Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center? 675260205524
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈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 ... 611919738
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/10/2026this is gonna be the first November where the poppyshaggers have full, unrestricted access to Gen AI. It's going to be horrific. 1742290
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is how you write a headline. 8047171492
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10/10/2026Well done for walking away, Ruha. Speaking the truth matters. Shame on the APA for being gutless. 2315
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 50168315519
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The 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) 68412
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026On the other hand they have successfully closed the Strait of Hormuz, so give them some credit. 1512226
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Your reminder that the Prime Meridian goes North-South through Greenwich in United Kingdom. Presumably this is some lesser meridian. 1718122
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 30/09/2026History students: Be sure you understand your sources before you make them the centerpiece of your argument. 810719
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A 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. 641238371
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 28/09/2026Even 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. 7132
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈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 321039552
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not 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...en.wikipedia.orgStanislav Petrov - Wikipedia 11573210
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How 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 . 271371380
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Here’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. 310831
Adam Spink 🏳️🌈 @adamspink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sadly, all I can offer is a pair of German Second World War artillery observation binoculars in the control tower at Heathrow airport. 120
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026Hard 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...defrafarming.blog.gov.ukSFI26: Window 2 now closedWindow 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application. 1415472
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This 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 1416024
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Let's see if we can get it into the teens! We know how much he likes teens. 461424398
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on 121395497
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women 311395248
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈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! 1347841233
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The 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? 1288
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Although what we really need is the Donald J Trump National Flak Tower 4526
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈Alex Vander Veur💙🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸🇻🇪💙🇺🇸💔 @alexvanderveur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026 4633137
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 19/09/2026Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃 166140053517
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Gander Airport Historical Society @gahsyqx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The latest Substack on Gander's Aviation History titled " North Atlantic's crowded sky " has just been posted ganderaviationhistory.substack.com 081
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 17/09/2026As 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/61fe70pod.foWar Movie Theatre: The Hunt For Red OctoberA 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... 1276
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It 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 1012726
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A 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. 0106
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/09/2026One 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. 3151
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If 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 515069
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Oh 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...nationaltrust.org.ukAnnual General MeetingYour Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon. 24331253
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 13/09/2026And 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 65314
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈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) 15246382043
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Full Fact @fullfact.org · 12/09/2026Lee 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 👇fullfact.orgSolar panels do not currently occupy ‘thousands of square miles’ of farmland – Full FactReform 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. 1314364
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Picking 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? 1011417
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This 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. 22663250
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Warning 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 26630
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Home Secretary remembers she exists 1282
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A small selection of Battlefield Design book covers... #booksky 0133
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I 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!)... 075
Reposted by Adam Spink 🏳️🌈Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'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. 085