Andrew Flood

Cycling / swimming / camping along & around the Irish coast mixed with opinions shaped by anarchist history & struggle

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

My new thing for the last couple of years has been #bikepacking or cycle touring with a tent by #ebike. So far all around the Irish coast and to the Scottish Islands & Highlands. My video channel induces day by day diary's and introductory guides, see https://t.co/7j2Wcz5nAk /1

[Cian Ó Concubhair @CianOConcubhair]

Heard @morningireland's discussion earlier of that anti-cyclist CC judge

Both interviewer & @CiaranCuffe bending over backwards to avoid saying the judge's comments were biased

If these are an accurate report of the judge's words, I don't understand how they're not biased

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

@SeanDubIreland @ciarancannon @RSAIreland I almost got hit by a grey car at twilight the other evening. Should all cars have to be bright yellow? There is a legal requirement for cyclists to have lights after dark, that should be enough, we must stop excusing inattentive driving, it kills many people.

[Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent]

With a possibility of giving 4 answers, less than 1 in 4 Irish people think the EU should prioritise defence spending (23%)

Irish people are more concerned with an EU that's serious about Climate mitigation (25%)

Housing (59%)
Employment, social affairs and Health (43%)

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

Relevant to our ‘Russian drones scare’ - there have been quite a few other supposed military drones sightings around Europe that on investigation did not hold up. And of course similar in the US. The moving statues of the 2020s perhaps

[UAVHive @UAVHive]

Significant news, Copenhagen Airport while it's sticking to the idea there must have been a drone (airports simply won't accept liability for mistakes) they have now conceded there was no malicious drone, no Russians or whatever.

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[Mark Tighe @MarkLTighe]

I see some people wondering on here what happened to @editorialz (Edward White) who often posted racist, misogynistic and hate-filled content. He won't be posting for a while because today he was jailed for sexually assaulting a 9-year old girl. https://t.co/zwBB1iUfkv

[UAVHive @UAVHive]

I have created the Irish version of the infamous "Lazy Drone Journalism Checklist"

This allows any journalist no matter how lazy to immediately create a clickbait Irish drone story that sounds convincing.

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

@danobrien20 Again bowing and scrapping to this particular power while shriekingly declaring we need to arm ourselves against another whose politicians and press seldom if ever threaten us in such a manner. Interesting!

[road.cc @roadcc]

Driver who killed cyclist while speeding on wrong side of road spared jail, after judge ruled her “dangerous driving is on the lower side”

The motorist was also driving at 62kph in a 50kph zone, which the judge described as “somewhat over the speed limit”
https://t.co/iOaPhVOvbl

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

@MarkNagelberg @Xavier_with_a_J @PeepsYGO Maybe on paper but very clear in practice there has been an enormous shift of wealth to shareholders & CEOs in the US and part of that has also seen the commodification of care in a way that impacts quality of living in the way Americans visiting Europe note but don’t understand

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

You’ve posted a lot about hostile moves from the US if we implement policies that are widely demanded here. You also post a lot about the need to defend the country but then you always imagine Russia to be the hostile power.

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

New foreign minister, Helen McEntee, recommits to introducing the Occupied Territories bill. Very clear from the US that there will be major negative consequences for Ireland if that happens. Huge decision for the government.

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

@Creandia1968 @GerHerbert1 The people killed are mostly over 75 or under 15. Does that change your blame the victims approach at all?

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

@SteinHajek @DanielConlin6 @ChrisO_wiki Err the Royal Navy bombarded Dublin in 1916 and was the transport part of multiple invasions over 800 years. You might as well claim Russia protects Poland

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

Very weird responses here - mid winter has been marked with light in Ireland for about 6,000 years as the various solstice alignments at Newgrange, Dowth & Slieve Gullion to name the most famous. Most other displays around Xmas are not even christian in origin but Norse

[Dublin City Council @DubCityCouncil]

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#DublinWinterLights #FollowTheMagic

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

@DubCityCouncil Very weird responses here - mid winter has been marked with light in Ireland for about 6,000 years as the various solstice alignments at Newgrange, Dowth & Slieve Gullion to name the most famous. Most other displays around Xmas are not even christian origin but Norse

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

When you cycle the road from #Cahersiveen to #Glenbeigh on Eurovelo 1 you are following in the footsteps of the very local Fenian insurrection of Feb 1867

https://t.co/Vq5uFimOTb

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

@cilliandoyle87 This was standard when the internet initially went mainstream but commercial publications wanted to create ‘walled gardens’ rather than lose as revenue sending readers elsewhere as they followed links.

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

Cycling #Waterville to #Cahersiveen on the #RingofKerry along EuroVelo 1 - the Atlantic route along the European coast from Portugal to Norway
https://t.co/Qw7foon0FN

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

Grok is totally valueless at this point as it’s programmed to lie if that lie furthers its owners racist agendas - totally crazy behavior on his part but also illustrative of the bias that’s built into all AI, this is just an absurd example

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I asked @grok if an AI image of the train attack was real. It said it was. We argued and I provided evidence and it kept lying.

Eventually it admitted it was fake.

I asked again 2 minutes later it lied again.

7 minutes later the same (time in corner)

It's lying purposefully.

[Andrew Flood @andrewflood]

Cycling #eurovelo 1 #Kenmare to #Waterville by eBike - it takes the inland route that’s off the Ring of Kerry but includes three spectacular passes on very quiet roads - so quiet there are no shops or pubs directly on the route
https://t.co/0rPdQgIjF7