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

A Valuable Tip for Mystery RPGs #rpg #gaming #ttrpg

Cleansing the timeline with this 2020 Lifetime romance where Mario Lopez played a sexy Colonel Sanders.

I've long dreamt of a cop show where Titus Welliver, James Nesbitt and John Hannah team up to take down warring crime lords Stanley Tucci and Mark Strong. "Extremely confusing," rave critics

Chronic illness doesn’t come with neat story arcs. Sometimes there’s no crisis. No recovery. Just the long middle where staying alive takes everything you have. #EDS #NHS #ChiariMalformation #ChronicIllness #InvisibleDisability #UnremarkableMe www.unremarkableme.com/post/i-didn-...

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

well here she is! my very first solo game and all about Ireland's best deli choice: the Chicken Fillet Roll. free to play in browser. LMK what roll you decide to make & if you get the feels or a laugh, even better. this is a roll-driven game. made lovingly in Twine unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill...

pls bless my 2026.

I have now worked out links between Finnegans Wake and two of the Heresy era loyalist Legions. I'm slowly working my way towards the least marketable article I will ever write.

Listening to a Father Brown mystery and enjoying the explanation for the inexplicable behaviour of the main suspect is rationally explained as "he's a poet."

Many years ago, when I was working at @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social an older gentleman came in and asked "where's the milk?" Me: we don't have any. Him: what kind of bookshop doesn't sell milk? Me: ...the normal kind. All the kinds. Him: Ah for fucksake. *leaves*

It's all lies

When you drift through some unheralded point in your 40s, you start accumulating actuarial risks. The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up. But there is another risk- particularly acute for men. There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.

Public service announcement to anyone in the UK trying to phone people in Ireland. Chances are that, unless you are a ‘contact’, you won’t get through. We’re being bombarded by spam calls from 0044 numbers atm, & so most of us are not answering unknown UK numbers. #SpeirGorm #IrishBluesky

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

If I had a Tim Minchin I would go back and turn off autocorrect.

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Wars/Trek, no LOTR, or Marvel.

Some quality slagging there from Layla #latelatetoyshow

Consummate professional Nyla, getting through about 10 different toys! #latelatetoyshow

Some amount of winking from young fellas in this year's show! #latelatetoyshow

I'm glad they've brought out Keano to psych these kids out even further #latelatetoyshow

The audience starting to get more and more ghoulish with every mention of Arnotts there. Jackals! #latelatetoyshow

I see as usual I'm going to have to go listen to the song the kids are singing afterwards, because my old fogey status is confirmed once more and i haven't heard it before #latelatetoyshow

Great to see the kids from St. Ita's on the show, I'm delighted with all the conscious representation on this year's show #latelatetoyshow

A nation held its breath for Declan's third attempt there #latelatetoyshow

You're 100% right, Declan, dinosaurs were VERY cool #latelatetoyshow

Spinning up the #latelatetoyshow feed. I want to talk about this year's ad. I thought it was lovely, and the kids in it were great. #speirghorm

I made the mistake of feeding Gytha some ham when coming home after a night on the wine last week, now every lunchtime at home is under close scrutiny.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Love games set in #Ireland? Love games made by an #Irish studio with an Irish voice cast? Our game Eyes of Hellfire has been nominated for Best Art Direction at the Horror Game Awards! It's a public vote and today is the last day for voting 😄 www.thehorrorgameawards.com/news/public-...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

We once got a friend from Cork to admit that Dublin is better than Cork (probably in some minor way I have since forgotten) and have never let her forget it #speirghorm