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Troy Arnold
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One time diplomat. Amused by life. Interested in everything. Aim to be funny and thoughtful, often fail at both. Violin, tennis, intl relations, languages.
Dutifully, it’s not a statement by un.org as you described. Rather by reporters to a subcommittee. So has far less force.
January 9, 2026 at 6:26 AM
In the UK and Finland we care
January 4, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Luckily, not everybody, Sánchez, probably the one with better information about Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
My best friend choose this for her funeral last month. She was cremated.
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
3’18””there were practically no seats to be found anywhere as the people of Britain went gay”
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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ask and you shall receive (via Evan Rosenfeld over at the other place)
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The royals go with “how lovely to see you, thank you so much for coming today“
December 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
My 15 year old son at school in Finland is doing shadow trading as part of his civics lesson this term. They are all stock picking, learning about inflation and interest rates, mortgages and debT as part of civil, not mathematical life.
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Behind every successful man …
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Not a great way for this Englishman to start his early morning.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Over here.

Except he’s also managed to lay his hands on a trumpet. He doesn’t know the trumpet. But persistence is the key to learning as they say.

It’s also the key to being kicked out to live on the streets before his 15th birthday, a less familiar saying but witb a more certain outcome.
November 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
You misunderestimate my capricity for discomfort.
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
”Democrat candidate Cassandr warns: “This will not end well””
October 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM