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Sir Thinksalot

@sirthinksalot.bsky.social
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⚓️⚔️ historian & veteran. Bibliovore, cat valet, occasional political proctologist, #NAFO (they/them). Soliciting = scam report & block. My typos are as praise unto Titivillus, patron demon of scribes (tinyurl.com/Titivillus)

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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Not trying to moan about the city growing in size, jist sad that the social fabric is so badly torn up esp since 2020.)
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I meant people stealing the harvest & prop-cutting from the flowers. Torontonians used to behave a lot better about respecting others' work & not touching stuff in outdoor spaces. All my gardening friends are constantly fighting off greedy grabby arsewads who jump fences & even take whole plants 😓
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'd be rather worried about soil contamination from the old leaded gasoline, and most current contamination from car-related fluids, Winter salt, drunk male pedestrians, etc. It's nice they're doing something with the greenspace but it's sad they have to cage it - Toronto really lost social trust.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Please don't eat the possums, they're beneficial insectivores (and also prevent those fucking raccoons from getting too close).
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Medieval pretties for a break in doomscrolling. #medieval #manuscript #calligraphy
Matenadaran 979 - title page of the Lectionary of King Hetham II of Armenia and Cilicia. The lectionary is famous for its "peacock alphabet" or "bird letters' of Armenian script turned into studies of feathers and birds. This page is mainly a carpet or diaper pattern in blue, red, and gold leaf in the top third, with a border at right of red, blue, and gold vinework plus an initio at left of one long-tailed bird letter (mainly red) with four double-sizeds bird letters followed by standard Armenian script. The ink was too acidic so it has slightly faded into a reddish brown (which matches the red painting and yellowing vellum nicely but it's a pain for conservators)
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Padre promises that all support is matched by Ukrainian sponsors, and directly goes toward supporting the sharpshooters up front. There are many non-lethal needs to support as well, just specify in your note and/or message Team Yuri directly. #NAFO #Ukraine #Spende
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Surprised this slipped under the #Toronto radar because we don't normally find Georgian / War of 1812 ships, let alone with the full superstructure intact, nestled under the continent's busiest ahipping lanes! #Ontario #Canada #shipwreck #diving ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
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Une mystérieuse épave quasi intacte découverte près de Toronto
Les plongeurs ont trouvé une goélette avec deux mâts intacts, une rareté dans les Grands Lacs.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Many "Asian import" shops sell a selection of chopstick-and-spoon sets in a convenient container for exactly such travel emergencies.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It may please you to know that Marines on deployment always carry an extra MRE spoon. Often in a convenient loop of the SAPI flak jacket. The MRE rations sometimes lack a spoon or it breaks; if T-rations or local treats appear, then there's rarely any spoons. So we always wash and keep an extra!
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The Tick's Iconic SPOOOOON!!! Battle Cry
ALT: The Tick's Iconic SPOOOOON!!! Battle Cry
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
...I've long since learnt that TBI, migraine, neuralgia, etc. are not opponents you defeat but enemies you try to contain. Hopefully everything behaves! Plus, my niblings insist I'm too ancient to become a Mature Student - surely the Institute must invent a different title, like Fossil Student. ☠️💕
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Still no sighting of Herbie 53?
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When your client's name is "the Mad" then how could you not take the opportunity to paint a few cryptids?
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In other news on trying to "git gud noob" at more practical skills: This bread book seems like a beacon of hope for an oven haunted by failed attempts. (Usually my failures are edible when toasted with garlic butter, but I'd like to make sth more presentable!) Sadly no 🇨🇦 outlets to preorder
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Je suis désolé pour des frais, mais je vous mercie beaucoup pour votre generosité en temps et en monnaie de m'avoir assisté en soutienant votre team, Marie la magnifique! 🇨🇦💕🇺🇦
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Das war mir neu und wirklich interessant, vielen Dank!
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
S'il y ait qqu ici qui a besoin d'une invitation à l'échange Wise🇬🇧 - que ne charge jamais les frais aux charités 🇺🇦🇪🇺 - veuillez m'écrivez par DM ici. Im Fall jemand hier möchtet eine Einladung für Wise🇬🇧 - es hölt nie Kosten ein, wann 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Spenden sammeln! - bitte mir mit DM schreiben.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chère Marie, ont-ils n'importe quelle autre méthode que Paypal - que veuille €2,27 frais pour €10, malgré un compte déjà dénominé aux € (!?) Un code QR serait assez serviable! (J'éspère que nos copains 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 se souviendront de rester en solidarité avec nous 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇨🇦 en boycottant les 🇺🇸 comme PP!)
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sound like it goes well with playing Gwent 😎 🇨🇦🫶🇺🇦
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'll send the details to Mrs Norman for you - wishing you all a good hunting season, padre!
screenshot of donationA knight of NAFO stands before a well-stocked and festive-looking medieval tavern called Ye Bonk Inn
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 01/10/2026
This account seems to be a 60/40 style account - doing a "bothsides" narrative with these posts👇 anyone who takes the time to blame Ukraine for being attacked is an azzhat🙄 Over 600 of my followers follow this account 🤷‍♂️ @humanrightsindex. bsky. social
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do they have a QR code? Some banks just added the option (to help 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰 avoid the 🇺🇸 platforms like paypal) so please let me know (by DM if they prefer to keep it within NAFO) thx
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What self-respecting dictator doesn't keep a selection of suitable seizing-property papers? Vovan has standards! (I really did want one of those miniature giraffes from that satire of his oligarchs though ✨️ 🦒✨️)
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A coworker stumbled onto a FB group that seemed to be the moms of such kids all sharing their photos & videos of similar "Vacation Bible School" events. 🤢 She did the FBI counterterrorism tip, they called her for an hour, & awhile later they busted the "pastor" in charge. But that was in 2022.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tables, for the flipping of
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Next time I tell you squires, 'Everyone with hair needs to cover it up or shave it off,' this is why! "Now Etienne is stuck like glue, his page will spend hours ruining scissors to free him again, and he'll have bald patches for weeks!"
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sorry Boris, I should've said I know it's not you. It's whatever cttee did this crap. I just hoped some of your audience could help me help my uncle. (He keeps saying, "Our Native diversity is too messy to celebrate our survival" & "Tipis are uniform yet personalized by paint, so postmodern!" 😓
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Obvs he survived residential school & he's glad Canada does something to acknowledge it. But he says, "Of all the symbols they took & twisted for Hollywood - twisting it back doesn't make it ok to keep taking." /not shitdisturbing just hoping to explain to mt uncle his trip for this wasnt wasted
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My uncle (Blackfoot) is beyond upset the city did tipis- & the Allen Gardens tipi group too- since he fought Bad Indian stereotypes his whole life. He says stick to wigwams & not usurp his culture like movies. Apparently a Gardens rep told him "it's pan-Indigenous space-holding, not authentic" ??
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
... Luft‐ und See-Attacken zu stützen. Dann kämpften sie dem südlichen Gegend Kherson frei und stritten für Mykolaïv. Für wahre Legenden werden wir spenden! Sie melden sich nicht bei Bluesky, sondern können Sie ihnen bei IG als @zradn_39 & @39_brigade folgen. #NAFO @toonietuesday.bsky.social
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schwarze Segeln hoch! Diesem #ToonieTuesday unterstützen wir die Luftschütz-Battalion “Vidsich” der 39. Einzelbrigade den Marinen aus Odessa, dessen Name stammt aus den Schwarzmeerkosaken. Zuerst setzten sie sich als 126. Land-Gewässer-Gebiet Brigade zur Wehr, um ihre Heimat gegen die russische...
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russia already "accidentally" hit Romania multiple times in the early weeks of the war in 2022, except they mostly hit dirt so nobody really cared. Quite a few intelligence accounts could figure it out from OSINT GEOINT materials - mostly around Orlivka & Lacun Morul iirc.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fun fact, if the person taking this video is average height (170cm) and about 300m away from that line of mature pine trees (average 20m tall) then that cloud is just about 1300m tall. That's one hell of a "fireworks"facility to be that loud at that distance too.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🇨🇿 In the Czech Republic, journalists exposed a Russian propaganda operation by Telegram channel "Rybar" with 1.5 million subscribers. Its representatives came from Germany and recorded interviews with Czech politicians and experts, presenting it as an independent documentary project.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hilariously, in her school days the USSR officially did not teach about the Crusades, so it's possible that she really has zero clue (as opposed to her bouts of performative cluelessness)
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
european-alternatives.eu/categories for anyone looking to switch 🇨🇦🇪🇺 (just maybe not Proton after their little scandal donating to an extremist candidate in France))
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Service categories | European Alternatives
List of all categories on European Alternatives
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
To add to your notes: 🇪🇪 August Sabbe (metsavenn / brother of the forest) resisted until 1978. The KGB drowned him in the river rather than risk him escaping. (Probably it was also because the agents enjoyed the ducking punishment before drowning him.)
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
TTC employees love a bit of melodramatic gossip haha. The engineers know they'd best figure it out or the anoraks & film industry will riot! How do find out about the open days pls? I've got 1 surgery left before I can have a life again - a nice Doors Open with the TTC seems like a good start
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Indeed. I've tested a few with a basic maritime history question, they all returned a load of nonsense and Google's was the worst one - drawing from Facebook until you said that's not true, whereupon it apologized and cited Wikipedia. That's how the people in the floating chairs in WallE started lol
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Time is a social construct anyways so there's no sense having heart attacks & car accidents, let alone messing up our sleep over it, just because dead people were happy to suffer. Stop the madness and scrap daylight savings time! #Toronto #onpol #canpol www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec...
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Here's why sleep experts think we should abolish daylight saving time | CBC
While it usually only takes most Canadians a few days to adjust to the shift between daylight saving time and standard time, sleep experts say the constant time travel back and forth harms our sleep a...
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This Sunday, Anatoly starts his #fundrasier journey of 1 km for every #disabled #veteran in #Ukraine to ease the transition to disabled life. Let's give this legend a good start, fellas! #NAFO dobro.ua/project/mara... The site's very intuitive - just use your phone's translator if you get snahged
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МАРАФОН ЗАРАДИ ПОРАНЕНИХ ПОБРАТИМІВ
42,195 км на кріслі колісному. 20 вересня 2026 року в Дніпрі ветеран Анатолій Жумік вийде на старт марафону, щоб зібрати кошти на відновлення поранених побратимів
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@savestandard.bsky.social Manitoba just made the change! To daylight time 😖but at least they stopped fiddling the clocks! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba adopts permanent daylight time | CBC News
Manitobans no longer need to remember to spring forward or fall back one hour on their clocks, as Premier Wab Kinew says the province will adopt permanent daylight time.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Almost as long as there have been pockets, people have veen trying to make their favourite stuff small enough to fit in them... but I suspect they meant "belt-pouch-sized edition" because it's a bit warm in Egypt for the usual garment/cloth types where pockets succeed lol
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just for awareness, it seems Monobank has angered the 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦 card gods again. Various fella friends in various countries have been trying and now getting the "try another card" message.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone were nice? But they're not, and Canada has a lot that's worth defending. Since your username says Settler, you might want to read a history book about how your philosophy of defence worked out for the French and Huron alliance when the British arrived here lol
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1. Let's demand a sovereign wealth fund created from the resource $, no more 1980s trickle-down! 2 We must push our MPs to pass Impoundment legislation! Prevent pernsickety Premiers from sitting on federal funds meant to be spent on something the Premier prefers to cut (eg Ontario and Healthcare).
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Migraine prevention people in dsrk mode trying to read the amusingly awful susperstitions tonight like
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Dark Mode: Opening Window to Sunlight
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When are you announcing the sovereign wealth fund? You've got the financial chops to do it right! It's nearly 2027, all Canadians should share in the wealth from our resources now! None of us should worry about becoming disabled at work or retirement age rising to 67, 69½, & higher for Gen Alpha.
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Most of the jokes in the English language come from the pre-Conquest laws' (which favoured women, esp in Wales and the Danelaw regions) having become a topic of ridicule by the more patriarchal Norman culture. Cats were one of very few assets that a woman truly owned 😽 m.youtube.com/watch?v=jD3b...
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Medieval Cat Laws - Laws for your Medieval Cat
Cats aren't what you would typically imagine when asked about law, let alone medieval law, but the history of Wales is full of oddities, and the medieval cat laws (Cyfreith Cath), are no exception. Here we find laws deciding on their value, their jobs, and what their appearance should be. Also, this Cambrian Chronicles video will serve as an excellent tool on how to become the number one cat salesperson in all of Welsh history. Chapters: 0:00 - Meow 0:39 - Assigning Monetary Value to Your Cat’s Appearance 4:50 - Cat Products 7:06 - Cat Crime 9:00 - How to be a Cat Salesman Sources (turn on captions): Owen, A. (1841). Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales. [1] p.xviii-xxii [2] p.67 [3] p.83, 575 [4] p.279 [5] p.279-281 [6] p.281 [7] p.395 [8] p.441 [9] p.561 [10] p.569 [11] p.573 [12] p.575 [13] p.577 [14] p.677 [15] p.715 [16] p.717-719 [17] p.719 [18] p.729 [19] p.743 Studia Celtica, vol 40, University of Wales Press. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Studia_Celtica/oVliAAAAMAAJ?hl= [20] p.75 Garfield Wiki. [21] https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_Cats/Transcript ---------- Music courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library: Atlantis by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/ 12:00 AM - Ramzoid Cosmic Drift - DivKid Fog Mist - TrackTribe Generations Away - Unicorn Heads Light Gazing - Andrew Langdon Dusk - DivKid ---------- All images are public domain, via the British Library, the National Library of Wales, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Yale Center for British Art
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#cunkposting
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Sir Thinksalot @sirthinksalot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All the harvest. It's Autumn, they can't get enough gas and diesel to bring in any kind of crops and fight the war at the same time.
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