for our next bonus episode, a reading in full of Vladimir Tributs' three-part war memoir on the Soviet fleet in the Baltic during the Second World War

I was saving @beyondthebreakers.bsky.social Karluk expedition series for my Alaska trip but I ended up not listening then. I'm listening to it today and it's even more fascinating than the facts I already knew. Fuck Stefansson and your friendly Arctic - I love the frozen North but it isn't friendly

girl tell me about it 😔

✅ all black everything ✅ brooched af ✅ corpselike pallor ✅ shieldbearing Creature [indeterminate] and you're ready to hit the town

spent about 3 hours hunting (successfully 😀) through scans of 1610s history/travel writing for a specific full quotation that was referenced in other places but not included entirely. It will take up 30 - 45 seconds of show time to read in the episode

our social media team was getting some classroom action shots and caught @clintsmithiii.bsky.social in the background (side note! I can't recommend the Crash Course: Black American History series enough to teachers whose curriculum touches at all on American history)

We're nearing the end of #NoNauNovember how is everyone holding up?

On sporting decorum and the perfidious Welshmen (circa 1930s):

two Greek statue profile pics arguing with each other

reporting for duty sir

a new study finds that there is enough microplastic in your nads to make a little army guy. whats worse is that its the guy with the radio so he doesnt even have a gun. and he has a bunch of extra plastic along the seam on the bottom so he keeps falling over.

Because the whole point of the AI industry is not to produce things or facilitate things, but to insist that people believe that it will produce and facilitate things. So long as you can keep up the belief, the money machine keeps churning

this is also possible, who says Canada never did anything for us

okay so what we're getting from this data is that you could kinda take or leave the actual 'shipwreck' parts

1000% haram

Brett Favre? The sex criminal and also normal criminal?

honestly zero likes is what this guy deserves, well done Breakerheads 🙏

Salvador Correia de Sá e Benavides - """""Liberator""""" of Angola from Episode 159 on the galleon Padre Eterno

“Doohickey Arondolo” has got to be a “I bet my copy editor isn’t paying attention” joke that made it into print.

Episode 159 - Padre Eterno - is now live on the main feed for everyone

Guy who has only read Dune, reading his second book: Getting a lot of ‘Dune’ vibes from this…

Episode 159 - Padre Eterno - is now live on the main feed for everyone

My recent (ie past 3 years) tradition is to listen to @beyondthebreakers.bsky.social Edmund Fitzgerald episodes on November 10th.

Oh you like Great Lakes shipwrecks? Name 100 episodes of @beyondthebreakers.bsky.social, bet you can’t.

and he was amazing at parties

what we like to call an "oops! all background!" episode Episode 159 - Padre Eterno - is available for patrons now

Duluth going just buckshit wild for the next 24 hours.

I don’t think my heart could stand finding out that Taco Bell and Walmart are just in it for the profit

Drinking a beer in the paper of record

The progression from the heady college days of Canadian/American football, to the groups that would go on to form the #CFL. Come find out, from among many schools/clubs: which team names were the exact same, which were the dumbest, and which were the most racist (with @hivefleethodag.bsky.social)

The #Toronto Argonaut Rowing Club, 1874...in all their glory:

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okay *now* go listen to it

ever since we were kids we wanted to turn each episode of the podcast into a multi-channel growth engine 🙂

When the news calls you a “divisive figure” in 2025 that means you did some atrocities

**unlocked** 'The Ignoble Means by Which That Wealth Was Accumulated' - The Slaving Brig Henriqueta and the Illicit Slave Trade to Brazil We have an upcoming main episode about 17th century Brazil, and we think this bonus episode from earlier in 2025 might be useful listening

please watch. important

that’s for the Doolittle Raid you son of a bitch 😡

patrons at the 2nd Mate tier now have access to Part III of our bonus series on the naval battles of the Guadalcanal Campaign - this one covers the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (pictured - carrier USS Hornet on the struggle bus after a visit from Val and Kate)

listeners to the Guadalcanal series will know 😔

"To Defeat Such Unreasonable Purposes": Lord Dunmore's Floating Town - A Maritime Misadventure of the American Rebellion (October 2025 Bonus) tl;dr New bonus! It good!

we are so back www.patreon.com/posts/to-def...

just recorded an awesome Able Seaperson bonus episode, featuring: Casimir Pulaski Day ethical Vikings doohickey Jacobite Rising of 1745 fine china Daniel Boone Mothman and more! if any or all of these interest you please support the show at the Able Seaperson or 2nd Mate level please oh god plea

just recorded an awesome Able Seaperson bonus episode, featuring: Casimir Pulaski Day ethical Vikings doohickey Jacobite Rising of 1745 fine china Daniel Boone Mothman and more! if any or all of these interest you please support the show at the Able Seaperson or 2nd Mate level please oh god plea

'running, which he dislikes' yeah we can tell buddy