My latest Substack post. Here's the link: open.substack.com/pub/tomdoorl...

Well, Spring is truly here. Especially in the tunnel. The first asparagus pushing through...

Myanmar, no earthquake assistance, instead a 44% tariff.

At one of his frequent press conferences (because he loves being on TV), I'd love it if some reporter piped up with, "What do you say to people who call you a know-nothing narcissistic asshole, Mr. President?"

my plan to move to bluesky to get away from politics seems to be having limited success.

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Judge Susan Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”

AI can do good things. Remember when Trump said that he couldn't bear being laughed at? We need to laugh at him more.

So you can imagine all the racists having meltdowns in the comments sections 🤣🤣🤣 www.thejournal.ie/migrants-mor...

🚨🚨 Greedy, evil and traitorous robbers: #Trump pushes to control all of #Ukraine’s mineral and energy assets in sweeping new demands. 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

It’s just before 8am on Friday and on Radio 4 Nigel Farage is telling Nick Robinson that the Conservative Party didn’t deliver Brexit

Guys... perhaps a new miniseries on him would do in his bluesky absence... so I humbly offer: open.spotify.com/show/3JYPMFq...

Utterly shameful... www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I hope Trinity College, Dublin is doing the same... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is there such a thing as a right wing diet? My latest Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/tomdoorl...

Iris Reticulata, Fritillary, Polyantha, Grape Hyacinth (Garden Flowers, 1960) Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

The headline says all you need to know. Almost 200 children killed this week... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

UK Subs detained

Celandine and primrose

Early morning log work...

Celandine and primrose

A really lovely discovery amongst the new wines just arrived in ALDI for Spring/Summer. Bulgarian pink, very dry with raspberry and red currant fruit - from the Greek end of the Thracian Valley and, not surprisingly delicious with a Greek salad. A mere €8.99!

A little bit of ancient Ireland…

Quite a thriller... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Planted in early February, this is first early potato Home Guard in the tunnel today. Immensely satisfying, even though there will be quite a wait until harvest...

Musk claims to be a humanitarian, a lover of civilization, a gift to mankind. We all know he became wealthy from government contracts, yet he cut US Aid (food and water to the most vulnerable 100 million people in the world)- The wealthiest man in the word, has contributed do little to society!

This is quite the endorsement!

Quite the cover...

A particularly vile Jesuit abuser, Kevin Laheen SJ An Unholy Father open.substack.com/pub/tomdoorl...

Pinks, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Trump - 'There are astronauts up in space I asked Elon if he can get them down because he's got those starships so he's going to do that' Elon -

This is an English Bluebell seedling Our woodland floor is scattered with ones that have not anchored themselves in the soil properly I spent most of yesterday tucking them in

Hiroshima being woke is not the outcome I expected, and yet here we are.

Do we think this is a (rather tenuous) pun, or do we think that Bloomsbury's marketing dept can't spell "sprightly"?

@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.

This is next level! 💥

A rare piece of good news this morning: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

I really don't feel bad that this f-ing Nazi billionaire feels some stress over this. I think this f-ing Nazi needs to feel a helluva lot more stress until he has his billionaire fingers pried off of our government completely and he stops hurting millions of citizens.

He has really lost it.

He only got nominated to run last time because the main parties didn't want to waste their resources running a candidate against MDH. That's not going to happen this year. He won't even be the first choice of the reactionary independent TDs and Senators this time.

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Conan O'Brien on Anora having a great night at the Oscars: "I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥