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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 · 1h

Another one for you to chew the cud with, @actualnames.bsky.social

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 5h

It turns out both of those accounts are run by a North Macedonian national named Rumen Naumovski, through a media company registered in Florida.

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

But what a body she had!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formate...

Formateur (politique) — Wikipédia

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting to see France stumbling backwards into the creation of the role of "informateur", a long-established part of the Belgian system for the formation of a government.

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 4h

You win social media, all categories combined, for today.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 4h

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 21h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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

They're running scared.

#Áras25 #speirgorm

Conor Hogarty @conorhogarty.bsky.social · 7h

Justice Minister says Connolly broke rules by signing Ní Shionnáin in daily at Leinster House jrnl.ie/6838830

Justice Minister says Connolly broke rules by signing Ní Shionnáin in daily at Leinster House

Jim O’Callaghan was speaking at a press conference today in which he criticised Connolly for, what he said, was a failure to follow Oireachtas rules.

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

"Overhaul"? Can someone give the NYT a copy of @merriam-webster.com?

And then a thesaurus: gut, eviscerate, shred, dismember, wreck, lay waste, devastate...

Anything except "decimate" which would grossly undestate the scale of the damage.

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

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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 17h

Got an email from Amazon to be part of their invite only "Brands of Ireland" campaign which apparently aims to help businesses for Black Friday, Christmas etc. Sounds nice but Amazon is a killer of small businesses and they can fuck Black Friday. Buy independent and buy local when you can.

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Mahoganygaspipes @mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social · 10h

#Spéirghorm

Some good news

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10h

A man who was part of a group that surrounded and attacked a garda sergeant during the Dublin riots has been jailed for five-and-a-half years

Man jailed over attack on garda during Dublin riots

A man who was part of a group who surrounded and attacked a garda sergeant during the Dublin riots has been jailed for five-and-a-half years

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

Very episcopalian indeed.

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

I should have credited @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social for that meme

Can we make this the " #Áras25 - all the memes" thread?

#speirgorm

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

Have you seen this one?

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

Yep. We would just memorise the last three digits and look at the damned number on the rifle!

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 14h

In other news, how many pennies does the Budget take off the price of a cup of coffee?

two shot glasses of coffee are being poured from a coffee maker with the words coffee time written below them

ALT: two shot glasses of coffee are being poured from a coffee maker with the words coffee time written below them

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 14h

But a bus between the airport and where? Knock? Castlebar/Ballina/Claremorris? Galway? Kilkelly Ireland?

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 15h

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 14h

Juarez and Menudo (labels on buttstocks).

Deployed to support racial profiling and selective oppression of fellow Hispanics. And they were just trying to be good Americans, joining the National Guard.

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 15h

And Ghislaine Who? Maxwell.

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fireflower25.bsky.social @fireflower25.bsky.social · 23h

Oh wow, can’t believe I’ve already forgot about Kirk and Tylenol. This is warp speed insane. We are being controlled. I’m serious.

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