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Adam Spink 🏳️‍🌈

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ATC at London Heathrow, occasionally RAF Fairford. Aviation, History, Food, Tea, Tweed, Outdoors, Environment. Own views, obvs. He/him

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Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 19h
#PortfolioDay
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Adam Spink 🏳️‍🌈 @adamspink.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sunrise at Heathrow #avgeek
Photo from the Heathrow control tower of the sunrise against a cloudy sky
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this is gonna be the first November where the poppyshaggers have full, unrestricted access to Gen AI. It's going to be horrific.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Adam Spink 🏳️‍🌈 @adamspink.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
From Reading
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10/10/2026
Well done for walking away, Ruha. Speaking the truth matters. Shame on the APA for being gutless.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The fact that this isn't a formation run has four possible causes: - His PR staff are dumb - His PR staff hate him - The milPR staff hate him - He genuinely thought he could keep up (More than one can be true)
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On the other hand they have successfully closed the Strait of Hormuz, so give them some credit.
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your reminder that the Prime Meridian goes North-South through Greenwich in United Kingdom. Presumably this is some lesser meridian.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 30/09/2026
History students: Be sure you understand your sources before you make them the centerpiece of your argument.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 28/09/2026
Even if we ignore horribly maimed and killed part, by WW2 the battlefield was already “empty:” combatants rarely saw each other except in glimpses. No realism of value would be lost if re-enactment staged for display purposes didn’t have opposing forces at all.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .
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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here’s a thread of some of the more unusual or obscure aircraft to fly in Britain during the Second World War. Some were only intended as experimental or proof of concept designs, while others never progressed beyond the prototype stage.
Front left 3/4 view of a camouflaged Blackburn B20 flying boat/floatplane with RAF markings on temporary wheels outside a hangar. An unconventional design, its lower hull is separate from the fuselage, acting as a central float; in this picture, it’s shown extended on hydraulic struts. A twin engined design, it also features retractable wingtip floats.
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Adam Spink 🏳️‍🌈 @adamspink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sadly, all I can offer is a pair of German Second World War artillery observation binoculars in the control tower at Heathrow airport.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Hard to explain how gobsmacking this is. The government opened applications for farm subsidies this morning at 10. And closed it just before 4 because they'd run out of cash. Applying for your livelihood like it's Oasis tickets. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/22/s...
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SFI26: Window 2 now closed
Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application.
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Adam Spink 🏳️‍🌈 @adamspink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They should all just get up and walk out
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a genuinely incredible post: comparing slavery to the liberation of the Netherlands during WWII effectively reduces Britain's centuries-long involvement in slavery and the slave trade to the act of abolition. The real problem about the legacies of empire is apparently a lack of gratitude 🫪
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let's see if we can get it into the teens! We know how much he likes teens.
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The absolute height of stupidity in the racist discourse on the replacement theory or immigration = colonisation is someone with the family name Syed and who is the son of immigrants from Pakistan is going on about immigration being bad. How about I leave after you leave sonny?
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Although what we really need is the Donald J Trump National Flak Tower
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🏳️‍🌈Alex Vander Veur💙🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸🇻🇪💙🇺🇸💔 @alexvanderveur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Post by Shon (@gayclackvet):

Say you're in a room with 400 people. 36 don't have health insurance. 48 live in poverty. 85 are illiterate. 90 have untreated mental illnesses. And everyday, at least 1 person is shot. But 2 are trans so you decide ruining their lives is a priority. That is what's happening right now.
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 19/09/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
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Gander Airport Historical Society @gahsyqx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The latest Substack on Gander's Aviation History titled " North Atlantic's crowded sky " has just been posted ganderaviationhistory.substack.com
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 17/09/2026
As discussed in this week's @warmovietheatre.com episode on The Hunt For Red October, these days Jim Greer would have been sacked from the CIA for being black. pod.fo/e/61fe70
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War Movie Theatre: The Hunt For Red October
A rogue Russian submarine, heading for the US coast: does the captain plan to defect or start a nuclear war? Based on Tom Clancy's bestselling technothriller, this was a Cold War movie released jus...
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It is worth saying that the nonsense over this crappy little racist village voting for "independence" does underline that Reform's policies are just completely unworkable. You cannot actually appease these people by promising to build internment camps, because they won't want them near them
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Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A similar way to put this is that for many degree programs, the point of an undergraduate degree is to teach students how to be creative. That means teaching practices of enquiry, experimentation, and thoughtfulness.
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One tries not to succumb to despair. But the problem is that the Constitution has (in theory anyway) solutions to deal with a corrupted executive, legislature, and/or judiciary. It has no solution for dealing with a corrupted electorate.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you prefer to make your own choice for the National Trust Council, 'Restore Trust' have helpfully provided a list of their preferred infiltrators. Here's who to AVOID: Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani 2/2
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Annual General Meeting
Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 13/09/2026
And then there's the..."Victory Show." Not sure they realize who actually won (or what we were fighting for.) Are they SS? Of COURSE they are. A 🧵 of awful enquiries@thevictoryshow.co.uk
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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 12/09/2026
Lee Anderson claimed last week that “there’s literally thousands of square miles” of solar panels on UK farmland. That’s way off the mark, as our fact check explains 👇
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Solar panels do not currently occupy ‘thousands of square miles’ of farmland – Full Fact
Reform UK party chair Lee Anderson claimed there are “thousands of square miles” of solar panels on farmland in the UK. This is a huge overstatement.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Picking a fight with the RNLI strikes me as strange. Might as well double down and have a go at Guide Dogs or Macmillan Cancer Support next?
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Warning for National Trust members who have previously voted to keep the reactionaries of Restore Trust out - they seem to be trying a new tactic this year of not being quite as obvious in their candidates' potted summaries
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Home Secretary remembers she exists
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Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A small selection of Battlefield Design book covers... #booksky
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Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have two copies of the Battlefield Design Colouring Book available signed by ELEVEN RAF Lightning veterans. Colour it, cut it out and frame your signed masterpiece! £30 each + postage. Contact me if you'd like one (or both!)...
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Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've got space for a couple of pre-Chri*tmas bespoke map, aircraft or vehicle commissions! Great for retirements, squadron / unit changes or any gifty occasion. If you'd like a one-off, personalised print for a friend, loved-one, colleague or random stranger, get in touch to haggle over prices.
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