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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 15: Patrick Montague, Chelmno and the Holocaust

Patrick Montague, Chelmno and the Holocaust

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 30/03/2026

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱 No, it’s not AI. Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team. 📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with a freshly mown lawn featuring intricate curved stripe patterns around the circular building.

Ground-level view of striped grass patterns on the lawn beside the Radcliffe Camera, showing alternating light and dark green lines stretching across the grass.

A lawn mower on the striped grass outside the Radcliffe Camera, highlighting the precision-cut pattern with people and historic college buildings in the background.

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Looks perfect mate. A lot of the time simpler is better anyway

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Nami ΔΘ @steelcitydoggo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

You really can't beat a Black 5 can you... 45407 "The Lancashire Fusilier" powering up the grade at Peak Forest, with great effects from the exhaust. #SteelCityDoggoPhotography #RailwayTouringCompany #TheBuxtonSpaExpress

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#SukhoiSundays and I’m not convinced the two Iranian wrecks in the central photo are Su-24s at all. Perhaps the burnt wreck in the left photo was once a Fencer? Ah well

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Listening in the car to BBC Radio’s 1981 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (which means the Earith Bridge road diversion has its upside, after all). Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Bill Nighy, John Le Mesurier, Peter Warner. Absolutely bloody fantastic

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Earith Bridge is underwater. This means nothing to almost anyone, but to me it means a 20 mile detour on the way to work and another 20 miles back again; and the fact that it is underwater is entirely due to decisions made in the 17th century

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"…the major enemy, the strategic adversary is fascism [...] the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. ― Michel Foucault #StreetArt Banksy, London

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A MiG-15 trainer looking unloved in Latvia. More photos of MiG derelicts are on Obsidian Urban’s site www.obsidianurbexphotography.com #MiGMondays

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Fantastic. Reposting these Fitters for #SukhoiSundays

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Ooh, that’s very nicely made. Well done Paul

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#nowlistening the one hour version of Edward Artemyev’s Meditation, from Stalker. One hour isn’t enough #tarkovsky #stalker #thezone www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb6a...

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#nowreading the most recent edition of the National Gallery’s companion guide, originally written by Erika Langmuir yonks ago. I love it, but I’ve had to create my own index so that I can read it in actual chronological order. Because history.

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Tupolev’s Project Zveno. What are those things with propellors that are slung under the wings? - that’s right! - little piggyback fighter planes that could be launched when the mothership bomber was in flight. Reposting for #TupolevTuesdays

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Hope she’s careful handling that inlet cone. Re-posting for #MiGMondays

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A graceful Ethiopian Su-30. Reposting for #SukhoiSundays

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

#nowlistening Kate Bush’s 50 words for snow. Ten years ago I started to play this CD then gave up after two songs. Rubbish! Now a decade has passed. Played the CD on a whim over the weekend and discovered that I love it to bits

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Michael Sebastian Todd @sycomike84.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I've finally been on 465908 which looks beautiful in the Network SouthEast livery & this livery brings back memories

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Pesky Splintergeist ~👻🌙~ @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock

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Nami ΔΘ @steelcitydoggo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Nose on Grids... 56103 and 56045 thunder along the Great Western Main Line on their way to Merehead Quarry. I do believe this is the last bastion of Grid working, as both the Grids work out of Willesden Sidings to the quarries down south. #SteelCityDoggoPhotography

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Re-watched The Zone of Interest a few nights ago. I have seen it six or seven times now and each time I get something new from it which I had not spotted or thought about before #moviesky #justwatched #thezoneofinterest

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Blimey! - a Lego Felon! Reposting for #SukhoiSundays

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I'd already seen 4 Concordes and every SR-71 by the time I got to see my 1stMiG-25 Foxbat in Kyiv. Such a rare and special thing. The only MiG-25 in the U.S. (that we know of) is currently on display at the USAF museum in Ohio, an incomplete example that was found buried in Iraq.

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tsgmultimedia.bsky.social @tsgmultimedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Two McCloud River SD38 locomotives in the Salt Lake City UP Service Pit area. Salt Lake City, Utah. June, 1988. Photo by Warren Johnson.

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s reached the point where my first thought on waking up is “has the USA invaded Greenland while I was sleeping”

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I love Impalas. Must make a kit of one sometime

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Well he’s gotta be in bed by now so it’s probably safe to sleep without waking up to a new war right

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

That’s very kind of you to say so Badger 🙂 but your work is heaps better! Looking forward to seeing your Airfix Jag 😀

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

And the same model photoshopped into some views of Angola #scalemodels #histscalemodels #SukhoiSundays

A Sukhoi flying across a mountainside towards the sun, jungle and a river underneath

A Sukhoi flying above the Angolan jungle, firing its rocket pod

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A slightly different one for #SukhoiSundays. This is the Hobby Boss 1:48 Sukhoi Su-17 Fitter which I made recently, in Angolan colours. I enjoyed making it very much, but am not too impressed with how it’s turned out. Ah well, it is done now #scalemodels #histscalemodels

A model of a jet aircraft on a base which looks like part of a handstand area in a sandy airfield. The camouflage consist of nice bright colours

The underside of the model aircraft showing rockets pods, bombs and fuel tanks

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

no notes, that's lara croft

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Warspitefella 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @warspitefella.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Battleships HMS King George V and HMS Howe at Port-of-Algiers, 24 July 1943. They were part of a reinforcement of Allied forces in the Mediterranean for the invasion of Sicily Courtesy @mpwarwick.bsky.social

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Johnny @marcain86.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

#nowwatching The Thing on Shudder. One of my favorite movies and in my rotation for my favorite John Carpenter movie. The setting, the score, acting, and special effects! It has it all and I never grow tired of it. I watched the Apocalypse Trilogy in the wrong order but oh well #horror #movies #film

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Reposting for the image

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Favourite paintings /2 Anna Airey’s portrait of Greta, painted 1920s I think. On display in Ipswich UK

Greta, by Anna Airey. A girl on the cusp of womanhood looks towards the viewer.

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

We have had this serving plate for ages, but pulled it out today and realised... 🐋

Serving plate featuring engraving of a sperm whale. Can only be foreshadowing.

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Alan A @alanake.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Michael Mann’s The Keep (1983). Thought this was utter rubbish when I first watched it. But I was a teenager way back then. Forty years later I find it atmospheric, subtle, under-explained, interestingly flawed, and weirdly magical #justwatched #horrorsky #filmsky #thekeep

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cbnewham @parishchurches.org · 16/01/2026

A 14th-Century Marvel Hidden in the church of St Nicholas, Dersingham, Norfolk, is one of England's most remarkable medieval survivals—a spectacular mid-14th century carved oak chest.

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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The MiG-23MS was manufactured between 1974-1978. It was meant only for export, the domestic Soviet Air Force version being the MiG-23M (first flew in 1972, produced until 1978).

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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Syrian Air Force MiG-23MS aircraft did not have roundels on the fuselage.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

JRR, please forgive me

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Matt @inpoetsshoes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Happy evening beautiful people ❤️

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The more classic films I watch the more references I can see in other films and by the time I am old I will be very knowledgeable and also completely insufferable

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tsgmultimedia.bsky.social @tsgmultimedia.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

UP 3030, a 3,000 horsepower SD40, is sitting behind the Brigham City depot. This locomotive and the bay window caboose have been assigned to the local. Brigham City, Utah. April, 1985. Photo by Warren Johnson.

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