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Ship modeler, all-around Canadian boat guy (and gov't goon, so usual caveats apply). PhD'd in Norwegian, Danish, and Canadian naval forces: book version coming Soon™️.

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Swansea man's surprise after finding abandoned Welsh village The reason it was abandoned remains a mystery with the local council and developer tight-lipped.

Oh, now, first bet is fae or timeslips.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

08.02.2026 10:43 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 2
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Result of a Tallboy bomb penetrating the roof of a U-Boot bunker in Brest. #WW2 #HISTORY

02.02.2026 07:00 — 👍 72    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 2
Poster for New Researchers in Maritime History Conference CFP

Poster for New Researchers in Maritime History Conference CFP

BCMH New Researchers is Maritime History conference will be in Southampton on 17/18 April this year -CFP now open - details and submission link here www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research... #maritimehistory

01.02.2026 19:44 — 👍 13    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.

When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

21.01.2026 16:22 — 👍 5344    🔁 1298    💬 237    📌 85

Sweden’s Prime Minister, in a new statement on Greenland:

“We will not let ourselves be blackmailed… Sweden is now having intensive discussions with other EU countries, Norway, and the United Kingdom for a coordinated response.”

17.01.2026 19:55 — 👍 1852    🔁 396    💬 26    📌 32

The rabid feral animals in question:

16.01.2026 03:35 — 👍 307    🔁 31    💬 16    📌 2

Quick explainer for those not used to how naval cost estimates (when done well) work in a “cost-by-weight” model (which has issues I’ll get to).

Before I get into it, I’ll preface that these numbers look reasonable, especially for how immature DEFIANT’s detailed design definitely is.

15.01.2026 22:31 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

Off/around/resupply visit...many options! The nature of the sea ;)

15.01.2026 02:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's always Op Nanook as another option.

15.01.2026 00:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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lol come on now

03.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 340    🔁 40    💬 13    📌 27
Pot de peinture dead salmon (nº28) de chez Farrow & Ball

Pot de peinture dead salmon (nº28) de chez Farrow & Ball

J'aurais kiffé être à la réunion brainstorming chez les peintures Farrow & Ball quand ils ont choisi le nom de couleur "dead salmon"(!?) et qu'ils se sont dits que ça allait être vendeur

01.01.2026 22:00 — 👍 160    🔁 20    💬 12    📌 2

Assume the challenge of gravity is overcome: the biggest obstacle is doctrinal. It'd go against decades of thinking on addressing the threat as far out as possible. It'd mean "we COULD tackle it way out there, but no, we'd purposely let it get REALLY CLOSE". French did this in Red Sea it seems.

01.01.2026 23:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This should be fun. A very unusual kit with lots of interior options (hangars), to be inserted as modules through the bottom of the hull and into the superstructure.

31.12.2025 00:49 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Navy cargo ship blown off moorings in South Baltimore Gale force winds blew a 950-foot U.S. Navy cargo ship off its moorings in South Baltimore on Monday afternoon.

Gale force winds blow Navy ship off moorings in South Baltimore

29.12.2025 22:33 — 👍 31    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 17

The amount of times he referenced them in his speech...it's absolutely no surprise.

29.12.2025 05:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's kinda ridiculous that the actual Trumpship is *even longer* than Reconstructionist's (much better looking) design

29.12.2025 05:25 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Make a Bond movie academic

Committee Royale

29.12.2025 01:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

28.12.2025 22:15 — 👍 2714    🔁 782    💬 86    📌 23
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The Littorio Class For its final battleship design Italy ignored all treaty restrictions on tonnage, and produced one of Europe's largest and most powerful capital ships, comparable with…

Alternatively, look for the authors of the Littorio class and Italian Battleships books from Pen & Sword: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Littorio...

28.12.2025 21:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
DE NINNO FABIO | Professor page Principal investigator of the PRIN 2022 "ITALIAN COLD WAR BORDERS. A NEW RESEARCH FRAMEWORK ON TRASFORMATION DURING DETENTE" with the Universities of Bozen, Trieste and Udine.

Could try reaching out to Fabio De Ninno at Siena University: docenti.unisi.it/en/de-ninno

28.12.2025 20:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Academic research question. Can anyone point me towards to some literature on Italian shipyards during #WWII. Everything I’m finding is post war via google. Please and thank you 😊

28.12.2025 20:15 — 👍 16    🔁 11    💬 8    📌 0
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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found. The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop. Continue reading...

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

27.12.2025 17:06 — 👍 433    🔁 159    💬 35    📌 40
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At risk of losing my boat card

26.12.2025 22:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why is this a question?

18.12.2025 08:31 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

ah, so that's what all those unsolicited instagram "Suggested" posts are blathering on about

17.12.2025 04:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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12.12.2025 07:09 — 👍 160    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 2

And the importance of a first hull date is because normally the next ships follow annually or so after. This doesn't apply if the first hull "cheats" and is already significantly built.

11.12.2025 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don't worry: "the service was focused on using a design approach that separates finalizing the ship’s design from the construction of the lead ship"

11.12.2025 04:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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