Matthew Willis (Naval Air History)
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Writer naval/aviation hist. Council member Navy Records Soc. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine. Cannot receive DMs
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My parents are doing the Coast to Coast walk soon and they're trying to raise some money for Water Aid. Please consider helping them, thanks www.justgiving.com/page/brian-w...
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Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.
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Sex workers use Discord.

This could literally get us murdered.
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😱

Surgeon double checked with me before they put me under
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The real story here is ‘Tony Blair Institute takes over Starmer govt’
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The 2026 Toyota GR010 Hypercar goes hard 🔥

Check out our gallery of shots and videos 👉 www.onlyendurance.com/gallery-toyo...
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Just think, we could have been spared fascist sex party guy and Palantir guy
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Today's favourite #warart

Giulio Aristide Sartorio - Pontoon "Tigre" (1917) - Rome, Palazzo della Farnesina

Pontoon-mounted heavy gun for the defence of Venice after Caporetto.

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Giulio Aristide Sartorio - Pontoon "Tigre" (1917) - Rome, Palazzo della Farnesina
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Giulio Aristide Sartorio: Pontoon   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860–1932)  wikidata:Q1062517 s:it:Autore:Giulio Aristide Sartorio q:it:Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Alternative names
Birth name: Giulio Aristide Sartorio; G. A. Sartorio; Aristide Sartorio; giulio aristide sartorio; g. a. sartorio; A. Sartorio; Sartorio G. A.; G. A. S.
Description
Italian painter, sculptor, writer and film director
Date of birth/death
11 February 1860 Edit this at Wikidata
3 October 1932 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death
Rome Edit this at Wikidata
Horti Galateae Edit this at Wikidata
Work period
circa 1876 Edit this at Wikidata–1932 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Rome; Naples (1879); Paris (1884); Paris (1889); Paris (1893); United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1893); Middle East (1919); South America (1924); Mediterranean Sea (1929); Weimar (1896–1899); Italian Front (1917–1918) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
wikidata:Q1062517: Q1062517 VIAF: 57427015 ISNI: 0000000121345620 ULAN: 500016640 LCCN: n79065097 Open Library: OL905545A WorldCat
Photographer
Francesco Taurisano
Title
Italian: Tigre
Pontoon "Tigre"
Object type
painting
Description
Pontoon "Tigre" (1917), by Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Medium
oil on canvas glued on cardboard
Dimensions
height: 58 cm (22.8 in); width: 78 cm (30.7 in)
Collection
Museum collection of the Farnesina (Q3683042)
Accession number
1917
Place of creation
Italian Front, World War I
Credit line
Provenance: Italian Club of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Inscriptions
Signature and date upperlefr:
G.A. Sartorio Capo ... - XII - Dicembre MCMXVII
Source/Photographer
Google Arts & Culture — DQEV4L9GLjcc9Q
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Look at this clear and explicit racism and discrimination. They close our accounts with false pretexts and warn us against opening other accounts..
Is this fair?
#BlueSky
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Who wants to see the mark the surgeon put on my thigh to make sure they operated on the correct side?
My left outer thigh with a big black marker pen triangle and a line through the base
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Everyone at the hospital who inspected the wound seemed delighted with it. They were raving about it when they brought me round, the surgeon obviously managed to go in at exactly the right spot and do the work with a minimal opening
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Israel attacks displaced Palestinians’ return route in Gaza despite ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-displaced-palestinians-return-route-gaza-despite
Israel attacks displaced Palestinians’ return route in Gaza despite ceasefire
<article data-history-node-id="429943" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-displaced-palestinians-return-route-gaza-despite" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-displaced-palestinians-return-route-gaza-despite" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel attacks displaced Palestinians’ return route in Gaza despite ceasefire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces on Friday conducted strikes on the displaced Palestinians' return route in Gaza despite the ceasefire, Anadolu news agency reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Thousands of displaced Palestinians headed towards Gaza City via Rashid Street after the ceasefire was announced.&nbsp;Israeli tanks were also filmed withdrawing from an area near the Jordanian Hospital in southern Gaza City.</p> <p>The interior ministry in Gaza on Friday said it will begin restoring order in the areas from which Israeli forces have withdrawn, urging citizens to be careful.&nbsp;</p> <p>In a statement, the ministry said that Israeli forces continue to block the road between the north and south of the Gaza Strip.</p> <p>"We call on citizens to be careful before the ceasefire comes into effect, to ensure their safety," the statement said.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
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As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.
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’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’
The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.
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Given how thoroughly the BBC, CNN, and Sky News etc were duped by this fabricated video content they should all be publishing headlines today about Israeli military lies used to justify the bombing of hospitals
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The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage

And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context
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damn. hoping it at least signifies something
shakespeare.lol
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
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#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
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10yo asked why the holiday was "Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day" and, being a historian my explanation may have been a little long, as her eyes got bigger and bigger. Finally she just said, "that's messed up, bruh," and left