I absolutely ♥️ Cold War Conversations! They scratch my itch for spy stories!

I imagine that Andrew can't remember half the people he met at drunken parties over the years. But Mandy? Oh, he knows absolutely everyone... Got their phone numbers and all.

She's picking up her feet and about to march towards you, saying "I'm not having any more of your nonsense"

November 2024, at the bar of "Il Postino" in Lafayette, California, a Mexican granddad bought me and my daughter drinks. "might be the last time you're coming to visit!", he said, "let's drink to the end!" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social deserves a Pulitzer!

Comeuppance, that's a good word, right?

Someone let the penguins of the Heard and McDonald Islands know that their long ordeal is coming to an end.

Chill!https://youtu.be/VoIZQh1IjI8?si=vHaTY-FH372Qzszz

We need this! youtu.be/1XDZt-Y4DbU?...

Ook ondertekend!

The Bee Gees : "I finally died, and got the whole world talking..." duckduckgo.com?q=bee%20gees...

Never forget this inhumanity..

Out: ruining your eyesight via online screens. In: two month sabbatical alternating between admiring alpine landscape and focusing on spinning wool from Heidi the Sheep.

She never looked around.

Aaaaand foreign partners don't trust the US. Wonder why...

I absolutely adore "Cold War Conversations". It scratches my LeCarré itch and reminds me of my Dad's stories of his trips behind the Iron Curtain while working for the UN.

As someone who enjoys occasionally using the slang word “noice,” I can’t help but love that it’s also “no ice.”

Everybody says "listen to the survivors". So listen to this survivor... She has a lot to say. Anouska De Georgiou.

My Dutch husband said today, "I walked into the kitchen, and it suddenly struck me - again - that the Americans voted for Trump"

Bitcoin, going DOOOOOWNN.

I assumed that the US regime had been silently cancelling Orban these last months, seeing as he is a BIG LOSER in the polls, but I was apparently wrong...

"don't make a fuss" All of my lovely English family embody this. Not hanging up flags or how you drink your tea, not hating immigrants or loving the royal family. Just quietly getting on with a joke and a stubborn determination...

"Having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity" Paul Muskgrave

The wee fella, totally overwhelmed... ♥️♥️♥️

Weren't these files supposed to be redacted by the Trump administration?

"Ohio", "Hurricane", "Talkin' about a Revolution", and now this...

Fire and ice

An amazing hero, so humble, yet having saved hundreds of lives..

So sad for my Dutch husband, that he now feels estranged from his love of American music.

My girls loved your pendants that I got them for Christmas! Three different ones, and they all arrived promptly here in the Netherlands. Thanks, Catherine..

"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy." Mark Carney

She played a crowd of only a few hundred in Geneva back in the day , so we had lots of room to dance our hearts out! It was "allowed in the eighties" Thankyou, Pat Benatar, for making "My Clone Sleeps Alone" youtu.be/nSkjbvydcz8?...

One of the finest speeches: "parting is such sweet sorrow" Von der Leyen: 'Samen bereiken we nog altijd meer'

Look at what's really happening...

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die." Jean-Paul Sartre

Hello Dutch friends! Please find Chris Vermeulen who used to work for Van Oord!

I am her! She looks so very sad...

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

The smell of pine-needles under your feet. Memories of childhood, picking up beech-nuts and scrambling up for a few wild raspberries. We navigated on the smell...

These moments in our lives, when an old person is about to leave us... An old man, who in the last years of his life, chose to go on a demonstration supporting Gaza, who went from being a VVD-voter, to supporting the green, left-wing policies of his grand-daughter.

Never would that good man have imagined this sea of despair...

Christ almighty, look at this! No-nipple plastic pantry...

Down by the bay Where the watermelons grow Back to my home, I dare not go For if I do, my mother will say "Did you ever stand to fight Up against ICE, down by the bay?"

Bit of a silly move by the Iranian government: shut down Internet, then what do young people have to do of an evening? Duh...

1983 was possibly the most exciting year of my life: turning 18, one last summer before going off to Uni in the UK. And when I got there in August, what a learning curve: new words, like "chuffed", a strange thing called "class" and a friend who said, "you missed Ska music, how awful for you!"

All of the abundance of eels in the Medieval period doesn't make me feel any better about paying through my nose for a smoked eel these days...