Michael Peterson
@madpadre.bsky.social
Husband, dad and granddad, retired Canadian Forces padre, vicar of All Saints, Collingwood, Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Wargamer, walker of Brodie and Beatrix the Border Terriers. Mostly this account is about harmless hobby stuff.
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i wonder if this guys going to sign the release of the epstein files
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
i wonder if this guys going to sign the release of the epstein files
In Medicine Hat, Alberta, it was Chicken Man, dude with a pet chicken who lived in a milk crate on the back of his bicycle.
Barrie, Ontario had Pony Guy, who wandered around the lakefront with his pet miniature horse.
God bless all glorious, harmless weirdos.
Barrie, Ontario had Pony Guy, who wandered around the lakefront with his pet miniature horse.
God bless all glorious, harmless weirdos.
For us, that would be Tuba Guy. He's always walking across from George Mason University.
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
In Medicine Hat, Alberta, it was Chicken Man, dude with a pet chicken who lived in a milk crate on the back of his bicycle.
Barrie, Ontario had Pony Guy, who wandered around the lakefront with his pet miniature horse.
God bless all glorious, harmless weirdos.
Barrie, Ontario had Pony Guy, who wandered around the lakefront with his pet miniature horse.
God bless all glorious, harmless weirdos.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Thank you Blue Jays it was a great run.
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Thank you Blue Jays it was a great run.
Victorian pre-dreadnoughts have their own kind of coolness. Here are HMS Majestic and Royal Sovereign, cheap and cheerful
STL files printed at 1.2400 scale and available from @4ppress.bsky.social is Wargame Vault. #navalwargaming
STL files printed at 1.2400 scale and available from @4ppress.bsky.social is Wargame Vault. #navalwargaming
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Victorian pre-dreadnoughts have their own kind of coolness. Here are HMS Majestic and Royal Sovereign, cheap and cheerful
STL files printed at 1.2400 scale and available from @4ppress.bsky.social is Wargame Vault. #navalwargaming
STL files printed at 1.2400 scale and available from @4ppress.bsky.social is Wargame Vault. #navalwargaming
Davis Schneider could go down in history.
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Davis Schneider could go down in history.
Putting Fisher in is doing nothing for my mental health.
October 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Putting Fisher in is doing nothing for my mental health.
Drop an old person you’re gonna turn into in the future ( and the future is almost here, Rowan’s only got 12 years on me).
October 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Drop an old person you’re gonna turn into in the future ( and the future is almost here, Rowan’s only got 12 years on me).
Reposting this thread from Collingwood, Ontario!
Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar.
Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.
Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵
Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.
Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵
October 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposting this thread from Collingwood, Ontario!
Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.
For fans of WW1 naval history and #navalwargaming, in our PBEM campaign the Emden is still out there wreaking havoc and staging variety shows. Our latest in game newspaper has some great contributions from the players themselves.
madpadrewargames.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
madpadrewargames.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The Singapore Sling: Issues 12-14; News from Our PBEM Campaign
Our naval defence correspondent "Neptune" offers another column from his vantage point at the Empire Lounge, Raffles Hotel ( reflecting stat...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
For fans of WW1 naval history and #navalwargaming, in our PBEM campaign the Emden is still out there wreaking havoc and staging variety shows. Our latest in game newspaper has some great contributions from the players themselves.
madpadrewargames.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
madpadrewargames.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Thrift store finds today. I read Collingham when it first came out and thought it was an excellent and valuable social history. Buttar I’ve only heard good things about.
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Thrift store finds today. I read Collingham when it first came out and thought it was an excellent and valuable social history. Buttar I’ve only heard good things about.
I took a chance on ordering some 1/2400 models from Panzerschiffe and thought I’d show some examples of their models, which are basic but ok. Three German Type 1934 destroyers and two light cruisers (Koln and Karlsruhe) for an early war Atlantic campaign I’m considering. #navalwargaming
September 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I took a chance on ordering some 1/2400 models from Panzerschiffe and thought I’d show some examples of their models, which are basic but ok. Three German Type 1934 destroyers and two light cruisers (Koln and Karlsruhe) for an early war Atlantic campaign I’m considering. #navalwargaming
So are we at a Horst Wessel moment or a Reichstag Fire moment?
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So are we at a Horst Wessel moment or a Reichstag Fire moment?
I bled for my country today, and got a slice of pizza for my troubles! #blooddonor #CanadasLifeline #CanadianBloodServices
September 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I bled for my country today, and got a slice of pizza for my troubles! #blooddonor #CanadasLifeline #CanadianBloodServices
So I guess this means that the US could blow up a civilian boat in Canadian waters and say “because fentanyl”. What’s scary is that my last sentence doesn’t seem crazy.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under?
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
September 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So I guess this means that the US could blow up a civilian boat in Canadian waters and say “because fentanyl”. What’s scary is that my last sentence doesn’t seem crazy.
We had to make our own dice!
September 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We had to make our own dice!
My hot take for the day is that unless the AoC is a consequential thinker and theologian like Rowan Williams, they are irrelevant to non-British Anglicans in the rest of the Communion.
One of my minor conspiracy theories is that Labour are delaying the choice of a new Archbishop of Canterbury because all the likely options would speak out against the government’s racism.
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
My hot take for the day is that unless the AoC is a consequential thinker and theologian like Rowan Williams, they are irrelevant to non-British Anglicans in the rest of the Communion.
For #TerrierTuesday, this is us, Brodie and Beatrix, waiting for our hoozits to quit chatting with the neighbours and take us to the bark park like they promised they would. #TravellingInStyle #BTPosse
September 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
For #TerrierTuesday, this is us, Brodie and Beatrix, waiting for our hoozits to quit chatting with the neighbours and take us to the bark park like they promised they would. #TravellingInStyle #BTPosse
Quote with your red art.
August 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Quote with your red art.
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I still get yelled at a lot, but I do worry about it less now. I am a bear.
August 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I still get yelled at a lot, but I do worry about it less now. I am a bear.
August 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Some recently completed 1/2400 model ships for First World War #NavalWargaming. First, a flotilla of Royal Navy M class destroyers by GHQ.
August 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Some recently completed 1/2400 model ships for First World War #NavalWargaming. First, a flotilla of Royal Navy M class destroyers by GHQ.