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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heye almost certainly knew this. When promoted to Rear Admiral (equiv) he resubmitted his nomination of Roope for a VC via the Red Cross. When he was promoted to Vice Admiral, he did it AGAIN. All this was a bit awks for the Admiralty and Kriegsmarine, who were, ya know, trying to fight a war.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week on Untitled History Podcast: Dr Clarke joins me for the incredible last stand of HMS Glowworm in WW2. The only time a Victoria Cross was awarded based primarily on a nomination by the enemy captain: Captain Heye of the Hipper Below or on apps/Youtube! open.spotify.com/episode/52Ma...

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Episode 34: The last stand of HMS Glowworm and the invasion of Norway

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

I’m actually gonna pop this one out of the thread and tag her because @nigella.bsky.social this was really a beautiful moment! Thank you for saying it!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/09/2026

It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...

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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....

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legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

re the cornell 7

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But I don't know anything about tapes or digitisation or anything like that. I don't even know how I would play this. I don't even know if it's still in good enough condition to play. So my question is... How? How do I take these two tapes, this two part performance, and make the choir live again?

An open box of scotch polyester tapes, showing the reel inside

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026

hey bsky, what is (ro) Ireland like for trans folk these days? Asking for a British friend.

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Cecilia @gaiacecilia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nothing says autumn is coming quite like having to make up a big mug of honey and ginger tea (seasoned with rehydration salts because, well, EDS is wack) for the throat.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Living in a society where everyone needs therapy is like living in a building where the fire alarm is going off all the time.

screenshot of a post by Amy Mason which reads: My therapist just said 'kids are very resilient' and I said 'why do all adults need therapy then?' And she just looked into the middle distance for a bit + seemed to reassess quite a lot of things

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Cecilia @gaiacecilia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wondering round York, UK and found this in a new bookshop. Whole thing is a bibliophiles dream but this was probably my favourite spot. @tkingfisher.com

Bookshop display of What Stalks the Deep

Bookshelf display with a number of T Kingfisher books including the saints off Steel series, Nettle and Bone. It’s very well stocked with pretty much an entire shelf of T Kingfisher’s work.

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 A reminder #OTD that 'Hardrada' makes no sense in any language. The Norwegian king who died at Stamford Bridge in #1066 was called Haraldr harðráði in Old Norse. Such bynames or nicknames can (and should) usually be translated. His means something like 'Hard Ruler' or 'Stern Ruler'.

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

today i learned!

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The Vagabond Tabby @thevagabondtabby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

wicked girls saving ourselves soap $8 www.thevagabondtabby... rose and myrrh and cinnamon • love and death and life • this is for my wicked girls

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Jeannie Prinsen @jeannieprinsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I didn't see this one myself, but a colleague said he did: a student writing about Paradise Lost referred to "God's arch-enemy, Stan."

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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression…

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Mystalia @mystalia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok, my reach here is pretty small so big chance nobody who sees this post will care about fashion runways in the slightest, but does anybody know where to get access to good photographs of all runway collections like vogue does without it being vogue?

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oh this is one of my favourite facts that always pisses people off, Shakespeare is modern English, you can tell because you can read it.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tobias is a very good writer, and he and his family (including the cats) are in a rotten situation. If you can help out, you'll get some great reading.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the only country in the developed world that doesn’t define healthcare as an absolute right for all of its citizens. hartmannreport.com/p/the-insura...

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The Insurance Industry Built a Tollbooth Between You and Your Doctor. Who Will Tear It Down?

Americans pay extraordinary sums for a system that can still deny doctor-recommended care, while Canada’s Medicare fight shows another path…

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tolkien to get memorial in Westminster Abbey, and it looks like it’s going to be beautiful: broadbent.studio/tolkeinmemor...?

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Tolkien Memorial — Broadbent Studio

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

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Ale @alepresser.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my GOD, can't I have a MINUTE of peace? Side Quested has it's own website, but we have a LOT of views and readers on Tapas!! And there's a LOT of creators that will be in worse situation.... finance.biggo.com/news/628901c...

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Kakao Entertainment Shuts Down Tapas, the North American Webtoon Platform It Invested ₩1.1 Trillion In — Accelerating Business Integration — BigGo Finance

South Korea's Kakao Entertainment is shutting down Tapas, the North American webtoon platform it acquired in 2021 for approximately ₩1.1 trillion…

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

they called the cat Frankenstein because they never quite got their sea legs. so would wobble around the lower deck in rough weather.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

there were more cats involved in the fighting on D-Day than dogs. DAMN RIGHT the mutts need to show their respect. RESPECT ARE KITTY TROUPS etc

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 21/09/2026

It’s just a conference motion and only from the party with the third most seats in Parliament but it passed resoundingly and I do think that matters.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I mean, if he is selflessly doing tech support for pensioners, no need to beatify this man in the future, he's already a saint.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Tabletop Tinkering @tabletoptinkering.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

✨ #SelfPromoSaturday ✨ We're a small UK business that makes and stocks a funky selection of #ttrpg accessories at www.tabletoptinkering.com, including handmade mimics and gelly cube soaps with a whole set of dice inside! Free UK shipping over £40. Pop your promos below and repost other people 💜

A purple 7 sided dice tray with fabric rainbow mushroom lining

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Max Waugh @maxwaughphoto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This brown bear cub was very curious, which is a necessary trait to help alleviate boredom while Mom is busy fishing all day. It also excelled at making cheeky facial expressions, so it was a lot of fun to watch and photograph.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 15/09/2026

Typo of the day was 'piestess' instead of 'priestess' and now I think there should be piestesses in my book, out giving pasties to the poor, healing the sick with sausage rolls, scattering yum yums to the masses The Order of St. Greggs

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is the most solidarity I've ever felt with this fake southern accent fraud, the confusion is real, literally nobody who speaks English understands this meanwhile Kash thinks that because some weird guy on the internet with a cartoon avatar told him its based that he's going to manage this

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 14/09/2026

I like these. I especially like seeing Rome burn, I mean melt. And imagine the joy of seeing a Data Center be destroyed by heat... I should buy that one for my old pal Sarah Connor. The descriptions on the website are hilarious. jdandkateindustries.com

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/09/2026

Every worker facing redundancy at the University of Birmingham is from a migrant or minority ethnic background. UCU members will meet on 17 September to decide whether to ballot for strike action. No compulsory redundancies. Release the equality impact assessment. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

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University of Birmingham staff to consider strike ballot over redundancies that fall entirely on minority ethnic staff

Staff at the University of Birmingham will meet next week to consider potential strike action in a battle against redundancies, the University and College Union (UCU) said today (11 September).

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you prefer to make your own choice for the National Trust Council, 'Restore Trust' have helpfully provided a list of their preferred infiltrators. Here's who to AVOID: Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani 2/2

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/09/2026

Hey do we know anyone in bury st Edmund’s??

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is shocking to hear! Einstein kept a picture of Maxwell on his office wall and admired him more than any other scientist. Every fall I teach a whole course about his work. This is like hearing that Westminster Abbey might be purchased so a new car rental place can built on Newton’s grave.

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Cecilia @gaiacecilia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh look, the alma mater that damned near killed me is being shitty again. I wish this was a surprise but well, see previous sentence.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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