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Cormac

@cormacos.bsky.social

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All manner of nerdery and geekery. Gaming. TTRPGS. Dogs. Environment. History. Dubliner. Queer. Trying to use more Irish - please feel free to correct me if I make mistakes! Apparently I talk a lot about folk music.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 5h

I am once again kicking myself for not owning any means of playing physical media. I'll have to wait til Friday.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 5h

Pellador.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 5h

There's a Miggeldy jersey going on sale on Friday, and if I don't get one I might cry.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 7h

No. Kodi had eaten precisely zero children.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 7h

Everything felt consequential, in a way that sometimes things don't when playing the other big tactical heroic combat game out there.

Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 8h

Finished a two-shot of Draw Steel, the new MCDM tactical hero combat game. My verdict is: its a whole bucket of fun.

I played an Earth Elementalist dwarf, and I had a great time fucking around with pillars, walls and holes. Scratched that 'fight on a grid' itch real good.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 10h

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

The Moon Knight "I Know You're Here Dracula You Big Fucking Nerd" meme only with Jim Gavin's name replacing Dracula's

Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 12h

Dodged the hangman's axe for another day, but only by absolutely bodying a completely innocent villager. I rustled up nearly a third of the remaining players to vote him out.

Things are getting heated. I might try and lay low for the next few days.

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 17h

New podcast. Remembering the legendary and irreplaceable Manchán Magan who died last week. And revisiting our first chat where he told me his life story. ❤️

open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...

In memory of Manchán Magan

open.spotify.com

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 19h

And then yesterday I helped organise a pogrom that took out not one but two innocents. The Twins - one dies, both die.

Blood on both hands.

I'm super extra sus.

The worst part is, I have received actionable intelligence regarding the identity of one of the wolves. But I'm too busy tryna not die.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 19h

I am extremely sus. I have a 100% unbroken record of voting for innocent villagers. I would vote for me.

But I am not a werewolf.

So I have been slinging mud left, right and centre, deploying every countermeasure at my disposal to stay in the game.

The harder I fight, the worse I look.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 19h

We're playing werewolf in the office again, this time with loads more players thanks to the popularity of Traitors.

The drama has been exceptionally high; most recently as I have been fighting for my very life.

Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Work Werewolf Grand Finale was today, and I am afraid to say that the Normal Human Villagers were all gobbled up. Total werewolf victory.

This speaks ill of my division's powers of deduction, but highly of our level of deviousness, I think.

Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · Jul 23

Work Werewolf:
In what should have been the final round of voting, the lads managed to tie! Unbelievable scenes (of incompetence).

Tomorrow there'll be only three players left, so it'll all come down to one final vote. Winner takes all.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 23h

I did one of those 'how did the Budget effect you' calculators, and the result was I'm better off by less than an oat milk flat white a week.

I guess it's the thought that counts?

Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 1d

Government trad music fans, confirmed
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Five of the more unusual things you may have missed from Budget 2026

Some of the more unconventional tax moves and initiatives announced by ministers Paschal Donohoe and Jack Chambers

www.irishexaminer.com

Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 1d

🤘

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 1d

So HH has pissed off Gaelgoirs , #disabled people and it seems dog owners.

www.instagram.com/p/DPeqZFUiCH...

#Áras25 #speirgorm #Aras25

Image from Wag rescue Instagram, Kodi who was a brown pit bull puppy stray who was killed under the xl bully legislation.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 1d

Luckily there isn't anything else for those folks across the border to be worried with.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

UK prosecutors to appeal against decision to throw out terror case against Kneecap rapper

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (27) was accused of displaying a Hizbullah flag at a 2024 London gig

www.irishtimes.com

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out the tenant was a Deputy Editor of a newspaper in the Indo/Mediahus group. Oh.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 1d

The Gavin vs Gavin issue points to a rather sad lack of diversity of thought on bsky. There simply aren't a lot of conversations happening on this site, so of course everyone in Ireland *must* be talking about a yank governor in California.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 1d

Have to hand it to O'Donovan, fair play to him for keeping the Basic Income for the Arts scheme going.

But massive kudos should be due to the Greens for designing and implementing good policy.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 2d

Woof!

Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 2d

Hard same.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 2d

From Michael Green's 'Zen and the Art of the Macintosh' (1986)

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 2d

A giant 1980s style Macintosh computer towers like a temple ruin amongst a jungle canopy, all rendered in black and white pixel art.

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 2d

Wheezing. Maith thú.