Bill Tinley

We're not a member of NATO, so you are correct. Our only military contributions are to peacekeeping missions. Ireland doesn't have the kind of defensive capabilities implied in some of these comments.

It's an open secret.

There's more than one? 😯

Banned under the Geneva Convention.

If you love the game, don't let Infantino (Sycophantino) or the nakedly corrupt and money-worshipping FIFA change that. World Cup draws should take place in the barrios, the favelas, the grassroots clubs. All this blue-tinged corporate sheen is fake.

The next step is to stop bothering to pay anyone to do so.

Apparently they were concerned about hitting residential areas. Not something the Ruzzians lose any sleep over.

Having missed his 3-day deadline, I think 800 years is Darth's revised timeline for the subjugation of Ukraine.

In the past few months, police in Denmark and Germany didn't shoot down drones near their airports.

If the Dutch had spent every spare guilder on defence they still wouldn't have repelled the Nazis. There is no doubting their courage. Nor that of the Ukrainians.

Neither NATO nor our imperialist neighbour prevented the drones on Tuesday.

Hilarious ignorance about Ireland. We have almost no meaningful capacity to defend against aggressors. In 100 years as an independent state, we haven't needed to.

And now for something completely different…

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859 - 1941)

"A Snow covered Track in Lillehammer", 1918.

Oil on Canvas, 76.5 × 57 cm.

Happy to be proved wrong! 😃

Except for Foden's winner.

Bijol has been awful. 👎

It's wrong every which way you look at it.

That's a remarkable piece. It recalls Heisenberg's revelation in quantum physics having seen a man appear and disappear as he walked at night between streetlights.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

🤣🤣🤣 We can do this the easy way ...

Il Papa has tracked down a Protestant on his flight

Not to mention the audio. Those low frontline skies are like tiled ceilings.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social makes a key point about this. A settlement on these terms will lead to a nuclear arms race. I hope Zelensky and Ukraine have the courage to reject terms that give Russia what it's taken by force. A lot rides on this.

The writing is lighter, more fluent, less self-conscious, though not entirely transparent. I greatly enjoy the Quirke and Strafford books.

Photo of a black bird with red wing facing right while perched amongst small twigs with beak open and with whisps of golden breath leaving trails in the cold morning air

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
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Paper cut artwork with intricate image of a landscape with trees, an arched building with two figures walking underneath and with a border of flowers, all in white against a black background

Joanna Koerten (1630-1715), Dutch painter, draughtswoman and pioneer in the art of paper cutting (silhouettes) #WomensArt

I don't want to trivialize Zelensky's difficulty but this is big picture stuff. He can't accept this proposal. If he doesn't, the US withdraws support (for now). But it's charging for its conditional support now (as Kallas has noted). Time for Europe to step up. If we don't, we're next.

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