What does a leaderboard of AI metrics really represent? -degradation of the information environment -continued ramping of climate consequences -a history of eugenics -stripping critical capacities from young people just as they most need it to combat the return of the far right

The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians

Uhh... those aren't cartoony black-and-white prisoner stripes. They're concentration camp uniforms, blue vertical stripes. It's muddling the two a bit (of course they're variations on the same idea) but the AI slop is obviously pulling from pictures of the latter, it's a very distinct color palette.

Phishing account to report and block

As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.

The long-nosed Pinocchio #chameleon is multiple species. #Biologists have finally solved the century-old #reptilian mystery. Link for more info and photos: www.popsci.com/environment/...

WARGAME DEVELOPMENT New military history games currently in development DESERT WAR PanzerArmee Operations in North Africa 1940-1943 "A World War II chess match set in North Africa" Game Design: Frank Davis Graphic Design: Soichiro Nakane

Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

On 22 Nov 41 Admiral Weichhold and Supermarina exchanged letters telling each other how much they agreed that the North Africa supply situation was really bad, and while Weichhold noted how nice it would be if someone could do something, the Italians politely asked the Germans to put a sock in it.

On 24 November 1941 Rommel made the fatal mistake that would cost him CRUSADER. Just as he had Eighth Army on the ropes and could have delivered a knock-out blow, he decided throw it all away for the ‘dash to the wire’. There was no need and little opportunity there, as Crüwell clearly saw.

People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth

hey man, thanks for reading.

When I’m done with #militaryhistory and having to work I’ll become a photographer I think.

Not beating the allegations

I see people are dunking on Fury again, and right they are. It’s a crap movie with a crap premise, crap acting and crap depiction of tactics. Props to the uniform guys I think they did a good job, don’t @ me, not a uniform grog. Anyways, where was I, ah yes. Watch this instead. #movies #ww2

I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

I hate it because it drops this dogshit in the first 10 seconds

it's a fun adventure movie that has basically the plot as Sahara (1943) but instead of Bogie leading a rag-tag international band of rascals it's all Americans and instead of a clever victory it's kind of a bummer

Ok military history bluesky is there anything you want to say about the movie Fury (2014)?

To be fair, Neal wrote "The Baroque Cycle" longhand after a computer backup disaster ate the first five hundred pages or so. Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote— Yeah nope, that's just deranged.

Gotta up the crash rates.

I don't think adults are supposed to root for Kevin the way you root for John McClain, you're just supposed to remember being a kid and rooting for Kevin. And now you can appreciate how John Candy just totally ad-libbed in this entire scene: youtu.be/dD5Q_famjAE?...

As I'm in a good mood and you've had a hard day, this post is FREE! What I love, and don't love, about flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner: An honest review by an anonymous pilot.. well worth a read! hushkit.substack.com/p/what-i-lov...

Have you seen our dog? If not, you should, he's awesome! 'Hatch', a terrier/whippet cross, was found outside the carpenter's cabin, and was the ship's ratter. He was also a good boy. Yes, he was. #Museum30 #animal Find out more - maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...

Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking styles of strong colours and bold design #Womensart

Details of Tyson Smith’s bas relief panels from Liverpool Cenotaph. On one side the armed men from Liverpool in angular, tight ranks, stern faced; on the other the drawn faces and stooped figures of the families

The Ice Cutters’ Daughters of Maine 1895. Abigail Carver of Skowhegan, became the first female foreman of an ice crew after her husband was injured. She rose before dawn, led a team of six women, and cut through two feet of lake ice in subzero temperatures.

Last pit ponies at Wheldale colliery, Castleford, Yorkshire, 1972, photo by Don McPhee.

I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago. Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑

1941 of course. 🙄 Apols, as Bluesky keeps crashing new posts on me I posted the thread without triple-checking to make sure I didn’t lose it.

Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

Ardvrek Castle wall 'ripped down' for use as stepping stones. "Some special individuals decided when the water was over the beach area, rather than get their little tootsies wet, they would rip down a 500-year-old wall to make a path for themselves.” Unbelievable! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jar Jar, you magnificent beast

Some test firing before a flight. #WW2 #HISTORY

Predecessors of 7 R.T.R.

#OTD in 1942, Algiers, North Africa. The beauty of tracer fire. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1917, Ribécourt area, France. A disabled tank from 2 Tank Brigade being used as an observation and signalling post. #WW1 #HISTORY

OTD in 1942 the battle of Sidi Rezegh, in German die Schlacht am Totensonntag, took place. It was the largest tank battle fought in the west and North Africa since Cambrai. It was an Axis victory, but at prohibitive cost. This was compounded by command failure after the battle. Some vignettes 🧵

Like Home Secretary, like party. Labour are on a road to political oblivion with their Reform tribute act. It doesn't win over anyone for whom putting the boot into forrins is their top concern. They'll always choose the real deal. But it actively scares away everyone else. Double own goal.

Today's AI spam is for a book I haven't written. But it gets even better than that:

If this is the public statement then imagine what was being said in private channels. The drafting of this is so careful, the signatures so universal, you don’t have to be a diplomat to read between the lines.

Chat: is this bad?

Any article that has a graph labelled ‘this is not a serious graph’ is okay in my book.

The USA is at the stage of ‘officials being afraid about reprisals for stating that swastika tatoos are bad’, but it’s not fascism, Tom Nichols said so.

Give me a hypocaust in which to stand, and I will move the earth #HypocaustGate

I actually visited Mulhouse back in 2024 and was struck by how the main train station is quite unchanged from 1944, not exactly a surprise, but remarkably little modification to the overall structure since that time.

This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!

movie posters featuring the muppets: thread

Let me decode that. Para 1: Nice of you to show up. Para 2: There's some stuff in here, like 'Russia stops invading other countries', that we can live with Para 3: Over our dead bodies. Fuck off. Fuck off some more. Para 4: Fuck off. Para 5: Fuck off.

Leaders’ statement on Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺 We are clear on the principle that borders must not be changed by force. We are also concerned by the proposed limitations on Ukraine’s armed forces, which would leave Ukraine vulnerable to future attack.