Seeadler

"Please stop that dismal racket, sir, before I cause it to stop myself."

I once sold glue to a woman who proudly announced it was for Britain's Got Talent.
"Is that one of those government youth training schemes?" I asked, sweetly.

I once told a belligerent customer, a grown man, that I would put him over my knee and there would be Tears Before Bedtime if he didn't behave.

The UK has school uniforms but no school shootings, whereas in the USA the opposite is true.

This is genuinely and literally the position of the Spanish Inquisition.

The RAF could use Kristi Noem's jet?

It's nothing personal. There are some things that can be discussed, and some things that can't, and your request for confirmation unfortunately fell into the latter category.

Never has a baby seal been more thoroughly clubbed.

No, I won't discuss the details of the UK's nuclear posture.

It is perhaps worth noting that the British strategic nuclear deterrent, unlike its American equivalent, has a command and control system that is not designed to facilitate a first strike option. Its entire operational and deployment pathway assumes retaliatory, not initial, use.

I don't know why Labour is so anti-Trans given that so many of its politicians are cheerfully transitioning from traditional left-wing policies to virulently right-wing ones. "How dare you make yourself unrecognisable from your beginnings in order to be who you truly want to be" seems hypocritical.

I can only hope that this was in the service of applying leverage to assure the German manufacture of Patriot missiles with which to equip Ukraine.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

this has reminded me of possibly the best book review I've ever seen, an anonymous marxist amazon review of the 1971 children's book "The Elephant and the Bad Baby"

No wonder Trump wants to sue the BBC into oblivion.

Potato pierogi are called "ruskie" in Polish, and there's an Communist-era joke about the waiter coming out and asking "who ordered the ruskie?" and getting the reply "no-one, but they came anyway".

My face is on the cover of a Stephen King novel.

Usually it happens when a foreign author (i.e., someone contextually divorced) cites something wildly biased as being more generally representative – like, for example, a Korean academic citing the Heritage Foundation to argue that "this is the general American perception of the Korean War."

(I have never had an author, in those circumstances, fail to delete their original source and replace it with a substitute. Obviously, I'm just one editor, but it's a 100% consistent pattern *for me*.)

Below-Average White Band

I hadn't considered that distinction! I'll have to think about that.

I can say "this source is unreliable, for the following reasons, and is therefore likely not to meet the journal's quality criteria for inclusion. Is there another source you can use to support your argument that avoids those difficulties?"

When someone insists on repeatedly bending over and showing you their whole ass, it would seem improper *not* to kick it.

This is the post that caused him to block. One in which I actually to the time to educate him on the reasons for my anonymity: bsky.app/profile/seea...

I wonder if that reaction was because not only did I say "look, this kind of behaviour is likely to have real professional consequences" but also because I am one of the few people who can actually enforce those consequences. Like, I'm in a position to remove references citing him pre-publication.

He blocked me when I pointed out that I was his FIRST target audience...

akoustov.bsky.social writes: I don't think I ever considered anonymous petty people like you to be my target audience, so that's fine. Have a good evening.

This was his response to me after I had just told him I was a PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EDITOR

Hi there, We have reviewed activity associated with your account (@aliafonzy.blacksky.app) and determined that it violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines(https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines), specifically our Site Security provisions. Your account has blocked the official Bluesky Moderation Service labeler (@moderation.bsky.app), which interferes with our ability to enforce our Terms of Service(https://bsky.social/about/support/tos) and Community Guidelines(https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines). Required action: You must unblock @moderation.bsky.app within twenty-four (24) hours of receipt of this notice. Failure to comply with this notice will result in the permanent suspension of your account.

Bluesky email domain moderation@blueskyweb.xyz

Just got this email and didn’t even know I had @moderation.bsky.app blocked but now I don’t lol. But I guess permanent suspension is happening if people block? Yikes.

Looks legit too? Just started my day and wasn’t anticipating this

Is this the one I told him I wouldn't read because he couldn't convince me he'd written it - a response, incidentally, that led him to tell me he hadn't written it for "anonymous, petty" people like, apparently, me?😂

ICE is operating at a literally medieval level of care.