Reposted by Drew ShielGentle Decline @gentledecline.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People have been claiming that AI could end the world. I don't think so. AI will just make things inconvenient and weird. gentledecline.beehiiv.com/p/gentle-dec... 001
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I growl about Irish Rail, but they don't claim that their vehicles are due when they don't exist. I've just seen a Dublin Bus go from "3 minutes" (which it held for 10) to "Due" to... nothing. The next one evaporated off the tracker before it showed up 8 minutes late, 2 stops into the route. Clowns. 030
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Housekeeping or farming, bit of carpentry on the side. And that then seems to be true for as many generations as you care to go back. 010
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Apparently the MetroLink project could run to €19 billion. Ok. GET ON WITH IT. It's not going to get any cheaper, and it's completely necessary, not least because it's embarrassing telling international visitors they can't get a train from the airport. www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...irishtimes.comMetroLink could cost up to €19bn, say senior Coalition figuresCabinet set to consider plans in autumn to put out to tender the proposed 19km rail link from Swords to Charlemont 020
Reposted by Drew ShielMaureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it. 1356634179
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026My neuroatypicality apparently doesn't really allow for anxiety. Similarly, guilt and shame are a bit alien to me. And I am very much the Forever DM. 000
Reposted by Drew ShielSCA Shire of Dun in Mara @duninmara.bsky.social · 26/06/2026duninmara.org/events/2026/... 001
Reposted by Drew ShielGentle Decline @gentledecline.bsky.social · 24/06/2026A new issue: gentledecline.beehiiv.com/p/gentle-dec...gentledecline.beehiiv.comGentle Decline 2/45: Voices & VersatilityS 001
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Overheard on bus: "...but this is Ireland, a country governed by a body of wet dishrags masquerading as lame politicians." 000
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This looks magnificent. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...backerkit.comMonsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned LakeMonsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake. Get messy. 🤯 Get magical. 🪄 Get monstrous. 🦇 We are crowdfunding to add controller support to this queer narrative horror deckbuilder. 000
Reposted by Drew ShielSCA Shire of Dun in Mara @duninmara.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A new website for and by the artisans of Lough Devnaree: nacuallachtai.orgnacuallachtai.orgNa CuallachtaiRecrafting Medieval, the SCA way 001
Reposted by Drew ShielÚna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026White folks need to step up and do more to stop and speak out against the ever increasing violence towards POC. We can’t do it alone. Don’t keep asking us ‘how’, google is free. 310533
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A petition for public transport information to be visible to the public. Which, really, seems like common sense. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pu...my.uplift.iePublic Info, Public Access - Stop providing public info exclusively on private social networksHow this affects you: Public transport and government services are public goods. But right now, vital updates—like train cancellations, road closures, and emergency alerts—are often shared on private ... 022
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A sestina, written in a couple of hours while camping: www.tumblr.com/thejoyofseax... 010
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026thejoyofseax.tumblr.com/post/8184264...thejoyofseax.tumblr.comStrawberry Raid V, 2026This isn't so much an event report as an index post, from which I can link more posts as I make them. You can expect posts on: Thoughts on Camp Coordination Teaching Cooking by Doing Cooking The... 010
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026"Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live" Red Hot Chili Peppers Warlords of Pez Jethro Tull Ensiferum Korpiklaani Loyko M(h)aol Eluveitie Frank Black Volbeat 010
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This is the correct way forward. The current situation is benefitting a small number of landlords, and nobody else. Of course, our glorious leaders are either landlords or have them in the close family, so it's going to take some pressure for this to happen. www.thejournal.ie/readme/kelly...thejournal.ieThe housing crisis: Like wildfire, we need to abandon the delusion it’ll burn itself outThe only real way out of the housing crisis is through the introduction of a state construction company, argues Kelly Earley. 041
Reposted by Drew ShielAysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it 3556041652
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026You start off with perfectly sensible sentences like "I fed the cat". And then maybe, "the cat has been fed". And before you know it, you're on "sustenance has been cast into the gaping maw". 111706
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I need to know where Jasmine Bhullar got that Planescape t-shirt. 000
Reposted by Drew ShielEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Every year, seeing this blows my mind. Far side of the fence, grazed by sheep: a deadzone. Our side of the fence: full of wild native trees, flowers, insects, birds. WHY are we not giving hill farmers other livelihood options that *benefit*, instead of destroy, nature, like paying them to rewild? 915748
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026"Spanish explorers first found goobers in Peru and carried them back to Spain, where they were grown and from whence they were traded to Africa." Tastes & Tales from Texas: A Collection of Texas Recipes by Peg Hein. Admittedly, the first 3 closest books were my own notebooks; less interesting. 010
Reposted by Drew ShielDublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 17/04/2026We need your help to keep doing what we do, so if you appreciate our quality, local journalism – the issues we choose to cover, and the way we do it – please consider subscribing. If you're already a subscriber, thank you!dublininquirer.comWe need your help to keep doing thisSubscriptions start at €8 a month, and we're a small place, so every single one makes a difference. 02530
Reposted by Drew ShielJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026“The Irish government balked at introducing any such moderate, sensible energy-saving measures, presumably fearful of backlash from a public conditioned to believe that any sacrifice, no matter how small, is intolerable”. My take is in @thejournal.ie today. www.thejournal.ie/readme/carbo...thejournal.ieOpinion: Carbon tax may be the tax we love to hate, but it's the one we can't afford to scrapCarbon tax may be unpopular, but we need it to avoid a far more expensive future, and the government was wrong to cave in after protests, writes John Gibbons. 98234
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Seanan Mcguire, Jim Butcher, Barbara Hambly, T. Kingfisher, Ben Aaronovitch, Lois McMaster Bujold, Max Gladstone, Gareth Hanrahan, China Mieville, Yoon Ha Lee, Maggie Stiefvater, Martha Wells, Amal el-Mohtar, Dave Hutchinson, K.B. Spangler, H.A Clarke, Foz Meadows, Tamsyn Muir, Katherine Addison 030
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I have three wants for Irish Rail's trains. They should be on time, have the reserved seat signs up, and not be at the platforms where you have to walk halfway to your destination to reach them. This shouldn't be a difficult set of things to achieve, and yet. 240
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026TTRPG about me First game: Advanced Fighting Fantasy Last game: D&D 5E Longest game: D&D 3.5 or Legends of Anglerre, not sure which Favourite game: Absolutely unsure, would need to try lots more Favourite mechanics: Exploding dice. Favourite art: 010
Reposted by Drew Shielsocmot @socmot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I have realised since leaving politics that a lot politically active folks on the left or progressive ideological spectrum are quite blinkered sometimes, be they aligned to the SDs, Labour, Sol-PBP, Greens, SF, Indo Left. Look at what platforms you are using before using them! 011
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Universal Basic Income. We have the capability for it, and everyone who's ever looked at knows it works. It would change everything for the better. 14113
Reposted by Drew ShielDeirdre @wyvernfriend.bsky.social · 10/04/2026What I would like to see happening. Grant aiding getting as many viable roofs as possible with solar panels. Particularly farm sheds. Reintroduce buy-back for people with excess. Electrify the rail system Bring back goods trains with hubs Electrify the delivery trucks Offer grants for eCars 1/2 122
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Post a image from a game you played as a teenager: 000
Reposted by Drew ShielDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 02/04/2026It was nice to see a rocket launch that’s owned by us instead of an asshole billionaire. 0274
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Generally speaking, if IBEC recommend a thing, you can be pretty sure it's bad for employees, and usually also conservative and reactionary. They are a genuinely awful organisation. 1142
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I have always understood the Ferengi as not-particularly-any-nation right-wingers, tbh. Capitalism uber alles, sexist to a fault, mostly cowardly when challenged, and prone to racism at the least excuse. 030
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026A new issue of Commonplace, my food newsletter: commonplacebook.beehiiv.com/p/commonplac...commonplacebook.beehiiv.comCommonplace Vol. 7 Issue 2Health, medication, and effects on food. 020
Reposted by Drew ShielDrew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I'm chasing for work. What I do: Technical Marketing. Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn ads; from setup to making the things WORK. Search Engine Optimisation. Email marketing. Social media. Website traffic analysis and optimisation. And fixing things that aren't going right. Drop me a line! 178
Reposted by Drew ShielKevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 24/03/2026My God, the situation in the Middle East is so bad that Tánaiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris is considering people working from home for a bit, maybe. I didn't think we'd see this in our lifetimes. He's actively considering inconveniencing the office block owner's lobby 193
Reposted by Drew ShielALVIRA, the BASTARD of the Dark 🇮🇪 🍉 @alkalinecollective.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Posting for truth but also for smug James Connolly 0142
Reposted by Drew ShielCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Friendly reminder that you don't always need to bring quiet people "out of themselves" or try to get them to "loosen up" at social gatherings, some of us are just naturally a bit more reserved and introverted and silently plotting the downfall of our enemies and that's okay 💖 1227833
Reposted by Drew ShielIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM 126178735897
Reposted by Drew ShielNina Shiel @nshiel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Oh, my pals. It's been six year after the pandemic kicked off and we all learned to meet and present online. For the sake of your hearing impaired, auditory processing impaired, and your neurospicy audience, PLEASE PLEASE wear headsets including good quality mics to avoid the awful tinnyness. 131
Reposted by Drew ShielBruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay freeyoutu.beBruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen 42569709740554
Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The year's first issue of Commonplace is now out. Read about smoking meat and baking scones. commonplacebook.beehiiv.com/p/commonplac...commonplacebook.beehiiv.comCommonplace Vol. 7 Issue 1Recent adventures in food, and how there's always more to look into. 121