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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Feb 18

A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁

Collage of different prints from my online store

Close up of the Irish Aquatic Life print

Linocut print of Men Of The Blaskets, with small flowers beside it

Imbolc print next to purple flowers

#speirgorm #speirghorm #art #traditionalart #artist

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 1d

family health emergencies mean I've had to pull out from trading at tomorrow's Partizan in Newark. That's a big hit to cashflow so I've just put a 10% off code on the shop to grab some orders instead - use PARTIZAN10 at Checkout to qualify. I'll ship out existing show pre-orders on Monday!

homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 21h

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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Wendy Ly🎃n @wendylyon.bsky.social · 1d

Have just seen a post on X featuring a screenshot of a house share offer in Kerry, digitally altered to say “No Irish”. The actual ad can be found online easily and of course says no such thing, but the target audience hasn’t checked and is reacting predictably.

This will only get worse.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d

Anyhoo the sky in Kerry was Good this morning

Photograph of sunlight streaming through low clouds over the mountains

#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm #Ireland

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d

Night night

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d

I have terrible news about the passage of time

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d

The telly being wheeled in... precious memories

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Derek @dirkvanbryn.bsky.social · 1d

#coybig

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d

Know it's technically correct that Ireland hasn't been in a World Cup for over 23 years, as they said in the commentary, but it doesn't FEEL right

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d

Ah Ian this is so lovely

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Chris O’Halloween III: Season of the Witch @chrisohalloran.bsky.social · 1d

Additionally, it was completely overshadowed by the counter protest which me be worth mentioning.

#Spéirghorm

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he thought you were screaming in excitement! Take heart!

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

You will always be processing OUR beef

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

A friend of mine also had shingles for her wedding! Awful, fair play for managing

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

A cutie!

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

Do not body shame the arachnid!

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

Room for eight-legged company in there with you, surely. If you're cold they're cold etc etc

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

My hands are three metres wide

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Oct 18

In many ways, women and spiders have a great deal in common - independent, do a lot of work that isn't seen or valued, spend the autumn scuttling around in the shadows on our hairy legs looking for a mate before the winter sets in while people point at us and scream, etc.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

Never not

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't know that's how you tell them apart! I need to get him a fig leaf for his head

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely lil' guys!

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

Pins for daaaays

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe I've been Ian'd

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

He's a house visitor and local! I'll send him your direction ☺️

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