#Speirgorm, we need to email about this, because it's really genuinely appallingly stupid and bad and at the moment Ireland's in support of it. #Ireland #IrishBluesky
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#Speirgorm, we need to email about this, because it's really genuinely appallingly stupid and bad and at the moment Ireland's in support of it. #Ireland #IrishBluesky
Technically you can put it on things you lose regularly too and not put anything other than "if you find me return to X or Call Y" type info on it..
An irish woman running this in Wexford. #Irish #SpeirGorm #medical #neurodivergence
I thought this was clever and possibly a useful thing to put on something you don't lose often - like I usually don't lose my keys so this will go on mine asap. But rather than an app on my phone people can get my next of kin data and meds from this if something happens to me... knowmetag.ie
Fans in the UK and Ireland, and especially NI - if you enjoyed the Belfast Eastercon this year or have wished that NI had an annual event like Octocon, come along to this meeting about setting up a regular con in Northern Ireland! facebook.com/events/s/a-b... 1/2
Even Ireland learned well enough to beat them and most of us didn't even know we still HAD an international team...
though we left the commonwealth too
Oooh I like it...
Exactly. So happy to get to see you.
Goodness - I wonder what causes that level of gun death.. What could it be?!
OK It's official. I will be at Cork international Hotel from Friday 17th to Monday 20th October 2025. #IrishDiscworldCon #IDWCON
(The supposed argument being "we tried everything else, we had DOGE cut all the silly fluffy nonsense like DEI and Arts etc and we threw out all the illegals but it isn't enough")
I'm told going bankrupt was already happening - the attack on the workforce was to ensure their base didn't revolt when they went after tax increases and spending cuts.... But I do not know.
The windows alone!!!
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Well, you'd get a lot of that back in grants.... but then basically you are buying land you have to clear and the right to have a house on the land because there WAS a house on the land... of course they can get shirty about what kind of house.... or changes...
fair point. Perhaps someone else will know...
Rats (also, you could get rats.....no... sigh)
Yep- too cute
Maybe I will sometime so... I did SO love them when I got to hold them at a thing in the UK. If YOU get some again, I will camp out near the enclosure and just sigh
I thought they needed the VERY large parrot cage size and I didn't have a place (or ability) to have one of those at the time I was looking into pets. I ended up with gerbils. At least Ireland doesn't often get that warm.....
Got it. I can see the heat intolerance with all that fur, but they feel SO GOOD
for that price difference I might buy one so I'd have it for other years... maybe
Why chinchillas? (I would have had a pet chinchilla but I couldn't find a place to keep it in the house where it would have a large enough enclosure and not having an enclosure was not recommended)
True - though non toxic to kids doesn't always mean non toxic to dogs... But for the same reason, since pets and kids often coexist, it's probably reasonable to assume they should be non toxic to pets in a similar way....
Does anyone know about fog machines - I'd love to have eerie fog around the entrance at halloween but I don't want lights or anything and I don't want anything too complex.... And I have a dog so non toxic etc..... #FogMachine #Halloween
"legitimate camps"
I can NOT get my mother to understand how HORRIBLE I find it when she sits across the room from me with her phone and plays videos on FB or plays games that make noise.
It makes grown up me quite unnerved...
Does my calculator cry when I drop it?
I forgive leaving headphones in (or on) when interacting as long as I'm not hearing sounds from them. I use them to cut down on surrounding noise sometimes and it can help me focus on what people are actually saying to me. But good god, why do people play music and videos so that I can hear them??
giggles
I don't want to listen to your* music or the reels or videos you are watching. I definitely don't want to listen to both sides of your phone conversation. Why do people think it's ok to play youtube or whatever without headphones?? *not YOUR music etc obvs...
Apparently I'm the only one who got visions of Mjölnir getting "Axe-drunk" from all this....
AIs make up the most outrageous stuff and give it to you as the answer to a search these days. #AI #Thor #Mjölnir #Irish #Etymology
"Before a photographer could snap pictures, he pulled a copy of 'Mein Kampf' from a bookshelf and turned it around to hide its spine."
Ah yes, the double positive which indicates an actual negative....
Good luck
I mean, if it's not storm damage across the whole country I'd expect it to be back with a few hours. Nearly 6 is a horribly long time.
But but...you know I'm in pain when I stop making noise.....
I must admit I assumed they were something else... though obviously related....
I don't entirely believe those actually act like period cramps. When I use tens machine type things above a certain point all I really FEEL is a zapping sensation because of imperfect connections to my skin. And those HURT. But the actual muscle twitches are just muscle twitches.
If you could get a crib in any five cities (five cribs) of your choice in the world, which would you choose? Me: Bristol, NYC, Sydney, somewhere between The Hague and Paris....., somewhere else entirely.. Look, mostly I just want to visit friends and family. Those are located sufficiently near.
Are we talking a place I own or a place I can stay at a moment's notice but belonging to someone else who lives there?
Like, do they have to be cities - or just communities not individual houses?
Folks, take approx 30 seconds to fill this in. The Irish Basic Income for the Arts scheme is a trailblazing initiative that might well die a death if we don't come out in support of it.
Davuluri should eshew obfuscation. "in the arc of time" "continue to span form factors" " experience diversity is the next space " This is a classic case of intellectual posturing by using inflated language. But is it his own abilities he is covering for, or the AI.....
Update: 16 of 24 authors and 2 judges have now withdrawn. First Book: Curtis Garner Jason Okundaye Sacha Coward Sanah Ahsan Amy Twigg Mae Diansangu Eleanor Medhurst Hanako Footman Ciara Maguire June Thomas Main: Olumide Popoola Robert Hamberger Dean Atta Andrew McMillan Rhian Elizabeth Jane Traies
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of course I would prefer that any artist who is working in any way as an artist would get it at all.... in fact... how about just a basic universal income for all and then we wouldn't have to "judge" who is worthy.. but that's not in the options.
Good point, thank you
I'm going with need. Random is somehow cruel and merit assumes a judge over the art which can be horribly biased. While need is not great either because how much need is need, it doesn't judge the art and isn't... well.. luck or fate. Enough about success is luck.
There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Must remember tomorrow
And that the cat is not a demon.
There are print out paper collars for that
he's certainly your kinda guy with the giving things fans love away
THAT was it. So that was him... Cool guy.
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Still at a loss, if anyone has more suggestions. 😅
I mean I don't even live in Dublin and I'm in favour of it....
Does he do this a lot, I'm sure I saw another guy (possible looking the same possibly utterly different but with the same vibe) do another similar nice thing for a con attendee a couple of weeks (days/months) ago. What an awesome thing.
Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act
We are not trivialising LLMs. Copyright theft is not trivial. Environmental damage is not trivial. Unreliability is not trivial. Risk to human cognition is not trivial. Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.
Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡 Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Sorry, but I'm going to get real annoying about this. If you're an Irish artist/creative, this survey only takes a few minutes to do. As mentioned by Ian Fay, this is getting brigaded by far right types over on X, and we need to drown them out.
Do we need to start walking folks to their car now? To keep them safe?
'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2
My electrician is not having a good time with the lights he suggested for my room - this is his third visit and he will either be back tomorrow or next week..........
One of the things I loved about meeting Ireland's (and others) fandom was how they all agreed that I totally didn't need to have read (or watched or played) any particular thing
Well, all right, I suppose it's PROBABLY true that someone getting into *reading* sci-fi should probably read various sci-fi stories etc....
lliw I
Update: 12 of 24 authors have withdrawn from the Polari Prize First Book: Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas Main award: Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth Judges: Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
I mean... _reading_ sci-fi is *probably* a good idea if you want to write it.
honest to god the amount of energy you manage to dig out and the amount of stuff you get done leaves me in awe. But congratulations. I am contemplating investing in such a thing and to be honest I'm both terrified and wish it was over already. wait - those are the same thing really. Anyway WELL DONE
Absolutely yes - all input welcome. I am curious about it. I should have asked more at the time but I made the classic mistake of assuming I had more time It has a very robust feel to everything except that basket. For clarification the top opens by rotating half the lid sideways in either direction
O Great Internet Hivemind, @antiqueight.bsky.social owns this cool #vintage #sewing basket/table but neither of us has any idea what era it might stem from. Please cast this post out into the far reaches of #sewsky #antiques until it finds someone who knows these things? :)
A gift from expat Americans both now gone from us. No clue what the origins of the piece are, or when. So far, possibly 1930s UK....
apparently those are possibly "bobbin legs" which seems entirely apt for a sewing table
I'm sort of coming to the "victorian 'home made' rustic sewing table" idea.... like it's "in the style of" nothing particular but with victorian legs but not 'finely' crafted...
ie.pinterest.com/antiqueight/...
those are yeah, but there are whole swathes that shape with variations in feet..... but then they also have a different handle.... Nothing seems to be the same shape at all....
The closest I have found so far supposedly dates from the 60s and isn't round... pin.it/5vUhnJSHZ
I will try get a closer look at the basket fitting. I should say i knocked the basket, and it looks off the clip in this. I like the basket less than the rest because it feels flimsy, but I hadn't considered it could be retrofitted
Ps tips about what the wood is, also welcome
A gift from expat Americans both now gone from us. No clue what the origins of the piece are, or when. So far, possibly 1930s UK....
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Oh bugger - the electrician is due too and I owe him money and he too prefers cash and.... it's going to be one of those days, isn't it
I have them too..same...
I will try....
I fairly- oh hell.... I just realised I have to go to the cash machine again today to get money to pay the cleaner who works for cash which I never carry and which I don't typically have for her without 2 stops, 1 to get the cash and 1 to get the change needed to specifically give her cash....
This kind soul has a few FREE copies of my monster for y'all!
I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
Only 2 of these have been claimed so far! The 1st, 2nd, and 5th ones are still available. #KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway
I would but I'm .com and too sleepy to swap over and back to snag it..... ;-)
I usedta love that show. Such crap from the guy who made his name playing the ultimate "illegal immigrant".