Kenny
@kennyekn.bsky.social
Getting old painfully. Tech/IT Dog friend Books(esp SFF) Garden/Allotment. Walks.
Enniskillen heart & soul, Gtr Belfast life.
Curious about the world.
Enniskillen heart & soul, Gtr Belfast life.
Curious about the world.
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I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
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Norway’s Kongsberg and Germany’s Helsing are teaming up to provide Europe with a sovereign satellite constellation for space-based intelligence, surveillance and targeting by the end of the decade, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
Kongsberg, Helsing team up for European satellite-intel constellation
Norway’s Kongsberg and Germany’s Helsing are teaming up to provide Europe with a sovereign satellite constellation for space-based intelligence, surveillance and targeting by the end of the decade, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
www.defensenews.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Norway’s Kongsberg and Germany’s Helsing are teaming up to provide Europe with a sovereign satellite constellation for space-based intelligence, surveillance and targeting by the end of the decade, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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1.5 years in prison
"The judge said he did not consider the attack a terrorist offence."
"The judge said he did not consider the attack a terrorist offence."
December 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
1.5 years in prison
"The judge said he did not consider the attack a terrorist offence."
"The judge said he did not consider the attack a terrorist offence."
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Super informative, as Arthur’s pods generally are. Very much worth your time today.
🚨🚨New episode 🚨🚨
Trump’s National Security Strategy: Make Europe Whiter Again? With Jonathan Terra
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Trump’s National Security Strategy: Make Europe Whiter Again? With Jonathan Terra
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
America First: A New Era in Foreign Policy with Jonathan Terra
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 09/12/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Super informative, as Arthur’s pods generally are. Very much worth your time today.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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This. Collusion isn’t just a binder of “intelligence and weapons for loyalists to kill catholics” it’s sitting back, watching it happen, and deliberately doing nothing - meaning it can keep happening. They can cling to a narrow definition because they know no government on these islands give a damn
It seems to me the evidence of state collusion here and elsewhere is in what the state didn’t do, and hasn’t don’t yet. The killing is one thing, the responsibility to investigate and prosecute another. Delay is active guilt. So was turning a blind eye for two miles in the Armagh countryside.
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This. Collusion isn’t just a binder of “intelligence and weapons for loyalists to kill catholics” it’s sitting back, watching it happen, and deliberately doing nothing - meaning it can keep happening. They can cling to a narrow definition because they know no government on these islands give a damn
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I would recommend anyone read the Kenova Report published today, especially ps 123-4 in context of the headlines stating there is no evidence of collusion between the British state and loyalist paramilitaries.
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I would recommend anyone read the Kenova Report published today, especially ps 123-4 in context of the headlines stating there is no evidence of collusion between the British state and loyalist paramilitaries.
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
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Getting Into Bed On A December Night
Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Getting Into Bed On A December Night
Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass
Watching Utd is such a nail biting experience, even when winning by a single goal to an abysmal bottom of league club.
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Watching Utd is such a nail biting experience, even when winning by a single goal to an abysmal bottom of league club.
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🇺🇸 attempts to force 🇺🇦 surrender are currently 0 from 3. Europe is winning, even if it doesn't realise.
Trump's national security strategy exposes weakness. Its attitude to Europe is like the obsessive ex stalking the former partner, wondering who that new guy is.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
Trump's national security strategy exposes weakness. Its attitude to Europe is like the obsessive ex stalking the former partner, wondering who that new guy is.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
America's Weakness, Europe's Strength
The 'new' national security strategy is the admission of defeat from a declining country
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🇺🇸 attempts to force 🇺🇦 surrender are currently 0 from 3. Europe is winning, even if it doesn't realise.
Trump's national security strategy exposes weakness. Its attitude to Europe is like the obsessive ex stalking the former partner, wondering who that new guy is.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
Trump's national security strategy exposes weakness. Its attitude to Europe is like the obsessive ex stalking the former partner, wondering who that new guy is.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
Dug up earlier today, a good haul of Cara spuds. Still loads left in the ground.
December 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Dug up earlier today, a good haul of Cara spuds. Still loads left in the ground.
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Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you
The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you
The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
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This is ART. Someone give the #LateLateToyShow producers a raise.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is ART. Someone give the #LateLateToyShow producers a raise.
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Why did someone allow this small mullet child to smoke 80 a day for the past 40 years?
#LateLateToyShow
#LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Why did someone allow this small mullet child to smoke 80 a day for the past 40 years?
#LateLateToyShow
#LateLateToyShow
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Keelan. Dylan. The amount of supposed adults I know that could learn so much from those two young lads about what it means to hold true empathy and compassion
#LateLateToyShow
#LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Keelan. Dylan. The amount of supposed adults I know that could learn so much from those two young lads about what it means to hold true empathy and compassion
#LateLateToyShow
#LateLateToyShow
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Lovely to see my latest novel Once A Year appear in Anne Cunningham's Meath Chronicle column as
"A beautiful novel about imperfect families and the struggles we all face during winds of change"
And thanks to fellow-author Cauvery Madhavan, who alerted me to it!
"A beautiful novel about imperfect families and the struggles we all face during winds of change"
And thanks to fellow-author Cauvery Madhavan, who alerted me to it!
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Lovely to see my latest novel Once A Year appear in Anne Cunningham's Meath Chronicle column as
"A beautiful novel about imperfect families and the struggles we all face during winds of change"
And thanks to fellow-author Cauvery Madhavan, who alerted me to it!
"A beautiful novel about imperfect families and the struggles we all face during winds of change"
And thanks to fellow-author Cauvery Madhavan, who alerted me to it!
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The Old Library in Trinity College, Dublin, is one of the most beautiful & greatest in the world. I was lucky enough to be able to research there during my PhD. It’s undergoing a massive restoration. Trinity is an Irish copyright library & founded in 1592.
Go Behind the Scenes at an Iconic Irish Library as Staff Move 700,000 Historical Treasures Into Storage
Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library will close for restoration and construction in 2027. What does that mean for the medieval manuscripts and books housed there?
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Old Library in Trinity College, Dublin, is one of the most beautiful & greatest in the world. I was lucky enough to be able to research there during my PhD. It’s undergoing a massive restoration. Trinity is an Irish copyright library & founded in 1592.
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
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Great podcast explaining to Americans how “balcony solar” took off in Europe, with millions in Germany 🇩🇪 alone now harvesting solar power with these panels that you just take home and plug in, and they pay back their price within a few years.
Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
What's the deal with balcony solar?
Cora Stryker joins me to explain how "plug-in" solar took Europe by storm and is finally, via Utah (?), making its way to America.
www.volts.wtf
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Great podcast explaining to Americans how “balcony solar” took off in Europe, with millions in Germany 🇩🇪 alone now harvesting solar power with these panels that you just take home and plug in, and they pay back their price within a few years.
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Flegs on lampposts, non-jury trials, photo ID to vote. I have to admit, part of me is enjoying the Northern-Irelandification of England.
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Flegs on lampposts, non-jury trials, photo ID to vote. I have to admit, part of me is enjoying the Northern-Irelandification of England.
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For UK Audible users there are some monthly deals on my books: Service Model, Children of Memory and Doors of Eden are all £3.99 for December.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
For UK Audible users there are some monthly deals on my books: Service Model, Children of Memory and Doors of Eden are all £3.99 for December.
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Mornin’
Check out this fine Bullfinch breakfasting on blackberry seeds here at #WorldBeeSanctuary today!
A very obvious take away:
the importance of leaving #hedgerows and #nature be. Stop tidying nature.
Stop decimating hedgerows.
Wild creatures need wild spaces all year round.
Simple!
#birds
Check out this fine Bullfinch breakfasting on blackberry seeds here at #WorldBeeSanctuary today!
A very obvious take away:
the importance of leaving #hedgerows and #nature be. Stop tidying nature.
Stop decimating hedgerows.
Wild creatures need wild spaces all year round.
Simple!
#birds
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mornin’
Check out this fine Bullfinch breakfasting on blackberry seeds here at #WorldBeeSanctuary today!
A very obvious take away:
the importance of leaving #hedgerows and #nature be. Stop tidying nature.
Stop decimating hedgerows.
Wild creatures need wild spaces all year round.
Simple!
#birds
Check out this fine Bullfinch breakfasting on blackberry seeds here at #WorldBeeSanctuary today!
A very obvious take away:
the importance of leaving #hedgerows and #nature be. Stop tidying nature.
Stop decimating hedgerows.
Wild creatures need wild spaces all year round.
Simple!
#birds
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Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart
An honest debate is needed on this polarising topic as sectors such as social care struggle with recruitment
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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First time I've heard these played together ... amazing and as others have said, utterly transporting.
For me, Ancient Music Ireland playing the Loughnashade horns were the highlight of my night.
Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
First time I've heard these played together ... amazing and as others have said, utterly transporting.
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Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."