League One.
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League One.
Tell us something we don't know. Get the finger out. We're on, what, the 19th sanctions package? History won't be kind to these foot-dragging technocrats.
A delusional hope.
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
What a wonderful review by @sarahcrown.bsky.social. Still waiting for my copy to arrive. It seems like more than one could have hoped for. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Employee of the Month. Epic.
Excellent summary.
Move over, Rilke.
The quote from Paul Valéry ‘Poems aren’t finished , they are abandoned’ is familiar. Today I read the full quote. It is much more poetic. It is filled with energy and passion Reminding us that sometimes over editing can be unnecessarily reductive #poetry #editing #amwriting
Pilgrimage 1983 on Croagh Patrick West of Ireland… from my old negatives #35mmfilm #photograghy #documentary #Mayo #Ireland
Friday Finnish!!! Aukusti Uotila 1858-1886 Finnish golden age painter. He died of tuberculosis only at 27 and lived many of his years in France. Nuottakota (Boat House) 1884 Oil on canvas 47 cm x 37,5 cm Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki Finland
Cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata-cata Caterpillar girl #caterpillar
7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms 10am: apple 12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt 3pm: banana 6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing) 8pm: frozen yogurt 830pm: 2 cookies 845pm: 4 cookies 850pm: 8 cookies 9pm: bag of Doritos 930pm: Big Mac and fries
You would really spoil us by playing "Orange Crush" by REM.
All the more so when Longley's words are so quiet and seemingly distant from the awfulness of what had been perpetrated.
He also tells this story in his interview with Ian McMillan on The Verb. It's extraordinary. I'm not sure I know what to say about it other than the fact that beauty and savagery seem to be on opposite sides of the same human coin.
You have to be from "a very big power" to merit that.
The majority of people know he's a war criminal.
4 months ago today we bombed an Easter church service in Sumy with cluster munitions. What you tolerate, you permit.
From 'The writing in the sand' series by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, documenting life on the beaches in the North East of England, 1973-1998 #WomensArt
A decent rucksack is a godsend. Did the goose walk?
Only seeing this now.
Puffin, Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales 06.06.22 #bnw_macro #ClassicMono #blackandwhite #mono #wildlifephotography #photography #PhotographersofBluesky #birds #photo
Fantastic image.
You can always rely on UEFA and FIFA to do the wrong thing.
Beautiful!
I wouldn't want to live there.
I hope that's a close-up.
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Some warm news from Ukraine for you. Take a look at how the residents of a Ukrainian village are meeting their fellow villager after three years of the hell of russian captivity. The banner which they hung says: "Welcome home. Thanks for your invincibility" ❤️🩹
A friend of mine who lives in Austin saw this at a bar and said she had never been so offended by something she 100% agreed with.
Europe far too slow to see the warning signs. Rutte sucking up to Trump like our security is someone else's responsibility. Embarrassing. Misguided. Doomed.
Didn't work out so well.
Russians must be confident that Ukraine doesn't double-tap.
You'd think that policy in Europe would reflect this. What's the point in expensive policy if it doesn't recognise reality? Obviously the innocent victims are expendable.
American journalist, historian, and author Anne Applebaum on the West's biggest mistake in Russia's war against #Ukraine: "The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️
That's got something rather special about it.
#Faugères Taken in #France using vintage lenses in 2025 by #©SteveC #Photography #notAI
Unbearably cruel.
As Gregor Samsa awoke on the first morning of the family holiday in Queensland ... #metamorphosis #Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My hometown festival in the most beautiful setting. I'll be here with friends and great writers. Come and see us if you can.
40-year-old #Ukrainian veteran Mykola Shot lost all of his limbs in a mortar attack in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region. At the UNBROKEN center, he not only mastered the use of prosthetics but also learned to feed himself, take care of his own daily needs, and even drive an adapted car.
Absolutely. I'm amazed by EU and UK leaders tripping over themselves to fit in with a golf schedule. As for that EU deal, what a joke.
📚 Atelier Samuel Beckett: Irish Writer and French Translator in Residence 2025 The residency will take place from October 13 – November 7, 2025 You can find the full details here: www.literatureireland.com/latest/ateli...
I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
Stopped there two Sundays ago. Paid for a 99 but the machine wasn't working. Got cash back. Money-laundering in reverse. Town needs some TLC.
Heroes!
#Smooth haze and an egret #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #photography
So what did you do in the war against a terrorist state? I was involved in the 18th package of sanctions.
💙💛 Where the kids were taken by Russia #BringKidsBackUK
They weren't too wrong ...
Serendipity!
Many times, though not for a few years now. Beautiful place.
Mount Usher?
Possibly the coldest building I've ever been in.
A: You tell me.
You're a bit young to be hitting the Complan.
Nice haul.
Beautiful work.
I (will) do my best to make Ukrainian art loved and known. I want the world to see that Ukraine means talent, not just destroyed houses and mined fields. Please look at the works of Ukrainian artist and illustrator Olena Abessinova.
Painting by Shaun Downey ‘The Satin Dress’ 2013. Oil on canvas. Dimensions 44.5 x 61 cms.
That's remarkable.
The bottom of the barrel of political discourse.
I walked and thought that I should show you this moment in Kyiv. And maybe you’ll pass it on to those who still think Ukraine is only a battlefield.
SAVE THE DATE. Full details 8 July. Submissions open 1 August. The Irish Writers Centre International Debut Novel Competition (IDNC) You may have known me as Novel Fair 😉 #internationalwritingcompetition #debutnovelist #writingcompetition #writingcommunity #novel #writer #literature
A nice wee leaf-blower is what you want now to tidy away all those decapitated dandelions.
"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
On són aquestes cases?
A brilliant story by one of the greatest writers.
Young Woman with Flowers, 1918 by May Swanzy, one of the first Irish painters to experiment in Avant Garde styles #WomensArt
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Slightly smaller than the Very Large Engine Vehicle.
I remember babysitting cousins of mine back in 1986. One of them was big into breakdancing. In the house.
Calla Lillies, 1941 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka who painted in an Art Deco style #WomensArt
Russia not looking great there.
Morning crop. #blackcurrants
Russia is diseased to its very core.
Reading Moortown Diary from start to finish. It's immense. The poems strike me as entirely sufficient unto themselves. Language getting to grips with the messy world.
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Very disappointed to learn that the new tourist resort in Wonsan Kalma won't be open to foreigners. #northkorea
You sang your song For much too long The songs they're wrong The bread has gone
Splendid photo.
It's probably something to do with procurement protocols.
It's not this colour in reality. #nightsky
Moonbound, it seems.
Artist Linda Timmons's stained glass bike wheel #WomensArt
I've never given this a moment's thought. My Sunday is sorted.
Relentlessly peace-loving.
Heartbreaking.
Don’t believe everything you think.
Duffels and parkas.
#spiderweb
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Cringe.
Having joined the Sky Sports commentary team, Keats and Chapman were assigned to Anfield ...
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Wonderful photos.
youtu.be/nbx_6gavLno?...
Sylvan embrace
