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It does help if it becomes a routine. I have the problem that I have to scale quite a high mental wall before I get going but then I can keep going for a couple of days and sometimes even weeks. But I need to lower the effort to pick up my brushes to the minimum

That's only small change. Two lifts on the first day or coup de main ops against the bridges would have had more impact. But it would have required a different mindset in the air planning

Played once. Would play again

A chart showing that there were 63 cases of measles in 2023, 2,279 in 2025 and 1,111 already in 2026.

Children are going to die needlessly from measles.

This is madness.

Brian says it better than I can. But I love Andrew May's vision. And he is ecactly the kind of visionary that KS was supposed to be enabling. So there you have it

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But you're a gardener? You love pots!

Admittedly, I might be the odd one out

LOL! You might be surprised to know that one of the two times I tried a joint was in London. But both times left me underwhelmed and I never cared for it. But maybe I should try again🤷‍♂️

I'll be doing my part in March helping somebody out recreating the Weverstraat. You might be working on that?

Wow! Atmospheric

I'm genuinly impressed! That actually made it look easy. Mind you, I'm only seeing the cricinfo panel rather than actual footage

Yeah, I had to wrap my head around that. I mean, it looks stunning as always, but there's a misconnect in my brain

They're giving it a go at least. Much better than ENG all out for 98 trying to baz their way to glory

You've got much of Oosterbeek done by now ;-) Funny to think that there's several copies of Oosterbeek now in 28mm and 20mm

nice! looks like something round the corner from here

Of course I'm jinxing it, but at least it is still a contest and they might just bring it home. Or they might come close. That wouldn't win them the game but is useful practice for later

Let's see. England have shown some fight against adversity in this WC

As you were saying about Buttler...

The ENG bowlers doing really well to restrict NZ. You just worry wether the ENG batting will live up to the bowling

That should bring out the sun!

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Veel succes! Hopelijk kan je er ook van genieten

How boys become wargamers Not quite a review of Achtung Schweinehund by Harry Pearson. In the end my parents only have themselves to blame. I guess I had just tu...

Ah... those were the days! Authors would reply to your blog posts! jurrga.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-...

I already bumped into Mitzlaff when I was writing this:

Battle of the Angrivarian Wall - ALISONENSIS Result of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: migration. Kalkriese: overlay of civil an military events of the years 9 and 16.

How do you feel about more recent work that links the battle to the Kalkriese battlefield (implying that the Varusslacht occurred somewhere else)? eg alisonensis.de/en/annex-e-b...

@lindsaypowell.bsky.social having read your book on Germanicus (which I enjoyed very much!) I had a further look on the Battle of the Angrivarian wall. In your book you locate it close to the Weser river, with a battle map as shown below 1/2

Een slachtoffer van de cholera in de straten van Parijs, 1832

Liefdadigheid of een politieke zet?

In het voorjaar van 1832 kreeg de stad Parijs te maken met een eerste uitbraak van de cholera. Nadat de ziekte om zich heen greep in de stad werd er via verschillende initiatieven geld ingezameld voor de choleralijders. Alleen niet ieder geld was welkom... 🧵

Take care!