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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 31m

And the name of the admin? Tom Bombadil.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11h

"Claudia! CLAUDIA! Richard's gone rogue!"

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Severed Ed @dwightwedding.bsky.social · 17h

You must have seen this one, right?

LukeZero @lukemckinney
Incredible scenes on Weibo, someone tweeted a bird expert "I saw this bird what'sit called?", people mocking the sketch until the expert replies "Oh yeah that's a Twelve-wired Bird of
Paradise, the sketch is great except you're missing five wires"

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Which leads nicely into von Trapp being a submarine ace…

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amused by people replying to this who went down the inevitable wikihole and discovered this wasn't just my usual whimsical pony and (von) Trapp

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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the Jurassic Era I worked on BP tankers. 1 of the ships I was on had previously been in BP's French fleet and was gorgeous inside, like a miniature cruise ship. But very sadly they had removed the two stainless steel tanks which stored the essential red and white wines. No kidding.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The hulls are alive, with the sound of mu-" Oh. Oh dear.

Hungarian (I think) postcard of the sinking French Cruiser Leon Gambetta, which we're assured is the victim of a "megtorpedozot". It's certainly been dotted all right. Image via Cartorum.fr, which I highly recommend for all your dubious and saucy French postcards for the discerning gentleman (and no doubt some of the ladies)

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The hulls are alive, with the sound of mu-" Oh. Oh dear.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The continued coyness of the Premier League to specify exactly how many charges Man City were found guilty of is doing nothing to allay my suspicion that everybody given a copy was also given a slightly different number so they could trace the inevitable leak...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hear your Da thinks he's Sir Mix-a-Lot now... (Alt text: it's a massive water butt and I cannot lie)

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Come with me to the amazing Wideford Hill Neolithic chambered cairn on Orkney. Access is via a ladder but there's a torch provided.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Suddenly "You're nicked, sunshine!" shout Gloucestershire's finest anti-terrorist coppers

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Through an administrational cock-up I've been issued a security pass with the first letter of my name replaced with an R. It now reads like I'm being introduced by Scooby fucking Doo

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

many years back arrived in work to find everyone looking out of one window. there was a car upside down at the bottom of an embankment beside the office car park which was quite a sight to see manager's phone rang and one of the team was on the other end saying "so you can probably see my car..."

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Through an administrational cock-up I've been issued a security pass with the first letter of my name replaced with an R. It now reads like I'm being introduced by Scooby fucking Doo

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The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Portal turns 7 in a month, still chugging along despite everything the world throws at us. We've got some birthday month plans to celebrate being York's longest running queer shop ever 🥳 My favourite upcoming thing is Saturday 10th October, when we'll be in three places at once 👀

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Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Clearing out old family files. FiL was in Royal Navy Reserve. Came across this wall poster for “Crests of the Royal Navy.” Posting here in case it’s of any interest or use to anyone. Tag @garius.bsky.social and @dreadships.bsky.social

A poster showing grid of Royal Navy crests, with identification. There are 7 rows, with 16 crests in each row. The poster is pretty battered, and creased where it’s been carelessly folded then stored for decades.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyway. Reminder that if you're a historian - particularly a postgrad - doing a research project your brainworms tell you only you care about... DM me. It's more interesting than you know. Talk to me. We can do a pod ep. It's all about framing. I hope those who've been on already would agree.

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Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And just like that… it’s our LAST WEEKEND of this exhibition! 💔✨ If you’ve been meaning to come and see it, this is your sign. Come and have one last wander, take in the artworks, and soak it all up before the exhibition closes its doors. 📍 Penlee House Gallery & Museum ⏰ Final weekend!

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Chris @improbablytall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Time for my favourite French Constitutional joke: Man walks into a library and says "excuse me, I'm looking for a copy of the French constitution." "I'm sorry, sir," replies the librarian, "but we don't stock periodicals."

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 25/09/2026

When the photography shop assures you that these expired films are unused

Black and white photo. Due to a double exposure, it looks as though a racing car is about to crash through a spectral graduation ceremony

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To lose on one charge of breaching financial fair play rules might be misfortune. To lose on 114 of them begins to look like carelessness...

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Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest

Alt: A very sassy looking Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man City being guilty of 115 charges is serious business. 115 slaps on the wrist is gonna leave a bit of a bruise.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone recognise these two ships? They're troopships (possibly Union-Castle Line?) sailing to Iceland from the UK in late July/early August 1940. #filmcataloguing

A black and white film frame shows a troopship underway at sea. It has two low funnels and a repeating camouflage pattern on its starboard side.

A black and white film frame shows a troopship underway at sea. It has two low funnels, dark hull and lighter superstructure.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a student handwrite "Autobahn Bismarck" as part of an answer on a test. I wanted to give extra credit, but restrained myself.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please have a read of this short thread and consider making a donation to help @suw.bsky.social continue doing the excellent work of Ada Lovelace Day

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hafner’s previous effort was the one-man Rotachute. Fancy being towed across the North Sea in one of these bad boys?

Hafner Rotachute, an interesting contraption resembling half a helicopter, with a harness instead of a cockpit.

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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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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got no idea what I actually said in St John Cadets tonight but one of the kids started giggling so badly they had to leave the room to recover. Not something I've had happen before! (Yeah, yeah, yeah - that's because I'm not actually funny etc etc)

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sal is absolutely your go-to man of you want to understand incidents like that video of the extremely large ship asserting itself with correspondingly large amounts of kinetic energy the other day

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is easily answered. Bomb disposal experts are those that get to attempt it twice.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want somebody to redub this with a massive ship's horn and literally nothing else after the initial fanfare "Dududu der, dududu der, dudusu dududu dududu dududu BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

CATTE VERSIOUN (speculatyve! not based on real attested textes!) • OLD ENGLISH: Miæow • MIDDLE ENGLISH: Myeaue • EARLY MODERN ENGLISH: Meowe

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

More correctly known as Ogof Caerbannog

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah, yes - that famous American 'precision' bombing they like to boast about, with one of their unexploded weapons forcing the evacuation of the key German port of [checks notes] Falmouth www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

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Falmouth WW2 unexploded bomb: Plans to evacuate 300 homes as experts deal with ordnance

More than 300 Falmouth homes could be evacuated if a cordon is expanded at the site of an unexploded World War Two bomb, found in the water at the docks on Monday.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I always block people for transphobia, I sometimes block them for being a fucking idiot, but only now have I discovered blocking somebody because the option is either a block or them calling an accidental dogpile onto themselves. You don't fuck about with the sea.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If people have been trying to tug you off for four days without success, consider speaking to your GP about trying a different antidepressant

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Disney putting three minutes of unskippable adverts in the middle of a half of football is fucking obscene

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not saying tying people to a stake at low tide and letting nature take its course was an effective deterrent against piracy, but I don't see why we don't rerun the experiment

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who is up for some good old fashioned state repression?

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If people have been trying to tug you off for four days without success, consider speaking to your GP about trying a different antidepressant

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A useful explainer behind the hype. Doesn't answer the question of why some people refuse to use the one brain they've been given when presented with an obvious joke on Blue Sky, but that's beyond even our best scientists to figure out.

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Bumblebike @bumblebike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@massiasthanos.bsky.social was sent this today, and thought you’d appreciate it as well! Photos on IG post www.instagram.com/p/DdjizfLiCV... Story here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/suffol...

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IRGON research solves Orford Ness mystery

Volunteer researchers solve mystery of 50m concrete ring on Orford Ness

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This video is quite something. (And to sum up Bart's analysis, the COLREGS very much start tapping their feet and saying they don't care WHO started it by the point it gets to this dangerous nonsense)

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just QPing this for anybody interested in the Richard Montgomery, if only so you see this amazing image of the wreck.

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