This is how you do it Norwegian former prime minister and sec gen of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, has been charged with gross corruption for his involvement with Epstein while in power, and have had his properties raided by Norwegian police www.nrk.no/norge/okokri...

So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?

Richard is too modest to mention his own book. I recommend to you Strangling the Axis from @rjhammond215.bsky.social #histbookchat.

Obviously the problems of Italy's lack of access to key raw materials during the SWW is well known, but still astonished to read this stat: 73% of factories controlled by Fabbriguerra had to partially or wholly halt production at some stage during 1941 for lack of materials/fuel

"Hey I'm going back to the dildo box, I just had the idea to juggle them" Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊ (posted with permission)

Yeah... #Makita #tools #diy

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

Still the greatest list ever complied.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

In fact, he was insistent. His final journey must start at Waterloo – but those tracks head south west. The train could get to Oxon, but: point-switching; complications. So, why? Well, so he could force General de Gaulle, President of France, to walk under an arch celebrating the defeat of Napoleon

As a transsexual I can't tell you how thrilled I am that fascists are feeling unsafe in bathrooms.

Fascists and gas stations - name a more iconic duo I'll wait

Loving how everyone instinctively knows what this is about

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

The Soviet Navy's approach to hunting NATO's carriers was multi-pronged. In our recent chat with @michaelnbooks.bsky.social, he took us through what went into their planning and execution. Check out the full Over Cold War Seas episode via the links below: 📺: youtu.be/Zwl9jJns3gk 🎧: pod.fo/e/3746eb

Annoyance time This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…

One of the key things that helped the Soviets back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis was Zhukov's testimony to the Politburo about how turbofucked the RKKA was without American precursor chemicals and explosives.

*excited naval geek sounds*

Worth every second

Do not make peace with evil Destroy it

Timeline cleanse www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI5m...

The kind of thread that actually makes your day Check out Matthew and buy his books, they are every bit as excellent as this gem of a thread

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

Fascinating insight into the reunification of Germany from the British man on the ground... "I ended my last year's review with the remark that 'accidents apart, I expect no substantive change of course in 1989'. Two major 'accidents' occurred..."

We can fit so much theory in this bad boy

Never been a fan of horror movies, as I find them mind-numbingly boring and altogether 'meh'. The only exception is 'Threads', whose brutally nihilistic "nuclear realism" makes it the only movie I've ever seen that absolutely terrified me to the core

Hit skeet courtesy of Silvannen Gerrard's excellent article in CQ 73.1 (2023), which you must read

Thirteen years ago that I discovered 1) the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln war elephants, and 2) he refused. Consider, instead: what if he had not blogtarkin.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/d...

General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union. Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked. A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.

Metal as fuck

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

An authentic Afrika Korps set would have half his Mini Figs keeled over with dysentery @crusaderproject.bsky.social

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

The World War II Museum in New Orleans has posted videos from their recent conference. You can see my panel with @milhistcurator.bsky.social here. I discuss U.S. Navy "systems" (CIC, Tenth Fleet, and Logistics) and he covers the integration of the Seabees. youtu.be/sXspMCd9r1U?...

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

Willy T also has the best way of terminating annoying conversations: “See the books. This is the conclusion of our correspondence, which I did not begin, and terminate with satisfaction.” Sherman to Hood, Sept 14, 1864

The French military in 1940 is the worst possible example of this. They did adapt. They built a conventional military force based on lessons of WWI. They incorporated new technologies. They built new doctrines. They just learned all the wrong lessons and as a result they fucking sucked.

During WWI, then minister-of-munitions David Lloyd George looked at the BEF's estimates for machine guns (4 per battalion) and quipped, "square it, multiply that result by 2, and when you are in sight of that, double it again for good luck." Which turned out to be the real final number.

American tech billionaires hate the European Union because Brussels is willing to impose regulation or fine their companies. The European far-right hates it because of migration. Moscow hates it because dealing with one European bloc is more difficult than bullying dozens of small countries

8 Dec 1941 // Gunboat HMS Peterel was sunk by Japanese gunfire at Shanghai after Japanese officers had boarded and demanded her surrender, which demand was firmly rejected. Three Japanese ships led by cruiser Izumo then opened fire on the gunboat, and Peterel fought back until overwhelmed. [1/4]

Nicholas I and Wilhelm II: also bad. British foreign policy is the worst European great power foreign policy except for all the other ones.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

The only Die Hard discourse worth your time is “Die Hard is Alien from the Xenomorph’s point of view”.

1/10 Before the SWW, Japan mass-produced high-speed tankers of around 10,000 gross tonnes and 20 knots. These were called Kawasaki type oilers after the shipyard, though this was not their official designation.

The IJN's offshore refuelling was by the astern-refueling method, but this had the disadvantage that the refuelling pipes were long and time-consuming. IJN adopted the broadside-refuelling method developed by the USA in the 1930s, which enabled smooth refuelling with thicker and shorter tubes.

And here. We. Go.

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