Michele Neylon
@mneylon in most places
Frequent traveler, gardener, cook, film fan and internet geek.
Irish.
Blogging at https://michele.blog mostly ...
Founder / CEO @blacknight.social
Fixated with a lot of things.
Currently trying to spend more time offline ...
- Trying to escape the rain by heading to Madrid for a few days
- Reposted by Michele NeylonThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- The stupid is real
- Reposted by Michele Neylon1Password not mincing words here: "If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop." "If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." 1password.com/blog/from-ma...
- This evening’s tunes have been a mix of Courtney Pine and Carlos Nuñez.
- Reposted by Michele NeylonBad Bunny’s album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” won album of the year at the 2026 Grammy Awards, becoming the first all-Spanish language album to do so.
- Reposted by Michele NeylonOther work of the Ladybird artists. 'Hawk above the Downs' Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
- Reposted by Michele Neylon🗓️ Exactly three weeks ago #Iran imposed a national internet blackout to obscure civilian killings. Whitelisting and heavy filtering are still in effect. The incident is among the most severe of its kind on record, exceeded in duration only during civil war in Myanmar and Sudan.
- Reposted by Michele NeylonAuschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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- So much #fail
- If you want an interesting take on art, AI and big tech Joan was recently on with Mario Rosenstock and it's definitely worth a listen: podcasts.apple.com/ae/podcast/...
- Hilarious but 100% accurate
- The scumbags are not dumb and some of the attacks are very elaborate
- The “likely scam” thing is a hot mess. So far it hasn’t flagged a single dodgy text for me. It has flagged loads of legit texts from companies outside Ireland. *sigh*
- Madness
- Stupid stuff to deal with the last couple of days included fixing a "crashed" DB table. Running a "repair" on it meant that 20 odd years' worth of blog comments magically came back!
- Tell me you haven't updated your website in aeons without saying a word:
- Plus ça change ... January 2026 and there's two domain scams doing the rounds and neither of them is novel! www.internetnews.me/2026/01/19/...
- Looks like the scammers from IDS Ireland are back at it again. If you're an Irish SME be careful - their emails look quite plausible I wrote about them a few years ago: www.internetnews.me/2019/11/13/...
- Cutting off an entire country from the Internet is just plain wrong: www.einpresswire.com/article/882...
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- Convinced @tneylon.bsky.social to join BlueSky
- It's that time of the year ... Happy Christmas! (Sound on!) michele.christmas/
- Loving the @blacknight.social logo !
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- Did you know that Gigabit fibre broadband is available at 89% of premises in Ireland? The average residential user pulls down 518 GB per month!
- Sad news for music fans. Glad I got to see him live in Seville Muere Robe Iniesta, fundador de Extremoduro y figura central en la música española, a los 63 años elpais.com/cultura/202...
- For the day that's in it: youtu.be/5xuOaeRv_us...
- Yesterday was all about Christmas food. Great day cooking at Aniar with JP
- Netflix has emailed subscribers about their acquisition of Warner. Am I the only one who thinks them buying WB is NOT good news for consumers or the industry?
- That "rage bait" is the word of the year should surprise absolutely nobody. Sad and sorry state of affairs and a damning reflection on the level of discourse we're all engaged in and subjected to www.theguardian.com/media/2025/...
- Tick tock tick tock Just over a day left So so close movember.com/m/mneylon?m...
- Will I hit €4k? Help me make It happen!! movember.com/m/mneylon?m...
- Why is one random shooting “worse” than another? Why is it about race / nationality/ ethnicity and not gun control?
- The overt racism is just plain bonkers. They’re not even trying to hide it anymore
- Only a few more days of Movember left movember.com/m/mneylon?mc...
