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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that this isn't a formation run has four possible causes: - His PR staff are dumb - His PR staff hate him - The milPR staff hate him - He genuinely thought he could keep up (More than one can be true)

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's Tower of Skulls by Richard B Frank - covers 1937-1942 in the Pacific theatre. I'm not sure I could cope with Chang's book!

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I always have a history audiobook on while driving but in hindsight the chapter of Tower of Skulls on the Rape of Nanjing was not a good commute choice

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Sarah Paulson as Jessica Crying in Car

ALT: Sarah Paulson as Jessica Crying in Car

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Super Intelligence Force" is the name of the club your little brother had with his two mates when they were 7 years old that you weren't allowed to join because it was a SECRET and NO GIRLS

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So much of the Trump administration's approach to this war has been "if only the adversary would stop fighting back, this would all be fine." In the words of my favourite film: "People should know when they're conquered." "Would you, Quintus? Would I?"

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every time I have to do a big but menial admin task for work, I'm reminded of the time my colleague's husband wandered into the office while I was stuffing a load of envelopes and casually said: "Glad you did that PhD, Em?"

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Lets Be Cops: Sarcastic Laugh

ALT: Lets Be Cops: Sarcastic Laugh

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chicken, lentils, chickpeas, tomato, onion, garlic, spice mix, coconut milk - and a metric ton of cilantro!

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have achieved peak Saturday: Walk dog Two hours of gardening Pot of tea Read the Economist Slow-cook gigantic curry Audiobook on WWII

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The Crown - Middle Aged Woman

ALT: The Crown - Middle Aged Woman

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This gives the possibility that someone has said "your trainers are well Brexit" and this delights me

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Look at this ridiculous thing. Nobody show Trump, he'll want twenty.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am learning about Heavy Gustav, the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat (once, at the Battle of Sevastopol) and the ultimate in Nazi overcompensating. It fired 7-ton shells, but only if you built a railway to move it, had 3 days to assemble it, and the battle wasn't already over.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Project Meridian recommends weaponizing Grok and a Cybertruck for every GOFO."

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's probably still some around!

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fun fact 2: The Window chaff release system was invented by Joan Curran, who also worked on the development of the proximity fuse and the atomic bomb.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today's fun WWII fact: Window (metal chaff dropped to confound enemy radar) almost got stymied for fear of the Germans figuring it out and using it too. Churchill had to overrule the naysayers. Turns out the Germans had the same worry and had stopped their own Düppel chaff research!

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone has described this as the ultimate dad thread - I'd like to clarify that as a childfree woman in her late 30s I am proud to display an intense amount of dad energy and I am also good at grilling

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's why we bond where airpower meets seapower, on a carrier

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're all great, keep the suggestions coming! In return, here's my rec:

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm of course going to read all of the suggestions!

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you could read only one book about the Pacific theatre of WWII - either an overview or about a specific campaign/operation/etc - what would it be? (And yes my TBR pile is fine please don't ask about my TBR pile thank you) M3A1 Satan for tax

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If a Democrat-controlled Senate does indeed end up impeaching Hegseth, I may have to take some time off work to watch every single second of the hearings, for totally professional reasons

Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having my work in print is always a delight, but especially when it's this pretty! My article (in Spanish) for La Vanguardia Dossier no. 101, on naval warfare in the Strait of Hormuz, is available here: www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because we all need some joy right now, a recommendation. I'd known of Ken Liu as the translator of Cixin Liu's works - but he's a far better writer than the latter. Beautiful.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A deal that's the same as what was already on the table, for the low low price of ruinously undermining your most important alliance. Such diplomacy, much coercion, wow. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland's security after Trump threats

Denmark and the US have reached an agreement after months of threats from Donald Trump to annex the territory.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That's why I didn't want to assume 😅

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In American it's ma-Han but in British it would be maan

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Excuse me, where's the cheese?" "Just to the left of the Shahed, sir."

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apparently when you promise to circle back to things in the fall, at some point fall happens? And you have to circle back to the things? Who designed this system

Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was expecting horror, but I loved that we just get glimpses of it - it's all the more terrible because we must imagine it from the small parts they see.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The prose? Gorgeous. The despair? Pervasive. The trauma? Emotional. 14/10 I will never read this again

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I haven't seen the film yet but I might have to watch it now

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had stopped at the basement before. Oooof.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As I haven't had enough punishment this week, tonight I will be reading the second half of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

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Emotional Damage Meme

ALT: Emotional Damage Meme

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Welp, here I gracefully slide into middle age

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The collective crush on Mamdani comes from the same place as the collective crush on Zelensky: ✨️COMPETENCE✨️ We miss it, we crave it, we adore it when we see it.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

American English (Corporate) is a whole separate language. "I have noted a few windows to connect. Please let me know if we need to explore alternative availability, or if there is a preferred point of contact for managing your calendars." Translation: "Does this time work for you?"

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Patrick Bateman: Impressive. Very Nice. (American Psycho)

ALT: Patrick Bateman: Impressive. Very Nice. (American Psycho)

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I obviously looked immediately to see who James Talarico's favourite drag queen is and he needs to be elected immediately, he has excellent taste. Alyssa Edwards, yes gawd.

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Alyssa Edwards: I Don't Get Cute

ALT: Alyssa Edwards: I Don't Get Cute

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm reading about the Mongols at the moment and my favourite fact so far is that they swiftly gave up on the idea of conquering India because they couldn't cope with the humidity

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Jelian Mercado Says Girl Same

ALT: Jelian Mercado Says Girl Same

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

Huge, huge rec for this - cosmic horror filtered through deeply British, Adams-esque humour. I am devouring it like an unknowable entity from beyond the bounds of memory.

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

My books are locked in an ongoing competition with my Airsoft kit

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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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