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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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 27m

And, by the way, we're damned if we're going to let them crowd up above in Dublin have any of our water!

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 4h

Cow farmers: Give us money to produce cows.

Climate: But that means more methane and other greenhouse gases. Also means rising sea levels and higher rainfall, more flooding. You can't have it both ways.

Also cow framers: Give us compensation for flooding.

#spéirghorm #Ireland #ClimateChange

Farmers' livelihoods 'destroyed' by Shannon flooding

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and W...

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 6h

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 42m

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Sublime!

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 2h

An inspiring story.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3h

Thread

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 3h

Have I understood the news from the world of Association Football correctly?

Will we have to wait another few weeks before deciding if we support the Other Boys in Green ( #COYOBIG?) or Cape Verde ( #COYCVB?)?

#speirgorm

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 3h

If they're all as Christian as they claim to be, they should understand and reflect on the phrase "whited sepulchres", slink back to the shadows where they belong and STFU for ever more.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 4h

M&S mini thread for a Wednesday morning.

One day, the second time I worked there, I was ringing up a women's order and asked if she wanted cash back.

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 3h

Also this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Eric Trump: "Make no mistake -- he is heaven-bound. I've seen the hand of God on him for a very long time ... I think there is a lot less people going to heaven-- meaning, they are going to heaven slower because he stopped the death and destruction around the world."

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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ApplesHardcoreYo @appleshardcoreyo.bsky.social · 23h

The great agreement that Trump negotiated is nearly identical to the one he begged Netanyahu not to sign when Biden negotiated it.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 1d

How is this not an Onion headline

click.email.variety.com?qs=4fcd74758...

Apple TV+ Rebrands to Apple TV, Ditching the Plus Sign for ‘Vibrant New Identity’

It's just Apple TV now, no plus.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 22h

During an EU Commission press briefing, a journalist questioned the double standards of European policy, asking whether Israel should also be held accountable for rebuilding Gaza — just as the EU demands Russia
The question was met with silence, as the EU spokesperson declined to comment.

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 22h

🇮🇪 Last week

196 people hospitalised with Covid-19, 32 times rate of flu (6 people hospitalised)

Twice as many as last autumn

Still no HSE prevention campaign, still no accurate HSE public health information about transmission respiratorydisease-hpscireland.hub.arcgis.com/pages/covid-19

Line graph showing <100 people /week hospitalised with C19 in autumn 2024 falling in mid year to <50 & rising to >200 in recent weeks

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 16h

Do you think it is a portent?

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 17h

Not sure "implemented" is quite the verb you're looking for.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Love 'cult-de-sac'. Love this kind of thing. One of my favourite examples is 'well, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it', an enjoyably fatalistic mistaken phrase.

Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

Great article. The Tories need their Kinnock if they are going to get out of the cult-de-sac* they've gone down.

*Auto correct but I kind of liked it.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

Another organization should tell Trump they've awarded him their Peace Prize, and the award ceremony is in person in The Hague.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 22h

Did nobody here pick up the remark in last night's weather forecast about areas in the lee of the Kerry mountains experiencing a "Föhn effect"?

Is that #notions or wha'?

#speirgorm

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 1d

At last: tentative testicular descent among the US media. Not before time.