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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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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 3h
Wasn't that what the Labour Party was supposed to be for?
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Wyl @wyl.bsky.social · 8h
😉
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h
Contrary notice-box. Best ignored.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h
EYE. See also "incisive"

Garret FitzG was the only person I ever heard opt for IH. Sounded a bit weird to me.
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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 8h
FUCK JD VANCE‼️
#NoKings ❌👑
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BuickMakane 🇧🇲🔥💨 @buickmakane71.bsky.social · 16h
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Cutest cartoon ever, you'll have to get someone to read it to you, tho. No worries, I'm just forcing you to share a laugh. See, that wasn't so bad, at least no one peed on you.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h
Starmer can FRO. He is an utter disgrace
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h
As we all foresaw.

We even had a pretty good hunch that a lot of those Polish plumbers and other "Europeans" would be replaced by an inflow of people far less congenially-pigmented for the taste of the gammonati.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h
Brilliant. I hope some of my US mutuals will RT it.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 6h
I drew an ICE guy.

#ICE #FuckICE #Fascist #Art #Resist #NoKings
A drawing of an ICE agent, ink line and digital colour on a white background. He's overloaded with weekend warrior gear and there are handwritten captions all around him. Going clockwise: Domestic abuser hazard symbol (Punisher logo). Google revenge porn goggles. Snowflake TM helmet (to protect against hurtful remarks). Night vision goggles (because he's scared of anything dark. Worn over sunglasses). Shame TM anti-prosecution mask. Skin colour guilt guide, which is stuck to the inside of his riot shield (to fend off inflatable animals). Emotional support armour. Improperly holstered penis substitute (handgun). Snacks. Tear gas (for community liaison). Knee-pads (to protect tender skin when kneeling on someone's neck. The title of the picture, 'ICE Agent', and my web address, oisinmcgann.com. Child-stomping boots. Snacks. Jungle camouflage (for suburban operations). Meme-based instruction manual: 'Restraint techniques for Dummies'. Snacks. Child-sized zip ties. Internet troll ass. Smart watch (to measure 10,000 goose steps). White supremacist tattoos. Moral compass (not working). Phone headset (for when he has to call his mom to pick him up). ChatGPT targeting system.
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 6h
Pierre Vaxene Pompous
Father
France, Ariège, Parish and Civil Registration, 1583-1923
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 6h
Poshtits Elisabetha
Mother
Hungary, Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h
Is this some pathetic "journalist" going all nativist to ingratiate themself with the Drumpf régime?
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 9h
WOKE. CULTURE WARS. CULTURE WARS.
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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 9h
These people are a slow day away from taking to the ouija board for Conor Cruise O'Brien's take on the matter.

#spéirghorm #ireland #aras25
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News Letter @newsletter.co.uk · 7d
Ruth Dudley Edwards: ​The exit of the dull Jim Gavin in the Irish presidential election race might lead to a head of state even worse than Michael D Higgins
Ruth Dudley Edwards: ​The exit of the dull Jim Gavin in the Irish presidential election race might lead to a head of state even worse than Michael D Higgins
​I spend far too much of my time following politics but for several decades it has had a grip on me. ​Irish, English, Scots or American — or other entertaining byways like France, Italy or Argentina —...
www.newsletter.co.uk
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
“.. As far as anyone knows, no security breach by any Pentagon journalists brought about the new restrictions. Indeed, the biggest violation of national-security norms since Hegseth entered the building 10 months ago was by Hegseth himself ..”

@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 14h
Borders, changing all the time.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 11h
In the semantic twilight zone between amused and bemused.
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mightyboosh1984.bsky.social @mightyboosh1984.bsky.social · 15h
They say the ceasefire depends on the return of dead bodies. Yet they bombed all of Gaza into absolute oblivion. And now that it’s hard to find bodies they say the ceasefire is violated. It was all a ploy. It’s simply about Kushner benefitting from the slaughter. That’s it.
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Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you to everyone in Spain who protested Israel's genocide of the Palestinians. 🇪🇸🇵🇸

All of the living hostages were returned by Hamas.

However the bodies of deceased hostages are trapped under rubble from American bombs dropped on civilians by Israel and this is holding up the ceasefire.

#Gaza
Gaza ceasefire concerns as Hamas returns ‘all bodies it can access’
Israel continues to restrict aid entering Gaza says Hamas has not met its end of deal to release all bodies of captives.
www.aljazeera.com
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Alf @gordonshumway66.bsky.social · 18h
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 13h
Living the Merkin dream.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 3d
This is why those banking on the Israeli "opposition" convince very few...

Yair Lapid, head of Israel's opposition:

"Those who demonstrated against Israel in London, Rome, Paris... were deceived by propaganda... The truth is, there was no genocide, no intentional starvation."
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 23h
Nothing here (Dublin 14) yet.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d
Zille Eizad never thought the company he worked for would be involved in what he alleged was “empowering genocide and apartheid”.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025... #spéirghorm
Dublin-based Microsoft engineer quits over tech giant’s links to Israeli military
Pro-Palestine group protests outside firm’s Leopardstown offices after software worker resigns
www.irishtimes.com
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 1d
Govt rushed it in today to forestal an Opposition no confidence motion that would have been taken next week when they want to be out campaigning.
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