Vote Ralph Seymour!

Vote Ralph Seymour!

A nice long thread of demonstrations that, if you're Professor Arsehole, that's entirely on you.

I love whippet jumper season

York did itself proud with the Remembrance Parade as usual, and it's always a genuine pleasure to see the city's historic ties with the Free French being honoured within the civic party.

New proposal for the Modern Pentathlon just dropped...

Regular reminder that no matter how misshapen and useless a French aircraft in WW2 was, Heller would do a kit in 1:72 of it, and we should all be grateful.

This is utterly disgraceful.

"One ping only, R2."

Wait Italy did what?

Absolutely loving the replies and quote posts here

"Quick, Sergei - read the check list for the tail falling off whilst I try and stick this thing down." [Splash] "Before landing-" "Oh." [raises the collective]

Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight? I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

How bad was today's referee? "Even the Chelsea manager can't bring herself to defend her" levels of bad. Absolutely shocking performance.

@dreadships.bsky.social stuck ship. Detroit river. Live stream. Live stream: Freighter stuck in Detroit River near Ren Cen share.google/AITgu9T0T9iu...

Brilliant design! When trying to hit a moving target you aim slightly ahead of it. Good luck telling what's bow and what's stern on this thing.

Apparently Blue Sky has some sort of filth filter applied by default, so if you're not seeing this post maybe check your settings.

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

Another Containership Fire! A tragic incident has occurred at Malaysia’s Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) today, November 7, 2025. The container ship MSC Kyparissia caught fire during unloading operations, resulting in three fatalities and three injuries among the crew.

Been reminded of this - a brief thread on how I completely buggered up the simple task of attending a funeral. I don't watch sitcoms. I live them.

For those not aware, and who enjoy this sort of thing, it's always worth checking if a post like this accidentally turned into a whole thread. This one did...

Apparently Blue Sky has some sort of filth filter applied by default, so if you're not seeing this post maybe check your settings.

Now do the show but only with senior academics.

"Everything not a sheep is dangerous" works pretty well for Australia too, tbf

"Everything not a sheep is dangerous" works pretty well for Australia too, tbf

OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.

@dreadships.bsky.social @crusaderproject.bsky.social Gents, would you be able to direct me to a ‘definitive’ list of Royal Navy ships in ‘home waters’ during the Battle of Britain? Any guidance much appreciated. Mark

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure

I'm not a theatre critic but if you like slightly tongue in cheek horror and have a free evening in York this week you could certainly do worse (if you've been on Dorian Deathly's ghost tour you'll know the vibe)

[I have just discovered, courtesy of Wikipedia, that the actual Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies is in - Nouvion.] www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Should anybody doubt how English I am, let it be known that I am just about to watch something called The Wetwang Hauntings

Anatomy of a rapid student TTX. One of my submarine design teams this year is working up a bombardment submarine, armed with their choice of rocket artillery (trading off range and capability with size, under a fixed procurement budget.) Today they asked me to run them a TTX. /1

"You may be wondering why I 'ave zis ridiculous get up on. It is because I 'ave just 'eard the Nazis are terrified of the smell of onions."

Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week

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Have just realised that we ought to have made this required viewing material for any Americans wondering how British people defend themselves in the absence of guns/mace/personal thermonuclear warheads etc

The average thrown baked good is in fact non-lethal. Two-Ton Ted of Teddington is an outlier and should not have been included.

Starts chanting "ONE OF US!"

The surface danger zone for sandwiches really depends on the ingredients tbh. An Italian sub, for example, has a high frag rate because of the bread consistency but better aerodynamic range, while a croque monsieur and the Rueben have less range but more splatter.

Shock news! "Dazzle camouflage" actually dazzle camouflage for once

IIRC Bartitsu uses umbrellas as well. The wikipedia image for this "martial art" is exactly what you'd expect from umbrella martial arts.

Legendary wing walker Lillian Boyer at work. WW1, the availability of war surplus aircraft after it and the many flight schools that popped up, created an explosion of opportunity for female aviators. E.g. the schools that didn't want take women quickly discovered that economically they needed to.

And a lot of these people haven’t spent enough time looking at medieval coroners‘ rolls, and it shows. If, as then, pretty much everyone is carrying knives, you get a lot more stabbings and knife related deaths.

"If I were British I would simply xyz to protect myself..." My dude, you wouldn't even wear a facemask without whining. Shut the fuck up.

The Second World War was absolutely not decided by which side had the most dudes who could lift a big tire.

Trick or treat (Italian edition)

The second Lancaster at Duxford - this is the actual flying one, in a different hanger, one not owned by the IWM. She's here for full maintenance for the next 18(?) months. They'll strip her down and rebuild her ready for the next decade. So don't expect her to be on the BBMF for a while