R Del
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Veering westerly. Strong coffee, salt water, heather-bedded hillside. Europe West These conversations have been edited and condensed for clarity and brevity.
Zach Bryan came out saying FREE PALESTINE in the first show at Gillette Stadium since Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft silenced Macklemore, AND he played a new, still unreleased anti-AI song and some of y’all are still sleeping on the liberatory potential of Americana
Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 2d agoZach Bryan just came on stage in Foxborough wearing a shirt that says FREE PALESTINE
October date idea Calcedonio Reina, Amore e Morte, or Two Lovers before the Desiccated Corpses of Monks in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, 1881. Oil on canvas, 119 x 149 cm, signed on bottom left- Cal(cedo)nio Reina (Catania, Museo Civico Castello Ursino) 💀❤️
Sigmar Polke - Windows for the Grossmünster Zurich, 2009 | Anna Polke Stiftung www.anna-polke-stiftung.com/en/c-assets/...
Sigmar Polke - Windows for the Grossmünster Zurich, 2009 | Anna Polke Stiftung
anna-polke-stiftung.com
“The Saudis are considering two possible options for the assault: Either a narrowly focused attack on the area around Bab el-Mandeb or a broader offensive that also includes other synchronized attacks on multiple fronts around Yemen.” What could possibly go wrong? www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Saudis plan assault on Houthis to break Red Sea chokehold
Saudi Arabia is planning an offensive against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen, with options being considered including a coastal push to secure the Red Sea shipping route or an assault on multip...
reuters.com
So the G7 were coerced by the US into releasing strategic reserves of diesel in time for the US midterm elections with the threat to set the market on doubly on fire with a US export ban, in the midst of a US-orchestrated Gulf War which is about to... blow up some more.
R Del@delexical.bsky.social · 2d agoThere is a war in Europe. The US is considering banning shipping diesel to Europe. Not a lot of mathematics to that, is there.
Cursed to have Papa Roach enter my head on a Friday evening, before bedtime, 26 years after that song came out, and I never liked or listened to it. But here I am shoutsinging: "Cut my gateaux into pieces, this my sachertorte."
Saw one at Marseille airport, please enjoy this photograph of it parked beside a passenger transfer vehicle
Patrick George@patrickgeorge.bsky.social · 2d agoIs America ready for low-speed electric runabouts like the $15,000, 25-mph Fiat Topolino? We gave one a try right here in Michigan: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
There is a war in Europe. The US is considering banning shipping diesel to Europe. Not a lot of mathematics to that, is there.
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2d agoThe European Commission: "We fully reject any ban on diesel. A ban would not be beneficial to anyone. It would undermine our trust in the United States as a reliable partner."
Oct 2026 and there's a financial press headline saying ”Gulf war pushes up borrowing costs"
The Beeb Reaper is going to try to come for 6Music again, isn't it?
Was really hoping we'd find out if the Fairford Vans were full of dildos or not by now. Pretty frustrating. Going to presume they were until further evidence emerges.
Still really struck by Frank Gardner on BBC News this morning putting Russia in the frame for an operation at Fairford. It made not a lick of sense.
"I'm noticing a lot of bombs and bombers on the bomber base next door that is used to bomb Iran and I have some concerns." Next up an Counter Terrorism police officer looking around and asking: "Is this... a legitimate target under LOAC?"
R Del@delexical.bsky.social · 6d agooh this might be about to get funnier ("funny haha" and/or "funny weird"
oh this might be about to get funnier ("funny haha" and/or "funny weird"
RAF Fairford suspects to be released on bail, head of counter-terror police says
Five UK nationals, all in their 20s and from London, were arrested near the base on Sunday morning.
bbc.com
At least one person killed by the Russian attack on Kyiv city center. This is the historical center of Kyiv. Theater of Opera and Ballet and the building of Kyiv National University are nearby. The air raid alert continues and danger for Kyiv remains.
UK authorities fairly schtum. From the way it appears to have been called in, they were caught on the hop and must be chasing all links down.
R Del@delexical.bsky.social · last wk.Preparation for an Iranian knock-off of Operation Spiderweb is probably your most likely situation. Fairford's role in the attack on Iran is pretty analogous to Olenya's in the the attack on Ukraine.
And why no fuel protestors at Doonbeg? Why indeed.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d agoDiesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?
It is true that the world can be ugly at times, but it can also be very beautiful as well, full of miraculous wonders. Try to remind yourself of this as often as you can
"All road obstruction is exactly the same I am a very smart person do not question me because I cannot understand you. I cannot distinguish between the intent of different groups blocking different roads in different contexts of different events in different places at different times."
Unsurprisingly, if not intact, predictable. What remains to be seen is the nature of the attack, whether they managed to move manpads that far, or if it was more basic VBIED or mortars.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last wk.Counter-terror police lead investigation into major incident near RAF base, officials say www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
How did that PSNI submission to the Parades Commission about the Drumcree parade get written...
I don't want to just dunk on Bryant, who is new in post, but successive UK Govts have been profoundly complacent about the stability of NI even after several summers of rioting. That the Secretary of State is only coming to NI now is jaw dropping.
