Stephen Moran
@sjmoran.com
London Irish from Dublin. 1954-2854. Published poetry, fiction and blogs. Made a living from computer programming. Banner photo: Shankill Road, October 2012. Website: StephenMoransMuseumOfIllusions.WordPress.com
Magnificent book of photos by Bill Brandt
In 1938 Bill Brandt produced a fascinating book of photographs called A Night in London. These days you’d be hard pressed to find a copy for less than £2,000 as most copies were burned in a warehouse fire. Luckily there is a copy which can be viewed online here www.gorillasites.com/BillBrandt_A...
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Magnificent book of photos by Bill Brandt
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Ukrainian drones struck the capital of the Chuvash republic of Cheboksary in Russia, which is around 1,000 km from the Ukrainian border. Target was VNIIR-Progress factory. Explosion from the factory area can be seen from multiple angles.
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Ukrainian drones struck the capital of the Chuvash republic of Cheboksary in Russia, which is around 1,000 km from the Ukrainian border. Target was VNIIR-Progress factory. Explosion from the factory area can be seen from multiple angles.
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Why does this government find it so hard to tell Israel: you’re wrong, what you’re doing is illegal, and we are not going to let you get away with genocide.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Why does this government find it so hard to tell Israel: you’re wrong, what you’re doing is illegal, and we are not going to let you get away with genocide.
I think the chorus of group-think saying "Labour is very unpopular" and "Keir Starmer is useless" or words to that effect, is blown up out of proportion to fill empty time on mass media? We know it's difficult to govern. While we can all disagree on policies, Starmer AND Badenoch too are doing OKAY.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I think the chorus of group-think saying "Labour is very unpopular" and "Keir Starmer is useless" or words to that effect, is blown up out of proportion to fill empty time on mass media? We know it's difficult to govern. While we can all disagree on policies, Starmer AND Badenoch too are doing OKAY.
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the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism
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We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse | StopNCII.org
StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technology, free from harm.
StopNCII.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
A man's thoughts are a choral symphony with a recurring theme established early on that wanders through variations but always returns to "What a fine fellow I am." Now and then the symphony is interrupted, each time with seeming finality, by a single drumbeat, of "I am no good." Then it resumes.
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A man's thoughts are a choral symphony with a recurring theme established early on that wanders through variations but always returns to "What a fine fellow I am." Now and then the symphony is interrupted, each time with seeming finality, by a single drumbeat, of "I am no good." Then it resumes.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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This is no way to live 💔
Tents are been destroyed and flooded by the heavy rainfall.
What will be their fate when winter comes in the West Bank area?
Tents are been destroyed and flooded by the heavy rainfall.
What will be their fate when winter comes in the West Bank area?
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is no way to live 💔
Tents are been destroyed and flooded by the heavy rainfall.
What will be their fate when winter comes in the West Bank area?
Tents are been destroyed and flooded by the heavy rainfall.
What will be their fate when winter comes in the West Bank area?
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We are not seeing enough about Palestine on Bluesky.
There is extreme flooding and millions of displaced & unsheltered people.
There never was a ceasefire. There was never going to be a ceasefire.
There is extreme flooding and millions of displaced & unsheltered people.
There never was a ceasefire. There was never going to be a ceasefire.
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
We are not seeing enough about Palestine on Bluesky.
There is extreme flooding and millions of displaced & unsheltered people.
There never was a ceasefire. There was never going to be a ceasefire.
There is extreme flooding and millions of displaced & unsheltered people.
There never was a ceasefire. There was never going to be a ceasefire.
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Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.
That's more than 11 violations every single day.
The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
That's more than 11 violations every single day.
The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.
That's more than 11 violations every single day.
The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
That's more than 11 violations every single day.
The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
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Reportedly an Ukrainian Neptune missile hit a factory in Taganrog, Russia, used for aircraft production.
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reportedly an Ukrainian Neptune missile hit a factory in Taganrog, Russia, used for aircraft production.
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Are you kidding me? What are we doing?
www.facebook.com/share/p/179i...
91 woman arrested for trying to steal medication that cost her $50 went up to $950 that her 88 year old husband urgently needed. Thanks maga for your agenda of killing seniors citizens.
91 woman arrested for trying to steal medication that cost her $50 went up to $950 that her 88 year old husband urgently needed. Thanks maga for your agenda of killing seniors citizens.
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Are you kidding me? What are we doing?
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Powerful exhibition of work by Ishiuchi Miyako on the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings. There is so much life in these preserved textiles ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Powerful exhibition of work by Ishiuchi Miyako on the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings. There is so much life in these preserved textiles ❤️
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Just heard the news that Jimmy Cliff has died
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
RON SINGS "SITTING IN LIMBO" BY JIMMY CLIFF
YouTube video by Rawnboy
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just heard the news that Jimmy Cliff has died
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
Donald Trump spent *all night* reposting insane Q-Anon posts about annihilation of Democrats etc. As Ben Meidas says, he should be committed to a mental hospital. He doesn't know what "percent" means. He doesn't know how tariffs work. He shills for Putin in Ukraine. People are dying. #25thAmendment
Trump CAN’T SLEEP and has LATE NIGHT BREAKDOWN
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Donald Trump spent *all night* reposting insane Q-Anon posts about annihilation of Democrats etc. As Ben Meidas says, he should be committed to a mental hospital. He doesn't know what "percent" means. He doesn't know how tariffs work. He shills for Putin in Ukraine. People are dying. #25thAmendment
Someone should make a film using split screen and running totals to compare a day of people who award themselves millions with those who have every drop of blood squeezed out of them, their health exhausted doing essential work. One side: feet on desk, gabbling: Other: torment, sweat & loving care.
SHOCKING: In the first two days of 2025, the CEO of Shell earned more than an average nurse earns in a year.
One saves lives. The other destroys lives.
Anyone else think this is just wrong?
One saves lives. The other destroys lives.
Anyone else think this is just wrong?
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Someone should make a film using split screen and running totals to compare a day of people who award themselves millions with those who have every drop of blood squeezed out of them, their health exhausted doing essential work. One side: feet on desk, gabbling: Other: torment, sweat & loving care.
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I spent hours yesterday at the tent encampment behind the Adelphi in London and as a result have sent this open letter with a plea for a meaningful intervention to
Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk
Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
@paulabarkermp.bsky.social and Bob Blackman
Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk
Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
@paulabarkermp.bsky.social and Bob Blackman
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I spent hours yesterday at the tent encampment behind the Adelphi in London and as a result have sent this open letter with a plea for a meaningful intervention to
Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk
Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
@paulabarkermp.bsky.social and Bob Blackman
Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk
Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
@paulabarkermp.bsky.social and Bob Blackman
I put a tune to Yeats' poem "The O'Rahilly". Did I mention this before? There's a post about it with guitar chords etc on my blog. But here is my YouTube video direct of the demo. I since found another tune put to the poem, sung by Niamh Dunne on Spotify but it excludes "How goes the weather?" #demo
A Tune for The O'Rahilly + guitar chords
YouTube video by WillesdenHerald
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I put a tune to Yeats' poem "The O'Rahilly". Did I mention this before? There's a post about it with guitar chords etc on my blog. But here is my YouTube video direct of the demo. I since found another tune put to the poem, sung by Niamh Dunne on Spotify but it excludes "How goes the weather?" #demo
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I’ve been looking back at my old Russian newspaper reviews. They highlight how much Russia has changed - and signs of what lay ahead. #ReadingRussia
What the Russian papers used to write about: re-watching my old paper reviews.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I’ve been looking back at my old Russian newspaper reviews. They highlight how much Russia has changed - and signs of what lay ahead. #ReadingRussia
Here's another peace plan: Russia get back inside your own borders and mind your own business.
I can see at least three independent fires raging in the Shatura power plant in the Moscow region. Especially the last explosion in this footage shows a direct hit, causing a huge fireball. I assume that the local natural gas storage was hit.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Here's another peace plan: Russia get back inside your own borders and mind your own business.
This gets better as it goes along. Genial commentary too. I will replay, probably several times. youtu.be/gHL5ApOqMQc?... Robert Plant Tiny Desk Concert #NPR #NowPlaying
Robert Plant: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This gets better as it goes along. Genial commentary too. I will replay, probably several times. youtu.be/gHL5ApOqMQc?... Robert Plant Tiny Desk Concert #NPR #NowPlaying
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We need solutions, not scapegoats.
Stop attacking asylum seekers and tax the rich instead!
Stop attacking asylum seekers and tax the rich instead!
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
We need solutions, not scapegoats.
Stop attacking asylum seekers and tax the rich instead!
Stop attacking asylum seekers and tax the rich instead!
This is a fascinating life story and interesting music choices. Discussion about the meaning of freedom along the way.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m0ny #Albania #LeaYpi
Private Passions - Lea Ypi - BBC Sounds
Michael Berkeley's guest is the writer and professor of political theory at LSE, Lea Ypi.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM