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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 2h

When are you from?

When are you really from?

Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 3h

Found it!

A Pilot Elite (a lot like the E95S)
A remarkably good fountain pen.

Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 7h

What a horrid thing to do at a 'party'. 😵

Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 9h

"George's Star" yes!

Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 10h

The fence should be called Morse Barclay.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 13h

There's an amusing moment in the 1780s where the Admiralty send a couple of likely-looking captains to the West Indies to mess with American trade.

Unfortunately the West Indies kind of relied on American trade, the two captains were Nelson and Collingwood, and things went horribly right...

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Oct 21

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar.

Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.

Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

Painting of a middle-aged Collingwood in blue admirals jacket, resting his had on his chin.

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 13h

Plausible. Very plausible.
Or failing that, a minor character from Ankh Morpork.

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 13h

"witless artifice" is right!

(which my brain is trying to wrangle into "artless witifice" in the vain hope that it'd be a worthwhile spoonerism joke.)

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Trafalgar Day to all who celebrate.
(Personally, I'm a big fan.)

By Lemuel Francis Abbott - National Maritime Museum website:Embedding web page: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/nelson/viewRepro.cfm?reproID=BHC2889 (archived version)Image: https://collections.rmg.co.uk/mediaLib/484/606/bhc2889.jpgFull catalogue record: https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14362.htmlThe painting was published as early as 1898 in: Sladen, Douglas (1898). "The Nelson Centenary". The Magazine of Art 22: p. 530. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell and Company. Retrieved on 2010-01-15., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2833419

By J. M. W. Turner - Downloaded from http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/images/700/BHC0565_700.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111535

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 14h

They do indeed.
(Maybe I should persevere with the FAD cards then? 🤔)

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, that was last week.

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

Of course I understand why my "Happy Flying Ant Day" cards haven't taken off...

(They're too heavy for even a very strong ant to get off the ground with.)

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently World Sloth Day occurs on the 20th of October every year...
Which means it might just be a better "left-field greetings-card opportunity" than my old favourite "Flying Ant Day" (which has the disadvantage of NOT being very predictable to us humans.)

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

I've just learnt that today is World Sloth Day.
(I'd have been far more lazy and slow-moving today if I'd known this earlier.)

By derivative work: Stevenj (talk)Original photo by Leyo. - Two-toed sloth Costa Rica.jpg, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4372587

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

Where IS my Pilot Elite?

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it depends on the cable-routing and other difficulties.
But I reckon you wouldn't find *much* cheaper.

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

Good. 😀
And I'm sure I'll get the chance to try for myself sometime soon.

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

My thoughts exactly!

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

That looks delish*. Which stall?

(aside for the coriander of course - I have the OR6A2 mutation that means coriander is a big no-no. But it *looks* like it's be possible to order without coriander.)

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

phwoar

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 1d

"I do like this portrait of you, Old Fox," said Miss Stevenson. "Such a likeness!"
"Thank you," said Old Fox, placing it back in its portfolio. "Although I do look a little tired and uneasy. Rather a strange chap, the artist, didn't really trust him, he lived off the Paddington Canal, I recall. Always talking about dissection and borrowing bodies from St Thomas's to sketch."

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

I love this. 👆

...
My dear wife, knits bears that line the bay window of our house.
It's part of her extraordinary gift to the world that she regularly gives them away to passers by, children, students, strangers.
and the many people who simply smile at seeing them.

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly true. 😖

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Domokun Attack @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 1d

It's true, the time-travel community, as a whole, generally avoid this sordid little backwater of history.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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