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grautbakken.bsky.social
Canada in German history
A two-panel excerpt from a comic

A creature, labeled 'Canada', is holding a man, labeled 'Germany', by his throat

The man asks "What the hell are you?"
The creature answers "Death"
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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profannawatts.bsky.social
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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pablovich.bsky.social
From the Liverpool Daily Post on the 11th (no paper on the 10th - Sunday)
Newspaper extract headed A Shower Of Stones, Sir Oswald Struck on Temple. Article relates how the fascist Mosely arrived, mounted a platform to speak and was immediately hit by two stones thrown from the crowd.
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historyrage.bsky.social
🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks
grautbakken.bsky.social
Simulating superstrucure. The Naval Strike Missile has the ability to attack specific ships based on their hull and superstrucure profiles, using its imaging IR seeker to match it with a vast database of ship profiles in its targeting computer
grautbakken.bsky.social
- Caesar, 15th March 44 BCE
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schnufflerowner.bsky.social
“The apex of German scientific engineering on which they trusted their military OpSec on, Enigma, was broken by a group comprised of Jews, homosexuals and women” really weakens their argument.
grautbakken.bsky.social
Yes, they absolutely were. As with Japan, they found out the hard way that there's a big difference between preparing for the war you want vs. the war you get when your enemies dont act the way you want. Neither of them were at all prepared for anything longer than a short 6-12 month war
grautbakken.bsky.social
While Germany and Japan starved due to the lack of shipping, we had dedicated ships that brewed beer and churned ice cream. Wtf were they even thinking

#navalhistory
Black and white photo of a white cargo ship, HMS Menestheus Black and white photo of a barge, with "IX-150 QUARTZ" painted on the bow
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sodrock.bsky.social
Also they ran just incredibly awful commentary with incredibly shawty evidence (which I’m sure will become feature at CBS now). For example, the author of this piece claimed the Allies won WWII with inferior technology minus the atomic bomb lol
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alanallport.bsky.social
Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released in the UK on 6 November, preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
I am being forced to read The Secret of Secrets for work by my "friends" and Dan Brown is so loudly and confidently wrong about everything and I want to tear my hair out.
grautbakken.bsky.social
Removed by scrap merchant in 1952 and sent to Germany. What became of them after that, I sadly do not know
grautbakken.bsky.social
An utterly depraved and disgusting "movie", made purely for the sake of being depraved and disgusting

Could never understand the appeal of it, other than edgelords feigning interest in order to be provocative
grautbakken.bsky.social
This one might be of interest to #NavalHistory Bluesky. The Norwegian Coastal Administration has released an underwater 3D photo scan of the wreck of the German heavy cruiser Blücher, sunk in the Oslofjord in April 1940. Super cool!
#ww2 #norway #blücher

dykkerteknikk.nira.app/a/Ip_mJ3EFQK...
Blücher - NIRA
dykkerteknikk.nira.app
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garius.bsky.social
The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted.

von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵
Hammerstein, a serious looking man in german army uniform with swept back hair.
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pptsapper.bsky.social
Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…
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verityholloway.bsky.social
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
Screenshot of a tweet: 

British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home."
grautbakken.bsky.social
And the stalwart Hurricane too!
Black and white photo of what is obviously a Hawker Hurricane, in RAF colours
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oalexanderdk.bsky.social
Sink the Baltic fleet, take Kaliningrad and then claim it was an accident due to Ukrainian EW interference.
gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
It probably is incompetence, but we should sink a Russian frigate anyway to send a message.