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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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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 1h
In America, everyone enjoys the freedom of speech to be a Nazi, but not a Communist.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15h
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 12h
Tey doing that here #speirgorm
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 15h
In Germany it's the law: when traffic jams up, drivers must split into lanes and leave a center path open for ambulances and fire trucks.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social · 13h
What a result for the Under 21s!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20h
This Is 👇 Who KegsBreath Is.......
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 12h
Let's ask an expert:
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Elon Musk Speaking on Stage
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 14h
Unbelievable! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
substack.com/@kairostimen... If you want to understand what kind of “friend” Israel is to its allies and you can stomach depraved behavior... try to get to the end of this. Listen. 👂
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This is so disgusting. If you want to understand what kind of “friend” Israel is to its allies and you can stomach depraved behavior.. try to get to the end of this.
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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 17h
Water was the Pete Best of Earth, Wind, and Fire.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 18h
My former Dept. of Finance colleague John Fitz Gerald relishing being fully off the public-service leash at last and characterising the #Budget nonsense intervention in the housing market as "stupid" measures. 😄
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 18h
At last a real journo challenges the Liar-in-Chief. There needs to be much more of this, and solidarity among journos instead of letting him shut them down one by one.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 20h
For more Irish werewolf info Lycan subscribe
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 19h
*Sticks another needle in the doll of Eamonn Ryan that he keeps under his desk.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 19h
Too little, too late.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 20h
Meanwhile, operating with the full benefit of the EU- Israel Association Agreement, flouting laws and universal norms with gleeful impunity.
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Ouija Board Paranormal Session
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fact - Tech companies are becoming more powerful than sovereign states. Reminder - That's a private, unelected multi-billionaire silencing and deplatforming the verified voice of a sovereign G7 government during an active conflict.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: During a rally just now, Trump invited Iran to “take out Los Angeles and San Diego,” saying it would be a “small price to pay.”
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We need more of this! The humour comes mainly from the audience, but the comedian is quick-witted enough to go with the flow. youtube.com/shorts/KJ04W...
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This escalated quickly. #standup #standupcomedian #ireland #irish
YouTube video by Patrick Spicer
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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 05/10/2026
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive through violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies, and the destruction of healthcare and vital infrastructure.
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Three years on: Israel is asphyxiating Gaza and dismantling the means of survival | MSF
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How stock market bubbles work Original post
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Karoline Leavitt accepts a new full-time job two months after telling us she had to stop working because it kept her from spending time with her two young children. Just one more lie from relentless liar Karoline Leavitt.
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Karoline Leavitt lands new job after leaving struggling Trump White House
Karoline Leavitt has landed her next job less than two months after leaving Donald Trump's embattled White House: she's joining Fox News.According to The New York Times, Leavitt, who served as Trump's...
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...day) had to be downloaded onto 5¼-inch floppy disks (which were still floppy in those days!) and brought by hand to the clerical-assistant typist who was entrusted with the task of assembling the whole lot into a single document.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...must still be typed on old-style manual typewriters. The next year he relented and agreed it could be done by word-processing, but only on a standalone PC disconnected from the network. Contributions from individual sections (which were constantly changing right up to the eve of budget...
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...being considered unless they needed to know for work reasons. This was the era when PCs with word processing were being introduced. The first year when we had them, Seán Cromien, the Secretary of the Department, was so paranoid about security that he insisted that the Minister's budget speech...
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm almost nostalgic for the years when I worked on the budget in the Dept. of Finance. Budgetary secrecy was sacrosanct – to an extent that now seems laughable. Admittedly that was before the era of wall-to-wall "special advisors". We wouldn't even talk to colleagues about what measures were...
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At least she's easy on the eye. Just be sure to have the sound fully off.
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coin2017.bsky.social @coin2017.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Simon Andriesz, British banker and whistleblower who exposed Howard Lutnick's many ties to Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead last week of an apparent suicide, raising many suspicions, especially due to his last social media post. www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...
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Horror as final post of banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s ties to Epstein resurfaces
The final online post of a British banker who reportedly died by suicide shortly after outing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein left several critics speechless on Su...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's 4th October, so I've put the brussel sprouts on a slow simmer ready for Christmas dinner.
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J.P. Gottlieb @jpgottlieb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A great man has passed. avrumburg.substack.com/p/lucien-laz...
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Lucien Lazare: The Thread of Grace Drawn Across the World Has Snapped
In Memory of My Beloved Father in Law, the Partisan Who Chose Peace
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For policy reasons relating to Europe, immigrants and economics Harold Macmillan Anthony Eden Ted Heath Benjamin Disraeli William Gladstone David Cameron Alec Douglas-Home and Winston Churchill wouldn't have been allowed in your cabinet, you feckless wazzock www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026
British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.
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How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The particularly shitty end of a stick?
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Brendan Carroll @brendancarroll.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I get a laugh out of it, and it generates memes like this.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Glad to know it "penetrates stuck parts."
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would support sending people who behave like this to the Hague, to answer for their crimes. I will support a British political party that promises to send them there. Frankly, I would endorse them being Cersei Lannister shame-walked through the streets in front of a baying crowd.
Scale of Destruction
• Overall Damage: According to UN satellite-based damage assessments and reports from agencies like UNICEF State of Palestine, roughly 97% of school buildings have sustained varying degrees of damage, with over 91% requiring major rehabilitation or complete reconstruction to function again. * Al Jazeera +1
• Direct Hits and Destruction: Hundreds of school facilities have suffered direct military strikes or systematic demolition. Assessments by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and UN bodies indicate that out of roughly 564 to 600 total school locations, the vast majority are either completely demolished or severely impacted. © UNRWA +3
• Universities: Every higher education institution and university campus across the Gaza Strip has experienced severe damage or complete destruction. (w Wikipedia +1
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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
WSJ reveals American ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle threatened Greek Energy minister Stavros Papastavrou if he didn't buy more US Liquefied Natural Gas they'd topple his government. Implied they'd engineered the impending fall of the Romanian government. Expect Ireland to buy more LNG soon.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘NAZA,’ the documentary in which two dozen Israeli military personnel admit to committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza, is selling out theaters. Whether it can advance the case for genocide may be more complicated. Former IDF soldiers and intelligence officers recount how bombing
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NAZA Is Selling Out Theaters. Can It Influence The Hague?
Whether the film can advance the case for genocide may be more complicated than convincing viewers.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Does she consider herself English?
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At this stage it's not even talking at the EU: it's talking *about* the EU as if it were not allowed to enter the drawing-room while the grown-ups are talking among themselves.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sounds like a mensch.
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