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Anna Pringle
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Climate Alarm Clock podcast host (https://the-climate-alarm-clock.captivate.fm/)
Sanctuary Runner (www.sanctuaryrunners.ie).
https://notherenotanywhere.com/
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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · Nov 14
Ok, Ireland is not full but my starter packs 1 & 2 are!

So here's a third and *final* one from me (felt too guilty ignoring people asking to be added! This one is not full... yet).

Tús maith, leath na hoibre!

go.bsky.app/RW66srq
annapr.bsky.social
What a cruel policy.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17h
not the main point I guess but holy hell, Denmark, wtf
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs

This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
annapr.bsky.social
This is why I believe that what we do at @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social is so important. We are telling a different story, showing the joy of people coming together in their communities to simply run, jog, walk, drink tea, chat.

www.independent.ie/irish-news/w...
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Despite all we know, global carbon emissions continue to rise. How is it possible that we're *still* accelerating towards climate and ecological collapse?

An economic system called capitalism that only survives by killing its host: us and our biosphere home.
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
Global fossil fuel emissions to hit new record - study
Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research that also warns curbing warming under 1.5C would now be essentially "impossible".
www.rte.ie
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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thinkorswim.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to this conversation with @whittledaway.bsky.social around THE LIE OF THE LAND this Sunday from 2pm in @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin City centre.

Do come along if you’re free.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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emmetkirwan.bsky.social
Again if you find yourself wondering about things like Judicial review because politicians and some right wing journos say this is the reason we can’t get things done, just remember this is complete bollix and the real reason is lobbyists, lobbyists, lobbyists and politicians who become lobbyists.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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emmetkirwan.bsky.social
All Airbnbs being rented year round are in contravention of planning laws. Houses built for private residential tenancy need to apply for change of use. If you built a house without following the rules it could be torn down. We could solve this Airbnb problem overnight, there’s no political will.
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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foeireland.bsky.social
Comhghairdeas Catherine!

Is áthas linn go bhfuil sé mar sprioc ag Catherine a bheith ina "guth a chuireann an bhunbhagairt a thagann le cliseadh aeráide in iúl".

www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/comhgha...
Ba bhreá le Cairde an Domhain comhghairdeas a ngabháil do Catherine Connolly inniu ar lá a hoirnithe.
Friends of the Earth extends our warm congratulations to Catherine Connolly ahead of her inauguration as Uachtarán na hÉireann later today.
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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foeireland.bsky.social
History shows us that ordinary people, joining together to demand action, can be a powerful force.

We know that a better world is possible - let’s join together to march for it on 15th November!

More details ➡️https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/lets-march-to-put-people-before-polluters/
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Join the National Climate March
It's time to put People before Big Polluters!
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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foeireland.bsky.social
Join us at the National Climate March!

We’ll be marching for climate justice, urging the Government to put people before big polluters ✊

Learn more ➡️https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/lets-march-to-put-people-before-polluters/

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Join the National Climate March
It's time to put People before Big Polluters!
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
An extraordinary mapping of Big Food/Big Ag's influence at COP30, by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and co at @desmog.com.
desmog.com DeSmog @desmog.com · 6d
As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
annapr.bsky.social
I don’t know if this is accurate but I choose to believe it.

PLEASE don’t tell me it’s wrong.
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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joenoonan.bsky.social
“Given our history, normalisation of war and genocide has never been and will never be acceptable to us as a sovereign independent nation with the long and cherished tradition of neutrality and an uninterrupted record of peacekeeping since 1958."

President.ie

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
President Connolly promises presidency of 'all voices' in call for unity and inclusivity
Catherine Connolly takes office as Ireland’s 10th president, pledging to champion inclusivity, unity, peace and environmental responsibility
www.irishexaminer.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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ellenmcoyne.bsky.social
In a broad and strong speech, President Connolly mentions the climate crisis, the international migration crisis, the domestic housing crisis and Ireland's duty to lead on neutrality. She also mentions the need to promote and protect the Irish language
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
annapr.bsky.social
What a special moment this was for @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social Over a hundred sanctuary runners gathered to wish President Higgins and Sabina a fond farewell. We were so honoured to have him as a patron.

#SpeirGorm
gavreilly.com Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 7d
Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.

He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.

The President’s term of office ends at midnight.

⁦‪@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
annapr.bsky.social
My daughter telling her NZ friends that she’s proud of her sallow skin… to their surprise and confusion 😂
fliglman.bsky.social Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 10d
My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive
sallow (comparative sallower, superlative sallowest) (of skin) Yellowish. (most regions, of light skin) Of a sickly pale colour. (Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
Anyway, I'm bringing this up, because this quasi-religious myth of growth continuing — no matter how hot and chaotic the planet gets — underlies most of the bullshit in the Gates memo, making it hard to recognize as bullshit.

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A few years ago, researchers at the University of Chicago's Climate Impact Lab ran a thought experiment: What happens to the number of projected deaths from climate change when you account for the expected economic growth of low-income countries over the rest of this century? The answer: It falls by more than 50 percent. This finding is exciting because it suggests a way forward. Since the economic growth that's projected for poor countries will reduce climate deaths by half, it follows that faster and more expansive growth will reduce deaths by even more. And economic growth is closely tied to public health. So the faster people become prosperous and healthy, the more lives we can save. TRUTH #3: Health and prosperity are the best defense against climate change.
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.

Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.

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The word "growth" is a core term in the language of climate politics. As we just saw, climate economists estimate the costs of climate damages relative to the amount of economic growth they project into the twenty-first century, and by and large they assume that such growth will continue no matter how hot and chaotic the planet gets. Their belief in a future of continued economic growth enables another idea sometimes used to justify sustaining the fossil- fuel economy: the idea that economic growth is itself a climate-change solution, a form of environmental protection that will shield the prosperous from climate devastation. This belief is so bipartisan, so ubiquitous, that it's not quite accurate to call it propaganda. It's best understood as a *myth*. This myth is often taken for reality by both fossil-fuel partisans on the right and climate-conscious progressives on the center-left.
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
But, I don't know, people: if you're going to justify an economic system that could ruin the planet for humanity effectively forever, I think you need more than unfounded belief that its benefits will continue to accrue, no?

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November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
annapr.bsky.social
Keep this in mind the next time Gates lectures us about climate change.
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
annapr.bsky.social
This looks really interesting, bummed that I can’t make it.

@pbresnihan.bsky.social

#SpeirGorm #Bogs
tudublinsustain.bsky.social TU Dublin Sustainability / OT Baile Átha Cliath Inbhuanaitheacht @tudublinsustain.bsky.social · 11d
TALK: From the Bog to the Cloud: A Critical Conversation on Ireland’s Green Transition. Join a thought-provoking evening with the authors. How does Ireland’s green transition intersect with monopoly tech, digital infrastructure, and postcolonial politics?
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
From the Bog to the Cloud - In Conversation with Authors Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie
From the Bog to the Cloud - In Conversation with Authors Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie
www.tudublin.ie
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
annapr.bsky.social
Every time I hear his name I think of Johnny Giles (AKA national treasure) on Off the Ball years ago explaining

‘some lads are just bad lads and Joey Barton, he’s a bad lad’

#SpeirGorm
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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frediotto.bsky.social
If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
The wettest 5-day period in each location between 19-29 October 2025, which is related to the passage of Melissa. The track of Hurricane Melissa at 12 hour intervals is shown as a series of pink points. Data from MSWX
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Who are these people telling us it's 'pro-rural' to be in favour of being allowed to keep on turning our rivers and lakes into stinking, dying, open sewers for private profit?

Oh, just a Fianna Fáil MEP.
share.google/tBQc70fFRQIW...
Cowen urges Taoiseach to seek better nitrates deal
Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Cowen has called on the Taoiseach to pursue a better deal for farmers on the nitrates derogation.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM