Mike McGrath-Bryan

A drawing of a hawthorn tree surrounded by a decorative frame of hawthorn flowers and running hares

Get away from that fairy tree now

Yep. I doobie ignoring this kind of thing.

This is correct.

"Unalive" is self-censorship talk, the only reason it caught on is because of how draconian social media platforms have become when it comes to blocking anything that has a whiff of dark and/or problematic subject matter.

Reject similar terms like the virus they are.

Yes, and there's a use case for shift workers in big urban areas having that access.

Across the countryside? At 3am you'd be half-afraid of interrupting something happening between the two remaining staff on duty.

€15 for a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah CD. Fifteen fucking euro. To be bored off my tits, with no refunds.

Ninth circle of hell, enveloping us all. Ten croissants into the bag, ring up one at the self-scan pigpens. Zero remorse.

Man, I miss when small-town liminal spaces were the lobbies of distinctly unwelcoming altars of conspicuous consumption.

I'll never forget when me and other losers sat at the windowsill of fucking Tesco and spent an hour discussing what "real music" was, while demolishing a 6-bag of King crisps

The VC model, pushed to its absolute limit.

GenAI is the end of the line in stupid fucking geegaws no-one asked for - they need you to like this one, or else loads of equally stupid fucking tech companies no-one asked for will go to the wall.

Maybe we should just learn how to do things.

24-hour supermarkets were the nadir of the capitalist hellscape and I'm glad we're out of them.

It was handy to descend upon Tesco Mallow at 2am from whatever stupid camping trip or house party you'd ended up at, and maybe buy an issue of GamesMaster.

But that was the limit of their utility.

Zero likes, and I'll talk about how cultural soft power is designed specifically to exclude or crowd out smaller cultures, languages, identities, etc., especially former colonies.

Where the fuck are my collar-and-elbow and bataireacht-based fighting games, you cowards?

The Sun is RIGHT THERE

We had the most PlayStation 1s per capita in the world outside Japan. Fuck-all Irish-made or Irish-interest games, though.

- Make the things available
- Make sure they're decent, not cynical or formulaic
- Let me pay what they're worth
- I own the copy of the things
- I archive and preserve the copy
- I pay for the new features in the next new things
- I'm otherwise left alone, you already have my money

- No generative AI, DLC or microtransactions
- No clickbait anything
- No bitcoin, NFTs or whatever the fuck
- No both-sidesing human rights
- No made-up scare-stories about same
- No to genocide
- No to transphobia
- No incremental solutions to exponential problems
- No to the race to the bottom

Dubai Chocolate never began, to be fair.

It will be explicitly forbidden to make an AI simulacrum of me after I die.

When my body fails, you will hook my brain up to the robot, à la Krang, so that my reign of terror can begin in earnest.

#spéirghorm #ireland

Racists love to historicize contemporary conceptions of race and national identity that just straight up didn't exist 150 years ago

McGregor trying to get on the Presidential ballot by way of a change dot org petition.

It'd be tragic, if he didn't deserve every last second of the humiliation.

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
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Here's what Janel Grant's lawsuit against WWE and Vince McMahon alleges about Brock Lesnar.

(These pages contain detailed descriptions of alleged sexual abuse by McMahon and what Grant says was his attempt to traffic her to Lesnar during a contract negotiation.)

John Boyne is simply Graham Linehan with a career

This is it, y'see.

Loads of false outrage to gen up engagement over something that should rightly be standard practice.

I will not countenance John Boyne defence or praise on my feed.

If you don't have the basic skill of knowing when you're being plámásed - much less by thousands of faceless bot accounts all saying the same stupid shit - you don't get to lecture other people on a n y t h i n g.

#spéirghorm #ireland

The same John Boyne who failed at research so hard he used a dye recipe from Legend of Zelda in his super serious history novel set in the real world, and never asked himself what an octorok eyeball actually was?

Exhibit A, denounced as morally bankrupt in 2022:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Exhibit B, apologises to Glinner in 2023 for failing to be transphobic enough in the past:
news.sky.com/story/author...

QED...

Despite his fame and wealth, Boyne has always struck me as a rather sad character (from his selfpenned Trinity Tales entry to his pity party threads on Twitter) so it's not surprising he was so susceptible to being love bombed.

Mike, a man in his thirties with glasses, blue eyes, a strong jaw and a small scar above his right eyebrow, looks directly at the camera, as if to say "look at my new hair"

Bleach-blonde boi. Happy out.

BREAKING: President Donald Trump has crapped out his insides and now he's empty on the floor like Obi Wan's clothes. Sources say he's still blinking sometimes and it's making a little cartoon blumblumblum sound.

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

Steam Curator: Games From Ireland Games developed in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, from Irish creators, or playable in the Irish language (Gaeilge).

Another post on the Steam Games From Ireland List, a bunch of new releases have been added since I last posted, and it's almost at 500 followers!

#speirgorm #irishcreatives #irishgamedev

store.steampowered.com/curator/4145...

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