Jacinta
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Here is the late Eileen Battersby's @irishtimes.com review of The Unseen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw: "Easily one of the best novels I have ever read."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The Unseen review: Red sky at mourning for a Norwegian fishing family
Eileen Battersby found Roy Jacobsen’s book to be as blunt as it is subtle, and one of the best novel she’s ever read
www.irishtimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Here is the late Eileen Battersby's @irishtimes.com review of The Unseen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw: "Easily one of the best novels I have ever read."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.
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Trump and his greedhead cronies may get a big surprise in spite of their efforts to rig the 2026 election. They could find themselves swamped by a blue wave. Americans are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.
September 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Trump and his greedhead cronies may get a big surprise in spite of their efforts to rig the 2026 election. They could find themselves swamped by a blue wave. Americans are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.
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Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
August 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
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Good Letter of the Day in @thetimes.com this morning:
July 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Good Letter of the Day in @thetimes.com this morning:
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Morning on the Seine - 1897 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110422
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110422
June 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Morning on the Seine - 1897 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110422
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110422
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Adlestrop.
Possibly the only poem you need for the rest of June.
Read it slowly, and let it linger...
• Edward Thomas •
Possibly the only poem you need for the rest of June.
Read it slowly, and let it linger...
• Edward Thomas •
June 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Adlestrop.
Possibly the only poem you need for the rest of June.
Read it slowly, and let it linger...
• Edward Thomas •
Possibly the only poem you need for the rest of June.
Read it slowly, and let it linger...
• Edward Thomas •
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Late but on our way. Fascists should not ever get to assemble without being opposed.
April 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Late but on our way. Fascists should not ever get to assemble without being opposed.
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Sickened to see the amount of people the far right rounded out today. I don't know the exact figure but they filled the street completely all the way across from the Hugh Lane to the lower side of the Gresham hotel. Please do not ignore this, it's their biggest showing yet.Push back however you can.
April 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Sickened to see the amount of people the far right rounded out today. I don't know the exact figure but they filled the street completely all the way across from the Hugh Lane to the lower side of the Gresham hotel. Please do not ignore this, it's their biggest showing yet.Push back however you can.
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La loi is mightier than Le Pen (for the moment, at least):
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling EU funds
The presidential hopeful was found guilty in a case that could see her banned from standing in the 2027 election.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
La loi is mightier than Le Pen (for the moment, at least):
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"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable: they happen in a space that no word has ever entered."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Almond Blossoms (1888)
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Almond Blossoms (1888)
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh
March 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable: they happen in a space that no word has ever entered."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Almond Blossoms (1888)
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Almond Blossoms (1888)
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh
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“With each fall came a kick, a slap, a shove. The guards grabbed necks and pushed bodies into the sides of the buses as they forced the detainees forward. There was no blood, but the violence had rhythm, like a theater of fear.”
time.com/7269604/el-s...
time.com/7269604/el-s...
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“With each fall came a kick, a slap, a shove. The guards grabbed necks and pushed bodies into the sides of the buses as they forced the detainees forward. There was no blood, but the violence had rhythm, like a theater of fear.”
time.com/7269604/el-s...
time.com/7269604/el-s...
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Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine
It’s clear from this that the only difference between Steve Witkoff’s and Vladmir Putin’s views on the war in Ukraine is that Putin actually knows the names of all the five Ukrainian regions he wants to keep.
March 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine
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Witkoff saying that the overwhelming majority in the four Ukrainian regions (Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk) voted to be part of Russia is preposterous. The 2022 referendums were sham. The majority in Zaporizhzhia live in areas under Ukrainian rule where there was no referendum at all.
It’s clear from this that the only difference between Steve Witkoff’s and Vladmir Putin’s views on the war in Ukraine is that Putin actually knows the names of all the five Ukrainian regions he wants to keep.
March 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Witkoff saying that the overwhelming majority in the four Ukrainian regions (Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk) voted to be part of Russia is preposterous. The 2022 referendums were sham. The majority in Zaporizhzhia live in areas under Ukrainian rule where there was no referendum at all.
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More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The False Romance of Russia
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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So much has been so obvious for so long
March 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
So much has been so obvious for so long
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Me: Happy St. Patrick's day!
My snake roommate:...Wow.
Me: Sorry, I didn't thin-
Snake roommate:-It's *fine*.
My snake roommate:...Wow.
Me: Sorry, I didn't thin-
Snake roommate:-It's *fine*.
March 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Me: Happy St. Patrick's day!
My snake roommate:...Wow.
Me: Sorry, I didn't thin-
Snake roommate:-It's *fine*.
My snake roommate:...Wow.
Me: Sorry, I didn't thin-
Snake roommate:-It's *fine*.
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one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
March 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
Ah, wouldn’t a world of old women and cats be lovely - sort of peaceful, knitting maybe, only conflict the cats messing with the wool, the weapons stockpiles mouldering away…
Patriarchy has been afraid of us for a long time.
The Meath Chronicle, 100 years ago. Happy International Womens Day.
March 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Ah, wouldn’t a world of old women and cats be lovely - sort of peaceful, knitting maybe, only conflict the cats messing with the wool, the weapons stockpiles mouldering away…
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Don't remember much about Hillbilly Elegy (J.D. Vance's 2016 book) but I knew there was a parable about the importance of standing up to bullies in there. I'm sure he meant it at the time.
March 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Don't remember much about Hillbilly Elegy (J.D. Vance's 2016 book) but I knew there was a parable about the importance of standing up to bullies in there. I'm sure he meant it at the time.
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Adorno got it right in 1945
February 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Adorno got it right in 1945
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You can tell how ill the Pope is because they say he's reading the newspapers and in good spirits.
Nobody who's reading newspapers at the moment is in good spirits.
Nobody who's reading newspapers at the moment is in good spirits.
February 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
You can tell how ill the Pope is because they say he's reading the newspapers and in good spirits.
Nobody who's reading newspapers at the moment is in good spirits.
Nobody who's reading newspapers at the moment is in good spirits.