Eoghan Sweeney
@eoghan.bsky.social
Journalist; trainer
osintessentials.com
Also @osintessentials.bsky.social
Sligo Rovers 500 Club member
osintessentials.com
Also @osintessentials.bsky.social
Sligo Rovers 500 Club member
Ciúnas, bóthar, cailín, bainne
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ciúnas, bóthar, cailín, bainne
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
The past few seasons have been a battle to keep top-flight status, but the next is starting to look promising
Exciting wing back Esua joins Rovers on two year deal – Sligo Rovers
www.sligorovers.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The past few seasons have been a battle to keep top-flight status, but the next is starting to look promising
Basically a larger version of post-Soviet collapse Russia
I wrote a piece recently about how Trump, Putin, Musk and the rest are actually fellow citizens of a borderless, lawless society designed to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. Politics and patriotism are just a cover.
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Basically a larger version of post-Soviet collapse Russia
Reposted by Eoghan Sweeney
Die Polizei zieht den Menschen hinter die Menschenmenge und hindert unseren Reporter daran, näher heranzugehen, um das Geschehen zu dokumentieren. Video: Julian Csép #Gi2911
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Die Polizei zieht den Menschen hinter die Menschenmenge und hindert unseren Reporter daran, näher heranzugehen, um das Geschehen zu dokumentieren. Video: Julian Csép #Gi2911
I hope my friends in the States had a good Thanksgiving. Hopefully the cooking went ok and nobody ended up with a vulgar roast 🦃
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I hope my friends in the States had a good Thanksgiving. Hopefully the cooking went ok and nobody ended up with a vulgar roast 🦃
Finding all the "USians" umbrage quite funny - particularly as people around the world have been calling the denizens of that strip between Mexico and Canada a lot worse recently
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Finding all the "USians" umbrage quite funny - particularly as people around the world have been calling the denizens of that strip between Mexico and Canada a lot worse recently
Next time I'm back I want to get a photo of white wading birds on the river in Kilkenny - just so I can title it "Nore egrets"
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Next time I'm back I want to get a photo of white wading birds on the river in Kilkenny - just so I can title it "Nore egrets"
"OK, I'll start from this end, you start from the other, and we'll meet in the middle"
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"OK, I'll start from this end, you start from the other, and we'll meet in the middle"
This year's build-up to the Arsenal Christmas Collapse™ is looking like an epic
Arsenal have allowed fewer shots on target (7) against them than any other team in the Champions League, the lowest Expected Goals Against (1.94) and are the only team yet to concede a goal in this season’s competition.
#ARSBAY
#ARSBAY
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This year's build-up to the Arsenal Christmas Collapse™ is looking like an epic
"If people don't continuously buy things they can't afford, it's bad for the health of the economy."
"Hmm, maybe we should take a look at that economic model?"
"Nah, let's focus on finding ways to keep the rubes wasting their money so billionaires are happy."
"Hmm, maybe we should take a look at that economic model?"
"Nah, let's focus on finding ways to keep the rubes wasting their money so billionaires are happy."
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"If people don't continuously buy things they can't afford, it's bad for the health of the economy."
"Hmm, maybe we should take a look at that economic model?"
"Nah, let's focus on finding ways to keep the rubes wasting their money so billionaires are happy."
"Hmm, maybe we should take a look at that economic model?"
"Nah, let's focus on finding ways to keep the rubes wasting their money so billionaires are happy."
Musk 2021: "I could give $6bn to help end world hunger" (but I won't)
... Spends $44bn on app now filled with bots, fakes, and a nazi algorithm
... Destroys Tesla's value
Musk 2025: "When my AI app is perfected it'll enable you to insult people based on their appearance"
... Spends $44bn on app now filled with bots, fakes, and a nazi algorithm
... Destroys Tesla's value
Musk 2025: "When my AI app is perfected it'll enable you to insult people based on their appearance"
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Musk 2021: "I could give $6bn to help end world hunger" (but I won't)
... Spends $44bn on app now filled with bots, fakes, and a nazi algorithm
... Destroys Tesla's value
Musk 2025: "When my AI app is perfected it'll enable you to insult people based on their appearance"
... Spends $44bn on app now filled with bots, fakes, and a nazi algorithm
... Destroys Tesla's value
Musk 2025: "When my AI app is perfected it'll enable you to insult people based on their appearance"
Glorious
Jimmy Cliff Many Rivers To Cross
Dailymotion video by avajra
www.dailymotion.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Glorious
Tidying up some folders and came across this clip from 2009. Over the hills from Sa Pa to Bac Ha on a rather inclement monsoon day. Huge drop on one side, torrents of water and the occasional boulder coming down the other. Visibility... less than ideal.😁 Trip well worth it for the Sunday market
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Tidying up some folders and came across this clip from 2009. Over the hills from Sa Pa to Bac Ha on a rather inclement monsoon day. Huge drop on one side, torrents of water and the occasional boulder coming down the other. Visibility... less than ideal.😁 Trip well worth it for the Sunday market
Tesla may be bleeding out, but he's come up with a genius idea to replace it
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Tesla may be bleeding out, but he's come up with a genius idea to replace it
Reposted by Eoghan Sweeney
Consider Mexico. A thread.
Once upon a time, not even so very long ago, you would often hear from Russia's propagandists and their little helpers in the West about the "Mexico scenario".
Russia liked people to think that it only invaded its neighbours because it was forced to do so by NATO -
1/12
Once upon a time, not even so very long ago, you would often hear from Russia's propagandists and their little helpers in the West about the "Mexico scenario".
Russia liked people to think that it only invaded its neighbours because it was forced to do so by NATO -
1/12
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Consider Mexico. A thread.
Once upon a time, not even so very long ago, you would often hear from Russia's propagandists and their little helpers in the West about the "Mexico scenario".
Russia liked people to think that it only invaded its neighbours because it was forced to do so by NATO -
1/12
Once upon a time, not even so very long ago, you would often hear from Russia's propagandists and their little helpers in the West about the "Mexico scenario".
Russia liked people to think that it only invaded its neighbours because it was forced to do so by NATO -
1/12
Every day I see someone wishing there were alternatives to US platforms. Here are a few. Add more
Browser: Vivaldi
Email: Tutamail
Cloud: Infomaniak kDrive
File transfer: SwissTransfer
PW manager: pcloud
Messaging: Threema
Notes: Joplin
Project management: Zenkit
Mapping: OrganicMaps
Browser: Vivaldi
Email: Tutamail
Cloud: Infomaniak kDrive
File transfer: SwissTransfer
PW manager: pcloud
Messaging: Threema
Notes: Joplin
Project management: Zenkit
Mapping: OrganicMaps
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Every day I see someone wishing there were alternatives to US platforms. Here are a few. Add more
Browser: Vivaldi
Email: Tutamail
Cloud: Infomaniak kDrive
File transfer: SwissTransfer
PW manager: pcloud
Messaging: Threema
Notes: Joplin
Project management: Zenkit
Mapping: OrganicMaps
Browser: Vivaldi
Email: Tutamail
Cloud: Infomaniak kDrive
File transfer: SwissTransfer
PW manager: pcloud
Messaging: Threema
Notes: Joplin
Project management: Zenkit
Mapping: OrganicMaps
"What is singularly missing from Johnson’s lengthy piece is – as ever, and to my eternal disgust – any hint of genuine compassion for the 250,000 people who have died of Covid in the UK to date, or for their families, whose grief lives on"
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"What is singularly missing from Johnson’s lengthy piece is – as ever, and to my eternal disgust – any hint of genuine compassion for the 250,000 people who have died of Covid in the UK to date, or for their families, whose grief lives on"
I've realised that my kids' only experience of certain songs is from my practising them ad nauseam on tenor uke. It's a bit jarring - but a pleasant surprise😁 - when they hear something so familiar being sung by Ted Hawkins or JJ Cale
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I've realised that my kids' only experience of certain songs is from my practising them ad nauseam on tenor uke. It's a bit jarring - but a pleasant surprise😁 - when they hear something so familiar being sung by Ted Hawkins or JJ Cale
"New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody's talking 'bout... POPE MUSIC!"
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody's talking 'bout... POPE MUSIC!"
Reposted by Eoghan Sweeney
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
1/2 Was the non-decision on Feinberg-Mngomezulu game-defining? Probably not, and anyway it can't be allowed to be a fig leaf for real issues. Ireland's age profile & apparent lack of depth are a major worry. Big danger of cruising into a World Cup with an old front line and raw replacements
#rugby
#rugby
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
1/2 Was the non-decision on Feinberg-Mngomezulu game-defining? Probably not, and anyway it can't be allowed to be a fig leaf for real issues. Ireland's age profile & apparent lack of depth are a major worry. Big danger of cruising into a World Cup with an old front line and raw replacements
#rugby
#rugby
Detailed, eloquent exposition on the people determined to use @zarahsultana.bsky.social as a catspaw for Russian imperialism. I wonder if she'll read it with an open mind - it would undoubtedly be uncomfortable
An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
Galina Rymbu, an activist living in Ukraine, responds to Zarah Sultana's recent remarks on support for Ukraine.
heckle.scot
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Detailed, eloquent exposition on the people determined to use @zarahsultana.bsky.social as a catspaw for Russian imperialism. I wonder if she'll read it with an open mind - it would undoubtedly be uncomfortable
Heads-up for media credulously reporting on the "US peace plan": it looks like the suspicion that the Trump administration was just delivering and pushing Russia's surrender terms was spot on
So the US was aware that the world thought the document was US endorsed, yet waited until now to clarify that it wasn't?
How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Heads-up for media credulously reporting on the "US peace plan": it looks like the suspicion that the Trump administration was just delivering and pushing Russia's surrender terms was spot on
Reposted by Eoghan Sweeney
Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...