For my son and his trans partner.

So minions are immortal, immoral, and even ontologically evil. So basically cute and annoying fallen angels.

Righteous. 🍁🇨🇦

Finished two 1/300 scale Kriegsmarine vessels for Torpedoes and Tides. 3D printed Raumboote and a Skytrex M class minelayer/minesweeper. #navalwargaming

Love your neighbour isn’t in the creeds but is foundational. Show hospitality to the stranger isn’t in the creeds but is integral to the faith. Matthew 25 isn’t in the creeds but is fundamental to Christian ethics. Honestly if this guy showed up in my parish I would kick him to the curb.

A realtor friend has given me a few weeks to salvage plants from the garden of a derelict house before it’s all bulldozed.

Six year old granddaughter to her older sister: “What’s that instrument you play that makes a very annoying sound?”

Grandkids are just a smidge too young to play this with but it looks great.

To be fair to AI, Ford’s cars were shite long before. Speaking as a 2000 Ford Focus owner with a gazillion recalls.

Very exciting Torpedoes and Tides after action report and a mixed first outing for my Canadian flotilla. #navalwargames madpadrewargames.blogspot.com/2026/06/ive-...

Brodie and Beatrix rounding up the big dogs at the off leash park. When they arrive, people say “the terrorists are here!” #BTPosse #TerrierTuesday

“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.” So says Lt “Dusty” Miller who just ate some lead from a half painted Jerry raumboote. Playing “Torpedoes and Tides”. #navalwargaming

Definitely

Many happy returns @misheleneous.bsky.social

Not really sure about this Narnia reboot. 🤔🤔

1/300 scale BANGOR class minesweeper by Skytrex, for use with Toroedoes and Tides. I gave it the pennant number for HMCS Goderich, which is a nearby town. Might have overdone it with the rust effects. Nice model. #navalwargaming CC @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social

Finally a chance to play Torpedoes and Tides! Nighttime encounter between two MGB dog boats and two E boats helped me work out the spotting and shooting rules. Both sides blazed away inconclusively and then the Germans sped off. I missed a few details but had fun learning. #navalwargaming

Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers were asked to play Freedom 250 and said no way. However, Dr Emilio Lizardo and the Red Lectroids are still a yes.

Johnny Canal knew.

Royal Artillery ready to defend Upper Canada from Yankee aggression in 1862. Also ready to serve as hotel bellhops. Recently completed Perry Brothers figures from their ACWBritish Intervention Force range. #wargames #miniatures

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

Lots of prep work on this @warbases.bsky.social MDF Prussian merchant’s house kit before I can start putting it together. Every time I make one of these, the extra work is worth it.

More recenty finished Seven Years War 28mm Foundry figures. Cossacks as scouts and plunderers for kleine krieg games. Hard-riding, smelly and scurvy scalawag steppe scum. #miniatures #wargames #foundry

Three Seven Years War Prussian officer characters, all 28mm Foundry castings. Some liberties taken with the uniforms. Now that I've enlarged the photos, the fellow in the middle looks like a muppet, and I can't unsee it. #SYW #wargaming #foundry #miniatures

Or, and hear me out, Bond could be a hapless River, Lamb is M, and every mission begins with M with his feet on his desk telling Bond to eff off.

I loved this book so much! @byzantienne.bsky.social has done such a fine job of inventing two very strange and very convincing human cultures and putting them in conversation. Space opera but with an intimate focus on the characters. Just bought the sequel. #booksky #books #spaceopera

Thank you so much @monicabyrne13.bsky.social for the stickers. I chose the less sweary one for my laptop, since I got in trouble with parishioners once for using the F-bomb, but that's how I feel about AI.

Give me your favourite non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor: youtu.be/Zj7OJeyhq2Q

Reposting this to see if I can see it in the #NavalWargaming #navalwargaming thingy.

That’s a big NOPE from me, Air Canada.

Louise Arbour’s appointment as Canada’s Governor General is a good one and signals that international law and human rights still matter.

Small fast boats are on the news today, so here are some that are almost ready for a test run of the Torpedoes and Tides rules by @thomasbrandstetter.bsky.social . The Fairmiles are 3D prints from STLs found on Thingverse and the schnellbootes are from Skytrex, all 1/300 scale. #navalwargaming

Greetings from the Diocese of Toronto St Paul’s Bloor Street / Little Trinity / St Thomas Huron Street

Finished these three scurvy Cossacks to give my Russian SYW force some chaotically undisciplined rabble capabilities. 28mm Foundry figures. #minis #hobby #wargames

Timeline cleanse.

PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."

CC @canadaslifeline.bsky.social

A week in paradise is done and heading home. It was a good week for reading #books. McEwan was a bit of a slog, Herron a guilty pleasure, Barnes made me think of Conan Doyle in a new light. Of the four I’m most glad I read Robinson. #booksky

I was today old when I learned that Jeremy Brett once appeared in the original Battlestar Galactica. Or maybe he played Adama. Holmes always was a master of disguise.

strait of hormuz update

Holiday reading. This was published in 1980 and I’m only now discovering it. It may well be the most beautifully written thing I’ve ever read. #books #booksky

Always pat the plane.

Playing WW2 #navalwargaming with @jamesmanto.bsky.social and Janes is teaching me the Snorkers Good-Oh rules. It’s all going poorly for the Kriegsmarine.

Some WIP 3D printed hobby projects. Sopwith a from @4ppress.bsky.social - I ran out of wee decals so started hand panting roundels which is nerve wracking. Also a Fairmile MGB in 1/300 scale from Thingverse for @thomasbrandstetter.bsky.social’s Tides and Torpedoes coastal WW2 #wargames rules.

Make the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy Great Again.

The Enthusiast’s Guide to Military Operation Names: AMERICA: drink nine jack and cokes and throw these darts at the 9/11 Memorial Wall of Portentous Adjectives. Feastables Presents Operation Enduring Hubris

This is a fine theological take.

Hopefully the dogs have had all their shots.

Olfa knife hobby fun tonight, working on ideas to base the 6mm scale Vauban star fort I’ve printed. The cardboard came from the Bambu printer shipping box, which I think is pretty meta. 😏

Second playthrough of Storm Over Jerusalem by Multiman Publishing. Herod’s Palace and the Temple holding out by a thread. Romans have one last turn to seize these objectives or perhaps eke out a win on VPs from heavy Jewish losses. Terrific siege game. #historicalwargames #siege #MMP