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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If the far right wanted to get arrested they wouldn't be such whiney little bitches about it when it happens

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 20/07/2026

Back into the Cabinet after two years in a silent monastery in Tibet.

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My televised statement that I haven't broken the law is raising a lot of questions already answered by my statement...

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is what political bravery can achieve. Thousands of lives saved, tens of thousands of hospital beds not occupied, countless days off work not taken. Sadiq Khan stood up to the critics, the doubters and the bad faith experts and made London better. A true leader.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/06/2026

Tbf to her she's doing an excellent job at portfolio without minister.

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

As ever, if you feel you can't sell "we need to raise taxes to expand the Royal Navy" to *Britain* then why are you even in politics, you clearly don't think you're any good!

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Healey: We don’t want 0.08 and we won’t wait.

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

you're 10 years old and kind of into toy soldiers. you bring back a magazine from the newsagent. it's full of this. you will never be the same again.

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Comforting* to know that Evri's "we only employ idiots" policy extends to their development team too *maddening

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/02/2026

Loss to Reform - 700k Loss to Green - 800k Loss to LD - 1m Loss to Don't Know - 1.3m Ref gain from Cons -1.7m Ref gain from non-voting - 1.7m. "Someone who is good at winning Reform votes please help me, my party is dying" (all figs to Summer 2025, ripped from @dylandifford.bsky.social)

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Syd E @syd-e13.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Graduate: Why do I have to pay usurious interest rates on this loan? Government: It isn't really a loan - think of it more like a tax. Graduate: Why do I have to pay an extra 9% tax compared with older graduates? Government: It isn't a tax - it is a loan!

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

John is right, and I should add the main issue we have today is doing the stalling for time without the rearmament.

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

There's a lot going on in The Real World, but in the world of wargaming I've just written my roundup post for 2025: coloursandeagles.blogspot.com/2026/01/ever...

coloursandeagles.blogspot.com

Everything I painted in 2025

A wargaming blog, mainly focused on the painting and modelling side of the hobby, with an emphasis on historical and science fiction figures.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The irony of people complaining on _social media_ about the potential civil rights violations of digital ID. That square chunk of metal and glass and plastic you carry round and interact with all day? It knows ALL your secrets and sends them all to corporations run by far right techbros.

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V. E. Phemera @visceralhit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

If I were Simon Jenkins, I would avoid the subject of it who exactly deserves their huge salary like the plague.

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Some Friday night reading: what is a wargame for, why Chain of Command does it well, and what I'd change for CoCv2: coloursandeagles.blogspot.com/2025/05/adap...

coloursandeagles.blogspot.com

Adapting Chain of Command

A wargaming blog, mainly focused on the painting and modelling side of the hobby, with an emphasis on historical and science fiction figures.

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Can anyone tell me why specifically the third recommendation in my Youtube sidebar is now always some bullshit with about three views?

Some bullshit video with two whole views which Youtube insists I watch

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Very much this. To explain it all you only need the combination: - Trump doesn't understand trade and thinks tariffs are great - He hates admitting he's ever wrong no matter the evidence - the people around him are rationally terrified and know that he'll see contradiction as disloyalty

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We are at the ‘pre-orders are a really useful signal to retailers’ stage now. So, I’d appreciate that…

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Announcing platforms three minutes before a train is due to depart is a fucking stupid way to run a railway, Euston!

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Donald Trump says he wanted to take back the Panama Canal. It's a preposterous idea. But I have an even more preposterous Panama Canal-related idea I wanted to share with you. More here: edconway.substack.com/p/time-to-ta...

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Time to talk about the Panama Canal

Apparently Donald Trump wants to bring it back under American control. Here's a crazier idea

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Lard Mag is here! And it contains an article on using 28mm sailing ships in your games of Sharp Practice, written by an anonymous lunatic 👀

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/11/2024

Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.

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Tamarind Literary Magazine @tamarindlit.co.uk · 17/11/2024

Reminder that we are open for subs for our 8th issue! We accept fiction, non-fiction and poetry concerning science, scientists and the intersections of science and society. More at tamarindlit.co.uk/submissions/

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Submissions – Tamarind Literary Magazine

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Cameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

In preparation for some photos for an article, I've added the barest minimum of standing rigging to HMS Hotspur here:

A 28mm scale model of a Napoleonic Sloop-of-War

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

The 'stay on X to fight' really shows the limitations of the 'Nazi bar' analogy. If your local bar becomes a Nazi hangout, 'just turn up in large numbers and be normal' is actually an option (see, for instance, the UK counterprotests). You can't fight an owner by using their product!

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

I've reached a bit of a milestone with this 28mm frigate, which I'm building for the game @duncanwgaming.bsky.social and I are putting on for Herts of Lard in March; so far it's all been put together dry, but now all the frames and structural work for the hull are done!

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Working up a design for a large frigate from a lines plan of the original, because @duncanwgaming.bsky.social and I are apparently not capable of doing a sensible sort of game!

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Footsore Miniatures very kindly gave us some figures to give away at the inaugural To The Strongest doubles tournament, so I thought it only fair to bump him to the top of the painting queue! Lovely sculpt and a near-flawless casting.

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Do you play To The Strongest, and could you be in London this Saturday? If so, we're looking for a ringer to play in our TTS doubles tournament and replace a dropout. We can provide an army and a partner for you!

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Finished rebasing some 90-odd hoplites onto multibases for To The Strongest! An army is never done, but this should be plenty for the forseeable future.

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

There are still a handful of places left for my club's inaugural To The Strongest! doubles tournament on the 25th; it'll be a very casual one so perfect if you've not played in a TTS competition before! www.meetup.com/the-london-w...

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

I promised a couple of people a tutorial of sorts on how I design buildings for laser cutting, so here's the start of what will hopefully be a fairly long thread going through the whole process from research to finished model.

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Walrus @walrusgames.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

All my current projects are at awkward stages of completion, so here are some Swiss pike I painted up earlier in the year

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