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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History)

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Writer naval/aviation hist. Council member Navy Records Soc. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine. Cannot receive DMs

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 16d

My parents are doing the Coast to Coast walk soon and they're trying to raise some money for Water Aid. Please consider helping them, thanks www.justgiving.com/page/brian-w...

Brian's fundraiser for WaterAid

Help Brian Willis raise money to support WaterAid

www.justgiving.com

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 36m

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BooBiscuit 🎃👻 @harpomarxism.bsky.social · 46m

I know the performative fuck columbus day stuff is important but gods i wish we'd do something meaningful instead today.

If we wanna talk about Colonialism, Can we talk instead about how they removed all mention of the navajo code talkers from the DoD websites this year?

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2h

Since I started filing copyright infringement reports to get my paintings taken off Temu, a small industry of AI replacement paintings has sprung up, with dozens of brightly coloured paintings purporting to be by me. Here's a sample of what is supposedly Dublin's Poolbeg chimneys - painted by "me".

Screencap of 2 rows of 5 products, 8 of which are square cushions and one from each row is physical picture in portrait format. All of them have boldly coloured industrial chimneys, with some autumn foliage on trees or overhanging in the foreground. The blue water of a bay is visible in most, and the skies are blue or cloudy white. The number of chimneys is 3 or 4 in all but one which has 2. The chimneys are random blotchy areas of red and white, or just cream, rather than the red and white bands of the top halves and plain concrete bottom halves, of the actual poolbeg chimneys. Visible prices range from below €3 and €4 to one that is under €8.

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🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 2h

This is rancid. Are we going to start applying this to every cishet man who lies about his marital status? Why the fuck should a trans woman have to disclose that she is trans? "I don't swing that way", my brother in Christ you clearly fucking do. Enjoy it and stop ruining trans women's lives.

Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 2h

transwrites.world/ciara-watkin...

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation

by @gemma.transwrites.world

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation - Trans Writes

Ciara Watkin is now a 21 year old woman who, 3 years ago, met a man of the same age through instant messaging apps and engaged in sexual activity with him. She has now been convicted and will be house...

transwrites.world

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 3h

Deb Olin Unferth has a short story, 'Granted'.

Two historians are given a grant to visit a country. One condition: they must spend all the money before being allowed to return.

You guessed it, they can't finish spending the money.

If you've ever applied for a grant, you'll know this is fantasy.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3h

Ruba has been volunteering this whole time and trying very hard to continue her studies- she just started this fundraiser because she didn’t see any other options

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2h

Help sweet Karam if you can

Ahmed @ahmeeed9.bsky.social · 4h

Hello everyone, my family and I are not well. My little brother Karam was injured in his eye because of the destruction. We need $200 urgently. You are our only hope. 🥹🙏🙏🙏
chuffed.org/project/1426...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4h

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 4h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 2h

Now my adoption donkey has died. What a fucking week

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 3h

I wonder whose fault this was? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Elderly Labour campaigner attacked on doorstep says he was ‘punched in face by angry Brexit supporter’

‘I was looking him in the eye and suddenly he gave me a cow tailer,' says Bob Thomson

www.independent.co.uk

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 3h

If only Tedder, Portal, Coningham et al were as good at their jobs as they were at self promotion the war would have been won by Christmas

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 3h

We felt rather proprietorial over the Mary Rose in my village as the architect who designed the original dome lived in the old rectory a couple of hundred yards from the school. He came in to talk to us a few years later when we were doing a class project on the Mary Rose

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 4h

I was definitely at home when I saw this, my mum sat me in front of the television and I watched the whole thing. I was not quite 6 so I should have been at school. I presume I was off sick. Clear recollections of the gun firing and later seeing the skeleton of the hull emerging properly

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 6h

Having a great time looking through everyone's memories of watching the Mary Rose being raised.

So much truancy!

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 5h

Finding out 3rd hand that the gazillion people on the steering committee for my current project have made decisions but have not bothered to tell me - the only person doing the actual work - what those decisions are. Happy Monday!

The old meme of some poor sucker digging a hole in the ground while ten people look on from the sidelines.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 5h

What interests me is that the stitch up was so effective that even Johnson thought he was invulnerable. It seems in keeping with his character that he would believe he had risen to the top by his own brilliance but did anyone try to set him straight?

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 6h

He really is the most devious bastard in New York City

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6h

This bit in particular: what, our leaders just decided that the UN aid agency were terrorists, then replaced them with mercenaries firing machine guns at starving civilians? Everyone involved needs to be tried for war crimes then sent to prison for decades.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 6h

Part of me wonders if there's a deliberate effort to cast people who have been pro trans rights in the past, to peel away support or just establish what their price is

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 7h

Berry as well? Ah Jesus I thought he was better than that

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 17h

Five more days and 59 more miles to Robin Hood’s Bay

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 17h

I absolutely love the stuff, ngl

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 17h

I've experienced much of the same stuff... I am still googling that calendar rn

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 17h

Mum and Dad reached Danby Wiske today, a longish but fairly flat stage. After tomorrow they'll be passing into the North York Moors after having crossed the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. Beautiful country

My Dad walking along a stony path curving around a hillside and passing a stone cottage, seen from behind. Limestone hills in the distance and a sky of mixed white and grey cloud amid patches of blue

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 19h

Some more progress

In-progress digital artwork of a saloon car seen from behind rounding a left hand bend on a hillclimb course. The back- and foreground is largely complete, but the car is only half blocked in

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 21h

Londoners!

There are a few tickets remaining for the Trafalgar Day dinner at the National Liberal Club, where the requirement to sit through me talking about the Battle of Trafalgar will be more than outweighed by the excellent food and sea shanty performance 🇬🇧⚓️⬇️

members.nlc.org.uk/web/pages/ev...

Events Reservation - National Liberal Club

members.nlc.org.uk

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 21h

How long are we expected to keep worshipping them anyway?