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dennis9.bsky.social
Writer. Retreaded Lit. Professor. Friend of Ukraine. Listen, and you’ll hear someone knocking at the other side of the tunnel.
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A fabulous museum. I’d go again any time.

13 year old: “He looks so nice.” Other 13 year old: “He looks peaceful.” 10 year old: “He has to be so stressed. He needs a hug.”

I’d like to know more about the new Pope’s interesting background. Could he be related to the Abbe Prevost, 18thc writer??

80 years ago Britain declared a national holiday to celebrate the surrender of Nazi forces in Europe. Today we celebrate their victory and remember the countless sacrifices they made to deliver it. The London Museum has this excellent piece about that day: londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/lo…

@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Georgia Mann and team deserve accolades fir choice of music after the two minute silence today

Mark Carney to Trump: ‘Never’. That’s the way to deal with bluster and bullying. Canada is not for sale.

Mensch ist viel zu selten Am Meer #dalb25 Heute geht's

It’s not just the US media that is craven before Trump, but what looks like an entire generation of Republicans. What are they afraid of?

"There is political risk in striking a deal with the EU but there is more risk in not doing so. The Labour government requires economic growth, increased defence security and control of illegal migration. A deal with the EU can help." - Red wall MP @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social

Wondering if Putin is nervous about his forthcoming Victory Day?

That’s great news. Incomprehensible it didn’t win the Booker here. Brilliant writing from a craftsman with a long list of terrific novels already.

There's been an immediate own goal in Lincolnshire for newly-elected Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns - who hasn't done her homework...

⚡️ Ukrainian sea drones down 2 Russian Su-30 jets near Novorossiysk, military intelligence chief says. Initially, reports confirmed the destruction of only one jet, but Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) chief, Kyrylo Budanov, later clarified that two aircraft were hit.

I keep hearing the same phrase from Reform voters in my comments - “I voted for them because it can’t get worse than this.” It’s devastating, because of course it could. It could get a whole lot worse…

@matthewsyed.bsky.social just read your piece on the failure of moral universalism. Outstanding: especially pointed in relation to rise of Faragism

Transcendence of the everyday

Trump says the US economy will turn around in the long term. Has he forgotten that in the long term we’re all dead? Or perhaps he means that…

They dropped the ball…or assumed it would happen and does not matter? Not enough to argue ‘protest vote’ either. Immigration is going to determine result of the next election unless cost of living dives.

Typical of the gross and vulgar and foolish people around a similarly characterful US president

Is it possible that the improved language of solidarity between US and Ukraine in the deal just struck on resources is a hopeful sign?

Female graduates are complaining of lack of jobs. And so few female radiographers are currently available that men will have to do mammograms. Join the dots time?

@jennirussell.bsky.social despite concern for rights those of guilty foreign criminals should indeed not take precedence over the rest of the community at a time of inadequate policing generally. Judges shape up!

So no 20 cat Larry has to be kept outside away from the Starmers’ ££ costing indoor cat Orincess or he’ll eat her. My money is on Larry, Real Labour

Undeserved praise can go a long way…

US at tipping point for return of endemic measles www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Maybe the most important thing is that Trump is without all his ignorant attack dogs around him

@markgaleotti.bsky.social why is it taking so long to release frozen Russian funds to help the slow slow growth of GB and EU defence at this crucial time?

Delighted to see @lauracummingart.bsky.social and Robert Harris puffed on the front page. The picture is a work of art in itself…

The human injustice and strategic idiocy of Trump’s "plan" is obvious to all, including those who have gone to some trouble to support him. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

About time. Stand up to Putin’s war of aggression in the war in tge way he understands

⚡️Ukraine still operating in Russia's Kursk Oblast, monitoring group says. Ukrainian troops face a difficult situation in Kursk, but the Kremlin's announcement that it had fully recaptured the region was "a fake," the monitoring service DeepState reported on April 26.

⚡️Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway in occupied Luhansk Oblast, group claims. The sabotage operation disrupted Russian supply lines and led to delays in the delivery of equipment and spare parts, the partisan group Atesh claimed on April 27.

A kitten has been rescued from the rubble of a residential building destroyed as a result of a Russian missile attack on Kyiv on April 24. It’s reported that the owner is alive.The 60-yr-old woman also has a dog that came out of the rubble with her&2other cats Unfortunately,her husband passed away

Good to have some accuracy

US signals support for Europe's peacekeeping coalition in Ukraine, Telegraph reports.

📍In London to prepare the EU-UK Summit with Keir Starmer. We are friends. And we are Europeans. It means that we share interests and democratic values. And that we are ready to face global challenges as like-minded partners.

Warhol probs wouldn’t have cared anyway. Throwaway art…?

What did Cyril Ramaphosa say to Zelensky? Es a flight to SAfrica worth it? Will they vote pro Russia at the UN again?

Yes

@sathnam.bsky.social Apt piece about Dickens’s connection with the Cleveland St flats for the rich instead of affordable for the needy. See my Dickens & Religion on The Social Gospel.

And look what’s just happened to the Pope

Vance praying for the Pope took him off

Cats do evil for me. So it keeps inside my head.