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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 1h

International folk who'd like to support the Irish indie comic scene: this is a great way to do it!

You get a lovely portrait of your pet by an Irish artist and The Dublin Comic Arts Festival raises enough money to cover our deposit for our 2026 dates!

ko-fi.com/dublincomica...

Dublin Comic Arts Festival @dublincomicarts.bsky.social · 1h

DCAF FUNDRAISER! From €5! Pet portraits now available! Our very talented committee members have donated their time for a 5-min portrait fundraiser. To help cover the cost of running DCAF in 2026.

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 22h

The Basic Income news has sadly reignited my social media relationship. Apologies, I have to leave again. It's tax month after all.

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 22h

Realised last night that I'm the only one sleeping on the same mattress as when we moved into this house 20 years ago, and waking up with a sore back every morning has become (thankfully) my only major health problem of late.
Real surprised that mattresses cost a lot less than €800 actually.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...

Southern Reach told me Area X keep eatinh his expeditions so I asked how many expeditions he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new expeditions afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding expeditions to Area X and then his daughter started crying.

(adapting a tweet about coyotes eating cats)

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 1d

This program has proven to be a net good, returns the investment and overall improves artistic output and lives. I just think this is a half measure to do less work by doing the pilot scheme 2: electric boogaloo

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 1d

The Arts Council was asking for an extra 60 million this year, which will fund 3500+ artists on the BIA. Let alone that their current budget could find all original applicants. The AC funds less individuals than the current BIA cohort, with more than 4 times the budget!

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 1d

I know I'm in the unique position to comment on this as a recipient and not just accept permanence as stated, but let's look at some numbers for a second.

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like it's official. The pilot scheme applicants will end payments in February, to make way for a different 2000 applicants. I'm baffled. I'm fine with the pilot ending, but not for just the same small number to come in.

Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 2d

Uncertain what this BIA permanence means for those on the pilot scheme. If it's just 2000 total and scrapping the people on the pilot, that is a strange choice. They can afford 4000, actually. That number is still low, and it should be expanded if it's going to continue.

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 2d

There's an inexplicable frog art economy and dammit I want in

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously considering another From Software illustration book, but everything reimagined as frogs and toads

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 2d

Still not enough covered by it too. 2000 is too low for a successor program if they want to expand disciplines on top

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Amy Louise @amylouioc.bsky.social · 2d

Sort of crazy to live in a country that most people are actively trying to emigrate from at all times yet in international artist spaces, people are wishing they could live here for the basic income, surreal.

It’s lovely to see but also lads, don’t fall for it. It won’t cover your rent!

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 2d

A new Purgatory is up on Patreon, in which I go to the hospital and don’t have a good time, and set an arbitrary goal at DCAF www.patreon.com/posts/purgat...

Purgatory 6/10/2025 | Ken

Get more from Ken on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 2d

It'd just be weird y'know. I can't count on one hand the people I've actually met on it. Why keep the number that small for a potential indefinite time period, when it's such a resounding success?

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 2d

Uncertain what this BIA permanence means for those on the pilot scheme. If it's just 2000 total and scrapping the people on the pilot, that is a strange choice. They can afford 4000, actually. That number is still low, and it should be expanded if it's going to continue.

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 2d

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Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

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

Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

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

www.irishtimes.com

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 3d

I miss Alvina, after all these years. Not enough cats and dogs messing about in later games

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🍔 cheese bagger 🍔 @gaelicgalpal.bsky.social · 3d

(re)reading the Dark Souls Adventures by @detectiveken.bsky.social and I can never get over this particular bit. perfect depiction of alvina

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 4d

Ready to go at this here @dublincomicarts.bsky.social! This time I was a dum dum and forgot my lamp, so my dark books are hard to see again. Well, I have a bookshelf now if you want to know what's in the shadows.

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 3d

One hour left! Plenty of time to reach The Complex (almost a dead centre bullseye in the middle of Dublin!) for @dublincomicarts.bsky.social !

Come meet Mollie Cronin and buy her new comic! Plus 100 local artists!

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 4d

Ready to go at this here @dublincomicarts.bsky.social! This time I was a dum dum and forgot my lamp, so my dark books are hard to see again. Well, I have a bookshelf now if you want to know what's in the shadows.

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 4d

No respect for the most important rule in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... Always know where your towel is.

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder that only 1/8th of Little Deer travels to @dublincomicarts.bsky.social these days since the shop has grown over the years (at DCAF in 2019 we had our entire stock with us!)

So if there’s something specific you want, order for collection and tell us to bring it to DCAF!
littledeercomics.ie

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Ken Mahon @detectiveken.bsky.social · 5d

Purgatory 29/9/2025
I’m just back from the hospital there and while it wasn’t remotely fun, my health is doing fine.

Anyway see you at DCAF this weekend or grab my stuff online linktr.ee/detectiveken

Ken’s feeling awkward about driving his own car after the MX-5. It’s just not the same.
He’s going to continue his social media hiatus by the way. There’s too much work to do instead, and also he got sick the previous week. All he did was play Resident Evil 8.

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