@pete Great photo. The light! And the wind, I can almost see it.

@thibaut Stunning

@Gogs @Nickiquote What was the owl doing at a council meeting in the first place, is what I'd like to know.

@syrovy @Nickiquote Perhaps! One never knows.

@NellytheWillow @EregLoch @Nickiquote Ah, ok. I didn't know that reference, so had no context, so was lost.

@antoinnesterk @Nickiquote

@munin Agreed! And good on Mayo County Council for making a decision based on the merits and facts. Local authorities always should, of course, but generative AI data centre facilities seem to have made even sensible politicians and public officials lose their faculties.

@EregLoch I amn't sure what you mean. If you are asking about the phrase: it is a satirical phrase from Private Eye magazine that has become a phrase in general culture when pretending to allude to dark secrets and conspiracies being hidden from ius.

@Nickiquote

@Nickiquote I think we should be told

"A West of Ireland data center objected to by novelist Sally Rooney had its planning permission overturned on the grounds that it breaches Irish national climate policy.

Rooney lodged an objection in January, writing to Mayo County Council that permission for the centre would increase carbon emissions, cause risk of blackouts, and that “climate change represents an immediate & unprecedented threat to our way of life in Mayo and the future of human life round the world.”

https://lithub.com/sally-rooney-just-defeated-a-data-center/

@afewbugs This is such a good observation that I may have gasped aloud in realisation when I read it. Same as I did a few years ago when someone made the observation that men who say 'women aren't funny' are men who mean 'women don't laugh at things I say that I think are funny'.

@horsewizard @hollie

@psneeze I saw this literally as the clock hit 5 minutes to midnight so I better take it literally. I just need my server administrator to put up the test card and then I'll be off to the leaba.

@timtfj @the_wub I absolutely believe they tested for hoovering pitch. And that the big tune gets drowned out

@timtfj @martinkubler @afewbugs Yes, poetic too

@zipkid Oh they'll play the national anthem at full volume, so it'll wake you up.

@Tock @Janet_52square Ha ha

@Heliograph

@jwcph That's when Feditips and LisaMelton come in and ask us nicely to stop, ah now, go on home, and because we would never want to disappoint them, we do.

@martinkubler @afewbugs @timtfj Oh yes, the shipping forecast. Great idea. So soothing. Kind of hypnotic.

@kinkkong I have assumed that it's based on your own local midnight. And either your own national anthem or some Fedi-anthem alternative.