iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Would be good if performers, musicians, writers, and other creative workers insisted on organisers not using genAI for advertising festivals, shows and events they're taking part in, in solidarity with visual artists, because it's absolutely everywhere at the moment. We need to stick together!

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🗽💜 @chips1955.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

💜🤍💙

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It's times like this you realise what an essential tool twitter is/has been in times of crisis, whatever you think of its owner, inter alia.

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Twitter is down so I'm on here for now. You people... do know there's a devastating war going on right now, right?

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Viriconia @viriconia.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

There’s always money in the

A photo of an Irish road sign for Banna Strand

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

As a tiny country, international law is all we've got. It's not a lot but at least it's something. Ireland fails to defend it at its peril.

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Streetwise, Cville Safety Cat: Interested Female Vocalists Write @averysafecat.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Every promo shot of every British electronica trio c. 1997.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 21/08/2025

Sam Altman: In five year’s time AI will be able to go to the toilet for you. Every news channel and website: We must cover this unquestioningly.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Winter Olympics > Summer Olympics you know I'm right

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Bought this aged 9 and never looked back 😁🤗🐷. The reason I'm working in comics today ✏️

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇 SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬

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* Retrieve Top-up Code
I would like to disconnect my gas supply
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I'm really sorry you're feeling this way, but I'm not equipped to help with this.
It's important to talk to a mental health professional or reach out to a trusted person in your life for support.
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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I used to have a lot of contact with UK Nuclear Waste Services as part of my day job, and this was more or less how every meeting began 😅

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Ah (Facebook) memories... A comic I produced fifteen years ago (!) for Aidan Courtney's much missed Coimicí Gael series 'Rí-Rá' - An Dr. Cáis, Tréidlia Spáis! This was page one of three I think, not sure I have the rest in digital format anymore.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

"Here’s an example that Google’s Josh Woodward, VP of the Gemini app, Google Labs, and AI Studio, shared in a blog post about how Personal Intelligence can work. Google also put together a similar example in a video that I’ve embedded below:

For example, we needed new tires for our 2019 Honda minivan two weeks ago. Standing in line at the shop, I realized I didn’t know the tire size. I asked Gemini. These days any chatbot can find these tire specs, but Gemini went further. It suggested different options: one for daily driving and another for all-weather conditions, referencing our family road trips to Oklahoma found in Google Photos. It then neatly pulled ratings and prices for each. As I got to the counter, I needed our license plate. Instead of searching for it or losing my spot in line to walk back to the parking lot, I asked Gemini. It pulled the seven-digit number from a picture in Photos and also helped me identify the van’s specific trim by searching Gmail. Just like that, we were set."

https://www.theverge.com/news/861576/google-gemini-ai-personal-intelligence-gmail-search-youtube-photos

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Big Atlantic sky, infused with drama 🌍

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

You have to be discerning though (lists, lists lists); I get that it's not a place for casual fun and it's definitely *much* sweeter and more serene here :)

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Not sure I agree with much of this - I'm still on Twitter and much of my TL over the last while has been outrage, resistance and calls to action following Venezuela, ICE and so on. Definitely less fun than when we could deplatform unsavoury views and accounts but still an essential source of info.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It’s maybe not the point, but it warms my heart to see the word ‘comics’ being used here rather than ‘graphic novels’

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3

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Margaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It's a great word in its own right, leaning towards wonderful onomatopoeia when referring to food. It's perfection in this context. Keep calling out the slop for what it is. Slop: "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence"

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Kevin HofFIN- OH MY GOD!!! SHARK ATTACK!!! *Munch* 🦈 @khoffin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

When 97% is 'no clear consensus', and 52% is 'the will of the people', it's time to face facts that Governments do what Governments want to do regardless of what their people actually want.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

🎁 Little daily thread of some gift ideas from me aul shop/siopa from now until d'Christmas. This hard-working canine companion warms themself by a familiar range in this watercolour and pencil illustration of a well-loved, cosy, rural Irish kitchen. Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Watercolour painting in a semi-cartoon style. A sheepdog lies contentedly in front of an old Stanley range with pots and a teapot on it, surrounded by rural kitchen paraphernalia like a bucket of turf, wellies, teatowels, jams and syrup, Lotto tickets etc. A clock hangs overhead and a mouse peaks out near it.

#art #ireland #spéirgorm #spéirghorm

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Hmm I wonder how much attention they’ll pay to this.

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Tradition (since I was 14 or thereabouts) dictates that this pair of idiots are the first thing I draw in any new notebook :)

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Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed) @alotron.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Brand new Moleskine klaxon 🚨 🎨🖌️

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

What if Russia came and placed a Stephen Collins article in front of me and told me to read it?

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Ireland should be doing more for Palestine, boycotting the genocidal state of Israel on every level: trade, sporting, and cultural links. But RTE's stand on the Eurovision is still cause to be proud. share.google/O7eDraWZmvyf...

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Ireland will not take part in next Eurovision Song Contest due to Israel’s inclusion

Meeting of European Broadcasting Union decided vote on Israel’s participation was not needed

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Ireland’s influence in non-proliferation far outweighs our size and it’s because of our neutrality. It’s maybe the most important thing we do on the world stage and our media basically never talks about it. So of course he wants us to step back, it makes it easier to argue against neutrality

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Fresh meat was as precious as gold bullion back in the 70s. According, that is, to Letraset's dizzyingly exciting THE SWEENEY Super Action Transfers, which allowed kids to create violent scenes based on the classic post-watershed cop show. This meat blag is *carnage*, guv!

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

ms paint of a twitter post by Joyce Carol Oates that reads: "So curious that the richest man in the world doesn't have a favorite shape. Does he even know any shapes?"

separate twitter post by an account named "shapesthetics": "The triangle is a shape with three sides and three corners, one of the most basic yet beautiful shapes in Euclidean geometry."

reply to this post by Elon Musk: "Great shape:

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