Thinking about the dry weather in Ireland... and that new Shannon-to-Dublin pipeline. 19 of the last 30 days where the flow in the Shannon has been at the legal minimum, so would be presumably no water available for the pipeline?

Simply put, this is a loophole that needs to be closed. Shops (even reputable shops), should not be selling illegal vehicles with a small disclaimer that they can only be used on private land, and never on public roads, footpaths or cycle paths

putting my new carrier and the ever versatile Bakkie pannier to use, bringing this large plant to work #quaxing #bikelife

Found it web.archive.org/web/20140804...

Though, there is also a different bird on the person side as well

It depends whether you think it is OK to copy Aotearoa/New Zealand... (I do regret to inform you that there are people on the other side)

There are amazingly few Rangers or Hilux in Ireland. These are New Zealand's #1 and #2 selling vehicles, many of them used effectively as cars, and as family vehicles. Rav4 is number 3, and Mitsubishi Triton 4. This sort of thing is littered on suburban streets

So the 255g/km for air flight is also from the UK report, and in the 2025 version, and if I have highlighted the correct row here, it's quite a bit lower than previously

Gets worse. This publication was probably not in scope for my previous research, but this table presents a study on RoPax ferries in Finland (Makela), the 19g study (BFF), ferries in Greece (top line), and passenger only fast ferries (Bradley & Associates)

In fact the opposite. If you read the methodology for the 19g study, they attribute 88% of the CO2 to freight, and admit that the actual figure for passenger-only ferries is likely much worse, but there is no data assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f119b...

It's actually their freshly sealed carpark I think. You can see the bridge buttress on Carey's Road

Dunedin upgraded its main street at the same time as Limerick, and they got a giant oversize see-saw (it is controversial, but I think it's cool). Also worth noting that they got finished faster, and looks less grim, and lost a lane of traffic

The latest Roy Morgan poll does look like an outlier for Labour, about 15% below the trendline, and also from Roy Morgan's last poll. We won't really have a better sense until we've had another couple of polls though. #nzpol

It's not set off with am em-dash, but I did really enjoy the journalist who added this parenthetical flourish to a story I read this morning

we ran a winter school on this in Berlin last year... I think this is the slide, moving away from repeated measures means not worrying about - missing data - variance is supposed to be the same at each timepoint (is often not) - it's also much easier to handle non-normal data

Sigmund manifesting his unconscious desire to be ridden (on a cargo bike) #freudOnABike

Has anyone ever clarified if the plan is to build right on the park, or could it be the rough land adjacent to the park. Also, I'm assuming a footbridge over the railway line would not be a preferred alternative? Just seems like not a lot of info about the proposal

Here is the same diagram for Ireland in 2017; illustrating just how much energy is lost mostly as heat from the system. The current picture would show a much stronger contribution from wind & solar flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/...

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole looking at why eg diesel/kerosene/jet fuel prices are more affected at the moment than petrol, and found this rather amazing picture of very different types of crude oil, which helps explain why different crudes are good for making different products 1/x

And I'd forgotten about Irish baronies!  upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

This was how I felt the other day when I discovered that this high voltage link that uses earth return over 600km (already wtf), also has 5-8% (70-100MW) sneak back into the ground of various AC substations to make it's way back to complete the circuit

So frustrating that New Zealand's electricity generation has been sitting so close to be entirely renewable for what seems like decades, but they haven't yet managed to get to 100% long term, mostly (I think) due to higher demand in winter

Any parents and stats geeks with short-sighted children spent any time looking at the new prescription tech that is supposed to slow development of myopia.... Doesn't look like woo at Cochrane, but "very low certainty evidence" www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

And here is just Australasia, Wellington as the sole outlier. Sydney and Melbourne slightly more PT-y than the rest

There are definitely some fiction elements. The cooperage that is burnt in the first episode ran onto the Liffey, but they are seen rolling barrels into the Grand Canal docks, which was by the brewery, not by the Cooperage

Iveagh House overlooks St Stephens Green in the centre of Dublin, a gift of the Guinness family (Benjamin, the dead dad in the show) to Dublin, currently featuring Harakeke (an NZ flax) as a centrepiece in its flowerbeds

Iveagh Gardens are to the rear of Iveagh House; you'll see Anne and Edward spending a lot of time looking out the first floor windows at the street. It's now home to the Dept of Foreign Affairs

Have you been watching House of Guinness? I was in Dublin visiting our funder (SEAI) yesterday, and their offices overlook Iveagh Gardens. Edward, the second (sensible) brother from the show was made Earl of Iveagh #houseOfGuinness

Carol Sobral using machine learning to develop a model to predict cycling mixed share in European cities. Segregated cycle lanes, lack of vacant dwellings, women in work, and lack of hills key predictors #CyclingAndSociety2025

First talk at #CyclingAndSociety2025 - Graeme Hawker modelling whether a transition to cycling could reduce the number of new power stations required in the future, especially at times of peak demand