Robert Doran

Wow.

Margaret Atwood holding a mug that says, “I told you so.”

McSweeney resigns as British PM's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has quit as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff after facing pressure in the Peter Mandelson controversy.

They brought this nonsense on themselves. Pigeons learn quicker than the Labour party www.rte.ie/news/politic...

a woman in a sequined dress is walking in the fog . Alt: Moira Rose being fabulous in a sequined dress is walking in the fog

RIP you absolute legend

A bowl of salad

A bowl of chips

That’s a balanced diet, right?

The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture: Anne Applebaum – Autocracy, Inc YouTube video by Blavatnik School of Government

Without ever being explicit or rude about it (quite the opposite), @anneapplebaum.bsky.social illustrates how Brexit has fortified Trump and his illiberal bedfellows and encouraged them to pursue the break-up of the EU. youtube.com/live/okxtIOB...

For “kitchens of Ireland” see “Facebook comments”.

I, on the other hand, have in fact visited every kitchen in Ireland* and I can tell you that everyone** in every kitchen thinks Enoch is an absolute melt.

*My mother’s kitchen
**My 80-year-old mother

View of a rainbow over a row of houses

Tuesday’s #stetwalk during a brief reprieve from Storm Chandra

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Apparently selling out was a Gen X thing 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Yes, you are of course quite right, Darach. My apologies. I am in fact watching Nationwide

Watching Gaslight and Angela Lansbury is stealing every scene

Slightly wonky but definitely delicious brown soda bread

Avoca recipe for brown soda bread

Love this easy soda bread. I add a couple of tbs of mixed seeds or walnuts and a scant teaspoon of sugar, and I reduce the treacle to a teaspoon as it can be a bit overpowering. I just make the buttermilk by adding a couple of tbs of lemon juice to semi-skimmed and I’ve never needed the full 600ml

Yeah, loved having proper countryside down the road

Love Bective. Used to live nearby

View of Bective Abbey

Retro #stetwalk at Bective Abbey, 2022

A picture of an odd-looking house with windows at each corner and an offset door

Architect: "So you want me to make your house look like this child's drawing?"

Me, aghast: "I drew that."

*Stares in European*

This is why ICE is in Minnesota

🔥Greenland politician: “Trump doesn’t know about Greenlandic people. We don’t value💰/Kardashian lips/fake boobs… we won’t give up free health care & education… 🇺🇸are so greedy they’re trying to shoot their friends… Trump surrounds himself with white power— our rights would probably be taken away.”

Well that was fucking mental #Davos #WEF

Iceland? Seriously? What does it take for someone to stop him from embarrassing himself and all of the US? #davos

Catastrophic misidentification of the threat there

guys i'm driving a bus and everyone is mad at me cuz im driving 120 mph to wherever i feel like

Warns or promises?

Myra Marx Ferree (@myraferree) Shared from source I trust in MN - written by a friend of theirs to help those of us at a distance understand what's happening, both the bad and the good - scroll all the way down!! Good ideas here fo...

Trump and that ghoul Stephen miller have unleashed their very own Sturmabteilung. The situation in Minnesota described in horrific detail: substack.com/@myraferree/...

Patricia Chidlaw (American, b.1951)
"Laundromat," 2005
Oil on canvas
28 x 26 in

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The US is not a serious country anymore: terrorising its own citizens, creating enemies out of friends, elevating the most evil actors within and without. A country of 340 m people subject to the whims of a single narcissistic autocrat, cheered on by a negligent media. This shit has happened before

So much effort for so little reward

A view through trees

Thursday #stetwalk