Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Oisín Murphy-Goreless

@bikesnbukes.bsky.social

1.2K followers 1.4K following 9.9K posts

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).

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

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.

Reposted by Oisín Murphy-Goreless

Julian Schmidli @julianschmidli.com · 8h

Another reminder that your ChatGPT conversations, even single prompts, can be read and used against you. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts

First known warrant of its kind reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide identifying information on anyone who enters specific prompts.

www.forbes.com

9 7

Reposted by Oisín Murphy-Goreless

Legion of Super-Heroes Dance Party @lshdanceparty.bsky.social · 8h

#0ctober_coverartchallenge
#October_coverartchallenge
day 21 end of life debt collector
I can't help but wonder if it's the same island.

1 3 10

Reposted by Oisín Murphy-Goreless

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 8h

Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.

18 280 1.3K

Reposted by Oisín Murphy-Goreless

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 9h

at the end of the book it said it was “inspired by a true story” about a woman’s corpse that got saponified. It was spooky & the illustrations were done mostly in blues & grays.

I bought a different kids’ book but I’ve always wanted to see this book again & I can’t remember the title. Anyone?

4 2 14

Reposted by Oisín Murphy-Goreless

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 9h

This is a long shot but do you know this book? About 10 years ago I was in a bookstore buying a children’s book as a gift, I saw all of these unusual children’s books, including one that seemed pretty new that was about a woman/ghost(?) made of soap who lived in a lake & talked to a little girl AND

4 7 23

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 15h

Yep, I remember reading about that! The organisation I was working for at the time were desperate for storage and compute power, so AWS got very tempting because you could also spin up virtual servers. It was unlikely we were going to be shut down, but I remember being slightly apprehensive.

1 1

Reposted by Oisín Murphy-Goreless

THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 16h

“Well, I’ll be darned. … I guess he does have a license to do that.”

31 140

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 16h

Now I am wondering who is the Barry of Irish politics.

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 16h

Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

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

I should not have said anything. Now all I can do is think of Ivan Yates starring in later seasons of Archer.

a man wearing a shirt that says cuong 's on it

Alt: A gif of a scene from the animated series Archer. The CIA agent Slater (played by Christian Slater) has his left fist cocked and ready to hit the independent espionage contractor Sterling Archer. Slater has brown hair and is wearing a black tshirt with a logo which says the word Cuong’s. His right hand has a firm grip on Archer’s black tie. Archer has black hair, a white shirt and a grey suit. He raises his right hand and taps Slater’s nose. As he does so, he says ‘Boop’.

media.tenor.com

1 2

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 18h

Man, I am going to have to watch the film again. It is has been way too long.

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

Can someone on #speirgorm please explain to me why we are in the final week of a presidential campaign featuring a candidate called Heather, and I haven’t seen a single Heathers/Winona Ryder/Christian Slater meme.

Very disappointed, online Ireland. It’s provocatively poor.

5 2 22

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

Black Canary and Wildcat?

Reposted by Oisín Murphy-Goreless

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

You know the most condescending brewery in Ireland?

Franciscan Well Actually

4 22 180

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

Cheered so hard at the end of Candyman.

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

I am very much here for all academic comeuppance films.

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

Very reasonable of you. Share that fringe to the benefit of all.

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

Do you worry that Bucky Barnes stole your hairstyle and claims it as his own.

1 1

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

(Also, you know, the colleague is the wrong skin colour, which is less than ideal.)

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

Ah crap. The colleague with more ability is going to die.

1 2

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

Halfway through Midsommar, and have just discovered that like Candyman and Re-Animator it’s firmly in the horror sub genre of arseholes thieving academic ideas from colleagues with less influence and more ability.

Yet to find out if like both of the previous films, the thief gets a comeuppance.

2 1 7

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 2d

*Googles cast list of House of Guinness to see who plays Fielding Ould*

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 2d

‘Internal’ he says. It’s about as internal as the mud streak up my arse on a damp day’s training ride.

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 2d

I feel you’re tapping into a deep vein of frustration here.

But also, the image of a cackling TD lighting giant puppet heads as the people inside scream in terror is begging to be done in a comedy horror.

Like, begging.

1 1 2

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 2d

Is house of Guinness a deep dive into the worst of purpureal fever and other horrors of obstetric practice to be found in the Rotunda?

1 2