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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@hisbpf.bsky.social

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Military historian at NUS, Habs fan, Gunner tragic, and, most important, father of Conor. All opinions my own. Standing with Ukraine. 🇺🇦Denouncing terrorists. 🇨🇦 living and working in 🇸🇬. Trump will be defeated. Stand tall Canada. Never 51.🇨🇦

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · Jun 15

Delighted to announce my forthcoming book with University Press of Kansas, kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639953/
Very pleased to join their excellent Modern War Studies series. To be released in early November.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 8h

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 8h

I only really discuss posts with people who identify themselves. I usually don’t engage anonymous accounts.
This is tinkering, nothing more.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 8h

Who are you?

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 10h

You mean that only became true in “modern” combat?
Gosh.
Who knew …

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 22h

I don't know who said it first, but it's nice to see that the dictum that 'any new technology first gets used for porn' still holds true.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 10h

Why didn’t it do this long ago?

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 10h

Why don’t you simplify the tax filing system and cut taxes instead?
Rhetorical question …

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 10h

"Release The Files" - AI Taylor Swift (Satire/NOT Taylor Swift) with Gavin Newsom on Sax

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 11h

Malaysia's Islamist party PAS rejects 'attempt' to cast it as 'bogeyman' in Singapore politics

The party’s secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan was responding to a statement in Singapore’s parliament by Coordinating Minister for National Security K Shanmugam.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 22h

If they come up with an actual idea, please let us know.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t think you grasped his point. A band aid will stop a skin cut bleeding, but if there is internal bleeding it won’t be nearly enough, so we should not think it has really solved any serious problem. Don’t get lulled into complacency by band aids, useful as they are.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 22h

From this outsiders perspective, for decades now the answer seems to be: if our guy does something, whatever it is, it is okay or at least excusable; if their guy does something very similar, it is grounds for immediate removal from office. Trump pushes the line to extremes, but it predates him.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 22h

It would be interesting to see how many Farage followers can manage A level English.

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OTD Military History @otdmilhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Saying fighting to help the Nazis is bad is apparently "sentimentalist lalaland politics".

The Cold War really destroyed some people's brains.

This comment is about the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician).

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 23h

Feed him to the sharks

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 2d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t normally disdain to argue with anonymous heroes but your comment was so asinine I felt obliged to tell you so. Your opinions and convictions no doubt match your worldview and principles: hollow, shallow, trending. You are a coward not worth the time.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 1d

“Far fewer are dying.” So summary public executions in the street don’t concern you? The very people in whose behalf you protested are now being lynched by their own and that doesn’t bother you?
So it was never about them? They never really mattered?
Disgusting.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps a protest could be aimed at Hamas instead of our own govts? Does that even enter your worldview?

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 1d

Cue the protesters in major Western cities: … waiting … wtf are you all?

Masked fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as Hamas fights with rival groups | CNN

Violent clashes have erupted between Hamas and rival groups in several areas across Gaza, including an incident that culminated in an apparent public execution, as worries grow about the security situ...

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 1d

That’s true, to be fair. Bunch of wankers at best.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 2d

Yes because of course personal misbehavior scandal was unheard of on the left …

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 2d

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 3d

He didn’t. So your admonition is pointless.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 3d

That file is missing.