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Roibeárd Meillear

@beaniebob.bsky.social
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Accidental Anarchist. Retired journalist and NUJ Life member but still a union activist. Garage artist just for the joy of it. Stout drinker again just for the joy of it. Ex-rugby union player. For my sins in a past/current life still a ManU fan.

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Marlena (#felon47 is NOT my President) ❌👑 @ohpleeznotagain.bsky.social · 4h
Good morning, Ray! Happy Saturday ☕️💙🫶🏾
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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 8h
Good idea: The beard, beanie and I agree that it should be resurrected.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Grind this bollocks to dust, then salt the earth
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fascism is also about the pleasure of seeing unwanted bodies mutilated, tortured, killed. This has nothing to do with Hasan's crimes. It has to do with bringing back public lynchings. They're signaling to their base that they can now rejoice in the the death of undesirables.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you plan to watch a livestreamed public execution, chances are you would have attended a lynching 100 years ago. This is no different. Shame on you—whoever you are. #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...
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Pete Hegseth pushes for public firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter
Hegseth says Hasan's firing-squad execution should be public, potentially the first U.S. public execution in nearly 90 years.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Very cool and normal that this is apparently taking place in a council building
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
This seems perfectly normal
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The vast majority of the national debt is the wealth of the 1%. They have received decades of bailouts, tax cuts, corporate subsidies and grants, lucrative public contracts, trillions squandered on foreign wars.
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Your corrupt government built Elon Musk with your money while enriching themselves insider trading the stock. Same with Peter Thiel. In essence they used your money to build two oligarchs destroying your country. People are nowhere near angry enough. bsky.app/profile/fran...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨 In case you hadn’t noticed… …mainstream media is rapidly getting replaced by alternative and grassroots news efforts. That’s a combination of citizen frustration with mainstream media - an increased ability to DIY in digital media. So where is it all going? And how do we ensure standards?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK Russia Scrambles to Cover Up Potential Plague Outbreak After Years of Spreading Biolab Conspiracy Theories By Caroline Orr Bueno and PhD Read below. ↓
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Russia Scrambles to Cover Up Potential Plague Outbreak After Years of Spreading Biolab Conspiracy Theories
The Kremlin launched its full invasion of Ukraine claiming it was facing biological attack. Now the disinformation has come back to bite it reports Caroline Orr Bueno
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BBC morale dented by gradual ‘bloodletting’ after weeks of job cuts Plans to shed as many as 2,000 employees have been announced in stages, and staff fear further cuts in 2027 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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BBC morale dented by gradual ‘bloodletting’ after weeks of job cuts
Plans to shed as many as 2,000 employees have been announced in stages, and staff fear further cuts in 2027
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
All those finely honed legal minds in that courthouse, all just following orders..
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon's European headquarters is less than 15 minutes walk from Dáil Éireann. Government ministers and departments declined to shut down their accounts when he turned the company into a manufacturer of child sexual abuse images earlier this year
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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Martin O'Hagan: The murder of a journalist 25 years on - why has no one been caught? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Martin O'Hagan: Murder of journalist 25 years on - why has no one been caught?
Martin O'Hagan was shot dead as he walked home from a pub with his wife in Lurgan, County Armagh in 2001. His killers have never been caught.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Danny Tommo denied bail and remanded in custody as Tommy Robinson jets off on another luxury holiday searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/the-...
Court image of danny crying
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026
Before you trust the polls, remember: pollsters find the same six people who still answer unknown numbers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All we know for sure is that Andrew Bailey was *not* fired for having sex with animals. Because that is OK at Kash Patel's FBI.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is dangerous talk, he should be reprimanded for it.
The United Kingdom is releasing five Muslim terrorists accused of planning an attack on an American airbase.
They should just officially rename themselves the United Islamic Kingdom and get it over with.
What is clear is they are no longer a reliable ally of the United States.
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Counter Terrorism Policing in the United Kingdom has announced that the five men arrested near RAF Fairford on Sunday will be released on bail this afternoon. The men were arrested in the village of Whelford, a short dis...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We've all heard how corrupt Ken Paxton is. But he is also incredibly stupid if he thinks this "well, he served 60 whole days" excuse for releasing Adam Hoffman, who sexually abused a boy over a three-year period starting when he was 8.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something very weird about this RAF terror case. I’ve reported on terrorism for 35 years and I’m struggling to recall a single case of a terror suspect being released on bail
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Somewhere, a chin stroking opinion writer thinks he's just come up with a novel take on "dreary steeples"...
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Said much about Russia, Freddo Frog?
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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Piss poor behaviour: The beard, beanie and I had to take time out and go to Belfast to replace my apple mac cable. Archie, the oldest of our wee schnauzers, decided to have a grunge pee on my cable connection. Wee shite tripped the electrity switch and crashed my computer. Replacement cost £118.
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shoulda kept his mouth shut. (A physical impossibility) www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Taylor's annoucement that the suspects would be released on bail with no further explanation was somewhat jarring in light of President Trump's comments to reporters on Sunday. An exuberant Trump said the suspects had intended to do "big damage" to the air base and praised the British police, describing their efforts as "fantastic" and
"amazing." He added: "We had them under view for a long time and we got them." Now the five men are going to be freed on bail, but with stringent conditions on their movement and contact with
others.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The rise in small boat crossings was entirely due to Brexit, promoted by Nigel Farage, and the deal done by Boris Johnson Their attempts to shift blame to anyone else is utterly despicable hypocrisy
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Shame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead
Our Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors…
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
’Active engaged time’. Translation - the more click bait the better.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m bewildered by this chat from the Scottish Greens opposing Scottish police being sent to support officers in Northern Ireland. Police in NI are stopping Orangemen going ahead with their parade, not assisting them. Are the Greens supporting a loyalist march or do they just not understand NIreland?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There always was money in spreading false rumours and hateful lies ... "So true." via Truth Against Hate
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sombre reflection; The beard, beanie and I attended the vigil to mark the murder of fellow journalist and union comrade Martin O’Hagan. Marty was gunned down by LVF terrorists 25 years ago. Yesterday he was remembered by family members, former colleagues, trade unionists and human rights orgs.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
The peace only lasts as long as the people remember the horrors of war
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love this
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
www.dublininquirer.com/a-new-networ...
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A new network seeks to encourage Black and immigrant workers to join trade unions
One of the most pressing issues continues to be the impact of Ireland's work-permit regime, which make it risky for employees to speak out if exploited.
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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Calling on journos in Ireland to please support the vigil on Monday. The beard, beanie and I will be there. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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NUJ to hold Belfast vigil for Martin O'Hagan
The NUJ Belfast & District branch will hold a vigil at Writer's Square in Belfast on Monday 28 September to mark the 25th anniversary of the murder of union member Martin O'Hagan.
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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Life changing; The beard, beanie and I have decided to not iron my T-shirts anymore giving me more time to read and paint.
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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They make fun of being "woke" because they think it sounds much more insulting than being "enlightened" or "empathetic". Also they can't spell enlightened or empathetic.
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