Joanne Stocker

After spending too many hours yesterday looking at things going boom and dead little kids I went in mostly cold to Sirat, thinking a film about raving and a road trip in the desert would be escapist and hoo boy I have never been more wrong about anything in my life

I'm just an idiot but same

Alphabet, Inc theory of conflict prevention: No two countries with good Google Street View coverage have ever gone to war with each other

My “the warship toilet clogs are addressed by trained damage control and engineering personnel, with minimal downtime” tshirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my tshirt

The USS Ford is just going to be deployed forever huh?

I was thinking how every day another Skarsgård just pops out of the ether, but this one is apparently the Urskarsgård

Journalist's case against PSNI over monitoring to begin A veteran Northern Ireland journalist who says he has been the target of "systematic" state monitoring begins a legal case against the PSNI and the security services in London today.

A veteran Northern Ireland journalist who says he has been the target of "systematic" state monitoring begins a legal case against the PSNI and the security services in London today

I think you’ll find republicans killing people at sea to have a very different meaning in Ireland and Britain which, again, is where the story is about

And the US seized a Russia-flagged tank *because* of Venezuela so I doubt they’re colluding

I was born in the States and I know it's tough for them but 'republicans' was just too tempting to pass up

How does Ireland protecting underwater infrastructure from dodgy Russian ships have anything to do with the United States?

BBC World Service - The Global Jigsaw, Life in occupied Ukraine: Crimea Looking at the world through the lens of its media

From #TheGlobalJigsaw catalog on the #UkraineWar highly recommended episodes - on the occupied territories:
P 1 looks at Crimea, which was annexed 12 years ago
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
P 2 focuses on Moscow’s subsequent efforts to assert itself in Ukraine's East
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Not for almost 50 years so

Ireland to deepen partnerships with UK and France under new maritime security plan Maritime news

Ireland will “deepen partnerships” with the UK and France and put in place greater co-operation with Nato and the EU under a new strategy to protect the country’s seas and sub-sea infrastructure

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

As Trump pushes Iran to make a deal, scores of U.S. warplanes join "armada" heading for the region As Trump pressures Iran, he's spoken of an "armada" heading for the Mideast, but there's another massive movement of American fire power in the air.

Shoutout to the Twitter randos

As Trump pushes Iran to make a deal, scores of U.S. warplanes join "armada" heading for the region www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...

I am unnaturally stressed out by there being two separate RCH466 flights right now

Davidson was excellent

President Catherine Connolly greets Hollie Davidson on what is a Six Nations first for both women. #Breakthrough

Omar Alloush – murdered for building a shared future for Arabs and Kurds in Syria? Assassinated in his home, Alloush worked for reconciliation between Arabs and Kurds, focusing on stabilization projects in land liberated from Islamic State. Syrian Kurds blame Turkey for his murder.

While I was in Raqqah Omar Alloush’s name came up several times as the key figure behind the optimism of the first year or two of SDF/DAA rule. No one replaced him following his murder in 2018, and local disillusionment with the project grew year after year

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Not the IRFU remembering that Ulster exists

EU-US tensions over Greenland and tech are far from over, says Macron French president calls on bloc to take the necessary steps to become a true global economic power

"Macron’s often lonely campaign for EU strategic autonomy, first laid out in a landmark speech at Sorbonne University in 2017, has been vindicated by recent efforts by the US and China to weaponise economic dependencies against Europe." www.ft.com/content/b5b2...

Britain urged to turn whole-of-society talk into action A leading military historian has warned MPs that the UK remains far behind Nordic allies in preparing society for the demands of modern conflict, arguing that government has failed to translate years of discussion about resilience into practical planning for mass mobilisation.

A leading military historian has warned MPs that the UK remains far behind Nordic allies in preparing society for the demands of modern conflict, arguing that government has failed to translate years of discussion about resilience into practical planning for
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I want to hang out with whoever the guy is straddling the bridge between the Gothic Industrial Music community, young spaceflight enthusiasts, and Sheffield United supporters.

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

An Irish man with a US valid work permit and no criminal record has been in ICE detention in Texas since September, his wife says www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

I’d happily spend the rest of my life aboard the circle train

BBC News headline: Wetherspoon dog policy could be breaking the law, watchdog says

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands training how to use a gun, in full military fatigues. The caption says: Breda, February 4, 2026: Queen Máxima has begun training as a reservist for the Royal Netherlands Army. She is taking the "Mental Skills" course at the Royal Military Academy, part of the General Military Training (AMO) program that all reservists attend. Image: ©Ministry of Defence

Excuse me but what do you mean the Dutch queen has joined the army reserves www.koninklijkhuis.nl/actueel/nieu...

When’s the trade deadline?

Heartbroken for the stellar journalists at the Post who have done so much good, particularly their international coverage over many years.

Semafor: Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan. When former US President Jimmy Carter founded an eradication program in the mid-1980s, there were millions of infections in developing countries and the only human disease that had ever previously been permanently defeated was smallpox. The parasitic infection, transmitted via contaminated water, leads to three-foot worms emerging from painful leg ulcers, and causes long-term incapacitation and disability. While Carter did not, as he hoped, outlive the last Guinea worm (he died in 2024), he may have come close; the 10 cases mark a 33% decrease year-on-year.

Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year.

It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.

*Father John Misty voice*
*waiting on the Ocado man*

I want Lemsip, baby, ooh, don't leave me waiting