Reposted by Eoin KeatingM@ @mattfromlondon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Northern Line, if it were proper Northern. (Made this a few years back, but thought I’d whippet out again.) 35418
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 26/09/2026RTÉ News: Israel declare 'football has won' after Irish squad vote www.rte.ie/sport/soccer... Shambolic failure of principle by the FAI and the Irish team gives the cynical IFA a PR victory. FAI and UEFA should have prevented this and shielded the team but they they are adults with moral agency.rte.ieIsrael declare 'football has won' after Irish squad voteThe Israeli FA declared that "football has won" after the Irish squad voted to fulfil Sunday's fixture in Debrecen and insisted they would offer to shake hands with the Ireland players before the game... 011
Reposted by Eoin KeatingJohn Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The tuition fees are £9,000 a year but you get a free 2:1. 623670
Reposted by Eoin KeatingMatthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection... 74910130
Reposted by Eoin KeatingDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Provocative (as ever!) piece by Dieter Helm. engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-c...engelsbergideas.comThe case for climate realism in an age of soaring energy demandThe conventional narrative assumes economies can grow while using less energy. The opposite is happening. It is time for climate realism. 4194
Reposted by Eoin KeatingGraham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not sure who created this but 😂 411632
Reposted by Eoin KeatingRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944 10340221357
Reposted by Eoin KeatingHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059822393
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I haven’t timed it but it looks like BBC news coverage of air traffic control failure is greater than For Sec’s criticism of Israel’s egregiously illegal behaviour in the West Bank. 000
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.google.com/search?q=bug... I welcome Ed Milliband’s intervention but I think it will be no more effective than Mr B Bunny.google.comGoogle Search 000
Reposted by Eoin KeatingRichy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A formative thing for me was that I got a temp Civil Service job one summer working in the Dole office. This was around 2012. 1205
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.theguardian.com/politics/202... “Careful, now”. “Down with that sort of thing”.theguardian.comBlack-clad Dover protesters condemned for ‘dressing up in costumes’ by ministerBusiness secretary says masked anti-immigration protest was ‘not something we would want’ on British streets 000
Reposted by Eoin KeatingJosef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Police believe it may be linked to the earlier theft of 50,000 bags of Tayto .." 2131
Reposted by Eoin KeatingPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Keeping a Parisian apartment cool during a summer of record heatwaves, without air-conditioning, is no easy feat, @mireio.bsky.social writes. Learning how to passively regulate the temperature of your home can provide a valuable introduction to global energy management and planetary care.placesjournal.orgNot CoolKeeping a Parisian apartment cool during record heatwaves can teach us how to more sustainably manage the energy flows of cities, economies, and the planet. 1188
Reposted by Eoin KeatingGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026John Healey is out and about in south Wales and honestly, every picture is a joy 3436
Reposted by Eoin KeatingBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/ 311367583
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Just tuned into BBC and they’re showing Dolly: Here I Am and she’s singing her famous duet with Kenny Rogers, Ireland’s Industry. We’ve lost one of the very best humans. 031
Reposted by Eoin KeatingMike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I wish you’d called this Not London Call-in 112
Reposted by Eoin Keatingpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Bauhaus Milhaus 56103112125
Reposted by Eoin KeatingJon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Not now, mysterious warm blob. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMysterious 'warm blob' breaks records in the North Pacific OceanTemperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why. 1246
Reposted by Eoin KeatingMarie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Probably a silly question because NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY but does anyone know of like a (UK) fund you can apply to towards an ebike for disabled people? I think it would do my mental and physical health the world of good if I could get out again in a manageable way but they're so bloody expensive 😩 223720
Reposted by Eoin KeatingDrew(bacca) @cybogoblin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I did phone-based broadband support for about eight years. The best/worst call saw me ask someone to "close all their windows and return to the desktop." After a couple of minutes, the customer said: "They're all closed, but the kitchen window is still open. Is that okay?" Yeah. 2122
Reposted by Eoin KeatingGunner Regretit @gunnerregretit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Nice one Carlsberg. 110136
Reposted by Eoin KeatingNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The full statement from UEFA is remarkable. Members vow not to participate in FIFA competitions unless the entire proposal is scrapped and assurances are made it is gone for good. 15589153
Reposted by Eoin KeatingAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Topical this am with talk of an AI Cabinet minister.... Time to get the strategy right rather than naive boosterism.... 082
Reposted by Eoin KeatingCasmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Oppenheimer is another example where the lower-budget BBC did it better discontinuednotes.com/2023/07/24/d...discontinuednotes.comDestroyerI watched Oppenheimer. By which I mean of course that I watched the 7-part 1980 BBC series starring Sam Waterston. There is also a new film version out now, and I went to see that as well. I will c… 111
Reposted by Eoin KeatingEmma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This is how I spent my Saturday last week as.ft.com/r/ff15855f-2... Dancing diggers, lager and power tools: welcome to the festival for builders 3193
Reposted by Eoin KeatingLegal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Another friendly little disagreement, but the notion politicians couldn’t fix Thatcherism after 36 is a rather damming indictment on them. 36 years to re industrialise, to build council houses, to deal with an aging population. They all failed. 382
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 17/07/2026What the hell? 50kph average on the longest stage of the Tour??!! Insane. 010
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 14/07/2026So Cabo Verde, and Pico Lopes of Shamrock Rovers (my grandad’s team) are better than France v Spain. I’ll take that. 040
Reposted by Eoin KeatingSpy Fi @spy-fi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Thinking about this scene from the BLUES BROTHERS today for no particular reason. 15651141399
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 04/07/2026🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Social Democrat Economic: leaning collectivist Social: progressive Sovereignty: strongly cosmopolitan Military: leaning anti-interventionist Authority: leaning libertarian Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.ukquiz.jmoxley.co.ukBritish Political Spectrum QuizFind out where you sit on the British political map across six dimensions. 000
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Looking forward to the Crumlin v Argentina knockout match. 120
Reposted by Eoin KeatingTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios 141180905572
Reposted by Eoin Keatinglilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊 6449491404
Reposted by Eoin KeatingColin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The Home Office won’t know what it had til its gone. Rightly or wrongly, lawyers are schooled and trained to dissociate themselves from the outcome of the cases they work on. It is, shall we say, partially effective. Judges are former lawyers and carry that through. 1125
Reposted by Eoin KeatingJon Worth @jonworth.eu · 26/06/2026I'm late to this, but "The decade that made Andy Burnham" by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social is excellent www.ft.com/content/9949... "It also feels disconcerting that, after a decade of covering Burnham, I am unsure what he might do in government" Williams writesft.comThe decade that made Andy BurnhamWhat 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain 12511
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 21/06/2026As the sainted Gove once said, we’ve had enough of experts. ITV panel focusing on Belgium when Iran’s performance was the story. The only team to get the ball in the net, robbed by arsewise offside. Do these tv talking heads watch the same matches as we do? 000
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Who is paying this ref? Wrestle a player to the ground an nothing to see here? 000
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Okay, why are they playing in a greenhouse? With a massive screen in the sky? 000
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I’m not usually one for conspiracy theories but two matches today and questionable (outrageous in Iran’s case) VAR decisions have had no or delayed 3D images. Is this because they need time to doctor them to support the decision? 200
Reposted by Eoin KeatingDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Wonderful to hear the authentic Cape Verde accent 417931
Reposted by Eoin KeatingProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...easternherald.comThe US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor NetworkNSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation. 33553732556
Eoin Keating @eoinkeating.bsky.social · 12/06/2026www.dezeen.com/2026/05/19/p... Just came across this wonderful piece inserting a big pin into the even bigger balloon of architectural nonsense that is parametricism. Cheered me up no end!dezeen.com"Parametricism is a technophile triumph of fetishised process over outcome"Parametricism is not what humanity needs from architecture in the 21st century, writes Catherine Slessor. 110