RubyWombat

Forgive the Irish exit, but

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

I’m going out for a pack of smokes. Catch you between the double rainbow.

[Alex Skopic @alexskopic]

I think we all moved a little too quickly past Trump making it legal to blast animals with poison-spraying land mines

[Sabiduría Eterna @LealtadSabia]

En Nazaré, Portugal, el surfista Sebastian Steudtner cabalgó una ola de 26,2 metros, estableciendo un nuevo récord mundial de surf de olas gigantes.

¡Una hazaña increíble!

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

@WhiteHouse Pravda and Izvestia all rolled into one.

[gript @griptmedia]

An elderly ex-gardener has been fined €500 after Gardaí found “cutting” equipment in the back of his car for which he had “no good excuse”.

https://t.co/ezJBn5gFKB

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

So this aged well. Throw it on the slag heap of his other lies: no new wars, lower prices, caps on interest rates, etc….

[President Donald J. Trump @POTUS]

"To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP..." –President Donald J. Trump

[forestfromtrees @SandraB82981565]

@MeidasTouch Canada has lots of potash and it is a lot closer than Belarus.
But Trump screwed that up for the farmers who elected him.

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

€860 for less than half a tank of home heating oil for a 89 year old woman. The is 3 weeks of her total income and it wont last until Christmas. The government are taking €180 of this in tax.

[⚘️Carina @Carina_Amyth]

@atrupar Does this include "Fox news?" I doubt it...

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

@ih8evrybdy Peace is priceless. People have forgotten the horrors of war and are letting a jumped up actor lead us into WWIII.

[gript @griptmedia]

MATT TREACY: All new jobs created in the first half of year went to immigrants. Yet 135,600 young Irish people have left the state since 2022.

https://t.co/mRa9oL0WCL

[Celluloid Echoes @CelluloidEchoes]

Doris Day at her most dazzling!

“Shakin’ the Blues Away” from Love Me or Leave Me (1955), performed by Day with a male chorus in top hats and tails and choreographed by Alex Romero, transforms American singer and actress, Ruth Etting’s Ziegfeld Follies appearance into an MGM vision.
Day is radiant in a beautiful light-blue gown designed by Helen Rose.

Day had initially hesitated over playing Etting, concerned about the character’s more provocative side. Producer Joe Pasternak persuaded her that she could bring dignity to the role; and she ultimately made it her own.

Jane Russell and Ava Gardner had turned down the part, while Jane Powell was also considered, though MGM reportedly struggled to envision her as a nightclub performer in such a serious role. Day’s performance was widely expected to earn an Oscar nomination, but it didn't happen.

Yet the film gave Day a role that allowed her to prove just how extraordinary a triple threat she was: an accomplished singer, dancer and actress, all in one ravishing performance.
#LoveMeOrLeaveMe #DorisDay #RuthEtting #HollywoodMusical

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Internal emails and documents obtained by The New York Times demonstrate President Trump’s political capture of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection. https://t.co/GtwwEUkdWL

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Trump panics about widespread revulsion at his Arch, so is trying to cloak it in national security to steamroll the normal approval process and Congress.

It's even more important to stop it now, as a test case of not letting him use "national security" to do anything he wants.

[Irish🇮🇪✝️ @CapatanEl4662]

🚨🇬🇧Migrant sex offender Mansoor Ahmed doesn’t like his mugshot going online after he’s already been convicted. So he rings the police himself and spends 14 minutes threatening to stab them and throw acid in their faces. Then he cries that people are calling him a predator.

He is one. Deport him.

[CaptainKieran 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @CaptainKieran2]

I have been asked to post anonymously to help ensure that the Irish Government is held to account for its treatment of whistleblowers.

Micheál Martin’s Government—including Helen McEntee and Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan—has been made aware of the whistleblowers named below and their protected disclosures. Yet those who raise serious concerns continue to face silence, obstruction and, in some cases, alleged retaliation.

Attempts to silence RTÉ or prevent the press from reporting matters of profound public importance are the actions associated with authoritarian government, not a healthy democracy. Ireland cannot credibly lecture Slovakia or any other European country about whistleblower protection while serious concerns about its own treatment of whistleblowers remain unanswered.

This is about the public’s right to hear, read and examine the truth. The removal or suppression of important journalism concerning protected disclosures must not be allowed to stand. RTÉ must be free to report matters of legitimate public interest, and the Irish Government must be required to answer for its record.

Ireland’s whistleblowers must be heard, its press must remain free, and those responsible for wrongdoing must be held to account.

@MichealMartinTD @HMcEntee @OCallaghanJim

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

How would we react if any world leader behaved like this? The fact is there are no comparable historical examples of this level of psychotic behavior. This isn’t funny. This isn’t trolling. This is sick behavior. It’s really sick stuff. And it’s really hurting a lot of people.

[Elizabeth Williamson @NYTLiz]

https://t.co/uMoKCsCe3w

[Tokyo Scapes📷 @Tokyo_Scapes]

いつか拝みたいと思っていたヨドコウ迎賓館（1924

国内に現存するF.L.ライト設計の住宅建築はこちらのみという
なぜか築102年が経過しているとは思えなかった
そんな重要文化財が500円で拝見できることに驚き

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

Howard Hawks on working with Marilyn Monroe: “Marilyn Monroe was the most frightened little girl who had no confidence in her ability. She was afraid to come on the screen. Very strange girl. And yet she had this strange effect when she was photographed. Nobody dated her, nobody took her out, nobody paid any attention to her. She’d sit on the set with practically nothing on, and a pretty extra girl would walk by and everybody would whistle. But she got out in front of the camera, and the camera liked her, and all of a sudden she was a great sex symbol. Fortunately, I had her in a couple of the first pictures that she did “Monkey Business” (1952) and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (1953), when she wasn’t worried. And also I had Jane Russell’s help in making “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” We had a lot of fun doing the picture, but there were a lot of times when I was ready to give up the ghost. Jane Russell would say, “Look at me - all he wants you to do is such-and-such a thing.” And Marilyn would say to her, “Why didn’t you tell me?” But I had an easy time compared to some of the directors who worked with her afterward. Because after she got very important, she became more and more frightened, and she just didn’t want to come out and do a scene. She didn’t think she was good enough to do the things that she did. She was always better in fantastic material, wasn’t she? Like in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?” “

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

@yusuraume1003 She’s glorious, just radiant. Delightful to see them looking so well and happy.