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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン

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IT veteran (45 years!). Late diagnosed ADHD. Sci-fi. Star Trek. Battlefield BFV/BF2042/BF6. Cats. D&D. Swords. Japan.

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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 2h
It’s also amazing that it’s considered industrial action to only do the work you’re paid to do. But we’re told of the impact, and inconvenience it will cause. So is that admission they are not employing enough staff?
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 11h
I never got to work on one of these - a KL10: 36bit 3rd gen PDP-10! And a DECtape - a random access mag tape. In 1975!!
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International Cyber Digest @intcyberdigest.bsky.social · 14h
❗️ A San Francisco hackathon rejected a former Israeli intelligence Unit 8200 engineer, telling him it didn't want Israel's military to make participants' pagers, phones and laptops "explode in their faces."
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G @geraldineishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surely Irish journalists will be asking Jennifer Carroll MacNeill about the status of her links to this man who proudly participated in chants at the match on Sunday? #SpéirGhorm
Screenshot of a video posted on Reddit, captioned: “In yesterday’s National League game against Ireland, home fans chanted the name of an army organisation”  Screenshot of a Facebook post with a photo of Yoseph Haddad & Jennifer Carroll MacNeill together at Irish government buildings.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With all this vote-grabbing talk of immigration control in Ireland, a reminder of this is how it ends
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But it’s not a genocide, they say …
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Máirtin Ó’Caoiṁ (O’Keeffe) @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is pretty disgusting from an Israeli media personality. Here he calls for attacks on Irish citizens.
Israeli media personality calls for attacks on Irish citizens.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What an utter see you next Tuesday.
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
dublininquirer.com
The Oireachtas leans into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US tech
Switching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t know whether to be impressed or appalled at this subversion
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I never imagine Martin as a courageous politician, but in this case I think every world leader is holding fire until after the Nov midterms hoping he’ll lose congress and senate. Poking Trump now could unleash insane consequences.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Having a spare $22 million to spend on an anti wealth tax campaign, is in of itself a fairly damning indicator that you can afford to pay a 5% wealth tax.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
I can’t believe Meta would do this 🙄
arstechnica.com
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In March 2025 Judge Akane, President of the ICC, asked to EU to use its Blocking Statute to protect the Hague Judges and staff from being denied used of credit cards, banking services and other essentials by reason of US sanctions. A year and a half later, the EU has not heeded the call.
Judge Akane
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every time the Israelis do this we should respond with “Hind Rajab” the 5 year old left to die after Israeli snipers murdered her family and blew up two ambulances racing to save her.
5 year old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab posing in a graduation gown and cap
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
noyb.eu
AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I thought the idea of a “home” game for each side was to balance the natural support and convenience the “home” team enjoyed. So each team has a “home” and “away” game. Are the Irish team not being discriminated against? If I was the FAI I would be protesting loudly on behalf of my team! #spéirghorm
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We had a referendum to join the ICC (article 29.9) and then passed legislation to include the ICC in our legal system (2006). So this act by Trump is an attack and direct interference in our legal system. #spéirghorm
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You know the AI sites add “check the answer”, “ AI can make mistakes”? Imagine your payroll software said this. Or a planes autopilot. Or your electricity suppliers billing software. Or the Large Hadron Collider. Or air traffic control. But companies are rushing to implement this?
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reminds me of what we used to say about data centres: they only require two staff. A man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to stop the man touching anything.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 21/09/2026
The Small Firms Association has called on the Government to reject the proposed increase in the national minimum wage in the forthcoming budget to help small businesses cope with rising labour-related costs
rte.ie
Calls for Govt to reject proposed minimum wage increase
The Small Firms Association has called on the Government to reject the proposed increase in the national minimum wage in the forthcoming budget.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An ad on TV for BUPA the private health insurance. Shows a customer using an app to book an appointment with … Dr Leonard McCoy. #startrek
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ST:SNW - Pelia says “as you wish” to the queen, and ends up with Max, the queens chef, who is a Miracle Worker. SUBLIME!!! #startrek
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just a reminder to go buy Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book. She’s the whistleblower Facebook has taken legal action to silence.
Cover of the book Careless People
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The Common Travel Area and soft border is a hard-won compromise after decades of conflict.” The CTA was introduced in 1923 Didn’t expect Reform to know actual history.
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good news! www.thejournal.ie/government-c...
thejournal.ie
Government confirms order to buy long-range military radar systems from France
In July, the government completed the final business case plan for the project, which will cost between €300 million and €500 million.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
keepandroidopen.org
keepandroidopen.org
Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There’s a bit of a pattern here; all organisations who inconveniently get in the way of far-right policies …
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Glad to see we managed to get one plane to protect the Orange Clown …
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The state went from the socialist idea of buying a home to the neoliberal idea of buying a house.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I may just send RNLI Christmas cards. Yes, the address is valid. We’re currently staying in a village w/ an RNLI station. People are overwhelmingly supportive of the RNLI & the RNLI really do appreciate the support. As I told one “The ocean of love for the RNLI will wash away the right wing hate’
I understand that people are buying RNLI Christmas cards in order to add money to all the donations which are flooding in.
Now it appears that some are planning to buy them and send them to Reform's free post address.
Really, if you did that, it would cost them an awful lot of money.
But people want to know if such an address exists.
It does.
Reform UK
Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC
83 Victoria Street
London SW1H OHW
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Place names in Irish show the deep connections our ancestors had with wildlife, from wolves and eagles to wild boar and oak forests. The names are still there but the animals are long gone www.bbc.com/future/artic...
bbc.com
Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names
Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.
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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 26/08/2026
This is some bullshit Meta settles its case for $17billion But that is not the $200 billion sought And its over 10 years, so $1.7billion And its spread across 52 states / territories, is that $35m? And its a grant for "online safety initiatives" And no judgement of liability Its a <1% tax
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Saw the soap opera episode of ST:SNW. Lots of online discussion of this season is all “gimmicky” episodes … but I grew to like this one.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just a reminder that the last time Trump was here he insisted in staying at Doonbeg, rather than Farmleigh. This entailed building a security op from scratch and moving thousands of gardaí and soldiers to Clare. And arranging accommodation and food. /
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Darragh O'Brien makes several inaccurate statements here. Comparing data centres in Ireland to car manufacturing in Germany is just one of them. German automotive industry = 400,000-800,000 direct jobs. Irish data centre industry = 3,300 direct jobs. www.thejournal.ie/energy-minis...
thejournal.ie
Energy minister says data centres are to Ireland what car factories are to Germany
Energy Minister Darragh O’Brien says he doesn’t want to bring the shutters down on data centres.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Originally Oireachtas expenses were designed to be generous as TDs/Senators were not paid that well, but they should not be penalised for doing a public service, which for lot was also part-time! It was a reasonable idea. But then they voted themselves huge salary increases /
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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Consider this: if you don’t vote, there are plenty of motivated ghouls who will. “Senator Enoch Burke”, anyone?
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
European Commission VP Teresa Ribera on data centres. "Asked if the EU should force Big Tech to pay for its own clean power supply, Ribera said: 'I think that we should do so.'" www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Remember kids, friends don't let friends go unregistered when they could be voting out the likes of Rónán Mullen and Michael McDowell..
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Given the amount of personal information social media companies track, if they can identify a “married, mother of 3, with an SUV, upper income bracket, with own house, who plays pickleball twice a week” to deliver ads to, they can figure out if the user is a not an adult. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
rte.ie
Ban unsafe online services for children - regulator
The media regulator has said that rather than an aged-based blanket social media ban, there should be a ban on online services that are unsafe for children.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Read this thread by Simon. Preventing children accessing a site means AGE VERIFICATION FOR EVERYONE. And age verification means ID VERIFICATION FOR EVERYONE.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hey @imbibecoffee.bsky.social help! I have a problem with coffee: it’s too bitter. But recently I had a cup of coffee that was gorgeous; nutty, a bit chocolatey, coffee taste, but none of the bitterness. It was filter coffee from a professional filter machine in a local cafe. /
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Of course, if we had active radar we could track stuff like this. But we don’t. So we can’t. We rely on aircrews going “hey! What’s that yoke?”
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’ve cracked it! It’s not immigrants people in Britain are worried about - it’s the size of their boats! It’s just neighbourly concern! They want them to have BIGGER, SAFER boats! Like ferries … right?
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lads, we need to be making more use of this: www.contactyourtd.ie
contactyourtd.ie
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Find and contact your local TDs (Teachta Dála) in Ireland. Easily email or tweet all representatives in your constituency. View Dáil vote results and breakdowns by party. Enter your address to get sta...
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Scared of the far right, so we’ll do far right stuff to make sure our voters don’t feel swayed? You’re being played like a violin!
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m really going to have to give up social media. Seeing this type of neoliberal, right wing shite pandering to some mythical conservative voter is getting too depressing.
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Eoin Meehan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 オーエン @etm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
More neo-liberal, right-wing, anti-social, nonsense from FG.
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