Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 30/01/2026As someone who works in this space, I was always told that 'good enough was never good enough'. The people pumping out AI slop are completely trying to shift that narrative to 'you'll like what we tell you to like' I knew things were bad, but this is grim, grim reading. 49231
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 29/01/2026When employers tell you they want you back in the office for the culture... this is the culture they mean 072
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I’ve built a Time Machine and travelled to the year 2046. It’s still raining 000
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026A couple of months ago I went to the first parents association meeting of my kids new school. 27 women and me. I was a little stunned 'cause in the last school the dads were quite involved but really I shouldn't have been 010
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 21/01/2026On my way to Rascals ahead of my Craicademia talk. Have suddenly forgotten how to speak 010
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 21/01/2026This minds me of a bit I had where friends would post pictures of themselves in front of famous world landmarks (eiffel tower, grand canyon, etc) and I'd comment underneath 'where's that?' 020
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 20/01/2026looking at pictures from 2015 and the last time I was beardless and my number one thought is that I should have spent more money on a phone with a decent camera. every picture looks like it was taken with a potato. underwater 000
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Episode 1 of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was promising. Just the right level of silliness in keeping with the source material 000
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Seeing the northern lights with the naked eye will never get boring 140
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I’m speaking at Craicademia on Wednesday night (think Ted talk but more craic). Gonna be discussing living with Trigeminal Neuralgia, one of the world’s most painful medical conditions. Come along and throw tomatoes (just not at my face) www.eventbrite.ie/e/craicademi...eventbrite.ieCraicademiaDublin’s newest night where big ideas meet great craic. Ted-style talks but with an Irish twist, less PowerPoint and more personality. 2123
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Kildare twinned with Austria, neither a hurling stronghold 0316
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Guess I’m back here now. My WhatsApp groups will be happy at least 150
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 22/01/2025So here’s my take. We priced working class people out of journalism with the prevalence of unpaid internships. And the fee-paying school kids who replaced them are the most gullible people imaginable. Cause if you don’t think this was a nazi salute, I dunno what to tell you 5378
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I have seen 1000x more people note that Trump didn't really save TikTok than I have seen people claim Trump saved TikTok 010
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I’m 42 and lowkey still not 100% sure you’re not all lying to me about narwhals being real 350
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025interestingly, the Programme for Government doesn't seems to include anything about stopping the shrinkflation that affected selection boxes so heavily last Christmas. Truly a missed opportunity 120
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 13/01/2025This is a really hard read. Fair play to those women for going public. I was a huge fan of Gaiman's work when I was younger. But he belongs firmly in the bin. 000
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 08/01/2025My trigeminal neuralgia has been giving me awful gip recently. But the cold spell makes such a difference in terms of keeping the worst of the pain away. I know it's been really hard for some people, but the difference I feel being outdoors in this weather. Better than any drug 030
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Timmy Dooley on Morning Ireland today said three times, unchallenged, that the Irish people had given FF/FG a 'significant majority' They don't have *a* majority which is why they're having to make deals with the likes of Verona Murphy in the first place, never mind a significant one 162
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I think about this @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social cartoon every single time I look at my dog 030
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I know dream posts are dull, but I had a dream last night that I wrote a film called Manatee. Which was identical in every way to Mannequin except, with an actual manatee in the Kim Cattrall role 110
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 26/11/202435 years ago today, a young lad went out to play a game of football and his life changed forever. In 'And a bang on the ear' I wanted to not just write Phil's story in own words, but to structure it in a way that gave an insight into life with a traumatic brain injury. I think I achieved that? 170
Reposted by Steve Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Legally, you're allowed time off work to listen to Do They Know It's Christmas, because of Force Midge Ure. 34515
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I don't understand how or why people get locked into an 'I'm alright, Jack' mindset? When I didn't have much, I voted for people who I thought could build a fairer society. Now that I'm doing okay, I support those same people/parties even more. You gotta build more ladders, not pull them up 2161
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I was listening to some analysis ahead of the leader's debate later that said there was no one topic that had captured the attention of the voting public yet. And how it's not housing, housing, and housing again, I'll never know So many of our issues go away if people have affordable places to live 030
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I haven't been feeling particularly great of late, so I booked a full health screening for later this week, including prostate and heart and all the other things that kill men in their 40s I'm genuinely surprised at/pleased with myself though for doing it. Very unlike my usual 'be grand' attitude 2110
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I watched someone become completely radicalised - and last I checked had gone full anti-vax, pro-fash - because they couldn’t go to club hurling matches. I’ve no idea if this is who people really are and they just needed the trigger or if their brains just broke during those first two years? 041
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The year is 2052, every children’s book is ‘written’ by David Walliams. Any one who even thinks about opening a blank Word doc is shot through the brain with a laser 010
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Me after reaching Friday of the week I ‘just needed to get through’ for the 416th week in successionmedia.tenor.coma woman with short hair says never againALT: a woman with short hair says never again 050
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I guess I'm here now. Thanks to @suekirk.bsky.social for the prompt. 250
Reposted by Steve Ciara @ciarabelles.bsky.social · 30/10/2023One of my new year's resolutions was to write more. I haven't done as much as I wanted to, but I've written more than last year. Anyway, here's something that funnily enough, @steveohrourke.bsky.social inspired me to write. I guess we agree on something for once. link.medium.com/uLNxKTyckEb 071
Reposted by Steve Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/10/2023We are the sons of the monsters you couldn’t mash 121888527
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 18/10/2023The nominations for sports book of the year come out tomorrow. I genuinely have no expectations of being nominated - there were so many incredible books released this year - but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit it would mean a huge amount to get the nod 110
Reposted by Steve Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 18/10/2023It's what Keith would have wanted. 613034
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 18/10/2023A gas thing about being a writer is that, when you tell people, the response is usually one of two things 1. Oh anything I would know? 2. I love writing, how can I be a writer? I find the first one much easier to answer than the second. No way of controlling what people like or don’t like 010
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 12/10/2023I started saying ‘hundred percent’ as a bit and now I find I’m using it as a synonym for ‘absolutely’ and even just ‘yes’ ‘Will you finish that work today?’ ‘Hundred percent’ 110
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 11/10/2023Research is showing that I’m awake at an ungodly hour again 030
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 09/10/2023As the second day of the week, I never understood the hate Monday gets 020
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Being wide awake in middle of the night always leads to very good, very non-invasive thoughts imho 020
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 03/10/2023Me, playing devil’s advocate: ‘I think the devil is innocent your honour’ 010
Reposted by Steve Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Also I love that Aviendha is Irish, (Irish actor Ayoola Smart), with the character keeping the Irish accent, which makes sense for the Aiel who in the books are essentially Irish who end up living in the desert for millenia and become fantasy Fremen. 4253
Reposted by Steve Dave Cactus @davecactus.bsky.social · 24/09/2023"No words contain all the vowels in order," I said facetiously. 623372
Reposted by Steve Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 20/09/2023Somebody will find a way to blame Paul Murphy for this by Sunday morning 2111
Steve @steveohrourke.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Welcome to Bluesky. We have rules here: 1. To speak no word that is not true 2. To make no weapon with which one man may kill another 3. Never to use the One Power as a weapon except against Darkfriends or Shadowspawn 1233