Ciarán
@hellociaran.bsky.social
Art guy (he/sé). Occasional Production design/Art direction in CSaloon. Foghlaimeoir Gaeilge (labhair í liom ldt) Woodwork @anceardlann.bsky.social
Dundalk/Kilkenny
Has a 🇮🇪 in his profile but not in a problematic way.
Dundalk/Kilkenny
Has a 🇮🇪 in his profile but not in a problematic way.
Merry etc.
Now, it's time to unmute this account because it's nothing but good news for the next six months 💚
Now, it's time to unmute this account because it's nothing but good news for the next six months 💚
Happy Christmas to all our fabulous followers!
December 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Merry etc.
Now, it's time to unmute this account because it's nothing but good news for the next six months 💚
Now, it's time to unmute this account because it's nothing but good news for the next six months 💚
It's the most wonderful time of the year: when people who think they're druids do battle with historians who think Newgrange dates back no further than 1982.
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year: when people who think they're druids do battle with historians who think Newgrange dates back no further than 1982.
Somebody high up in Dunnes is more excited about meringue than I've ever been about anything. It's wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling meringue nests and pavlova bases. Every gap in every shelf? meringue.
The limbo area that usually has cereal bowls and tupperware? meringue.
The limbo area that usually has cereal bowls and tupperware? meringue.
December 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Somebody high up in Dunnes is more excited about meringue than I've ever been about anything. It's wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling meringue nests and pavlova bases. Every gap in every shelf? meringue.
The limbo area that usually has cereal bowls and tupperware? meringue.
The limbo area that usually has cereal bowls and tupperware? meringue.
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The best description that I've seen about GenAI images and data is 'digital asbestos'. There are fake 'historical photos, data, citations, and even journals. It is poison and taints everything that it touches.
I want the worst things *you* can imagine to happen to anyone pushing this self-destructive poison
We can do even more.
December 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The best description that I've seen about GenAI images and data is 'digital asbestos'. There are fake 'historical photos, data, citations, and even journals. It is poison and taints everything that it touches.
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os cionn 70 trácht fágtha faoin bhfíseán náireach seo de chuid an Údaráis agus gach ceann acu diúltach agus cáinteach
duine sinsearach amháin ag tarraingt míchlú ar an Údarás agus ag tabhairt neamhaird ar thoil agus ar mhianta an phobail
duine sinsearach amháin ag tarraingt míchlú ar an Údarás agus ag tabhairt neamhaird ar thoil agus ar mhianta an phobail
December 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
os cionn 70 trácht fágtha faoin bhfíseán náireach seo de chuid an Údaráis agus gach ceann acu diúltach agus cáinteach
duine sinsearach amháin ag tarraingt míchlú ar an Údarás agus ag tabhairt neamhaird ar thoil agus ar mhianta an phobail
duine sinsearach amháin ag tarraingt míchlú ar an Údarás agus ag tabhairt neamhaird ar thoil agus ar mhianta an phobail
Absolute pig-ignorant bollocks from údarás na gaeltachta. Shameful.
I wonder if real Irish filmmakers know that Udárás na Gaeltachta are not only running a competition for “AI filmmaking”, but have decided to name it after “storytelling”. Ffs.
filmfreeway.com/AnTograScealai
filmfreeway.com/AnTograScealai
An Togra Scéalaí - Project Scéalaí
Tugaimid cuireadh duit iarratas a chur isteach ar an gcomórtas físeáin AI, an chéad cheann dá leithéid don Ghaeilge.
Fáiltímid roimh iarratais ó dhaoine 1...
filmfreeway.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Absolute pig-ignorant bollocks from údarás na gaeltachta. Shameful.
According to a "Santa stop here" sign, one of my neighbours has a child called Níl, and that child is going to hate every Irish teacher he ever has.
December 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
According to a "Santa stop here" sign, one of my neighbours has a child called Níl, and that child is going to hate every Irish teacher he ever has.
Possible use case for AI:
Piss out a hundred Christmas songs so I don't have to keep hearing the same 8 songs again and again and again. Thoughts and prayers with people who work in shops 🙏
Piss out a hundred Christmas songs so I don't have to keep hearing the same 8 songs again and again and again. Thoughts and prayers with people who work in shops 🙏
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Possible use case for AI:
Piss out a hundred Christmas songs so I don't have to keep hearing the same 8 songs again and again and again. Thoughts and prayers with people who work in shops 🙏
Piss out a hundred Christmas songs so I don't have to keep hearing the same 8 songs again and again and again. Thoughts and prayers with people who work in shops 🙏
A new episode of Sesame Street just had a little animated segment where a cat got stuck in quicksand.
Quicksand is back, lads!
Quicksand is back, lads!
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A new episode of Sesame Street just had a little animated segment where a cat got stuck in quicksand.
Quicksand is back, lads!
Quicksand is back, lads!
Absolute banger of a panel by Satoshi Kitamura
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Absolute banger of a panel by Satoshi Kitamura
Muppets Christmas Carol is not a Christmas film. I'll fight anybody on this.
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Muppets Christmas Carol is not a Christmas film. I'll fight anybody on this.
Old El Paso taco kit. Just add: 99% of the things you would need to make a dinner.
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Old El Paso taco kit. Just add: 99% of the things you would need to make a dinner.
Having a child has really exposed some alarming gaps in my parents' animal knowledge. Baffled by the sight of a narwhal like 17th century sailors.
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Having a child has really exposed some alarming gaps in my parents' animal knowledge. Baffled by the sight of a narwhal like 17th century sailors.
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Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
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i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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My "we are not Enron" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My "we are not Enron" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.
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Another example of the extraordinary example of the generosity of spirit shown by Irish courts to motorists who commit homicide
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Woman given suspended sentence over cyclist's death
A woman whose husband was killed whilst out for a Sunday cycle on the Malahide Road in Dublin last year, has said no words can ever change how brutal it has been since she lost him.
www.rte.ie
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Another example of the extraordinary example of the generosity of spirit shown by Irish courts to motorists who commit homicide
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
tonewood? More like TÓIN wood. Hahaha
Now then.. in guitar-making, there is the "tonewood debate" in which some people (guitar company marketing dept's and complete rubes) believe certain species of wood make an electric guitar sound good. It's demonstrably bollocks.
The Irish word "tóin"..
1/17
Now then.. in guitar-making, there is the "tonewood debate" in which some people (guitar company marketing dept's and complete rubes) believe certain species of wood make an electric guitar sound good. It's demonstrably bollocks.
The Irish word "tóin"..
1/17
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
tonewood? More like TÓIN wood. Hahaha
Now then.. in guitar-making, there is the "tonewood debate" in which some people (guitar company marketing dept's and complete rubes) believe certain species of wood make an electric guitar sound good. It's demonstrably bollocks.
The Irish word "tóin"..
1/17
Now then.. in guitar-making, there is the "tonewood debate" in which some people (guitar company marketing dept's and complete rubes) believe certain species of wood make an electric guitar sound good. It's demonstrably bollocks.
The Irish word "tóin"..
1/17
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Hey folks! I just opened a Ko-fi shop to do a Winter Oil Painting Sale! Check it out ko-fi.com/pameqa/shop #oilpainting #painting #paintingsale
Visit Pam Araújo's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Hey folks! I just opened a Ko-fi shop to do a Winter Oil Painting Sale! Check it out ko-fi.com/pameqa/shop #oilpainting #painting #paintingsale
I'd give Frankenstein a solid 'I completely forgot I watched it' out of ten 👍
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I'd give Frankenstein a solid 'I completely forgot I watched it' out of ten 👍
god, I hate not living beside the sea. Can we not terraform the country so it's all coast, like those brownie baking trays that are all edge..
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
god, I hate not living beside the sea. Can we not terraform the country so it's all coast, like those brownie baking trays that are all edge..
People with leaf-blowers; what's your problem with leaves?
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
People with leaf-blowers; what's your problem with leaves?
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Hey. HEY. Just look at these pencils a mate of mine found in a pound shop earlier.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hey. HEY. Just look at these pencils a mate of mine found in a pound shop earlier.
Omg, I could form a posse 😮
The government could throw us a bone and call for a nationwide manhunt for Enoch Burke. Imagine the morale boost
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Omg, I could form a posse 😮