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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 3d

A-8A Shrike, 3rd attack group formation, 154th observation squadron.

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 1h

Still my all-time favorite ugly plane, though it has plenty of contemporaries who could give it a run for its money.

Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 3d

Amiot 143 bombers

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

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Iwas fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren’t having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it from the right vantage looked like a cartoon heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16h

This is who invented daylight savings time. Just so you know. Like, if you don't mind helping the Kaiser ravage Europe, that's ok, I'm not judging. But I thought you should be aware.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 22h

I will not, as discussed before, read another single story that is clutching pearls about people's reproductive choices. But every time I see one, I'll remind you that there is no economic problem that cannot be solved with immigration and/or taxing wealth hoarders.

NPR @npr.org · 22h

Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves through economies.

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy

Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves through economies.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 20h

The Russification of the American military

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 20h

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

Still of Dept of Defense video posted to X showing Pete Hegseth and a marine flipping a tire.

Post text:

Early morning PT with the Secretary of War. This is what READINESS looks like.

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 21h

Vietnam, French Indochina, November 1945. The city hall of Cần Thơ, built in classic French style, and a market, probably in Mỹ Tho.

#history #Vietnam #France #Indochina

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 1d

November 1945: Riverine operations on the Mekong.

1. Debarkation of troops at Vinh-Long to relieve the garrison in place.
2. A recon unit in a small boat is detached to scout a branch of the river.
3. Return of a lanfing ship to Can-Tho following a mission.

#history #France #Vietnam #Indochina

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 1d

Chiang Kai-Shek, because of his terrors and corruption is a controversial figure, but so is destroying all the statues he made of himself once he realized he needed a legacy

the compromise? They are piling them around his mausoleum in the "Garden of the Generalissimos"

At the Garden of the Generalissimos, part of the Cihu Mausoleum of Chiang Kai-shek in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, a family walks past a veritable army of statues of the man, seated, standing, in military uniforms and occasionally in more grandfatherly Chinese sage uniforms. Some are metal and some are stone, some are red, black, blue, white, and gray.

Another part of the garden where you can see the hills and grass but there are still a very high volume of Chiang Kai-Shek statues along all the paths.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”

SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more

Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome detail shared by a reddit user: One of the ships pictured, LST 393, still survives as a museum ship in Michigan! Another user shared a page from the ship's diary, showing that she was loading troops in Oran on 16 Nov. 1943, which allows us to date these photos!

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 2d

New month so for the next 30 days it will be primarily photos from November 1939-1945.

I find it always feels more immediate when seasonal conditions align between real life and the photos I share, though Algeria and Southern Italy are probably more temperate this time of year than my location!

Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Halloween, joyeuse Toussaint, and welcome to November!

In Nov. 1943, the French Expeditionary Force (CEF) boarded American LSTs for transport from North Africa to Naples. Here the 2e Division d'Infanterie Marocaine embarks in Oran, Algeria. [1/3]

#WWII #WW2 #France #Italy #Morocco #Algeria

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 2d

[4/3 because I miscounted like usual] Arrival of the 2e Division d'Infanterie Marocaine (DIM), part of the French Expeditionary Corps (CEF) in Naples, November 1943. The North African troops were clearly greeted with some curiosity by locals.

#WWII #WW2 #history #France #Italy #Morocco

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 2d

[3/3] Arrival of the convoy carrying the 2e Division d'Infanterie Marocaine (DIM) in the Gulf of Pozzuoli, approaching Naples. Photo #4 shows a US Navy sailor manning an anti-aircraft machinegun.

#WWII #WW2 #History #France #Morocco #Italy #USNavy #NavalHistory

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 2d

[2/3] The 2e DIM (2nd Moroccan Infantry Division) aboard a US navy convoy from Oran, Algeria to Naples, Italy. The men in photos 3 & 4 belong to the 3e Régiment de Spahis Marocains, a mechanized cavalry reconnaisance unit.

#WWII #WW2 #history #France #Morocco #Italy

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Halloween, joyeuse Toussaint, and welcome to November!

In Nov. 1943, the French Expeditionary Force (CEF) boarded American LSTs for transport from North Africa to Naples. Here the 2e Division d'Infanterie Marocaine embarks in Oran, Algeria. [1/3]

#WWII #WW2 #France #Italy #Morocco #Algeria

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.

A turreted corrugated armour nightmare box festooned with machine guns, precariously balanced upon the chassis of an unmodified 1940s farm bulldozer.

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 2d

We need proportional representation and the abolition of the senate. Both are about equally achievable so why stop halfway?

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Antton Rouget @anttonrouget.bsky.social · 3d

En ce jour historique ayant vu un parti fondé par des militants de l’OAS rejoint par des héritiers du Gaullisme pour imposer son discours revanchard sur l’Algérie, se replonger dans cette enquête essentielle sur Le Pen et la torture👇

www.mediapart.fr/journal/doss...

Le Pen en Algérie : lutter contre l’oubli

Jean-Marie Le Pen, fondateur du Front national devenu Rassemblement national, a d’abord revendiqué d’avoir pratiqué la torture avant de faire volte-face. Alors qu’un certain négationnisme se fait jou…

www.mediapart.fr

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 3d

I believe they're typical of New York City in particular: archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...

More Red Fire Hydrants Are Popping Up on the Sidewalks

While some hydrants have always been red, signaling that they are fed by larger water mains, dozens more are to be installed by the end of the year.

archive.nytimes.com

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 3d

It's honestly astonishing how many WWII-era hulls have gone on to have incredibly long lifespans, one of the fascinating elements of the maritime industry.

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 3d

Third model looks closest to the "US Standard" fire hydrant- after the great Baltimore fire in the 1800s there was a push for standardization as multiple types were in use throughout the city and not all fire companies had compatible hoses. But there are still substantial differences between cities.

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 3d

October 1944: A camouflaged M10 tank destroyer of the 2e Régiment de Dragons is recovered from a tank trap in Saulxures-sur-Moselotte, Vosges.

#WWII #WW2 #history #France #armor

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 4d

The best thing about proportional representation is that the US would actually have political parties pursuing an actual programme. Today it's nothing but an amorphous brand, structurally incapable of legislating.

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 4d

October 1944: FFI resistance fighters, Senegalese tirailleurs of the 9e Division d'Infanterie Coloniale, and French customs agents share cigarettes with Swiss border guards at the border post in Villars-lès-Blamont, Doubs department.

#WWII #WW2 #history #France #Switzerland

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