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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Five years ago this week the world lost a great historian and I lost the best person I ever knew. Historian, educator, and adventuress, Dr Lisa Nocks. For me it was only a few days ago.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Five years ago this week the world lost a great historian and I lost the best person I ever knew. Historian, educator, and adventuress, Dr Lisa Nocks. For me it was only a few days ago.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@elonmusk is an unelected illegal alien who should be picked up by ICE.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The average garbage collector does more to make this country better and does more hard work in a week than #Scottbesent has his entire life.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He is also contemplating changing the name of the Earth to Trump.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My man looks like Dr. Evil opted for "evil business school" instead.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My man looks like he authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "Mulching the Poor"

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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just a reminder this statement was said by a sitting Congressman to the public, Trump and his DOJ offered not one pushback, denial or lawsuit.. it’s still just sitting out there

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@realDonaldTrump, most egregious draft dodger in American history wants an aircraft carrier named for him rather the true heroic combat veteran, #DoriMiller. #Hegseth while he did serve was a #REMF.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My favorite line from @Startrek is in episode 1:1 The Man Trap. Contemplating the death of a creature the last of its kind, Kirk gets philosophical. The last line of the episode. Looking pensive Spock ask Kirk what's wrong. He pauses then says, "I was just thinking about the Buffalo."

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This week in 1978 my class was getting ready to graduate from tank school. We were issued our tank ribbons (they don't give these out any more). The cavalry was organized in 1776, they gave up their horses for tanks in 1917.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

David Rohde says that the major logistics problems for the Navy largely come from the fact that the Navy's chief resupply station in the Gulf of Oman was completely destroyed in an Iranian attack, and Hegseth decided to keep it secret, from the public, Congress and the White House.

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USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base: Rohde

President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the condition...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If they are going to name it after Trump is should be the USS Draft Dodger.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I read his Springsteen bio and 1979 while on the Iron Curtain in the back of an armored car, while it snowed. It had a great influence on my writing. I still have that very same dog eared paperback edition in my library. RIP Mr. Marsh.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

One minute you're young and the next thing you're falling asleep like this at 8:15pm on Saturday.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Absolutely right. My second book underwent not one but two pretty radical reframings as a result of what I found (and did not find) in the archives.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

But there are gay players in the GOP.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Also Mrs. Al Sayed is not a porn star.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@OxfordRetreat Years ago @docbotz and I discovered the Oxford Retreat. They had the best sausage and mash I had ever eaten. When I back they had stopped serving food. I was heart broken. Now they are serving food again. Physical issues prevent me from ever going back, however. Thanks!

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What is really being hidden is that Trump won the election of 1836 by a landslide! Liberals then put in Martin Van Buren into office to bring in a Whig agenda. Take that swamp!

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

July 1978 on the Iron Curtain I was standing on the hood of a gun jeep staring through binoculars at a Czechoslovak guard tower. My buddy was standing next to me. We looked at each other, smiled, turned, bent over and pulled out pants down. The Czech guards took pictures. Good times!

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920. She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Black and white photo of Marie Tharp adding detail to a large map of the sea floor , which is probably 6ft x 3ft. She is wearing a dark sweater over a white, collared blouse, and holding a pen in her right hand.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Watching the #Startrek episode Plato's Stepchildren on @Metv. The episode is stolen by little person actor Micheal Dunn. His emotional dialogue about how the Platonians mistreat him is amazingly heartfelt and likely comes from personal experience. He went on to a career as character actor.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My father fought in the Korean war, he used to joke that three guys from the Ironbound went at the same time: him and two MPs (the war started exactly ten years to the day before I was born). Shrewd young whipper snapper loved to run and play But the draft board got him they inducted him today...

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's based on a book series about an Irish private detective. They made a TV show out of it which did not last long unfortunately.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My man looks like he's just come down from the podium in Munich.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Binge watching my collection of Jack Taylor episodes. I realized I don't use the phrase 'Gobshiite' near enough.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My students once asked me what the nerdiest thing I know. I told them I knew the license plate number of Squad 51 from the old TV show Emergency. It's 999-007. Take that normal world!

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

1978 my unit the 3/35 Armor, had the duty to guard the Bamberg 'Muna' for a week (the weapons storage facility). At 3am I found myself on an ammunition bunker in the freezing cold that housed the TACNUK weapons. I was listening to Alan Parsons 'I Robot'. I defecated on it which seemed appropriate.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Found my box of vinyl records in the basement. My collection of late 70s concept albums: Alan Parsons, I Robot Heart, Dreamboat Annie ELO, A New World Record Pink Floyd, Dark side of the Moon others They don't makum like this anymore.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#Paxton looks like a department store mannequin that came to life, sort of.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Randolph Mantooth, Johnny Gage from EMERGENCY! has passed at the age of 80. The show helped inspire cities across America to establish paramedic squads. If you were ever saved by firemen you have Squad 51 to thank. I watched this show religiously when I was 13 yo. www.legacy.com/legacy/notab...

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I have the heart of a lion: I bought it in Munich in 1978, I keep it in a jar of formaldehyde on my desk in my home office.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sooo, a draft dodger is going to interview potential generals to see if they have what it takes?

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hey #PatriotFront guys, nice tan pants, do they make those for men too?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/07/2026

“Socialist,” “communist,” and “Marxist” are not interchangeable.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Steve McQueen movie Bullet can be a metaphor of life: Sometimes you drive the green Mustang and sometimes you drive the green Beetle.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I have heard or played #Brucespringsteen 'Fourth of July Asbury Park,' every July 4th since 1977. This year marks 49 times.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I feel this tactic was inevitable as it is disgusting. The history of modern genocide (1500->) does have this loose trend of auxiliary cutthroats giving way to 19th cen. industrialization giving way to mechanized mass murder of the 20th. With drones and auto-turrets, someone was going to do this.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The bigger the gun the smaller the pee pee.

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#OnThisDay in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's theory of evolution through natural selection was read aloud at a meeting of the Linnean Society. It was the first time the idea was ever presented to an audience.

Black-and-white photographic portrait of an elderly Alfred Russel Wallace, seated, with a long white beard and round wire-frame glasses, wearing a dark velvet jacket and waistcoat

Scan of a 19th-century printed page headed 'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties,' the joint 1858 paper by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace read to the Linnean Society, with introductory text signed by Charles Lyell and J.D. Hooker

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by any exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness." -- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

On this day in 1978 I boarded a bus to take me the Fort Knox Kentucky to begin basic cavalry/tank school. My dad, who drove a Meat Chopper in the Korean war, didn't want me to enlist. My entire life is a result of my time with the 'G.'

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