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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social

I'm pretty sure this headline - with its spelling mistake, factual inaccuracy, and lazy British colonialism - is AI btw.

aug 17, 2025, 12:09 pm • 7 2

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social

If it's ths Guardian Miami one, apparently Simon Price has asked for it to be changed.

aug 17, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social

Right. Dreadful!

aug 17, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social

Lol they deleted

aug 17, 2025, 12:22 pm • 3 0 • view
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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @flere-imsaho.circumstances.run

deleted skeet saved for the posterity:

a screenshot of a deleted message from the guardian: over the photo of a funeral (two somber men holding a casket) the text: “‘50 years of anger and pain’: Miami Soundband's Des Lee when Irish terrorists colluded with MI5 to massacre Ireland's biggest band”; below the photo the same headline and a shortened quote: “The band were as big as it got, topping the Irish singles chart seven times. Then they were stopped at a bogus checkpoint in County Down – and …”
aug 17, 2025, 12:33 pm • 1 0 • view