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Seán Fearon @seanfearon.bsky.social · 6d

Strike and demo in Barcelona - solidarity with global Sumud Flotilla.

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 8d

Statement from Catherine Connolly following reports of Irish citizens among those abducted by Israeli forces this evening.

“Israel’s illegal seizure of boats participating in the Global Sumud Flotillas mission to bring humanitarian aid to the starving people of Gaza is another brazen breach of international law.

“It has been reported that Irish citizens are amongst those abducted by Israeli forces. The Department of Foreign Affairs must immediately demand the release of all those taken illegally by the Israeli military.

“There have been enough words. The Irish government and other governments must take action to face down Israel’s genocidal campaign and to protect all those on the flotilla.

“All those abducted must be released and the flotilla must be given safe passage to complete its humanitarian mission to ensure the people of Gaza receive the food and other humanitarian aid they so desperately need.”

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 11d

Pat Brodie and I have a book launch event for 'From the Bog to the Cloud' in London on October 22nd.

Please come along if you're interested in bogs, data centres, monopoly tech, postcolonial development, eco-imperialism, green capitalism, Ireland....

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aa-book-la...

AA Book Launch: From the Bog to the Cloud

The green digital transition is underway. But what does this transition look like when dictated by the demands of monopoly tech?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 26d

Politicos, hacks, news organisations and buffoons like Stephen King still clinging on to pretending it’s alright to *PAY* Elon Musk to use his platform - or be on it for a start.

You’re funding a man calling on hundreds of thousands of people to carry out acts of violence.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26d

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

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Seán Fearon @seanfearon.bsky.social · 29d

Jesus...

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Sep 9

📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out! Alongside a round-up of news from across our network, CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary—and warns of a troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry.

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State of the Art | CUSP Newsletter, September 2025

As CUSP turns ten, Tim Jackson highlights the troubling shift in UK research funding away from post-growth inquiry. He argues that questioning growth remains vital in an era of climate crisis, inequal...

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Sep 4

How will we use our time in a #postgrowth future of sustainable wellbeing?—New study by @seanfearon.bsky.social et al models how lifestyle choices to 2050 could shape wellbeing and emissions in Finland, France & UK. ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf...
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Time Use in a Post-Growth World: Towards Sustainable Wellbeing | Paper by Seán Fearon et al

In this paper, Seán Fearon et al. use time use analysis combined with emissions and wellbeing data to model 2050 lifestyles in Finland, France, and the UK, ...

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Seán Fearon @seanfearon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Check out the preprint of our new paper, exploring the time use requirements for a life of wellbeing within planetary boundaries.

The bottom line? Lifestyle changes can lower emissions & improve wellbeing, but are insufficient to live well within ecological limits. We need radical system change.

CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Sep 4

How will we use our time in a #postgrowth future of sustainable wellbeing?—New study by @seanfearon.bsky.social et al models how lifestyle choices to 2050 could shape wellbeing and emissions in Finland, France & UK. ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf...
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Time Use in a Post-Growth World: Towards Sustainable Wellbeing | Paper by Seán Fearon et al

In this paper, Seán Fearon et al. use time use analysis combined with emissions and wellbeing data to model 2050 lifestyles in Finland, France, and the UK, ...

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition.

Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

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Lynn Boylan MEP @lnbdublin.bsky.social · Sep 2

On Thursday I’ll travel as an independent observer of the latest Freedom Flotilla to Gaza.

Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel.

These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · Aug 11

two in three Keir Starmer tweets are dog whistling about migration.

A government out of ideas, adopting far right messages for no political gain, while imprisoning grannies for denouncing genocide.

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Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social · Aug 8

The fact that we instantly ended homelessness during the pandemic, and then let it return as some intractable problem straight after, is something we really don’t talk about enough.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Aug 6

Next time someone says data centres are necessary.

Microsoft data centres in Ireland & Netherlands were used to store terrabytes of Israeli military data used for mass surveillance in the West Bank and identification of strike targets in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Jul 23

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 13

2. Absurdity is a hallmark of authoritarianism. It's not just that those who believe absurdities commit atrocities. It's also that those who endorse atrocities become absurd.
This is where Keir Starmer's government now finds itself.

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is the Moygashel 12th July bonfire. Many bonfires receive huge funding and backing from loyalist paramilitary groups. The PSNI facilitate this and councils clean up after them.

This paramilitary backed hate is being justified live on BBC Radio Ulster. The state is rotten to the core.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · Jun 7

Things you love to see. The Gaza walk from Lurgan to Newry earlier tonight. Well done to all involved 🇮🇪 ✊🇵🇸

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · Jun 7

🚨 New: 'Shocking' scale of Labour’s Big Tech ties

In its first 6 months, Labour ministers and top officials met with tech giants an average of *six times a week.*

We’ve got the documents. 🧵

New on Democracy for Sale with @lucasamin.bsky.social

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

Revealed: “Shocking” scale of Big Tech’s influence over Labour

Science and technology secretary Peter Kyle asked Google boss to “sense check” AI policy and told Amazon he’d “advocate” for them to competition watchdog

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · May 24

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Diary of a Gazan family's descent toward starvation

Mervat Hijazi and her nine children didn't eat at all on Thursday - save her underweight baby who had a sachet of peanut paste.

www.reuters.com

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Seán Fearon @seanfearon.bsky.social · May 23

An excellent writeup.

These are repulsive double standards from the British state, guilty of all manner of state terror, to young Irish artists. They represent a proud & radical political culture which does not conform to the sterile & 'Paddy'fied shadow of Irishness acceptable to liberal Britain.

The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · May 22

Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex.

The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social.

Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp

Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex | The Observer

The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness – one that suggests a smiling, darkly sexy bunch with flattened political views

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · May 22

Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex.

The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social.

Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp

Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex | The Observer

The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness – one that suggests a smiling, darkly sexy bunch with flattened political views

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Seán Fearon @seanfearon.bsky.social · May 17

Good to be home.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · May 14

Incredible. A hospital complex bombed, scores of medics & civilians massacred, yet the image chosen to accompany this massacre isn’t the broken bodies of victims but rather, random militants waving AK-47s.
Media complicity costs lives.