Saab has launched Poland’s second signals intelligence vessel, ORP Henryk Zygalski, during a ceremony held in Gdańsk. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=65771

Captivated by living history and challenged by the hard work required to operate such a ship, I relished the opportunity to sail on board the Eagle. https://bit.ly/3Yk9j1l

The world's first Sesame Street traffic lights were turned on in Hamburg this week. German public broadcaster NDR (which is based in Hamburg) has co-produced the German version of the show for 50 years. Naturally, Bert is 🔴 and Ernie is 🟢!

'The nation is divided.' How an ancient evolutionary bond between street dogs and humans has become a modern urban crisis in India. Read more from @biology.ox.ac.uk’s Dr Nishant Kumar ⬇️

This was the first news photo I saw this morning, and out of all the stupid shit I've seen in the news over the last couple of decades, it might be the stupidest.

On reflection this photo shows that Maga Leader is desperately "needy" at an incredibly high level. Almost beyond belief

Call me old-fashioned, but I do think advertising these as having ASW capability would require the presence of sonar www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

I wrote with @kanishkhkanodia.bsky.social on Trump's 'Golden Fleet' concept: an unaffordable guided-missile cruiser masquerading as a 'battleship', a potentially seriously under-armed frigate and, much more likely to get built at scale, a fleet of uncrewed vessels. www.economist.com/united-state...

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

Coming Tuesday Jan 20: "The Secrets of RMS Niagara." The storied passenger liner of the Canadian-Australasian Line was sunk by a German mine near Auckland, NZ on June 19, 1940 carrying 8.5 tons of gold bars, prompting a legendary salvage operation. #maritimehistory #NewZealand #WW2 #navalhistory

Cringe level: galactic

🚩 Signal of the Day — Signal No. 16 (1804) ⚓ "Engage The Enemy, more closely" In the Royal Navy signal book:- "Engage The Enemy, more closely" #DockYardTalk #NavalSignals #RoyalNavy #AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory

You couldn’t make this stuff up: After being sacked by Badenoch for plotting to defect to ReformUK, Jenrick has now defected to ReformUK otherwise known as the “Worst Tory Party” or “Tory Failure Party” but claims he "didn't know" that he was going to defect 😂😂😂😂.

Ten of the most influential DEFA films that were banned at some point in the GDR www.mdr.de/kultur/kino-...

The idea that Russia - a state that has spent almost four years throwing everything it has at conquering its neighbour, and failing - is remotely capable of invading Greenland, or is going to be in the foreseeable future, is ludicrous.

Also, in an alternate world, allies would be meeting to forge a common policy in Iran. Instead, we are talking about Greenland

🇩🇰🇬🇱foreign ministers speaking now in Washington following their very short meeting in the White House. They look shell shocked. "Our perspectives continue to differ."

Madame, your Trabant 601 DeLuxe awaits...

Recently digitised - in London following heavy German bombing Indian troops of the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, mostly former merchant sailors, clear rubble from Sloane Square underground station. #filmcataloguing #history #ww2 Full film: IWM AYY 57 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

AI for an excellent cause. I love this stirring song. And the walruses. youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?...

One for the nautical trivia fans. HMS Wellesley, launched before the end of the Napoleonic wars, was both the last British ship of the line to be sunk by enemy action and the only one ever to be sunk in an air raid.

Top headline Also, we're so doomed

As someone who came to a meaningful Christian faith through an American evangelical church, this is indeed exactly how its apocalyptic imagination works. Having a lively imagination as to what it looks like when your institutions are captured by evil is a good thing. But it clearly isn’t enough.

#LordCochrane #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #AgeOfSail #EarlOfDundonald OTD in 1848 Lord Dundonald succeeded Jane Austen's brother Sir Francis Austen as Commander-in-Chief on the North American and West India Station. By the Commissioners for executing the...

Respect or die.

A network of social media accounts posing as Scottish independence supporters has fallen silent once again, closely mirroring a fresh shutdown of internet access inside Iran. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/iranian-link...

What could possibly go wrong🙃🤪

Perfection.

"A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights." mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Plenty of horrifying/bonkers stuff here, but I'm stuck on the headline; are there some girlfriends who are only partially AI?

It isn't just hypocrisy. It is picking whichever argument suits your needs without a care for the consequences.

They shoot American citizens too though.

The Hunterston Brooch was the star of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland meeting #OTD in 1831. Dating from c. AD 700, the silver and gold item was found in Ayrshire in 1826/30. Scandinavian runes name an owner, Máel Brigte, on the back. The society bought it 60 years later. #medievalsky

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

With the BBC under fire for a fresh editing scandal, Private Eye has sought the opinions of a famously balanced political commentator, Boris Johnson...

I am excited to be able to report that the tiny book I started researching in November is now at the proofing stage. I had hoped to use Lulu this time but there was some glitch I just couldnt get past so unfortunately I am back with the evil empire.

In 1931, German engineer Herr Richter attached 12 solid-fuel rockets to a bicycle, which were ignited by a large battery. One report says he managed to reach 88 kmh before being thrown from the bike. He wasn't seriously injured, but that's the last anyone heard of his Raketenrad.

And nobody is talking about the Epstein scandal any more www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/t...

Rim-drive thrusters for India’s advanced acoustic research vessel 🇳🇴 🇮🇳 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

This here is the unprotected cruiser Milan. Revolutionarily designed to forego guns entirely in favour of a new and exciting revolving torpedo launcher, you can gauge exactly how that experiment went by the fact it entered French service with five guns and no torpedo launcher.

A new Bollywood film spotlights a forgotten #coldwar #India-#China #battle www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Novgorod Nigel doing what he does best: shilling for the Kremlin. #Farage #Putin #Hawhaw

If he means WWII, there were no US casualties in Greenland during the war. The casualties from patrols destroying Nazi weather bases were Danish. If he means SS Dorchester getting torpedoed near Greenland, that's part of the Battle of the Atlantic, which wasn't about protecting Greenland.

The minimum sound level for a ship horn at 1 meter distance for a ship >200m is 143dB. For a vessel less than 200m but larger than 75m it should be a minimum of 138dB. She didn't expect that... 😅

Something you rarely see in defense procurement. French deliver Barracuda class nuclear submarine a year early! Two more are expected before 2030. With US ☢️ umbrella waning this is great news for #ReArmEU armees.com/sous-marins-...

This guy is not only evil, he is also really dumb. Russia tried to murder Zelenskyy already on February 24th 2022. Then Russia tried again and again.

Es ist wieder soweit! It's time to take down and responsibly dispose of your xmas tree. Please consider the Christmas tree cannon

I don't know what is worse in NYT piece on book sales in 2025: 1. That an audiobook sale is not considered a book sale 2. That even book critics think the primary goal of a nonfiction book is to "provide information."