Josef O'Shea
@josefoshea.bsky.social
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News, views and stuff - in a giant marsh on the south coast of Ireland
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josefoshea.bsky.social
A little about me since I've joined the #migration over from the shouty/angry place - I live in Cork city on the south coast of Ireland, worked in various/all forms of journalism/media for a long time, I like old cars/bikes, old music, old buildings. A while back, I wrote a best-seller, so hello!
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brendelbored.bsky.social
JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...
CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy
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weratedogs.com
This is Colton. He started a fire at his house when he chewed through a lithium ion battery. He's not the first dog to do this, and he won't be the last, but unfortunately his dad is a firefighter, so it's probably going down as one of the most embarrassing instances. We're still giving him a 12/10
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josefoshea.bsky.social
You may not be looking for YouTube recs - but this is incredible - an Italian mountain climber who visits insane huts/shelters on the top of huge mountains - they look almost AI generated - just 10 mins -
Overnight in the Highest Hut of the Alps | CAPANNA MARGHERITA 4556m
YouTube video by Bruno Pisani
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josefoshea.bsky.social
You have to make it now.
josefoshea.bsky.social
I've now lived through several cycles of 'GOP ruins economy - Dems fix economy - US voters forget how bad GOP is with economy - GOP ruins economy- Dems fi....."
josefoshea.bsky.social
Yanks love to talk about how they live in the land of the free yadda yadda...
newrepublic.com
ICE agents surrounded, seized, and zip-tied a U.S. citizen who had just finished working a double shift because she didn’t “look” American to them.

She had her U.S. passport on her when she was detained, yet she was interrogated for an hour. trib.al/hDC7Vgv
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marcmorris.bsky.social
Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
josefoshea.bsky.social
You can see why the English - famous for learning languages when they live and travel abroad - would want to insist on this 🤪
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paulbernal.bsky.social
This is absolutely nuts. As well as racist, xenophobic, deeply offensive and entirely ineffective.
josefoshea.bsky.social
This is MAD - there's a band from Dublin called Strangers With Guns who have somehow managed to inveigle their tracks onto the official Spotify most popular/main pages of bands like Babyshambles - and get played and paid -
How are they getting away with this?
YouTube video by Danny Sapko
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josefoshea.bsky.social
Should have read through that first- yes Ballard did say they were in a camp together
josefoshea.bsky.social
Im pretty sure he was in the same Japanese internment camp as JG Ballard as a child - but when Ballard raised it with him decades later - Wyngarde either denied it or claimed not to remember
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jeano.bsky.social
Our dog found an actual string of sausages today! I thought that only happened in The Beano 😆
Dog with bin bag and string of sausages
josefoshea.bsky.social
Harsh but fair....
steamtraen.eu
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
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heavyeyed.bsky.social
My favorite season is back, esports pros awkwardly trying to aura farm in promotional videos
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johnspacemuller.com
When they call it the world’s game they mean American financial institutions buy English clubs which acquire European clubs to hoard players from Africa and South America so the English club can secure a place in a Gulf State-run Super League that will inevitably play in America
josefoshea.bsky.social
Spike Milligan had a song: 'Galloping Hooves In the Night, Remind Me I Married A Centaur'
josefoshea.bsky.social
Looks like we got ourselves a new campaign tune, boys!
josefoshea.bsky.social
Before social media - these were Isolated Village Idiots - but thanks to FB, etc- now they are a Mob of Village Idiots! Yay!
newschambers.bsky.social
A group of people have turned up to Catherine Connolly’s canvass in Naas asking about Enoch and Elijah Burke.

They have asked Connolly if she’s a Freemason…

@virginmedianews.bsky.social