Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 7hI love the way the final exchange has just a hint of "we didn't think he'd be any good either, mate, but he's a surprising one, is Harry" under the surface 0140
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 7hAre you alleging that he lied on the ballot paper? To what purpose? 160
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 7hBLESSED is a better actor than many give him credit for, it's just that being SO MUCH BRIAN BLESSED means he's now mostly booked simply to play himself. Nice gig if you can get it... (His Squire Weston in Tom Jones is a good example - he's born to the role, but there's more to it than shouting) 1180
Reposted by Dreadnought HolidayThe Ghost Ship EverGemma @evergemma.bsky.social · 21hSometimes truly cursed ideas just spring into my head and I NEED to get them out. 23815
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21hI don't tho we can really overlook that also he told them he was a traitor. It's not really them who have uncovered him there, is it? 130
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22hstatic.klipy.comAlice no País das MaravilhasAlt: Alice of that there Wonderland curtseying 030
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Babies, enjoying strongly contrasting patterns, are natural naval nerds 1100
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think it's a massacre for sure, but not necessarily a guaranteed 'win'. My hunch is there's not a single 'correct' answer unless you define the tactical situation, victory conditions and the will to fight, and there are certainly combinations in which my money would be on the triremes. 110
Reposted by Dreadnought HolidayJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2023On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...youtube.comHarrow and Wealdstone Train Crash NewsreelNewsreel footage of the aftermath of the 1952 Train Crash at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, which claimed the lives of 112 people and injured hundreds more. 10447240
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Superficially 100 vessels sounds like the JE investment in torpedo boats etc, but those triremes aren't bringing a new ship-killing weapon to the table. The only real thing that'd be familiar to late 19th century naval thinking is that everything had to have a ram at the front! 050
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That's closer to the JE intention to reduce the Royal Navy's advantage in strength by forcing them to spread it widely, and to use torpedoes etc to reduce investment in capital ships without losing the ability to make RN eyes water in French seas. 130
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/10/2026To take this seriously, the Ship of the Line is more Jeune École. By having a longer and faster radius of action it can threaten trade routes, forcing the triremes to split their forces. The new technology significantly increases the fighting value of the SoL, allowing it to defeat each in turn. 120
Reposted by Dreadnought Holidaybryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 101142374688
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Realistically though it's going to depend on what constitutes a victory and under what conditions they meet. Wooden boats are incredibly hard to sink, so I can't see a ship of the line being able to sink or even disable a hundred of them without running out of shot. 160
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026100 galleys might well be able to crowd it to a halt, at which point boarding becomes a matter of time and acceptable casualties (plenty of vessels were cut out after being boarded from boats that were relatively smaller than this) 2110
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Which players would definitely deserve a shiny sticker in the hypothetical Panini album right now? (I've only just realised how weird it is to have football stickers sponsored by a toasted sandwich, but that's more of an observation than a question) 030
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just as well, really, because there's a bit of a supply issue right now... 0180
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Somebody will undoubtedly reply that the Dildo of Consequences rarely arrives lubed, but it's not normally because the lubricants in question are derived from Arabian oil 41156
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026On the other hand they have successfully closed the Strait of Hormuz, so give them some credit. 1512025
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ok, so you're not going to believe this but... 0110
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The company I worked for had a very similar event for essentially the same reasons. Took two days of chaos and all our systems collapsing before the penny dropped. 160
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026But doctor! I AM whoever didn't have the processes in place! (No long term harm done though, just a shudder every time I see that Jeff Goldblum meme with "Your scientists...") 1300
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026(a little bit of theory is frequently a dangerous thing, and this case it was discovering that in theory I could code a self-delete button. Discovering that *in practice* I could code a self delete button was... an uncomfortable moment, for sure) 5592
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And this is how I came to accidentally delete an entire database 121145
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yes, but importantly every day's École day 160
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't usually tag people, but @hildur.bsky.social might be able to nudge this into Icelandic Blue Sky? 050
Reposted by Dreadnought HolidayIan Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wondering if I have any followers in #Iceland / #Ísland who might know where this church might be. A still from a film taken by a British military cameraman in August 1940. #filmcataloguing 64611
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm underwhelmed by it - I was genuinely surprised by how little inference there actually was - it's almost all "bought this once in the past" 120
Reposted by Dreadnought HolidayMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/10/2026“Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Dupuy de Lôme?” 0201
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Christ, if you don't know what you're doing by now... 030
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Isn't Stella still seen as "premium" in a fair few countries that are lager stalwarts? I seem to remember it's only aggressive supermarket discounting that trashed its reputation in the UK. That said, for a decent top ten I reckon Germany or Czechia are your best bets. 110
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm here for a good time, not a long time 1170
Reposted by Dreadnought HolidayDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hear me out. What if you REALLY hated ducks? 1012512
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Works fine if it's going in a Breville toasty maker 🤷 060
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I mean, that's quite clearly the two Eisenhowers Dwight 100
Reposted by Dreadnought HolidayMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/10/2026My mistake, a black whaaaaaale, a regular black whaaaaale! 1161
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hear me out. What if you REALLY hated ducks? 1012512
Reposted by Dreadnought HolidayDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This raises a really important question: A) Moby Dicks B) Mobys Dick Or C)Mobies Dick 4220535
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026More likely that trains come to a halt there regularly (the oil stains suggest that too) and carcasses held in place by air resistance etc finally slide off. 150
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm not a theologian, but I'm pretty sure God straight up killing one of the nuns in the middle of litigation concludes the case. Like, I'm sorry, ladies, but the big man has made this one pretty clear unless any of you are jumping up and down for the next tersely-worded thunderbolt? 7686
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Supplementary question: is this like the Paradigm Daleks where each of the eight sperm whales now have a different colour for merchandi- sorry - "narrative" reasons? 8770
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Suspect it's glitching - if it was showing four wrongly, and you then have one genuine capture the bar might not update. I did it with five 172s this morning around Madrid. 110
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I did think that would be the German, tbh 050
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This raises a really important question: A) Moby Dicks B) Mobys Dick Or C)Mobies Dick 4220535
Reposted by Dreadnought Holidaytoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 191114003095