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BlackBlur14 @blackblur14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How does Cargret Thatcher deal with the Cargentina invasion of the Falkland Islands?

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is what the constitutional convention looked like:

Woman yelling at cat meme, but check this out: the cat is having a Del’s, some hot wieners, and wearing a paw sox hat

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Richard Dunley @redunley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My new book now has a cover - and I love it!

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the philosophy of the cat is to not think outside the box. it is to find a box, any box, and utterly own it no matter the state of the box itself

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

DoD: oh no, what about mah industrial base?? Also, DoD: oh you can definitely double down on your 6th gen fighters with one company

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 28/09/2026

In the end, the Rams offense was simply not as good as Iowa's offense.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's weird because Nirvana is now old whereas I am exactly the same age I was in 1992

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

27 Sept 1840 // A large fire broke out at Plymouth Dockyard and HMS Talavera (74 guns) and HMS Imogene (28 guns) were destroyed, happily with no lives lost. Image: Thomas Lyde Hornbrook, 'Dockyard Fire at Plymouth' 1840 (North East Lincolnshire Museum via Wikimedia Commons). #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Thomas Lyde Hornbrook, 'Dockyard Fire at Plymouth' (1840). Image from North East Lincolnshire Museum: public domain via Wikimedia Commons. A painting of a dockyard with buildings in the background and a large fire burning with much smoke and flame, and the hull of a ship ablaze in the centre. In the foreground several boats can be seen with men rowing, carrying people away from the fire.

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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

im sorry put kirk ferentz in a home for that idc

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

IJN Aircraft carrier Ryūjō Date: September 20, 1932 Location: Yokosuka Arsenal Quay Photo: Yokosuka Arsenal Situation: Hull section progress 67% static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"You don't have space for more books!" What I don't have space for is your NEGATIVITY

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17 Sept 1939 // Aircraft carrier HMS Courageous, sailing with two destroyer escorts in the Western Approaches, was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat U.29 with the loss of 519 lives: the first Royal Navy warship to be sunk by enemy action in the Second World War. (Imperial War Museum FL 6534 & HU 45268)

Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Courageous in an undated photograph. Imperial War Museum: FL 6534. An aircraft carrier at anchor photographed from off her starboard bow, with a small boat alongside and a harbour wall or breakwater visible in the background.

HMS Courageous sinking after being torpedoed by U-boat U.29, 17 September 1939. Image: Imperial War Museum HU 45268. A large warship sinking in the open sea with her hull listing sharply to port and smoke billowing from her funnel. Another ship can be seen in the distance.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fun fact, the Wasp’s landing signal officer was none other than David McCampbell. After the sinking, he was sent back to the states to form Fighting Squadron 15, who would go on to destroy the most Japanese planes of any squadron in the war producing 26 aces. Quite the boomerang

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IJN Aircraft carrier Kaga Date: September 15, 1928 Location: Off Tateyama (Iwaibukuro - Ukishima Pillar) Photo: Yokosuka Arsenal Situation: Full-scale public Sea trial in progress static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Eric Bienemy is back so he and Andy are watching film from 1911 again

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2050 and Patrick Mahomes will still be running at 4.3 miles per hour past 11 flummoxed defenders for first downs and TDs

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Cowboys convincing me they’d be better on defense this year

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Best bit of the Bayeux tapestry is the 1944 addendum

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com about MIAMI VICE, "a darkly sumptuous masterpiece of eroticism and romanticism, of action and abstraction, of fragmented flows of raw and overwhelming emotional information whose meanings only gain momentum with time." www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/09/03/d...

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Michael Mann's Miami Vice at 20: Death of the Cool

Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.

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Trent Hone @honer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Getting into the page proofs!

A printout of the forthcoming book, “Seizing the Offensive: Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and the Naval Strategy that Won World War II” by Trent Hone, published by the Naval Institute Press.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1/x In 1939, a German cargo ship slipped into the Suriname River flying an American flag. She never left. Eighty-six years later, she still lies on her side off Paramaribo, trees growing out of her hull. This is the story of the Goslar. #maritimehistory

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Codex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#OTD As the last sail-powered warship built by the U.S. Navy, the USS Constellation was launched on August 26, 1854 and commissioned as a sloop-of-war on July 28, 1855. #USnavy #history #navalhistory #maritimehistory

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month

Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!

Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Due to Dolly Parton’s kids reading program for local libraries, my home county in Ohio saw children’s reading rates skyrocket from one of the lowest in the state to the top I cannot think of a better way to be remembered than to inspire whole generations to seek imagination, empathy, and curiosity

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

TG 38.3 enters Ulithi anchorage in column, 12 December 1944 while returning from strikes on targets in the Philippines.

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

IJN 1933 special large-scale exercise Gathered large exercise unit Date: August 21-22, 1933 Location: Kisarazu offshore Situation: Gathered off the coast of Kisarazu after the confrontation.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Wild photo of HMS Exeter from an IJN cruiser floatplane as it takes a torpedo hit at Java Sea

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

IJN The 1st Squadron in the Battle of the Yellow Sea Date: August 10, 1904 Location: South-east off Lushun Port Photo: Keizaburo Ashino from Kasuga Situation: Shikishima, Fuji, Asahi, Mikasa from the front during the Battle of the Yellow Sea static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is the kind of trivia I come to social media for. Everyone be more like this, please.

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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 09/08/2026

#OTD in 1941, Winston Churchill arrived in Newfoundland for the Atlantic Charter Conference with FDR. As Churchill prepared to board USS McDougal, he paused to pet 'Blackie' of HMS Prince of Wales to prevent the cat from crossing the gangway and defecting to the U.S. Navy.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Aug 9th 1969 - In Quentin Tarantino's alternate reality, members of the Manson Family broke into the home of Rick Dalton in the early hours of the morning, instead of the home of Sharon Tate. 📽️📅 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

4 Screenshots from the movie "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" (2019): First, a man in a dark living room stands near a kitchen counter, asking "Uh... You are...?" Second, another man holding a gun stands in a dimly lit doorway, replying "I'm the devil," Third, the first man responds in the living room, saying "Nah, it was dumber than that. Something like...Rex." Fourth, outside at night by a swimming pool, a person in a robe unleashes a massive stream of fire from a flamethrower into the pool.

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Allied warships on fire Date: August 9, 1942 Location: South of Savo Island Photo: from Chōkai Situation: Battle of Savo Island static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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Snapshots of Naval History @ssonh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

From a German photo postcard, the battleships SMS Baden, Bayern (misidentified as Derfflinger), and the cruiser Emden. They took the Kaiser to the Island of Helgoland. #baden #bayern #emden #battleship #cruiser #warships #ships #ww1 #worldwar1 #germany #navalhistory #history #kaiserlichemarine

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Little known fact, but before they were a one-hit wonder Right Said Fred manned a gun position in the Maginot Line…

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hollywood got so addicted to "attention" as a metric that it's paralyzed by YouTube, TikTok, etc., even though they have a very different business model from TV. But I believe in us as an industry! We can make shows people half-watch again! (From here: www.garbageday.email/p/people-in-... )

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

IJN The Combined Fleet Gathered at Saiki Bay Date: August 4, 1927 Location: Saiki Bay Photo: Ōsumi Yōkō Situation: At imperial inspection of martial arts viewing static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two of the weirdest Army helicopters, the H-37 and H-21, right in one shot. Unfortunate that the surplus of Hueys available for Vietnam movies has caused the Huey to supplant in the popular memory of the war all the other strange species that were flying around in the early years

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Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

On this day in 1866, the battle of Lissa is fought between the Austrian and Italian Fleets. Outgunned by the Italians, Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff resorts to ramming tactics, sinking an Italian ironclad, the Re d' Italia. Having lost two ships, the Italians withdraw. #NavalHistory

The Re d'Italia sinking after being rammed by Tegetthof's flagship, the Ferdinand Max. Painting by Carl Frederik Sørensen, 1868.

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Ryan Wadle @rdwadle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thanks to Emma for putting this on! I always enjoy an opportunity to talk about the Navy's long, but distinguished, relationship with Hollywood.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This was so much fun - four expert nerds talking about naval aviation, American self-perception, geopolitics, and kitschy movies. Huge thanks to the awesome team at @fpri.bsky.social for facilitating and encouraging me to do nerdy stuff, once again. youtu.be/2HNjgsUO-Ac?...

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Top Gun at 40

YouTube video by Foreign Policy Research Institute

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