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George_MC @georgemcr01.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just added some Voltigeurs to join their comrades from the Waterloo 1815 AP056 set. Fun to paint and I do just enjoy sitting painting! Next project will be some French dudes from the Italeri set No6066. #Napleonic #wargaming

Photo shows 8 x 1/72 scale painted French Napoleonic Voltigeurs from the Waterloo 1815 AP056 set. They are in open (skirmish) order advancing ahead of a column (in the background) to the rear left there are some painted 1.72 scale cuirassiers moving forward.

A slightly more overhead photo looking obliquely at the 8 x 1/72 scale painted French Napoleonic Voltigeurs from the Waterloo 1815 AP056 set. They are in open (skirmish) order advancing ahead of a column (in the background) to the rear left there are some painted 1.72 scale cuirassiers moving forward.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Latest far right malign effect - unfounded accusations of immigrants stealing wild birds to eat have led to a physical assault on a volunteer rescuing a cygnet. The Greenwich Wildlife Network statement is long, but worth a read - it's thoughtful, courageous and impeccably argued:

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Poppyganda is a good place to start (link below) I'd probably do it by talking about how there are always people that will take a thing we agree on, and use it to try and push you into things that aren't true, or they want you to believe. www.amazon.co.uk/Poppyganda-M...

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biarritz45.bsky.social @biarritz45.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

bsky.app/profile/wolv... All those racist posts from wink wink... "Paul in St.Louis" or those wink wink gop "tradwives" posing in ballerina lingerie while churning butter for their 13 Nazi kids while their husband day trades ... Might not be active for a minute. #Ukraine 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 #yandexdatacenter

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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tank riders are often considered a uniquely Soviet phenomenon, but that is not the case. #OTD in 1941 General von Brauchitsch signed manual 130/2b "Motorized company of an infantry motorized division", which described how to use tank riders in battle. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

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George_MC @georgemcr01.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I recently used ChatGPT to try to fix an excel sheet with micros I was having an issue with. It totally failed and I ended up fixing it myself - so I’m not so sure re how functional LLMs are. Still if nothing else the pathway is indicative!

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George_MC @georgemcr01.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Though having been screwed over by adobe with their fees I’m less fussed. Still interesting angle though reading the article the apps have about 25-30% functionality of what a professional user needs day to day

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists

Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We’re in the Bad Place

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.

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George_MC @georgemcr01.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"And now, the end is near" though equally holds true in meaning for Truss as PM...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Unionists/Loyalist are refusing to face reality & are triumphalist. These guys refused to sign the GFA Peace treaty & their associated paramilitaries refused to give up their arms. One side made big changes for peace & the other refused to even engage. There are a lot of drugs involved too.

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…

The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So when you see calumnies from the Blood Libel to ‘elites’ call it out, report it & ensure that antisemitism is called out every time you see it, online or in the ‘real’ world. Both are equally unacceptable.

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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s only the intro and I’m already wondering why a gang of politicians at COBRA would be looking at a tactical level display? It would be like them looking over my shoulder as a Track Coordinator and it just wouldn’t happen. Surely the whole point of decision making is they’re at a hi-level?

Screenshot from Wargame of a naval command & control system display.

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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A long journey home and it’s good to be back. Thinking of my friends & students in Kyiv who don’t have the privilege of having home as a safe space. Keeping my air alert app active for a while as a reminder of what they are living through. Here’s a snapshot from this Sunday afternoon. Slava Ukraini.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my element today at the National museum of history of Ukraine being shown the amazing results of a battlefield archaeology project. A 1630s showdown between Cossacks and Poles. And for that piece of armour look no further than the Polish Hussar kit in the csse.

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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A rough day for the people of Kyiv, but we still gathered for the third of my lectures. We had to fight for a room though, and then scrounge a projector & manage withought wifi (knocked out on one of the raids). Today we explored Waterloo and then went for pizza. Slava Ukraini!

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look, if this isn't a crime we've failed.

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

Bluebottles are the souls of people that play videos on buses.

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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Day 3 in Kyiv. First of my short series of lectures at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy today. Delighted at the enthusiasm and engagement from students and look forward to our second session tomorrow. Thanks to my colleagues here for helping to make this happen.

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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The timing might have been pretty much perfect, but having the musketry part of my lecture on Culloden momentarily interrupted by an air defence salvo is definitely going down as an unusually immersive teaching experience.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21/09/2026

My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress… —Jackie Kay, “George Square” from LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005 Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace #peace #poem #poetry www.un.org/en/observanc...

George Square
by Jackie Kay

My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress.
‘What a pair the two of us are!’
my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist,
you with your bad eyes, your soft thumbs!’

And off they went, my two parents
to march against the war in Iraq,
him with his plastic hips, her with her arthritis
to congregate at George Square where the banners
waved at each other like old friends, flapping,
where they’d met for so many marches over their years,
for peace on earth, for pity’s sake, for peace, for peace.

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#OnThisDay 1745 Charles Edward Stuart's Jacobite forces humiliated the government troops led by General Cope at Prestonpans in an action lasting less than 5 minutes. The defeat shocked the government into reassessing the seriousness of the new threat. historyofparliament.com/2020/09/03/b...

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All over in 4 ½ minutes? The battle of Prestonpans, 21 September 1745 - The History of Parliament

In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles considers some of the Members of Parliament involved in the battle of Prestonpans along with some

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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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George_MC @georgemcr01.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My latest Combat Mission Cold War BAOR campaign - set in the BATUS training area - Operation Medicine Man is live. Thread over at community.battlefront.com/topic/145573...

This is in an 'in-game' screenshot from Combat Mission Cold War - BAOR and is taken from one of the missions in the campaign. It shows a British Army armoured battlegroup on the move in the early dawn silhouetted against the rising sun. You can make out some Chieftains in the background and a Spartan in the foreground.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1/x Two 10,000 ton Japanese raiders, sixteen heavy guns, torpedoes, seaplanes, 21 knots, against a corvette with one 12-pounder and a tanker with one old 4-inch. The raiders lost. 11 November 1942. A thread.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Years of discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community, continuing homophobia and transphobia, all coupled with ageism. Older LGBTQIA+ facing ongoing discrimination/ stereotyping/judgment. Things were meant to be better by now. Instead they just seem to go backwards. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Adam Porter, a housing development manager from the LGBT Foundation charity, says he regularly meets older members of the community in exactly that situation.

"It's very common for people to hide things if they have a carer visiting their home, for example hiding their wedding photos or taking down a trans flag," he says.

"In the case of someone moving into a care environment, that means hiding who they are in their own home, for what could be the rest of their life."

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.

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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

A century earlier, on 18th Jan 1881 the 'Visiter' ran ashore off Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire. No local boat could be launched due to the violence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought OVERLAND 6 miles to the bay itself. Through 7ft snowdrifts 200 men cleared the way by hand.

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George_MC @georgemcr01.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh man. Losing people with strong connections to our lives is tough. Big hugs min.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Last repost: I used to have family on Hoy. The story there was the Longhope disaster of 1969. Many coastal communities have stories like that, and every one deserves to be retold, and anyone who attacks the lifeboats has declared war on humanity. www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/the-1969-lon...

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The 1969 Longhope Lifeboat Disaster - Scottish Maritime Museum

By Amber-Louise Thornborrow Fifty-six years ago, on the evening of the 17th of March 1969, the volunteer crew of the TGB lifeboat assembled, venturing out into a south-easterly force…

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolutely horrendous for this woman and her family.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me, every time someone goes on about this. But I guess half of the the parents were ‘fighting-age males’ 🙄

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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If it’s Thursday it must be Warsaw! After leaving Glasgow this morning at 3.30am to fly from Edinburgh l’d thought of chilling in my hotel room this pm. Instead, l spent 3 hours in the amazing Warsaw Uprising Museum (Aug 1 - Oct 2 1944). So much to see that 3 hours wasn’t enough. Highly recommended.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Looking on the bright side, electing vast numbers of these shitbrained fascist twats into local government is doing wonders for local journalism. This kind of work and writing must be more interesting than editorialising about changes to bin day, or why your local team sucks. @apiln.bsky.social

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