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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 5h

I know I've told this story before, but at one point a woman on the train was going to use egg-me as "the man" in "stop that, or the man will get angry" to her early primary school age daughter before deciding that this wasn't a credible threat.

Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 5h

1, at most.

tutti @tuttigachimuchi.bsky.social · 21h

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 5h

1, at most.

tutti @tuttigachimuchi.bsky.social · 21h

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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · 1d

If you backed our latest KS make sure you've filled in the pledge manager! We've a gold star track record on kickstarter and will make sure you get your goodies safely and timely! But you gotta let us know your address 😅

Annie in a plane while it says fill in your pledge managers or you won't get any toys

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Sonic Spookhammer 👻🎃 @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social · 2d

The secret ingredient... may surprise you! 😜

The Army Painter @thearmypainter.bsky.social · 2d

Take a dip into the Heresy with Troy from @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social as he completes 3,000 points of Death Guard in under 30 days using only The Army Painter products, including an old favourite!

Read more 👉 https://thearmypainter.pulse.ly/0hk8tqmdha

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 2d

I am very glad that I checked our trains to London for Monday because it now seems to be scheduled half an hour earlier than it was when I booked it!? Also the return journey now terminates a stop before where we booked to get off the train. Nationalising hasn't really helped South West Trains yet.

Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 4d

Thought they'd sunk it along with Lexington at Coral Sea, thought they'd hit a different carrier during the first sortie against the US fleet at Midway in June (I mean, Yorktown was sunk in May, right?") and then thought they got the final US fleet carrier at Midway when they finished off Yorktown.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 4d

Even if you go with superhuman group efforts as well, the fact that the IJN thought they'd sunk Yorktown twice before actually sinking it says a lot about the Yorktown's crew and the repair crews at Pearl Harbor to keep that ship floating and fighting.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 4d

Annoyingly, the companion book for "The Pacific" HAD a whole section following Best from the start of the war to him being forced to stop flying due to his respiratory problems. But then this wasn't in the show. I think that a series like that would make more sense than Masters of the Air did.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 4d

Iirc from the book he played college baseball, he played catcher for UCLA, so I guess hitting someone with a grenade is a lot like throwing someone out at 2nd?

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 4d

Speaking of Enterprise, Richard Best managed to dive bomb and sink two Japanese carriers at Midway after injuring his lungs due to a fault with his Dauntless's oxygen system during his first sortie.

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The Miniatures Apothecaries @miniapothecaries.bsky.social · 4d

OK so if anyone knows of anywhere that still has any of the salamander dice in stock please let me know, thank you.

#warhammercommunity #nerdlings

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 7d

... Now I think about it I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 7d

Is it the same guy each time? Or are there new ones?

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 7d

✅ Booked my wife and the 5yo a flu jab
✅ Refuelled the car.
✅ Bought the groceries
✅ Made breakfast
✅ Did full shave and shower
✅ Cooked lunch
✅ Arranged a couple of parcel returns
✅ Did both halves of the school run
✅ Cooked dinner
✅ Helped prep for tomorrow (wife's graduation)
☑️ Do night shift.

Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 7d

The exterior one. The two doors immediately had me thinking this house is going to be all nonsense angles inside.

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tidinzeo.bsky.social @tidinzeo.bsky.social · 8d

In today’s #AliciaSellsStuff we have a unit of Hernkyn Pioneers and a unit of Cthonian Berzerks. With bases, but without instructions. Call it £20 each plus postage. DM if interested.

3 Hernkyn Pioneers on sprues with bases.

Cthonian Berserks squad on sprue plus bases.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 7d

Also I wouldn't bet against it having some of the old entrenched bigotries built into it (eg, black people don't feel pain to the same extent white people do.... Women should be expecting to tolerate a certain degree of pain etc.) from dodgy "research" done decades ago by utter bastards.

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BooBiscuit 🎃👻 @harpomarxism.bsky.social · 8d

Hey let's try something different today.

Let's start a thread where we shout out a trans person on Bluesky who's inspired you or made a difference in your life.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 8d

It'll either be...
A. Banal.
B. A scam.
C. A chaser.
D. Some combination of b and c.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 8d

You absolutely know it's not going to be a good question.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 8d

... October 1941.... Obviously. If he came home from Russia in 1940 I guess he just wasn't enjoying his holiday.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 8d

He told me that the three best days in his life were his wedding day, the day the Americans took him prisoner in Normandy and the day he was sent home from Russia with an absolutely raging ear infection in Oct '40. He wasn't sent back East after recovering. Might well be the reason he survived.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 8d

Someone I used to visit when I did care work had the misfortune of being forced to fight for the Nazis. He was a really devout Christian and pacifist. If he's been in one of the western nations he'd probably have been given dispensation to avoid being drafted, but the Nazis wouldn't have cared.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 9d

Given what's happened with EA, I'm glad that aside from the "The Veilguard will return" card at the end, that it did have a complete story with a proper ending. I'd hate for it to have a cliffhanger like Inquisition did.

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Isolde (Izzy) @xrayizzy.bsky.social · 10d

Oh.... Good luck, hope the second opinion you're getting agrees with the Bluesky diagnosis by committee.

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