Roger O'Keeffe

A list of combat deaths by president. Republicans kill more Americans than Democrats

Why is it that all those staunch UK patriots waving flags and shouting about ‘taking back control’ are urging us to be subservient to a foreign power and join them in an illegal war?

What's funnier about it is that in the build-up I read an article talking about how poor Ireland and Wales were currently and how France were more or less the only ones seen as likely to stop an England grand slam.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

One of my school friends asked me to meet his 26-year-old son, who moved to San Francisco be with the Californian he’d met in her Study Abroad year.

Turns out demand from Ireland is now so low he’d got a Green Card in the Diversity Lottery.
#spéirghorm

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

That's two more than I have to shed. 😅

Is there something about the surname Kitson that makes people worse?

Have you sought the opinion of the US Secretary of, uh, Special Military Operations?

#shitholecountry

As our attention is distracted by war, ICE is detaining US citizens at O'Hare and shipping them off to undisclosed prisons.

Seemingly because they have foreign-sounding names and had visited the Middle East.

They've now been released, but this is outrageous.

Eh, Reuters, what about "Israeli colonist kills Palestinian resident"?

It wasn't fate that did it.

The headline could be worse, but are we really supposed to be glad you didn't write "Palestinian dies in incident involving Israeli neighbour"?

@jvp.bsky.social
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Jean-Luc Mélenchon affirme que « Marseille ne sera pas emportée par la vague brune », en meeting pour les municipales Le leader insoumis était venu soutenir le candidat LFI Sébastien Delogu, à qui le maire sortant, Benoît Payan, demande de se désister pour lui entre les deux tours pour éviter « le séisme » d’une victoire du RN.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon affirme que « Marseille ne sera pas emportée par la vague brune », en meeting pour les municipales

"The same article claims that the Enniskillen bomb killed six children. It didn’t; the youngest victim was 20. It claims that Bobby Sands was elected MP in 1981 with 30.4% of the vote. Given that there were only two candidates, this would have been mathematically impossible. In fact, Sands got 51.2% of the vote. In Grokipedia’s main article on Northern Ireland, it says that “on Bloody Sunday, paratroopers killed 14 civilians… initially depicted by some media as unprovoked, though evidence revealed IRA gunfire and nail bombs”. This is the opposite of the truth. Initially, there were claims by the Army that the victims were violent, but evidence disproved this. Other articles contain dangerous open-mindedness about murder. In an entry on loyalist assassin Michael Stone, it posits that “from a loyalist perspective, Stone’s Milltown raid was hailed as a bold tit-for-tat response to IRA aggression, enhancing his status as an icon of defiance and boosting morale among Protestant extremists” while “republican assessments, however, framed the attack as indiscriminate terrorism against civilians”. It claims that “mainstream reporting, while factually recounting events, occasionally reflects institutional biases favoring narratives of loyalist aggression”."

"At the heart of this technology is a black box into which questions go & out of which answers are given —but we’re not allowed to see what precisely goes on inside".

Sobering piece by @sjamcbride.bsky.social on how Musk's Grokopedia is rewriting knowledge
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opin...

Death to English stodge rugby! #M6N #ITAvENG #speirgorm

Gwan Italy! Yiz budgies! So sweet! #speirgorm #M6N

The Green Groves of Aaron Copeland

#ClassicalTrad
#speirgorm

The Otter's Holst.

#ClassicalTrad
#speirgorm

“Self-driving taxis safe” says self-writing article.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Marco Rubio makes astounding U-turn after Trump tosses him under bus (Daily Mail) Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed the media misunderstood his comments indicating that the 'imminent threat' prompting the US to strike Iran was a pre-p...

Read "Marco Rubio makes astounding U-turn after Trump tosses him under bus" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-7gXbOxoY/M...

He can't walk this back. He said what he said.

PS: "F*** the natives that helped us. They're not important to us anymore, and anyway it was a shithole country before we got there."

President Trump demands unconditional surrender in respect of something his government insists is not a war.

"Just declare victory and get the hell out."

It's the American way.

The Battering Rameau.

#ClassicalTrad #speirgorm

It will only happen if Labour are hammered to the point of humiliation, and need Greens/Libs/Celtic national parties to make electoral reform the price of government formation.

Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.

And Ireland.

“There’s sort of a macho element,” Freedman said. “Kinetic sounds like you’re being really tough.”

I said it three months ago:
bsky.app/profile/roge...

Fragile virility is such a delicate plant.