Jamie McTrusty

Sweet mother of god, what is this fuckery?

As someone who shares a home with cats, I can tell you now that there’s no way in hell they’d be ‘chilling’ in these ‘magic pants’. The result would either be a tangle of shredded mesh or severe lacerations to the buttocks.

East Anglian Daily Times headline “Ipswich: The tree that looks like Postman Pat”, 5TH MARCH 2014. A photo of a tree with scars where limbs have been cut, which somewhat resemble eyes and a nose, but in no way bear any resemblance to the cartoon postal worker. A caption says, inaccurately: “Quite un-nerving. A face in a tree trunk at Christchurch Park in Ipswich.”

Happy 12th anniversary of the day all the people of East Anglia did rise up and speak with one voice and say unto their phones “Fuck off does it”

Maternal - British Army during SWW (Burma) then worked on newspapers - ended up as a photographer for the Daily Mail.

Paternal - on the pits as a winding engine driver.

Reinier Noorns, 'The Naval Battle near Livorno, 14 March 1653' (c. 1653-64), Rijksmuseum: SK-A-294 (14 March 1653 is the Gregorian calendar date: in Britain, still using the Julian calendar, the battle is dated to 4 March 1653). Description: a painting of a large number of sailing vessels engaged in a battle, with many firing broadsides and wreckage and men visible in the water around them. In the background land can be seen, with green hills and a distant town on the left.

4 Mar 1653 (O.S.) // 40-gun 3rd-rate English Navy ship Leopard was captured by the Dutch at the Battle of Leghorn after battling first two, then three, enemy ships for six hours. She suffered 70 dead and 54 wounded before, heavily damaged, she surrendered to the Dutch squadron. [1/2] #NavalHistory

Willem van Dienst, 'The Battle of Leghorn' (c1653). National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Description: a naval battle with many sailing ships engaging each other with gunfire, and a town and hills visible on the land behind. In the foreground one ship, involved in close-quarter action with another, has exploded and is sinking amid fire and smoke.

4 Mar 1653 (O.S.) // 40-gun ship Bonaventure exploded at the Battle of Leghorn after a shot from Dutch flagship De Zeven Provincien ignited her magazine. There were only five survivors from 180 on board. Image: Willem van Dienst 'The Battle of Leghorn' c1653, Wikimedia Commons. #NavalHistory

'Loss of the Blanche, March 4th 1807', aquatint by Thomas Sutherland after Thomas Whitcombe, 1807. British Museum: museum no. 1871,1111.645. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum, Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

4 Mar 1807 // 38-gun frigate HMS Blanche (ex Spanish Amfitrite, captured 1804) went off course and was wrecked on rocks off Ushant with 45 men lost. Her compasses were deflected by ironwork in her hull. ('Loss of the Blanche' 1807 print: British Museum CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) #RoyalNavy

Sloop HMAS Yarra. Image: Australian War Memorial: 016263. Description: a side view of a small warship painted in a camouflage pattern, her bows to the left. She is at anchor with land visible behind her.

4 Mar 1942 // At sunrise, sloop HMAS Yarra, escorting southwards from Java a convoy of three vessels which had earlier escaped from Singapore, sighted a squadron of three Japanese cruisers and four destroyers. The Yarra ordered the convoy to scatter and deployed a smokescreen. [1/3]

Ep 67 is out today. German historian Thomas Rost takes us through bomb disposal in wartime Hamburg, including the use of prisoners & concentration camp inmates for this horrific work. A fascinating but disturbing story.

www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

Terry Scott, a middle-aged man in a very 1970s jacket, gestures at a gap over a river, with a rueful expression on his face

Did you know, 52 years ago tonight, Terry Scott drove off the end of the Tees Transporter Bridge? 🧵

Risky buisiness:
youtu.be/o-kHn2rR8SQ

This was actually just down the road from me, but I can confirm I wasn’t responsible!

Metro workers in Newcastle find buried vintage Hobbit tapes Operator Nexus says the discovery at the base of an overhead line mast is

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police and investigators comb through the debris field of the crashed TK981 in the Ermenonville Forest. The aircraft was travelling at roughly 480mph when it impacted with the ground.

Today, we remember the 335 passengers and 11 crew of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 who were killed when McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 TC-JAV's rear cargo door blew out #OTD in 1974.

This image shows the debris field in the Ermenonville Forest where the aircraft impacted the ground.

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#aviation

Part of the front of a two-page news-sheet printed in 1685, which reads “Strange and Dreadful NEWS from the TOWN of DEPTFORD in the County of Kent

It’s the 341st anniversary today of Anne Arthur flying over Deptford – and not because she was some neglected pioneer of powered flight, but because she “had divers Diſcourſes with the Devil” and he “carried her in the Air a Quarter of a Furlong” 🧵

The German destroyer Z-33 under air attack by Beaufighters on 9 February 1945 at Førde Fjord, Norway.

The attack went badly and saw 9 of the attacking 31 attacking Beaufighters and one of the ten escorting mustangs, shot down.

The Germans lost no ships

#ww2 #history #raf #navalhistory

The badge of the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company. Surrounded by an ouroboros, a skull and crossbones sits above an hourglass and the motto "Mortus quies vivis salus". I washed out of Latin shortly after discovering Caecilius was in the fucking horto, but think it's loosely "peace for the dead, safety for the living". The whole design looks like it was outsourced to a 13yo metal fan, tbh.

Bring back proper railway branding, cowards!

Found an interesting article with more information on H5 and her crew. SS Rutherglen, incidentally, was sunk in the Med by UB 50 on 24th July, though all her crew survived.

Source: The Western Front Association share.google/9VotBWWi0ztz...

That’s quite a story - wonder if his family eventually found out the truth?

2 Mar 1918 // Submarine HMS H.5 was mistaken for a German submarine and rammed by British merchantman SS Rutherglen off Anglesey. She sank with all hands, 26 officers and men (including a US Navy Lieutenant who was present as an observer). [1/2] #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

British destroyer HMS Stronghold undergoing sea trials when new in 1919. Image Imperial War Museum: SP 2497. Description: a small warship steaming at speed through a choppy sea, her bows to the left, with land visible behind.

2 Mar 1942 // After a gallant action against overwhelming odds, destroyer HMS Stronghold was sunk by a Japanese task group of a heavy cruiser and two destroyers in the Sunda Strait. 83 men lost their lives. (Imperial War Museum image SP 2497) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Screen grab showing Trump looking rather taken with the Medal of Honor he’s holding. The OP has written “After all, why not… why shouldn’t I keep it?” It’s shown in my TL above a post about HMS Precious.

Serendipitous timing 😂

Get your questions in by 10 March please people!

New episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social is out today!

A really wide-ranging discussion of the history of Babi Yar and the Jews of Kyiv-- before, during, and after the Holocaust.

Check it out!

a black and white video game with a score of 1 and 2 Alt: A game of Space Invaders

We now go live to Kuwaiti anti-aircraft headquarters:

Vladimir Remak, a white man with a receeding hairline wearing a space suit (helmet off)

Interkosmos mission logo. Soviet flag next to Czechoslovak flag, both above the interkosmos logo

OTD March 2 1978, Captain Vladimir Remek, a Czechoslovakian Air Force pilot, becomes the first non-Soviet or American to travel into space as the Soyuz 28 mission lifted off from Baikonour 1/5 on its way to an 8-day mission including a stop at the Salyut 6 space station.

HMS Pheasant, 1st March 1917, Rora Head, Hoy, Orkney On 1st March 1917 whilst on regular patrol the M-Class Destroyer HMS Pheasant, struck a mine off Rora Head, Hoy. A mix up and delay in going to her rescue resulted in all men lost. Only one body wa…

More on HMS Pheasant from @theorkneynews.bsky.social: theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/01/h...

Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser HMS Calgarian, the former Allan Line SS Calgarian. Image Imperial War Museum: SP 235. Description: a large ship with two funnels under way at sea with her bows to the left, and land visible in the background.

HMS Calgarian sinking after being torpedoed on 1 March 1918. Photograph taken from the deck of HMS Poppy by Eric Murray, image via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0. A distant view taken from a vessel at sea of a ship, listing badly, with other vessels in attendance.

1 Mar 1918 // Armed merchant cruiser HMS Calgarian (ex Allan Line SS Calgarian) was torpedoed and sunk off Rathlin Island, County Antrim, by U-boat U.19. 49 officers and men lost their lives. (Images: Imperial War Museum SP 235 and CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMS Exeter after refit in March 1941. Image Imperial War Museum: A 3553. Description: a three-quarter view of a large warship with her bows to the right, at anchor with land visible behind.

1 Mar 1942 // Heavy cruiser HMS Exeter was sunk by Japanese naval gunfire during the Battle of the Java Sea. 54 of her crew died and 651 men were picked up and taken prisoner by the Japanese, of whom 152 died in captivity. (Imperial War Museum image A 3553) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory