Data centers are a "classic case of privatised gain and socialised cost."

"Companies connected to data centre operations received €600 million in capacity payments, meaning that household electricity bills are effectively subsidising data centre developments by hundreds of millions of euro a year. One firm, Lumcloon Energy, received €364 million for building a gas power station, then submitted plans to build a €1 billion data centre nearby. Convenient, isn’t it?"

https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/data-centres-a-strain-on-the-grid-is-a-strain-on-your-wallet/

Irish electricity is amongst the most expensive in Europe

Data centers consume more than a fifth of Ireland’s total electricity.

"Should Irish households be subsidising the energy costs of multinational tech giants? Should the Government continue greenlighting more data centres when we already pay some of the highest electricity prices in Europe?"

It's time Big Tech got off corporate welfare. Time it paid its own way and stopped scrounging off the public.

https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/data-centres-a-strain-on-the-grid-is-a-strain-on-your-wallet/

@lyrial literally this call ctr person has added Sir to every sentence after me asking 6 times.

Please don't call me Sir.

Ok, sorry, Sir.

How hard is this? #customerService

While everything is indeed horrible, you are not obligated to solely focus on the horror. The availability of a constant stream of bad news does not make that news valuable by itself. Paying constant attention is not "doing something." So if the information isn't actionable, filter it.

(If you do not identify as a trans woman / transfem: please don't vote. Thank you)

How do you feel about the term "doll," in relation to transfeminine people?

Please feel free to explain your views on the matter in the replies ❤️

#poll #transfem #TransWoman #transgender

They have invented something that's like imagination but you pay a corporation per-hour to use it

On its website Crushmate claimed to specialise in “crafting an AI girl of your dreams”, but on social media ads it promoted a tool for making nonconsensual nude images of real women. A Meta investigation into one Crushmate associated company found over 87,000 violating ads placed on Facebook and Instagram as of February this year. Kolina Koltai and Melissa Zhu pull back the layers of the “CrushAI” network, as Meta moves to sue. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2025/06/18/meta-crushai-crushmate-deepfake-nudify-apps/?utm_source=mastodon

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

Disabled M&S shopper 'humiliated' after overhearing 'cruel staff comments' - Manchester Evening News 2022

A Marks and Spencer toilet vigilante delivered a masterclass in how to commit disability discrimination and transphobic discrimination (by perception) all against one cisgender female customer. Although the incident took place in 2022 this is what the EHRC has now encouraged with their unlawful interim “guidance” for toilet terrorisation.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-ms-shopper-humiliated-after-24002075

I don't want to be repetative or anything but I want to say again how grateful I am for alt text on posts about protests. By Including me as a Blind person, and others who benefit from alt text, you're resisting the dark side and its agenda.

Newspapers: if your headlines tomorrow don't say "tanks for nothing" then you are all cowards

OK folks, really need your help. Trans Pride NI is getting zero funding, nothing from the council or Belfast Pride and if they don't hit £5k, it won't happen.

Can we get this to target?

Please share.

Thank you ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Update: £6K reached 👍 ... "Any additional funds raised will either be used to financially support this or the next years festival"

https://justgiving.com/campaign/transprideni2025

»#Rafah Is Gone. Razed to the Ground. And It's Not the Only City Wiped Out by the Israeli Army.

On the eve of the war, the Rafah metropolitan area in #Gaza had a population of 275,000. #Jabalya had 65,000 residents. #BeitLahia had 108,000. Today, these cities are little more than ruins. The scale of destruction wrought by #Israel stands out even among the most extreme wartime cases in modern history. « #Genocide #WarCrimes
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-12/ty-article-magazine/.premium/rafah-is-gone-razed-to-the-ground-its-not-the-only-city-decimated-by-the-israeli-army/00000197-6506-db73-aff7-7d4ee6bb0000 (Paywall)

http://archive.today/Kmd68

The world's first full-scale LGBTQ Pride event to take place in an active warzone occurred today in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. The banner at the front reads "Unity in Diversity".

In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry.

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#SanFrancisco #NoKings