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Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Dawn Foster died five years ago on this date. I really miss her and I think about her every day. If you’re new to her work or want to introduce it to someone, this was the best tribute written about her: tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/in-m... Dawn Foster Forever

Dawn outside the Sunflower pub in Belfast. Sign reads “no topless bathing Ulster has suffered enough.”

Dawn in front of a print reading “greet the Dawn five Labour its chance”

Dawn in the Bread and Roses pub in Clapham and a painting of John Burns Addressing and Open Air Crowd by Alexander Joseph Finberg

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

To accommodate some reviewers availability, we're extending the #CallForProposals for #BSidesBelfast26 that was due to end tomorrow until NEXT SUNDAY THE 14TH! bsidesbelfast.org/speak/ #infosec #bsides #securitybsides #bsidesbelfast

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Bran is such a handsome dog. He photographs well, mostly because you can't hear him barking in an image.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"they're selling this garbage on the streets," dog mutters to self

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NIDC @nidc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Our CFP went live on Friday and already we have 8 talks: sessionize.com/nidc-2025 First time speakers may wish to wait for our "How to submit to a CFP" session on the 12th Aug. Delivered by @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social and @garthgilmour.bsky.social. Logistics still to be confirmed so stay tuned! 🙂

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Finally got the "updated Netflix experience" rolled out to my TV and it's _bad_. Even worse than I'd thought from what people were saying. Good UX has been a lost art for a decade, but this really does feel like a "New Coke" moment.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

happy 20th anniversary to this unfortunate choice in wording by McDonalds

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

sucks for the people who live there but the festival was overrated anyway

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A cart carrying Mel Gibson drove past me in Newark Airport. He was holding a piece of paper in front of his face.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I think about this tweet so often you cannot even imagine.

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I’m not saying Blue Prince has broken my brain, but I did instinctually start trying to solve this exhibition at the MAC art gallery.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 23/04/2025

FBI: Americans aged 60 and older reported losing almost $3 billion to crypto fraud last year. In total, Americans reported being scammed out of around $9.3 billion via crypto, out of a total $16.6 billion in total reported thefts that year. www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport...

2024 IC3 CRYPTOCURRENCY FRAUD COMPLAINTS REFERENCING CRYPTOCURRENCY AGE RANGE21 COUNT LOSS Under 20 1,819 $7,778,157 20 - 29 13,591 $370,443,345 30 - 39 22,218 $1,006,382,458 40 - 49 22,555 $1,462,040,974 50 - 59 19,317 $1,184,912,854 Over 60 33,369 $2,839,333,197 Chart outlines cryptocurrency complaints in 2024: 149,686 complaints; $9.3 billion in losses; 66% increase in loss; largest age group to report is 60+.

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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

remember, stranger danger as a concept was introduced shortly after some 70s studies came out and determined nearly all child abuse was from adults close to the family. it was literally a nationwide "fuck no that can't be right"

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Causeway Pride @causewaypride.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

An Important thread following today's ruling

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

And that's it, all locked in less than a minute, and gone in two. Watch this space for the next drop! #bsidesbelfast25 #securitybesides #bsidesbelfast #infosec #cybersecurity

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Early Bird Release; Monday 2025-04-14T11:00+01:00 bsidesbelfast.org/register/ #bsidesbelfast25 #securitybsides #earlybirds #infosec #cybersecurity

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Microsoft is the real offender here, but anyone who writes even a news post about the copilot "AI" Quake 'tech demo' without describing how it actually functions (or fails to) it is is doing unpaid PR work.

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

@kissesfingers.bsky.social Hello! A friend on Discord recommended you to me as someone who could do music for a podcast (you did the theme for their horror podcast). I'm looking to commission someone to do a theme for a new podcast I'm starting - is this something you'd be open to at the moment?

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Excitement is mounting for @bsidesprg.bsky.social tomorrow!

T-shirt and wooden badge for BSides Prague

The room where the BSides Prague talks will take place.

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Classic error, should have jailed the real one.

BBC headline: "Fake £4m Xanax drug gang boss jailed".

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Doing a talk this evening (about the history of Irish witch trials), so have the traditional out-of-context slide.

Slide with a picture of a demonic boy, and the text:
"December 1710: The demonic boy appears
12th February 1711: The demonic boy returns"

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

“...include(s) stand-out essays by the likes of Cathy Pickens (a ‘Southern Gothic’ mystery) and Ciaran Conliffe, who explores the legendary Ruth Snyder case.”—Martin Edwards, Edgar-winning author of The Life of Crime Pre-order your copy now!

Cover for "Women Who Murder, An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales"

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Someday I will progress past posting random images here. Today is not that day.

A flat model of the sun, with a sign pointing at it saying "Please do not touch the sun."

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

my mum is watching an episode of Endeavour where the murder weapon is a tiger and the whole thing has ended with them trying to shoot the tiger in a hedge maze before it finds and eats a baby

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Ciaran Conliffe @shinyemptyhead.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

I'm basically just posting random pictures off my hard drive to here at the moment. This is covers from the magazine "Calling All Girls" when they decided that what girls really liked was dogs and dress-up.

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