Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 44mIn a script you'd get this back with a red line through it asking you to tone it down. 2282
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyColin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social · 2hAnyone in public life who does not understand what the Garvaghy Road means to every strand of the nationalist/republican community in the North does not deserve to be taken seriously. 05913
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10hThose arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too. 254853
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10hIt's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin! 371661
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10hWe've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal. 191210191
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10hEvery time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 361433270
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort. 9768041544
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If Anthropic would like to give me $12.6 billion in order to receive $4.6 billion back, I'd like to make it known that I have a gap in my schedule that could work well for both of us. 512225
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It led to a minor diplomatic when Bill visited Yorkshire and was denied snakebite by a barman who mistakenly believed it to be illegal. (It *is* illegal to serve in Scotland - both parts must be poured separately and the customer charged with mixing them). www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7107410...thenorthernecho.co.ukGood morning Mr PresidentBAR staff were ready to admonish a cheeky customer for banging on the door ten minutes before opening time yesterday lunchtime. 2132
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Looked into the drinking habits of US presidents recently (mostly because I find it odd, and oddly unmentioned, that Obama remains this century's only only non-teetotal US president). Anyway, from that I learned that Bill Clinton drinks only rarely, and that the only drink he enjoys is... snakebite. 8273
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyJohn Allison @badmachinery.com · 28/09/2026The same glass I had to do some research on the origins of "snakebite and black" for this comic, and find out when it emerged. Wikipedia said it was popularised in the 1980s but like power-ups in video games, every time I thought I'd found the earliest instance, I then found an earlier one.badmachinery.comThe same glassI had to do some research on the origins of "snakebite and black" for this comic, and find out when it emerged. Wikipedia said it was popularised in the 1980s but like power-ups in video games, every time I thought I'd found the earliest instance, I then found an earlier one. 5869
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2675234435
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 22/09/20268 years after Repeal, those seeking abortion in Ireland are still subject to an unnecessary 3 day waiting period, an unworkable 12 week cut off, and a lack of providers throughout the country. If that doesn't sound very much like Repeal to you, join the march in Dublin this Saturday! 4218105
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 22/09/20268 years after Repeal, those seeking abortion in Ireland are still subject to an unnecessary 3 day waiting period, an unworkable 12 week cut off, and a lack of providers throughout the country. If that doesn't sound very much like Repeal to you, join the march in Dublin this Saturday! 4218105
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillySamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org 5469221
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyRob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣 6776208
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 349160714116
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyDirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Dave Gibbons making this point about Lichtenstein made me very happy. 1128472
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'Reillyukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein: 435397
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026The other day I used an otherwise empty women’s restroom at the movie theater and as I sat down a male employee opened the door very loudly and yelled “BATHROOM CHECK”. He was just trying to clean. But for the first time in many years I panicked and got scared. It should not be like this. 161992101
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026Too many have forgotten that the civil rights movement was fought over, among other things, bathrooms and locker rooms 112413300
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026The liberal notion of acquiescing to reduced-to-removed rights by fascists so everybody else can I guess defeat fascism with the power of the ballot betrays their perception of us: that our identities and sexes and genders and lives and loves are a choice and that we have been humored long enough 32190234
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights 4562181079
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 20/07/2023Philip K. Dick chiming in with one of the more quietly hostile dedications I've ever read. 1034727
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/04/2024Philip K Ass 1125031
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillytherealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026 163937958
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'Reillyeliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026just learned this today 6868353711
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/09/2026As 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. 211056200
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791709564
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram: 142104032158
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyCethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming. 544952664
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyJohn Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran's tour bus. 76148962905
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comHow concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale surveyWe're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun... 17432302
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Occasionally, I'm reminded of my all time favourite piece of internet: this Reddit post from 12 years ago in which a guy claims he ruined dinner with his girlfriend's parents by refusing to admit he knew what a potato was. 2540389
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/10/2024Sitting in stunned, jealous awe cos my eight year old nephew just earnestly referred to the famine as a "potato outage". 251291222
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239361777
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyDara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This absolutely is not how "any money laundering business" works. In the main, businesses that are used for money laundering are legitimate public-facing businesses that just have a lot more cash going through the till than you might expect. Restaurants, barbers, pubs etc. 86811
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 484297717660
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think this was ultimately the right move. 04489396
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"I am for the dignity and safety and equal rights of trans people everywhere. Fuck you. The end." "I do not believe you care about this issue. You are lying. In fact you're a straight up weirdo for fixating on kids' genitals so much. That is odd behavior. Let kids run around with their friends."welcometohellworld.comI do not believe you care about thisYou are lying 81869456
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Chuckling at the almost touching pointlessness of gifting Donald Trump a Michael Longley poem. Like playing Bach to a waffle iron. 12572119
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyPatrick @prayforpatrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026have a few nice framed pieces for sale now as well. all framed locally here in Donegal and the stag & Connolly prints can also be sent to the UK if anyone wants. the Larkin piece is too heavy for that so Ireland only for that. Stag €120 Connolly €150 Larkin €180 DM me if you’re interested 21712
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If, like me, you’ve always wondered exactly which issue of Viz David is enjoying here, it turns out it’s Issue 40, from February 1990. 1320730
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'Reillydaryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com... 2845381906
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyJ. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026even now, she's still teaching us 95144972732
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026You Can See Everything (dir: Lance Oppenheim, 2026) 0605
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things 322241604869
Reposted by The Author, Séamas O'ReillyUK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Aright today's the day. It's @theartsdesk.bsky.social's birthday and your last chance to get the founders' subscription rate in perpetuity. A little story: in 2009 the papers were gutting their arts coverage, thanks to advertising collapsing post the 2008 crash. Following yet another announcement 296