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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 14h

Is JD Vance a Rudolf Hess or an Octavian?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 16h

A little bit of bonus Cold War history behind the Reichstag. Part of the Gdansk Lenin Shipyard wall where the Solidarność movement started to gain traction in 1980. August protests that year were the beginning of the end for Poland‘s communist regime.

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frank squarerig @franksqrig.bsky.social · 11h

Nobel Peace through Superior Firepower

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 12h

#OTD 25/10/1952 #RememberRCN -Ferdinand Demara, aka Surgeon Lieutenant Joseph Cyr, RCN, is placed in custody aboard HMCS CAYUGA off Korea. Demera had enrolled in the RCN with the stolen credentials of the real Dr Cyr. The Movie "The Great Impostor" loosely depicts this story.

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frank squarerig @franksqrig.bsky.social · 1d

Good reminder that RAF have too few P8s, RN fleet of SSNs is largely inactive, Type 23s all well past design life, and all round we have neglected ASW

German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 1d

The eyes and ears of the Navy underwater: P-8A Poseidon, equipped with modern sensors, radar and sonar technology.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Defence Secretary John Healey on why maritime patrol aircraft are important to the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 following their meeting this week.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 1d

Me switching a piece I wrote for Americans into the King's English

a man in a military uniform is smiling and wearing a black hat

ALT: a man in a military uniform is smiling and wearing a black hat

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UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 1d

The shortage has been linked to cuts in college training budgets and the Scottish Government’s decision not to fund a new welding centre.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=63312

Babcock turns to overseas welders amid Scottish skills gap

The shortage has been linked to cuts in college training budgets and the Scottish Government’s decision not to fund a new welding centre.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

www.404media.co

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

And people say that Germans have no sense of humour.

Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 1d

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

When Obelix builds a pub:

Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 1d

Within the Oxenham Arms in the village of South Zeal, Devon is
The ‘Roman Pillar' propping up the roof in the restaurant at the rear of the pub.
In the next room is an enormous Menhir built into the fabric of the wall too. One pub - two standing stones.

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frank squarerig @franksqrig.bsky.social · 2d

This deportation lunacy would include people like American widow of friend who served 40 yrs RN including Falklands. Not the country he fought for.🤬

Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 2d

This:

www.ft.com/content/9a1d... excellent by @stephenkb.bsky.social

The Katie Lam gambit is not merely unpleasant and unfair. It's unworkable. And all it will do is bolster Farage

Tory deportation plan would upend Britain

Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage

www.ft.com

frank squarerig @franksqrig.bsky.social · 2d

E8 was total shit who went on to betray his country

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

Next time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive: Two of Nathan Gill's fellow Ukip/Brexit Party MEPs used the same pro-Russia talking points in European Parliament, after joining him on a paid-for trip to Kyiv

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

‘Jail is inevitable’ for former Reform politician awaitin...

Two other MEPs joined Nathan Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests – and 6 weeks later repeated his talking points in Parliament

observer.co.uk

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating world of ancient #glass!
This marvellous blue #Roman glass vessel with a white base and white handles dates back to the 3rd/4th century AD. It was found in an early medieval burial from the 6th century AD. in Hüfingen - already an antique piece at the time.

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A glass vessel with a vibrant cobalt blue body and opaque white handles, neck, and base. The amphora-shaped container has a narrow spout and stands elegantly against a dark background, highlighting its translucent colour.

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frank squarerig @franksqrig.bsky.social · 2d

Wow!! My mind has gone into overboggle mode.

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Naval News @navalnews.com · 2d

France plans to order a third Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) catapult track for the French Navy’s future aircraft carrier known as PA-Ng, according to the current 2026 draft budget 🇫🇷
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

France plans to order 3rd EMALS catapult track for future aircraft carrier - Naval News

France plans to order a third Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) catapult track for the French Navy's future aircraft carrier known as PA-Ng

www.navalnews.com

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 3d

Invoking a religious exemption, the Jesuit university said it would no longer recognize unions. Faculty members and labor scholars say that betrays a key principle of Catholic social teaching: workers' right to unionize.

Loyola Marymount's rejection of union defies Catholic teaching, say labor leaders

Invoking a religious exemption, the Jesuit university said it would no longer recognize unions. Faculty members and labor scholars say that betrays a key principle of Catholic social teaching: workers...

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Nice. Greenland goes with French Eutelsat rather than Starlink for its satellite-based internet connectivity.

(“ditches Starlink” seems a bit exaggerated as apparently they build on an existing Eutelsat coop)

www.dagens.com/technology/g...

Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service

Greenland Strengthens Internet Links Without U.S. Help

www.dagens.com

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Semper Gumby @dbfenthusiast.bsky.social · 3d

Want to own a piece of US #NavalHistory? USS KIDD is selling rivets taken from the ship during her current drydock period. All proceeds to back into the museum to fund continued restoration.

www.usskidd.com/product/uss-...

USS KIDD Rivets - USS KIDD

These rivets were taken from USS KIDD during her 2024-2025 drydock period. Each rivet comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the Executive Director and Ship Superintendent. Rivets come in ...

www.usskidd.com

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 9d

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 3d

This seems accurate. It's absurd to think killing Maduro amounts to a serious way of tackling narcotics in the region & any serious analyst in the US intel community knows this. What's more important is that the Asia-first crowd are being out-manoeuvred and sidelined on this.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3d

A regime change effort cloaked in the guise of counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism.

Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 3d

"As of Monday, roughly 8 per cent of American warships deployed globally were in the Caribbean, according to a fleet tracker from the US Naval Institute." ft.com/content/dc10...

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly what we need at the head of a European country at the moment.

“She also claimed that NATO was partly responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine and compared recent German defence spending rises to Nazi rearmament in the 1930s.”

www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Irish presidential election: radical ‘Corbyn candidate’ set to win

Catherine Connolly has described Britain and the US as warmongers and is the clear favourite despite controversy over past comments about Nato, Russia and Gaza

www.thetimes.com

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frank squarerig @franksqrig.bsky.social · 3d

Plans? Dreams more likely!

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 3d

Britain has contingency plans in place to "rapidly increase the number of front-line pilots in the RAF if required".
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-has-plans...