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Brett Holman

@airminded.org

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Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · Nov 10

Hi! I’m a historian of early 20th century Britain and Australia. I study the cultural and emotional history of aviation, interested in what people thought and felt about aircraft as much, or even more than, what aircraft actually did. My first book was on the fear of bombing in Britain

The Next War in the Air

Brett Holman. The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941 is my first book...

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1h

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1h

War, is indiscriminate. (#OTD in 1940. A member from the ARP (Air Raid Precautions) carrying a dead baby in wrapped in a cloth. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 5h

I did not realise that arms manufacturers sponsored the National Press Club until this story came out but jfc how compromised can you be

Donna Benenson @donnabenenson.bsky.social · 6h

"...the NPC’s list of sponsors reveals the problem. Among them are no less than ten firms with links to the arms industry that is profiting from Israel’s destruction of Gaza, including four of the very largest defence manufacturers in the world – BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Thales."

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 6h

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 1h

Its cute that he asked

Christina(Tina) Hendriks @renissance1.bsky.social · 1h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

InfoWars' Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to block $1.4bn defamation ruling

He petitioned the court to put the judgment on pause and consider his appeal as he works to keep Infowars from being sold to The Onion.

www.bbc.com

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 1h

Tabitha Stanmore, Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic #FridayReads

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2h

STFU

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 5h

With 2 months until the teen social media bans kicks in, teens are already inventing — and sharing — ways to get around the ban.

They're making TikToks teaching each other to how to say their accounts are run by their parents, or to find alternative platforms
www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 16h

On October 11, 1918, Canadian official war photographer William Rider-Rider sent a telegram to the Canadian War Records Office in London. In it, he stated that he had just handed his negatives to the censor of photographs taken in the burning town of Cambrai.

Canadians entering Cambrai, October 9, 1918, William Rider-Rider, LAC MIKAN
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Lisa Constanti - Chronicology @chronicology.bsky.social · 1h

The British Newspaper Archives in partnership with @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @findmypast.bsky.social recently added Jackie to its' library, a weekly teens mag that ran from 1964 to 1993. This includes the popular Cathy and Claire' pages, an agony aunt page offering some questionable advice!

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 1h

I see America is now at the “dissident professors fleeing the regime” stage

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 3h

"the difference in the quality of course discussion where 70 percent of the students have done 50 percent of the readings and one in which 20 percent have done 10 percent of the readings is obvious in the same way that a cold Coke tastes different than lukewarm spit"

dear GOD this is so true

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 3h

Look if he gets a Nobel because he bullied his way into getting one, then every living Nobel Laureate should hand theirs back because it will, put simply, taint any value of such an award.

He is the last person who should be recognised for any form of positive achievement on the planet.

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 3h

"lool"

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M. Jack O'Lantern @caspia.rocks · 3h

Wait wait wait!

This guy was UPSET there were TOO MANY internal enquiries in the Defence Department about war crimes, so he leaked the reports to journalists, expecting they'd agree and say how terrible it was our poor soldiers were even vaguely accountable???

Evil AND a fool!

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 6h

The former military lawyer was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail after sharing classified material with journalists in a case that has raised debate about whistleblower laws.

David McBride loses last-ditch effort to overturn conviction

The former military lawyer was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail after sharing classified material with journalists in a case that has raised debate about whistleblower laws.

www.abc.net.au

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 3h

do not obey in advance

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”