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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 10h

New article with Council on Geostrategy: Towards a JEF naval ecosystem: A blueprint for British leadership in the High North Byline currently only has my name but coauthors are Dr Marc Devore and @r-p-one.bsky.social - should be fixed soon www.britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-memora...

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Towards a JEF naval ecosystem: A blueprint for British leadership in the High North

The Memorandum | No. 48.2026

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another year another Submarine Design Course and another introduction to build-a-bear submarines...

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The one bit of flag waving I will absolutely do is regarding UK government digitisation.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The spacemouse is the genderqueer of the human machine interface community. In this essay I shall...

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My hot take is that there are probably quite a few institutes, study groups and other such talking shops that could be replaced by genAI with no detriment to their average output. *Average* being the key word. Can systemisation detect the oddities? Make the leaps?

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well it seems something like the gantry mothership concept I designed with BMT back in 2003 is becoming real :D

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When virtue seems in such short supply, maybe we *should* signal.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What happens when I get bored at a weekend and turn a PV80 into an LUSV. 7 Mk41 modules fit in terms of weight, space and VCG, but getting trim right will be a challenge.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Navy

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Shiptember means spaceships! Bonus points if you can work out what object this was based on.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Honestly I always get a little kick out of seeing spacesuits with flags from nations other than US-RF-PRC. Col. Sophie Adenot prepares for her EVA yesterday.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sometimes I wonder what commentators would say if UK were a rogue state. Very worrying, they might say, negligible escalation steps available before nuclear release? A hollow force sustained by an almost religious belief in the power of their nuclear weapons to prevent attack?

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I may have grown old, but I refuse to grow up.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Whenever someone suggest we get competent and use the vehicle radios in #arma3

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Honestly this filter fail might be my favourite picture from the eclipse. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

*Highly notional* modular USV design using a "floatule" based on a commercial barge to allow rapid reloading and easier module outfitting than regular containers. To illustrate my paper to INEC later this year.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A bit of CAS in #Arma3 this evening, with @nickbradbeer.bsky.social as the AFAC in his "trusty" O-2. Thanks to our GM, we get to compare two flights hits (orange and pink) against the line of bunkers (red squares) with some actually destroyed (black squares). Please ignore the 1km overshoots :D

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m sure this is harvesting data somehow, but… “No cheating, post your Lock Screen”

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just one more bro

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Three moments from an #Arma3 base defence. The paranoia at the start... where are they going to come from? Then CLOSE AIR SUPPORT arrives and THE ENEMY DRIVE A TANK INTO THE BASE.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This evening's #Arma3 session, where @nickbradbeer.bsky.social continued his quest to burn through the entire USAF inventory of O-1s, and @d20yfx.bsky.social joined us in being exploded :D

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This evening's #Arma3 was combined arms riverine patrol, supported by @nickbradbeer.bsky.social in his LOACH.

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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Emu night (1/2)

Comic page 1: a group of young emo people are hanging out in a venue with a banner that reads EMO NIGHT. Outside the venue, an emu is on the phone. He says, “yeah, could you pick me up? I think I misread the flyer.” Suddenly, behind the emu someone exclaims, “hey!”

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I find some commentary on hypothetical Russian action against NATO very odd. Why would they invade when the West (mostly US, UK, France) have shown that you can just fire vast numbers of cruise missiles? They have everything we have, so why would they not do it the same way?

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Back to Cheltenam in #Arma3 where air support sounds as sweet as ever...

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Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

An oil painting titled "Sparkly Seas, Kynance in oils" by the artist Jenny Aitken.

A coastal scene featuring vibrant green cliffs alongside deep blue water with prominent white paint strokes representing sunlight reflecting off the waves.The painting is a demonstration piece showcasing techniques for capturing light on water, likely painted in a painterly style.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It’s that time of year again! This years @uclmecheng MSc ship design presentations. My first time as a guest (kind of)

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

New article: Ukrainian Navy Reveals Unknown Underwater Drone (UUV) - www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Na...

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I gather that something a little controversial has been published today?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

'Summer moon' by contemporary UK printmaker Carol Lander #WomensArt

Print featuring the full moon in a golden sky with plants in red silhouettes in the foreground

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Storm Over The Irish Sea, 2022 by Welsh land and seascape painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt

Painting of a stormy blue ea with white waves under a grey sky

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So I need to startup my desktop to look up some data and I really don’t want to as that’s hundreds of watts of heat but I can’t remember which of the drives is which so I can’t just remove it and use a USB connector to a laptop

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Sometimes I wonder, is the large nuclear submarine becoming an eggshell with a hammer, exceptional when fighting a lesser foe, but potentially struggling with a symmetric battle.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Going out in this heatwave with my little parasol is like re-enacting the aerobraking scene from 2010 - hiding behind a fabric heat shield, hoping I don’t get incinerated.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A good point from one of the excellent speakers at this weeks @RoyInstNavArch Warship 2026 on the difficulty of crewed - uncrewed teaming, reduced to meme form by your correspondent:

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This evening in #Arma3 we were all High Speed Low Drag, practising building clearance from helicopters, including @nickbradbeer.bsky.social as one of the pilots.

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

happy summer solstice to those who celebrate <3

A group of witches are holding hands and looking up at the sky while performing a summer solstice ritual. Pagans are fantastic because they worship nature, and considering that many religions copied them or based their silly rituals on Pagan practices, I think that's beautiful.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Magician's Song

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A little reminder, that if you like spaceships, and a bit of sci-fi world building, you can buy a digital copy of my book - Weird Field World here… thisnorthernboy.gumroad.com/l/wfwbook #Spaceships #SciFi

The cover of my book Weird Field World, showing a brightly coloured spaceship.

A page from my book, showing the WF Moebius, a curious looking spaceship.

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

John Singer Sargent (American artist, 1856-1925) - A Woman in Seville

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Our #Arma3 clan has a tradition that if you screw up and kill a civilian then you donate to War Child, Amnesty etc. Well this one goes out to the Perestrovian helicopter pilot who I perforated after thinking it was an inbound drone.

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Free world nations in Western Europe should rapidly deploy a force of ship-killing uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) to monitor Russian naval activity off Western Europe. Article-> www.hisutton.com/Free-World-U... They could still be small and cheap. Uncrewed boats don’t get seasick.

Photo of the replica historic torpedo boat CMB4R, simply too beautiful to ignore. Visit it at Portsmouth Historic Shipyard. Photo from nationalhistoricships.org

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