John Horan

In 1994, Ukraine surrendered the world's 3rd-largest nuclear arsenal under the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security assurances. Today, it suffers from the Russian aggression despite the assurances provided by the signatories.

Kremlin-affiliated outlets continue framing EU member states as warmongers unwilling to end the war. In reality, Russia rejected seven peace proposals last year alone, while Europe’s increased defence spending is a response to the growing Russian threat.

Please share the information about Oleshky everywhere you can! ​Russia is starving residents of the town and nearby villages by denying food supplies and evacuation. People in Oleshky need help, or else they won't survive the winter!

New, from me: Everything seems awful, but Co. Kerry, Ireland is great. A photo essay on what to do if you visit (especially for Killarney and Dingle). Replies are open, so please add your own suggestions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on

One of the (many) interesting details in Belfast's excellent Titanic Museum is the explanation that the reason people came to do ship building there is that those were good middle class jobs!

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"Verify your age" I first used the Internet in an internet cafe, paying roughly IR£1 for 30 minutes.

I'm 39. All financial news looks like this:

That Belgian FA statement, with alt. The can of worms FIFA have just poured over themselves is huge. This has spooked all the European FAs. Their whole deal with FIFA has ALWAYS been that you don't let the leopard bite their faces. They just chomped on Belgium's nose www.rbfa.be/en/news/upda...

My view that no-one asked for: 1. Shitty red cards are part of the game. Infuriating and can change tournaments but... that's life 2. Football is corrupt, mostly in institutional sense: money, governance. Duh. 3. Pres calling up FIFA is a bit different: state power to tilt a sporting process

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Begun the #memeswars have. First image is a still from a video...the rest is the internet being the internet. #MoscowIsBurning

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[turning on a world cup match] oh wow, cape verde, i wonder where that is [55 minutes later] if cape verde wins it will be the greatest day of my life

Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.

Personally, I don’t think you should be able to call yourself a trillionaire unless you could, today, go and buy one trillion Arizona Iced Teas. If you have to “liquidate stock” or whatever, then, imho, you’re not a trillionaire. *pls i am trying to bait elon musk into buying a trillion ice teas.

"Racist pogroms are bad but..."

It's time to shut the loophole that feeds Irish raw materials from Limerick to Russia’s military industry. It's time for effective EU sanctions. Photo: Alan Betson/The Irish Times europeangreens.eu/news/eu-loop...

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

so @stephenkb.bsky.social wins the early morning Internet because he knows how to write a subject line for his newsletter. I laughed out loud.

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

As someone who loses a few socks now and again, this is a life hack

The Catcher in the Wheat

My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever

Every Irish pop culture podcast/person that I listen to or follow has talked about the fuel protests and spouted the “cut the revenue on fuel and that’s the issue fixed” talking point over the last few weeks. I’m not sure how you counter this level of poor understanding of the basics to be honest

this doesn't feel ideal, as a development www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

it'll be back in three days

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

While Zelensky has visited Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar & Jordan & concluded substantial 10-year defense agreements, the US has sent no senior official to these purported allies during one month of its unannounced war on Iran. No other administration would be that negligent.

It’s important to start daylight saving while you’re young, because it leverages the power of compound interest, allowing small, consistent amounts to grow significantly over time.

This is absolutely fine for the Prime Minister of a G7 nation trying to juggle several, era-defining geopolitical crises at once. No, the PM should not travel economy on commercial airlines just because it's cheaper. Leave idiotic, baited responses to yourself.

Oh my God. What an absolute fiasco

“We think that we should be in the thick of a war that helps the Russian economy” - a really important call that you absolutely should not be willing to sacrifice to the polls. You just shouldn’t hold it because it is absolutely crackers.

I need the most Glasgow sign you've got #Iran No that's too Glasgow

Anyway the one thing I can say unambiguously is that Khamenei was one of the most evil men alive and he unquestionably deserved to die, and I hope the families of his many, many victims are able to take some satisfaction from that at least.

Yeah I can see Allister writing sometime with this as the headline