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Bon viveur, cat fancier, overachiever

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In fairness...

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It is some kind of horrific giant millipede walking along beside the water on a beach. Its back is flattish but covered in little spikes. Its front part is coming towards us and it has two eyes, widely spaced on either side of a headlike protruberance, and some tentacles at the front that might double up as mouth parts.
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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It is the feast day of St. Jerome, who had a pet lion.

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a severe-looking man with a beard and a halo wears long robes as he sits in a room cluttered with books while a sad lion sits beside him as he removes a thorn from the lion's paw.
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Not the Onion
A screenshot from a news website. There is a picture of Mark Zuckerberg putting on glasses and looking "superintelligent". Below it is a header saying "Meta Platforms" and then a headline saying "Mark Zuckerberg promises new smart glasses will unlock 'superintelligence' "
September 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Gibby Haynes in Dublin's Opium. He was playing the "hits" of the Butthole Surfers. His band were a bunch of ultra-talented kids from the Scott Thunes Institute of Musical Excellence, who were excellent.
a distorted image showing one person holding a megaphone to their face and another playing guitar. They are partially backlit so somewhat silhouetted.
September 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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LLMs love the letter B.
screenshot of a Google search where the query is "how many Bs in chatgpt?" (not in quotes) and the AI Overview is saying "The word "ChatGPT" contains one "B"."
August 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I was reading about how sloth bears are very fierce and best avoided but it was illustrated by a picture of a two baby sloth bears riding on their mother's back and now I can't stop thinking about hugging sloth bears.
a furry bear walks along on fall fours with two little baby bears sitting on her back. They all look like they are smiling and although these bears are meant to be very fierce something tells me they would all like a hug.
August 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I think my favourite bit of the entire series was the Shamed By You English ad.
It is the kind of text heavy advertisement that used to appear in comic books of yore. At the top a serious looking guy holds his glasses, with the caption "Shamed by you English?" below which text reads "You can speak soon and write like a graduate college if me let you help for a day of 15 minutes". The ad continues with a rather ramshackle mode of English as the man in the picture (Dan Boleo "Director of Linguage Institute Method; authority on adult educating") outlines the benefits his method offers while fielding questions from an inquirer whose English is much better than his. Readers are invited to mail his institute for a free booklet entitled "Good How To Gain English Command". It's very funny and I would post a link to a complete transcript if there was one out there.
June 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I started off looking like a character from an MR James story but by nightfall I had gone full Bloomsday.
A man wearing a cap, jacket (with pocket square), waistcoat, shirt, stripey tie and glasses looks to camera with a concerned facial expression. A man and two women. The women are in impressive period costume. The man could almost get away with claiming that he just happened to be dressed like that and does not know anything about this "Bloom's Day" A man in a jacket, striped tie, waistcoat, shirt, tie, and a straw boater with a ribbon associating it with Davy Byrne's, a moral pub (whatever that means). The man looks concerned. The same man, looking seriously to camera.
June 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Updated Dublin events listing spreadsheet! Plus cat to boost engagement.

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A ginger cat looking back over her shoulder with an expression suggesting htat she has no plans to go out tonight.
May 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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I saw this poster for two cats who escaped from their home on Blackhall Place.

#Stoneybatter
It is a poster with pictures of two lost cats, Manolo and Maneco, who are brothers and very close to each other. There is a phone number on the poster for poeple to wring if they have any information on their whereabouts.
May 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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"Nowhere" by Ride
A bluey-gray image of a wave or something like that. It's actually the cover of the Ride album Nowhere, but it doesn't say that anywhere.
May 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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The stump of a 225 year old tree in Phoenix Park, with historically significant years marked on its rings.

#PhoenixPark #History #Dublin
A tree stump behind a fence in park. In the distance a path and trees, and slightly further away a road with a row of house and a bus. Looking down on the top of the tree stump from a distance. There is red writing but it is quite small. A closer view of the writing on the tree stump. The writing points to tree rings from historically significant years and also 1800, the year the tree was "born": 1849 (the end of the Famine), 1867 (Fenian uprising), 1885 (1st Home Rule Bill), 1916 (Easter Rising), 1921 (creation of Northern Ireland), 1945 (end of the Second World War), 1949 (Republic of Ireland Act), 1979 (visit of Pope John Paul II), 1998 (Belfast Agreement).
May 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Last weekend I went to Eastercon in Belfast, where among other things I appeared on a David Lynch memorial panel. We had a lot of fun talking about Lynch and his work. I also got to say "Heineken - fuck that shit" to a room full of people.

#Eastercon #Eastercon2025
five people sit behind a table with a white covering, organised in an alternating boy-girl-boy pattern. The man on the left appears to be speaking and the others are looking in his direction.
April 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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I have somehow found myself on the programme for this year's Eastercon, which takes place in Belfast on the Easter weekend. I'll be yapping away about David Lynch and history stuff in boardgames and moderating people as they talk about religion in science fiction.
It seems to be schedule of items taking place at a conference or similar. Under "Friday, April 18 2025" we have "David Lynch Memorial Panel" taking place at 17:00 in the Hilton's Lagan B. Then under "Sunday April 20 2025" we have firstly "What does this card really mean? History in Board Games" at 15:30 in the Hilton Broadway followed by "It It Hard To Be A God? Religion in Science Fiction" at 18:30 in the Hilton Boardroom.
April 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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After seeing I'm Still Here recently I think I might spend my day off tomorrow listening to my Soul Jazz Brazilian music comps.
a record cover with the title TROPICÁLIA in colourful letters, followed by the names Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, and Jorge Ben in the same hand drawn colourful font, followed by "A Brazilian Revolution in Sound" in a more sober font, and then pictures of three riot policemen, and then "é probido proibir" and then "Soul Jazz Records" and a catalogue number.
April 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Contemplations of cat
A ginger cat with a white face and ruff sits on a bed thinking deep thoughts.
March 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The Irish Examiner might be using AI to caption their photographs.
Screenshot from a news site showing 7 TDs walking towards camera from Leinster House. The caption names them from left to right, but the names given do not correspond to the people in the picture and include one TD who is not shown.
January 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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These are the two books on my current reading pile I am actually reading.
It is a Penguin Classics book cover for "Caleb Williams" by William Godwin, illustrated by what looks like a detail from a William Blake image of a naked man carrying a hammer and enchained by flames. Penguin book cover for "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, illustrated by a picture of a vintage car (possibly of the 1920s) driving along beside some trees.
January 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Billy Edwards has expressed interest in launching her own AI powered cryptocurrency.
A seated cat with a facial expression suggesting that she is having serious entrepreneurial thoughts.
January 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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As I walked up from Portmarnock beach a spectral figure kept pace with me on the other side of the road.
a road with a wire fence on the other side, beyond which there is grassy vegetation. But in the centre of the picture there is a shadowy figure, apparently walking on the road in front of the fence.
December 29, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Do cat pictures on Blewsky guarantee loads of likes and boosts (or whatever they call RTs here) like they do on Mastodon?
A cat sleeps stretched out on a bed, paws forward like she imagines she is Superman flying. A cat lies on a bed with her head up looking judgmentally to camera A cat lies on a bed with her head up, looking to camera inquiringly.
December 15, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Fronics night of electronic music in Prussia Street's Unit 44, featuring Herr Soul, Hilaire Bolloc, and Orphanth.
A person sits at a desk behind three laptop. Behind there are some small speakers and a screen on which a complicated image of electronics is projected. On the desk and an adjacent table are more pieces of kit joined together by wires. Close up of a man doing something behind three laptops. Two men sit at desks. The one on the left has a laptop and various other pieces of electronic kit. He appears to be doing something. The one on the right has other pieces of electronic kit but not obviously a laptop. He appears to be waiting. A bearded man sits at a desk behind two laptops while images are projected on a screen behind him. There are various bits of electronic kit on the desk and lots of wires.
December 14, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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does it look like this to you (little square thing with tiny letters)? Maybe my ancient computer is not great at rending some kinds of image.
November 27, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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National demonstration for Palestine earlier today in Dublin.

#Dublin #Palestine #Gaza #demonstration #demonstrations #IrelandPalestine
On a sunlit street a large group of people wave Palestinian flags. A woman at a demonstration looks to camera as she holds a sign saying "This Jew says Ceasefire Now - End the Occupation - No to Collective Punishment" while in the background another sign says "End Gaza genocide" A scene from a demonstration. There are Palestinian flags and a sign saying "Gaza has the most child amputees in history. Stop Israel's genocide now!". The sign also has watermelon symbols. Demonstrators hold signs saying "Gaza is starving for justice"
November 18, 2024 at 10:33 PM