@sarabourke.bsky.social
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Ahead of Ireland’s presidential elections, ISD & H&CC found 172 false/misleading posts, as well as 43 AI-gen ones including a deepfake claiming Catherine Connolly’s withdrawal & the election’s cancellation. The brief urges tackling both harmful content & the algorithms that amplify it. More below.
Irish presidential election 2025: Renewed attacks on election integrity and repeated platform failures
Analysis identified many false, misleading and delegitimising narratives about both the electoral process and candidates.
www.isdglobal.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Ahead of Ireland’s presidential elections, ISD & H&CC found 172 false/misleading posts, as well as 43 AI-gen ones including a deepfake claiming Catherine Connolly’s withdrawal & the election’s cancellation. The brief urges tackling both harmful content & the algorithms that amplify it. More below.
As an old (but not conservative) person, I totally endorse this. Despite everything, if the Conolly vote does not come out, Humphries will win. So get out there and keep encouraging others to. The "she has it in the bag" narrative is designed to make Connolly voters stay home. Don't fall for it.
With 72 hours to go until #Aras25 polling opens, a reminder - old, conservative people vote.
If you want something different to what they want, you need to do the same, and tell everyone you know to do it too.
Make a plan to vote.
Make sure others do too.
Then go vote.
Nothing else matters.
If you want something different to what they want, you need to do the same, and tell everyone you know to do it too.
Make a plan to vote.
Make sure others do too.
Then go vote.
Nothing else matters.
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
As an old (but not conservative) person, I totally endorse this. Despite everything, if the Conolly vote does not come out, Humphries will win. So get out there and keep encouraging others to. The "she has it in the bag" narrative is designed to make Connolly voters stay home. Don't fall for it.
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We should carry that sentence in our heads whenever we feel weary or overwhelmed or encounter the disillusioned, the apathetic..."Fascism doesn't need your support, just your silence."
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We should carry that sentence in our heads whenever we feel weary or overwhelmed or encounter the disillusioned, the apathetic..."Fascism doesn't need your support, just your silence."
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Oil giants like Shell are fuelling climate chaos.
Share this video.
Share this video.
August 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Oil giants like Shell are fuelling climate chaos.
Share this video.
Share this video.
Great funding opportunity for green businesses in Tipperary.
We’re excited to announce funding is available through the LEADER Programme for enterprises and social enterprises to carry out projects contributing to Co. Tipperary’s Green Economy and employment in the sector. For details on eligibility and how to apply, visit stdc.ie/rural-develo...
August 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Great funding opportunity for green businesses in Tipperary.
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Right now —
The call from the Madleen crew, share EVERYWHERE and demand safe passage for the crew and the critical humanitarian aid they are carrying
#Madleen
#FreedomFlotilla
#AllEyesOnMadleen
The call from the Madleen crew, share EVERYWHERE and demand safe passage for the crew and the critical humanitarian aid they are carrying
#Madleen
#FreedomFlotilla
#AllEyesOnMadleen
June 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Right now —
The call from the Madleen crew, share EVERYWHERE and demand safe passage for the crew and the critical humanitarian aid they are carrying
#Madleen
#FreedomFlotilla
#AllEyesOnMadleen
The call from the Madleen crew, share EVERYWHERE and demand safe passage for the crew and the critical humanitarian aid they are carrying
#Madleen
#FreedomFlotilla
#AllEyesOnMadleen
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THE FOUR STAGES OF PRO-FOSSIL EXPLOITATION OF MAJOR BLACKOUTS
[a thread with videos]
Stage 1: Guilt By Proximity - "any blackout that happens in a region with renewable energy must have been caused by renewable energy"
[we are in the later end of this stage -see, FT, Bloomberg (Blas), etc]
[a thread with videos]
Stage 1: Guilt By Proximity - "any blackout that happens in a region with renewable energy must have been caused by renewable energy"
[we are in the later end of this stage -see, FT, Bloomberg (Blas), etc]
May 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
THE FOUR STAGES OF PRO-FOSSIL EXPLOITATION OF MAJOR BLACKOUTS
[a thread with videos]
Stage 1: Guilt By Proximity - "any blackout that happens in a region with renewable energy must have been caused by renewable energy"
[we are in the later end of this stage -see, FT, Bloomberg (Blas), etc]
[a thread with videos]
Stage 1: Guilt By Proximity - "any blackout that happens in a region with renewable energy must have been caused by renewable energy"
[we are in the later end of this stage -see, FT, Bloomberg (Blas), etc]
It's really really getting worse in the USA. If the Supreme Court is ignored.... there are no checks and balances left.
First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends.
April 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It's really really getting worse in the USA. If the Supreme Court is ignored.... there are no checks and balances left.
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Seminal study on how the world's population could sustainably feed itself - the EAT-Lancet study - recommended shift away from meat to more plan- based diet
It faced fierce backlash
We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It faced fierce backlash
We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Seminal study on how the world's population could sustainably feed itself - the EAT-Lancet study - recommended shift away from meat to more plan- based diet
It faced fierce backlash
We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It faced fierce backlash
We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Blast from the past. Remember overhead projectors? Anyway I have load of printable acetates. Any of you clever people have an upcycling need for them? Sad to just bung in the green bin.
March 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Blast from the past. Remember overhead projectors? Anyway I have load of printable acetates. Any of you clever people have an upcycling need for them? Sad to just bung in the green bin.
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"Remember, it didn’t start with gas chambers.
It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It built under media capture.
It developed with intolerance and hate speech, and when people stopped caring, became desensitized, turned a blind eye and let it happen.
It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It built under media capture.
It developed with intolerance and hate speech, and when people stopped caring, became desensitized, turned a blind eye and let it happen.
March 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"Remember, it didn’t start with gas chambers.
It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It built under media capture.
It developed with intolerance and hate speech, and when people stopped caring, became desensitized, turned a blind eye and let it happen.
It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It built under media capture.
It developed with intolerance and hate speech, and when people stopped caring, became desensitized, turned a blind eye and let it happen.
Great memories of Italia 90 when life was a lot simpler and football was our passion. Great job Michael D to bring the team together
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina yesterday welcomed the Republic of Ireland football squad from the Italia 90 World Cup to Áras an Uachtaráin. You can read the President’s address from the event at president.ie/en/media-lib...
March 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Great memories of Italia 90 when life was a lot simpler and football was our passion. Great job Michael D to bring the team together
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
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Saturday is International Womens Day! Time to raise our voices!
Doctors Without Borders estimates that around 30% of women fleeing across the Mediterranean are pregnant. Again and again, pregnant women suffer miscarriages due to the extreme conditions—whether shortly before their escape, during
Doctors Without Borders estimates that around 30% of women fleeing across the Mediterranean are pregnant. Again and again, pregnant women suffer miscarriages due to the extreme conditions—whether shortly before their escape, during
March 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Saturday is International Womens Day! Time to raise our voices!
Doctors Without Borders estimates that around 30% of women fleeing across the Mediterranean are pregnant. Again and again, pregnant women suffer miscarriages due to the extreme conditions—whether shortly before their escape, during
Doctors Without Borders estimates that around 30% of women fleeing across the Mediterranean are pregnant. Again and again, pregnant women suffer miscarriages due to the extreme conditions—whether shortly before their escape, during
Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all who can celebrate. Thinking of women in Afghanistan whose freedom is so brutally curbed.
8 March2025
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY
#InternationalWomensDay2025
#ForAllWomenAndGirls
UN report deplores Regression
in women's rights in every fourth country . While many nations honor IWD as a day of empowerment, some still resist public celebrations or outright ban them.
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY
#InternationalWomensDay2025
#ForAllWomenAndGirls
UN report deplores Regression
in women's rights in every fourth country . While many nations honor IWD as a day of empowerment, some still resist public celebrations or outright ban them.
March 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all who can celebrate. Thinking of women in Afghanistan whose freedom is so brutally curbed.
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This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
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I'm very much looking forward to returning to the lovely Lough Gur in county Limerick today, to give a talk on 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest' at the visitor centre there. 🌳 🌿 🌍
March 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I'm very much looking forward to returning to the lovely Lough Gur in county Limerick today, to give a talk on 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest' at the visitor centre there. 🌳 🌿 🌍
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Every time the world attention is turned towards Trump's antics, or any other distraction, Israel uses the opportunity to ratchet up the genocide of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of West Bank.
PS I know "ethnic cleansing" started out as a euphemism, but is now understood as full crime against humanity.
PS I know "ethnic cleansing" started out as a euphemism, but is now understood as full crime against humanity.
March 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Every time the world attention is turned towards Trump's antics, or any other distraction, Israel uses the opportunity to ratchet up the genocide of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of West Bank.
PS I know "ethnic cleansing" started out as a euphemism, but is now understood as full crime against humanity.
PS I know "ethnic cleansing" started out as a euphemism, but is now understood as full crime against humanity.
Looking for accomodation on the usual websites? Not when they also list properties in the Occupied Territories thanks. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land
As Israel deploys tanks in the West Bank for the first time in 20 years, we reveal how two of the world’s biggest travel companies are helping settlers commercialise stolen land
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Looking for accomodation on the usual websites? Not when they also list properties in the Occupied Territories thanks. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
When Mary Robinson calls out the EU commissions rollback on corporate responsibility, it's time to sit up, take notice and lobby your MEP.
Very concerned by proposals from @ec.europa.eu in its #Omnibus package, which would gut the EU's due diligence directive, agreed after painstaking negotiations to put human rights at the centre of EU business. The proposal to remove obligations on #climate is shameful.
euobserver.com/eu-political...
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Von der Leyen's bonfire of regulations is an act of vandalism
Ursula von der Leyen’s commission has just signalled that it is shifting towards a Trump-influenced deregulatory agenda that prioritises market freedoms over public interest, writes former UN High Com...
euobserver.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When Mary Robinson calls out the EU commissions rollback on corporate responsibility, it's time to sit up, take notice and lobby your MEP.
Reasons to avoid AI. 1,2
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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
February 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Reasons to avoid AI. 1,2
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Monbiot on the importance of community building and community resilience in the face of potential chaos. Powerful piece at the end of this article
There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot
There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot
It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Monbiot on the importance of community building and community resilience in the face of potential chaos. Powerful piece at the end of this article