James Crossland

It shows a photograph of Kate Warne.

Did you know?

In the Victorian era, the United States’ first known female detective was Kate Warne.

She convinced Allan Pinkerton to hire her at the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, not as a secretary...but a detective.

#Victorian #history

Personally, I'm hoping Farage, Badenoch and other similar cretins of both sides of the Atlantic double down on Iran -it has the potential to be a misstep so monumental it wipes all of these dipshits out.

Full points for self awareness. I wish more people would reflect critically on the dominance of all things online in their life and thoughts

Looking at what was once the most successful political party on Earth:

Explosion heard near US embassy in Norway’s capital Explosion heard near US embassy in Norway's capital

An explosion caused minor damage at the US Embassy in Oslo. Police are investigating, say it is too early to connect it to the Gulf conflict.

Cover illustration by Harry Grant Dart for the magazine "The All-Story", October 1908.
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Tear your eyes out difficulty, if I recall.

Yes, but will it make the journey without the electrics going or the hull taking on water?

The Machines have learned the joy of Doom. We are truly fucked.

Which still makes it superior to that time the corpse of Engelbert Humperdinck was reanimated to gyrate his hips and terrify young and old.

What would Winston Churchill make of war with Iran? Donald Trump has said Keir Starmer is ‘no Churchill’, but his dismissal is based on a simplified version of history.

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For my money, this is the take of the week from @richardtoye.bsky.social Interesting deep dive into Trump's latest display of historical ignorance.

Poor Goodwin. He even went to the effort to purchase a disgustingly coloured tie.

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It's really unfair to compare this to Iraq in 2003, at least then they had the decency to put some effort into their lies and deception.

I’m generally opposed to the military draft, but I think we should temporarily reinstate it to draft just this one specific incel staffer who produced this video so that they can be immediately be inducted into the infantry and sent into combat in Iran.

I fear the research would be terrifying to conduct.

Observation - since the last time I was in America a few months back, the number of TV adverts for dick pills has gone up by approximately 85%.

What a curious development

Nihilism

OTD in 1944 the Red Air Force carpet bombed Narva, then Red Army used artillery to finish the job. As a deliberate act, hundreds of civilians died & thousands were made refugees. We then repopulated it with Russians.

Imagine something like this happening in the 21st century.

The Iraq protests are a low-key turning point of this era - the point when democratic governments learned that irrespective of how many voters thought they were wrong, they could simply ignore them and crack on with their bullshit.

127 Years Ago, a Coffin Fell From the Sky. Scientists Just Solved a Major Piece of Its Mystery. While the human remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society (as they had once been thought to be), radiocarbon dating revealed that they were a hundred years older than assumed.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

A piece of enriched uranium has been named the new Ayatollah of Iran.

I'm amazed he hasn't blurted out something about oil yet, unless he has and a missed it for all the foam and dribble.

Trump will take 'any assistance from any country' including asking Zelenskyy and Ukraine for help on countering Iran's Shahed drones | Fortune Trump is joined by Mideast countries in asking for Ukraine's expertise in countering Iran's sophisticated drone system.

Can't help feeling that Ukraine is taking on the role Prussia had in the 1870s - the country that everyone studies for tips on how to master the new epoch of warfare.

Zelensky and Bismarck - what a pair!

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Judging by recent interviews, I believe the policy goal involves the words "obliterate", "without mercy", "relentless" and other terms used by insecure men with stunned growth and warrior complexes.

Beyond the Trenches | Killing Lenin, Stopping a Revolution: Spies, Subterfuge and a Secret Plot YouTube video by National WWI Museum and Memorial

My thanks to everyone at @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social in Kansas City for hosting my talk on Robert Bruce Lockhart last night - the video of which is now available ⬇️

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I spent today at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. It was full of school groups. I have to say, even a brutal cynic like me was comforted by the sight of young people asking questions of and being enthusiastic about, art and culture.

The "1980s is still a thing and Wall St was a movie about modern day heroes" look of Trump's sons needs to be talked about more.

please film this as a Race Across The World where you want everyone to lose, unimaginable mental balm

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