Macron has rocked up for his Davos speech wearing sunglasses.

It's because of a burst blood vessel in his eye, but feels like the most Macron thing ever.

Let's see what he's got to say about the world - thread to follow on most interesting bits on geopolitics...

🇫🇷😎 Macron wore sunglasses to a meeting at the Elysee Palace due to a "minor eye problem."

AUSTRIA HAVE SAVED EUROVISION. THANK GOD!!!!

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Ümit Bektaş is one of Turkey’s most talented photographers.

His photos here are going viral. You’re not looking at AI: these are real photos from Turkey’s current pro-democracy protests. Despite mounting police repression, the demonstrations are expanding. Erdogan hopes protesters will tire out.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

I see Larry the Cat got a promotion.

@number10cat.bsky.social
#cat #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky

Watch Måns singing and partying to Bara bada bastu in #Melfest semifinal 4 with KAJ #Eurovision
youtu.be/LE1VKynyN7I?...

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
(Photo @justinng.bsky.social - 2022)

For those of you not quite as into Eurovision as me, you have missed this three minutes of genius from Sweden's national final. It translates as something like Just A Sauna and is a banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=28__...
#Melfest

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

Today in 1811 the UK Parliament removed all power from King George because he was "insane"

I love this picture from @imageplotter.bsky.social - makes it look like I've joined the police and my partner and I are going door to door making enquiries

oh what could the salute has possibly been

They will go after Wikipedia.

They will go after libraries.

They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports.

They will go after archives.

Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy.

Thinking is the enemy.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Brilliant! Love it!