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Well. That was super fiddly… Horses harnessed up though. Near the end of the line on this project!

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#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

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History teaches us that when governments begin persecuting a vulnerable minority group while simultaneously making it harder for members of that group to escape persecution by fleeing abroad... it doesn't end well for anyone. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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The majority of Americans recognise Trumsk’s bullshit.

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We seem to be living in a time when a person does a fascist salute and it is possible to say, ‘yes, but was it a fascist salute?’. These times too will pass but only if truth is spoken clearly and bravely.

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It's Nice To Be Disliked (By One Of Those)

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Arresting someone for calling you fascist seems an excellent approach to proving their point.

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Fabulous

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It's #TankTuesday & today's offering is a German PzKw 38(t) Ausf. G driving off a purpose-built railway wagon. Why is this of interest? Read on to find out - 🧵 NB Alt text gives context to photos as well as additional information that doesn't fit in the main post. 1/

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They still may not be entirely comfortable with their lot but they are certainly more colourful. Still lots of wee details to do but getting there…

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While the council are currently evicting us and all our neighbours - the shop is still open as usual! And because its our TENTH birthday, the code HAPPYBIRTHDAY will get you 10% off, hooray! Pick up some incredible 28mm hand sculpted fighty ladies today! Or turkeyman! www.badsquiddogames.com

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Climbing the learning curve painting these wee guys. Currently feels like E2 5b!! Been many eons since painted Napoleonic stuff. Even then they were 6mm fellahs… slowly getting there but a ways to go.

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Most Jews deported by Nazi Germany to Auschwitz for extermination were given the illusion of resettlement & new life. They packed their suitcases with all the essential items. Hope became one of the most important weapons. (Photo: http://instagram.com/mariapitariu)

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Love this chaos!! Mon the guns!

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When Lieutenant Howie of the Royal Scots Fusiliers was wounded in 1918, his web Pack and equipment were sent home to his family in Scotland. The ‘Wounded Officer’s Kit’ labels are still tied to the pack. 1/

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These LCC bomb damage maps are amazing - on one hand gorgeously colourful and incredibly eye-catching, yet on another absolutely horrifying.

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A career as a French Old Guard Horse Artillery gunner or driver promised action and glory. But the price of entry to the service was too uncomfortable for many.

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It’s always the ones you most expect…

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One man, who can definitely afford to pay it, owes HMRC £1,000,000,000 Yet the government want you to think it's the poor on benefits who are to blame... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

Let Denmark cook.

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'“When the Lancet commission on self-harm does an evidence review...when academic researchers do their meta scientific research, these things don’t come out in line with this tech panic,” he says. “That’s because this tech panic is not based on evidence. It’s based on vibes.”'

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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Just getting it all prepped up for a primer cost on the exterior. Had an err…. Technical hiccup when managed to coup the bigger (luckily before fitting the frame aerial). There was lots of swearing… luckily damage very minor… onwards!

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😂

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Our mission is to commemorate victims, preserve the historical site & educate the world about the tragic history of Auschwitz. Follow @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social & shape memory with us.

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17 January 1900 | Czech Anton Frydrych was born in Vsetín. A butcher's helper. In #Auschwitz from 29 April 1942. No. 33822 He perished in the camp on 7 July 1942.

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14 January 1944 | A Polish woman, Elżbieta Krajewska, died of typhus in #Auschwitz. A student and poet born in 1923 in Skoraczewo. During the war, she was involved in diversionary activities, arrested on 6 June 1943, and tortured. In #Auschwitz from 5 October 1943. No. 64424 She was 20 years old

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THREAD/It seems hard to understand now but in the early weeks of the Blitz, the public were not permitted to use London's deep level Tube stations for air raid sheltering purposes. The official reasons given, both by London Transport and the Home Office varied, from not wishing to interfere with..

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