Iran war a 'wake-up call' on EU fossil fuel dependency, Harris warns The Finance Minister said there has been ‘not enough’ diversification in how Ireland and Europe sources its energy since the war in Ukraine.
Me after having slept through half a dozen alarms: Wow, what a wake-up call this is
I had Codex create a version of the map of the lighthouses of the Northern seas, including real colors, light patterns & distances
But then I had it also create a mode set in a Lovecraftian 1920s where you need to place lighthouses to ward off things from the Deep: night-watch-bulwark.netlify.app
Female Common Earwigs Forficula auricularia are very good mothers. After spending the winter guarding her batch of eggs she cares for the nymphs for several weeks and regurgitates food for them. The nymphs will disperse when they are large enough to fend for themselves. Dartmoor, Devon
Anthropic v Department of Defense draws support of employees at rival AI companies www.wired.com/story/openai...
Any update on this yet? 😬
Our elites brought us Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Gaza.
At what point do we ask if they are a death cult?
New column 👇
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Here are all the lighthouses of the Northern Seas, each light is the right color, each turns or pulses at the right frequency, and is scaled with its brightness. You can also see how far they are visible.
I had Claude Code build this by giving instructions in English: lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app
Call for “facts over fear” as councillors set to vote on Cabinteely Greenway
A local group in Dublin has called for "facts over fear" to win out as Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council councillors are due to vote on the Part 8 planning permission for the Cabinteely Greenway tomorrow (Monday). The…
A cool policy in the 1970s oil crisis in the Netherlands was the car free Sunday:
When you give kids the space to play, they'll take it
Darragh O’Brien drafts in state agencies to find solutions to traffic congestion in the capital Transport Minister ‘not writing anything off’ in bid to ease problem in urban areas
Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.
The number of people living in emergency homelessness accommodation has surpassed 17,000 for the first time - the figure stood at 17,112 at the end of January 2026, including 5,319 children. The overall figure is up 10.6% in the last twelve months. @virginmedianews.bsky.social
This is a massive scandal.
Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them.
How can this even be legal?
I can't be the only one who is made /uncomfortable/ by the way that razor clams burrow into sand, right?
The final moments of this video by Kate Crump on the Oregon coastline are sort of the crowning glory of horror. 😬
But how does this even work?
Let's talk about bivalve mobility (if we must).
So math & AI have gone through a messy journey in recent months from: "WOW look AI did it!!! (but on closer examination it didn't)" to "It did some of the things it said but hallucinated others" to "It did it with some caveats" to "It did over half autonomously" Expect this in other fields as well.
College Green/Dame St plaza: Do you want these types of voices to be heard more than yours?
Comment & Analysis: While a far higher percentage of the original social media comments around the plan for College Green were overall positive, the haters seem to have stuck with Dublin City Council's…
Covers of 12 books from between the stated date range including the four seasons books, ‘the night sky’ and ‘the weather’
Cover stories.
Ladybird Nature series
(1959 - 1966)
We firmly oppose this measure, as existing evidence indicates that such laws do not, in fact, protect people who cycle.
The union should be calling for better active transport infrastructure instead of deflecting responsibility to the most vulnerable people on the roads.
High-vis for cycling, high-vis for walking to parties, high-vis for children playing… Where do people think this stops?
Comment & Analysis: Yesterday, it was the bus drivers' union's turn to call for mandatory high-vis for cyclists. But I just have to ask: Where do people think this stops? The…
I think I was trying to fit too much into this...
The last few weeks of threats of making high-vis and helmet mandatory for all cyclists -- which is still a live threat for e-bicycles (with motors limited to 25km/h) -- have been draining.
A lot of it stems from how dysfunctional the RSA is.
Some more Irish language book covers from before 1950
This Valentine’s Day, we can all only dream of one day finding someone who is as obsessed by and devoted to us as the Business Post is to… Dublin Airport.
This kind of thing is depressingly common. Pantibar has been on Capel St (a busy commercial street with many bars and restaurants) for over 18 years, and there was another bar there for 10 years before us, and people will *still* move in above us and then start complaining about the noise 🤷🏼♀️🤪😡
Weeks of severe storms and catastrophic flooding across the country — all made worse and more frequent by climate change.
Our politicians’ response?
Our Minister for Climate Action’s response?!
More emissions.
What a wildly stupid idea.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
I believe AI when used in the right way can be used to help someone learn checkout www.answer.ai/posts/2025-1...
And if students can use AI to write answers then we could use another testing method that avoid its benefit? But yeah open to ideas on that front!
This is a typical knee-jerk, victim-blaming reaction, but it shouldn't come as any surprise from a Government who have have already backtracked on 30kph limit rollout, cancelled a planned red light camera rollout, and cancelled the recommended scrapping of the unfit RSA. Absolute clowns.
This isn’t about scale. It’s about pattern.
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Some food resilience like reducing reliance on imports by gov would also be handy 😁 but looking forward to reading the booklet anyways
