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Brian [email protected]‬

@briandunn.bsky.social

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Semi-retired, but still kicking. MA/History. Lifelong Californian. Lifelong Democrat. Naval and Maritime History aficionado. Servant to two cats. Reasonably articulate, but becoming more acerbic as time goes on.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · Oct 15

Still valid.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1h

DeSantis is apt to be buried underneath a rainbow crosswalk one day.
That way no one will pee on his grave.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1h

It worked for the Habsburgs in Spain. Until it didn't.

King Charles II of Spain. Inbred Nepo Baby.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1h

You are assuming that he'll survive to face a trial.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1h

Carpet bomb that hill.
Then napalm.
Then send in arial drones to check for survivors.
Lather, rinse, repeat.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1h

But he still avoids going near windows, I'll betcha.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1h

J. Walter Christie saw this picture and peed himself from laughing so hard.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1h

You gotta go before you can come back.
No deposit, no return.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 15h

If black and white cats are Tuxedo Cats, are gray and white cats Ascot Cats?

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 16h

Still not Portland.

The Dead City from "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" (1973).

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 16h

And lo! the Wind shall rise!

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 17h

This victory followed the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore (of which the French and Batavians apparently never knew) and restored confidence in the Royal Navy that its men would fight.
(3/3)

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 17h

Among Duncan's captains was William Bligh, of the Bounty mutiny fame. At Camperdown he commanded the 64 gun ship Director and captured the Batavian flagship Vrijheid for which he received the Navy Gold Medal, one of seventeen given to officers for the battle. (2/3)

William Bligh in an 1814 painting by Alexander Huey. He wears his Navy Gold Medal, won at Camperdown.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 18h

On this day in 1797 a British fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Adam Duncan defeated a Batavian fleet off the Dutch coast at Camperdown (Kamperduin). Nine Batavian ships of the line and two frigates were captured. (1/3)🧵

Admiral Adam Duncan, commander of the British Fleet at Camperdown, enobled as Viscount Duncan. Painting by John Hoeppner.

Battle of Camperdown by Thomas Whitcombe.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 18h

Apparently there were conditions after all.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-...

US accepts 'unconditional donation' of Qatari jet, cost of retrofitting is classified: Sources

The Pentagon has accepted the “unconditional donation” of a luxury jet from Qatar, according to an agreement reviewed by ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 19h

The nice thing about this is that should his body be found somewhere in a dumpster, the family will be looked at first for suspects.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 20h

After Trump falls, they'll show him the door in like, 45 seconds.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

They must have some pretty good drugs on that side of the street!

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

If he can't do specificity in a demand letter, how can we expect it of him as a Special Counsel?

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

There will, however, be a brief moment of levity at the end of the Miller regime.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

And the plastic is hand-washable!

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

There's cold, then there's Robert Falcon Scott cold.

Cairn built over the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and two of his companions in Antarctica.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

She looks like the taxidermist had a really bad day.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

When doing something you love becomes a task, it's time to do a review. And there's nothing worse than letting a passion become a poison.
That 74 still needs building, though.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

Poor Andy strikes me as an unhappy person.
Maybe he should try on a inflatable frog costume.
It might do him a world of good, and we wouldn't have to see him.

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