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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Low IQ” does appear a lot in his posts where you might otherwise expect to see a particular slur.

Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My guess would have been “Bunyip”. What’s the reference for this? I’m assuming this was the back half of 2007? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip?...

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hmm, he is deathly afraid of people with nukes who could conceivably use them against the US (see his fawning over Putin, Kim Jong Un, etc), but I don’t think that fear extends to using nukes against someone who can’t reach the US with any.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m sure it’s no big deal that Hegseth doesn’t seem to think that either Confederate slavers or Nazis make it into his list of top three historic adversaries of the US.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We all know Hegseth was really a terminal O4, but between his ‘cult of the operator’, petty resentments, bigotry and casual viciousness, he really has the opinions and intellect of the worst terminal E4 you have ever met.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, ‘Project Meridian’ is all about funneling US taxpayer money to Musk and Luckey, then.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I suspect it’s all the members of that church’s congregation who served, with only the names marked “Obiit” being those killed. The Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers being marked in regimental colours is a particularly nice touch.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The fucking King has done you wrong” Late entry, inspired by this popping up on my feed. bsky.app/profile/shak...

Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here And hold their fucking manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

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As a Lions supporter I’m prepared to admit Freo were the team to beat all season, and with four minutes to go I was sure Freo had done it. Great season-long effort by the Dockers.

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Fremantle-Hawthorn GF next year is pretty likely, to be honest.

I feel for Freo, but as a Lions supporter I was delighted (if at risk of cardiac arrest)

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absolutely epic third AFL Grand Final victory in a row by the Brisbane Lions. With four minutes to go I thought Fremantle were going to win it, the last four minutes were incredible.

An AFL social media post celebrating Brisbane Lions defeating the Fremantle Dockers (89-96) in the 2026 AFL Grand Final

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I’d watch a live stream of Hegseth in some South American prison after he’s extradited for various murders of ‘cartel members’ at sea. Might be a short show, though.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I finished Anna Funder’s “Wifedom” this week. I was very impressed by “Stasiland” and I found her account of George Orwell’s marriage to Eileen O'Shaughnessy equally compelling and (mostly) convincing. It seems Orwell had a complex private life (derogatory). #histbookchat, #photofriday #booksky.

A paperback book by Anna Funder titled “Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life”

The book is the story of Eileen O'Shaughnessy’s marriage to George Orwell, based in part on O'Shaughnessy’s letters to a friend.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m pretty sure this is the premise of an episode of “Yes, Minister”

Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With your current administration, the olny chance of it getting up is if it is a Confederate battery commander you are talking about.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From a technical/tradecraft/PME point of view I’m interested in how all these operations are being put together. Is everyone who isn’t Iranian (including Israelis) flying off the one ATO? If so, it’s feasible that RAF tankers are only picking up Saudi aircraft fragged for DCA, I guess?

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Was there anything you would call a single decisive battle in the 1979 Tanzania-Uganda war, @cthomasjamh.bsky.social ? The Ugandans did collapse pretty quickly.

Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Königgrätz/Sadowa 1866 Sedan 1870 Adowa 1896 (albeit NOT in the way the guys starting it wanted) (Which are all very qualified exceptions to your basic argument which I happen to agree with)

Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I do laugh every time I get somewhere either I or a family member has lived like Bendigo or Toowoomba in a *hard* round. I usually get unstuck with one that poses a question like “um, which one is Jiangxi and which one is Jiangsu again?”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I know I’ve said this several dozen times, but right wing lunatics frankensteined together unrelated Bible verses to create “the antichrist” and a description of what he would look like, and then the guy fucking showed up and they love him.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So, according to this, Hitler is in heaven lining up to chat with Charlie Kirk but there’s no black people there? I guess that fits with what I’d expect from that particular corner of politics.

Pretty much what I had in mind when I posted this in response to the Dover blackshirts thing last wee. bsky.app/profile/pete...

Might explain an attitude of “well, can’t do anything about THAT, so I’ll forget about those guys and focus on someone (I think) I can beat up on”

Probably the case for an older generation of strategic leaders, but not as much for the cohort I am specifically thinking of who would have been at school in ‘79 (if they were even born).

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That’s actually pretty plausible, and explains (at least in part) the attitudes of some of the more upwardly mobile and ambitious ones.

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That explains why the generation of US Army and USMC officers I am specifically thinking of hate the IRGC. I still don’t get why they hate the IRGC for the EFPs their platoon ate in Sadr City, but (ISI-bankrolled) IEDs that their company hit in Helmand a few years later don’t have the same effect.

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Probably part of it, along with a sense of wanting to settle scores with Iran going back to the Embassy seizure and Beirut bombings, I guess. So I do understand the Iran thing, but not how Pakistan and the ISI get completely off the hook. Especially when you think about where OBL turned up.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 commemorations again make me wonder why so much of US military leadership has implacable hatred for the IRGC and Quds Force, but Pakistan and ISI supporting the Taliban and sheltering OBL in Abbottabad (I mean, come on now) gets ignored or at best a shrug of the shoulders.

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I was re-reading The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski this week . I defy anyone to read this classic account of the court politics and detachment from reality of the twilight years of Haile Selassie’s regime in Ethiopia, and not think of current events. #histbookchat #photofriday #booksky

The cover of the book “The Emperor” by Ryszard Kapuscinski.

The cover features a black and white photograph of former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.

A paragraph from the book “The Emperor” by Ryszard Kapuscinski, describing the Emperor’s court as being filled by mediocrities.

A paragraph from the book “The Emperor” by Ryszard Kapuscinski, describing the fluid and temporary hierarchies of prestige in the Emperor’s court.

A paragraph from the book “The Emperor” by Ryszard Kapuscinski, describing the insatiable greed and rapacity of the Emperor and those around him.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve been assured by people on here that “no, Americans aren’t interested enough in guns and violence or motivated by their petty resentments to do anything along these lines”

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just an idle thought, but the next time this happens the Home Secretary could always ask the MoD for a bit of help. There’s a battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles based about 15 minutes drive from Dover - who I expect would be fairly useful in Aid to the Civil Power tasks.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m sure all the people concerned about Mamdani attending 9/11 commemorations while being Muslim will have something to say about this selflessly dignified reflection any minute now.

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sicario: Day of the Soldato is mostly fantasy SF operator trash, but… the scene of driving through the desert as the visibility closed in and the Mexican Police initiated the ambush took me RIGHT back to days in Afghanistan where I wondered “is this where our partners kick off the green on blue?”

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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Hegseth “vet bro / ‘Department of War!’ / toxic masculinity” faction of MAGA is really banging the “Canadians are woke and soy and we can totally take them” drum, isn’t it? (Never mind that the CAF member pictured is actually hard as nails, though)