Gerard Hynes

@gerardhynes.com

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Daidí. Big old nerd. Expect programming, Fantasy, TTRPGs, and flailing attempts at parenting. Labhair Gaeilge liom he/him sé/é

Schleich Eldrador 70790 Ice Dragon. A gnarly white and blue dragon. Its wings look frozen and there's ice along its back from head to tail.
"This article was originally written in the reporter’s native Irish and has been translated to English here. AI was used as part of the translation process before final edits."
Maura Higgins
A hand holding an alt-cover Dungeons and Dragons 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. It has beautiful cover art of the spider goddess Lolth wrapping a victim in webs.
Sylas Briarwood and Grog Strongjaw horribly burnt by Keyeth's sunbeam spell. Sylas is the worse off of the two of them.
A sticker with the text "Is vótálaí mé" (I am a voter) on a blue fabric background.
A screenshot of the rpg subreddit taken on a mobile phone. An obnoxious banner covers the bottom 40% of the screen. It tells you that you need to use the Reddit app.
Horrors of the Fairelands: Eight Assignments in a Gilded World of Terrifying Magick. A Candela Obscura expansion published by Beadle and Grimm's and Darrington Press.
A Moleskine Instagram post for their The Lord of the Rings collaboration. Fabric patches of a Lorien leaf, the White Tree of Gondor, and the Eye of Sauron are placed on a AI slop map of Middle-earth that contains gibberish placenames.
"Captain Swayne pitchcapping the people of Prosperous [county Kildare, Ireland 1798]"
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Star Borg Rebel Handbook by Kyle Latino and JP Coovert. A Star Wars inspired hack of Mork Borg. The cover features a hero wielding a lightsaber, a ship that sure looks like the Millenium Falcon, and a Darth Vader analogue. The risk of a lawsuit from Disney is high.
Shadowdark Zine 5. Cursed Scroll. Dwellers in the Deep. Two stingbats (horrific insext/bat hybrids) flutter in the foreground. In the background the silhouettes of many more can be seen.
Homer Simpson (with hair) and Karl look on in awe. Karl says: "Stunning. Absolutely stunning"
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Liriel by Garth Nix
Sabriel by Garth Nix
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
Hata Zú Mhamó le Áine Ní Ghlinn
Mausritter: Sword-and-whiskers role-playing by Isaac Williams
The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Shadowdark RPG by Kelsey Dionne
Witch King by Martha Wells
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. Edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.
The Montessori Baby by Simone Davies and Junnifa Uzodike
Socialism Seriously by Danny Katch
System Collapse by Martha Wells
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow.
Aldi Little Town Wooden Country Kitchen. A children's play kitchen that comes as a flatpack and requires a lot of fiddly assembly very late on Christmas Eve.
Fox and Son Tailers - Paddy Donnelly
Ag Buzzáil sa Ghairdin - Áine Ní Ghlinn agus Mr Ando.
The start of a table of carousing mishaps. 01 You wake up in the Duke's Donjon accused of a major crime 02 You wake up in the stocks accused of a minor crime 03 A gloating thief burgled 50% of your wealth; -3 renown 04 You offended an important advisor to the Duke; -5 renown 05 You wake up robbed in a gutter; lose 40% of your wealth 06 You lost 35% of your wealth to a notorious con artist 07 You lost 30% of your wealth in a string of gambling failures 08 You blew a high-level spy's cover; gain an enemy assassin 09 You accidentally burned down a tavern; -4 renown 10 A pickpocket successfully lifted 1d4 pieces of your gear 11 You traded your best weapon for a cooked turkey leg 12 You hit your head; lose one common language you spoke 13 A seemingly kind old lady stole a random piece of your gear 14 A nobleman overheard your joke about him; -3 renown 15 Wizard duel crossfire; you are turned into a frog for a week 16 The City Guard hunts for you regarding a major crime 17 A demagogue priest declared you possessed; -2 renown 18 A rival threw a random piece of your gear into the river 19 Your cheers distracted a pit fighter; gain an enemy knight 20 You deeply insulted a wizard; gain an enemy mage 21 You unwittingly interfered in a heist; gain an enemy thief 22 You broke the taboos of a church; gain an enemy priest 23 You lost a bet to a hated rival; -1 renown and lose 50 gp
A brown and green teddy bear with numbered patches on its ears, hands, feet and stomach. When pressed, they play phrases in Irish.
Confused, and possibly frustrated, Jackie Chan.
Critical Role Campaign 2 Episode 1 thumbnail of a quite nerdy Matt Mercer in 1980s clothes.
Cover of The Wolf's Secret. Flowers and leaves in reds, oranges and greys tangle on a speckled black background. Two set of yellow eyes, one canine, one human, stare out from behind the petals.
Justin Trudeau attending a climate protest (possibly against his own government?), instead of doing anything as Canadian premier to change government policy to address the climate crisis.
Screenshot of tweet from Fine Gael MEP Seán Kelly about getting a burger because he was at the airport early. Posted a few hours after he voted against saving drowning refugees in the Mediterranean.
The file menu of an Obsidian instance. Almost every folder is named something like "kafka-notes" or "scala-notes"
A grey Framework laptop with a "Protect Trans Kids" sticker in the trans flag colours. Beside it are stickers saying "This machine kills fascists" and "CSS is awesome"
A man wearing a t-shirt that says "You will have to go through me" in the trans pride flag colours. He has a very unkempt greying beard.
Simpsons meme: Mr Black and the bullies at Kamp Krusty toast "to evil"
Allosaurus hunting Diplodocus from the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs.
The cover of Delve. Two adventurers face a spooky dungeon chamber with a glowing glyph in the centre of the floor.
The Mothership RPG deluxe box set. A shiny black box with gold linework art and a large white M logo.
Laura Eastaugh, the most Boston person you have ever encountered, voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential election. "I wish I was voting for Bernie Sanders but it's a team sport"
Confused/frustrated Jackie Chan meme.
Part of the 2025 St Patrick's Day parade in An Spidéal, Co. Galway. A group of people are waving Palestinian flags while a Ukrainian flag flies overhead from a street light.
The Kickstarter page for Shadowdark: The Western Reaches Setting passing $300,000 dollars in its first hour.
City of Fate (a novel about Stalingrad) by Nicola Pierce. The title used Cyrillic letters for presumably aesthetic purposes and ends up being gobbledygook.
A set of black metal polyhedral dice with veins of gold through them.
Gritty, the genius loci of Philadelphia, and well-know antifascist, waves a progress pride flag.
A blue bag of whole chia seeds from Lidl
The Seekers Guide to Twister Taverbs. An androgynous red tiefling wields a wooden staff before a circle of symbols.
Fancy Winnie the Pooh meme. Regular Pooh is labelled "Todo App" Fancy Pooh is labelled "Task Management App"
"You are about to queue your Vercel account for deletion. Before you go, please give feedback on why you're deleting your account" "Your CEO openly supports fascists"