Notices by Calamity Joan 😷 (clickhere@mastodon.ie)

Morning! ☀️

@skinnylatte 😀 It's a lovely sunny one, here in Dubland! Hope things are bright and breezy where you are.

Anyone in Dublin looking for a little compact storage item for work/study at home? We've a mini set of IKEA drawers that we no longer need - free to a good home!

https://www.freecycle.org/posts/101786096

#FreeCycle #Dublin #MastoDaoine

How Big Tech successfully lobbied the @EUCommission to amend EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll

https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-data-centre-confidential-lobbying-7013368-Apr2026/

"A cross-border investigation has revealed how industry lobbying is shaping data centre regulation in the EU."

via @TheJournal

#DigitalRights #BigTech #DataCentres #EU

RE: https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/116407285750514532

Question: how do Trump and his regime insiders make massive monies out of the below scenario?

@aral Can you re-phrase that? I'm struggling to interpret it.

@ryanjess77

@ryanjess77

Ireland: you abstaining coward "post-"colonial bastards.

(Image source via https://journal.un.org/en/new-york/meeting/officials/5b4d3557-9286-4014-bd9f-e74c58c7556b/2026-03-25)

#MasotDaoine

Here's an idea for the @EU_Commission: just send the €90bn to Ukraine. Just send it.

Don't let Orbán out-live the EU or Ukraine.

Send it. Done.

Two B52 nuclear-capable strategic bombers took off about an hour apart (3:10pm and 4:15pm IST) from Shreveport, and are now flying in formation north-ish of New Orleans, making a bee-line due east-ish towards Florida.

I'm sure it's noting to be worried about.

Paging Dublin foodies! A table for two has opened up in Borgo in Phibsboro this Saturday, 14 February. 😍

We've had to cancel our booking at 2:30pm this Galentine's Day, so get on it!

https://www.borgodublin.ie/

❤️👩🏻🍳

#Borgo #TableFairy #Phibsboro #Dublin #MastoDaoine #restaurants #food

"Women and children last!" This is worse than those Dartmouth Square scroungers.

The insufferable boomers of the Dublin Civic Trust and An Taisce have succeed in stopping a critical care wing for people and infants in need of specialist medical treatment because of the 18th century "Georgian character" of the area.

"New €100m Rotunda Hospital critical care unit for women and infants denied planning permission"

https://www.thejournal.ie/rotunda-hospital-6955591-Feb2026/

#Dublin #MastoDaoine #Rotunda #Healthcare

@aral I saw a poster ad for USIT on the bus on Sunday, extolling the joys of student summer visas (J1, etc.) in the USA.

Couldn't fucking believe it.

#MastoDaoine #FuckICE

The @dublininquirer crew are looking for help:

"Will you help us with a reporting project? We want to test whether an self-checkout service at a Dublin shop is consistently flagging people with darker skin for extra checks.

"We're looking for people with all different shades of skin to go in and buy a small item, on us, and let us know if you were flagged for extra checks."

To get involved, email lois@dublininquirer.com

#Dublin #MastoDaoine #AntiRacism

Anyone know where someone could find a reliable cloud-cover forecast for Ireland online..?

Asking for a Dub.

#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #MastoDaoine #Weather #WX

Me, marvelling at everyone's Aurora photos, while Dublin's left with peach-tinged clouds.. 😔

#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #MastoDaoine #Weather #WX

Got the tail end of a bitta Borealis, after the clouds finally backed away a bit..

#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #MastoDaoine #Weather #WX #Dublin

@inthehands I'm guessing ICE will deploy signal jammers or similar during specific operations.

@ApostateEnglishman @hellomiakoda @rbreich Well, his bio says he's the "co-founder of inequality media," so..?

The absolutely right decision by RTÉ, along with Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Belgium. Thank you to the National Union of Journalists for all their efforts. #JoinAUnion

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1204/1547300-rte-to-boycott-eurovision-song-contest-over-israel/

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Eurovision #EBU #Ireland #Spain #Netherlands #Slovenia #Belgium #MastoDaoine #España #Nederland

@skinnylatte Holy moly, those booze prices are eye-watering. And that makes sense about Aussie products and shorter distances, all right.

I guess the price is similar here in Ireland now - around €5.50 these days; but a couple of years ago was maybe €2-€3. (Prices are bonkers here, like everywhere it seems.)