John Breslin
@cloud
☁️ 🇮🇪 Irish, 🇪🇺 EU Citizen, 🇫🇷 Francophile 👨🔬 EE Prof at Uni of Galway 👨🏫 Director of TechInnovate, 🚜 AgInnovate 📚 Co-Author of Social Semantic Web, 🎨 Old Ireland in Colour 🏢 Non-Exec Director of PorterShed 🚀 Co-Founder of boards.ie, adverts.ie 💭 My own thoughts
I'm afraid not, sorry, I was using the Custom fields are, not a link in bio - not that doesn't generate a rel=me link on mastodon.social
Mí Iúil sona daoibh... Seo é an chéad lá d'Uachtaránacht na hÉireann ar Chomhairle an Aontais Eorpaigh! Tuilleadh eolais ag: xn--ire2026-9xa.eu Happy July... It is the first day of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union! More information at: ireland2026.eu 🇮🇪 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🇪🇺 @gov.ie
🇫🇷 Bienvenue en juillet ! C'est le premier jour de la présidence irlandaise du Conseil de l'Union européenne 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 irish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/fr/ @france-atmosphe.re @franceconnacht.bsky.social
Mí Iúil sona daoibh... Seo é an chéad lá d'Uachtaránacht na hÉireann ar Chomhairle an Aontais Eorpaigh! Tuilleadh eolais ag: éire2026.eu Happy July... It is the first day of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union! More information at: ireland2026.eu
So this is the one he has, it's 'always on', but the good thing is the big front button mutes or unmutes, accessible - so no messing with the other buttons - he has had it for 4-5 years (I'd forgotten it was a Pure, I still have an old Evoke Flow that I had to replace the LCD screen on last year...)
When I published a new Galway Tech Map in May, Dealroom.co got in touch (specifically Aoife Morrin who I met at the RAE / InterTradeIreland deep tech commercialisation event last year) about recreating it as a living dashboard where anyone could click into each company to see their underlying data.
Alrighty then, I have something that kind of works okay in both light and dark mode on mastodon.social - you can use the Stylus extension for Chrome and get the style here - userstyles.world/style/28807
eBay is trying to charge me import charges for an item being purchased from Northern Ireland. However, under the Northern Ireland protocol, parcels arriving from Northern Ireland into Ireland should not be subjected to VAT and customs charges, even if they must still be cleared through Irish Customs
Lots of hype about W at the moment, but ICYMI, there are already some European AT Protocol alternatives for your decentralised social web needs Try mu.social @mu.social Get a Eurosky account at eurosky.tech @eurosky.social And for professional stuff, there's sifa.id @sifa.id
Latest version of the Galway Tech Map with 7 additions: - OneTouch - Zenotec - Grow Remote - ARC Hub for HealthTech - runq - BaselineLabs.ai - Workstuff.ai More formats: github.com/techinnovate... bit.ly/gtmslide
🚌 I cannot believe that in 2026 there is no direct bus service from Galway to Shannon Airport. The 1h15m X51 Expressway service ceased before winter of 2025 and has not returned. To DUB (212 km), it takes 2h30m. To SNN (94 km), it takes 1h44m, if you're lucky with the 10 intermediary stops.
Wonderful to see that #Galway is climbing in Dealroom.co's Global Tech Ecosystem Index! This is one of Dealroom.co's flagship research pieces each year where they benchmark over 325 cities around the world. /cc @drmarkhenry.bsky.social
📣 Seo é! It's here! 3️⃣ The 3rd version of Léarscáil Teic na Gaillimhe - #Galway Tech Map from TechInnovate - AgInnovate, @uniofgalway.bsky.social was launched at @portershed.bsky.social yesterday, showing strong growth in Galway's ICT sector (primarily software/computing and hardware/electronics)...
Join us today at 3pm in PorterShed a hAon, Bowling Green H91 HE9E, as we launch the 3rd edition of the Galway Tech Map! Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/galway-tec...
Bhí oíche iontach againn ag Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh (Gaillimh le Gaeilge) aréir. Ba í Uachtarán na hÉireann, A Soilse Catherine Connolly, ár n-aoi onóra. We had a good evening at Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh yesterday. Our guest of honour was @president.ie, Her Excellency Catherine Connolly.
Europe matters, because together we can reduce climate change. together.eu for democracy 🇪🇺
A memory of our French school textbook "Salut", which had some Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre on the aural cassette (I told him this when I met him after his Dublin concert ten years ago), and a workbook conversation exercise featuring someone also called John Breslin (my teacher made me read it out!)