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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Don't pick up a grenade or projectile. Not worth it. If it turns out to be a malfunctioning flashbang grenade instead of a tear gas grenade, you may lose fingers or your whole hand. If it's a tear gas grenade it may be too hot even for most "high temp" welding gloves.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Also, if you take a blow to your head from a projectile, even if you are wearing a helmet, your demo day is over. You need to get checked out.

Almost every alleged lethality from tear gas was, in actuality, blunt force trauma from a projectile

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Yes: It feels bad. The pain will go away. Don't go doing anything stupid. If it gets in your eyes, use a LOT of water, and nothing but water. It will make it a LITTLE better.

Also, washing your hands very thoroughly before having a pee. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 2d

Brother Herbert at it again with the weird gourds

I'll be 100% honest i simply could not decide if he was going to be holding a big pepper or a big gourd while i was drawing this so it came out something kind of in between but ultimately leaning towards gourd

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JBR @jetblackraider.itch.io · 2d

nyoooooooooooooom

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 3d

as much as I love them one thing I always disliked about the Redwall books was the designation of certain species as constitutionally evil. I think rats and weasels should be friends with mice and shrews

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 5d

I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Azov Battalion has a power-bottom domination problem

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 5d

New burrowing owl behavior for me today-- taking a bath in the rain! So cool! 🪶

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 7d

Hillfort Henge! Hillfort Henge!

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 7d

Castell Bryn-Gwyn: The hillfort is defended by a bank and ditch and accessed by a causeway. #HillfortsWednesday Excavations have revealed that it has a long history dating back to the Neolithic period when it was created as a henge. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

Some excellent reading for those who want to know basic chronology and facts regarding the emptying out of Palestine between 1947 and 1949.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

I linked elsewhere but the # of villages and their reason for depopulation come from Benny Morris' "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949", "1948 and After. Israel and the Palestinians", and compounding analysis comes from "The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947- 1951",

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Silverwing Prime @silverwingprime.bsky.social · 8d

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9d

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 10d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10d

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 10d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 11d

The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale.

On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism.