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Dáiligh @dailigh.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you Jamie Bryson! Now if we can only convince her to take, Glinner, McGregor and Eoin O’Malley with her. Superb result. (Also no actual Irish person calls it “Republic of Ireland” in this context) #speirgorm

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My increasing distaste for my native country - the Republic of Ireland - has reached such a pitch that I'm finally going to change my citizenship.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Backed a great Kickstarter this evening from Ghost Show Press and if you like cult cinema, you should check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

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Cinematic Obsessions

Reflections on Cult Films that Broke the Rules

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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone took an xray of a bunch of USB drives and it came out kind of menacing.

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh look, NornCon has opened registration. You can read about this awesome Belfast con here - norncon.org - 30th April to 2nd May 2027!

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's going to be such a great weekend!

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Seen on facebook - 12 men reacted with crying emojis.

Original and modern covers of DnD novel "Azure Bonds." In the original the woman on the cover has a boob window in her chainmail, in the edited modern version she does not. One imagines she will stay alive quite a bit longer in the modern version.

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What an end to the first #NFL game in Brazil. #Ravens with a literally last second field goal to go 2-1 (like the rest of the AFC North), but so much to learn from that, and hopefully they will.

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah, right. No moves for reduction in public transport costs, or expansion of bus and train routes; no push for investment in housing, healthcare or regeneration of rural towns and villages. Mé féiners exploiting justified anger and hurt, to turn people against each other. #spéirghorm #ireland

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I heard the term ‘meat proxy’ recently, meaning someone who places themself as a human middleman between an employer and genAI, and it is simultaneously a perfect term for the practice, and existentially depressing when you realise how many want to nominate themselves for the role.

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jeninbelfast.bsky.social @jeninbelfast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone should tell Bryant there already was a compromise. It was the alternate route that's been taken for nearly 30 years and has worked pretty well despite the regular antagonising applications from Portadown Orange District LOL 1 to parade down Garvaghy Road where they're not wanted.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

Superb little 3-post vignette here :)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026

Wishing the diamond cartel a very pleasant fuck you youtu.be/xrg6QCGzQGc

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Why Diamond Prices Are Falling So Fast

YouTube video by CNBC

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst fucking cruelty!"

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wouldn't matter if it was just 1 Orangeman looking to parade down the Garvaghy Road. The community have made their wishes perfectly clear, and what the Orange order wants to do is hold their hand up really close to the community's face and say "I'm not touching you" only a million times worse.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I absolutely love this piece, and there's more to come!

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The bullying of Irish players by agents and billionaires is awful, and the decision should never have been left to the players. Government and FAI have completely failed them and the country.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If reports are true that Irish players are being threatened that they'll never play for US owned clubs in the UK if they pull out of the Israel game, then that's a great argument for getting US money out of European football.

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stop saying the agents are “acting improperly” or that the agents “went rogue”. AI agents are software. The agents just follow the instructions given to them. It was OpenAI who failed in ensuring their agents were controlled properly

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Goodness, what a weight on the players. What a sense of clashing responsibilities it must be. How unfair it falls to the group of young men after their institutional supports chose to send them there.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At what point will the blatant racism of this government be called out for what it is?

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I acknowledge this is clickbait, but also, ye gods, no. If someone doesn't hire you because of this, you absolutely did not want to work there. Interviews are stressful, bring in a coffee, or water, or honestly anything non-alcoholic. There should be water on the table, but even so.

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you live in Dublin you might find #U2 playing in your living room any moment now. Who knows where they will strike next?!

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵Spotted From a Sunny Cafe in Aotearoa New Zealand: A effervescent woman (80s?) wearing a flowing yellow floral dress bustles from her wooden cottage and carefully crouches down on her garden path to offer a bumble bee a drink from an outstretched teaspoon. Beaming when her gift is accepted.

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kelly @earley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so we need thousands of staff for transport infrastructure, thousands of staff for nursing homes and thousands of young people are leaving the country... and we are turning away people who want to come to ireland to work, while making those who are here wait longer for citizenship. ok grand

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧵Spotted in a Cafe in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (3?) is sitting at Mum's feet in a cafe, frowning grumpily at the Rubik's Cube is his hands. He's not sure how this thing works. All he knows that he does not disapprove of all this blue on the red side. Hmm... maybe Dad can fix it.

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the amazing things about running this bid is getting to work with passionate and brilliant people. I love all of this so much and can't wait to see how we use it.

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Dublin 2029 @dublin2029.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You might have noticed us soft launching our new logo around Eurocon and LA Worldcon, and we are very excited to share our new logo with everyone! After much discussion and deliberation, based on the original art by Shevaun Frazier, we have our new logo!

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 21/09/2026

Nighthawks launches TOMORROW!! Creating this game has taken us eight years. A long time for humans, but just a blink of an eye for an eternal vampire. We are so excited you have no idea. store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The most obvious murder ever in #TraitorsIRL last week, and it's like it never happened at all.

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's disappointing for Ireland, losing 36-40 to the USA who really changed the game in the second half. Lots of good points for Ireland , but discipline fell apart after the break. #IREvUSA

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have a joke about Mage, but I can't quite explain the essence of it.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 19/09/2026

Guys if you’re worried about €60,000 of greyhound industry fraud, I’ve got some bad news about the €20,0000,000 in taxpayer subsidies

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Gardaí open €60,000 fraud investigation at greyhound racing tracks

Comptroller and Auditor General Séamus McCarthy says case involves cash handling in stadiums

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New Gist: What If? Exposed to bot armies on social media, politicians have become like Nipper, the loyal Jack Russel dog, listening intently to the automatic, unending and completely synthetic version of His Master's Voice. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...

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The Gist: What if?

The Government wants to reduce immigration. This is the Gist.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/09/2026

As someone in Northern Ireland, it's been sitting uncomfortably the amount of lefties saying Britain has never gone fascist before when most of you have no clue what they did here. Give it different names if you want.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today we're celebrating INEX's (the Irish Internet Exchange Point) 30th anniversary and I'm honoured to be part of the celebrations. Everyone who has been involved in this vital service and amazing community should be proud!

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey it's my birthday so the corebooks PDFs for FiveEvil, a|state, Maskwitches and BEOWULF are all $4.99 for the day. Enjoy! Corebooks? Scorebooks more like amirite www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

An image that shows the covers to BEOWULF, a|state, Maskwitches and FiveEvil

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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's ALIVE! Check out the Octocon 2026 programme featuring lots of panels, talks, workshops, readings, crafting sessions, discussion groups, games, and Meet the Creator sessions where you can chat informally with our guests, both in Cork and online! 🥳 prog.octocon.com #Octocon2026 #Speirgorm

Text of image: The Octocon 2026 Programme is LIVE! Check out everything going on in Cork and online on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th October at https://prog.octocon.com
Background is a soothing purple with stylised images of Cork landmarks in black across the bottom, joined by a white giant robot and dragon. A green UFO hovers above the text.

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