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Roibeárd Meillear

@beaniebob.bsky.social

Accidental Anarchist. Retired journalist and NUJ Life member but still a union activist. Garage artist just for the joy of it. Stout drinker again just for the joy of it. Ex-rugby union player. For my sins in a past/current life still a ManU fan.

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Delete your X account. No excuses. No bullshit. No......but I need it for my business. No, you don't!

04.03.2026 09:38 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Updated accounts published this week show that GB News is still racking-up the debt...

04.03.2026 10:33 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 6    📌 3

Satan’s lovebite.

04.03.2026 10:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Paula Poundstone: "Never before has a rash filled a nation with so much hope"

04.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 470    🔁 73    💬 39    📌 9
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Excellent advice right here.

03.03.2026 19:10 — 👍 5855    🔁 1368    💬 140    📌 60

Labour quoting Hannah Spencer's victory speech.

04.03.2026 08:23 — 👍 257    🔁 106    💬 26    📌 7

Last bit... Churchill - at least in the 1920s - briefly bought into the "globalist conspiracy theory" that was getting put about by antisemitic loon Nesta Webster. Citing Adam Weishaupt— who he wrongly believed to be Jewish he briefly went full "Illuminati new world order" on things.. a complex man

04.03.2026 08:18 — 👍 151    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 0

Yes - he showed grt wartime leadership but it's also a myth that he was some champion of freedom because he was a dyed in the wool imperialist who fought tooth and nail against independence movements in India and elsewhere.

As Tory leader rejected by voters in 1945, 1950 - and lost pop vote in 1951

04.03.2026 08:17 — 👍 226    🔁 12    💬 12    📌 1

In his lifetime, a lot of people viewed him as a self promoting, entitled chancer. He was often horribly out of his depth and famously had some disastrous turns - most famously as a disastrous Chancellor and First Lord of the Admiralty.

Frequently rejected at the ballot box he bounced back.

04.03.2026 08:13 — 👍 225    🔁 18    💬 12    📌 2

Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever.

The gold standard of leadership.

A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other

It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3

04.03.2026 08:09 — 👍 524    🔁 133    💬 74    📌 16
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GB News loses £22m, taking their total losses to over £130m. Except it's not a 'loss', it's an investment by Paul Marshall in providing a propaganda service to platform right wing grifters, gobshites, conspiracy nutters and contrarian fuckwits.

04.03.2026 08:31 — 👍 554    🔁 195    💬 27    📌 11
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On shelves tomorrow in NI. Enjo/y.

04.03.2026 10:22 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

OPINION: Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial choice with political consequences.

Here’s how some media outlets are no longer just covering these forces — but amplifying them.

04.03.2026 09:29 — 👍 104    🔁 35    💬 4    📌 2

American soldiers are being killed because the president doesn’t want you to know that he raped little children for decades. And if I’m wrong, sue me, asshole.

04.03.2026 02:04 — 👍 5232    🔁 1159    💬 157    📌 37

Reform leaders are from the same class or rich, just like the Beeb’s top commentariat.

04.03.2026 09:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

04.03.2026 09:02 — 👍 1739    🔁 384    💬 65    📌 13
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This innocent little girl was killed by our bomb, with our money, in our name, without our permission. Shame on the United States. We have become a stain on the planet.

04.03.2026 04:42 — 👍 320    🔁 156    💬 29    📌 7
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Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too Not for your eyes only.

This is going as well as expected.

gizmodo.com/dear-meta-sm...

04.03.2026 00:33 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Satan's lovebite.

04.03.2026 07:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Satan's lovebite.

04.03.2026 07:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🤥 @KristiNoem today: “I didn’t call Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.”

FLASHBACK: she sure did 👇🏽

03.03.2026 19:42 — 👍 10712    🔁 3978    💬 828    📌 324

Noem should lead the American Republican Guard (ICE) in Tehran and take on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

03.03.2026 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

03.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 24105    🔁 6289    💬 1298    📌 764

Noem should lead the American Republican Guard (ICE) in Tehran and take on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

03.03.2026 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BLUMENTHAL: Is the agent who shot Ms Martinez sill on the job?

NOEM: Our officers conduct operations every day-

B: Is he still on the job carrying a gun?

N: I dunno

B: Would you agree he shouldn't be?

N: I'll get back to you

B: I think Americans would find it absolutely terrifying if he is

03.03.2026 16:31 — 👍 11198    🔁 3461    💬 482    📌 179

Noem should lead the American Republican Guard (ICE) in Tehran and take on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

03.03.2026 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Noem should lead the American Republican Guard (ICE) in Tehran and take on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

03.03.2026 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

03.03.2026 17:55 — 👍 13508    🔁 3403    💬 529    📌 504
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NEVER FORGET.......

02.03.2026 10:53 — 👍 1199    🔁 547    💬 47    📌 25