This year has been hard, navigating life under an increasingly authoritarian regime. More corruption, more distortion. But we can still create with honesty. And I get to do that for a living bc you all support my work. I'm so so grateful. I hope you spend a little time art-making too 💫

Now, this is what we should be doing - it would solve so many of the problems for artists in the UK at the moment, not least the ever-increasing and deeply unfair class divide. musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...

Many months ago, Ram hit me up to ask if I'd consider unretiring for one last thing. I asked him what he had in mind. He'd decided not to renew at DC, and said he wanted to step away from superheroes, as well as just monthly DM comics. I thought it over. I said yes. www.tcj.com/you-have-to-...

Irish Twitter never died

With the ink barely dry from the printers, the latest -opedia from John & Kathi Burke is "Animalopedia: a Menagerie of Every Irish Animal You Can Think Of". It's amazing! #KidLit #KidsBooksFriday #NonFictionNovember #SpeirGorm #SpéirGorm

don't remember if I've mentioned this before. tell anyone you see using Google to do this. hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"

Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.

"You may not know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected. And what on Earth would give them that idea?" Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.

World: “This fellow is deathly pale!” Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

so proud of all the marginalised devs who have refused to shut up and be grateful. the fight for justice continues, all the stronger without "allies" who are anything but kotaku.com/game-awards-...

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Much as I will always love dinosaurs, there’s something refreshing about other megafauna getting their moment in the CGI sun.

Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

What a banger

Spite. It gets shit done.

Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector

Of course Australia has two things going for it: 1. Lots of sun and 2. A long way from anywhere else, so a minimal amount of data centres arriving to slurp up all that electricity. Ireland can only dream on both counts.

Well. Today I learned that there is a review process happening for the government's pilot draft pay gap portal this month. Guess who's not invited to take part? Honestly, more than a little insulting. It's not like they don't have my contact info, I email them about once a month... #genderPayGap

One of the funniest goddamn TikToks ever make I lose it every time it gets to the R. Kelly crack

Do you like pub fireplaces? SAME. Here’s the pubby roundup of some of my faves in Dublin…not all just the usual suspects. #SpeirGorm www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...

this is traditionally the day when I discuss how close we are, and we KNOW that we are, to the entire of Palace of Westminster just spontaneously going up in flames again

I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance. You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

Big day for people who care about other people

Fuck all of these people - craven, opportunist pigs every one of them, completely devoid of compassion or principles who, when threatened, choose to attack the most vulnerable. May they all rot.

Being a professional full-time "opinion columnist" is akin to a career as a Victorian hat maker. It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

Saw someone using one of these on the greenway and thought it was class. Big "problem" with them is that they're too low to the ground to be used safely with traffic, but that's solved with better infrastructure, and is the same problem I have with recumbents.

Journalists, politicians, pundits, please read! 👇

Pariah Carey is just a-tier headlining

This cunt should be in prison and the fact he isn't is part of the reason why we're seeing shit like this still being organised and carried out then openly celebrated on social media.

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

A small defence of the idea of Irish Neutrality.

I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think

*pinching the bridge of my nose, eyes closed* And before the current hyper concentration of wealth, Mark, was there a stock market before then?

Alan Moore knows the score

“I have never been in any rich man's house which would not have looked the better for having a bonfire made of nine-tenths of all that it held" - William Morris

A few people asked about this Tie: President Higgins nearly always wears a variety of ties with Aboriginal designs, this was one of them. And yes he wears a FitBit

“If this was, as Harris framed it, a referendum on Ireland’s proud history of better-things-aren’t-possible centrism, then surely he must accept that his conceptualisation of Ireland is actually… wrong.” This week’s column is about how FG and FF have responded to the election results.

“In spite of all the challenges we face, there remains within the Irish people a profound and unyielding commitment to seeing beyond the self to seeing the ‘other’ as friend.” - President Michael D Higgins at his final garden party. He and Sabina have hosted up to 20,000 people each year.

Ahhh! Wanna support indie #Irish games, made in #Ireland, set in Ireland with an Irish voice cast and made by a small team? Please consider voting for our game #EyesofHellfire in Polygon's best of here!! www.polygon.com/best-horror-... #gamedev

hazel knocked it out of the park with this one (and was a pleasure to work with): monsterkissers rejoice

Pocket Princesses 433: Princesstown

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

🕯️ job for emma 🕯️

Sorry it's been a minute, I have an announcement! ✨ Shop opening on November 8th, 10am PT ✨ I will have a few commission spots for the holidays and a restock of finished work. Make sure you're up to date on the Commission FAQ! Amyraehill.com/commissions Full restock preview coming soon ☺️