"Silco's evil!".. "Silco's a master drug lord who made people addicted!"
"Silco killed people"
Okay? but do you also know what he is? FUCKING SEXY AS SHI, LEMME AT HIM I WANNA TEAR HIS CLOTHES OFF I SWEAR THAT MAN IS SEXY ASF

Everyone say "Thank you, Dan Mora."
You know, I've seen manuscript abbreviations that looked like text-speak, but hand-drawing emojis to stand in for the word ceann (head) in a passage about Cú Chulainn being beheaded is taking that all to a new level
(The line from another manuscript: "Is ann sin d'éirgedar datha aille iongantacha do cheann Choingculoinn")
Manuscript is RIA 23 H 10, Oidheadh Con Culainn, written in 1808.
BREAKING NEWS HE DID IT AGAIN
"a cheann do bheith ar an ngad" but obviously when talking about heads on sticks we should just draw a ☹️ instead
He just keeps doing it. Every time somebody gets beheaded in this text, the word "ceann" gets replaced with 😐 And a lot of people get beheaded in this text (thanks Conall), so this happens a lot.
"Do bhain an 😐 de" He struck the head from him
He actually does write the word beheaded (/behead/beheading) multiple times, haha (including multiple times in that first photo). It's the word head he avoids, though not always (he writes it out in the second line of the last picture). This is the only manuscript of the 50+ I've consulted that does this, and it's from 1808, so I don't think there can be any cultural reasons to avoid it. I think he's just entertaining himself, to be quite honest.
This is, after all, the same scribe who gave us this joyous beast:
Which I think is a horse. But I mostly think that because this word is the name of one of Cú Chulainn's horses, not because it actually looks too much like one. It's very cute.
Not only should it be law that anything AI generated on the internet should be labelled as such but every website, app, and digital service should have a button I can click that removes any AI from my interactions with that site/service. I don't want your AI assistant I don't want your AI-generated ad copy I don't want this insidious little thing that has crept into so much of the internet that I can be using it without even realising or knowing. If you couldn't be bothered to have a human make it I can't be bothered to look at it sorry bye