Mika Paananen
@painmike1.bsky.social
Author of 'Harmsleave'. History Fan and Old Aircraft Enthusiast. Belligerent Bookshelf. Typing Curmudgeon CorrectBird Style. Slightly Anglophile. NO unsolicited CHAT.
Dim comments is just bad English...🇫🇮
painmike.com harmsleave.com
Dim comments is just bad English...🇫🇮
painmike.com harmsleave.com
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Mika Paananen
@painmike1.bsky.social
· Nov 29
HARMSLEAVE
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An extraordinary adventure in alternative history.
#Kindle #KindleUnlimited and paperback:
amazon.com/dp/B0C49FMY3K and other Amazon marketplaces
harmsleave.com
#books #bookpromos
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An extraordinary adventure in alternative history.
#Kindle #KindleUnlimited and paperback:
amazon.com/dp/B0C49FMY3K and other Amazon marketplaces
harmsleave.com
#books #bookpromos
Finnish VL Tuisku("Blizzard") trainer of the Training Air Wing in 1943. (SA-Kuva)
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Finnish VL Tuisku("Blizzard") trainer of the Training Air Wing in 1943. (SA-Kuva)
It's a Wonderful Life of Brian
Kill Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Insert a movie into another movie:
Clockwork Orange County
Clockwork Orange County
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It's a Wonderful Life of Brian
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North American B-25D "Grumpy" at Duxford Flying Legends in 2004. (Own photo)
December 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
North American B-25D "Grumpy" at Duxford Flying Legends in 2004. (Own photo)
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Today my brain was boggled to think that not only do military records exist from the 14th century, but they're even available on the internet.
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today my brain was boggled to think that not only do military records exist from the 14th century, but they're even available on the internet.
Bought all Xmas gifts today.
It's a wrap.
It's a wrap.
a cartoon character named spongebob is washing his hands in the sand
ALT: a cartoon character named spongebob is washing his hands in the sand
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Bought all Xmas gifts today.
It's a wrap.
It's a wrap.
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To coincide with the recent cinema release of #Nuremberg, my newest two-part Substack article is entitled 'Ripe for the Gallows: The Luftwaffe at Nuremberg'. It can now be read here:
-Part 1 (free): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 2 (paid):
open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 1 (free): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 2 (paid):
open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
'Ripe for the Gallows': The Luftwaffe at Nuremberg (Part 1)
Dr Victoria Taylor examines how the Nuremberg Trials both revealed and obscured Luftwaffe culpability in the Third Reich's atrocities
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
To coincide with the recent cinema release of #Nuremberg, my newest two-part Substack article is entitled 'Ripe for the Gallows: The Luftwaffe at Nuremberg'. It can now be read here:
-Part 1 (free): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 2 (paid):
open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 1 (free): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 2 (paid):
open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
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This evening at 7pm UK - eek!
It started off as a strange fascination with It Aint Half Hot Mum, turned into a PhD and now a biography coming out next year. On Tuesday 2 Dec 7pm I'll be waxing lyrical about the real story of organised troop entertainment on @ww2tv.bsky.social.
Hope you can join:
www.youtube.com/live/86qfHAq...
Hope you can join:
www.youtube.com/live/86qfHAq...
Organised Entertainment in the British Army and its Influence on Morale
YouTube video by WW2TV
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This evening at 7pm UK - eek!
Reposted by Mika Paananen
Recently digitised - at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire, after a Spitfire of No.611 Squadron test fires its machine guns, ground crew work to rearm the aircraft. Shot by Harry Rignold for the War Office Film Unit, July 1940. #filmcataloguing #ww2
Full film: IWM AYY 28-2 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full film: IWM AYY 28-2 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Recently digitised - at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire, after a Spitfire of No.611 Squadron test fires its machine guns, ground crew work to rearm the aircraft. Shot by Harry Rignold for the War Office Film Unit, July 1940. #filmcataloguing #ww2
Full film: IWM AYY 28-2 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full film: IWM AYY 28-2 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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Leslie Illingworth on the Winter War, Punch 20 December 1939.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Leslie Illingworth on the Winter War, Punch 20 December 1939.
SAS Douglas DC-6B 'Torkil Viking' at the new Seutula Airport(Helsinki) in 1952. (Esko Kukkonen)
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
SAS Douglas DC-6B 'Torkil Viking' at the new Seutula Airport(Helsinki) in 1952. (Esko Kukkonen)
Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again (1979 Xmas Special)
YouTube video by Symphonyofflowers
www.youtube.com
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Been very busy planning series 4 today... We should be back in your ears by early January and boy do we have some great stuff lined up! Peenemunde, Master Bombers, bomb disposal in Hamburg, the Short Stirling, bombing tactics, Schweinfurt, Moose Sqn, Cold War Bombers & tons more!
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Been very busy planning series 4 today... We should be back in your ears by early January and boy do we have some great stuff lined up! Peenemunde, Master Bombers, bomb disposal in Hamburg, the Short Stirling, bombing tactics, Schweinfurt, Moose Sqn, Cold War Bombers & tons more!
Finnair DC-8-62, 1973. (Finnish Aviation Museum)
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Finnair DC-8-62, 1973. (Finnish Aviation Museum)
30 November 1939 Soviet troops crossed the Finno-Soviet border without declaration of war. The Winter War had started.
(clips 'The Winter War,' 1989)
(clips 'The Winter War,' 1989)
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
30 November 1939 Soviet troops crossed the Finno-Soviet border without declaration of war. The Winter War had started.
(clips 'The Winter War,' 1989)
(clips 'The Winter War,' 1989)
Reposted by Mika Paananen
Reposted by Mika Paananen
The best present for the middle school history nerd in YOUR life! #weinventedcivilization #gift #middleschool
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The best present for the middle school history nerd in YOUR life! #weinventedcivilization #gift #middleschool
Sunday brunch is served.
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Sunday brunch is served.
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Hispano Aviación HA-1112-M1L Buchon G-AWHH('Red 4' and 'Red 8' in the film 'Battle of Britain') at Turku Airshow 2019. Also visible are tails of a pair of F-35s on the left and a F/A-18 on the right. (Own photo)
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Hispano Aviación HA-1112-M1L Buchon G-AWHH('Red 4' and 'Red 8' in the film 'Battle of Britain') at Turku Airshow 2019. Also visible are tails of a pair of F-35s on the left and a F/A-18 on the right. (Own photo)