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Roger O'Keeffe
Roger O'Keeffe
@rogerokeeffe.bsky.social
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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Ousted dictators used to flee to Moscow. Now, apparently, they flee to the United States. www.cnn.com/2026/10/27/a...
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Seeing as the Irish Left seem to want to tell the Lebanese they’re effectively Israeli proxys and can go f*ck themselves, I read this and see what an actual neutral country can do when given the latitude. Right or wrong? Better than nothing anyway. #SpeirGorm thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2...
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Replying to @brunodias.dev
The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.
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Just remember Meta’s role in elections; platforms can and do put their thumbs on democracy’s scale—especially when it benefits them.
And just yesterday: Meta restricted Brazilian president's Insta accounts during the election while "recommending the profile of challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro." What's it going to take people to get off Meta products? www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
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Netflix has 16,000 employees. If they kept half of that profit and paid the rest out equally to everyone, they could give each worker a $426,000 bonus this year and still pocket $6,825,000,000. Instead they fired 1000 people.
Netflix cleared $13.65 billion in net income this year. Up 33%. So naturally they’re celebrating by laying off 1,000 people. 6% of their workers that built those profits. All to save a little extra cash for shareholders. Apparently $13.65 billion isn’t enough for these ghouls.
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While Ireland is at risk from the impending bursting of the AI bubble, it has not benefitted much from AI's growth. The investment happening here is producing little that can be taxed, and few jobs. It's virtually all cost and no benefit to us as a country. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.
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"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."
Elrond tells the long story of the One Ring, from its forging in the Mountain of Fire, to its betrayal of Isildur at the Gladden Fields. Frodo is startled to learn that Elrond himself marched with Gil-Galad in the Last Alliance against Sauron, more than three thousand years ago.
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Replying to @moviessilently.bsky.social
I was souring on the service by then, it was really only good when it was literally just people renting out their existing guest cottage, but the person I was traveling with was deluded into thinking it was cheaper because Airbnb got to hide their fees at the time, while hotels had to disclose.
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www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi... A great loss. Probably more important than Ó Ríada in the continuing growth, transmission and evolution of Irish Traditional Music.
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Replying to @sundaedivine.lol
I had ketamine & propofol in ER & wife said I: - was making fun of why I was in the ER - wanted to hire the nurse bec I thought she was hot - asked doctor why she looked so young - asked my wife to apologize to everyone for me I lost 90mins of memory. Can't imagine what it does to a trillionaire.
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Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...
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If you're just interested in humanity, never mind human rights, go and see #NAZA. In the meantime, have a look at this. It confirms what I took away from the film, and may help you. without detracting from the powerful impact of the film. youtu.be/EkE9ou1BiX0?...
The pfoducers plan to put it online soon, because no cinema in Israel is willing to show it. They're not interested in making money out of it, but deserve to be paid for their work, so go and see it while it's still in cinemas and boost the viewership figures so that... bsky.app/profile/roge...
Just been to see #Naza, and agree on its understated tone: questions gently guiding witnesses towards answers which some but not all are willing to give. Indeed it isn't always sure if witnesses are being ironic or still trying to come to terms with what they have done, and emptily... 1/
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