Troy Arnold

@tzma.bsky.social

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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.

A screen shot of Two unrelated headlines in a news feed. The first from a website called the Beast has a picture of King Charles and a headline “Why Kate Middleton and King Charles’ simmering tensions just exploded in public”, the second from the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph reads “watch: Bloody Brawl at Royal Ascot sparks police investigation”. Royal Ascot is a horse racing venue. The click bait stories are disappointingly unlikely to show the king and his daughter in law taking lumps out of each other in the bar at the racetrack. But if only …
The front cover of TPau’s hits album. The lead singer looks lol the cat.
A screenshot of the leader page of the print edition of The Times newspaper on Saturday 17 May 2025 showing three articles: “Schoolboy error” critical of vat on private schools “Ditch the deal” arguing the Chagos Island deal is bad for Britain “Slow Train” on the end of a romantic long train journey in the UK
A tweet from the official UK Civil Service account from 21 May 2020 which simply reads “Arrogant and offensive … Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?” As with the OPs post, the object of the ire is not named but merely understood from context.
A list of the top App Store apple apps. 99 Crypto 100 Uniqlo 101 Ringo mobile car parking 102 Deliveroo 103 X
A close up of the small red berries that grow on a Christmas tree
A set of graphs without an x or y scale showing a drop in the value of the pound against the euro, yen, dollar and Canadian dollar. one pound is now worth 1.185 euros. Yesterday it was worth about 1.194 euros.
A photo of a headline in an article from The Times (UK): “EY partners take £38,000 pay cut An increase in the number of equity partners was a factor in the average distributable profit per partner falling from £761,000 to £723,000”
The moon. Taken with my phone camera pressed up against a telescope eye piece from the same night as the original poster’s image. I’m not an astronomer so have randomly jumped on a stranger’s post because I’m proud of the result.
A photo of the moon more than half way to full. If you zoom in you can see craters.
A famous photo of Donald Trump campaigning outside a garden centre called Four Seasons Total Landscaping after his team mistakenly booked it as a campaign venue rather than the nearby Four Seasons conference hall. It comes to mind because the cyber truck is parked outside a Four Seasons dry cleaners and because there’s almost no crowd.
A statue in Helsinki city centre, still covered in snow while the rest of the world gets on with Spring.
The frozen Baltic Sea in January 2024. The sun is shining low above the horizon, there is blue sky and a family walks on the snow that lies on the flat surface of the sea.
A weather forecast map of Finland showing daytime temperatures ranging from -38C “up” to -15C
The Baltic Sea, lightly rippled by the tide and reflecting the dappled blue sky, framed by evergreens on the distant horizon and the last yellow leaves of a silver birch in the foreground.