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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 2h

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1h

Too real

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Conn MacEvilly @conmachiavel.bsky.social · 2h

… slight that he went on a four-year killing spree, pausing only occasionally to run up huge debts at his London club, which resulted in him being simultaneously bankrupted and appointed Grand Admiral of the Uruguayan Navy, until news of the former resulted in cashiering from the latter.

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Conn MacEvilly @conmachiavel.bsky.social · 2h

One of the most spectacular and unexpected victories in British naval history occurred as a result of the Admiralty’s accidentally assigning the Lord Kilbeggan (ironically, nicknamed ‘Mary’ at school) to a vessel intended for the “Lord” Kilbeggan and Kilbogget. So incensed was he by the perceived …

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Conn MacEvilly @conmachiavel.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you.

Of course, a common error is to mistake one of the Cochranes junior, Lord Kilbogget, for another, who was styled Lord Kilbogget and Kilbeggan. The former landholdings are Scotland while the latter are in County Mayo, Ireland. And the latter “Lord” was in fact a woman, Martha Glendonning

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2h

Man you sound just like a thousand paragraphs in naval history books.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2h

You: “Well you see, one was the 8th Earl of Dumbledore and one was the 5th Duke of Dantooine and the other was the 2nd Viscount of Telletubbyland.”
Me:

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2h

Hardest thing about researching Royal Navy amphibious warfare in the Napoleonic Wars: too many Cochranes.

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Just some guy @rocinante.bsky.social · 15h

That stupid epic handshake meme I like just a bit too much:

Left hand: “Why lookst thou so?" "With my crossbow
I shot the albatross.”

Right hand: “tonight’s ballgame”

They meet: “mariner v bird”

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Multi-Domain Operations

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

At least the Guard can look at the fish while they're bored out of their minds

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Do it for Bob.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Go Brewers.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

I’m close to finishing Shadows, then will tackle GoTsushima (never got around to it) then GoY. I made my own samurai trilogy.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a need for a high low mix. Use the high end stuff for main effort large offensives, but what’s good enough for other times? I’m not sure any service is thinking through that dynamic.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

I think it needs to go the other way. Yes, get the emerging stuff but that stuff takes time to build/regenerate at scale. There are going to be periods where the high end stuff isn’t available. What do you do when the high end tech is being husbanded for a future offensive? Waiting isn’t it.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

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Roger Cormier: Built for Fall @yayroger.bsky.social · 2d

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

What.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

How are there pitchers left!?

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Well they just pissed off everyone.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Has a government ever simultaneously pissed off its troops and its farmers before? Because historically, doing just one of those tends to lead to bad things.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

The Army will throw any amount of money at technology to avoid spending a far smaller amount of money on marksmanship training.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Animal Crossing: The Committee of Public Safety

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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