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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our times…

Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph Heller

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 1h

News on every front only gets more surreal every minute today.

I feel the need to disconnect for a bit.

Take care of yourself, and what you love.

Pax.
#OurDailyCatContent Conan (RIP)

Conan the Destroyer of Heaven and Earth (RIP)
Five months gone, and I miss him.

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 1h

"We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic."

- Hunter S. Thompson

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 1h

There's more here:
islandjohnny65.blogspot.com/2024/10/cutt...

CUTTING OUT ON THE NIAGARA OCTOBER 1812

CUTTING OUT ON THE NIAGARA RIVER OCTOBER 1812 The enemy is making every exertion to gain a naval Superiority on both Lakes which if they...

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 1h

OTD 1812. Buffalo Creek, cont'd.

Control of Lake Erie is key to the U.S. maintaining ownership of the Northwest Territories, as well as continued Crown access to Upper Canada, and her Six Nations allies at Grand River.

Capturing two ships would increase Elliot's Lake Erie squadron by a quarter.
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The view of Fort Erie from Buffalo Creek.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

OTD 1812. Buffalo Creek, cont'd.

Lacking arms, he borrows weapons and axes from the Army, which has artillery sited between Lake Erie, and Scajaquada Creek in Black Rock and on Unity Island.

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Map of Niagara River at Black Rock, across from Fort Erie.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

OTD 1812. Buffalo Creek, cont'd.

Elliot elects to raid the British & "cut out" the two ships, taking them & their cargoes for the American effort on the frontier between Upper Canada, and the U.S.

He enlists 50 sailors that have just arrived on foot from Brooklyn, and 50 soldiers for the raid.
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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

The whole group that wound up in SoCal, at Douglas, Northrop, North American, et al, was a pretty fascinating bunch.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

OTD 1812. Buffalo Creek, NY.

Lookouts alert Lt Jesse D. Elliot, USN, to two British ships that have tied up at Fort Erie, across the mouth of the Niagara River.

Elliot has been tasked by Commodore Isaac Chauncey, USN, to build a fleet at Black Rock to take control of Lake Erie.
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Jess

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

That's rough.

Take it easy.

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Will or Bill @will-historysnoop.bsky.social · 2h

ACCORDING TO SAM

Mark Twain Has a Thought about: INDECENCIES

“Each race determines for itself what indecencies are. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”

- Notebook, 1896

#quote #MarkTwain

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

…

And, here. we. go.
Photo of Heath’s Joker.

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Will or Bill @will-historysnoop.bsky.social · 2h

#WASP/#WAFS
Talking shop with P-51 Mustang pilot
1943
Barbara “B.J.” Erickson London
(1 July 1920- 7 July 2013)
and #The38 WASP
Evelyn Genevieve “Sharpie” Sharp
(20 October 1919– 3 April 1944)

Women Airforce Service Pilots
#WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #WWII

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

‘The Trial of Red Jacket’
John Mix Stanley
1868

Extremely large painting of Red Jacket pleading his case before a multitude of Seneca people.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 7h

"Camouflaged Curtiss P-36As on the Line at Wright Field, Ohio" Circa 1941
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/325597743...

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 3h

You only need a Curtiss and one of the Wrights, and you’d have a Mount Rushmore of early American aviation here.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 8h

"Standing by a Martin MB-1 in February 1919 are, left to right, Lawrence D. Bell [founded Bell Aircraft Corporation ], [test pilot] Eric Springer, Glenn Martin, and Donald Douglas [founded Douglas Aircraft Company]."
🔗📑 generalaviationnews.com/2025/02/27/m...

📷 digital.smpl.org/digital/coll...

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 3h

Favorite tree.

Niagara Wednesday.

Still green tree on a gorgeous fall day.

Next to bike path on the river.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 4h

I think lost in the mythology of the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812, is the potential, and impact of native tribes on the politics, and prosecution of operations.

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Seasons Gratings🇨🇦🇺🇦 @stevedaly.bsky.social · 4h

A priest, an imam, and a rabbit walk into a bar.

The rabbit says “I think I might be a typo.”

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Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 6h

We need to say no.
Though it's not an accident that too many of the current leaders have documented consent problems.

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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 6h

Oct. 12, 1775: Malingering is rife among the Americans laying siege to Fort St. Jean in Quebec. "Some have feigned sickness, some acknowledged that they had procured their discharges by swallowing tobacco juice, to make them sick," reports Gen. Philip Schuyler from Ticonderoga. 1/2

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 5h

The scale is just a little bit off…

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 5h

(Corned beef hash and eggs at his favorite Greek-Lebanese diner brought to end the glossolalia.)

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.com · 6h

The #ErieCanal is 200 years old this year.

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14h

🤗 to see @timothyaschuler.bsky.social on the work of Reimagine the Canals (+ my friend Angelyn!), who, in revitalizing the Erie Canal, "hope [to] serve as a model for how public agencies might approach aging infrastructure at vast scales, marrying... basic maintenance with... public access"

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 6h

So much winning…

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Global Trade Chaos Creates an Opportunity for African Farmers

The continent is positioning itself as a pivotal player in the future of global agriculture, and investors are taking notice.