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.

So was this post

Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."

Oh word? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_an...

Wow. The things you stumble upon when looking for something completely different. This picture, taken during Operation Pedestal, shows HMS Nelson or Rodney using 16in guns with HE shells timed to explode in front of approaching torpedo bombers! IWM A11205 #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

you know you're getting old when you start getting excited for a book "1942: CRUX OF WAR" a year ahead of publication global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I have no idea if this will reach anyone, but I have just had an absolutely awful day at work and am in dire need of some dissociation Please tell me your favourite historical fun fact(s)

ME: Define “to have nerves of steel”. FRENCH NAVY RAFALE PILOT:

Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles." Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.

Good morning

My office partner told another colleague I’m “always reading” and it feels very nice to be seen

I like this Mamdani guy #navalhistory

Alan Moorhead pointed out at the time that to some extent surface naval warfare in WW2 was a bit of a throwback and aberration because Cunningham was rampaging around on HMS Come And Have A Go If You Think You’re Hard Enough like Cochrane with a hangover in a way nobody expected possible.

I still have to watch @ima-naval-history.bsky.social's video on Italy's naval strategy, but thought the response by @fabiodeninno.bsky.social was very interesting. #navalhistory @rjhammond215.bsky.social @rnssc.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social @axe99.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Was not expecting to spot @seaspitfires.com in the wild in Norway, but a pleasant surprise it was #navalhistory #navalhistorybooks

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

From the Liverpool Daily Post on the 11th (no paper on the 10th - Sunday)

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨 Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️ 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... #WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks

“The apex of German scientific engineering on which they trusted their military OpSec on, Enigma, was broken by a group comprised of Jews, homosexuals and women” really weakens their argument.

Also they ran just incredibly awful commentary with incredibly shawty evidence (which I’m sure will become feature at CBS now). For example, the author of this piece claimed the Allies won WWII with inferior technology minus the atomic bomb lol

Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released in the UK on 6 November, preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...

I am being forced to read The Secret of Secrets for work by my "friends" and Dan Brown is so loudly and confidently wrong about everything and I want to tear my hair out.

This one might be of interest to #NavalHistory Bluesky. The Norwegian Coastal Administration has released an underwater 3D photo scan of the wreck of the German heavy cruiser Blücher, sunk in the Oslofjord in April 1940. Super cool! #ww2 #norway #blücher dykkerteknikk.nira.app/a/Ip_mJ3EFQK...

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted. von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

Sink the Baltic fleet, take Kaliningrad and then claim it was an accident due to Ukrainian EW interference.

Logistics is what allowed the 9th infantry divisions artillery train to travel 800 miles in 4 days and drop 7500 rounds of high explosive on the 10th Panzer Division in 6 hours at Kasserine pass. Germans later described as “a wall of fire” and “pure hell”

He wasn't even that hard to work with - long form answer if you're interested old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Making us all work 40hrs in bullshit jobs is not just about capitalist profits, its about keeping us busy, distracted and lonely. #socialistsunday

Whenever people ask me my five ideal dinner guests living or dead I always say Luigi Mangione and then whichever four billionaires I'm most pissed off with.

#ResistanceRoots Zonia Baber was born on this day in 1862 in Kansas Township, Ill. Baber was a geographer and geologist who developed innovative teaching methods that emphasized experiential learning. She was also an activist who advocated for women’s rights and against Western imperialism. /1

I’m probably the last person on the planet to find out about this, but Pasquale serves hands down the best Italian meal I have ever had in London and many places in Italy. He also had our daughter in stitches, which isn’t an easy thing with a teenage girl @garius.bsky.social @andraswf.bsky.social

RW Wehraboos are always posting pictures of shiny Nazi shit like Tiger tanks and the Bismarck and never the actual backbone of the wartime Wehrmacht, wonder why