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Josef O'Shea

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News, views and stuff - in a giant marsh on the south coast of Ireland

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · Nov 10

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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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1h

16th Cent Münster?

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 2h

Out of control supertanker on collision course with our lives.

Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 3h

BBC News - 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 16h

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 19h

Fascism demands to be taken seriously and to be feared. That makes mockery a powerful tool. Is it how you "beat" fascism? I wouldn't go that far. But inflatable Reptar has surely poked a clearer hole in the story the White House is telling that the Democratic Party's multimillion dollar comms shops.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 23h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 20h

This is awesome.

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 16h

He was on the Johnny Carson show with Richard Pryor - who did nothing to hide his disdain - it's on YouTube somehwre and it's amazing

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 16h

These French PMs now have the life expectancy of WWI fighter pilots

Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 16h

According to several sources, Gerald Darmanin is likely to be the Prime Minister nomination that Macron will make tonight.

I fully expect a Darmanin government to collapse completely.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 16h

It's the future of news !

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 20h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 21h

There's a danger that the Chinese regieme may actually laugh itself to death

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 2d

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 21h

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 22h

Now he can spend a couple of years bleating about being 'cancelled' - ffs - Podcast Bros

Irish Independent @independent.ie · 23h

Joe Brolly says he regrets a 'childish, crude and inappropriate gesture' made on a podcast while talking about the presidential election campaign.

It came after Fine Gael’s candidate Heather Humphreys said the video was 'very misogynistic' and was 'targeted at women'

Joe Brolly regrets ‘childish, crude gesture’ on podcast about the presidency

Joe Brolly says he regrets a “childish, crude and inappropriate gesture” made on a podcast while talking about the presidential election campaign.

www.independent.ie

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

The one thing you could say about Is Johnny Cash cool? Is that there was a long period in the 70s and 80s when he definitely was waaaay outta fashion.

But that was Fashion's problem - not Johnny's ...

two men are playing guitars together in a black and white photo .

ALT: two men are playing guitars together in a black and white photo .

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

Feck her - I'm a genius psychic

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

Finally- their long border will know calm

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying I'm psychic- but one hour before #NoblePeacePrize announced...

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

I tuned my Roberts radio into it a while ago - and there's a million versions online - I'll try and get a link/ID later and add to this

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

I tuned my Roberts radio into it a while ago - and there's a million versions online - I'll try and get a link/ID later and add to this

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like we got ourselves an old school pile on, boys !

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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