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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 3h

Connolly reverts to discussing the Palestinians' conditions and the Nakba when she is asked about her visit to Assad-run areas of Syria during the Syrian civil war. I'm not sure she demonstrated that she "found" many "facts" from that fact-finding tour organized by the regime.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 4h

I hope the ceasefire holds. I don't care what they say in the Knesset.

But I really hope that the US Democrats and their cohort in the thnktanks and the foreign policy blob get it into their heads that you can do actual hard diplomacy, you can over-rule Netanyahu, you can meet Hamas directly, etc.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 6h

Not sure what Egypt is about to sign up to...

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 7h

How do you face living in a country that was willing to sacrifice you to keep Netanyahu in the PM office, and left you to rot, until Donald Trump went to UNGA and got angry at the reputational damage he was suffering from being a sponsor of genocide.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 8h

It’s important to remember that the Netanyahu government could have agreed to such a deal many months ago

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 9h

Does the Data Center industry understand the reputation they're getting with the wider public?

Whingeing that every single data center in Europe isn't built in Ireland because we don't have infinite generating capacity is not very convincing.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 20h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Middle-East Tracker @me.skyfleet.blue · 20h

Prominent Palestinian activist Saleh al-Jafarawi killed by armed militia in Gaza City

Social media activist was shot dead whilst covering clashes between Israel-backed militia and Hamas fighters, Al Jazeera reports

www.middleeasteye.net

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Oh was he in the polycule with harry cole?

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas refuses disarmament. Israel says it will go after Hamas tunnels - with US approval - once hostages released. Doesn't exactly sound like peace for the ages or whatever it was Trump called it.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Russia has no particular love for the status quo, will try to upend the equilibrium where it thinks it has greater ability to coerce a counterparty and it will act at every level, from nuclear weapon placements on the Baltic down to a couple of border cops being sent to camp on isolated border road

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

This is a border road, like border roads we know in ireland, it crosses a minor Russian salient twice. Like a bit of Fermanagh.

Russia appears to be tryign to cause trouble for Estonia.

The kind of trouble our European allies helped cut off during the Brexit talks, squabbling over border checks.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

❗️Reportedly, these are armed uniformed Russian men at the Estonia-Russia border.

Friends from Estonia, could you please provide more details? Thank you!

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

If they are possible to target for shoot-down then they are being tracked and collision is unlikely. Jets will be diverting one way or the other. And live ordnance fire very disruptive. You can sit in a holding stack with a drone below you, but not with live fire.

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah got to protect their bottom line, and not worry about risk of death, injury and property damage caused by falling debris or ordnance.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

⚡️German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports.

Germany's airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sightings across Europe.

German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports

Germany's airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sighting...

kyivindependent.com

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SOURCE Photographic Review @sourcephoto.bsky.social · 1d

Photograph of the cover of Diane Keaton's book of photographs of hotel lobbys 'Reservations'.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, someone actually did bury some rotten eggs under Ronaldo's haystack?

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 2d

There's another Ireland, in another mirror dimension, that are competent at international soccer.

RTÉ must know something about some Large Hadron Collider run tonight that could trigger an opening between these two worlds.

Or maybe the Fairy Folk will kit out?

RTÉ Sport headline "Preview: Which Ireland will appear for Portugal clash?"

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

with one of the most incredible kickers i've ever seen

NYT excerpt that reads:

On Thursday, Mr. Benioff said he had never been progressive even if many San Franciscans thought he was. He said he was a longtime Republican before switching to become an independent voter.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

Heather Knight is a reporter in San Francisco, leading The Times’s coverage of the Bay Area and Northern California.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

CDC staff in Africa right now, including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak, are laid off/fired.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Any film stars photographers any more? Like Dennis Hopper or Jeff Bridges?

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

A photomat portrait of Diane Keaton holding an SLR

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Keaton was a photographer. In 1980 she put out a photobook of hotel lobbies called "Reservations". Just empty scenes from hotels. There was a more recent book too called "Saved" of some her work.

Cover of Diane Keaton's 1980 book "Reservations, with a square format black and white photograph of a hotel lobby chair, table, lamp and half a picture visible on a wall.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini, Pope Alexander VII with Bernini's skull (1655-56), Art Collection of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Rome. Pope Alexander VII sits in an elaborately carved chair, carved with the Chigi coat of arms, and rests his hands on a carved skull on the desk in front of him and looks out at the viewer

A realistic, life-size marble skull with teeth missing, carved out of marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1655)

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 2d

Journo verb: "to scotch"

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 2d

Funeral ornament for an empire.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 2d

They're barns. Not serviced for people. You'd be building from scratch. I mean you can do that, my office in an IDA site was formerly a factory floor that was part converted, but only a few sites are probably appropriate for transport links, main sewer connections etc.

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