Troy Arnold
@tzma.bsky.social
One time diplomat. Amused by life. Interested in everything. Aim to be funny and thoughtful, often fail at both. Violin, tennis, intl relations, languages.
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We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
@patrickwintour.bsky.social excellent article on the shifts and balances in Tehran. While in Iran can you ask people how they see society/leadership responding to Khamenei’s likely death from old age in the next 3-5 years.
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
@patrickwintour.bsky.social excellent article on the shifts and balances in Tehran. While in Iran can you ask people how they see society/leadership responding to Khamenei’s likely death from old age in the next 3-5 years.
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Just kill someone at Center Parcs
October 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Just kill someone at Center Parcs
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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Even unpleasant people are entitled to due process.
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Even unpleasant people are entitled to due process.
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
This! This is why I’m on social media!!!
Ok so Total Eclipse of the Heart was originally written to be a vampire love song in a play about nosferatu
Yes they made it, but you can only find he German version. So here I present to you: Tenz Der Vampire
(Skip to 1:12:40 for TEotH)
Yes they made it, but you can only find he German version. So here I present to you: Tenz Der Vampire
(Skip to 1:12:40 for TEotH)
Tanz der Vampire – 10th November 2005 – Hamburg Proshot (Tarte, Kessler, Niemeyer)
YouTube video by 3 pennies for an opera
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This! This is why I’m on social media!!!
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NEW: The Turkish military’s reported deployment of assets to Kuweires Airbase near SDF-controlled territory in eastern Aleppo Province may indicate that Turkey and Syria are preparing for a joint military operation against the SDF. (1/5) 🧵
Iran Update, September 29, 2025: isw.pub/IranUpdate09...
Iran Update, September 29, 2025: isw.pub/IranUpdate09...
September 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
NEW: The Turkish military’s reported deployment of assets to Kuweires Airbase near SDF-controlled territory in eastern Aleppo Province may indicate that Turkey and Syria are preparing for a joint military operation against the SDF. (1/5) 🧵
Iran Update, September 29, 2025: isw.pub/IranUpdate09...
Iran Update, September 29, 2025: isw.pub/IranUpdate09...
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“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian”
“Jimmy Carr?”
“No, she went of her own accord”
“Jimmy Carr?”
“No, she went of her own accord”
September 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian”
“Jimmy Carr?”
“No, she went of her own accord”
“Jimmy Carr?”
“No, she went of her own accord”
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Muslim nationalists in
Indonesia 46%
Nigeria 16%
Turkey 11%
Hindu nationalists in
India 24%
Christian nationalists in
Kenya 32%
Nigeria 13%
US 6%
Jewish nationalists in
Israel 9%
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/01/28/comparing-levels-of-religious-nationalism-around-the-world/
Indonesia 46%
Nigeria 16%
Turkey 11%
Hindu nationalists in
India 24%
Christian nationalists in
Kenya 32%
Nigeria 13%
US 6%
Jewish nationalists in
Israel 9%
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/01/28/comparing-levels-of-religious-nationalism-around-the-world/
September 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Muslim nationalists in
Indonesia 46%
Nigeria 16%
Turkey 11%
Hindu nationalists in
India 24%
Christian nationalists in
Kenya 32%
Nigeria 13%
US 6%
Jewish nationalists in
Israel 9%
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/01/28/comparing-levels-of-religious-nationalism-around-the-world/
Indonesia 46%
Nigeria 16%
Turkey 11%
Hindu nationalists in
India 24%
Christian nationalists in
Kenya 32%
Nigeria 13%
US 6%
Jewish nationalists in
Israel 9%
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/01/28/comparing-levels-of-religious-nationalism-around-the-world/
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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
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🚨🚨"If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don't come here to whine about it," "You have been warned." @radek-sikorski.bsky.social to #kremlin. www.politico.eu/article/rado...
Poland to Russia: ‘You have been warned’ so don’t ‘whine’ if your jets are shot down in NATO airspace
Radosław Sikorski upbraids Moscow for being “incapable of living in peace” with its neighbors following a series of incursions into NATO airspace.
www.politico.eu
September 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
🚨🚨"If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don't come here to whine about it," "You have been warned." @radek-sikorski.bsky.social to #kremlin. www.politico.eu/article/rado...
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This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.
September 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.
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SIGNED FREDDIE FLINTOFF!
Cricket legend Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's memoir "Coming Home. The Moments That Made Me" is published next month.
And i'm gonna be getting a few signed copies!
I know. Incredible!
Pre-order one HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Cricket legend Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's memoir "Coming Home. The Moments That Made Me" is published next month.
And i'm gonna be getting a few signed copies!
I know. Incredible!
Pre-order one HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
September 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
SIGNED FREDDIE FLINTOFF!
Cricket legend Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's memoir "Coming Home. The Moments That Made Me" is published next month.
And i'm gonna be getting a few signed copies!
I know. Incredible!
Pre-order one HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Cricket legend Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's memoir "Coming Home. The Moments That Made Me" is published next month.
And i'm gonna be getting a few signed copies!
I know. Incredible!
Pre-order one HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
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How we put the geese to bed at night (we just ask them)
September 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
How we put the geese to bed at night (we just ask them)
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I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls.
This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.
This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.
This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls.
This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.
This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.
This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
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Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia?
Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.
(Seriously, that’s the answer)
Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.
(Seriously, that’s the answer)
August 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia?
Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.
(Seriously, that’s the answer)
Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.
(Seriously, that’s the answer)
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do you know anyone in turkmenistan who can keep watch for randos crawling out of this thing muttering “i’m not gonna spend eternity with that guy”?
Darvaza gas crater - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
do you know anyone in turkmenistan who can keep watch for randos crawling out of this thing muttering “i’m not gonna spend eternity with that guy”?
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...