DjDelany 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇲🇰🇺🇦

Me Myself I Darragh Diverse Interests, Easily Distracted All opinions are mine and mine only, no guilt by association.

[Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili]

Is the flow of time just an illusion?
I'll be exploring lots of questions like this on my new YouTube channel (@UnbaffledScience). The first video comes out this Friday, make sure you subscribe here:
https://t.co/TqkHjCUu3B

[StopShouting @AgateBeachPlus]

@United24media @netflix No issue with the content but Netflix doing business with a company that only months ago moved their HQ from Russia to sanctions-free Cyprus seems suspicious. All the production work still in Moscow. What is Netflix doing?

[B. B. Wood 🇺🇸 @beebeewood]

@United24media @netflix @Netflix needs to reconsider the program, Masha and the Bear, aimed at children and produced by Russia, a terrorist state. I have been with Netflix since the beginning in the 1990s. Show some moral courage and back away from this terrible deal.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Belarus has ceded to Ukraines threats and has cut off all radio and service provider systems which were being used by Russia to guide drones into Northern Ukraine.

Wow...

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

🤬 Almost 500,000 russian tourists were allowed into Europe in 2025.

While Ukrainians were dying, war criminals and sponsors of terror were vacationing.

Tourism is a privilege - not a right! Stop issuing tourist visas to russians!

#BanRussianTourists

[Rainer Ragnar @RagnarRain46088]

@Mylovanov @Kasparov63

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇬🇧 The Long Game, or How Russians Suddenly Realized They're Being Systematically Reduced to Zero

A remarkably sober — and therefore deeply alarming — realization is beginning to dawn in the swamps. Russian analysts have suddenly opened their eyes and understood that the current fuel crisis in Crimea, the airport shutdowns in Sochi, and the holes in Russia's air defenses are not "random strikes" or a "seasonal escalation."

They are the culmination of a long-term, cold-blooded strategy — one that bears all the hallmarks of a distinctly British style of planning. 🕵️‍♂️

While the Kremlin was thinking in terms of "taking Bakhmut in ten months" and drawing arrows on maps, Ukraine and its allies were playing a classic game of attrition and interdiction.

Step by step, patiently and methodically, Russia was being pushed into a logistical dead end:

Stage 1: Clearing the Sea

First came Snake Island. Then the opening of the maritime corridor. Then the systematic pushing of Russia's Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea and into Novorossiysk.

The fortress was left without naval cover.

Stage 2: Dismantling the Umbrella (the part Russians prefer not to discuss)

At the same time, Ukrainian forces effectively neutralized Russian aviation at Crimean airfields and systematically destroyed S-400 air defense units.

Whether the occupiers failed to notice or simply refuse to admit it, Crimea was transformed from an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" into a hollow, perforated corridor through which Ukrainian missiles and drones can now pass freely on their way deeper into Russia itself.

Stage 3: Drying Up the Fuel Supply

Instead of random strikes, a steady weekly campaign began against Russian oil refineries and fuel depots.

When you systematically target the same category of infrastructure for months, shortages become not a possibility, but a mathematical certainty.

Stage 4: The Land Corridor Trap

When the Kerch Bridge became increasingly incapable of handling heavy military traffic, the occupiers triumphantly declared:

"We built a railway through Mariupol — we're safe now!"

But it turned out to be a trap.

They had simply concentrated nearly all of their military logistics onto a single narrow route — one that can now be targeted along much of its length.

And now the results are visible:

Fuel depots are burning.

Airports are closing.

The "Crimean authorities" are opening hotlines to ration gasoline to tourists — strictly by passport, and only for a one-way trip toward the bridge. 🎪🚗

SO:

While they comfort themselves with stories about the "treacherous West" and wait for some new negotiator to save them, the noose around southern Russia's logistics network continues to tighten.

A patient, systematic, long-term operation.

The main thing now is having enough fuel left in the tank to reach Kerch.

To leave.

And never come back.

I suppose that would be Stage 5.

Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine! 🇺🇦

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Heikki Hyttinen @Terraformer100]

@CaolanReports

[Frank @Frank_blnpe]

@ChuckPfarrer

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

This tragedy is all caused by Trump's support for Russia

[DjDelany 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇲🇰🇺🇦 @DjDelany]

Now this is a good news day!

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a lightning-fast operation — 300 enemy troops taken out with a single drone!

This was precision work that must have left the Russians in absolute shock.

A Ukrainian explosive-laden drone struck an FSB headquarters with perfect accuracy at the exact moment a major meeting was taking place inside. The explosion was so powerful that the headquarters was literally blown into thousands of pieces. A chain reaction followed — vehicles, ammunition, and storage facilities erupted in flames.

More than 300 representatives of Russian special services were reportedly eliminated in the Kherson region.

With one precise drone strike, an entire FSB headquarters — including high-ranking officers — was wiped out.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

😬 Zelensky mocked Lukashenka during his meeting with Tsikhanouskaya in Kyiv

The Ukrainian president recalled Lukashenka’s recent remarks saying that the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus “should finally meet.”

“Funny how it turned out: Lukashenka said it, but Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya showed up. Glad to see you, Svetlana,” Zelensky joked.

[John O’Brennan @JohnOBrennan2]

Anybody who has made the argument for talking to Putin since 2022: these increasingly barbaric attacks on civilian targets should give you pause for thought. It won’t but it should.

[Barry Andrews MEP @BarryAndrewsMEP]

Triple Lock = Triple Straitjacket 🇮🇪

[Department of Defence @IRLDeptDefence]

Minister @HMcEntee regrets Non-Renewal of UNSC Mandate for EU Mediterranean Naval Mission.

Read more below.
https://t.co/wbBdRFQclf

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Russian methodology for deporting Ukrainian children.

Russia has a special methodology for kidnapping children from Ukraine. According to Falcon Flight organization, children are told that their parents have abandoned them, russians split them up with friends every two months and say that they will never return home.

"All the children we have managed to return talk about what they were told about their families. They all had the same period of time - exactly 4 weeks later, they would start talking about how your parents left you, you would not return home. It was a methodology, everything was written there, the deadlines, that you had to talk to a child alone, that you had to separate them every 2 months so that they would not have a sense of unity, so that they would not unite. This is the most widespread scenario of child abduction today."

“Children are subjected to the same filtration procedure as adults. They are forced to undress during the inspection, forced to give away personal belongings and phones, and are not allowed to answer any questions.”

"Where is my mom? Where did you take her?" A child who gets to a filtration event is instantly deprived of dignity. They try to break him or her right away."

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Eyal Waldman hired 20 engineers in Gaza, donated $360K to a Gaza hospital, and spent years building partnerships toward between Israeli and Palestinians.

Pro-Palestinian protesters screamed “murderer” at him in Venice this week. His daughter was killed at Nova on October 7.