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Reading yet another article of which the author desperately searches for the doctrine, strategy or rationale behind Trump’s foreign policy. It is so difficult for the commentariat to accept that there is none.

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MiG-23 high AoA aerodynamics🧵 Most books & articles will tell you that the early MiG-23s had poor handling at high angles of attack (AoA), limiting manoeuvrability, and that the MiG-23MLD improved this by, among other things, the addition of dog-tooth vortex generators at the wing-root.

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Ignition of the ramjet engine of the Nord 1500 Griffon II, an aircraft using a mixed ramjet/turbojet propulsion system. It broke the world speed record over 100 kilometres in a closed circuit in 1959 piloted by mr André Turcat. It could fly at Mach 2.19.

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Died (alas!) on this day in 1455, Fra Angelico, the Angelic Friar. Here, Annunciation from the 1440s on the stair landing at the convent of San Marco, Florence.

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Yeah, this mentality did not work out great for the Romans: it led to a lot of law violating, but not much country saving. Indeed, it let to quite a lot of country destroying, in fact.

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An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful.

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Rather enjoying this one. In the late 1930s Fokker was too small to remain technologically competitive, and lacked a good source of engines, but they tried!

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In 1944, Waldemar Julsrud, a German living in the small town of Acámbaro, Mexico, began buying artifacts that a family of local farmers dug from a prehistoric site of the Purépecha culture. These artifacts revolutionized our understanding of history. Well... at least Julsrud's understanding. (1/)

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Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late. Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.

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We're looking at Tokugawa Japan this week on my Emperors, Shoguns, and Trading Companies module. I'm torn between delivering an articulate lecture, or just getting students to stare at the endlessly fascinating series of Nanban screens. They remind me of the 'Incredible Cross Sections' books.

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Fuck this guy. Ask any nurse or LPN or ER doc or admin clerk or social worker if they work weekends. This disrespect to our federal workforce is disgusting. Especially from this piece of shit.

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[Musées] Dimanche 2 février 2026 🗓️ C’est le retour du premier dimanche du mois et donc le jour de #gratuité des collections permanentes - et parfois temporaires - des #musées en France 💬 Profitez-en ! En photo, le @museeairespace.bsky.social au Bourget #Soifdeculture

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If there was a “Fall of the Roman Empire” it was thus — the rule of law shoved aside by the rule of the strongest, public treasuries and institutions “privatised” into fiefdoms of a new aristocracy, services failing because the new masters don’t care, docile elites bowing down to save their necks.

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In over 20 years in the private sector, I have seen no evidence whatsoever that large corporations are more efficiently organised than governments. Private bureaucracies are often more kafkaesque, if they lack effective feedback and oversight.

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1/ Some thoughts on Japan's wartime personal newsletters (個人雑誌), the Substacks of their times. One of the more clever ways leftists in Japan adapted to censorship was to publish these newsletters, which were small enough in circulation to escape outright bans Consider, eg, Ubukata Toshirō's 故人今人

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On this day in 1457, the 13-year-old Margaret Beaufort found herself in dangerous waters as she struggled to deliver her first (and only) child at Pembroke Castle, the home of her brother-in-law After hours of labor, she finally gave birth to her son: Henry Tudor 🧵 1/

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A magnificent Dewoitine D.338 on the tarmac of Le Bourget airport's brand new terminal in the late 1930s. ©Kitchener.lord

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Please help me! I’m on X because that’s where my paintings sell. I shift about 95% of my work there. If I could just get my followers up to the same level here, it would release me from the swamp. I live in the middle of nowhere so I rely on social media to share & show my work.

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Are you a DOJ official who was working under Special Counsel Jack Smith and were recently terminated? I would like to talk with you. Anonymity guaranteed. My email is BBJourno.proton.me.

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We get data from the WHO. Without this, we're flying blind with data regarding evolution of infectious agents globally, putting us behind if we need to develop vaccines & treatments, just for one aspect. This puts the whole country at risk.

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Your Sunday treat. The Supermarine S.4. Designed and built in five months for the 1925 Schneider race, it was years ahead of its time but proved to be a step too far, too fast. On 13/09/25, the S.4 set a new world seaplane speed record of 226.752 mph. It was lost in a crash just before the race.

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What these friezes from the temple of Apollo at Bassae may lack in elegance & sophistication, they make up for in drama & dynamism. The full friezes depict an Amazonomachy & a Centaurs & Lapiths battle. They vividly show the brutality & confusion of war 🏛️BM 📷me #AncientBlueSky

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Another absolute gem by Rogier van der Weyden! This painting of an unknown sitter was created in c.1460. Her attire & heavily plucked hairline have led some art historians to suggest that she was a member of the Burgundian court. (National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public Domain)

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In the collection of "bloody annoying features nobody ever asked for", does anyone how do you make Apple Watch stop inviting you to share detected workouts? I have no share with my friends the important life-changing news that I took a walk to buy a bread, TYVM.

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TIMELINE CLEANSE old aeronautical delights from a postcard set from the #StudioGhibli "Imaginary Flying Machines" animated short, 2002 (Kūsō no Sora Tobu Kikaitachi , 空想の空飛ぶ機械達) 🧵 1/

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Copilot is the new Clippy, but evil.

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Back in The Bad Place I used to do regular manuscript threads I called #BreakfastPaleography. Before I deleted my account, I downloaded my archive with all of its media and am going to try to reconstruct the threads here. Stay tuned for tomorrow's edition, brought to you by the letter [s]!

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