Irene

They're doing grand so far 🤞🤞🤞

The world would be a better place if journalists and lawmakers can distinguish an ebike from an electric motorcycle.

Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are.

Looking into a used bookstore at night

The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.

Geographically, I'm from the most northerly County in Ireland (Donegal) which is in the province of Ulster but it is not part of 'Northern Ireland' which is also in the province of Ulster! So it's possible to be from the north of Ireland but not Northern Ireland 👍

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

Banger

For World Book Day I might dress as an author on a deadline and spend all day on Bluesky

I see the papers which screamed ‘tAKe bACK ConTRol’ now want the UK to be nothing but an obedient servant of the USA

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

I think probably the one misconception that bothers me about bike lanes is that people assume they are for those who bike...when really they are for those who are too scared to bike.

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

I'd repost this if it had #AltText

I would love to repost this but I can't without #AltText

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

As a generation X parent of sons who achieved stellar A levels so were told Uni was their appropriate option and that the student finance system was something they wouldn't even notice, let me tell you what a bloody lie that was. Endless unrelenting debt.
Forget ever affording a home or a family.

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A masterclass in graciousness. Ireland really does produce great presidents.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

I like to scramble their brains by pointing out that Ancient Greeks, at their peak, loved to portray mythical figures as black. And, yes, black figure pottery was a technique, but *also* artistic choice. See, for instance, below: Zeus is black (as is Hephaestus), but Dionysus and Athena are white.

Should be up in the shop soon.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

ICE Activity Tracker - Community Safety Alert System Anonymous community-driven tool to report and track ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) activity. Help protect undocumented immigrants and their families by sharing real-time safety alerts.

Will BlueSky block this link? Testing, testing...

www.iceinmyarea.org

Care home playgroup brings 'tears of joy' The Bits and Bobs visits homes in and around Nottingham where parents and babies meet residents.

Just wonderful
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

If you’re outraged over ICE and you want to do one thing tonight where you don’t even have to leave your couch, subscribe to a local, independently owned newspaper.

Having reporters who can be relied on right now to ask questions and actually report the truth is essential.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Men with guns are afraid of people with cameras

Senior executive 2: Every May, there's a Five Eyes conference with the head of every intelligence agency. This year it was in the U.K. Kash Patel is going. In the lead-up to that, his detail starts making crazy requests. He's got special requirements on everything. And the Brits are getting pissed. Before the conference, his staff says he's unhappy because he doesn't like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events. He wants Premier soccer games. He wants to go jet skiing. He'd like a helicopter tour. Everyone who heard about this was like: Hold on. Is he really going to ask the MI5 director to go jet skiing instead of meeting? The schedule is set, and every Five Eyes partner is doing this. They can't just say that he's not participating and instead he wants to go to a Premier soccer game. This is a job, guys. His staff only cared about three things: what his meals were, when his workouts would be and what his entertainment would be. The biggest plan is how he's going to get his girlfriend in there so she can go to Windsor Castle. He's got Nicole Rucker as his assistant, like a true executive concierge. And when she's not getting the food or the workout she wants, she'll just start screaming at people, Make it happen!

alt-text added and you have to read this because it is fecking insane