Alan Finn

Production Manager @ Radio Kerry- Man Utd, Eagles & Sports Fan- who’s memories got drowned in alcohol during his 20's & is slowly turning into his dad

[Kevin Middleton @coach_kevin_m]

The biggest mistake adults make in youth football is assuming children experience the game the same way we do.

They do not.

They care about friends, fun, feeling involved, getting better, and being valued.

They literally tell us these things when asked. If we ignore that, we lose them.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

A brain expert just said what no one wants to hear about screen learning.🤯

[The Sporting Resource @TheS_Resource]

https://t.co/2OXgJ9fKg9

[Top Girl Keiko, J.D. ✝️🙏 @TopGirlKeiko]

Russia sent its oil tanker to support the Cuban people.

Mexico is sending oil too, and made it clear that no sovereign nation needs permission to trade.

Italy and Spain blocked U.S. airspace.

Latin America is calling for a united front against Donald Trump.

Turkey has pledged allegiance to Iran.

And people still don’t see what’s happening.

Trump damaged America in ways that may not be repairable.

Weak men completely confused about what strength is, cheered when he talked about taking Greenland, Canada, and Mexico. When he took Maduro and Venezuela’s oil.

Weak men cannot be trusted with power.

Power belongs to the disciplined, not the corrupt and depraved.

To be a superpower requires more than military might. It requires moral authority. It’s being the arbiter of justice while being able to defend your allies.

That image is gone now.

And these fruitcakes online trying to live out their Alexander the Great fantasies, yelling “might makes right, take Canada, take Venezuela’s oil, take Greenland, take the Panama Canal…”

They’ve never been strong. They’ve always had fantasies about being the bully instead of getting bullied and so, they live through Trump, thinking his bullying is strength.

These men are all dangerous and it’s not because they can fight or they’re brave. None of them have ever fought war nor done anything heroic. They’re dangerous because they crave power, and being weak they believe that power must be wielded upon the weak.

When Iran finally cripples the dollar, you’ll realize why it’s strong, respected and admired men who build great countries. And that Trump is unfit for office.

[Kevin Middleton @coach_kevin_m]

https://t.co/cyOiw2eOom

[Alan Finn @finnoalan]

WHAT THE ACTUAL F*€K...! The @premierleague is an ABSOLUTE JOKE...! Everton & Notts Forest should be furious 🤯🤬🤡

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

In 2024 Chelsea received a €5m add on bonus from Real Madrid as a result of Real reaching the Champions League final for the sale of Eden Hazard.

Hazard had retired from football in 2023 and Chelsea earned €150m from the deal overall.

According to the Premier League negotiated settlement with the club Chelsea received no on field advantage from signing Hazard from Lille for €35m in 2012 and therefore a £10m fine was appropriate rather than a points deduction.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Iran built the most comprehensive civilian surveillance network in the Middle East. Cameras on every street. Facial recognition at universities. License plate readers that automatically fined women for removing their hijab in their own cars. A mobile app called Nazer that let citizens report uncovered women. Drones at beaches. The infrastructure that killed Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and crushed the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising that followed.

Israel hacked nearly all of it.

According to the Financial Times, citing two people familiar with the matter, nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras had been compromised for years. The footage was encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel. One camera near Pasteur Street proved especially valuable. It was angled in such a way that Israeli analysts could see where members of Khamenei’s security detail parked their personal cars. Through that single camera angle, Israeli intelligence built files on the bodyguards’ home addresses, work schedules, commuting routes, and which senior officials they were assigned to protect.

Unit 8200 used algorithms to process billions of data points into what intelligence officers call a “pattern of life.” A person familiar with the process described it as “an assembly line with a single product: targets.”

“We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem,” an Israeli intelligence official told the Financial Times. “And when you know a place as well as you know the street you grew up on, you notice a single thing that’s out of place.”

On February 28, when intelligence confirmed Khamenei would attend a morning meeting at his compound near Pasteur Street, the operation entered its final phase. Israel disrupted approximately 12 cellular antennas in the area, causing phones to appear “busy” when dialed. Khamenei’s security detail could not receive warnings. Israeli aircraft fired 30 precision munitions. The strike was carried out in daylight for tactical surprise.

Former Mossad official Sima Shine told the Financial Times that Israel’s strategic focus on Iran dates to a 2001 directive from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Twenty-five years of patient intelligence collection culminated in a single Saturday morning.

Here is the part that should stay with you.

The cameras Israel hacked were not military installations. They were the regime’s domestic surveillance apparatus. The same cameras that tracked women who removed their hijab. The same system that sent automated text messages to women in Isfahan accusing them of “improper veiling.” The same infrastructure the Guidance Patrol used to build digital dossiers on Iranian women and girls for the crime of showing their hair.

Israel turned the tools of the morality police into the tools of the regime’s destruction.

There is a viral claim that after the assassination, Mossad wiped the morality police’s databases on Iranian women. No Tier 1, 2, or 3 source confirms this. It traces to a single unverified social media post. I will not present it as fact.

But the verified reality is extraordinary enough. The regime built a surveillance state to control its own women. A foreign intelligence service co-opted that state to kill the man who ordered it built. The cameras that watched women became the cameras that watched Khamenei die.

That is poetic justice written in code.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone.

Workers in Kenya are watching the footage.

Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents.

The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything.

Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now.

The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not.

Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated.

Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter.

This is not a bug. This is the business model.

The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design.

Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed.

Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it.

Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process.

The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces.

Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock.

The glasses are selling faster than ever.

The contractors keep watching.

And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.

[Oliver Kahn @OliverKahn]

Exactly 25 years ago today, I scored my first — and only — professional goal.
Contrary to what I believed at the time, goalkeepers are not allowed to handle the ball in both penalty areas.
The goal was disallowed and I was sent off — still it earned me legendary status. 😉

#otd

[Stretford Paddock @StretfordPaddck]

✍️ Billboard outside Old Trafford today:

"Immigrants have done more for this city than billionaire tax dodgers ever will"

#MUFC

[Alan Finn @finnoalan]

@coach_kevin_m Football

[Alan Finn @finnoalan]

@coach_kevin_m Tactical

[Alan Finn @finnoalan]

@coach_kevin_m FootballGPT

[Alan Finn @finnoalan]

@Trags @richeisen @RichEisenShow @chrisbrockman #blowout over #tightloss You heard it from the Pro

[Alan Finn @finnoalan]

@ExaminerSport Would have been even better if Jimmy got Alex FINN's name right...! Not Flynn 😡

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Fantastic from Brighton, this. A massively important message delivered very well.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This dude creates a hilarious parody of Linkin Park’s “In The End”

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

At the Irish Open this week, Shane Lowry made 11-year-old Dáire's wish come true

Dáire is in remission from leukemia and his dream was to walk the fairways with Lowry

It was an amazing day for such an amazingly strong young man

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

BREAKING:

Both the White House and RNCC have lashed out at the creators of this ad.

It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.

You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!

#MAGAKidnappers

[Alan Finn @finnoalan]

Can @RTEsport PLEASE STOP PUTTING DARRAGH MALONEY on Commentary duty...He's just Shit..! NO ONE like listening to him 🤷‍♂️ Any chance he'd take a redundancy package...?? 🙏 #Galway #Killkenny