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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

They threw apple crumble at the display case; police have taken them into custardy...

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maggie-perhaps.bsky.social @maggie-perhaps.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

There’s a new #NotMyCat in town and he’s a friendly fellow and absolute unit #ProofOfCat

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Shirley Bassey Show (10th November 1979). Les Dawson gives some of his favourite jokes another airing whilst Shirley attempts (and fails) to keep a straight face.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

New favourite sport just dropped

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Always liked how early the Royal Navy started down its path of giving its most lethal warships embarrassing names. Nothing worse than discovering you've just had the crap kicked out of you, in naval terms, by the "Peter Pomegranate"

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day: The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night. And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The secret German weather station on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Part of the 'Weather War'. The team, led by Lieutenant Wilhelm Dege, were the last German troops to surrender in WW2, finally doing so FOUR MONTHS after Germany had officially surrendered. It was not for want of trying. /1

A man wrapped up against the cold, surveys a frozen plain

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 19/06/2025

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

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maggie-perhaps.bsky.social @maggie-perhaps.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Italy or wales? Powis Castle looking absolutely glorious, gardens are paradise

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maggie-perhaps.bsky.social @maggie-perhaps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

#ProofOfCat at @nationaltrust.org.uk Dudmaston Hall - Pixie oversees the operation of the hall and curates the wonderful collection of modernist art

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Heisenberg, on seeing dazzle, famously said "oh do fuck off"

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 06/06/2025

As it is that time of year again, here is W/C L.E. Healy's wonderful response to the Air Ministry's reminder, hours into the landings in Normandy, that 2TAF's Hawker Typhoon Bomphoons were not cleared to drop 1000lbs bombs. The Canadian Tiffys had already dropped 48 of them that morning... #dday

LOOSE MINUTE,

To:- W/Odr. Ops. 7

You may consider the following to be of historical interest:-

At 10.30 hrs. today, an officer of the Air Ministry, Whitehall, telephoned to state that it was not yet possible for the Air Ministry to "clear” Typhoon aircraft for the carriage of 1,000 lb. bombs, and that the M.A.P. was being asked to carry out an investigation into the question.

As you are, no doubt, aware, we have for the past two months been fitting 1,000 lb. bomb racks to Typhoon aircraft; and the Typhoon carrying 2 x 1000 lb. bombs is our primary weapon against certain tactical targets.

It was suggested to the Air Ministry official concerned that he might like to take the following action:-

(i) Try to stop A.E.A.F. from putting 1,000 lb. bombs onto Typhoons.
(ii) Recover any 1,000 lb. bombs which may already have been dropped by Typhoons, and explain to the recipients that the bombs were dropped in error.

L.E. HEALY
Wing Commander, Arm.1
June 6. 1944.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 25/05/2025

The Telegraph has disappeared this from their website, possibly out of mortal shame. You know what to do... (Link is to archive copy. The internet never forgets.) archive.is/2025.05.25-1...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway. If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Interestingly, I just did my first security training that included deepfakes, which advised vigilance against your boss having an unusual tone or making odd requests. Looking forward to “Sorry, boss, I didn’t do that because the suggestion was so stupid I assumed it was a scam.”

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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Magnum Cart. The singular of Magna Carta.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/05/2025

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

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maggie-perhaps.bsky.social @maggie-perhaps.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#NotOurCat the extremely unbothered half-tailed cat that owns multiple local gardens enjoying the sunshine #ProofOfCat

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵

watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

• Al Overview
The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
• Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone.
• Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.

My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

People talking about St. Pierre and Miquelon, so I’ve got Acadian Saturday Night playing on a loop in my ear. We should talk more about the Amphibious Christmas Liberation of St. Pierre in 1941, when the Free French pissed off the US and UK by recapturing the island with six guys and a toothbrush.

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