#SpeirGorm #IBTS #GiveBlood

forgot the most important of the genre

And now for something very silly.

The Ballad Hunters kickstarter is live! I’m really looking forward to giving this one a try! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pel...

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.

After 40 days and nights in the astral plane - reading, editing and communing with the gods of science fiction - we are delighted to have our eight open submission stories for issue 1!! We'll be shining the spotlight on each of our authors in the run up to @norncon.bsky.social so watch this space!!

lmao the eurovision mascot is so ugly I literally screamed at this reveal

Just scouring the feed of someone who posted "sometimes it do be like that" to see if they're Irish or if it's Hiberno-English appropriation. Just normal stuff #speirghorm

Hey, I'm Úna-Minh (that's my first name)! Producer, games writer, generalist. I also make solo games & PM a small team that localises indie games into Irish. Open to work, short-term, long-term, term-term, and open to rapping the first 150 pokémon during my interview. #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

Who was the best footballer in the Gamma Quadrant? Wayoun Rooney

Greg: What’s next? Alex: Well, sometimes we like to set a task for just one of our contestants. Or, in this case, twelve different tasks. Hercules: Oh for f - Greg: Roll VT!

Greg: What was the wording on the task? Alex: Make Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the Styx. Most invulnerable Achilles wins. Greg: Dip the baby. The whole baby. They’re not going to hang onto a heel or anything stupid like that. Alex: First, let’s see Thetis’ attempt.

Greg Davies: Seems very straightforward. Pop back to Ireland, see the old homestead, don't get off the horse. Alex Horne: You would think it's simple wouldn't you. Oisín: OK look - Alex Horne: Roll the clip!

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

Greg Davies: Walked out of the underworld. Didn't look back once. Job done! Orpheus: Thanks Alex Horne: We did want to show you one more clip of when he came out...

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Used to be good friends with a baker but they were far too kneady.

Coming out this weekend ... #indiegames #gamedev

We didn't bastardise the English language into "ye", "yiz", "youse" and "yousins" to have Irish people unconnected to the US or other places it's used in saying "y'all", unless you're referring to the town in Cork we've PERFECTLY ADEQUATE second person plural pronouns at HOME

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

5 authors by whom I've read at least 5 books: Terry Pratchett Naomi Novik Robert Jordan C.S. Lewis Ben Aaronovitch

Houseguest Just Going To Lie There Until Rest Of House Wakes Up https://theonion.com/houseguest-just-going-to-lie-there-until-rest-of-house-1819571350/

I have said this before but the proponents of using AI in writing sound exactly the same to me as the guys that used to turn up on the "Forexposure" Twitter feed going "I have an idea for a trilogy of fantasy books. Looking for a partner to do the actual writing. We will split the profits 50/50."

NOT NOW, RADIOACTIVE HYBRID TERROR PIGS.

Everybody's gangster until overhanging branches strike the bus window unexpectedly.

This is one of the most perfect and beautiful and moving films ever made and you should watch it. Yes, you.

"Garage Peacock" is a class in Shadowrun

That Bluesky map has me out by "American soccer fans", clearly I need to post more about chicken rolls and something something Cobblestone ##speirghorm

‘The show delivers fulsomely, and it probably delivers even more if you’re not watching through the same lens as me (completely freaking out that if they mess this up, then I can kiss The Muppet Show goodbye for another 45 years).’ They let me review the new Muppets Show special-slash-pilot.

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

bro they're playing your leitmotif pizzicato. there's a slow clarinet lurking beneath it. you better not be about to betray me right now i swear to god bro

This whole Sunday Independent article is v interesting, but especially the part that talks about Hiberno English (and the way an LLM would have edited Ulysses to have British English sentence structures and no neologisms 👀)

Your window of opportunity to be part of the new wave of Irish Sci-Fi closes next Saturday so make sure to submit before the buzzer!! 🚀🚀 Also don't forget this Thursday the @seamusheaneycentre is running it's SF/NI event and it's gonna be a blast!!! #sciencefiction #ireland #writer

During the massive storms last year I was in the Yellow House in Rathfarnham, and some salty old dog at the bar told the barman that the wind was that strong "it'd tear a fiver from a Cavan man's hand".

yall want anything from dominos on the nintendo wii (apparently this actually works too)

There's an American lady on Insta/TikTok that has been posting funny, adorable updates about her long-distance relationship with an Irish guy for the last year or so. She just posted that it's over because he cheated. I genuinely think Failte Ireland might have him killed.

Oh hey!!! That's my voice 😊 So thrilled to see this wonderful project coming along and delighted to be a part of it.

Second day of salad for lunch so yeah I am living a virtuous existence.

Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell Where the fishermen go if they don't go to hell Where the sky is all clear and the dolphins do play And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away

I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Blue Monday was originally invented to sell calendar paint.

I don't know who Karen is but this is very funny to me.

I saw some claim in one the eejity comments on that Famine game that @drcrossbows.bsky.social linked that the Famine was 6 or 8 generations ago, thinking that couldn't be right, and checked with my mam. For me it was 4 generations ago, my great-great-grandfather was b.1837 d.1934 ##speirghorm

While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?) www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

Cainteorí Gaeilge atá ag úsáid BoardGameArena, más maith libh cluichí aistrithe a fheiceáil, le bhur dtoil chur Gaeilge ar bhur liosta teangacha labharta, agus cuirigí teachtaireacht dom! Leagan Bèarla ag teacht anois #speirghorm #tabletopsky