David Flood
@maoltuile
Historical researcher into Dublin Corporation and the Irish revolutionary generation 1898-1923. See ‘Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising’ (Four Courts Press, 2016) Nothing here represents views of any employer or organisation, past or present
Time for Elon to juice the stock again with talk of a million orbiting datacentres in a non-convecting, non-conducting vacuum
The citizenry in Dublin, Ireland have been warned about the electrical generation grid being strained. Also, Dublin, Ireland:
100% There should be pitchforks in response to articles like the below in the Sunday papers, a few weeks back
‘Would have a harder time ending slavery though’ is one way of putting what was an incredibly profitable business for them in shipping a slave population to the American colonies until latter became independent
Seems to me that the ‘problem’ is obvious after all, and is far simpler that enabling an energy-intensive capitalist ‘fix’
The Irish establishment continues attempts to reconstruct the public’s consensus around keeping neutrality/non-alignment as the core of our foreign policy. A staged neutrality ‘debate’ to this end at the Galway International Arts Festival #spéirgorm
This is a wonderful piece, calibrated to hit my interests of the past decade
This isn’t a ‘stark warning’, it’s a sales pitch for a smash and grab on the public purse and the futures of our children as anything other than serfs to capitalism
Pat Leahy, widely believed to be employed as the IT’s mouthpiece for Michéal Martin, telling on himself from multiple directions here #spéirgorm
The Guardian (and the Irish Times, too) being cowardly around understanding the murderous intent here
Appropriately enough, very closely nearby on the grounds we have watery tarts giving out swords as a form of government. ‘Excalibur’ (1981) shot this scene at Powerscourt waterfall:
Reminded of that classic meme (can’t find reference) about Dumbledore’s sartorial choices pre- and post-tenure
CNN putting this on their front page. Being played by rightwing ideologues