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Edinburgh. Author of history-adjacent fiction. The Saxon Spears and other Post-Roman tales. Jamescalbraith.co.uk ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธโค๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

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What are you planning, should we be worried

08.10.2025 06:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Although, JKR is already heavily invested in politics, just on the wrong side (and a wrong country), so it's not *that* outlandish.

08.10.2025 06:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They're waiting until some old Democrat dies

08.10.2025 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's also present in Aix-les-Bains and Aix-la-Chapelle so somehow just from Aquae or Aquis, but I could never figure out the intermediate changes.

07.10.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How did we get Aix?

07.10.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what does a Love Island contestant do on a 'tour' anyway?

07.10.2025 08:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To someone making this kind of argument, all German tanks were Tiger IIs and all German fighters were Me 262s.

07.10.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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British pop culture is now like British politics: utterly dominated by US influence.

07.10.2025 07:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh hey they started using afvs again

07.10.2025 06:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Guess we're moving to Ireland.

07.10.2025 06:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can't wait for Chris Hemsworth as Captain Planet in the live action movie.

07.10.2025 05:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
็ฑณๆดฅ็Ž„ๅธซ, ๅฎ‡ๅคš็”ฐใƒ’ใ‚ซใƒซ Kenshi Yonezu, Hikaru Utada -  JANE DOE
YouTube video by Kenshi Yonezu ็ฑณๆดฅ็Ž„ๅธซ ็ฑณๆดฅ็Ž„ๅธซ, ๅฎ‡ๅคš็”ฐใƒ’ใ‚ซใƒซ Kenshi Yonezu, Hikaru Utada - JANE DOE

Kenshi Yonezu & Hikaru Utada. The collab of the decade.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLq...

06.10.2025 19:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh yeah, it's the ICE who are the true victims.

06.10.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nazis often do

06.10.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is just too much. 'Britain's top conservative news source' doesn't know what their shadow Chancellor looks like.

06.10.2025 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Breaking:

The Ukrainian project I_Want_To_Live has published a photo of a document with Russian losses over 8 months, from January to September 2025. According to it, total KIA numbers 86,744, roughly 10,843 per month, which is very close to our earlier estimates. Total losses are 281,550

06.10.2025 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 472    ๐Ÿ” 123    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Given how Russian care for their men, I'd guess a lot of what would be reversible in normal army isn't here.

06.10.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Total casualties 280k, which is about 1k per day, depending on the cut off day

06.10.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did the Germans have anything even remotely on par with Long Tom? Outside of those massive useless siege mortars.

06.10.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tanks and fighter planes are the only military technology that matters, don'cha know.

06.10.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Richard Herring really got lazy.

06.10.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Kids these days won't even tell their father when they're watching porn.

06.10.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Squonk

06.10.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How did Czechs get a party like this before America. Shame.

06.10.2025 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's hot protein goo she ingests with her proboscis.

06.10.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well that was something. One of the main take-aways: scratch a right-wing free-rights advocate and out comes a racist sexual predator. Inevitably.

06.10.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh great first Battle of Britain, now Battle of Atlantic. you're almost making it seem like we weren't plucky little underdogs after all :P

06.10.2025 10:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jeffeson Air Fleet

06.10.2025 10:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(although it's more an audiobook than documentary)

06.10.2025 07:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The War on Science
YouTube video by Shaun The War on Science

Half an hour into this four-hour youtube documentary, and it's already devastating. What else is going to happen in the next 3 and a half hours?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

06.10.2025 06:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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