Siskey
@siskey.bsky.social
Irish, gamer, civil servant. He/him
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This whole Sunday Independent article is v interesting, but especially the part that talks about Hiberno English (and the way an LLM would have edited Ulysses to have British English sentence structures and no neologisms 👀)
‘Don’t ask people to read something you couldn’t be bothered to write’ –Irish publishers warn authors over use of AI
Publisher Mercier Press is warning authors against using AI as “you can tell straight away because there’s no soul there”.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This whole Sunday Independent article is v interesting, but especially the part that talks about Hiberno English (and the way an LLM would have edited Ulysses to have British English sentence structures and no neologisms 👀)
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Your window of opportunity to be part of the new wave of Irish Sci-Fi closes next Saturday so make sure to submit before the buzzer!! 🚀🚀
Also don't forget this Thursday the @seamusheaneycentre is running it's SF/NI event and it's gonna be a blast!!!
#sciencefiction #ireland #writer
Also don't forget this Thursday the @seamusheaneycentre is running it's SF/NI event and it's gonna be a blast!!!
#sciencefiction #ireland #writer
January 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Your window of opportunity to be part of the new wave of Irish Sci-Fi closes next Saturday so make sure to submit before the buzzer!! 🚀🚀
Also don't forget this Thursday the @seamusheaneycentre is running it's SF/NI event and it's gonna be a blast!!!
#sciencefiction #ireland #writer
Also don't forget this Thursday the @seamusheaneycentre is running it's SF/NI event and it's gonna be a blast!!!
#sciencefiction #ireland #writer
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During the massive storms last year I was in the Yellow House in Rathfarnham, and some salty old dog at the bar told the barman that the wind was that strong "it'd tear a fiver from a Cavan man's hand".
The five best phrases I’ve heard for strong winds...
1. Blowing half a pelican (Danish)
2. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian)
3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots)
4. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian)
5. It’s so windy one of the chickens laid the same egg three times (English)
1. Blowing half a pelican (Danish)
2. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian)
3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots)
4. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian)
5. It’s so windy one of the chickens laid the same egg three times (English)
January 23, 2026 at 3:23 PM
During the massive storms last year I was in the Yellow House in Rathfarnham, and some salty old dog at the bar told the barman that the wind was that strong "it'd tear a fiver from a Cavan man's hand".
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yall want anything from dominos on the nintendo wii (apparently this actually works too)
January 21, 2026 at 1:04 PM
yall want anything from dominos on the nintendo wii (apparently this actually works too)
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There's an American lady on Insta/TikTok that has been posting funny, adorable updates about her long-distance relationship with an Irish guy for the last year or so. She just posted that it's over because he cheated.
I genuinely think Failte Ireland might have him killed.
I genuinely think Failte Ireland might have him killed.
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 PM
There's an American lady on Insta/TikTok that has been posting funny, adorable updates about her long-distance relationship with an Irish guy for the last year or so. She just posted that it's over because he cheated.
I genuinely think Failte Ireland might have him killed.
I genuinely think Failte Ireland might have him killed.
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Oh hey!!! That's my voice 😊 So thrilled to see this wonderful project coming along and delighted to be a part of it.
Hedy has a "sparkle" in her eye, and it’s shaped like a Dark Crystal. 💎✨
She’s helping Azzy on his quest, but she’s mostly here for the loot. Mastering the elements is hard work—paying for it shouldn’t be! ⚡️
Coming to Kickstarter Feb 6! rb.gy/k3i7gy
#IndieDev #GameDev #3DPlatformer #Gaming
She’s helping Azzy on his quest, but she’s mostly here for the loot. Mastering the elements is hard work—paying for it shouldn’t be! ⚡️
Coming to Kickstarter Feb 6! rb.gy/k3i7gy
#IndieDev #GameDev #3DPlatformer #Gaming
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Oh hey!!! That's my voice 😊 So thrilled to see this wonderful project coming along and delighted to be a part of it.
Second day of salad for lunch so yeah I am living a virtuous existence.
January 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Second day of salad for lunch so yeah I am living a virtuous existence.
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Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell
Where the fishermen go if they don't go to hell
Where the sky is all clear and the dolphins do play
And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away
Where the fishermen go if they don't go to hell
Where the sky is all clear and the dolphins do play
And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away
January 19, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell
Where the fishermen go if they don't go to hell
Where the sky is all clear and the dolphins do play
And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away
Where the fishermen go if they don't go to hell
Where the sky is all clear and the dolphins do play
And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away
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I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 AM
I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.
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Blue Monday was originally invented to sell calendar paint.
January 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Blue Monday was originally invented to sell calendar paint.
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I don't know who Karen is but this is very funny to me.
January 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I don't know who Karen is but this is very funny to me.
I saw some claim in one the eejity comments on that Famine game that @drcrossbows.bsky.social linked that the Famine was 6 or 8 generations ago, thinking that couldn't be right, and checked with my mam. For me it was 4 generations ago, my great-great-grandfather was b.1837 d.1934 ##speirghorm
January 13, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I saw some claim in one the eejity comments on that Famine game that @drcrossbows.bsky.social linked that the Famine was 6 or 8 generations ago, thinking that couldn't be right, and checked with my mam. For me it was 4 generations ago, my great-great-grandfather was b.1837 d.1934 ##speirghorm
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While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
The Great Hunger
Easy-to-learn, card-driven game, rich with historical detail; explores 19th-century Irish expansion, blight, famine, & emigration. 2-5P
www.kickstarter.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:15 AM
While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
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Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.
Cainteorí Gaeilge atá ag úsáid BoardGameArena, más maith libh cluichí aistrithe a fheiceáil, le bhur dtoil chur Gaeilge ar bhur liosta teangacha labharta, agus cuirigí teachtaireacht dom!
Leagan Bèarla ag teacht anois #speirghorm #tabletopsky
Leagan Bèarla ag teacht anois #speirghorm #tabletopsky
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Cainteorí Gaeilge atá ag úsáid BoardGameArena, más maith libh cluichí aistrithe a fheiceáil, le bhur dtoil chur Gaeilge ar bhur liosta teangacha labharta, agus cuirigí teachtaireacht dom!
Leagan Bèarla ag teacht anois #speirghorm #tabletopsky
Leagan Bèarla ag teacht anois #speirghorm #tabletopsky
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January 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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Cleansing the timeline with this 2020 Lifetime romance where Mario Lopez played a sexy Colonel Sanders.
January 8, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Cleansing the timeline with this 2020 Lifetime romance where Mario Lopez played a sexy Colonel Sanders.
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I've long dreamt of a cop show where Titus Welliver, James Nesbitt and John Hannah team up to take down warring crime lords Stanley Tucci and Mark Strong. "Extremely confusing," rave critics
December 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I've long dreamt of a cop show where Titus Welliver, James Nesbitt and John Hannah team up to take down warring crime lords Stanley Tucci and Mark Strong. "Extremely confusing," rave critics
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Chronic illness doesn’t come with neat story arcs. Sometimes there’s no crisis. No recovery. Just the long middle where staying alive takes everything you have. #EDS #NHS #ChiariMalformation
#ChronicIllness
#InvisibleDisability
#UnremarkableMe
www.unremarkableme.com/post/i-didn-...
#ChronicIllness
#InvisibleDisability
#UnremarkableMe
www.unremarkableme.com/post/i-didn-...
I Didn’t Disappear. I Was Busy Surviving
23 December 2025Author: Antonia @UnremarkableMeFor the last six months, Unremarkable Me went quiet.Not in a dramatic, flounce off stage kind of way. There was no announcement, no carefully worded post...
www.unremarkableme.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Chronic illness doesn’t come with neat story arcs. Sometimes there’s no crisis. No recovery. Just the long middle where staying alive takes everything you have. #EDS #NHS #ChiariMalformation
#ChronicIllness
#InvisibleDisability
#UnremarkableMe
www.unremarkableme.com/post/i-didn-...
#ChronicIllness
#InvisibleDisability
#UnremarkableMe
www.unremarkableme.com/post/i-didn-...
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Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
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well here she is! my very first solo game and all about Ireland's best deli choice: the Chicken Fillet Roll. free to play in browser.
LMK what roll you decide to make & if you get the feels or a laugh, even better.
this is a roll-driven game. made lovingly in Twine
unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill...
LMK what roll you decide to make & if you get the feels or a laugh, even better.
this is a roll-driven game. made lovingly in Twine
unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill...
January 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
well here she is! my very first solo game and all about Ireland's best deli choice: the Chicken Fillet Roll. free to play in browser.
LMK what roll you decide to make & if you get the feels or a laugh, even better.
this is a roll-driven game. made lovingly in Twine
unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill...
LMK what roll you decide to make & if you get the feels or a laugh, even better.
this is a roll-driven game. made lovingly in Twine
unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill...
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pls bless my 2026.
December 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
pls bless my 2026.
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I have now worked out links between Finnegans Wake and two of the Heresy era loyalist Legions. I'm slowly working my way towards the least marketable article I will ever write.
December 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I have now worked out links between Finnegans Wake and two of the Heresy era loyalist Legions. I'm slowly working my way towards the least marketable article I will ever write.
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Listening to a Father Brown mystery and enjoying the explanation for the inexplicable behaviour of the main suspect is rationally explained as "he's a poet."
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Listening to a Father Brown mystery and enjoying the explanation for the inexplicable behaviour of the main suspect is rationally explained as "he's a poet."