bros, Ep 1: The Testosterone Pipeline

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

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