Cormac O'Keeffe is writing in today's @irishexaminer regarding 🇮🇪 and defence expenditure.

Defence Spending. From the letters to the editor page of today's @IrishTimes

Where I live in Ireland, this time last year. I love winter.

1,000th day since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine today.

Glory to all who defend Ukraine.
Eternal memory and eternal glory to all who gave their lives for Ukraine.

The fight continues. Ukraine resists.
Slava Ukraini
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

I have been on Bluesky for less than a week and everything I post here now is getting more impressions and engagement than on Twitter.

Anybody who wants their content to actually be seen needs to stop exclusively posting to Twitter. It is a dead end site that only exists to serve Elon's agenda.

“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

This was probably my most viral tweet. I've seen it pop up in a lot of quote aggregators, sometimes attributed to a wonderful but definitely not-me filmmaker.

Hello fellow Blueskyers! You might want to change a couple of the default settings.

Under Moderation, maybe enable adult content since we talk about a war.

Under Thread Preferences, default is oldest reply. Maybe change to most liked or roulette and then enable people you follow first.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Now that we’re here, and the angry people are on X and the dancing people are on insta, and we’re all finding a place; wouldn’t it be nice if there was a peaceful garden somewhere, just for the sexy lady bot accounts, where they could finally rest.

The magic of an Irish rainforest.
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Mind-blowing to think that the egg you came from was present in your mother when she was a baby in your grandmother's womb, which means you've been present for three generations of people saying "It's hard to believe it's starting to get dark now at half four" every November

I am getting a second passport this summer, for a far away land. Though I fear my family will not find anywhere truly safe from what's coming with climate breakdown and probably war. I'd do anything for my little boy but I'm basically powerless. Anyone else feel the same?