Tom C
@djcopio.bsky.social
Drinker with a sailing problem, studying same in my spare time. Such as it is!
I truly feel this energy
As a teen once called the police on my own house party just so I could go to bed early
December 19, 2024 at 12:07 AM
I truly feel this energy
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#OTD in 1942, Pharmacist's Mate Harry Roby performed an emergency appendectomy on a torpedoman aboard USS Grayback. With no training, Roby used improvised instruments including spoons, long-nosed pliers and rubber bands. The torpedoman was back standing watch within two weeks.
December 14, 2024 at 5:41 PM
#OTD in 1942, Pharmacist's Mate Harry Roby performed an emergency appendectomy on a torpedoman aboard USS Grayback. With no training, Roby used improvised instruments including spoons, long-nosed pliers and rubber bands. The torpedoman was back standing watch within two weeks.
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December 5, 2024 at 3:59 AM
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USS New York (BB-34) in heavy weather in the North Atlantic in 1942.
#WW2 #USNavy #BattleoftheAtlantic
#WW2 #USNavy #BattleoftheAtlantic
December 4, 2024 at 8:58 AM
USS New York (BB-34) in heavy weather in the North Atlantic in 1942.
#WW2 #USNavy #BattleoftheAtlantic
#WW2 #USNavy #BattleoftheAtlantic
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December 4, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Can anyone identify this? Flying over a British carrier with a flight deck full of Hellcats.
November 25, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Can anyone identify this? Flying over a British carrier with a flight deck full of Hellcats.
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Amazing to think that if Herman Melville had been born 170 years later we wouldn't have got Moby Dick but an elite-tier shitposter arguing with everybody about whales being a type of fish.
November 25, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Amazing to think that if Herman Melville had been born 170 years later we wouldn't have got Moby Dick but an elite-tier shitposter arguing with everybody about whales being a type of fish.
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#SubSunday #Submarines #NavalHistory
From my archive, reminds me of: "12 meters longer than the standard Typhoon, three meters wider. The captain's name is Ramius".
Project 941 Akula/TYPHOON-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine TK-13 in Roslyakovo dry dock, 1992.
From my archive, reminds me of: "12 meters longer than the standard Typhoon, three meters wider. The captain's name is Ramius".
Project 941 Akula/TYPHOON-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine TK-13 in Roslyakovo dry dock, 1992.
November 24, 2024 at 12:32 PM
#SubSunday #Submarines #NavalHistory
From my archive, reminds me of: "12 meters longer than the standard Typhoon, three meters wider. The captain's name is Ramius".
Project 941 Akula/TYPHOON-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine TK-13 in Roslyakovo dry dock, 1992.
From my archive, reminds me of: "12 meters longer than the standard Typhoon, three meters wider. The captain's name is Ramius".
Project 941 Akula/TYPHOON-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine TK-13 in Roslyakovo dry dock, 1992.
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Mary Burchell remains one of the most successful romance writers, ever. Over 110 Mills and Boon books to her name.
Less well known is that much of her early writing was done for one purpose:
Funding her efforts to get Jews out of Nazi Germany, with her sister.
Mary is a Righteous Gentile. /1 🧵
Less well known is that much of her early writing was done for one purpose:
Funding her efforts to get Jews out of Nazi Germany, with her sister.
Mary is a Righteous Gentile. /1 🧵
October 10, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Mary Burchell remains one of the most successful romance writers, ever. Over 110 Mills and Boon books to her name.
Less well known is that much of her early writing was done for one purpose:
Funding her efforts to get Jews out of Nazi Germany, with her sister.
Mary is a Righteous Gentile. /1 🧵
Less well known is that much of her early writing was done for one purpose:
Funding her efforts to get Jews out of Nazi Germany, with her sister.
Mary is a Righteous Gentile. /1 🧵
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It's snowing in Portsmouth!
November 21, 2024 at 10:04 AM
It's snowing in Portsmouth!
@tessicat.bsky.social Is it better here because it’s better or because the awfuls haven’t found it yet?
November 21, 2024 at 6:42 AM
@tessicat.bsky.social Is it better here because it’s better or because the awfuls haven’t found it yet?
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Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”
November 20, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”
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Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky
November 20, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky
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The perfect ratio of unread books you own to books you should buy is WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE BUT BUYING BOOKS IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA.
November 20, 2024 at 12:37 AM
The perfect ratio of unread books you own to books you should buy is WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE BUT BUYING BOOKS IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA.
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Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
November 19, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
Made a lovely find in a 1915 edition Manual of Seamanship. Clippings and papers belonging to Lt (RNAS) Cecil Hayward, erstwhile balloon pilot on HMS Ramillies in 1917. I've seen he has collections in the Pitt-Rivers and IWM. Hayward was a trader in Africa prior to the outbreak of war. #navalhistory
November 20, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Made a lovely find in a 1915 edition Manual of Seamanship. Clippings and papers belonging to Lt (RNAS) Cecil Hayward, erstwhile balloon pilot on HMS Ramillies in 1917. I've seen he has collections in the Pitt-Rivers and IWM. Hayward was a trader in Africa prior to the outbreak of war. #navalhistory
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This
Plus this
Plus a thousand times this
Also this
Plus this
Plus a thousand times this
Also this
Keep seeing references to UK food security.
Since the mid-19th century UK food security has meant the ability to keep the sea lanes open and imports flowing in. Not the ability to produce domestic needs at home.
Since the mid-19th century UK food security has meant the ability to keep the sea lanes open and imports flowing in. Not the ability to produce domestic needs at home.
November 18, 2024 at 10:57 AM
This
Plus this
Plus a thousand times this
Also this
Plus this
Plus a thousand times this
Also this
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Hey, America. Here in the UK, we let our eyebrows do the talking.
@atrupar.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @acyn.bsky.social
@atrupar.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @acyn.bsky.social
September 14, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Hey, America. Here in the UK, we let our eyebrows do the talking.
@atrupar.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @acyn.bsky.social
@atrupar.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @acyn.bsky.social
Share a photo of a ship you've taken:
HMS Torbay, somewhere east of Suez on my last trip in her. #navalhistory
HMS Torbay, somewhere east of Suez on my last trip in her. #navalhistory
November 19, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Share a photo of a ship you've taken:
HMS Torbay, somewhere east of Suez on my last trip in her. #navalhistory
HMS Torbay, somewhere east of Suez on my last trip in her. #navalhistory
So this is the post-Musk fallout shelter then?
November 18, 2024 at 6:45 AM
So this is the post-Musk fallout shelter then?