You really have to take a moment and think about how insane this is. That’s a quarter of the entire output of the country’s public infrastructure going to support about one hundred sites.

StephDickenson.bsky.social@stephdickenson.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Data centres accounted for almost one quarter of the electricity consumed in Ireland last year, up from 5% in 2015, the CSO said today. A total of 7,663 gigawatt-hours of electricity was used by data centres in 2025, up 10% from 6,973GWh in 2024.” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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as we saw with Charlie Kirk it’s extremely notable that no fans of Rod Liddle include any of their favourite quotes from him in their tributes

has anyone unpacked christopher nolan casting a trans person to be the distraction sacrifice for a trojan horse to enter, and then destroy, civilization

Don’t know how we managed to get this much for her tbh. That’s very good business for someone who basically never played for us

Jeff Kassouf@jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: Bay FC has agreed to a transfer for American fullback Jenna Nighswonger from Arsenal. Fee believed to be in the $200K vicinity. Nighswonger won a 2024 Olympic gold medal w/ #USWNT and #NWSL Championship w/ Gotham. ESPN story w/ @emilyskeogh.bsky.social 👇

1) damn. 2) that last replay angle is a lovely shot of the technique 3) damn.

andré@andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 2d ago

MARINE DAFEUR WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

Folks I won’t tell you not to feel your feelings, but this is rage bait. He’s talking about expanding beyond politics into things like live sports.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Had to go down to Wexford over the weekend and I’ve never seen the Irish countryside looking so dead before. Hope this rain lasts for a month cuz god knows we need it

Rod Liddle wasn’t even a good writer. Those who propped him up did it exclusively because he said disgusting shit that any half decent person would be horrified by. He actively sought to upset people and then revelled in the discomfort he caused He was essentially a flasher

When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.

Caster Semenya, Brittney Griner, the list goes on and on. It's usually just racism.

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · 3d ago

Imane Khelif, Barbra Banda, now the Cunningham circus - it's kind of amazing how many "trans women in sports" controversies don't actually involve a single trans woman

Imane Khelif, Barbra Banda, now the Cunningham circus - it's kind of amazing how many "trans women in sports" controversies don't actually involve a single trans woman

I don’t want my income tax cut, I want my taxes to fund functioning social services that make my life better by an order of magnitude I could never achieve on my own

There are more people who've parlayed middling athletic prospects into profitable careers decrying the inclusion of trans women in sports than there are trans women in sports.

Happy birthday, Eamon Dunphy

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness

Someone should tell RFK Jr he needs to clear his throat. It’s getting a bit ridiculous at this point

Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights… except for playing games on my phone

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 3d ago

For the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on the other. ⬇️

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

a lot of what the right does nowadays is create an emotional support system for bigots. bigotry will offend and alienate people in your life, so the right looks provides a counterweight that lavishes you with praise.

Going to Comedy Bang Bang at Vicar Street tonight and I’m setting the over/under for performers doing some kind of terrible Irish accent at 2.5

Casual reminder that the original plan for Ben Shapiro's "Lady Ballers" was for it to be an undercover documentary where dudes sign up to compete in women's sports, only to find out that places that allow trans athletes to compete actually have rules and standards.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6d ago

Ben Shapiro spends his entire show mocking the WNBA and its players. Including a montage his team put together of missed shots at the All-Star game which he laughs at. It's incredible how much transphobia can just let you be an open misogynist.

A fun thing about modern football is that even though FIFA are absolutely corrupt villains, I can’t exactly get excited about UEFA as saviours They’ve shown with the Super League that their main issue with privatising the sport is they want to be the ones making the money

The data center mania happening at a time when climate change is already such a serious and obvious problem feels like a taunt. You are pissing me off on purpose

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7d ago

"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.

“In real life” Think glinner has been hanging out in jk rowling’s black mould castle

Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21@darkeden21.bsky.social · 6d ago

just in case you wondered how graham is doing lol

They’re right, if we want to win the war against climate change we need to go much further than net zero, which was only ever a marketing tactic to allow us to continue exploiting the earth’s finite resources We need active de-growth

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d ago

The paper of quitters and quislings.

The wildfire in Tipperary covered 700 hectares. The smoke could be smelled 100km away at Cork Airport. Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael have spent the summer setting the climate act aside, saying it has been "weaponised" by NGOs.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

EU crisis chief urges tougher climate action amid France, Spain wildfires https://aje.news/eifpm5

Between the Leto story and everything else it's as abundantly clear as ever that way too many people still don't care about or acknowledge the harm many men in the public eye do to women and girls, even when it's an open secret.

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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