Lemme be succinct for a minute then I'll log off because this is pointless: The pro-natalist thing is pretty firmly rooted in racism and xenophobia. Anti-immigration sentiment. You are doing a service to it if you try to remove that component and debate its merits in isolation.

Today's favourite #warart Giulio Aristide Sartorio - Pontoon "Tigre" (1917) - Rome, Palazzo della Farnesina Pontoon-mounted heavy gun for the defence of Venice after Caporetto. @vandawilcox.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @alanallport.bsky.social

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Who wants a thread of my digital artworks? Well tough, you’re getting one

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

New Article (paid content) – Failure at Beda Fomm, 23 Dec 1941 Background Payment for (some) content is a new feature, in which we are trying to recover some of the cost for running the blog through providing in-depth content related to the desert war. Feature length articles such as this will be…

Small adjustments made !🙄 Lemsip & Bob…

Perhaps the most Scandinavian-sounding man to be a figure in national American politics was the wonderfully-named Ole Thorsteinsson Hanson (1874-1940.) He was Wisconsin-born (as you might expect from the name), the fifth child of Norwegian immigrants. Californians may know him as the founder of

8 October 1582: A royal proclamation today, ordering that the law courts should be moved from Westminster to Hertford Castle for the current term, because of the plague spreading in London. A little odd, since only yesterday the Privy Council was planning for them to move to ... 1/ #earlymodern

Just an ordinary photo-recce? You're wrong there. Picture of Plouha in France, illuminated by a 4.5-inch Photoflash bomb, taken at night. #WW2 #HISTORY

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...

Hey Siri, show me ‘stuff nobody fucking asked for’ Siri:

Does anyone have a copy of 'Tunisgrad'? Interested in the range of sources used.

The last known surviving veteran of Canada's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regiment from the Second World War has passed away. Lance Corporal Tony Mastromatteo was 104.#Cdnhistory #WW2Veterans #Canadianhistory www.chch.com/chch-news/se...

avocados, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1914

In 1982, divers discovered a large brick structure in the hold, which turned out to be one of the two galley ovens. As visibility on the seabed wasn't great, the only way to get a photo of the whole structure was to take a photomosaic, as seen here.

7 octobre 1571 : bataille de Lépante. La flotte chrétienne (Venise et Espagne) écrase la flotte ottomane lors d’une bataille à sens unique. Célébrée dans tte l’Europe, ce combat qui n’aura pas d’effet décisif (Chypre est perdue quand même) est un exemple d’exploitation médiatique et politique.

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

#OtD 7 Oct 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) revolutionary union martyr, was born in Sweden. He wrote such working-class anthems as 'The Preacher and the Slave', and was executed in the US. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

I have so many questions about this

I’ll just stop paying taxes and NI then I guess? I’ll take that deal.

Russland hat die Ukraine angegriffen, zersetzt mit Desinformation unsere Kommunikation, droht uns mit Drohnen, aber ihr lasst euch (teilweise von Russland!) einreden, dass Migranten die größte Gefahr seien (die auch größtenteils wegen Russland zu uns kamen). Die „Selbstdenker“ sind die naivsten.

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

#OTD in 1941 KG26 sank SS Thistlegorm off Suez. #navalhistory

I hope you'll take a moment for these beautiful parting words from the incomparable Jane Goodall. (And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)

Fuck the Tory Party. Contrary to @stephenkb.bsky.social’s implied point that we may regret its passing compared to what is likely in store with Reform, with every day it is working harder to ensure this is not the case.

so many 19C cases like this

Who was Julian, Rome’s last pagan emperor, and what was his legacy? I talk with MSU #Classics assistant professor and author Jeremy Swist about how history and early Christian writers shaped his story. www.diggingupthepast.net/p/the-last-p... #history #historyfacts #byzantine #romanempire #roman

"Let's see how she flies." (#OTD in 1944. A captured Messerschmitt Me 410. #WW2 #HISTORY)

4 October 1941 – No. 107 Squadron visits Zuara Background While looking through the ORB of No. 107 Squadron I came across a well-described mission from early October 1941. Looking further into it, I noted that the Italian 5a Squadra war diary contains a good and unusually well-aligned description…

The US and Allies dropped 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, including 400,000 tons of napalm. They didn’t lose that war because of a lack of ruthlessness.

Gold kylix (4th Century AD) - a wine cup with two handles rising above it, weighing 350-400g, found from the Golyama Kosmatka mound near Kazanlak, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 The tomb belonged to the Thracian king Seuthes III. ... Museum of History Iskra, Kazanlak, Bulgaria #archaeohistories

A 2500 year-old mass grave in Himera, Sicily 🇮🇹 has shattered our understanding of ancient Greek warfare... #archaeohistories

It’s pretty emblematic of today’s US Army, if you didn’t go to jump school, Ranger school, or some kind of SOF course, people question whether you were really “in” the Army at all, thus a whole bunch of officers who could be helpful self select out

General question- whos your favorite modernization of war historian (excluding Dennis Showalter) PhD not a requirement.

The US Navy put their spotter planes, catapults and fuel directly amidships on their Treaty Cruisers, which didn't work out very well either. Although the Japanese probably appreciated the additional illumination during night battles.

Tonight's final episode of King and Conqueror sees the climactic confrontation between William and Harold.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

Nobody: … Absolutely nobody: … Italian naval architects: ‘Bruv! Let’s put the catapult for the floatplanes on the bow!’ #navalhistory @dreadships.bsky.social

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Feeling cute. Might annoy some Blenheim fans on Facebook later. rommelsriposte.com/2020/05/30/w...

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

The extent to which the Spanish kind of fuck themselves in the long run by abandoning the Caribbean for the mainland shouldn't be underestimated.

Even if you don't speak German, this is an interesting first person view of the war in the desert. digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/en/video/622...

Savage. You can just see Cunningham's eyes roll and hear the sigh at realising what is being fobbed off on him. Wavell to Alan Cunningham, 19 Dec 1940 @alanallport.bsky.social

Thrilled to see this out! I was fortunate to work w/a tremendous @rand research team on a sUAS project sponsored by 18th Airborne Corps. My focus was on maximizing the army's sUAS training ecosystem from the unit-level to institutional army. 1/ www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

This has to be the single most succinct summary of Tudor history.