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Tom Byrne

@TomByr

History, scribbling, chocolate brownies, coffee, occasional rants.......also now at: [email protected]

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Joined April 2009
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I'm over on Bluesky now at: [email protected] bsky.app/profile/tombyr.bsky…
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Goodnight all
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A room without books is like a body without a soul. ✍️ Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC - assassinated 7 December 43 BC) 🖼️Sun in an Empty Room, 1963 : Edward Hopper .
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Not a bad sunset at all at all. #Ireland #Kildare
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The view from our room 😊 – at Altea, Spain
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Edward Luce
@EdwardGLuceOct 27
“Every unhappy nation is unique. But the mood overlap between countries such as Hungary and Serbia, both of which have recently thrown out rightwing populists in corruption-dominated elections, and today’s America is striking.” My column. as.ft.com/r/cf358c73-aa55-40…
US voters and Trump’s overflowing swamp

US voters and Trump’s overflowing swamp

America’s affordability crisis and corruption are now treated as two sides of the same coin

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ok autumn I forgive you
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Is this the greatest ever opening line to a last chapter? Here is 'Reader - I married him' in Charlotte Bronte's own handwriting. Charlotte received her author copies of her first published book #otd 1847. Happy Jane Eyre day!
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Ballinastoe Woods, Co. Wicklow 💜 #Wicklow #Ireland #photography
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Wordle 1,949 3/6 I did! 😃 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 1,948 2/6 I didn't, yay! 🤣 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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A blue and gold day. #Scotland
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Urlofcork@urlofcorkOct 16
Meanwhile in Courtmacsherry....not much happening, other than gorgeous scenery and crying gulls...a stunning morning
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Narrow Lanes. 13°C and a Northwesterly breeze. Sparrows in the hedgerow.
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Essenviews
@essenviewsOct 15
Lesson
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Calm night in Dublin 💙 #Ireland #photography
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Timing is everything. Not as well received as it might have been, due to US fears of antagonising the Third Reich.
Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) profile pictureProf. Frank McDonough@FXMC1957Oct 15
15 October 1940. Charlie Chaplin's film, The Great Dictator, had its premiere in New York City. Chaplin played 2 roles in the film: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber. The film featured a moving monologue against totalitarianism.
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Whatever your view of the strike, or politics, has to be said it's great to see that a former president (also former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and more recently, member of The Elders) can and will just wander up to a picket and give over chocolates.
lilycogan (@lilycogan) profile picturelilycogan@lilycoganOct 14
Mná na hÉireann!💚 Happy to support my @RoyalDonnybrook colleagues (mostly women) who deliver the services we ALL depend on today #Strike Mary Robinson herself called by with chocolate!🍫🩷
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Edward Luce
@EdwardGLuceOct 15
"Asked to explain the Putin relationship, Zelenskyy said Trump had an instinctive affinity for autocrats and the super-wealthy. “He [Trump] speaks about it openly and loudly that he loves such people and he respects such people." Zelenskyy comes out swinging. ft.com/content/4d79b52f-1f0d…
Zelenskyy defies Trump as Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian refineries

Zelenskyy defies Trump as Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian refineries

Ukrainian president expresses anger in FT interview at ‘dangerous’ withdrawal of US intelligence sharing

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Sean Scanlon@sscanlon07Oct 15
Autumn colours #Autumn #trees #river #mountushergardens #Wicklow #Ireland
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Wordle 1,944 4/6 I'm not sure if this result means I am or I amn't! 🤣🤣🤣 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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