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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
you know you're getting old when you start getting excited for a book "1942: CRUX OF WAR" a year ahead of publication

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November 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
grautbakken.bsky.social
I have no idea if this will reach anyone, but I have just had an absolutely awful day at work and am in dire need of some dissociation

Please tell me your favourite historical fun fact(s)
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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itamilradar.com
ME: Define “to have nerves of steel”.
FRENCH NAVY RAFALE PILOT:
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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jgilligan.org
Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."

Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d
“.. Tesla’s current Robotaxi crash rate .. is about 2x higher than Waymo’s, despite in-car supervisors that prevent an unknown number of crashes.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
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November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Good morning
"I spent two years at a top university, was taught by some of the finest modern archaeologists and THIS is what I learned." Ancient civilizations Preppies: Persia, Mycenae Goths: Egypt and Assyria Nerds: Babylon, Greece Jocks: Sparta, Macedonia
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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ceaubin.com
My office partner told another colleague I’m “always reading” and it feels very nice to be seen
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
grautbakken.bsky.social
I like this Mamdani guy

#navalhistory
Blue background with orange text saying "Spruance should have had the fifth star instead of Halsey"
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social
Alan Moorhead pointed out at the time that to some extent surface naval warfare in WW2 was a bit of a throwback and aberration because Cunningham was rampaging around on HMS Come And Have A Go If You Think You’re Hard Enough like Cochrane with a hangover in a way nobody expected possible.
October 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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crusaderproject.bsky.social
I still have to watch @ima-naval-history.bsky.social's video on Italy's naval strategy, but thought the response by @fabiodeninno.bsky.social was very interesting.

#navalhistory

@rjhammond215.bsky.social @rnssc.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social @axe99.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social
crusaderproject.bsky.social The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 28d
Why a focus on Fioravanzo alone is insufficient to explain Italy’s naval strategy in the Mediterranean – by Fabio de Ninno

Background Prof. Fabio de Ninno responded on Facebook to the recently published video by Italian Military Archives. His post was in Italian, and I approached him with a…
Why a focus on Fioravanzo alone is insufficient to explain Italy’s naval strategy in the Mediterranean – by Fabio de Ninno
Background Prof. Fabio de Ninno responded on Facebook to the recently published video by Italian Military Archives. His post was in Italian, and I approached him with a request to translate the post and replicate it here. He kindly provided the translation, which I have slightly edited for readability (e.g. adding bulleted lists and subheadings), but otherwise is as was sent.
rommelsriposte.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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jeremykaplowitz.com
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
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
grautbakken.bsky.social
Was not expecting to spot @seaspitfires.com in the wild in Norway, but a pleasant surprise it was

#navalhistory #navalhistorybooks
A book named 'Sword Beach' by author Stephen Fisher, sits in a bookshelf among several others
October 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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profannawatts.bsky.social
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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pablovich.bsky.social
From the Liverpool Daily Post on the 11th (no paper on the 10th - Sunday)
Newspaper extract headed A Shower Of Stones, Sir Oswald Struck on Temple. Article relates how the fascist Mosely arrived, mounted a platform to speak and was immediately hit by two stones thrown from the crowd.
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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historyrage.bsky.social
🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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schnufflerowner.bsky.social
“The apex of German scientific engineering on which they trusted their military OpSec on, Enigma, was broken by a group comprised of Jews, homosexuals and women” really weakens their argument.
October 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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sodrock.bsky.social
Also they ran just incredibly awful commentary with incredibly shawty evidence (which I’m sure will become feature at CBS now). For example, the author of this piece claimed the Allies won WWII with inferior technology minus the atomic bomb lol
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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alanallport.bsky.social
Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released in the UK on 6 November, preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
I am being forced to read The Secret of Secrets for work by my "friends" and Dan Brown is so loudly and confidently wrong about everything and I want to tear my hair out.
October 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
grautbakken.bsky.social
This one might be of interest to #NavalHistory Bluesky. The Norwegian Coastal Administration has released an underwater 3D photo scan of the wreck of the German heavy cruiser Blücher, sunk in the Oslofjord in April 1940. Super cool!
#ww2 #norway #blücher

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Blücher - NIRA
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October 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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garius.bsky.social
The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted.

von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵
Hammerstein, a serious looking man in german army uniform with swept back hair.
September 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM