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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin

@miseryvulture.bsky.social

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Irish dilettante and horror writer in Berlin.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 11d

Kazem and his family are in urgent need of help and donations are so slow. Please help if you can, even small amounts can make a big difference

chuffed.org/project/1307...

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 36m

No way!

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 55m

If there isn't a horny old man flogging himself up on that stage, I am walking OUT

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 56m

When productions of Sweeney Todd cut "Mea Culpa"? Jail.

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 9h

Every punk band got that one bassist who looks like the first zombie in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

The guy, kind of a long angular face and beak of a nose and raggedy teeth

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 6h

For years I resisted the urge to say "everyone get off my internet" because it always felt snob-geeky, oh it's the September That Never Ended, "these n00bs," but seriously: most of you shouldn't be here. You should be at a football game, or yelling at your kids. Online is driving you mad.

ceej @ceej.online · 11h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 5h

Haha I can hear it!

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 13h

INTERESTING

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway,

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 13h

Imagining the kind of guy who generates ChatGPT erotica. He sucks, let's kill him fellas

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 13h

Can a computer do this?

[Sad cannibals fucking]

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 13h

This will only make me write more mentally ill erotica

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 13h

Please help my friend Kazem and his family if you can, they receive so few donations and are very much in need of food and other essentials.

chuffed.org/project/1307...

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 14h

This is so cute!!

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 14h

A more valid kink imo

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 15h

God, this is beautiful.

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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 15h

poem

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the zaza got me speaking esperanto @rollerskater.bsky.social · 20h

Text reading "SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth."

It's taken from an interview with David Simon, creator of "The Wire", being interviewed by Ari Shapiro on NPR.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 17h

They just added a new date for July 12th!

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 17h

I will if I can get tickets! This venue is so close to our flat that we can regularly hear the music of acts that play there through our bedroom window, so we would be mad not to try.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 17h

I think this all the time! They're incredible but lads. Come on.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 17h

The Cure playing in my neighbourhood next year... supported by Just Mustard...oh man oh god oh man oh god

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 18h

So so small! I used to marvel at how the width of her body was barely the width of my shoulder.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, my horror short 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2, Nightfire), now free to read as a reprint. A woman in her 30s is dragged to a late night winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & regrets it even more than expected. Here be monsters, mundane & not:

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 19h

Haha harsh!

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 19h

Hahaha it's so hard to go by eye with them!