Joe Fitzmaurice
@joefitzmaurice.bsky.social
Sourdough baker, teacher, and fire lighter. Riot Rye Bakehouse & Bread School, Cloughjordan Ecovillage co-creator. Building community. Always willing to take questions, and share the sourdough love 🌾🌳💚
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November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Anyone know what these are? There's a few outside rural houses in Portugal...
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Anyone know what these are? There's a few outside rural houses in Portugal...
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As writers and illustrators find it increasingly tough to make a living in traditional publishing, there's a growing variety of alternative publishing projects that offer different ways to get paid for making books. My latest piece for The Bookseller.
#Booksky #ChildrensBooks #Writing #Illustration
#Booksky #ChildrensBooks #Writing #Illustration
Non-traditional book projects can help writers and illustrators diversify and get paid, says Oisín McGann in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky
Publishing, but not as we know it
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November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As writers and illustrators find it increasingly tough to make a living in traditional publishing, there's a growing variety of alternative publishing projects that offer different ways to get paid for making books. My latest piece for The Bookseller.
#Booksky #ChildrensBooks #Writing #Illustration
#Booksky #ChildrensBooks #Writing #Illustration
Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.
We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.
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Watching Airplane! And this scene never fails to make me laugh. Also, I wish I could record off the TV and it not go blue 🤬
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Watching Airplane! And this scene never fails to make me laugh. Also, I wish I could record off the TV and it not go blue 🤬
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Today I endeavoured to speak for the rivers, to provide a counter balance to the lobbyist's narrative on the polluting nitrates derogation.
Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution
www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution
www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Today I endeavoured to speak for the rivers, to provide a counter balance to the lobbyist's narrative on the polluting nitrates derogation.
Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution
www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution
www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...
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My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: Saying nuclear power is better for the environment than solar is ludicrous
The idea that intensive dairy farming is some kind of pastoral idyll with no impact on the environment has been allowed to take hold to the point that serious people are now suggesting nuclear reactor...
www.irishexaminer.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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"Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts"
The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: Saying nuclear power is better for the environment than solar is ludicrous
The idea that intensive dairy farming is some kind of pastoral idyll with no impact on the environment has been allowed to take hold to the point that serious people are now suggesting nuclear reactor...
www.irishexaminer.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts"
The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Fantastic insights today into Ireland's broken agrifood systems and failures rooted in colonialism - as well as the groundbreaking sustainable initiatives out there! 🌍
Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾
Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Fantastic insights today into Ireland's broken agrifood systems and failures rooted in colonialism - as well as the groundbreaking sustainable initiatives out there! 🌍
Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾
Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾
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Seeing so many acorns sowing themselves in local woodlands, natural regeneration. Tree planting is not always required!
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Seeing so many acorns sowing themselves in local woodlands, natural regeneration. Tree planting is not always required!
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts.
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts.
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25
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Insightful article on why the economy around local food is so weak by @olliemoore.bsky.social
'Ireland’s weak local food economy is a result of centuries of political and economic decision-making that favoured export over self-sufficiency, cheapness over quality, and centralisation over...
'Ireland’s weak local food economy is a result of centuries of political and economic decision-making that favoured export over self-sufficiency, cheapness over quality, and centralisation over...
Why Is the Local Food Economy in Ireland So Weak? | Agricultural and Rural Convention
Ireland’s weak local food economy is not simply a modern oversight or the result of consumer preferences. Instead, it is deeply rooted in historical and structural forces—chief among them, colonial ex...
www.arc2020.eu
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Insightful article on why the economy around local food is so weak by @olliemoore.bsky.social
'Ireland’s weak local food economy is a result of centuries of political and economic decision-making that favoured export over self-sufficiency, cheapness over quality, and centralisation over...
'Ireland’s weak local food economy is a result of centuries of political and economic decision-making that favoured export over self-sufficiency, cheapness over quality, and centralisation over...
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“We tell our children each night that the world hasn’t forgotten them, they are watching your boats coming and we are telling them stories of this, that while this genocide happened people from the world were sailing, because they love Palestinian people”.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Sarah Clancy: Flotillas show that ordinary people must be the antidote to toxic world powers
After arrest, imprisonment, and deportation from Israel, Sarah Clancy, an Irish Gaza flotilla participant, reflects on solidarity, conscience, and the power of ordinary people
www.irishexaminer.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“We tell our children each night that the world hasn’t forgotten them, they are watching your boats coming and we are telling them stories of this, that while this genocide happened people from the world were sailing, because they love Palestinian people”.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.
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Got an email from Amazon to be part of their invite only "Brands of Ireland" campaign which apparently aims to help businesses for Black Friday, Christmas etc. Sounds nice but Amazon is a killer of small businesses and they can fuck Black Friday. Buy independent and buy local when you can.
October 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Got an email from Amazon to be part of their invite only "Brands of Ireland" campaign which apparently aims to help businesses for Black Friday, Christmas etc. Sounds nice but Amazon is a killer of small businesses and they can fuck Black Friday. Buy independent and buy local when you can.
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Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.
Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
October 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.
Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
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The steadily growing population of rare lesser horseshoe bats in the shed (roughly 100) attests to the level of flying insect life in the forest outside, since each bat catches around 3,000 per night.
Healthy nature depends on healthy, wild, functioning *ecosystems*.
Rewilding delivers that. 🌏
Healthy nature depends on healthy, wild, functioning *ecosystems*.
Rewilding delivers that. 🌏
October 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The steadily growing population of rare lesser horseshoe bats in the shed (roughly 100) attests to the level of flying insect life in the forest outside, since each bat catches around 3,000 per night.
Healthy nature depends on healthy, wild, functioning *ecosystems*.
Rewilding delivers that. 🌏
Healthy nature depends on healthy, wild, functioning *ecosystems*.
Rewilding delivers that. 🌏
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The juniper infusion for our brew here at @kornolfest.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The juniper infusion for our brew here at @kornolfest.bsky.social
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So I hear it's national poetry day
And really, don't we all, in a way,
Have poets inside us with something to say?
They have to whisper from deep in the heart
Our innermost thoughts transformed into art
Or those two fuckin wolves will hear them and rip them apart.
#nationalpoetryday
And really, don't we all, in a way,
Have poets inside us with something to say?
They have to whisper from deep in the heart
Our innermost thoughts transformed into art
Or those two fuckin wolves will hear them and rip them apart.
#nationalpoetryday
October 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
So I hear it's national poetry day
And really, don't we all, in a way,
Have poets inside us with something to say?
They have to whisper from deep in the heart
Our innermost thoughts transformed into art
Or those two fuckin wolves will hear them and rip them apart.
#nationalpoetryday
And really, don't we all, in a way,
Have poets inside us with something to say?
They have to whisper from deep in the heart
Our innermost thoughts transformed into art
Or those two fuckin wolves will hear them and rip them apart.
#nationalpoetryday
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"I have no regrets at all"
Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.
September 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"I have no regrets at all"
Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.
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Rod Hull, born on this day 90 years ago. Thanks for all the fun!
August 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Rod Hull, born on this day 90 years ago. Thanks for all the fun!
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Greta Thunberg and Irish comedian and activist Tadhg Hickey sum it up in 28 seconds
September 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Greta Thunberg and Irish comedian and activist Tadhg Hickey sum it up in 28 seconds
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This went completely under my radar. A rewilded Glen of the Downs Golf Course that creates an unexpected corridor between the GOTDs, Kindlestown Wood and the Little Sugar Loaf 🤯
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
The couple who bought a Wicklow golf course and turned it into a native woodland
The former Glen of the Downs Golf Course greens are now covered in 80,000 native trees, planted by Anke and John Moran
www.irishtimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This went completely under my radar. A rewilded Glen of the Downs Golf Course that creates an unexpected corridor between the GOTDs, Kindlestown Wood and the Little Sugar Loaf 🤯
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Weekends are for Wandering!
How about a walk at Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara? This haunting landscape of blanket bog is full of stories.
It was also the site where pioneering aviators Alcock and Brown crash-landed, successfully completing the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight.
#Ireland
How about a walk at Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara? This haunting landscape of blanket bog is full of stories.
It was also the site where pioneering aviators Alcock and Brown crash-landed, successfully completing the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight.
#Ireland
September 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Weekends are for Wandering!
How about a walk at Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara? This haunting landscape of blanket bog is full of stories.
It was also the site where pioneering aviators Alcock and Brown crash-landed, successfully completing the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight.
#Ireland
How about a walk at Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara? This haunting landscape of blanket bog is full of stories.
It was also the site where pioneering aviators Alcock and Brown crash-landed, successfully completing the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight.
#Ireland