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Gerard Hynes
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Big old nerd. Expect programming, Fantasy, TTRPGs, and flailing attempts at parenting.
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Catherine Connolly's first act as president needs to be to bring Babóg Bears back into production.
A brown and green teddy bear with numbered patches on its ears, hands, feet and stomach. When pressed, they play phrases in Irish.
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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When a unit test fails locally but passes in CI.
October 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The cool kids will be watching campaign 4 this week.

Meanwhile, I just want to get a sense of campaign 2 before the Mighty Nein animated show comes out.
Critical Role Campaign 2 Episode 1 thumbnail of a quite nerdy Matt Mercer in 1980s clothes.
September 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The Wolf's Secret by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard, incredibly illustrated by Júlia Sardà Portabella, is a gorgeous romantic fairy tale.

I got it from my local library. You should too.
Cover of The Wolf's Secret. Flowers and leaves in reds, oranges and greys tangle on a speckled black background. Two set of yellow eyes, one canine, one human, stare out from behind the petals.
September 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Big Justin Trudeau energy off the latest BS from Simon Harris.
Justin Trudeau attending a climate protest (possibly against his own government?), instead of doing anything as Canadian premier to change government policy to address the climate crisis.
July 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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It was a mediocre burger at the airport, which is somehow even worse. And he hashtagged burger. Was he particularly impressed by this one?

Yeah it was right after the 4 Fine Gael MEPs voted against saving drowning refugees. The motion lost by two votes. So the disgust is entirely FGs own fault.
Screenshot of tweet from Fine Gael MEP Seán Kelly about getting a burger because he was at the airport early. Posted a few hours after he voted against saving drowning refugees in the Mediterranean.
June 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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My Obsidian consists almost entirely of notes on things I'm learning. Every so often I push them to GitHub so I can access them from different computers.
The file menu of an Obsidian instance. Almost every folder is named something like "kafka-notes" or "scala-notes"
June 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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New sticker for the laptop to remind me of my responsibilities.

#TransRights
A grey Framework laptop with a "Protect Trans Kids" sticker in the trans flag colours. Beside it are stickers saying "This machine kills fascists" and "CSS is awesome"
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Great t-shirt arrived from steviesafespaces.com

I hope if a trans kid sees it they'll know they have a friend.

#TransRights
A man wearing a t-shirt that says "You will have to go through me" in the trans pride flag colours. He has a very unkempt greying beard.
May 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Simpsons meme: Mr Black and the bullies at Kamp Krusty toast "to evil"
May 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I am still salty that Iguanodon and Allosaurus have been short changed by the Jurassic Park films.

They are cool and deserve more than blink and you miss it cameos.

I want to see a pack of Allosaurus take down a sauropod like lions.

And an Iguanodon just shank a predator.

#JurassicPark
Allosaurus hunting Diplodocus from the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs. Iguanodon stabbing a would-be predator with its thumb spike. Captioned "Talk dumb, get the thumb"
April 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I'm really looking forward to "delving"* into @bobworldbuilder.bsky.social 's Delve: How to Build and Survive Deadly Dungeons.

Already the traps, magic items and monsters look flavoursome as heck.

#rpg #ttrpg

*I'm sorry
The cover of Delve. Two adventurers face a spooky dungeon chamber with a glowing glyph in the centre of the floor. First page of the Donjon of Doom example dungeon. In the art a devil, lich and red dragon gamble. Gear items: Bandoleer of Preparation, Boots of Timejumping and Bracers of Utility The statblock for a Boxsnail, like a gelatinous cube but with eyestalks and a cube of dungeon wall on its back.
April 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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It's here and it's beautiful*

*horrifying in a HR Giger sort of way.

#Mothership #rpg #ttrpg
The Mothership RPG deluxe box set. A shiny black box with gold linework art and a large white M logo. The contents of the Mothership box set. 8 zines (4 rulebooks and 4 modules), a GM screen, standees and bases, a poster of a ship's schematics, and dice.
March 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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My wife and I quote this clip to each other pretty much every day so I finally made it into a gif.

#ItsATeamSpoht
Laura Eastaugh, the most Boston person you have ever encountered, voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential election. "I wish I was voting for Bernie Sanders but it's a team sport"
March 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Upgraded Hadoop in a microservice. Tests pass.

Deployed to one dev environment, everything works fine.

Deployed to another dev environment, timeouts when writing to S3.

🙃🙃🙃
Confused/frustrated Jackie Chan meme.
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Good to see Ukrainian and Palestinian flags in the parade in An Spidéal today.

Sound folks in Cois Fharraige.

#StPatricksDay
Part of the 2025 St Patrick's Day parade in An Spidéal, Co. Galway. A group of people are waving Palestinian flags while a Ukrainian flag flies overhead from a street light.
March 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The Shadowdark Western Reaches Kickstarter just raised $300,000 in its first hour.

Congratulations to Kelsey Dionne. She's an exceptionally talented game designer and a lovely person.

#Shadowdark #rpg #ttrpg

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...
The Kickstarter page for Shadowdark: The Western Reaches Setting passing $300,000 dollars in its first hour.
March 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Reminds me of Situ ff Fdtye
City of Fate (a novel about Stalingrad) by Nicola Pierce. The title used Cyrillic letters for presumably aesthetic purposes and ends up being gobbledygook.
February 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Love Shattered Gold. Sharp and heavy enough to put dents in the table.
A set of black metal polyhedral dice with veins of gold through them.
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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This is the energy to bring to the fight against Fascism.
Gritty, the genius loci of Philadelphia, and well-know antifascist, waves a progress pride flag.
January 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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We're very much on the same page.
A blue bag of whole chia seeds from Lidl
December 19, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Ghostfire Gaming (one of my favourite ttrpg publishers) are doing a 30% Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale with the coupon code BCFM24 (yes, it looks like a typo).

I picked up The Seekers Guide to Twisted Taverns and the Aetherial Expanse Setting Guide.

#ttrpg #rpg #5e

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The Seekers Guide to Twister Taverbs. An androgynous red tiefling wields a wooden staff before a circle of symbols. The Aetherial Expanse Setting Guide. A female pirate swings from the rigging as the ship circles a whirlpool in a sea of starlight.
November 30, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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I'm kidding though. You make fantastic tutorials.
Fancy Winnie the Pooh meme. Regular Pooh is labelled "Todo App" Fancy Pooh is labelled "Task Management App"
November 19, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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Bye @vercel.com it was fun while it lasted but your CEO's fascist fanboying is a dealbreaker.
"You are about to queue your Vercel account for deletion. Before you go, please give feedback on why you're deleting your account" "Your CEO openly supports fascists" "What was the primary reason you decided to stop using Vercel?" "No, really, it's because of your CEO's shitty politics"
November 10, 2024 at 10:32 PM