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TL. SMS Hindenburg TR. Austin A90 Atlantic BL. Mitsubishi Type 74 tank BR. Metropolitan Railway 2-6-4T locomotive Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 947 Austin A.F.T.3 Osprey Mitsubishi 1MT Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Alternatively, when eels just aren’t slippery enough.

When you have tired of shoving eels up your jacksie and are looking for something even more slippery and disgusting, find yourself a Farage.
Photo of Andrew Tate getting a pre-insertion thumbs up from Nigel Farage.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What’s it like inside your head?

A mating ball of garter snakes in a tree.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My best guess is near the dropped pin on this map. From some of the main roads in the area you can get a “streetview” that doesn’t look too far out. I’ve added a view that shows what could be the buildings in the distance in your photo. To get the alignment correct, the photo was taken further east.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You mean “and a fruity other way” surely ! 😂😂😂😂😂 Gotta love automatic captioning of a Scottish accent !

Still from a live concert video of one of the Proclaimers (Don’t ask which one, I haven’t a clue) as they perform their song “Throw the R away”
Automatic captioning of the line in the chorus reprising the songs name is rendered as “A fruity other way”

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I visited this crazy bar in St.Malo many times. I always wondered why nobody ever sat on the “interesting” bar stools. Until I tried them for myself and nearly shattered both kneecaps 😬

Bar area of La Java Cafe in St.Malo, featuring the worlds maddest bar stools. Repurposed children’s swings suspended from the ceiling. The rest of the bar looks like it was decorated by a madman with a fetish for children’s dolls.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Not much left of the £78k after he paid the electricity bill.

BBC news article about Son who kept mum's body in a chest freezer in his living room for years while collecting £78k of her benefits.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Vulcan XH558 engine run up. 3engines at 60% power, one at 90 %. The ear defenders were obligatory but did nothing to alleviate the stinging in my sinuses caused by the noise. 😮

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Photos from yesterday’s visit to see Vulcan XH558

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Dog lovers comment after watching The Odyssey, a movie about the horrors of war, depicting slaughter on an epic scale.

SPOILERS !
Matthew: Dog lovers will certainly love this film. At the end when Odysseus came home, his beloved dog Argos who has waited all his life was so happy to see his master finally died with a peaceful heart.
Lauren: Matthew, I didn’t like the dog abuse scenes where they kicked a sick and dying dog then put him on a pile of shit forever but I guess that was in the source material. I also didn’t like the puppy being thrown over the cliff. The rest of the movie I enjoyed though.
Matthew: Ya me too. That poor dog they abused was old Argos

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Fouga Magister has a certain Gallic charm

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Keep putting one foot in front of the other 🤷‍♂️

BBC online article entitled “How to walk 30 minutes a day - your tips”
Illustrated with pictures of a young woman in sunglasses holding a small scruffy dog next to a low sea wall with white cliffs in the background and another of a scrawny young man in black shorts, grey top and white baseball cap ( worn reversed, of course !) on top of a hill peak with a lake in the distance.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

An old friend painted that castle for me many decades ago.

A painting of Eilean Donan Castle, rendered in muted blues, greys & greens. The castle and bridge are reflected in the calm waters of the loch, the mountains in the background are wreathed in mist and cloud.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

…… and this is what the bird on the Cayman Islands 1 cent coin actually looks like 😆 That foliage isn’t bamboo either !

Cayman Islands 1 cent coin showing a representation of the extinct Grand Cayman Thrush on a branch with foliage behind.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Seaplane- The Loire-Nieuport 10 Flying boat - The Latécoère 631 No question !

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

After the phenomenal success of my night fighter identity quiz, I thought I might try my hand at setting an Odd one Out quiz.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I think this was the Moonbeam II,

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My modest collection. Stopped collecting years ago when the Mrs. refused to buy any more vases. We first bought the smaller vase and she said, and I quote, “We’ll never fill that !” We haven’t done too badly considering half of what we drink has a screw top. 😳

Our collection of wine bottle corks, in 2 large glass vases and 1 smaller one.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Of course. I hope you appreciate that I got up at 07:30, on a weekend, to find that hastily thrown together pile of garden canes and bed linen. I ended up going with the general online consensus although a line diagram of the Ca.4 in this book shows it with unequal span wings. 🤷‍♂️

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Fairchild XNQ1 Douglas BT-2CR (Drone conversion) Ishikawajima R-3 Caproni Ca.4 of 1911

B&W photo of a Bleriot V “Canard” aircraft on the ground being attended by two ground crew. The pilot appears to be facing the wrong way round. He isn’t.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I’m sure I’ve seen this movie before 🤔😮

Photograph of a nuclear mushroom cloud illustrating a New Scientist cover about AI’s consistently recommending the use of nuclear weapons in war games.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Delighted to have captured a photo of the old battleship.

A photo of my beautiful wife with HMS Belfast in the background.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Was in Bennett’s bar last night when the lights went out for over an hour. Nobody batted an eye, just kept drinking in the dark as if that’s a perfectly normal thing to do. Luckily the card machine kept working and a little light from the illuminated beer taps meant the staff could keep serving.

A busy Bennett’s bar during a power cut. Minimal illumination from candles on some tables and light through a far doorway. Everyone keeps drinking with imperturbable focus.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I once foolishly asked copilot to help identify an old photo of an obscure biplane. It did not go well.

I asked for a 3 engined biplane, copilot kept giving me single engined answers and when I castigated it, it apologised profusely and asked for another chance.

Next, copilot hallucinates a completely imaginary aircraft name and, when challenged, gives me another completely stupid answer.

Yet again copilot gives an answer that is patently wrong, thanks me for my patience, then suggests another obviously wrong answer.

More of the same, another ridiculous answer, a grovelling apology, then a similarly stupid answer.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The Goddess Diana with a lion by Angelo Graf von Courten 😂😂😂

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

If you wanted music on the move, you owned this.

A 1960’s Steepletone portable cassette recorder.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Festive aircraft identification quiz. Identify all four and be guided to the OoO. Reverse image search all you like, it’ll be bugger-all help. 😂

Image of an airborne Santa’s sleigh in a lightly clouded blue sky. Taken from a Canberra.

Silhouette of Santa’s sleigh against a full moon and over a cityscape. Naughty children gnash their teeth and rend their hair, unseen, below.

Santa’s sleigh depicted in a night sky, over roofs and trees with a full moon behind. The reindeer appear to be idly chatting in flight and need to maybe be a bit more focused on the important task in hand.

Santa’s sleigh in a snowy landscape. This may be a picture of an early test of the sleighs VTOL capabilities as the surrounding snow is completely untroubled by tracks of any type.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This is not a Parasol. Neither are TR, BL or BR.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The downside of having a bird feeder popular with goldfinches is that they are such messy eaters. All the spilled seed attracts a flock of pigeons. Luckily the pigeons eventually attract a solution to the pigeon problem.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Heartwarming to see the elf at the door to Harry’s bar maintaining the local Xmas tradition of overdoing it at the company Xmas party and puking in the gutter.

Partially deflated Elf flopped over and hanging over the Gutter at Harry’s bar Newcastle.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I asked Copilot if it could name a 3 engined biplane I was trying to identify. It did not go well

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In the spring I put up a feeder with sunflower hearts in an attempt to encourage goldfinches to my back yard. Over the summer I had a pair visit regularly, then 3 young joined them later. Now I get a flock emptying the feeder every day. The greedy little swine are eating me out of house & home.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The lunatic fringe of the Tories are like those old “drinking bird” toys. They look at Reform, think they might like a taste of that particular grift, dip their beaks in and……no, no, no, can’t get out fast enough.

A photo of a plastic “Dipping Bird” toy beside a glass of water.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

After hours of trawling t’internet I couldn’t find BL. Then I remembered that the Mrs. had upgraded her PC to W11 and now had Copilot AI. So, “all other research allowed” I thought I would give it a try 😦 What fun I had ! What a totally useless tool (in every sense of the expression).

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I would have someone check that the explosive bolts holding the tail on have been made safe 😮

A recent photo of the fuselage of a Dornier 335 “Pfeil” twin engined (push/pull configuration) German fighter aircraft of late WW2. The photo caption reads “You open an abandoned storage unit and see this. First action ? “

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

On the SkyHistory channel at 8pm tonight. Bone Detectives : Secrets from beyond the………What ? 😬

Photo of TV screen showing advert for a Sy History programme called Bone Detectives with the on screen tag line “Secrets from beyond the gave” WTF !

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The great grand daddy of them all, the Gerhardt Cycleplane.

B&W photo of the Gerhardt Cycleplane after a taxiing mishap in front of a large aircraft hanger. The aircraft’s seven (yes, seven) wings have collapsed in history’s first recorded attempt at impromptu multi wing origami.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Here’s my best guess at an ID The Vought VE-7 Tandem seating✅ Two bay✅ Exhaust arrangement✅ Tail shape✅ Upper & lower flaps connected✅ Similar tail skid✅ Pilot seat slightly higher than observer✅ If you tell me it’s a VE-8 or VE-9 I’m going to sulk for a month.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The seats at the bar are always empty. I found out why when I sat in one and almost shattered my kneecaps on the bar.

Very quirky children’s play park swings as bar seats in a French pub. All fun and games until you try and use them and your knee caps are shattered against bar. At least the alcohol they sell is a passable anaesthetic.

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Tom Duncan @capntom.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Used to call here regularly on my ship. A great run ashore. Did you visit the bar with all the dolls ? Super creepy !

Interior photo of La Java Cafe in St. Malo, the bar would look like an ordinary old French bar if it wasn’t for the fact it is decorated with over 3000 dolls. Not a venue to have a drink if you are nervous about being watched.

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