This is the greatest scam email of all time. I now want to start every email with “Yourself there, take good note”. I salute you, random Argentine scammer who cranked the ChatGPT Oirish setting up to 11

backspaces furiously

what a damn day

If you can't watch live, it should be available for replay for a while. If you are an Octocon member you will be able to log into a live chat with Peadar and Jean after the event.

Thanks to our friends at Octocon, Peadar Ó Guilín will be doing a live event on YouTube for The Sword Garden at 8:00pm this evening (Irish time, which is also UK time). Peadar will read from the book, and be interviewed by Jean Bürlesk. www.youtube.com/live...

tuesday

Having just learned #MosaicMonday is a thing thought I would share this one my wife made.

Our inaugural festival on Saturday couldn't have gone any better! From discussions on writing to children's workshops, crime fiction to literary icons and everything in-between, the first RUSH FESTIVAL OF WRITING was a hit 🌊 📚 Here's a selection of photos from Saturday - more to follow!

It was at this point in my lecture on Frankenstein this morning that I heard a student say "RIP Victor you would have loved Adderall"

Of the 3,627 nuts he buried last fall, Kevin has found four. #scatterhoarding

Shall I bang the drum again? Sure. Let me bang the drum again. This book is incredible and everybody should read it. It's uplifting, funny, with deep philosophy and (I dare say) life-changing perspective on success, "getting ahead", and just managing life.

I love when humans respect animals

I double-dog dare one of you to stand by it playing "It's A Small World" from a boombox.

I would fail this text adventure so hard.

Apologies for being quiet lately. I have been affected by a layoff and, after 9 years working at Aether Studios making characters for Rivals of Aether, Dungeons of Aether and Rivals of Aether 2, I will be out of a job starting May 1st. If you need a concept artist or character designer, hit me up.

Swedish musician and inventor Martin Molin, a member of Wintergatan, has spent over a decade building unique musical instruments from everyday materials. His creations combine wood, gears, metal balls, LEGO motors, and other mechanical elements. #art #music

Or 'seagulls' as they are also known

Crochet/knitting bookshop with a coffee bar and teen-friendly lounging space.

I recently had to wipe all cookies and other carry-on on my main browser. I just discovered that my levels in Bee Sort were wiped. I was at level 800-something. Time to throw something at the wall.

crying

I need to pick a day this week to just unapologetically stay in pyjamas and eat marzipan treats and a spice bag for lunch.

on their fucking minibikes again the neighborhood teens are. call the police i have.

When I first stated keeping a journal I thought it would be a fun bit to put shitposts in there like they were inspirational quotes. It didn’t last but here’s one for this day in 2022

Can recommend doing this for yourself or someone else as a digital gift! Husband loves his kung fu capybara and Doc's good people — this is going for a good cause.

My 25-YO is dancing around the kitchen with a messy spatula, spattering the cupboards I just wiped down last night, singing "dummy thick smoothie!" as the poor blender whirrs forlornly because she packed the ice, peanut butter, and banana in too tightly at the bottom. My legacy.

So sad to see an animal caught in a snare trap

I remain, Sir, Ever yours,

If you squint real hard you can see the exact moment when our cat jumped on the bed and meowed directly into my ear last night

oh my god yes (and she says the voice actor is doing the audiobook)

In a letter Pádraig Ó Conchubhair recounted a visit to Marsh's in 1924 when he was blocked from entering by a woman cleaning the steps. She took him for a gunman in his fedora and trench coat. #1926Census has possibly given a name to our defender, library caretaker Mary Ann Gwynne #Census1926

the carcinization of all things continueth

A blackbird has just bonked into the window at low speed because he was struggling with what look like half a suet ball. I feel ya, lil buddy. I get that way with brownies.

Wouldja lookit that. Their soufflé done caved in.

LOVE this. Once I was walking in the Phoenix Park with a visiting college friend. A passing jogger tutted in disapproval and said, as only a Dub can, ‘Ah here, would you ever hold her hand.’ We laughed but he took my hand. Some shenanigans ensued; our 20th wedding anniversary is in September.

I didn’t really do any behind the scenes pictures of this chap as it was put together quite fast. It was done using aves Apoxie sculpt and some bits of wood. It was just one of those quick sculptures that I used to enjoy doing now and then.

I have now watched this four times and laughed like a lunatic each one.

Start your Friday with this happy little thread

10. Musical 9. Biopics 8. Are 7. Pretty 6. Much 5. All 4. Mediocre 3. Or 2. Terrible 1. Amadeus

I didn’t think a Dirty Dancing remake was a good idea but I hadn’t heard the whole pitch

The ridiculous cat who has been harassing me all day and actually made me raise my voice at one point is snoring, and everything's fine and she's a perfect angel. I'd add video, but my phone seems incapable of picking up the tiny honk-shoos.

WE ARE SO CHUFFED! Get excited for us! 🎉🎊🥳 Dust off your fandom pitches that you didn't have an outlet for! 🔥🔥🔥🍻

We've been working on this for a long time, and it's finally coming out! Please take a listen and let us know what you think! 💖

Why in hell am I seeing Irish people welcoming the idea of Bill fucking Kr*stol coming to Ireland to live? Sure, he's Never Trump, but he was instrumental in creating the political culture that led to Trump. And he's A-OK with this war. Read Wikipedia, at least. I beg you.

"The Department of Education says it has no control over the texts used in schools [...]." When my kids were in school, books famously walked themselves through the doors and climbed into their backpacks. Everyone was powerless to stop it.

Back in my day, we called "grannycore" things like "having a hobby" and "ancestral handcraft". But only us women. Men had, and have, "collections" and "complete reconstructions of an entire county's rail line or 300+ piece armies of fantasy creatures, but in miniature".

My cat wrote this alt text.

Holy cats, this is a hellova read.

Happy turret is just pleased to be here.

Found Tom Crean in 1926 like ‘there he is, that’s my friend!!’

Bringing a forgotten filmmaker back into focus - how a collaboration between two researchers helped to revive the lost films of a pioneering female Irish artist. Read about the research behind the rediscovery and restoration of Flora Kerrigan’s films: www.researchireland.ie/success-stor...