You land in Dublin Airport. Take the bus to the car park. Opera on Lyric blares. Bus driver whistles along. Home.

When I say I am not buying another camera I mean after this one... wideluxx.com#reveal-video

“In a tradition that stretches back to the first Memorial Day after the war, every service member honored in the cemetery has a Dutch adopter who brings flowers and visits his or her memorial. Some even correspond with the deceased’s family in the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?

FIFA for sure knows a grifter when they see one. Disgusting.

The #BrokenTimes cannot bring itself to label and thus explain the reality of today: a fascist dictatorship. It is failing America. The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

youtu.be/GSzRkWrUiHQ?... @artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.

"Our findings highlight the limits of countering misinformation directly, because for some people, literal truth is not the point. ... This mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes." theconversation.com/winning-with...

This is spectral and beautiful - a 1974 autobiographical 16mm short film about poet Frank Stanford, made by Stanford and his publisher, Irv Broughton. A weave of poetry, talk, shadow images, blues songs.

If anyone here is still using X/Twitter, here's another good reason to stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... (Remember Musk spoke at so-called Robinson's fascist demonstration a few weeks ago)

f24.my/BUVS Macron continues to baffle me. Would do anything other than appoint a left wing PM. Including show his shortcomings and embarrass the nation.

Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...

We use social networks to share human experiences and interact with people about culture or politics. Silicon Valley wants to replace that, turning person-to-person interactions into person-to-machine interactions, leaving us alone talking to no one. www.computerworld.com/article/4067...

That’s our timeline.

I up the ante.

I think AI is acceptable right now because the underlying information is still discoverable, with people able to trace back to truth and discover AI's mistakes. but we're building towards an information ecosystem of liquefaction zones, where there is no foundation of truth under the slop.

Can we have Michael D for a third term please? #Aras25

Strongly suspect the main outcome of this debate will be to reduce turnout. #Aras25

This presidential debate… oh boy. Terrible interviewer/interrupter needs a chamomile tea. All discussion nothing to do with the job.

So exhausting..

Impressive set of journalists. Impressive set of contributing editors from Eno to Solnit. Looking forward to this.

A President can raise issues which are difficult when the voice is that of a thinker, a philosopher, a voice who brings people along, it starts with ‘we’. When the voice is activist it starts with them/us. It can push people away. Labour, the Greens and the SocDems look like they’ve blown it.

In November LinkedIn will use your publicly posted data, presumably including your career history to feed their AI - you can opt out in their Settings - www.linkedin.com/e/v2?urlhash...

Finnish President Alexander Stubb interview, calm, measured, well judged. In case any of you needed a reminder as to what that might be like… youtu.be/RcJ3gsyEIeU?...

I'm a subscriber, and every article is wonderful. I count on Mother Jones to continue excellent journalism.

these people are genuinely idiots

All journalists should bend the knee to the work of the obituarist, the one discipline which enables the practitioner to get a byline from beyond the grave. Ronald Bergen predeceased his subject Robert Redford by 5 years, but left behind a truly masterful obit. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated by Patrick Reagh.

On working at the Journal on 9/11 - "…clear assignment and delineation of responsibility, instilling of common purpose and understanding of mission, empowering human beings to do their best work and motivating them to want to do it" @dicktofel.bsky.social on dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-journa...

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

It’s amazing how, the older I get, the more my politics crystallizes back to the bumper stickers I saw on Volvos growing up.

It's rare a funny writer is so naturally funny in person too. This clip is great www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB1...

The Spanish continue to knock it out of the park. Spain Is an Example to the World www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

@rbreich.bsky.social on the topic of hope in these times, quoting Vaclav Havel - open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Hey, political parties, I'm a decent human being who cares about other human beings. How about pandering to me for a bit?

THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND. The international community would do well to pay attention to Uactaran na hÉireann. We are a people qualified to lecture others on genocidal famine and deliberately imposed mass starvation.

So what’s the odds on a tech billionaire or two stepping in here until the nation steps up to the plate again - apple.news/At_z7pFq1SZu...

So sad to hear this. Sean was a kind, intelligent and insightful professional. A great loss to the arts world. Thoughts are with his family and loved ones.

The arrival of amazon.ie has vacuumed billions already from the local market. Shop small, shop local. Kenny's is a great bookshop, Liber in Sligo and Chapters in Dublin too.

If, like me, you don't watch South Park... eh, here's this season's premiere trailer - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR...

How to live in adversity. Hats off.

Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries? Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.

Take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep ~ W.B. Yeats

Paul Durcan who died on May 17 this year.

less than two weeks after MechaHitler

By far the most interesting item I have read this week, from @annehelen.bsky.social and her excellent Substack - annehelen.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Here's the candidate the Dems should have in 2028 - Pro union, pro worker, a solid progressive record and a bucketload of cop on. www.c-span.org/clip/us-sena...

The truth is the new Republican Party hates America and wants an entirely different country in its place.