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Roger O'Keeffe

@rogerokeeffe.bsky.social
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Shooting the breeze on Irish, EU and world affairs, history, language(s). #speirgorm A bit of a pedant, advocate of colonic irrigation of sentences. Location: 🇺🇸 shitshow to the left of us< 🇮🇪 > 🇬🇧 shitshow to the right

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 4h
Iceland looks set to join Ireland in boycotting next year's Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is allowed to participate. A majority of the board of Iceland's public broadcaster RÚV has said the country should not take part in the 2027 contest unless Israel is barred. jrnl.ie/7178678
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Iceland looks set to join Ireland in Eurovision boycott again over Israel's participation
Six of the nine members of Icelandic broadcaster RÚV’s board have said the country should not take part unless Israel is barred from the contest.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 3h
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h
The U.S. has withdrawn its last troops from Iraq, 23 years after a Republican president launched a war of choice based on lies that cost trillions of dollars, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and unleashed regional chaos. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h
Is this a competitor of The Onion, or did Kegsbreath really say all this?
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 9h
Sometimes the Onion hits one out of the park. 🤣
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7h
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Or implement one of Count Binface's very sensible policies: “Make water company bosses swim in polluted rivers until our waterways are clean.”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Dean Morrison #FBPE #Breturn @deanmorrison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If holding up a cardboard sign counts as terrorism surely nicking diesel must qualify? 😉
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Polls are commissioned by media or political parties and the questions are often formulated seeking a particular response. " Are you in favour of motherhood?" is not the same as " Do you support paying benefits to single mothers?"
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Wait, what?! @whyisthat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Read "US military prepares for first execution in over 60 years as Trump can now approve former Army major’s death sentence" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8ABba3Be/b...
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US military prepares for first execution in over 60 years as Trump can now approve former Army major’s death sentence (VT)
The US Army is preparing for the possible executions of four prisoners on military death row, in a move that could result in the first US military execution ...
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After all Labour's previous dalliances with PR for the Commons, let's hope they see this through - first past the post cannot cope with the modern state of politics.
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Straight out of JP's Oligarchy playbook. www.independent.ie/county/water...
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Mark Zuckerberg donates €150,000 to three Waterford GAA clubs
Three clubs near the billionaire couple’s newly acquired Strancally Castle to receive €50,000 each
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just learned something new. “The document of incorporation for the Honor dels molis del Bazacle survives in the Toulouse archives, a twelve-foot-long manuscript dating from 1372 written in a mixture of Latin and Occitan.”
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The World's First Corporations - Yale University Press
It is commonly believed that the first corporations were English and Dutch trading corporations from the 1600s. But Germain Sicard, in an overlooked 1952 thesis, argued that the first corporations... ...
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lads…. #speirgorm
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's difficult to engage in diplomacy when you're too simple-minded to think about anyone except yourself . . .
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#speirgorm
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey, it's my first week as the PSNI 's Head of Threat Assessment. Now to take a big sip of coffee and check the news...
Excerpt from RTE News article on Orange Order March down Garvaghy road. 
"The commission says it carefully considered those representations, but it seems the input from the PSNI was significant in their decision-making.

"The police have stated ... that they have no information indicating that the parade will result in public disorder or damage to property if it proceeds along its notified route."
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I never knew three van full's of explosives could evaporate, but it did and in less than 24 hours. Donald Trump, all the Media, and even the Police were spreading this BS. What jokes we have in charge.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#speirgorm
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We don't want anything to do with them so they threaten to kill us. The nation equivalent of an Incel.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It has just occurred to me that the British equivalent to numerous words for snow among the Inuktitut (thanks Google!) is semi-illicit sexual behavior.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
TL;DR We're f***ed!
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever I see an evidence-based statement that X amount of Y will be needed by year Z in Ireland, I know that one thing is certain: that already-identified need will not be met. #speirgorm
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September 1944, ramp of the Rhine Bridge in Arnhem. This could well be my family, after being told to evacuate the city of Arnhem, just after operation Market Garden. They lived 300 metres south of the Rhine River. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pope Francis’s dying wish was to donate his Popemobile to Gaza as a child clinic Israel is still banning that clinic from entering Gaza more than a year & a half later! The late Pope maintained a routine of calling Gaza’s Christian community every day during the genocide.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Our polling with YouGov shows that 99% of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. And Labour promising to rejoin the EU could stop a Reform UK government. Now is the time to talk about EU membership. www.ft.com/content/a1614884-7c8c-43…
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇬🇧 His Laboury Highness, Lordy John Walney, a repugnant and reprehensible excuse for a human being 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀🇮🇪🇵🇸🍉
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They’ve controlled every branch of government for two years, yet somehow Biden is responsible for their tariffs and the war in Iran they’ve been losing.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait no, hang on, I was informed that masked men in balaclavas are peaceful protesters? Why is this woman judging their legitimate concerns about immigration?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Israel say football and politics must stay separate, after Ireland vote to fulfil fixture www.straitstimes.com/sport/footba... So Israel FA agrees that Ireland was right to play Germany in 1939. I'm glad we cleared that up. #speirgorm #fai
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Israel say football and politics must stay separate, after Ireland vote to fulfil fixture
DEBRECEN, Hungary, Sept 26 - The Israel Football Association has said football and politics need to remain separate in the wake of Ireland players voting on Saturday to fulfil Sunday's Nations League ...
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Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How on earth did the Parades Commission think that allow this parade after 28 years of peace and quiet, would be a good idea? the mind boggles at the sheer incompetence #drumcree #garvaghy
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Surely the best thing to come out of Drumcree 1.0 was this thread, which started with a parody, followed by a few more, and ended up in a piece of groupsourced theatre of the absurd. Towards the end, Wolgang posts a link to a continuation thread. It went on for months. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?t...
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Lyr Add: The Campsite at Drumcree
As an occasional visitor to this place, I'm bothered by the preponderance of songs in your databases that celebrate the Nationalis
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Kate @katemck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are you looking to be outraged, are you? www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/...
So last weekend in Portadown, when Orangemen were receiving plaudits for restraint, an American woman observer on Garvaghy Road was pulled over a wall and hospitalised by marchers. Saturday evening mass at St John's was disturbed by bandsmen who decided that the roundabout was a traditional and, of course, endless route. One of their newer traditions was to shout the name of Rosemary Nelson, along with those of Robert Hamill, who was kicked to death two years ago and Gavin Tennyson, one of several young Catholics who have committed suicide on the estate in recent months. A year under siege has taken its toll on people's spirits.
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@heidlberger.bsky.social #AfD🤢 According to research by Correctiv,at least 34 former full-time staff members of the GDR Ministry for State Security( #Stasi) have been identified within the structures and ranks of the AfD. These are full-time staff members(including officers on special assignment)
Laut Recherchen von Correctiv wurden mindestens 34 ehemalige hauptamtliche Mitarbeiter des DDR-Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (Stasi) in den Strukturen und Reihen der AfD identifiziert.Es handelt es sich um hauptamtliche Kräfte (darunter auch Offiziere im besonderen Einsatz)
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyone still thinking "Board of peace" is remotely interested in the lives of Palestinians needs their heads checked 🤬 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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‘No role for UNRWA in Gaza’: Does the Board of Peace toe Israeli lines?
Board of Peace excludes UNRWA from Gaza, aligning with repeated Israeli calls to sideline the refugee aid agency.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So, what do we think, #speirgorm? Have we kissed and made up? Are we all friends again with U2? Even with Bono?
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𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Below - from the website of the Israeli human rights organisation, B'Tselem. The explanation of the name 'B'Tselem' suffices to understand why 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙨𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡𝙞 𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙂𝙖𝙯𝙖 & 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 '𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙢'! The real 'antisemites' are Netanyahu & his murderous pals.
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Martin @capallfada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This year alone, unionist politicians and gibbering hangers on like Bryson have, tacitly or otherwise, approved of, supported, or encouraged, dozens of illegal protests, many violent, by right wing racist mobs. Suddenly these same people are demanding the rule of law is upheld.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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