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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour)
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50ish/M/Ont/🇨🇦, he/him. Aspiring "afflicted" WW2 military historian. https://www.alliedarmour.com My book about the Archer is available from Trackpad Publishing!

Also interested in art, video games, SF+fantasy novels, cats, puns
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Keep making shit. You are talented and awesome.

Brainworms will tell you otherwise sometimes. They do that to all of us.

They are wrong. When you feel them kicking in, remember this post:

You are awesome. Yes. You. Fuck 'em. 👍
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I don't use any streaming services, so no yearly reports for me, but I think this was probably my best 'new' discovery of the year.

blacksandrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-il...
The Illusion's Reckoning, by Mantra Vega
11 track album
blacksandrecords.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
20 books, one per day, in no particular order, that you’ve read and would recommend to another reader.
No comments, just covers.

Day 16: Topography is Fate by Matthew Arnold
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
20 books, one per day, in no particular order, that you’ve read and would recommend to another reader.
No comments, just covers.

Day 15: Warpaint Volume 3, by Dick Taylor
December 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Returning to this. 1/76 Stuart in Operation Crusader. 🤔
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Please don't make me search out why the Falklands keep getting mentioned here.

😑
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Ford-built 'Universal Carrier' (Windsor) coming out of the plant's waterproofing testing bay, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. 1942. Waterproofing vehicles was best done from new and had to be thoroughly tested to ensure the automotive components stayed dry. #tanks #WW2 1/2
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A Humber Mk II armoured car of the 12th Royal Lancers on patrol south of El Alamein, July 1942.

IWM (E 14640), Lt. McLaren, AFPU
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The cat
She woke from her nap
Yes
YES
The cat hungers
December 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
LRT: that's one of the great things about outdoor murals/street art!
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Sorry to sound like blazed William Morris, but we should all get to experience some art every day so we are reminded of what’s noble and beautiful about us
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Fellow Canadian historians, what would you do with the following reference: Megill, "Role of 5 Canadian Infantry Brigade in Veritable", D. Hist?

Because... that doesn't seem to be more than provide a start to finding said document?
November 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.

Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.

And they were nothing like "primitive"

phys.org/news/2025-11...
Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...
phys.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
20 books, one per day, in no particular order, that you’ve read and would recommend to another reader.
No comments, just covers.

Day 14: Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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need something fun to watch? how about this: THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975), dramatized by Tom fuckin' Stoppard and starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwk...
"THREE MEN IN A BOAT" (1975 Jerome K. Jerome TV Adaptation-starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin)
YouTube video by Archive Media Vault
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
One gingerbread muffin.
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I took this advice 2 years ago & went from $100 to $50 a month w loads more data. Just walk into a shop.
Remember this is the time to change cell phone providers even if you like the one you have. Switching, not threatening to switch, is how you get the best win back deal.

Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Black Friday Plans - Nov 28 2025
docs.google.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Recipes that require you to soak something in water should say so at the START of the recipe. Irksome!
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I feel attacked!
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Post something random or you'll have an awful December
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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This post is a nice try but it just doesn’t have the same oomph as when it was shouted from a podium in the original German.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM