The boys are back in town

@mannadronedelivery.bsky.social has closed a $30m (~€27.8m) funding round to scale operations. Manna, a NovaUCD graduate company, currently serves 150k residents & is rapidly expanding into new European markets. Congrats to @realbobbyhealy.bsky.social and the team. www.ucd.ie/innovation/n...

Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play? First rocket launched from continental Europe

Congrats to @realbobbyhealy.bsky.social and team Great to see an Irish company lead the world in innovation

Manna, the drone delivery company founded and led by serial entrepreneur @realbobbyhealy.bsky.social, has closed a new $30 million (€27.8 million) funding round to bring total investment to date to over $60 million www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/up...

President Zelenskyy, The vast majority of Americans are fully sickened to our core by the violence visited upon you every day, with help from our President and his party. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...

🚁 "This is a tech business, not a logistics business." – Ben Thompson Manna’s drone delivery model isn’t about moving goods—it’s about zero marginal cost at scale. It’s not just new logistics—it’s a tech disruption. 🎧 Listen: sharptech.fm/member/episo...

Ireland's greatest Kebabs from @Abrakebabra now flying in Dublin 15. Nom nom. www.mannadronedelivery.com/merchants/ab...

What one of the @mannadronedelivery.bsky.social remote pilots sees One such pilot is capable of managing 20 aircraft concurrently - across multiple continents.

Hey Google! How much to change my passport colour ?

Irish startup delivering a highly innovative platform ☘️✅

Bono and Lionel Messi representing Ireland well!

@mannadronedelivery.bsky.social employs "4D strategic deconfliction" to ensure that flights never intersect each other's airspace. Essentially we allocate a 10m wide 3D tunnel in the air for a certain amount of time. Here you can see 2 flights going to the 1 house and another overlapping flight.

Researchers Claim New Technique Slashes AI Energy Use By 95% m.slashdot.org/story/434035

Dear @ec.europa.eu - do printer ink next.

Table set! Happy Christmas everyone!

Happy Holidays everyone! (and apologies for the vertical video!)

We need more cookie popups. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Big things happening...

Android playing the iOS lock-in game is disappointing to see.

The European Union will blacklist dozens of oil and gas tankers helping Moscow earn billions from illicit fossil fuel sales after officials finalized a deal during talks today.

"unfiltered news"

O'Connell Street dining at its best in the winter evenings

Purchasing power of the lemming.

Any engineers explain the formula for this ?

Manna is one of the most “wow” Irish companies. We should be doing everything to let them expand and continue innovating. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Defibrillator drone workflow: 📞 999 call activates the drone. 🚀 Launch: The nearest hub sends a drone with an AED. ✈️ Rapid Flight: It reaches the address in ~2 minutes. 📦 Delivery: AED is dropped safely on-site. ❤️‍🩹 Use: Responder/bystander applies the AED. By @realbobbyhealy.bsky.social

"There’s nothing in all of healthcare that comes close in terms of number of lives saved,” said Prof Galvin. “This is radical and has great potential.” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Bluesky doesn’t have to be bigger than Twitter to be successful. It just has to be inviting, engaging and big enough that people can find people and accounts they enjoy engaging with, and or following. Then People tell accounts and friends on other platforms to come here. It’s a SOCIAL network

Proud to be Irish

The economics of road-based delivery have always been hard. It's just gotten a whole lot worse. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

🚨 BREAKING: Reports of gunfire at the Presidential Palace in Damascus, capital of Syria. Coup against the Assad regime is possibly in progress. Assad fled to Moscow with his entire family. State television stopped broadcasting.

Europe needs to get the ability to produce its own Uber.

Elon, here you go again making false and completely unfounded accusations without providing any specifics. That’s the kind of response one would expect from a conspiracy theorist. What oligarch? What treason?

I have covered both Musk and Alex a lot, and only one of them is a useful idiot for Putin and also a heinous person. The other is a patriot who did his job with distinction and is a very good man. Guess which is which: thehill.com/policy/techn...

Céili drone delivery part deux.

On AI and the future of cell centers....

New HQ. Some huge news coming...

Flight paths

Here’s one that was recommended to me: go.bsky.app/MZhCTN2

Ukrainian boxing icon Wladimir Klitschko accused American podcaster Joe Rogan of spreading Russian propaganda on his show — and dared Rogan to invite him on for a chat.

How Nikita Hand took on the world’s most ‘Notorious’ fighter and triumphed – ‘No matter how afraid you might be, keep fighting for justice’ www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

when you're not "videogenically appropriate" to star in a video with YOUR OWN FAMILY 😆

🆕 On Twitter, @kcoleman has started following @karpathy + https://x.com/kcoleman + https://x.com/karpathy

Céili drone delivery in Galway

OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit

The Crab Nebula - A six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion | Hubble