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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 28/09/2026

This is Ed Roberts erasure! Lol I just want to post this 1975 Evening Telegram picture I found in August from when Joey came back from Florida out of retirement.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 18/09/2026

Also, look at their rad flag:

Saint-Pierre et Miquelon flag that is four panels. Three-quarters of the right is a blue field with a golden three-masted caravel; the remaining three panels are thirds of the remaining leftward quarter. Top is a white cross and a green X on a field of red; middle is a white field of black crosses (?), and bottom are two lions passant on a field of red.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 18/09/2026

Look at the lapels. Insanity. That Canada could be so lucky.

Newfoundland and Labrador's first premier, Joey Smallwood sitting for a photo portrait in a double-breasted suit with huge notched labels, a white shirt, no waistcoat, and a polka-dot bow-tie. This portrait is missing his iconic black thick-rimmed glasses; instead he has round wire-frames on. He sits casually in a wooden chair, his arm draped over the back of it. A damask curtain hangs behind him.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 05/09/2026

Do you 1) crochet, 2) read Japanese, and 3) like to embarrass your cat? Treat yourself to this magazine issue that is entirely crochet cat accessories modeled by what is either a celeb cat or the author’s cat, I would believe either.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 26/06/2026

NYT Opinion | Is it time for a new sexual revolution?

Life cycle of the jelly fish moving clockwise from a fertilized egg to a larva to a polyp that is a wineglass shape with tentacles anchored to a rock or wharf, polyp transforming, growing essentially what will bloom into the jellyfish domes, to young medusa as the jellyfish bloom from the polyp (asexual reproduction I think) to the adult medusa as we commonly see them, labeled with jelly-like mesoglea (the dome), mouth, reproductive organ, feeding arm, and stinging tentacles. The adult produces the sexual gametes, resuming the cycle at fertilized egg.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 23/06/2026

Watching the Blochs at the Pantheon!

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 23/06/2026

Hart says goodbye to his close friend and ally Bulldog.

British Bulldog shaking Bret Hart’s hand on a Summer Slam card.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 17/06/2026

I drove by the most Sims 2 ass McMansion today outside town. Child-me would have been embarrassed by such a roof.

A mcmansion 2 story house with consecutive pyramids for the roof. The house looks like one building that has started to sprout new additional segments, with a giant entrance. To the side is a motel 8 parkade which either is or protects the garage. The person who lives her will have a view of the pond, but no one else will. Every tree has been cut, every square meter of sod stripped. The sky is grey. The house is grey. The gravel is grey.

Map view showing the strange shape that is the roof. It is like a mistake that has cascaded its way across the top of this building. A metaphorical smear on our proud local vernacular architecture.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 05/06/2026

Always struck by the language, both the rote explanation of following the legal procedure of heaving to and sending a boat and how the captain adds details when that couldn’t happen. “… it was impossible for a boat to live in such a sea …”

Drowning
Royal Charter 66700 Yarmouth NS from Pensacola WA Cain, Master

February 12th 1879 6.30PM 47.28N 32W James P. Holden fell from the main topsail yard while furling the sail in a heavy squall and was drowned it was blowing a gale of wind at the time and a heavy sea running the ship going seven knotts an hour it was impossible for a boat to live in such a sea and was blowing too heavy to bring the ship to the wind until sail was reduced on her and it was then blowing so hard we could not get the topsailsfurled until they were both fore and main in ribbons, immediately he fell the braces were thrown to him.

Wm. A. Cain Master
D. Prout Mate
James McLauder Bosun

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 16/05/2026

The photo is giving Javert meme.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 17/02/2026

Sometimes notes in your archival file are written on interesting scrap paper.

Sheilds & company incorporated New York Statistical Department

As illustrative of the growth of the aeronautical industry in the United States, the following tabulation is of interest:

Year Total Production %Increase over previous year
1925 789
1926 1186 50.3
1927 1195 68.2
1928 4100 105.5
1929 (est) 12000

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 10/01/2026

Here’s the section on purple dye in Wearable prints but it would be for cottons.

Page 131 Wearable prints section on purple dyes.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 17/10/2025

I saw a fucking BREADFRUIT TREE today! Also VANILLA!!

Me standong in front of a vanilla orchid.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 11/08/2025

Grad student or ECR? Join us at Maritime History Workshops for our 5th series of sessions WE'RE ALL MARITIME HISTORIANS NOW OR ARE "WE"? Our Fall schedule has been posted w guests speaking on career and research difficulties in the current global climate at maritimeworkshops.com. #maritimehistory

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 19/07/2025

There’s a technical term:

Image of a youtube video answering the question “how to cut the spine out of a chicken?” with a video called “how to spatchcock a chicken.” The thumbnail shows a man holding a chicken carcass that has had the spine cut out of it and he is about the flatten the breasts and break the ribs.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 03/05/2025

They open the door. Gee whiz, we were wondering if you would let us in to your hootenanny?

Cast of Sinners looking out of the juke joint at the new arrivals.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends.

Pamela Anderson, Alexandra Paul, and Yasmine Bleeth as CJ Parker, and Stephanie and Caroline Holden in Baywatch, portrayed as Charlie’s Angles posing with drawn pistols.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 05/04/2025

OMG, it is not counterintutitive: Doge is no more interesting in efficiency than AI is interested in intelligence ... it is a process meant to break public services so they can shift public dollars to private companies with no accountability!

Start of text (article linked in following post): "...like they wanted to get me from the moment I was walked to the American side." On 4 March, the White House issued a statement celebrating how "Ice arrests of illegal immigrants have surged 627%" during Trump's first month in office.
Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian woman who was detained by Ice for two weeks, says while the private companies who own the facilities are run for profit, there's no incentive to get people out quickly. (Highlighted Text) But in the era of Elon Musk's department of government efficiency (Doge), it seems counterintuitive for public money to be deliberately wasted on detaining illegal aliens with the will and means to return home. (End Highlighted Text)
Trump's border tsar, Tom Homan, promised "shock and awe" from day one of his administration. Perhaps Becky's incarceration was political theatre - or preformative cruelty. Whatever the reason, in Trump's America, a tourist who makes a mistake can be locked up, seemingly indefinitely.
The deportation paper Becky signed bans her from the US for the next 10 years. (End of image)

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 07/03/2025

Processing this GORGEOUS handknit Rocky Harbour cardigan at #NONIA today! NB Briggs & Little yarn makes the cables absolutely POP with definition. If you are looking for a sweater to last a lifetime made by a Newfoundland nan, you should checkout www.nonia.com!

Jade or teal green v-neck cardigan sweater with cables and moss stitch, wooden buttons, in quality control at NONIA, 286 Water Street, St. John’s NL.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 23/02/2025

United States was richest between 1870 and 1913 but then all the rich people died on the Titanic and after a year of salvage ideas going nowhere, we gave up the GDP of the USA to the frigid North Atlantic, where it stays until we

Section of a movie poster with the title RAISE THE TITANIC showing the Titanic getting blown off the seafloor with explosives while lit up by the lights of a half-dozen submersibles.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 20/02/2025

Anyway, here’s last week’s harvest of snow:

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 19/02/2025

Sitting down to this 2h+ thriller of the United States preparing to be put out of its misery.

A living room with a tv showing footage of the SS United States waiting in dock in Philly to be moved with tugs to Florida and then scuttled as a man-made reef.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 10/02/2025

The arrival of the snow plough on my street:

The scene from LotR: Two Towers of Gandalf arriving with the riders of rohirim. Men sit on their horses on the crest of a hill, posing heroically because they have arrived just in time, about to charge down into the valley and save helm’s deep.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 04/02/2025

Getting Newfoundland Trigger Mitts ready to ship to the US by pulled out 25% of the fingers.

Navy and white Newfoundland trigger mittens, which are mittens with a detached index or trigger finger. The thumb and finger have been unraveled. The back is an alternating pattern of diamonds and triangles.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 15/01/2025

🗣️🗣️🗣️ This is a call for prize submissions for Canadian MA students or their supervisors! The Cartier Prize is an award of $500 for 2024's best MA thesis on maritime history by a Canadian student. 👇👇 Submission rules and details in the second image 👇👇

Call for submissions for an awards prize: Canadian Nautical Research Society | Société canadienne pour la recherche nautique | www.cnrs-scrn.org Title says: The CNRS Jaques Cartier MA Prize, $500 and continues: CNRS is inviting students to submit their Master’s thesis for consideration for the Jacques Cartier Prize for the Best MA Thesis.
Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents either attending a Canadian institution OR a foreign institution, writing on a Canadian maritime topic.
The thesis must have been successfully completed and assessed leading to completion in the previous year.
The submitted thesis must demonstrate original research and be at least 50 pages/12,500 words in length.
Theses must have a maritime focus, broadly defined.
Submissions must be received by March 31, 2025.
Send a PDF of the work to Margaret Schotte, Chair of the CNRS Awards Committee, mschotte@yorku.ca.

Award Criteria
1. Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents attending a Canadian university or institution of higher learning, or a similar foreign institution, writing on a Canadian maritime topic.
2. The thesis, cognate paper, or extended research paper must have been successfully completed and assessed, leading to successful completion of the degree in the previous calendar year (i.e., completion in 2024 for the prize awarded in 2025).
3. The submitted thesis must demonstrate original research of an extended order and be at least 50 pages / 12,500 words in length.
4. A PDF copy of the thesis is to be submitted to the Chair of the Cartier Prize Committee.
5. Applicants shall provide a cover letter that includes a brief biography (200-words), as well as mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Additionally, a letter from the candidate's supervisor, graduate director, or head of department in the university or institute in which the thesis is completed must confirm that the work has passed examination (noting the dates of submission and examination, and/or completion of the degree).
6. Theses must have a maritime focus. Areas of research include, but are not limited to, history, history of science and technology, political studies and political economy, literature, archaeology, underwater archaeology, anthropology, geography, sociology, ecology, and any other branch of historical learning related to human uses of the seas, oceans, rivers or lakes.
7. If no thesis is deemed worthy of an award in a given year, no award is given.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 07/01/2025

From the Rio Grande to the Colorado, there go our great container ships! How do they get between the two? Simple.

A train with a boat as cargo. This was a real idea in the late 19th century to cross the isthmus between the Bay of Fundy and the Northumberland Strait but was never economical.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 31/12/2024

Slowly gathering the talismans closer to the sacred site. Each day they grow stronger, awaiting the final pieces! One day she will RISE AGAIN.

2/3rds of a Lego Titanic surrounded by more Titanic kitsch. From left to right: Bright Shark by Robert Ballard and Tim Choi, Long Contemporary Poems that contains Anthony Cronin’s RMS Titanic, the first paperback edition of Clive Cussler’s Raise the Titanic, a Casio electronic game SOS Titanic, Nintento Super Famicom game Septentrion, Nintendo Famicom game Titanic Mystery, and the first retail Titanic game, 1986’s Titanic: The Recovery Mission for the C64. The first Titanic game, however, was made in 1984, before the wreck was discovered, and was shareware.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 26/12/2024

The more men’s clothing and sweater news, the more powerful I become.

Images of Luigi Mangione in court with a burgundy jersey-knit worsted sweater over a crisp white button-down shirt.

Top stories
Luigi Mangione's sweater sells out after court appearance

Nordstrom sweater worn by Luigi Mangione
during court hearing IMMEDIATELY sells out: Daily Mail

Sweater Worn By Luigi Mangione Sold Out Day After His Court Appearance: NDTV

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 10/12/2024

You’ve heard of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, now AI is bringing us Lgugar’s Flying Male Genitals.

A pixelated crop of the cover if UCLA’s AI generated textbook for the entirely AI based class on comparative English literature. Between a nonsense orange and red flag and a romanesque building is a strange flying object. At a glance it looks like a bent dick and two brown balls with a pair of grey wings. A person is apparently riding the flying genitals, sitting astride the shaft. While this is in keeping with frank and often comical medieval depictions of the male sexual apparatus, it is more likely AI’s poor rendering of a goose or some other kind of bird.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 07/12/2024

C’mon, you know they are using the best computer software available.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 21/11/2024

Omg St. John’s let me live!

Bernie Saunders meme of him standing outside addressing the camera in a grey raincoat. Allcaps sans serif font reads “I am once again asking the rain to cease and desist.”

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 18/11/2024

Going through my email be like:

Image of a woman wearing a blue knit sweater with a Titanic pattern worked in intarsia, featuring a silhouette of giant Jack and Rose at the bow à la 1997 JC’s Titanic. At the top: You've recently bought Titanic Tunic Pattern, what do you think about it? And the below the image it says: Titanic Tunic Pattern. How would you rate this item? (5 star is very good, 1 star is poor).

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 15/11/2024

Gonna wear my Poppers tshirt to work:

White tshirt with a portrait of naval officer Home Popham in a relaxed pose with tricorn hat and powdered wig captioned with no vibes only thoughts.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 30/10/2024

Carved my turnip! Ready for Halloween!

A hand holding up a turnip that is carved like a jack o’lantern with little twist-tie arms.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 10/10/2024

I would argue that’s a fisherman’s boot but whatever. These puppies cost +£1 in Bonavista in 1883, which was hitting the ceiling of ready-made clothes prices in 1883.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 03/10/2024

The bar at Terre is sooo good to me 😍

A purple-rose cocktail in a champagne coupe with purple flowers from mint I think floating on the frothy surface.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 25/09/2024

The feds have a bunch of recovered debris from the wreck in Ottawa including papers they fished out of the sea with the pen still intact. There are forms they filled out the day of the disaster.

Image of a barely damaged page dated Feb 14 1982 from Ocean Ranger that was recovered from the sea after the wreck.

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Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl · 06/09/2024

Torbay! Bauline! We also visited Pouch Cove and Flatrock.

View of Torbay Bight from the Post Taphouse showing at green cove dotted with houses and a blue Atlantic and sky.

The boat launch at Bauline with colourful houses and a steep, tall, evergreen-covered hill broken with craggy rocks.

The entrance of Bauline harbour and Conception Bay, sparkling blue, from the wharf.

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