Brian Nisbet
@natural20.bsky.social
Irish gamer, reader, organiser ( #Dublin2029 ), community member ( #WSFS, #RIPE, #GÉANT), human. He/Him. Has opinions on society & politics; geek. Runs services for HEAnet. All opinions my own. @natural20 in a variety of places.
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Today is my 21st Full Time Writer anniversary! I'm gonna link to each of my series on Amazon throughout the day today. 🥰
#1: The Walker Papers. Re-releasing these with 8 of 12 available now & the 9th is coming in early January! #booksky #urbanfantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHBQ37P...
#1: The Walker Papers. Re-releasing these with 8 of 12 available now & the 9th is coming in early January! #booksky #urbanfantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHBQ37P...
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Today is my 21st Full Time Writer anniversary! I'm gonna link to each of my series on Amazon throughout the day today. 🥰
#1: The Walker Papers. Re-releasing these with 8 of 12 available now & the 9th is coming in early January! #booksky #urbanfantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHBQ37P...
#1: The Walker Papers. Re-releasing these with 8 of 12 available now & the 9th is coming in early January! #booksky #urbanfantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHBQ37P...
Last trip of the year, off to #Smofcon in Stockholm. Looking forward to a weekend of learning, planning and hanging out with awesome people! (And got to DUB in good time, despite the Cloudflare related Bolt outage. Free Now doesn't seem to use them, so resilient options!
December 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Last trip of the year, off to #Smofcon in Stockholm. Looking forward to a weekend of learning, planning and hanging out with awesome people! (And got to DUB in good time, despite the Cloudflare related Bolt outage. Free Now doesn't seem to use them, so resilient options!
Today brings the #INEX December meeting and the last community meeting of the year! It may also be, depending on when the full branding & name change to Asiera kicks in, be the last meeting where I'm "from" HEAnet. If not the last, then definitely one of the last. Sure a change is as good as a rest!
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today brings the #INEX December meeting and the last community meeting of the year! It may also be, depending on when the full branding & name change to Asiera kicks in, be the last meeting where I'm "from" HEAnet. If not the last, then definitely one of the last. Sure a change is as good as a rest!
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Interesting seeing the same reaction to a slower episode of Critical Role 4 and Welcome to Derry being, in some places, 'this episode could have been an email' because massive events didn't happen and people had feelings.
And no, it couldn't have been, because this stuff is the point.
And no, it couldn't have been, because this stuff is the point.
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Interesting seeing the same reaction to a slower episode of Critical Role 4 and Welcome to Derry being, in some places, 'this episode could have been an email' because massive events didn't happen and people had feelings.
And no, it couldn't have been, because this stuff is the point.
And no, it couldn't have been, because this stuff is the point.
Today is the National Cyber Security Centre conference, #NSCSconf25 A huge change from last year where so many things were plans or unknowns, now there are so many more concrete things happening as NIS2 is actually imminent.
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today is the National Cyber Security Centre conference, #NSCSconf25 A huge change from last year where so many things were plans or unknowns, now there are so many more concrete things happening as NIS2 is actually imminent.
Over £2500 raised at the #Dragonmeet Charity Auction after a great con. Another very worthwhile trip gaming and meeting friends, new and old!
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Over £2500 raised at the #Dragonmeet Charity Auction after a great con. Another very worthwhile trip gaming and meeting friends, new and old!
The #Dragonmeet Charity Auction is taking place in the Lounge (between the RPG rooms and the Seminar rooms on the upper floor) from 1900ish. Lots of amazing stuff for great charities!
November 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The #Dragonmeet Charity Auction is taking place in the Lounge (between the RPG rooms and the Seminar rooms on the upper floor) from 1900ish. Lots of amazing stuff for great charities!
London, so much weird bad, but it is filled with so much good too, and sits on the rubber sheet like the mass-iest ball bearing. Here we are again. 2nd most time-spent-in city. Family & friends make every moment worthwhile. #Dragonmeet
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
London, so much weird bad, but it is filled with so much good too, and sits on the rubber sheet like the mass-iest ball bearing. Here we are again. 2nd most time-spent-in city. Family & friends make every moment worthwhile. #Dragonmeet
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
#Dragonmeet is tomorrow (Saturday 29th) in London's Excel and I'm going to be there! Hopefully I'll see lots of lovely people around the con and at the charity auction on Saturday evening!
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#Dragonmeet is tomorrow (Saturday 29th) in London's Excel and I'm going to be there! Hopefully I'll see lots of lovely people around the con and at the charity auction on Saturday evening!
This is bullshit. Names are inherently divisive and that any TD thinks now is a good time to get into the news with this is indicative of their lack of awareness.
A bill to officially rename Dublin Airport after former taoiseach Seán Lemass has been moved to a second stage.
TD introduces bill to rename Dublin Airport after Lemass
A bill to officially rename Dublin Airport after former taoiseach Seán Lemass has been moved to a second stage.
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is bullshit. Names are inherently divisive and that any TD thinks now is a good time to get into the news with this is indicative of their lack of awareness.
I took, hopefully, my last Luas replacement bus today. I sat on the top deck at the front, ofc, because why wouldn't you? Looking forward to the full return of the Red Line service tomorrow!
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I took, hopefully, my last Luas replacement bus today. I sat on the top deck at the front, ofc, because why wouldn't you? Looking forward to the full return of the Red Line service tomorrow!
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I love this poem,
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I love this poem,
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I quite literally will never understand this take. I know that we always need *some* rental property available but the vast majority of people in Ireland want to own and we can't because of *drumroll please* landlords buying multiple properties to rent. Them leaving the market is what we want.
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
The new rules and regulations will not affect tenants that have been in place before March 1 and after that date, they will see a six-year tenancy agreement put in place
Renters could be facing an even more uncertain market in the months ahead of new tenancy rules that are coming into effect
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www.limerickleader.ie
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I quite literally will never understand this take. I know that we always need *some* rental property available but the vast majority of people in Ireland want to own and we can't because of *drumroll please* landlords buying multiple properties to rent. Them leaving the market is what we want.
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Google Translate, you big eejit!
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Google Translate, you big eejit!
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
Yup, this prompted a big "Fuck you, Rassie" moment for me.
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Yup, this prompted a big "Fuck you, Rassie" moment for me.
13-24 in the end, with a record matching number of cards for Ireland. I have never seen a match like it, and while they won, RSA have to look at that and wonder why they couldn't score an awful lot more. #IREvRSA
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
13-24 in the end, with a record matching number of cards for Ireland. I have never seen a match like it, and while they won, RSA have to look at that and wonder why they couldn't score an awful lot more. #IREvRSA
Like, what the absolute fuck #IREvRSA. Yes, Ireland's discipline hasn't been great, but that number of cards is ridiculous. Are they feeling bad for the reds against RSA earlier in the campaign? The fact it's 7-19 is a miracle.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Like, what the absolute fuck #IREvRSA. Yes, Ireland's discipline hasn't been great, but that number of cards is ridiculous. Are they feeling bad for the reds against RSA earlier in the campaign? The fact it's 7-19 is a miracle.
I have finished @julietemckenna.bsky.social's "The Green Man's Holiday" and I am now reassessing any leisure time I spend with her! :) Excellent addition to the series and it was interesting to have a book that focuses so much on Dan & Fin. Absolutely recommended!
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I have finished @julietemckenna.bsky.social's "The Green Man's Holiday" and I am now reassessing any leisure time I spend with her! :) Excellent addition to the series and it was interesting to have a book that focuses so much on Dan & Fin. Absolutely recommended!
Yesterday evening marked the launch of @rflong.bsky.social's "The Lore of Silver" hosted by the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! Ruth was interviewed by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social about how the series came into being and intrigued us all. There are bodies, you should buy this book!
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Yesterday evening marked the launch of @rflong.bsky.social's "The Lore of Silver" hosted by the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! Ruth was interviewed by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social about how the series came into being and intrigued us all. There are bodies, you should buy this book!
At the recent #HEAnet2025 conference Dr Hazel Murray from MTU gave an excellent talk on Quantum Cryptography and I highly recommend taking a look if have 30m. She's an amazing communicator and she gave me clarity on some really complex concepts. www.conference.heanet.ie/quantum-comp...
Quantum Computing and Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparing for the Next Era of Cybersecurity — HEAnet '25 Conference
www.conference.heanet.ie
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
At the recent #HEAnet2025 conference Dr Hazel Murray from MTU gave an excellent talk on Quantum Cryptography and I highly recommend taking a look if have 30m. She's an amazing communicator and she gave me clarity on some really complex concepts. www.conference.heanet.ie/quantum-comp...