Are your standards too high, or do the 18th century fictional gentlemen with enormous country estates and kind eyes simply need to step 👏 up 👏

it's not often that we have to keep something as a surprise but i've almost told everyone about this multiple times, we're supporting @jasmine4t.bsky.social in the Academy 2 (Dublin) on November 15th and it's gonna be a fucking rager

Tickets for A Night for Palestine with Amble & Special Guests in the INEC Killarney are on sale now (and almost gone already) - all proceeds go directly to ACLAÍ Palestine and food parcel distribution for displaced families in Gaza. Get the last few here: www.ticketmaster.ie/a-night-for-...

People who've never used dating apps: "You should be on them, they sound so fun! Join for the laugh 🥰" People who have used dating apps: "Stray not into those bleak, haunted halls. Horrors linger there, and all who enter shall be changed utterly. Seek not the void in which hope goes to die"

The good stuff 🍂

Not worried about Steen potentially winning, am worried about the amount of airtime and publicity that will be given to allow them to spout their views (largely unchecked, going by previous coverage of similar people) for the next month if they end up on the ballot

The 14th Annual March for Choice will take place this Saturday, outside The Dail at 11.30am. There's a panel discussion in Outhouse at 4.30pm, with Abortion Rights Activists from around the world. If you plan to attend and have accessibility needs please contact us Looking forward to seeing you!

Of course he is

We are trying to raise money for DCAF because DCAF doesn't have any money! It's getting to the time of year when we need to start booking for 2026 but DCAF never has that kind of cash lying around, so shares would be really appreciated.

Added a couple of new prints to my online shop. Palace winning the FA Cup and the Goodison Park one, if that’s your vibe, absolutely no worries if not. davidsquirescartoons.com

Just out of the most gorgeous gig by Séamus and Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta and for all this country's faults (and there's more than a few), glad to be living in a place where an artist dedicating a lament to those suffering genocide in Palestine is met with nothing but unanimous applause

I'm getting my forever home on Tuesday, if anyone is feeling generous I do adore Ciara's crows...

'Tis the season 🍁 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁

Bluesky this, Mastodon that, it is time to return to the Traditional Ways (communicating by passing notes asking about someone's Top 5 tucked into highlighter tops at the back of class)

if Edmund Bertram has a million haters, then i am one of them. if he has ten haters, then i am one of them. if he has only one hater then that is me. if Edmund Bertram has no haters, then that means i am no longer on earth. if the world loves Edmund Bertram, then i am against the world.

People will be finding novelists in doorways for weeks.

"Oh damn, i think i just stepped in a mime"

Another typical morning in town after Culture Night, sean-nós singers left strewn around the footpaths, poets carelessly stuffed under park benches, a lone interpretive dancer being gently blown around the square

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

Ok folks. I need your help. I’m on the hunt for new jobs. If that’s you, get in touch! If that’s not you, please do re-post and/or share this and spread the word! Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!

Someone's pet cat with the native wild red squirrel it just killed. Most cat owners have no idea of, or don't want to know, how much wildlife is slaughtered annually by domestic or feral cats. But it runs to 10s, possibly 100s, of BILLIONS of animals per year, and is a serious driver of extinction.

More than 3,300 new houses were built in Dublin city last year. Just 155 were bought by households

People in your 30s, where are you meeting new people your own age (apart from at work)? I've tried a summoning circle but I'm running out of chickens.

Currently on a train carriage crammed full of young people coming back from the Ploughing that is witnessing levels of gilet and wellies previously thought to be impossible

*NEW* AI and power: Current LLM alignment centralises control over knowledge production and governance within already influential institutions. Inclusive datasets are a good start, but limited. We propose decentralising alignment via context, pluralism, and participation. arxiv.org/abs/2509.08858

As it's happened again, starting to wonder if any career path other than the arts makes people who ask what your job is immediately try to convince you that you'd be better off not doing it. Serial killer, maybe.

We ordered some beautiful artwork from @ciaraioch.bsky.social before we went on holidays. Look at all the delights that arrived with it 😍 We can't wait to look for all the éiníni álainn. #Iheartspideog Ealaíontóir den scoth🙌🏻 Go raibh míle maith agat a Chiara! Get ordering!

An all-too unfortunately common attitude to the arts. I had to give my two cents.

Really not liking that seeing a tricolour hanging off a house has gone from something neutral to something that sets me a little on edge

These are the jobs where so many young artists get their first commissions. It’s really depressing.

Have any of ye flown from Ireland on Aer Lingus wearing an orthopedic boot before? Do you need a letter or anything?

Someone you know IRL showing you something they used AI to make or do feels like a someone trying to impress you with a dead rodent that's been run over by a car. This is not good what do you expect me to do with it

I’m selling folkloric linocut prints at the Turner Contemporary in Margate tomorrow with Brighter Days. Come and marvel at my carving skills and inept sales patter!

What is the best way to start learning digital drawing? I see people talk a lot about iPads and Procreate, is there an Android equivalent for people who aren't Apple-ified?

The most disappointing thing is when you realise that the vast majority of people are just fine with this stuff. But I'm curious about where people (the kind of people who are putting together leaflets, posters etc) are hearing about these tools, but not hearing the criticisms.

Listen ladies 👏 It's 2025 👏 You don't need an excuse

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

People think the hardest part of singlehood is how much more expensive things like rent and holidays are, or no go-to partner to do life with, but they're wrong. It's not having someone to compare your wealth with in bed so that you've an excuse to steal a big bull and wage war on the men of Ulster

You try keeping three accounts on Bluesky, Instagram and Facebook. Try it sometime.

Had a look and it's almost entirely just Americans posting about American politics. We need to wrestle this site from them and forcibly inject it with a concoction of that screenshot of Pee Flynn on the Late Late, a litre of Football Special, and exactly three hairs from Marty Whelan's moustache

Not a believer anymore but still culturally Catholic, in that I like to wear opulent robes and play haunting organ music while telling people that sex is bad

"Little Idea, Bigger than Me" art book is now available on my shop! ko-fi.com/s/d524e98e4d #artbook #kofi

*Deep breath* #EyesofHellfire is officially in EARLY ACCESS. You can play it RIGHT NOW. Can't begin to express the immense pride I have in our indie team. To create something and release it is such an achievement. Support Indie Games. Play Eyes of Hellfire! store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/...

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Getting to the stage of the housing and cost of living crisis where joining a convent is starting to look like an enticing option

Love Ciaraíoch’s latest work!

Team Bride implies the existence of Team Anti-Bride, readying to march against her at dawn