Think this is the first time I've ever seen someone accidentally create a sincere facsimile of a Kelly cartoon.

Guys, you ever defend your mate against charges of being an abusive nonce by generating an AI image of him in heaven surrounded by fawning, buxom young women?

True story.

Dara O'Reilly@daraor.bsky.social · 9h ago

There's a heartwarming story, in @seamas.bsky.social ' best-selling memoir "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?" (available in all good, and many mediocre, bookshops) where Séamas is forgotten at Mass, and we only realised we'd lost him because we'd also lost another sibling, who we returned to collect.

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

@paulduane.bsky.social's Barbaric Genius, a film about John Healy - the vagrant turned memoirist turned international chess whizz - is one of my favourite documentaries of all time. It's having a rare full screening at the IFI in Dublin on Monday 17th August. You should go!! ifi.ie/film/from-th...

Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · 11h ago

The last Magdalene laundry closed in my lifetime. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in my lifetime. Access to condoms without a prescription in Ireland only came in 1985. We repealed the 8th. There's a lot of ways in which Ireland is still bad, but it is an entirely different country.

The best YouTube channel ever made has just dropped another of the best YouTube videos ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...

Johnny Depp's Bed

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers

youtube.com

My immortal auntie Patricia responds with a wonderful follow-up.

This one time, my da bought half a cow. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

‘Do you remember,’ asked my brother on the family WhatsApp, ‘when Daddy bought an entire cow and put it in the freezer?’

Séamas O’Reilly: I’ve no need for ChatGPT to help me write - I’ve got the family WhatsApp

irishtimes.com

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Like, whenever one of my coworkers died, exactly zero colleagues said they were great because they went out of their way to be a repellent prick all the time. Should perhaps have questions about a profession in which that is so clearly viewed as a great virtue?

It's no surprise I disagreed with his opinions, but he was actually that bad at writing that it was painfully clear that anyone who liked his work simply agreed with those opinions - or hated the people they'd annoy - and thus found it perfectly delicious someone had finally typed them up.

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

This should be a corollary to the "if there's one nazi at the table" rule. If you find yourself pretending to have irreconcilable differences with a nazi chum, but you remain chums because you agree on one thing, then that one thing is almost certainly nazi shit.

Libby@captainlibatron.bsky.social · 2d ago

Dear god

A roundup of my favourite graphic novels of the year so far, including the delightful Dogs On Dates by @lukehealy.bsky.social, the absorbing and moreish Fault Lines by @robcullenart.bsky.social and @oldjoeollmann.bsky.social's exquisite anthology, The Woodchipper. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Séamas O’Reilly on best graphic novels of 2026 so far

Dogs on Dates, by Luke Healy; The Woodchipper, by Joe Ollman; Fault Lines, by Rob Cullen; Dear Historian, by Joff Winterheart; and Children of Light, by Jean Pleyers

irishtimes.com

@paulduane.bsky.social's Barbaric Genius, a film about John Healy - the vagrant turned memoirist turned international chess whizz - is one of my favourite documentaries of all time. It's having a rare full screening at the IFI in Dublin on Monday 17th August. You should go!! ifi.ie/film/from-th...

This one time, my da bought half a cow. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

‘Do you remember,’ asked my brother on the family WhatsApp, ‘when Daddy bought an entire cow and put it in the freezer?’

Séamas O’Reilly: I’ve no need for ChatGPT to help me write - I’ve got the family WhatsApp

irishtimes.com

A roundup of my favourite graphic novels of the year so far, including the delightful Dogs On Dates by @lukehealy.bsky.social, the absorbing and moreish Fault Lines by @robcullenart.bsky.social and @oldjoeollmann.bsky.social's exquisite anthology, The Woodchipper. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Séamas O’Reilly on best graphic novels of 2026 so far

Dogs on Dates, by Luke Healy; The Woodchipper, by Joe Ollman; Fault Lines, by Rob Cullen; Dear Historian, by Joff Winterheart; and Children of Light, by Jean Pleyers

irishtimes.com

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

1. "In real life"??? 2. LOL at that views-to-engagement ratio. 3. What does he mean? Surely, it's not a trans thing, for once? Is he saying that "realistically" orcs would have defiled hobbits? Why? Is this somehow tied to the anti-immigrant stuff he peddles these days? WHAT DOES HE MEAN?

Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21@darkeden21.bsky.social · 6d ago

just in case you wondered how graham is doing lol

I hate to break it to Channel 4, but all disorders are social constructs. It’s doesn’t mean they’re not “genuine neuro developmental disorders”

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

This is why it's so important to not refer to the Supreme Court ruling or EHRC guidance as a "ban" on trans people existing in public spaces. Doing so is giving these people exactly what they want! They want trans people to remove themselves from society voluntarily. They want to encourage violence.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last wk.

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

"They lost 5 of their 6 claims, succeeding on the 6th on a technicality, they have been awarded £8, reduced to £3 to take into account conduct. This vindicates our position entirely."

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last wk.

Losing multiple high profile -and v expensive- lawsuits and then *just pretending you won them*, is the kind of dogbrained manouvre that sounds too stupid to work. Luckily for transphobes, the UK press have failed to spot this, or mention that it happens quite a lot. Probably nothing to worry about.

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

Women's Rights Network/Sex Matters took Feile to court to have their event reinstated. It was not reinstated. The two statements released after an agreement was reached give two very different impressions of what happened today in Belfast's High Court.

I should also clarify: everyone knew this was absurd at the time! We were all online, this was a good few years into the Napster, MSN messenger era. Our teacher was embarrassed too, and would gruffly apologise when each new section of the course ended up being about humidity sensors or floppy disks.

I seem to remember that large parts of our study materials, and the tests we did, were specifically about Electronic Point Of Sale machines and how they worked. The primary use case of a computing GCSE - in 2002! - seemed to be knowing how to fix supermarket registers and cashpoints.

I was a tech-savvy teen - my dad was a PC hobbyist who had us building servers and LANs from the age of 12 - and my GCSE classes in ICT (the term IT hadn't been adopted yet!) were hilariously outdated. In 2002, our textbooks still said "one day, five million people will be using electronic mail".

Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · last wk.

Even if the government is right to be betting the house on AI (and I suspect the way things shake out will be different to what we expect), this is likely to have the problem Computing as a subject has always had in schools, ie it’s pretty much instantly out of date. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wish I had more followers to recommend this to, and with my 2nd wish I want to go back to having none. If you're a fan or just come across Michael Kupperman don't miss this. His humor got me through a lot of hard times. I suffer from what doctors call chronic boredom and only he was able to help.

Michael Kupperman@mkupperman.bsky.social · last wk.

Former Eisner winner here, still making comics & comic art! If you subscribe to the zines tier of my Patreon, you'll get a new zine every month from the artist Conan O'Brien called "one of the greatest comedy brains on this planet" & the NYT called "derangedly funny" www.patreon.com/MichaelKuppe...