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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23h

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.

Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sadly, this was my experience with therapy as well. The guy came off as competent and was obviously concerned for my wellbeing, but I don't think he ever really understood what I struggled with. It felt more like a weekly small talk session than someone actively trying to shape my thought process

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In 'The Heavy Water War', the Norwegian commandos raiding the Rjukan heavy water plant are shown equipped with American "Pineapple" hand grenades, while in reality they were issued British Mills bombs

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Amazing stuff, well done! That's a pre-order from me👌

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Timothy Choi @timdocchoi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🚨🚨📣📣 I am proud to announce that my @ucalgary.bsky.social PhD dissertation will be published as " #FjordsDeepAndOceansBlue: Norwegian, Danish, and Canadian #Seapower 1945-2025", from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social on 4 February 2027! Pre-orders available! www.bloomsbury.com/ca/fjords-de...

A book cover featuring the Danish patrol vessel HDMS Lauge Koch seen from the portside stern with the Greenlandic coast in the background, slightly backlit in the mid-day sun with gauzy clouds and blue-tinged and snow-capped mountains. Cover text, arranged in an upward sloping fashion from left to right, includes the author's name (Timothy Hiu-Tung Choi), the title (Fjords Deep and Oceans Blue across two lines), and the subititle (Norwegian, Danish, and Canadian Seapower 1945-2025). The titel is in navy blue while the other text is in red. The publisher's name, Bloomsbury, is in small white font at the bottom fo the cover.

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Pearl Harbor It's already rubbish

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As a Norwegian, visiting North Dakota was legitimately such a weird experience. The sensation of not being able to see _anything_ that was more than maybe a few kilometers away, or at a different elevation, was so uncanny, almost (paradoxically) claustrophobic

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yes. If these two were cancelled, he would have become world champion today

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Them ancient Egyptian sisters really were something

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2026

🧵 The Wehrmacht was a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION responsible for mass crimes against humanity and genocide.🧵 🔥The mother of threads.🔥 Click below for an exhaustive discussion of the criminality of the German Army during WWII as I try to once again kill the cockroach that is the Clean Wehrmacht Myth!

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Map Myths @mapmyths.com · 07/10/2026

A remarkable tale of survival lies behind these inconspicuous islands of Santi and Rustene, which occupy the seas north of Norway and south of the ‘land of pygmies' on Mercator's 1569 world map. It's a story so powerful that it is still celebrated in Norway and Italy today.

Map: Nova et aucta orbis terrae descriptio ad usum navigantium emendate accomodata (Gerardus Mercator, 1569). Source: BNF

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fun story about one of the first dogfights between the Zero and Hellcat. The attack on 10/5/1943 was the biggest carrier raid of the war so far, 3 fleet carriers and 3 light carriers. Flight ops were a mess so planes began heading to the island captured by the Japanese in December 1941 on their own🧵

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would just like to note that the Allies started winning WW2 when they moved from naming their tanks after racist Confederate loser traitors (Stuart, Lee) to naming them after righteous Union winners (Sherman). The British caught on to this earlier, renamed the Lee the Grant, and never looked back.

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the most underwhelming scenes in general, tbh. A few hours worth of buildup to one of the most important events in human history, tension so thick you could practically cut it with a knife, only to see a slow-mo of what is clearly a gasoline bomb Absolutely baffling decision

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Except this IS what the voters want. He has not, at any point, tried to hide the fact that this is exactly what he was going to do; no-one can claim ignorance. This is literally what they voted for, every single one of them

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Playing "Four battles of Army Group South - Rostov" German 1st turn is mixed to put it mildly but there is a breakthrough to the south and the danger of one around Kharkiv

Army Group South - breakthrough in the south

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But that was a very different situation. The Chelsea sale was forced upon him as a consequence of the massive outcry following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and had broad public and political support nationwide No such thing is happening now

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This would all have been so much fun, if it wasn't for the certainty that nothing will ever come of it, except maybe a symbolic fine (aka "slap on the wrist"). Big money rules, and the big clubs have shown time and again that the rules don't apply to them

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And of course the wehraboo is talking about the Sherman Rent free

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now, I'm not saying "Ditch guy travels the world and rates ditches" would necessarily be a successful travel vlog.... But...

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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Might be old but still relevant. Footage from 1981. From 45 to 48min notice how close nearby and above #RDN #Helicopter #Aluette seemed to be #Sovjet #Russia #Navy #Krivak + #Lena #Oiler #Navalhistory #DanishStraits #ColdWar youtu.be/NS7okQ7cqoI?...

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Corsair portion of my talk on Friday on the Fleet Air Arm (full title is ‘Cooler than the Hellcat’) -

Hush-Kit on stage with a tinnie talking planes

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Iron Nest, the dieselpunk fire control -tism simulator, has a detailed cat mascot customization feature 10/10, no notes

Screenshot from a video game, showing an orange cat on a table. To the right is a customization menu, where you can customize the appearance of the cat in terms such as fur colour, head size, ear shape etc.

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

From my own army experience, deck crews do not fuck around with lashing (and these are trucks - relatively light weight and on rubber wheels)

A ship deck full of military trucks, each comprehensively secured to the deck with chains

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

May the Force be with you! (*hides*)

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Shane McBride @smcbride2910.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

*Mamdani standing next to the guillotine in a slickly produced video* I’m standing at the Place de la Concorde and we’re done kicking the can down the road.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Meet Louise of Prussia. Politician, diplomat and beloved queen and wife. Rode into battle while pregnant. One of my heroes. Famously described by Napoleon famously as "the only real man in Prussia" Gonna ask you to think a bit about that in a sec, but first you need to know about her life. /1 🧵

painting of a young woman, in a red dress, staring at the artist with a firm gaze.

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This was incredibly interesting! Thank you!

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/x In 1969, the largest merchant ship in the American fleet was cut into four pieces, given a new bow, and sent to ram her way through the Northwest Passage to fetch one barrel of oil. One.... It was painted gold. This is the story of the SS Manhattan. #maritimehistory

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"The confederates would've defeated any European army" My brother in christ, they weren't even able to defeat a collection of history teachers and house painters

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Stephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com · 28/08/2026

WAR BORES! Want to watch the new Pressure film the traditional way? By boring your date with extra detail & muttering when it gets stuff wrong? Then watch @thehistoryguy.bsky.social & I discuss the actual events in this new History Hit episode & go to the cinema prepared! youtu.be/2tZUtNJBuZ0?...

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D-Day: The Final 72 Hours | As It Happened

YouTube video by History Hit

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

😆 That sounds like the HOI community I've learned to know, alright

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For the love of God, stay away from the HOI4 Reddit - an absolutely raging shit fest of wehraboo incel ideology

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Jock Campbell: the cup is almost full but its upside down in a ditch (Too soon?)

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Things I learned this evening. TJ “Stonewall” Jackson’s sister Laura split with her brother over the Civil War, AND when she found out he’d died in 1863 said she “would rather know that he was dead than to have him a leader in the rebel army” DAYUM

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"There's money in the banana stand" - Dionysios of Syracuse Probably

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Søren Nørby @navalnoerby.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#orlogsporno Projekt til et aldrig realiseret panserskib med 4 25,4 cm og 6 15 cm kanoner. Deplacement ca. 6.000 tons, topfart 20 knob og en besætning på ca. 450 mand. Mastehøjden måtte maks være 26 meter, da skibet skulle kunne passere under Storstrømsbroen. Udarbejdet af Orlogsværftet i maj 1936.

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Naval Estimates @navalestimates.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Naval Estimates is out. The first free public build is live - design the guns, turrets and hulls of the Royal Navy's first dreadnought, free in your browser. Nothing to install. Play now: elouda.itch.io/naval-estima...

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Naval Estimates: The Dreadnought Age by Elouda

Design the ships. Build the fleet. Balance the budget. Free naval grand strategy in the dreadnought age.

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Also brain breaking: the flight distance of the first aircraft he flew (37m) was shorter than the wingspan of the last aircraft he flew (38m)

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Roel Konijnendijk @roelkonijn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fun thread here from a participant of the first Olympias trials, but one of the things that surprised me as I tried it myself in 2024 was that I (at a very Dutch 193cm/6'4) could fit comfortably on the top bench.

View from the top bench of the reconstructed trireme Olympias, showing overhead clearance between the rowers and the deck. Several people are on or making their way to the benches; oars lie across the central walkway.

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Sindre @grautbakken.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The operation where the much maligned and vastly outnumbered British carrier force fought a three-day battle against an estimated 650 Axis land based aircraft and won Would have loved to see the much vaunted Japanese and American carrier forces pull off something similar in August 1942

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Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hey, #Warhammer #40k humans! My sister's kids are suddenly into Warhammer, and they pickedup a 10th edition starter pack with tyrannids and Space Marines. I've played the Dark Heresy RPG, but never the wargame. Any good YouTube recs to help me keep my "cool" weird aunt status and learn to play?

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Søren Nørby @navalnoerby.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sink the Ships! – Now available in English My book Sink the Ships! about the scuttling of the Danish Fleet on 29 August 1943 is now available in English: tinyurl.com/8u8yss84 for just DKK 222.

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