Bill Tinley

The dream is taxed.

Currently reading a Mahon poem at a petrol station. No sign of the pump attendant.

That's excellent. So simple. Reading Blindness wouldn't help your digestion, though. Mahon reads the paper while having a prawn chow mein in the Chinese in Portrush.

And Trump wants to reward Russia by granting it not only what it's seized illegally but also what it's so far failed to take? No one in their right mind can agree to this. Russia must be neutralised.

Plead the Fifth. All the rage these days.

There is no good reason to continue using X.

Interesting to observe the co-operation. Heron chain.

BREAKING: on this Super Bowl Sunday, Epstein Survivors have just released this PSA:

“Stand with us.  Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi IT’S TIME FOR THE TRUTH”

Please share everywhere!

The Long Ukrainian Winter How You Can Help

Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help
snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...

So he's a Facebook algorithm in human form.

The prologue to their verse novel.

Everything you've outlined was also valid on 24 February 2022. Why has it taken 4 years to "propose" these additional sanctions? What's with the baby steps approach? The war began in 2014. You knew what you were dealing with. So many dead because of these delays. Go for the jugular.

The Russian economy is finally stagnating. What does it mean for the war – and for Putin? A wartime boom in Russia has given way to sluggish growth, tax hikes and squeezed public services. Will it affect the conflict in Ukraine?

A sobering analysis. In essence, Putin can fund his war through 2027. Should Ukraine stand firm in peace talks? What can the West do to tip the balance in Kyiv's favour?
#Ukraine
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Those final words provide the title for one of the essays in John Burnside’s excellent The Music of Time.

So it's not Pound who likes sausage, mint and cat?

He does a birdwatching podcast. So far, so good. Possibly too early to say how it might end.

Putin can't understand Trump's kindergarten English.

It turned out that bleach, not milk, is the cure-all.

Reducing the font size a little would have sorted everything.

The stars are history.

We have been using a platform that is banned in Russia to say that free speech is banned in the EU on the platform we banned.

Photo of a sculpture in Wood resembling a person swimming from the front view with arm raised and bent and head hidden in small wave splashes

'The Swimmer', wooden sculpture by contemporary New York based sculptor Stefanie Rocknak #WomensArt

Devil horns or a jester's cap 'n bells?

🇺🇦YEAR 4/DAY 331 of Russia's 2nd illegal invasion of Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor. It's obvious. Donald Trump refuses to admit it. Shame on Republicans for supporting him.

I don't think anyone's mentioned Anna Karenina. The greatest novel. For something bite-size but wonderful, A Month in the Country by J L Carr.

Oh my giddy aunt, don’t these look grand!

The Lightning by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social -

Proofs have arrived at Moose Towers.

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Marvelous

Loved the Liszt piece.

Not a great night for panenkas. @ronanhession.bsky.social

I find it rather prosaic. It has a point to make, a moral, almost.