Fionnbharr Rodgers
@fionnrodgers.bsky.social
Writes, reads, writes, drinks, wanders on…
The lamestream media will never tell you how well-read Stalin was. Just once I’d like to hear someone talk about his poetry.
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The lamestream media will never tell you how well-read Stalin was. Just once I’d like to hear someone talk about his poetry.
DUP councillor Sarah Bunting says that the Palestinian flag flying from Belfast City Hall is ‘intimidating’ for the city’s small Jewish community. Considering there are only 80 Jews in Belfast, she could easily ask them directly rather than speak for them. I’d wager a lot of them support the flag.
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
DUP councillor Sarah Bunting says that the Palestinian flag flying from Belfast City Hall is ‘intimidating’ for the city’s small Jewish community. Considering there are only 80 Jews in Belfast, she could easily ask them directly rather than speak for them. I’d wager a lot of them support the flag.
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“Leaders not Tweeters” is the rebrand America needs.
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Leaders not Tweeters” is the rebrand America needs.
Peter Hitchens must be apoplectic right now.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Peter Hitchens must be apoplectic right now.
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There’s a lot of political pundits- your Laura Kuenssberg types- who seem to me to be like a meteorologist who pores, intensely over graphs, with their back to the window.
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
There’s a lot of political pundits- your Laura Kuenssberg types- who seem to me to be like a meteorologist who pores, intensely over graphs, with their back to the window.
The irony is if we’d’ve stopped the boats in 1609, we wouldn’t need to put up with this nonsense today.
July 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The irony is if we’d’ve stopped the boats in 1609, we wouldn’t need to put up with this nonsense today.
It is my considered opinion that everyone who works for @translinkni.bsky.social is a ninny who bothers horses.
June 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It is my considered opinion that everyone who works for @translinkni.bsky.social is a ninny who bothers horses.
If Kneecap have ‘Tiocfaidh Állah’ printed on a banner for their concert, I will give them a thousand euro worth of pints.
June 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If Kneecap have ‘Tiocfaidh Állah’ printed on a banner for their concert, I will give them a thousand euro worth of pints.
All the people who are suddenly so concerned about ‘protecting women‘ in Ballymena are all very quiet when the perpetrator is a white guy from down the road. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jeffrey Donaldson: New trial date set for November
The trial had originally been scheduled to begin in March but that was delayed due to Lady Eleanor Donaldson’s ill health.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
All the people who are suddenly so concerned about ‘protecting women‘ in Ballymena are all very quiet when the perpetrator is a white guy from down the road. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just once in a wee while it’d be lovely if some theatre company could put on a Wilde play *other than* The Importance of Being Earnest.
May 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Just once in a wee while it’d be lovely if some theatre company could put on a Wilde play *other than* The Importance of Being Earnest.
The body requires calories in order to have enough calories to burn previously consumed calories. Life is such a fucking Ponzi scheme.
May 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The body requires calories in order to have enough calories to burn previously consumed calories. Life is such a fucking Ponzi scheme.
A yank as Pontiff. Unbelievable.
There goes the neighbourhood.
There goes the neighbourhood.
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A yank as Pontiff. Unbelievable.
There goes the neighbourhood.
There goes the neighbourhood.
#booksky thought for the day: Charles Bukowski is somewhat similar to Charlotte Brontë.
The difference being Bukowski was German, and Brontë was Irish.
The difference being Bukowski was German, and Brontë was Irish.
May 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
#booksky thought for the day: Charles Bukowski is somewhat similar to Charlotte Brontë.
The difference being Bukowski was German, and Brontë was Irish.
The difference being Bukowski was German, and Brontë was Irish.
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Secretary of State Hilary Benn is dragging 87-year-old widow Bridie Brown to the Supreme Court in London, refusing to accept the court order to launch a public enquiry into the murder of her husband Sean Brown.
I cannot express how grosteque this is. Utterly utterly shameful.
I cannot express how grosteque this is. Utterly utterly shameful.
April 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Secretary of State Hilary Benn is dragging 87-year-old widow Bridie Brown to the Supreme Court in London, refusing to accept the court order to launch a public enquiry into the murder of her husband Sean Brown.
I cannot express how grosteque this is. Utterly utterly shameful.
I cannot express how grosteque this is. Utterly utterly shameful.
William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he was dead for 70 of them.
April 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he was dead for 70 of them.
Yes, yes, but who is it tells the Moon to obey the laws of gravity? Why doesn’t it simply fly away?
April 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes, yes, but who is it tells the Moon to obey the laws of gravity? Why doesn’t it simply fly away?
10% tariffs on Irish exports is about to have all the sycophantic gombeens at Mar-a-Lago wondering why their Botox is so much more expensive.
April 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
10% tariffs on Irish exports is about to have all the sycophantic gombeens at Mar-a-Lago wondering why their Botox is so much more expensive.
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what you have to remember is that in november americans had to choose between donald trump and chaos with ed miliband
April 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
what you have to remember is that in november americans had to choose between donald trump and chaos with ed miliband
For sheer posterity sake I would like to see Booker last for 24 hours and 19 minutes, just to see Strom Thurmond’s record smashed by a black man.
Cory Booker! Hold the floor. 💙💙💙
April 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
For sheer posterity sake I would like to see Booker last for 24 hours and 19 minutes, just to see Strom Thurmond’s record smashed by a black man.
Ireland is the only country in the world where you can get a tan from standing in the rain.
March 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ireland is the only country in the world where you can get a tan from standing in the rain.
The Signal group chat debacle is symptomatic of the fact that Trump 2.0 is far and away the most incompetent administration in US history.
March 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The Signal group chat debacle is symptomatic of the fact that Trump 2.0 is far and away the most incompetent administration in US history.
I’ll be giving a lunchtime talk at St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast, Tuesday week, on the Rev. John MacNeice, father of the poet, Louis. Important northern history + a few poems. imaginebelfast.com/event/john-m...
John MacNeice and The Lundy Leash - Imagine! Belfast
A history talk and poetry reading around the life and times of Louis MacNeice’s father, a Protestant clergyman who didn’t sign the Ulster Covenant.
imaginebelfast.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’ll be giving a lunchtime talk at St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast, Tuesday week, on the Rev. John MacNeice, father of the poet, Louis. Important northern history + a few poems. imaginebelfast.com/event/john-m...
The J in JD Vance stands for Jessy. As in: ‘JD Vance is a massive jessy.’
March 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The J in JD Vance stands for Jessy. As in: ‘JD Vance is a massive jessy.’
American funding will ultimately be irrelevant to Ukraine when they’re fighting a war for their very survival. To borrow an old line, the fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our martyred dead…
March 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
American funding will ultimately be irrelevant to Ukraine when they’re fighting a war for their very survival. To borrow an old line, the fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our martyred dead…