Here’s a thing I’ve learned from the first week of my pilgrimage: no one is forcing you to read that thing. You’re an adult; you can just not do things.

Starting to accept I’m a bit mad

Any boat stuck 👏

"But every Ukrainian soldier must know that they will fight for him, that they will try to save him." The 1st Medical Battalion spoke to my colleague after video emerged showing a wounded soldier being evacuated by drone after 33 days in Russian-occupied territory www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...

Journalism can be a thankless job but every now and then you get to ask the guy who threw his shoes at Bush what he thinks about Cheney's death and it's all worth it again

Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box. Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all

Drones seen near air base storing U.S. nuclear weapons resemble "spy operation," Belgium's defense minister says www.cbsnews.com/news/drones-...

NATO just posted this on Instagram If you know anything about me, you know this is the 2nd greatest day of my life

You don't say...

Over 10,000 killed within three days. Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space. An absolute nightmare.

Ukraine hands over Russian POW to Lithuania for war crimes prosecution in 'historic precedent' This marks the first time since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion that Ukraine has handed over a Russian prisoner of war to a foreign country for criminal prosecution.

"It is a historic opportunity to shift the balance of power between Europe and Russia by exposing the Kremlin’s financial frailty and altering Vladimir Putin’s calculus about war and peace [and] a chance to speed up Europe’s efforts to establish its military and financial independence from America."

Our cover this week “Europe should take heart and recognise its own strength. Its military budget is already four times larger than Russia’s; its economy is ten times larger. Far from shying away from a financial contest with the Kremlin, Europe should embrace it—and win the war”

OK lads, the new @lankumdublin.bsky.social is about to drop and I can not prepare you adequately for Lankum doing techno, you have been warned: youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...

Absolutely obsessed with the level of pettiness of this man @trufelman.bsky.social interviewed for 14 hours about military kit articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapt...

Red Cross says its staff in Gaza "were not able to intervene" as alleged Hamas members buried and uncovered Israeli hostage remains www.cbsnews.com/news/red-cro...

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

Zambia to be come the latest country with a fake ship registry website. How do we know this is fraudulent? There are a few clear signs, and I will go though them below.

Saab says it's ready to open an assembly plant in Ukraine as part of the deal for Kyiv to buy 150 Gripen fighter jets www.ft.com/content/9ab0...

“Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...

I love Ireland so much

Defence groups Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales have finally completed a deal to combine their space businesses in a move to ensure European capabilities in a market dominated by SpaceX www.ft.com/content/a490...

American missionary kidnapped from home in Niger's capital by armed men, sources tell CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/niger-k...

As a follow-up, I asked @nuclearanthro.bsky.social to investigate what would happen if a deep-sea mining company did actually find one of these lost nukes during operations: Imagining Worst Case Scenarios: The legacy of nuclear weapons lost at sea. dsmobserver.com/2019/06/imag...

G'wan Sweden www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a...

Paid subscribers now get access to a drive full of Syria resources... includes (/will include) actor profiles, a data and document library, hundreds of academic articles and reports, maps, and a database of 8,000+ towns and villages with location coordinates akmckeever.substack.com/p/introducin...

Poland has arrested another eight people over suspected Russia-backed sabotage plots, Tusk said today www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Art...

Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ. cbsn.ws/4qkAtSr

Delco is not "rural America" in any way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

Thirteen NATO Allies have agreed to begin work on a new shared virtual training capability designed to improve readiness and reduce costs across the Alliance. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=63098

Ukraine says it will start mass production and offer its version of the Shahed drone, the Artemis ALM-20, to the Pentagon and other allies united24media.com/latest-news/...

German defence minister Pistorius has announced that Germany will spend 10 billion € over the next years on drones “of all kinds”. Details so far not available 🤷‍♀️ www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/pist...

Sorry to Catholicpost but God knew what he was doing when he picked this guy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Seven years ago I got a pitch from a random guy who wanted to do an analysis about the US controlling oil fields in Syria and today he turned up on the cover of the Washington Post. Always proud of you @jmszuba.bsky.social.

To all of you sent here by @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social things are a bit *gestures around* right now so please accept my humble emotional support shitposts

OK then

The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a Reuters investigation has found. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

It’s always a fun moment in the Schengen queue when the lads find out one of them has an Irish passport

It’s a Coupsday

European countries are scrambling to bolster their defenses before the next wave of Russian drones: Stockpiling shotguns, installing radars and teaching civilians how to knock out out drones. Our story: www.wsj.com/world/europe... #denmark #nato #poland #ukraine

Today is Artist’s Day in Ukraine. In the video, you see three watercolour paintings by Ukrainian artist and soldier Davyd Chychkan – killed on the front line in August 2025.

The children yearn for the salt mines Last Supper

And Germany’s been training on German aircraft in New Mexico since the 1950s.

Pals! It’s $5 Friday! When we saw this mama n her 2 puppies in a rural NC shelter….with their weary looks of defeat….we just had ta help. Mama Maggie is HW+, her 2 puppies Huck n Finn need basic vet care. If you’d like to help, we truly thank you ♥️! rescuecoop.org/donate

Shoutout to my colleague @emmetlyonscbsnews.bsky.social and his one-man liveblog on the Gaza ceasefire as it unfolds today www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

Congratulations to Polymarket on their Nobel Peace Prize win

Belgian PM reported to be among targets of ‘jihad-inspired’ drone plot

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Thank you for reading, Padre