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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Join me on the excellent WW2TV at 1600 UK time on Tuesday 2nd September in which I'll be talking about 'The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice' (it says here). DO NOT MISS IT. www.youtube.com/live/XZkTP4t...

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Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel. Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...

A collage of four Victorian circus performers standing in front of a circus tent, with flames rising up in the foreground.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

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Norma Graham @normagraham.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

To friends and followers who might have an interest in Second World War history, I’ll be presenting on 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion on Thursday June 12 on WW2TV. Hope to see you there. www.youtube.com/live/hTOYYUa...

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From the Clouds: The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion in Normandy 1944

From the Clouds: The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion in Normandy 1944 With Norma Graham Part of our DDay and Battle of Normandy series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDG3XyxGI5lD-VIZrUhFbYxwDvdob...

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Patrick Schellen @patrickschellen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Peter Caddick-Adams, Niels Henkemans, Stephen Fisher among others. This YT playlist will give you a LOT of good authors www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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DDay and the Battle of Normandy - YouTube

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Found this photo at the antique shop the other day. I thought his cap badge was very distinctive, but did not recognize it. Wondering if anyone else can help place him.

Sepia toned photo of a soldier in jodphurs and uniform standing with a cane and one hand leaning on a curved leg round small table. Possibly from the First World War. Three chevrons on his right arm and a distinctive cap badge. He favors one leg and looks directly at the camera.

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

#OTD 4 African American members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, MA, & opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. Learn more from Sandra Bolzenius's GLORY IN THEIR SPIRIT www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #WHM

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

the not-officially-a-SOTU begins in 30 minutes. I propose that, for the entire duration of the speech, we post nothing but pets, birds, flowers, landscapes, comics, art, and other lovely things. zero reacts, because there’s no point in reacting to the words of a liar grey rock him with grey cats

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I guess the VA health clinic and US Army recruiting offices in Iowa City, Iowa are surplus to requirements?

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

First few pieces of the AFV Club M54 kit started. Happy with how things are fitting together. Tons of tiny pieces, taking my time to make sure small errors don't become big problems.

Small plastic model pieces are glued together and sitting on the instruction schematic

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Hi All, two big releases this morning. First, I just sent out my weekend update (free as always). There was nothing shocking in the Oval Office bullying of Zelensky. Trump was speaking Putin’s words because he sides with Putin. Stop pretending otherwise. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Weekend Update #122: Trump Opens His Mouth and Putin Comes Out

Also, The Ukrainian Military Is In Better Shape Than Reported: European Immediate Reactions--Still Mixed

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

On this day in 2022, the brave defenders of Snake Island made their immortal response to the Moskva: "Snake Island, I, Russian warship, repeat the offer: put down your arms and surrender, or you will be bombed. Have you understood me? Do you copy?" "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

fuck me for believing all the bullshit about American exceptionalism I guess I won’t stop believing tho I still believe that this is a place for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free I still believe in the better angels of our nature I still believe in the freedom from fear

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

You defend your country from a bunch of orcs, who sent a hit squad to kill you. Their daily missiles slaughter your citizens, destroy your hospitals, cause civilian blood shed at bus stops - and then two foul, evil men ambush you in front of the press, so they can pillage your country.

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Find of the day: Postcard from the SS Fairsea with date listed on the back of September 14 - 26, 1951. The International Refugee Organization arranged the travel from Bremerhaven to Montreal.

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

New model on the work desk. Hoping to paint and modify it to be similar to the one my dad drove in 1960.

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

From my photo collection. "Make-shift entertainment for land based Army and Navy personnel at Leyte, Philippines Island. March, 1945" Tubas and trombones, required gear. Music and morale.

A movie screen and small orchestra are set up on a jungle base in 1945. Black and white photo

Handwritten note on the back of the photo.

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

January 1944, Medics at Gowen Field, Boise Idaho train with snowshoes to practice mountain rescues. Photo my collection from the records of Sgt. John Mazzochi.

Medics in uniform pose in snow with their flag before manuevers.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

During WW1, Clare Attwood was commissioned by the Women's Work Sub-committee of the Imperial War Museum to produce several pictures depicting the activities of the Women's Voluntary Service. This work (1918) shows the Royal Army Clothing Depot at Olympia.

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Andrew Chatterton @historialchats.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Do not buy this! This is not a Aux stand down lapel badge but a fake from a well known faker. Stay away!

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I've started a list you can pin to your home page. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "We are going to be in your faces, we're gonna be on your ass, we're going to make sure you understand that this is what democracy looks like!"

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Zoom attendance also available through eventbrite.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/02/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods “Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

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Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Wow a great factoid for Black History Month by a friend who is quite an expert on American navy @trekkiebill.bsky.social

rekkie Bill's post about Black representation in Star Trek, referencing Commodore Stone and Captain Kirk

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#OnThisDay, 1 Feb 1998, Lillian Fishburne becomes the first African-American woman to be a rear Admiral in the US Navy. #WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory

Lillian Fishburne in dress uniform, in front of the US flag. She is a Black woman with a heap of medals.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 28/01/2025

The #Holocaust was the first widely photographed mass atrocity. #LastSeen project collects images of Nazi deportations (1938–1945), often the last photos of victims—some even taken by Jewish individuals. buff.ly/3EdyAna (Wolf Gruner @dornsife.usc.edu) 🗃️ #HolocaustRememberanceDay

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WW2TV Paul Woodadge @ww2tv.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm looking for an expert on Comfort Women in WWII please. This could be about China, Korea, The Philippines or more generally. The books I am finding seem to be mostly written in the 1990s. I'm looking for someone working/studying/teaching the subject today. Thanks

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Organizing my bookshelves and found this inscription in the front of a book dated 1920, Bataan "For the wrong that needs resistance, For the cause that lacks assistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do" a close enough quote of George Linneaus Banks

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

At the Museum of Flight in Seattle, they have on display these "British Propeller Tip Photo Frames" circa 1918. There are no names listed of the pilots or the carvers.

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Random reading for the day: Link-Belt Speeder Service Manual for LS-58 crane crawler. Made in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Construction battalions used Link-Belt equipment to build landing strips and lay road beds during the Second World War.

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A photo from Theatre Arts Monthly, May 1934 from the all-African American cast of Four Saints in Three Acts an opera with lyrics by Gertrude Stein and choreography by Frederick Ashton.

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Reading J.W. Studebaker's speech "Democracy Shall Not Be Plowed Under: Earth's Last Best Hope" given to the Farm Bureau 12/5/1939. He states:

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Red Five Scale Models @redfivemodels.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm pleased to announce that Kitoff will be back again this year at WHW Warfest. Anyone can join in. You all know the drill by now. £10 per entry. All proceeds go to Finleys Touch. Get amongst it. Donation link will go live in a few months time. @almurray.bsky.social #kitoff4victory

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Looking to the New Year and gathering up the North American IC. Will be hosting a zoom call soon.

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/12/2024

the photo brings tears to my eyes and I think it would move anyone who has become a 异乡人... a stranger everywhere and no home to return to. but home is where the heart is like the blossoming peach flowers ❤️

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Dr Monica A. Walker @monicaannwalker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I think I am going to #Christmas Hell for this!😂 Forget the #ElfOnAShelf! Meet the Diseased Elves that I made for @oldoptheatre.bsky.social Elf Pathology Trail. It has been 3 years, but they continue to be just as disturbing as the first time I modified them! I love them!😍 #MuseumTrail #OldOpTheatre

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Amy Priborsky @apribors.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four footballers.

Juan Mata in Manchester United jersey pointing toward camera.

Meghan Klingenberg yelling with her hands making a megaphone. Raining is pouring down as she leans forward.

Tim Howard in goalkeeper kit balls his fist up in celebration

Chicharito celebrates a goal running away from camera, with arms outstretched.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

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