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Peter Edmonds

@termx.bsky.social
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My 2 favourite books are "The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow and "A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. Keen interest in history of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Falklands war and the battle of Rourke's Drift.

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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nonna made sure you wouldn't go hungry. Thank God for Italian food. Can't imagine a timeline without Nonna asking if you are still hungry.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hell froze over today and pigs are flying outside my window. Sitting in a hotel in South Yarra and Chromecast actually works flawlessly for the first time ever.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You know what tanks can't soak up? 155mm artillery. More 155mm artillery please.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"let’s assume we were able to procure the needed 5% enriched uranium without getting a visit from any Navy SEALs or B2 bombers." Just gonna duck out and get rid of a couple of things from the garage. Back in a minute.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why is anyone surprised that the most militarized country on the planet is capable of committing heinous war crimes?
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Vulture capitalism really does cause brain damage after all.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not any more :)
Table of contents for  Bryan Wooster's "Critical Thinking: What a Senior Reactor Operator Wants You to Know About Nuclear Power" available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLBPX233?ref=yb_qv_ov_kndl_dp_rw
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am copying all my TV recordings from my Fetch Mighty to a 1TB microSD card because Fetch TV are going to brick my device at the end of October unless I pay them a ransom of $29.99 All 5 Tests of the 2025 Ashes is over 300GB 😱
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Perhaps when I retire I will find the time to read at least some of these documents.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Obligatory Finnish sniper meme.
Classic Finnish sniper meme image of a snow covered forest. Caption reads "Select all squares with Finnish snipers". The image consists of 4 rows and 4 columns. All but 3 of the 16 squares have a blue tick indicating the presence of a Finnish sniper.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Searched my Google Drive for "counterinsurgency", which of course returned a copy of Galula's text on Algeria, as well as another 20+ publications covering Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Palestine, Malaya, Kenya and Algeria.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chalmers is next up and it can't happen soon enough. The incumbent is an empty vessel devoid of ideas.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Terrifying that anyone would even contemplate dismantling the GFA and returning to the horror of the Troubles. The collective brain damage that Brexit and the "little England" mindset have wrought on the British people is incredible. A nation of bigots set on turning back the clock.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Isn't this the canon definition of political action?
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Centrist think tankery rots your brain. @kossamaras.bsky.social has been warning the Labor party for years that they are fucking things up.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sustained severe psychic damage today after watching a short clip of @kossamaras.bsky.social warning that the Labor party primary vote might collapse to 20%, only for the galaxy brain think tanker from John Curtin Research Centre to suggest that Labor needed to do more to represent the working class
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Manchurian Canteloupe" 😂 FMD Marcus that's gold!
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Poorleen's One Neuron has always been about grifting.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Somebody ask Jane Hume about Chinese spies please 😂
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just finished a plain ham sandwich on wholemeal and saw this. More sandwich please.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This but with One Nation as the smaller Coalition partner trying the same old tricks as the National party. Secret side letter to the Coalition agreement anyone? bsky.app/profile/term...
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Flying Melbourne to Wellington and a guy in the row behind me has been talking nonstop for 2 hours 🤬 The noise cancelling on my headphones is ineffective for the tone of his voice. Driving me insane.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reminder to self to always pack toothbrush, toothpaste and a minimal change of clothes in my carry-on.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some fool advocating compulsory universal national service in my feed today. Unfollowed and blocked. My father served 21 years in the Australian Army including a 12 month stint in Vietnam 68-69 at 21. Take your warmongering propaganda elsewhere.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Turned on the TV here in Christchurch and Dejan Vasiljevic is lighting it up for the Breakers.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Crowne Plaza Christchurch check-in time is 3PM and there is 1 staff member at the front desk 🤦
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Have started reading this. First couple of chapters are excellent.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just switched to OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 after experiencing weird problems with DNS resolution on Google 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wasted 2 hours trying to port from Boost to ALDIMobile and back to Boost. Boost's system is cracking the shits for some reason so now have to wait around until Tuesday for them to fix their shit.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Federal intervention would be a great reason for Antic to quit the Liberal party and move to One Neuron. Antic vs Bernardi for number 1 on the ON Senate ticket.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't think it would make any difference. Just another thing to hate Nick Greiner and the Liberal party for.
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🇷🇸🇺🇸 Somebody on the Polish internet described Sydney Sweeney as "an actress with the eyes of a retired Serbian infantry major" and from now on I'll probably always think of war crimes when looking at her.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The only purpose this poll serves is to highlight the appalling state of our education system. 48% of 18-34 cohort don't know who John Curtin is? Chifley 47%?
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sound the klaxon, I have received my copy of Kevin M. Levin's new book "A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw". Ping @civilwarmemory.bsky.social and @uncpress.bsky.social
Front cover of Kevin M. Levin's new book "A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw".

A vivid new portrait of one of the Union cause’s great martyrs

Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry—one of the first regiments of Black soldiers in the Civil War—in its famous ill-fated charge against Confederate Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863. Shaw’s sacrifice has been commemorated in monuments, books, and the award-winning film Glory. But before he became a martyr for the Union cause and emancipation, Shaw was a privileged young man who showed little interest in the reform movements that defined his parents' lives or in the moral crisis over slavery that was tearing the nation apart. Volunteering to serve as a duty, he awakened gradually and fitfully to the demands of conscience and command. Only in death was Shaw transformed into the champion for freedom his abolitionist parents hoped he would be.

The first biography of Shaw in a quarter century, A Glorious Fate traces his transformation from a rebellious son into one of the Civil War’s most celebrated heroes. Acclaimed historian Kevin M. Levin also reveals the sacrifice and service of the African American men who fought and died for their freedom afresh through Shaw’s eyes. Though Shaw never fully reconciled his own racial prejudices, Levin shows how the Civil War changed the young colonel as it did the nation.

Order from https://uncpress.org/9781469697178/a-glorious-fate/

Published by The University of North Carolina Press
 ISBN 9781469697178 | 320 Pages, 6.12 × 9.25 in, 28 halftones, notes, bibl., index 
Publication date: September 29, 2026
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Brexit really caused mass brain damage to a huge proportion of the British population.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tim Fischer rolling in his fucking grave. What a piece of shit David Littleproud is.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wouldn't be much of a war, the Argentine Navy would last about 5 minutes against the Royal Navy. Same for the Argentine Air Force.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/term...
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
webjet.com.au your multi-city / stopover booking engine is stupid and doesn't allow same day departures. "You cannot depart on the same date as a previous flight. Please change your dates." Stupid.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Watching Lanterns on HBO Max. Why is John Stewart parachuting into a forested drop zone, then ends up in a body of water, with no visible supplies except his parachute? No medical supplies in case shit goes wrong. Extremely stupid writing.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reminder that Vodafone is trash and to never use any of their services ever. 5 days for them to figure out my order to port a mobile number isn't in their system. ALDIMobile to the rescue.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Their resident elections "expert" is simply vacuous.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reminder that soon-to-be ex-Premier Ben Carroll was Minister for Roads and Road Safety from 2020 to 2022 and deputy Premier from September 2023 but he'll fix it this time, he promises 🤦‍♂️.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Bill Shorten finally gets his revenge for Andrews ratfucking his chance to become PM.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good luck recruiting the next generation of sailors, soldiers and marines. A volunteer professional military cannot survive without a constant supply of new recruits.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Reminder to self that now is not the time to buy HoI4, some things will have to wait for retirement.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The bullshit state of the Australian wine industry on full display in my inbox this morning. A "secret" 97 point Barossa Shiraz RRP $350 going for $50 a bottle. Of course the actual wine is easily identified using Google. Consumers aren't idiots and treating them like they are is fucking stupid.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hmmm www.theage.com.au/national/dlp...
theage.com.au
DLP lives on in Coalition: Abbott
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wong should expel this piece of shit immediately.
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Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On Vietnam Veterans Day, we remember those lost at Long Tan and throughout the entire war in Vietnam. From 2006, Dave Sabben and Bob Buick in Canberra on the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. Lest we forget.
Dave Sabben and Bob Buick, D Company 6RAR, commanders during the Battle of Long Tan, at the 40th anniversary commemoration in Canberra in 2006.
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