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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History)

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Writer naval/aviation hist. Council member Navy Records Soc. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine. Cannot receive DMs

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 11d

My parents are doing the Coast to Coast walk soon and they're trying to raise some money for Water Aid. Please consider helping them, thanks www.justgiving.com/page/brian-w...

Brian's fundraiser for WaterAid

Help Brian Willis raise money to support WaterAid

www.justgiving.com

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 1h

I think it went well, I just feel like my body has been through an ordeal my mind doesn't remember

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 1h

Seems to be. Will let you know. They tell me all went well with the op

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 1h

This reminds me of the great The Onion headline circa 2005, 'TV's Mork To Star In Film'

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 1h

I think he's eaten a dog

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 1h

What a day

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 2h

I was thinking just that

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 3h

😆

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 3h

Out now. Woozy as hell

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 7h

Oh undoubtedly the authenticity is a pull. The Scimitar is one of those cars that, while hardly common, I never used to be surprised to see one. But when I came across this one today, realised it was the first I had seen in maybe a decade. Glad there are still some about for people to enjoy

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 8h

Weird how they put all their efforts into using technology to replace human creativity and art and then say creative arts degrees are useless.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

All the chat this week about how the Tories are “no longer a serious party” reminds me of this, which I put together just to show how wacky and disastrous Theresa May’s first few months in office were. Not all of this was their fault, but the summary is worth reviewing.

2017

22 May
Manchester bombing. Initial reports quickly pick up on bomber's past as militiaman in Libyan War, where he may well have been permitted to travel (and later retrieved from by British government.
8 June
General Election
14 June
Grenfell fire, Theresa May gets rough welcome
19 June
Finsbury Park attack. Terror attack by man who tells court he came to London to kill the Labour Mayor and the leader of the opposition.

11 September EU Withdrawal Bill passes

15 September Botched bomb attack on tube train at Parson's Green station

22 September UK's credit rating downgraded by Moody's

29 September Wife of former Russian Finance Minister donates £160,000 to the Conservative Party
October
Conservative Party quietly leaks to website that it has a secret spreadsheet of arse-grabbers and tit-touchers that might be sent to the press, if MPs don't cooperate on Brexit votes.
November
First reports about something weird going on with the Home Office targeting black people
1 November
Michael Fallon resigns for creepy, arse-grabbing behaviour
5 November
Paradise Papers leaked, revealing incredible scale of tax avoidance and funny-money concealment by the super-rich
8 November
Priti Patel fired for off-the-books foreign policy freebooting with foreign country while on holiday, without official sanction.

15 November British Medical Journal report says the Conservative Party's
austerity programme has caused 120,000 excess deaths
3 December
Entire board of Social Mobility Commission quits at once, citing severe displeasure at government
2018

3 January
NHS England cancels non-urgent treatments due to backlog
15 January
Construction company Carillion goes bust owing E1,500,000,000
30 January
Leaked government report shows even the weakest form of Brexit will be ruinous, costing up to 8% of GDP within 15 years
8 February
NHS England records worst-ever A&E performance
22 February
Higher education strike
27 February
Severe snowstorms - army called in to rescue stranded drivers,
people die in sub-zero temperatures
1 March
Ken Livingstone suspended from Labour Party for insane conduct in public life
4 March
Russian agents poison dissidents in Salisbury with nerve agent
12 March
Wife of former Russian Finance Minister donates another £50,000 to Conservative Party. Donates another £50,000.
20 March
Donates another £50,000.
April 2018
Windrush. scandal breaks; Amber Rudd resigns; Theresa May - Prime Minister and architect

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 8h

Ireland picking a President: ‘Someone thoughtful and wise, please, a noble spirit who reflects our better selves.’

Ireland picking a Taoiseach: ‘What can you show me in a Shameless Chancer?’

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 8h

For the cost of a respray... Mind you, given the seat covers I think they're leaning into it

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 8h

They should have come to get me by now right?

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 11h

Looks like this story encompasses what we were trying to say in our paper earlier this year - the planning system has ended up acting as the last bastion of defence against a whole suite of negative outcomes - in this case it looks like water shortages - caused by failures elsewhere in the system...

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

A little bit of background suggests this is really potentially worrying and she knows nothing about what she's talking about. The snails are not "on the site" (if they were it would be less of a problem because you would just pick another site)...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 9h

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 9h

Idk what it was about the 70s that this colour was considered appealing

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 10h

They think that for most people it should be to generate value for shareholders

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 10h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 10h

It seems like a stretch from ‘notably less evil than Thatcher’ to ‘best PM we never had’ alright

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 11h

It is awful to wake up to posts like this, but much worse to have to try to survive under a genocide that's maiming and killing children like Nour, please help if you can:
gofund.me/982fcaf79

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 11h

Spotted in the hospital car park, this 70s-brown Reliant Scimitar with tiger striped seat covers @tamslick.bsky.social

Brown Reliant Scimitar GT, front right three quarter view

Brown Reliant Scimitar GT left rear view

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 11h

I feel like a pair of curtains!

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 12h

Titter ye not!

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 12h

Trying to go for something more painterly with this one, interested to hear if you think it works

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