Bay of Pigs part deux. Even if it's just some random trumpet this time... the mere possibility of a (totally valid) reaction force response creates a convenient excuse for the 🇺🇲 crybully-in-chief to cancel the midterms.

Women: *exist* Workers at Defence, Veterans, & Contractors: "Dear sir..." My siblings in Reason, just use the person's rank until you find out for sure. It's 2026, it's not a surprise that women have joined.

Two very fine fellas tell_fella and DrDeaRoberts are matching donations right now. Get bonus tickets 🎟️ in our amazing raffle and help our snipers with some critical ammunition and equipment. 🎟️$5 📆March 1 chornomorets.notepin.co

Une fouille de l'Inrap dans le centre-ville de Strasbourg a permis de révéler des vestiges d’habitat liés aux légions romaines, puis à la corporation des Drapiers au Moyen Âge, ainsi que de multiples remaniements de la période moderne et contemporaine 👉 inrap.fr/un-quartier-...

Fun history fact, Toronto held these same calls for 'willing workers' after snowstorms (and windstorms) until the early 1950s. My grands all said it stopped because using machinery was a sign of progress - even when it took longer. I think we can agree that progress is getting the job done quickly!

Perserverence can think it's <35m off its true coordinates due to wheel slippage, so it stops to take a "street view" of its location for NASA. NASA's algorithm compares that street view with their "map view" created from all our explorations. Then NASA gives Perserverence its true coordinates! 😎

Gentle reminder to stop using Paypal and Google Wallet, and to start using card-obscuring apps like Proton. And to keep your digital banking locked up snugly behind 2FA... and to freeze your credit file, if you live in a country than uses them.

This is your academic conference season planning reminder to avoid 🇺🇲 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Anyways, here's some really interesting Canadian history that needs a Heritage Minute!

Well that explains the weird error message when my colleague tried to contact a Russian shipwright specializing in recreating historical vessels for me. (I have family in NATO military contracting so we've used @threema.ch to comply with their infosec - also because who trusts Zuckerberg Anaytica?)

Spent a splendid day avoiding doing forms by researching the Desna River in Ukraine. If anyone does 11-12th.c. history & knows why the 5 medieval forts guarding the confluences of the Desna's tributaries as it flowed toward Kyiv suddenly all burnt down- especially Shestovitsa -please get in touch!

Our patron demon got his own game 🫶 chromokun.itch.io/typning

Something happy to interrupt your day... sketch a horse and then watch it run with horses from #archaeology! 🐎 gradient.horse

The Wild Hornets are a tremendously clever bunch who bring lots of 🔥☠️ for the twoony! Well worth your support - please click below. #ToonieTuesday #NAFO #Ukraine @toonietuesday.bsky.social @wildhornets.bsky.social

Today's news is a lot. And the struggle to keep housed and fed is overwhelming. Your feelings are valid - there's no shame in reaching out to a helpline in your country for some extra support 🫶 www.reddit.com/r/addiction/... (these resources are for eveeyone, the addict group has the best list)

Post a banger that isn't in English Nancy Ajram - Ah we Nus m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_L2... (Lebanese superstar with huge Iraqi fan club)

*dapper man in a dinner jacket lights a woman’s cigarette at a roulette table in a Monaco casino* ‘What’s your name?’ ‘The name’s And The Giant Peach. James And The Giant Peach’

No Kings includes Draft Kings

When the Epstein Survivors' statement plays during Superbowl today: If anyone you're watching with scoffs or says it's political, then do your part to hold them accountable for minimizing rape & for hating women. #MeToo #NFL #football #Women #feminism #ally #Superbowl #Epstein #Trump #POTUS #CRIME

Trollolol! There's a new type of "ICE fishing" in Minneapolis: The US-born white-passing protestors publicly display the flags of other American countries, using their privilege to divert ICE from terrorizing residents. My bad-hat drill instructor used to tell us to "go forth and inflict chaos" 😎💕

I rather liked this... not the usual type of story we get about things from fields - it's gentle and thoughtful. Top marks for getting it in Farmer's Weekly too... It ain't all 'treasure'... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺 www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/an...

Moin NAFO! Die Marie unterstüzt oft Frontsoldaten, die sich bedürftig finden. Jetzt sammelt sie €290 für einen Sonderschutzhelm: Eure Notspende hilft viel! ko-fi.com/mariemuller

Canadian security agents and law enforcement are perfectly capable of "keeping communities safe" without this fifth column Hoekstra needs PNG and his little DHS pals too - protect our sovereignty @mark-carney.bsky.social (My MP is useless so asking the PM directly) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Behold! Loot! Team Yuri's Raffle Squad sent me 1 nice note on this nifty card, 1 cozy hat with Battle Cat, & 1 truly splendid Special Ops coin (which takes the place of honour among my coins of my misspent youth). дякую @y-chornomorets.bsky.social @mrssnorman.bsky.social ! 🇨🇦 🫶 🇺🇦 #TeamYuri #NAFO

It's amazing how much medieval research I can do in a day when I'm not bogged down with bureaucracy from the veterans, the medical insurer (yes 🇨🇦s must fight to get an eye exam, to be able to chew, to have appropriate and effective pain rx, etc) and other jobsworth stuff that wastes all your spoons.

Once again I am asking the physics department to hurry up & invent transporter beams for all of us medievalists in the New World. (I'm not bitter that the German dept's roof repair is delayed in order to fund science stuff, again. A designated historic bldg full of buckets is not shameful at all.)

Showing Anne Boleyn's hands was a departure from the "accepted" royal portrait patterns of the era & the underdrawing shows how the artist departed from that standard in order to support Elizabeth I against contemporary #propaganda. #Renaissance #art www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

(If Niemöller wrote today) First they came for the trans people, and I did nothing - because I didn't know any trans people anyways. Then they came for the immigrants, and I did nothing - because there's no immigrants in my street so it didn't affect me. Then they came for the journalists...

Dorothea Neff & Lilli Wolff vs The Reich: 🏳️‍🌈 history truly worth reading! (or using an online translator to read if you don't read German) #lgbtq #queer #lesbian #WWII #history #Righteous

(If Niemöller wrote today) First they came for the trans people, and I did nothing - because I didn't know any trans people anyways. Then they came for the immigrants, and I did nothing - because there's no immigrants in my street so it didn't affect me. Then they came for the journalists...

History to ponder for all who assert that trials or tribunals can fix the 🇺🇲 situation. Please note that I mixed up my Generals. I was thinking of Eisenhower's ad hoc tribunals - going from arrest to execution within a fortnight (today best known from the Dirty Dozen) - not Cadorna's decimations.

TIL 🇬🇱 hasn't got a Coast Guard, but they want their own SAR & EEZ ship to augment the 🇩🇰 Navy. @mark-carney.bsky.social to help 🇨🇦 shipbuilding & Arctic allies: Give 🇬🇱 a 🇨🇦made ship to break the ice & stand on guard with thee! Meanwhile, the Goodwill on goodwill tour: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCGS_Je...

Alex Pretti's coworkers held a minute of silence today. i.redd.it/k8c0xdikxqfg... The #history of United States #politics is violence - I hope Dr Haynes' speech can help us all to process what is happening. #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICEout #antifa #NoKings #CivilRights #HumanRights #Constitution

The 9th Medieval Military Orders conference in Malta has a number of interesting strands; abstracts due 14 Feb #cfp #medieval #military #history #technology #monuments #archives #archaeology #digital www.um.edu.mt/events/milit...

Using makeup to defeat facial recognition A resource page I'm sharing for instructional purposes only, as my combat instructors used to say 🫶 archive.ph/NM8Gq #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICEout #protest #strike #makeup #fashion #punk #antifa #NoKings

nay, dry your eyes⁠— Tears show their love, but want their remedies.

It's okay to mourn - grief is absolutely valid as a response to these events.

Here's a helpful, quick post to help 🇨🇦 tech users to identify vulnerabilities to 🇺🇲-based tech (makers & servicers) - in plain language to help your Boomer relatives understand it, too! Plus, a site I find useful for switching to 🇪🇺-based tech allies: european-alternatives.eu/categories

Simplified snow storm forecast map from Max Velocity WX 😭

The uncomfortable fact of #history is that the #USA was built on #violence in #politics & minorities of all kinds must stand up for one another to #progress. Rev Dr Frederick Douglass Haynes (2 mins, subtitles) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XImd...

Just putting this here to help anyone who'd like to get away from the Microsoft / Apple / Google / Amazon ecosystems; or to boycott 🇺🇲 tech in solidarity with 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱! european-alternatives.eu/categories

All this ICE stuff is just Saddam's "pure population" program in worse uniforms. In 1980-1983, Saddam decided that Iraq was for Iraqis only. Immigrants - incl naturalized citizens & children born in Iraq whose parents or grandparents were not fully Iraqi - were deported (usually murdered). 1/n

Friendly reminder that ibternational terminals are only extraterritorial by custom, which the USA no longer observes - avoid all connections & stops there! I hope Portugal summons the ambassador for this asshattery.

Thanks to @hellobonjour.bsky.social for finding this - give it a read and sign on!

When a Ukrainian refugee unexpectedly dies abroad, what happens next In Canada, local volunteers "do the needful" - push through the postmortem processes, overcome any bureaucratic barriers, and give them a dignified journey. From Halifax: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Essentially.

If anyone asks you to send nudes, I recommend you send these stunning nudibranches! Chromodoris orientalis (and a sealife account worth following here too!)