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Oisín Murphy-Goreless

@bikesnbukes.bsky.social

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LLM in Human Rights. Opinions are my own, reposts not an endorsement. Cyclist, da, flatmate to Finrod (friend to man). Cat pics, Phillies, some law, tech and internet policy (day job), the odd Bucky/Klaes gif. Oh! And RPG stuff (mainly Call of Cthulhu).

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · Nov 17

My thread about the Best Bike Shop I have ever had the good fortune to be in. (Although Edinburgh’s Bike Craft come a close second and have never let me down)

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · Feb 9

My avatar pic was taken last August. It is me back at one of the most important places in my life, cycling or otherwise.

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 4h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Coddle
Dancer in the Dark (a pointlessly tortured and sadistic 2 hours 20 minutes of my life I will never get back)
Yellow

Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Polenta
Love, Actually
Dog Days Are Over

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Celery
The English Patient
We didn’t start the fire

(Why? Jeez. Yes you did.)

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 4h

Rue Britannia was about many things, but certainly among them was looking back at the sort of critic you (sometimes) were and realising it was a bullshit way to go. The arsehole mode of criticism is always popular, and justifiably aesthetically, but plain bad for you and the criticism you make.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 4h

Day off, so late breakfast of three slices of treacle soda bread and so much butter that my fingers were greasy with it. All with some lovely Colombian Siege coffee from Limerick courtesy of @justrena.bsky.social.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 5h

"I had a colonial childhood, an anti-colonial
adolescence, a neo-colonial start to my career and a post-colonial middle age"

- William Twining, Jurist in Context: A Memoir (CUP 2019) 8.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 9h

One of my comparative law heroes, William Twining, has passed on 9 October. I have always find his ideas interesting, challenging, and inspiring. RIP Professor.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 6h

Edinburgh beset by grey this morning.

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David the Kamado 🚙💨 @kamadodavid.bsky.social · 18h

Forward in a Caimh McDonnell book...

🤣😆

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 6h

Awk. I am a sucker for a grey tabby.

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 17h

Aye, seen both of those - very enjoyable!

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 20h

Four. Four pictures. Apparently I can’t count.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 20h

That’s the impression I always had. Like, very middle of the road politically, but he had given things thought.

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 20h

Three images from a reflective late afternoon walk around Leith. Slightly thrown by the new builds which tower like something out of corporate buildings in Scanners, and all too glad to get back to the cluttered Leith I have lived in for most of my time in Edinburgh.

A grey utility/exchange box in front of black railings. On the box is an image of a skull with the words You Ok Hun in black thin font. In the background is a hedge, one side of a laneway which cuts through to leith links. A small patch of blue sky is framed by the buildings either side of the picture, and in the distance, some trees on the links.

Dockside apartment blocks on the edge of Leith Docks. The new windows and signage reflect the bright sun as the buildings tower over the paving and neatly trimmed grass.

Looking down the old docks of leith, the sun picking out old buildings and newer apartments built over 20 years ago. The water is still so the buildings and the blue sky are reflected. To the right of the picture, next to the waterfront’s edge, a lampost stands, the cone of the lightshade hanging from a gently curving piece of ironwork, a beautiful thing amidst the hodge podge of the old and relatively new.

The heavily graffitied cream coloured shop wall of the Edinburgh Mobility Solutions Shop. On the right of the picture, one of the shops windows covered with pictures of walkers, wheelchairs and mobility scooters. At the top, a plastic red and white shop sign. To the left a strong metal door with yet more graffiti. In the middle, the black and white image of older woman wearing a thigh length cardigan covered with flowers, her long skirt underneath. She has a wide floppy brimmed hat on her head, her almost shoulder length hhair shaggy like straw, and she looks through big round glasses whilst smiling widely, almost laughing. In one hand she grips her walking stick. In another a spray can. Next to the picture, amidst the tags, you can see written in pink the words ‘I hope you never fit in’.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 21h

Flattened lips, is all I am saying.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 21h

I had missed that Andrew Maxwell had gone to Riyadh Comedy Festival.

I used to go to school with him. When he decided he was going into comedy, friends of mine who knew him better than me said he worked his arse off.

Always seemed decent enough.

So this is, to put it politely, disappointing.

Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 1d

Weekend catch-up: Andrew Maxwell played the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival, Chortle has revealed http://dlvr.it/TNd7mf

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 21h

When your feline flatmate is both indulging his love of fibres which sound fun when you lick them and also intentionally shaming you for not feeding him.

Finrod, friend to man, a lack and brown striped tabby has his head poked out from behind a cream-coloured blind, and through the blind you can see the shadow of his tongue as he likes it. His eyes are focused slightly to the left of the picture, managing to both glare intentionally at the photographer (me) and also conveying how much he enjoys the raspy feeling of the blind on his tongue.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

We have an important Gil update

Gil, a big tabby cat, looking up over the back of a porch chair. He is in the middle of meowing and is raising one paw.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 21h

It was a tiny moment of schadenfreude amidst the weary trudge to failure this year.

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Guy Le Jeune @guylejeune.bsky.social · 1d

Signs in Raphoe this morning. All I could read from the car was..

HEATHER
EXPERIENCE

I now have an interactive, multi-media tourist attraction that explores the life and times of Heather in my head.

Photo later.

I’ll see if I can nab one for @electionlit.bsky.social after the count.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 1d

She was known as Madame D’Gizarde, and, in the early ’40s, she used deceit, drugs, and her beguiling charms to become the bane of chicken farmers everywhere.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 1d

Meaney is always a compelling argument . I have heard northsiders go jayses and jaysus. And when you really stretch it out in tired frustration, it’s usually jaaaaaaaaaayses.

We’re going to have include both.

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 1d

Until now, the arguments I’ve seen for LLM AI market collapse have been ‘no use case/not enough investment capital.’

This, combined with the futurist piece interviewing an analyst on the profitability of data centres, feels more serious for a model of AI heavily reliant on compute power.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds good, so I really want to give it a goo.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 1d

Well that’s vexing. I can’t see An Taibhse streaming anywhere. And it’s October, and I would like some post-famine Ireland horror, please.

Goddamit.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 1d

Lookit, I was taught that Jayses is spelt with an e, and I am not going against my teaching.

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Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 1d

See my earlier question: bsky.app/profile/bike...

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone clarify which #speirgorm tag should be used - #smearthebejaysus #smearthebejaysis or #smearthebejayses. Like is it broken down by region. Can Dubliners only use the third one? I need clarity.