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I am having a cameo appearance in the Observer today: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Russia hitting the hotel filled with foreign volunteers immediately after Trump cut intelligence to Ukraine is probably not a coincidence.

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LOL #coffee #protests

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🦀❤️🦀❤️🦀❤️🦀❤️🦀❤️🦀❤️🦀❤️🦀❤️🦀❤️ I've been... rusting away? for a week or so now, & am getting basically comfortable with the language & starting to really enjoy working in it. Just a few minutes ago, I noticed the existence of "doc comments" in the style guide. Which […]

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"Ogam, Ogma and Ogmios". My March blog-post for the OG(H)AM project about the relationship (or not) between the ogam writing system and various Celtic mythological figures, at: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20... Ill.: Albrecht Dürer, Hermes (© KHM Wien) @researchireland.bsky.social @ukri.org

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Maga and Russian leaders are experts in “DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), a response exhibited by perpetrators to deflect blame and responsibility. When using DARVO, perpetrators deny their involvement in wrongdoing, attack their victims' credibility, and argue that they are […]

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It strikes me as an academic question whether Trump is or isn't formally a Russian asset. The important thing is that he ACTS as though he is. And, as Trump's actions increasingly benefit America's long term foe, you've got to ask when the country will wake up and defend what's left from the […]

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Toradh súgartha le lionsa láimhe Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135 mm f/4 agus teleconverter 2× (= fad fócasach 270 mm). Ní fuiriste a bhíonn éan ina eitilt a chur i bhfócas… #Seagull #BirdsOfMastodon

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A couple of weeks ago, the Little One captured a praying mantis in the garden. They then went to the library and brought everything they could find about mantises, learned what they eat and built a fruit fly trap to keep it fed. They've also kept a scientific […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

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Can Europe go at Russia alone? Here the estimated inventories of Non-US vs US equipment in 5 major categories Note that while US shate is large, it doesn’t reach more than 1/3 in most categories. And much more than Russia would be able to to field. SPG = […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

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Woop, there it is. Elon Musk would have USA leave #NATO and the #UN. Elon Musk would rather have a world with no governance by states that represent the people, only corporations. They really aren’t hiding anything. This is it people, red lightsaber glowing in the dark. #elonmusk

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Físeán ina léighim “Aonar dhamhsa eidir dháoinibh”. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y7ncfRat7ptvuDGm6 Tugaidh fé ndeara go rabhas ag iarraidh fuaimniú moch clasaiceach a dh’úsáid sa bhfís seachas fuaimniú na Nua-Ghaelainne. #Gaoidhealg #FilidheachtNaSgol #ClassicalGaelic #Gáoidhealg #DanDireach […]

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After recent display of the USA’s diplomacy, Norwegian tanker company Haltbakk Bunkers refuses to serve Americans, “not a liter will be delivered until Trump is finished”. Strategically it’s probably minimal impact, it’s a single private company, but: a) it’s catchy, and other companies might […]

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After recent display of the USA’s diplomacy, Norwegian tanker company Haltbakk Bunkers refuses to serve Americans, “not a liter will be delivered until Trump is finished”. Strategically it’s probably minimal impact, it’s a single private company, but: a) it’s catchy, and other companies might […]

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A chilling observation that's been kinda overlooked in the mayhem generated by the cowardly ambush at the White House yesterday. From a reader on LinkedIn: How bad are things in the White House right now? The Associated Press and Reuters weren’t allowed in the Oval Office to cover the […]

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#SlavUkraini

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“Because sometimes ‘peace’ is another word for surrender.” Commander Susan Ivanova, #Babylon5, S2E22 “The Fall of Night”

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If you haven’t done it already, it’s a good time to watch #TimothySnyder’s Making of Modern Ukraine – one of the very few good lecture series on Ruś and Ukraine’s history for western audience. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8HlMe0yXHd8-qaQFAZMJ9e3RCdLhpwMY #Ukraine #NAFO #Україна […]

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Day as good as any for this. Má bhí lá maith chuige seo riamh, tá sé ann anois. Для перемоги, слава Вкраїні! #Ukraine #NAFO #Україна #НАФО

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Wszystko, co obecnie mogę zrobić jako bidny Polak z tej złości. u24.gov.ua

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Ukrainians are dying every day, and this shit show is what The White House has to offer the world. What an absolute disgrace. The world must realize Washington has fallen to the Russians. The sooner we do, the sooner we can defeat Putin. https://youtu.be/DZ56ibIel1U?si=cBRhtrtVN7xoA2o9

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Nuair atá comhghleacaí Polannach agat Tłusty czwartek – Déardaoin ramhar na Pączek

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For anyone interested, Áine Uí Fhoghlú's 2004 UCC MPhil thesis "An briathar mí-rialta i nGaeluinn na nDéise" is now publicly accessible and well worth a read! cora.ucc.ie/items/e95a65...

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Romanian authorities this morning arrested pro-Kremlin presidential candidate Călin Georgescu. Officials found $10m in cash and plane tickets to Moscow at the home of one of his bodyguards. This is the man that JD Vance and Elon Musk claim is being treated unfairly by Romanian and EU authorities.

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Question for the hive-mind: at what universities is Old Irish taught at a beginners' level?

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This inscription was crucial for me to formulate the hypothesis, around 20 years ago, that the Lepontic letter ᛞ, called 𝓈𝒶𝓃, could represent Proto-Celtic *d. More on this in this recent article: www.academia.edu/127370714/Mo...

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Físeán ina léighim “Aonar dhamhsa eidir dháoinibh”. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y7ncfRat7ptvuDGm6 Tugaidh fé ndeara go rabhas ag iarraidh fuaimniú moch clasaiceach a dh’úsáid sa bhfís seachas fuaimniú na Nua-Ghaelainne. #Gaoidhealg #FilidheachtNaSgol #ClassicalGaelic #Gáoidhealg #DanDireach […]

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> The United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Belarus and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries Monday on a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for its occupied territory to be returned that passed overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly on Monday. > > The U.S […]

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[climate change, West Atlantic russian client state policy] American scientists banned by Trump from contributing to IPCC climate change assessment reports. I guess if you don’t see a problem, there is no problem. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/21/climate/trump-blocks-scientists-ipcc […]

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