Marc de Faoite
@marcdefaoite.bsky.social
Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, b. 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Writer/editor/translator. Work in in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, Courrier International, Cormorant, Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire ...
If we electrify everything we might be able to survive, but sticking with fossil fuels at this stage when better cheaper tech exists is the fast lane to our* collective doom. *Our - including all the other earthlings whose only home we humans are destroying.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterdaySome reflections on how to electrify well.
The #ClimateChange crisis is also a #PublicHealth crisis. Warming temperatures affect health on a global scale. #MedSky
Burn it all down. Or maybe just electrify everything we can as fast as possible
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2d agoBP profit surges as oil trading and refining boom
Remind me again how nuclear energy is a dependable electricity source and, unlike renewables, not subject to intermittence due to changes in the weather. Anthropogenic climate change increases the likelihood of droughts, but the sun still comes up every day. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor
Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output
theguardian.com
There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
I always assumed that the word 'boondock' was some kind of archaic maritime term. In fact the word has only been in common usage for little over half a century and comes from the Tagalog (one of the ridiculously huge number of languages spoken in the Philippines) word Bundok meaning mountain.
Nine ways to fight climate change 1 - Bare-knuckled 2 - With a bazooka 3 - With a sword 4 - With a sharpened stick 5 - By waterboarding 6 - Dirtily 7 - With your voice 8 - With a pen 9 - With a vote
For me, this is the more interesting hierarchy. I think this is what should actually be applied by law to urban roads... Like, literally the car drivers have to see themselves as guests in the streets & travel at speeds which ensure that every pedestrian/roller can go where they want when they want.
Him - Look at that big car. Guy must have a tiny ... Also Him - I drive a small car, so you know what that means. Me - (is this guy trying to hit on me?) Him - What kind of car do you drive? Me - Um, I don't have, need, or want a car. Him - Oh (looks away sheepishly) #toxicheteromotornormativity
Something I love doing is talking about fossil fuels as "19th century technology". Coal plants and gas plants are machines from CENTURIES ago. The combustion engine is silly. It gets people thinking about what modernity means but also, importantly, it makes fossil fuel guys mad online
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/d... 2/
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'It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.' - Samuel Beckett
You can read my report here www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
‘We couldn’t just stay home’: On night patrol with volunteer army fighting Bordeaux wildfires
From surf instructors to farmers, residents of France’s Atlantic coast have mobilised to help stop the country’s largest wildfire reigniting
irishtimes.com
If you put this in a novel any good editor would probably ask you to remove it for being a bit to on the nose. www.reuters.com/pictures/sun...
Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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en fait, les feux de forêt, c'est à cause des écolos. Et des arbres aussi #incendie #gironde #ecologie #chronique #actu
Pour le climat, faut-il la décroissance ? Faut-il faire baisser assez fortement le PIB des pays riches pour avoir une chance de limiter le changement climatique autour des 2° ? Cette vidéo nous a demandé d'énormes recherches. J'espère qu'elle vous intéressera : youtu.be/e4ep4Ky23hI?...
Pour le climat, faut-il la décroissance ?
YouTube video by Osons Causer
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In which the writer writes about what some readers have written about what he has written. Personally, I am saving this to read after I have finished reading this rather long novel.
Guillermo Stitch@guillermostitch.bsky.social · 6d ago"What each review has in common with the others is that it reads like the report of a surveyor who can’t find the front door, and so (for his supper) surveys the facade." A response to some baffling reviews of The Coast of Everything. Share if you care. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera...
"What each review has in common with the others is that it reads like the report of a surveyor who can’t find the front door, and so (for his supper) surveys the facade." A response to some baffling reviews of The Coast of Everything. Share if you care. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera...
We're at roughly 1.5 degrees Centigrade above ye olde tyme temperatures, but that still translates to days that are 8 degrees above the norm (and higher).
Enough wind energy to power 667,000 homes, or roughly every household in Dublin, Westmeath and Wicklow combined, was lost in the first half of 2026 as the grid struggled to keep pace with Ireland's renewable energy growth, Wind Energy Ireland has said
Investment needed in grid as wind energy lost - expert
Enough wind energy to power 667,000 homes, or roughly every household in Dublin, Westmeath and Wicklow combined, was lost in the first half of 2026 as the grid struggled to keep pace with Ireland's re...
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Word of the day: APOTHEGMATICALLY From the Greek apophthengesthai - to speak plainly (the irony) e.g. "The author exhibits an inability to express himself apothegmatically"
Seek meaning and you will find it. Try hard enough and you can find meaning in anything. This is a good thing for humans to be able to do. It's also a terrible thing.
Ach, you know what? Why not. Here’s Alan Bennett’s closing monologue from ‘On the Margin’, missing for nearly 60 years, and found on a Sony CV2000 tape in the Galton and Simpson archive You, dear viewer, are one of the few people ever to have seen this. Enjoy! discover.york.ac.uk/collections/...
Signal boosting this. I'm a certain number of chapters in and increasingly destabilized - in a very good way.
Guillermo Stitch@guillermostitch.bsky.social · 2w agoGreat to see the book get some support! Thanks to writer and critic Lee Rourke. #booksky
