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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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Ray Selby #FBPE #XR #antifascist #NAFO #WeDidWarn #WeStillWarn @tarotray.bsky.social · 3h

Brilliant - from Private Eye Magazine.

Article "Modern News Cycle" from Private Eye.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 7h

A lot of musos who play in sessions tend to be hostile to the bodhrán, but this ⬇️ is really something else. Right up there with In-a-gadda-da-vida.

youtu.be/b9HyB5yNS1A?...

John Joe Kelly Bodhran Solo - Christ church Dublin 2012

YouTube video by Ceol FM

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 10h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 8h

My enemy's enemy...

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 1d

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 13h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10h

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 10h

Phallicism.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 10h

Only Italian-themed restaurants of a certain kind ration diner access to the pepper. Nobody knows why.

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 12h

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#Áras25

Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 12h

When life imitates art

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 10h

HH digging her grave live on RTE.

Snapping attack dog, interrupting CC is not a good approach, particularly given how her candidacy is pitched as moderate centre.

#Áras25 #speirgorm

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

also - one last datapoint before I take HS for his morning walk. I posted the column on X, too. it has sunk without trace because it has a link in it. even ignoring the owner and the politics, that was a good reason to stop feeding the beast.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 16h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

In my day everyone here called Mr Nehru 'Pandit Nehru', but nobody does today.

Was that because we couldn't manage Jawaharlal?

Jawaharlal Nehru - Wikipedia

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 1d

😂 About right - lol

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 11h

I'm old enough to remember when everyone knew that #FiannaFáil were corrupt "but at least they're competent."

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.bsky.social · 1d

Posters for Jim Gavin all over the place, 6 days after he withdrew from the #Áras25 race, and individual FF members saying they plan to vote for the FG candidate.

FF have made absolute chaos out of this election and are doing nothing to prevent inevitable confusion with the ballot on election day.

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 12h

Hardly a resounding vote of confidence in their own candidate is it?
They’ve thrown in the towel on HH already?

#Áras25

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Fine Gael lines up candidates for Catherine Connolly’s Dail seat

Senator Seán Kyne and various councillors are touted as by-election contenders in case the Galway West TD beats Heather Humphreys in the presidential election

www.thetimes.com

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14h

Incidentally, it is nice to find one American with an obviously Irish surname who hasn’t actually been appointed to a baloney office by Trump.

Up until now, our distant relatives have not covered us in glory and see Ireland itself as “astonishingly progressive”.

www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty...

THE IRISH TIMES |•

This is not to report that Irish Chicago is a homogenous bastion of left-liberal values. While voting Democrat remains a relatively stable factor, we encountered a broad range of social and political opinion among our Irish interviewees, and also noted some significant differences between longer settled and newer emigrants.
A Chicago politician described new Irish emigrants as "astonishingly progressive" compared to the longer resident diaspora - a view that echoed the Irish Central survey where Irish American respondents thought Ireland "more liberal" than the US. Notably, the strong Irish presence in the immigration reform movement in Chicago and Illinois is led by Irish-born emigrants.

President Trump's advisers do not represent the sum of Irish

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 1d

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 1d

Kalandra was hanged, Husak was sent to prison for a decade. The construction of the myth that only the Soviets had opposed and resisted the Nazis began here, with the imprisoning and judicial murders of the actual resistance leaders.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, that is amazing.

Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 1d

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

Casablanca - Marseillaise Scene (extended edition)

YouTube video by Jeremy Limb

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 13h

Who are we talking about?