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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1m

Yep. Roaming the globe looking for somewhere you can have license to spout your white supremacist bullshit is gonna take its toll.

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 2m

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying fire bad tree pretty

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying fire bad tree pretty

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 3m

He’s not that bright.

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 3h

Because apartheid South Africa really did a fantastic job of spaffing out a functional human being with you, didn’t it? You loathsome bellend.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 3h

Every threat of death and sexual violence you can imagine.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 3h

Ditto. It’s useless as a platform unless you’re willing to give him money, qnd even then it doesn’t function like it used to. Hell will freeze over before that happens.

Patrick Middleton @leeharveyosmond.bsky.social · 4h

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 9h

Have literally just finished a substack on this for Tuesday. What constitutes a crisis, who decides, and how does it gain momentum and leave us all bereft…

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your potted introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 for starters:

achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

achurchill.substack.com

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your potted introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 for starters:

achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

achurchill.substack.com

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

And hardly sweating. Ramires is broken already lol

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t know if he currently has a club but he’s a country mile faster than anyone else out here

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Also it was not on my bingo card that Diego Costa would be the fittest bloke out there 😆 Machine. But come back in another 20 minutes.

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

The actual football can get in the bin. I’d much rather have this lot #BestDay #CFC

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Bench I think

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your ported introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

achurchill.substack.com

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

The actual football can get in the bin. I’d much rather have this lot #BestDay #CFC

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your ported introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

achurchill.substack.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 3d

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s feature is up. It’s basically akin to a chapter in a book and you get at least one a month among all the other articles for just £5. This time, it’s the story of how there came to be a French Expeditionary Force in Italy in 1944…
achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...

FULL FEATURE: How the French fought in Italy in 1944

The story of the French in Italy in 1943-44 is pivotal in their history, not only because it marked such a seismic reversal for Hitler caused by the Allies, but ‘for France, it was a testament to the ...

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s feature is up. It’s basically akin to a chapter in a book and you get at least one a month among all the other articles for just £5. This time, it’s the story of how there came to be a French Expeditionary Force in Italy in 1944…
achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...

FULL FEATURE: How the French fought in Italy in 1944

The story of the French in Italy in 1943-44 is pivotal in their history, not only because it marked such a seismic reversal for Hitler caused by the Allies, but ‘for France, it was a testament to the ...

achurchill.substack.com

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 8d

Are you exhausted by the world? Come take refuge in my weird and wonderful corner of #Bluesky - where I post medical history content that will make you happy to live in 2025!

Medieval urine wheels! Opium toothpaste! Cemetery guns! I got it all. I love sharing my passion for this niche subject.

A photo of Lindsey dressed in a blue jacket with a medieval urine wheel, holding a sign that reads: "taste the urine!"

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s feature is up on Substack. I’ve been obsessing over my Tank Memorial Book again, but this time I’ve put all of the citations in context. You get tanks, Canadians, and a bad few days for the German Army in 1918… achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...

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Peter Hart @peterhart.bsky.social · 9d

Another revisit to the men of the South Notts Hussars! They have moved to Mersa Matruh in Egypt and are facing the Italians! Please share! Thanks!
open.spotify.com/episode/0Sp3...

SPECIAL: South Notts Hussars - Egypt 1940

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 10d

Join me for a terribly filmed video of me unboxing the first proper book I've written for, Airpower and the Normandy Campaign!

Many thanks to @mike-bechthold.bsky.social for including me in the team! The book is out now in the US and on the 30th in the UK. @usni.org

📖 www.usni.org/press/books/...

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 18d

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Lastly, it wouldn’t be a WW1 event without Peter Hart, and he’s going to be telling the tale of a Welsh officer at 1st Ypres

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