If you were old enough to pour milk onto cereal without spilling & to know your grandparents' phone number by heart, then you were considered fully qualified to babysit your younger siblings overnight.

If the weather continues mild and you're near Niagara, here's some less-famous Canadian history well-worth a visit: Ridgeway Battlefield near Fort Erie. thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/b... maps.app.goo.gl/rodA9WDjokBv...

Just gonna leave this here. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Essentially.

Getting my #NAFO #FiverFriday nomination in early @toonietuesday.bsky.social since I have veteran stuff starting at zero dark stupid hours: Let's help Marie get these 🇬🇪 lads their 🇺🇦 war wagon! Some fun rewards like send the orcs a 🌻message🌻 for just $20 & handmade pretties bsky.app/profile/chut...

Quick reminder that Mango Mussolini believes that being at war cancels all elections & he said so in August - www.c-span.org/clip/white-h... - so Venezuela is a useful way to stay in power, especially since his candidates lost badly in the 2025 byelections.

✨️ Denmark begins scattering Legos along Greenland's coasts to prevent an American invasion ✨️

Happy 2nd Gotcha Day to our beloved cat, The Bruce. He's named for a splendid medieval poem - www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44292/

An anarchist journalist scraped the user data from a neo-Nazi dating site with shitty infosec & the results are posted here for free: okstupid.lol The writeup has some hilarious quotes, as well as the consistently depressing mixture of idiot‐creep that you'd expect: cybernews.com/security/inv...

A late #Caturday item: news.artnet.com/art-world/ca...

It's fun to see many people claiming to remember the Iraq war simultaneously forgetting the reasons: 1st time, Saddam invaded a neighbour 2nd time, Saddam violated the air-enforced ceasefire more than 18 times and refused to return a prisoner of war (believed alive at the time) 1/2

I doubt anyone in the current regime had actually read Manwaring, but clearly an advisor has found it convenient for #Venezuela.

Well that was quick.

Full credit to @isaaccorbrey.com for highlighting this helpful spam-block list creator. (When someone likes my comments then I check if they're an actual human, like the unabashed 20th-century relic that I am.)

First we had the Delaware Pumpkin Trebuchet and then the Canadian Chicken Cannon, ans now is come the hour of the German Fir Flinger.

May your 2026 be good stuff, eels possibly optional.

⚓️Absolute Unit of a Kogge⚓️ (My faves are the 12th-century Koggen, but the Hansa enthusiasts will want to read this one) #medieval #maritime #sailing #history @medievalists.bsky.social

Fellas, for the love of #NAFO, please encourage/facilitate your 🇺🇦 friends to provide donation options that are neither 🇺🇲 nor Monobank. Kofi & Wise are both 🇬🇧, that help 🇨🇦🇩🇰 with our boycott of 🇺🇲 platforms. Wise doesn't charge fees to 🇺🇦 charities (I have invites!) Monobank still hates not-🇪🇺 cards.

Heute arbeiten @toonietuesday.bsky.social & Kriegsbeobachterteam @alexbondodua.bsky.social zusammen, um Notkälteschutz mehrfachen Truppen in direktem Feindkontakt zu verschaffen. Spende €£$2 & das Screenshot auf Toonie posten. 🅿️🅿️ [email protected] ("Toonie") 🏦 send.monobank.ua/jar/29zkE2VCvR

Europe underreacting to Russia's undeclared maritime warfare endangering everybody, part 1428. cc @mercoglianos.bsky.social united24media.com/latest-news/...

Canadian Winters are best spent with Fritillaries! Took a break beside the water feature together with this gorgeous creature at the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory. #Canada #science #insects #CharismaticMegafauna

✨️ Medieval gorgeousness to start your week ✨️

make a Bond movie academic "Quantum of Solace: Approaches to Pain Management in Hildegard of Bingen's Medical Works"

Please help Zura @mode23976 getting a car for artillery team in 1st International Legion (Kharkiv direction). Without safe vehicles, boys stay longer on positions 😔 🚙 3049$ needed ✅ 1646 (+305 ☕) = 1951/5000$ 🎯 🅿️ [email protected] ☕ buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller

My spirit animal as I eat all the holiday cheese

One thing that 20 years of dealing with the Veterans' bureaucracy has taught me is that the vast majority of people feel zero burden of responsibility (or basic ethics) just as long as their pay continues to appear in their bank. It's a Pareto distribution of 80% asshats : 20% looking to quit.

1/2 #PSA: Take a moment now to check that your pets' microchips are up to date! Indoor pets who stay home too - even if they ignore the outdoors, they can slip outside when petsitters, guests, or their usual humans aren't paying attention. Here are some sites to check your pet's microchip info:

1/2 #PSA: Take a moment now to check that your pets' microchips are up to date! Indoor pets who stay home too - even if they ignore the outdoors, they can slip outside when petsitters, guests, or their usual humans aren't paying attention. Here are some sites to check your pet's microchip info:

They got a Customs inspector out of bed to inspect the cargo at 1am on Sunday, that's the bureaucratic equivalent of napalm. www.reuters.com/world/swedis...

Vast sin-concealing chaos

Useful Facts from History: About 3350 years ago, a Pharaoh built a city and art style around his own cult but, when he died, the people worked hard to erase him from history - they left the city, wrecked the art, and called him “the enemy” or “that criminal” whenever they couldn't avoid a reference

I was trying to avoid Fallout hints and spoilers for 2 months, which included the hint that they're stringing the episodes out weekly with ads like cable tv 🤢 There goes my holiday bingewatching plan. Anyways the first episode is solid, and sufficiently Fallout-gory.

Welcome to the 1st post of a new series! The Baltic Gold Journey Stories are a symbol of the Baltic countries’ prosperity in 1938, a large education in Ru-USSR intel operations in 1939-40, and a sign of hope, 50y later in 1992-93. It's free at Substack: tinyurl.com/272nbasz

Honestly there should never be any children forced to run from school into a bomb-shelter but, since this is the reality for Ukraine (and shame on all of the developed democracies that it is 3 ⅚ years already), then at least we can help make it slightly less awful for the children. #NAFO

Here are the Bondi fundraisers which Gofundme Australia has vetted so far - www.gofundme.com/en-au/c/act/... (there are 2 for Mr al-Ahmed, one by a local business and one by a local celebrity)

Hot take with initial analysis - Ukrainian strike on Novorossiysk www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1W...

The new Zonos app required by the US govt to send anything to the US (incl Veteran files) is owned by Clint Manley Reid, a lifelong Republican who made $73k/yr working for Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama), but left in March 2025 to copyright Zonos. I'd love to know how that data & money get spent 🤢

"My Grandfather's Cat" is a cross-Canada organization that helps dying seniors find homes for their beloved animals. They also offer a senior's pet food pantry, to help support low income seniors. Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life. www.mygrandfatherscat.ca

The new Zonos app required by the US govt to send anything to the US (incl Veteran files) is owned by Clint Manley Reid, a lifelong Republican who made $73k/yr working for Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama), but left in March 2025 to copyright Zonos. I'd love to know how that data & money get spent 🤢

Illumination with gold leaf is always popular - humans have an endless capacity for bling - but I love it when scribes did ink-only pieces like these! #medieval #art

Yes.

The digital wizards gave my Fella a holiday livery to unwrap for the NAFO Advent Calendar lol

Super excited that I finally won one of these fundraiser raffles! I got a daily prize (there are still a dozen left so please do participate!) which means that I'll have a glorious Advents Fella to show off for the weekend. 🇨🇦🫶🇺🇦

Free to read & to download. #OSINT #EUpol

100 years ago, nobody fussed at nurses when they were veiled. Four examples here: France, Hungary, Finland, Canada. History - the antidote to bigotry.

Toss a coin to your sniffer! #NAFO #fella #Christmas #fundraiser #Ukraine Weihnachtenbild Ihres Fellas für eine Spende Faîtes un don pour un dessin de Noël de votre Fella

Is there a "Rest is Politics" drinking game? I'm not sure that Rory can get through an episode without saying something is "astonishing" (the British diplomats' word for "stark raving stupidity") Perhaps @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social would challenge him to find new adjectives in 2026?