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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 6h

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 6h

yes. lol

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 6h

that...happens?

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 6h

Will take a look -- thank you!

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 6h

It's a fascinating read on a lot of levels. Rich to see him explicitly reference the Air Defense Law, while the LDP continues to turn its back on air raid survivors campaigning for token recognition from their government for policies that anchored them in place during firestorms.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 9h

Ishiba's address on the eightieth anniversary of the end of the war is really worth reading:

japan.kantei.go.jp/content/0001...

japan.kantei.go.jp

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 7h

Currently writing about "open-air" performances of Kabuki and vaudeville in the ruins of firebombed cities, and I'm seeing multiple comparisons to London's West End during the war.

Any recommendations on what to read to get a feel for how entertainment endured in WWII London under falling bombs?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 12h

the text to the right of Tibbets: "You don't get it!"

text under the falling bomb: "atomic bomb drop show"

text below: name of illustrator

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

They’re now publicly threatening a military crackdown of the No Kings protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 13h

A cartoonists take on Tibbets in the Asahi newspaper three days after the reenactment

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 13h

Today in 1976, Gen. Paul Tibbets (USAF, ret.) re-enacted the bombing of Hiroshima he led on August 6, 1945, at an air show sponsored by the private Confederate Air Force in Harlingen, Texas. As Tibbets flew a B-29 overhead, conventional explosives were detonated on the ground to simulate the bomb.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing a B-29 bomber in flight at the airshow in Harlingen, Texas.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing the simulated explosion of an atomic bomb at the airshow.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing a mushroom cloud rising from the ground following the simulated explosion of an atomic bomb at the airshow.

A black and white, undated (circa October 11, 1976) Associated Press wirephoto of the simulated atomic explosion at the air show:

"Mushroom Cloud

A mushroom-shaped cloud rises above Rebel Field at Harlingen, Tex., home of the Confederate Air Force, during a re-enactment of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. The re-enactment of the first A-bomb use in war came over the weekend during an air show."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 13h

I've got an essay forthcoming on this very incident, drawing extensively on Japanese language coverage of the row. I'll be sure to share with you when it's out!

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 21h

This is why it's a big deal:

Cracks in the Machine: The Future of the LDP-Komeito Coalition

Though the junior partner in the coalition, Komeito has been vital in supplying votes for the LDP and bringing it closer to the political center - but that could all change if the vote-getting machine...

www.tokyoreview.net

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 21h

morning calisthenics in the scorched earth of Tokyo, early June 1945

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 21h

Winter is coming #CAwx

NWS 3-7 day hazards outlook showing heavy precipitation over much of California next week.

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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Ah the time-honoured scientific method of first deciding what the truth is and then generating the data to prove yourself correct.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 1d

good question. It's been transcribed and published -- that's what I'm working from. But no idea about the original.

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 2d

So much gold to be mined from the diary of Harada Ryōji 原田良次, a maintenance tech in a Chiba-based aerial interception unit tasked with defending Tokyo's skies

His entries are scribbled in the margins of a book 👇 - in part due to paper shortages, in part to keep record on the sly

A few stand-outs:

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 2d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 2d

June 20: "Lately, the soldiers' letters home are obviously disingenuous. They only write things like, "Morale is high, working diligently in military service." All of this is a fabrication. Soldiers now cannot write a single true thing."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 2d

June 26: "A photo taken in front of my aircraft covered with shoot-down marks was ready today. ...I wrote "I'm this healthy..." I'm sending false reassurance to the people in my hometown. Not having bathed in ages, this filthy bearded face will be my last photograph in this world."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 2d

July 15: "Even in my long military service, I've never seen a soldier die shouting "Long live the Emperor" before the enemy as people claim. Rather, in that instant, they cast off being a soldier and die having returned to being unmistakably ordinary, naked human beings."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 2d

July 27: "Our military's air control capability is now completely gone....The complete annihilation of regional cities is now near. The enemy aircraft that attacked the base today scattered leaflets that read, "We won't let you eat this autumn's sweet potatoes."

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 2d

August 10, 45:

"Since Hiroshima, the solo intrusion of B-29s is under especially strict vigilance, and our unit has been scrambling aircraft for twelve hours straight to maintain constant alert over Tokyo. Major General Yokoyama told me, "Tokyo is the next target for an atomic bomb attack"

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