Frederick Ian Armour💙

Semi-retired railwayman who is fascinated by ancient/archaic/classical Greek literature.

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.'

David Hockney

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with.
Prison is where they belong.
Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Those idiots deserve what they got, but my greater contempt is reserved for the propaganda agents like Polanski, Owen Jones, Mehdi Hassan and all the others who pushed the Gaza genocide hoax for clicks and conned these people into throwing their futures away.

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“Lawrence Durrell published in one of his novels a poem by Cavafy, and I’d found Cavafy in the Bradford Library. It wasn’t on the shelf, because they didn’t want people reading these poems… so I got it out. And actually, I never took it back.”

– David Hockney (1937-2026)

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Name a book you'd love to read, if chronology didn't make that impossible. I'll start:

Plato, Mis-anthropikos (a dialogue exposing the artificial intelligence of AI)
Alexander, Napoleon: Born to Fail
Tacitus, The Court of Stalin
Sophocles, The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare

[Frederick Ian Armour💙 @FrederickArmour]

@AntigoneJournal Pindar, Difficulty in the Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

“Nobody keeps me informed,” said Eeyore. I make it 17 days come Friday since anybody spoke to me.”
“I was here myself a week ago,” said Rabbit.
“Not conversing. You said ‘Hallo’ and Flashed Past. I saw your tail as I was mediating my reply.” ~A.A.Milne

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Russia has sent their Kremlin state TV host Chay Bowes from RT to Ireland to defend their refinery. It shows they are genuinely worried about it getting sanctioned.

On the plus side all the signs are in russian so it was easy for them to find the place to make their propaganda

[Eamonn Canniffe @eamonncanniffe]

So farewell then David Hockney … always inspiring #davidhockney

[Philippe Roi @7559pr]

« Les Paradis artificiels » est l’œuvre de Charles Baudelaire. Haschisch et opium dissolvent le moi dans l’abîme enivré ; L’auteur transmue souffrance en extase, extase en lucidité cruelle : ces paradis sont l’enfer contemplé de l’intérieur. Texte lu par Jean-Louis Trintignant.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Lol

“Patriot”

[Morgan Bizet @MoBizet]

Adieu au maître 💐🏊🌕

[Mark Williamson @markrwilliamson]

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden…I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.”

RIP David Hockney

[Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk]

Sorry to hear of the death of the artist David Hockney. His self-portrait, aged 17 in 1954, hangs in the David Hockney Gallery at Cartwright Hall, Bradford, one of Yorkshire's less-well known galleries, but a gem.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Irish parliament have now started demanding samples from Aughinish are forensically analysed against missile fragments. This is a huge step closer to linking the russian refinery to the Kremlins military complex.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Rest in peace, David Hockney…

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Loyal to the end. To Putin.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Shocked to hear David Hockney has died. His huge achievement was to make serious painting look effortless. He carried forward one of the most sustained investigations into vision, space and representation by any post-war artist. British art has lost a giant.

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Even if you are a dog person you can’t fail to see how charming this one is
Kaoru Yamada.
In her quest to make everyone happy and content.
She produces fine work
‘Whisper to the Moon ‘
Thanks my XTwitterarty
Back tomorrow with more
Missing Hockney already
Helen🙂🌷Max🐶❤️

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Unelectable. Reform: weak on Trump, weak on Russia, weak on inexplicable £5 million personal donations.