Sean
@seanboy.bsky.social
Normandy based tour guide/researcher/lecturer/history enthusiast.
Occasional poster of Then And Nows.
Music lover. Mostly loud stuff.
www.normandyinsight.net
Occasional poster of Then And Nows.
Music lover. Mostly loud stuff.
www.normandyinsight.net
No words.
President Trump criticises France and others for celebrating remembrance day, saying, "We're the one that won the wars"
Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
No words.
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Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
Local war memorial. Twenty eight names from WW1, pre-war (1911) population of 360.
Six more names from WW2.
#armistice #11novembre #remembrance #monumentauxmorts
Six more names from WW2.
#armistice #11novembre #remembrance #monumentauxmorts
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Local war memorial. Twenty eight names from WW1, pre-war (1911) population of 360.
Six more names from WW2.
#armistice #11novembre #remembrance #monumentauxmorts
Six more names from WW2.
#armistice #11novembre #remembrance #monumentauxmorts
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Been making steady if clumsy progress with the Italeri Sunderland for the #HeaviesGB
Paint looks a bit patchy but will hopefully come together.
Fun to get back into 1/72 after about thirty years....
#histscalemodels
Paint looks a bit patchy but will hopefully come together.
Fun to get back into 1/72 after about thirty years....
#histscalemodels
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Been making steady if clumsy progress with the Italeri Sunderland for the #HeaviesGB
Paint looks a bit patchy but will hopefully come together.
Fun to get back into 1/72 after about thirty years....
#histscalemodels
Paint looks a bit patchy but will hopefully come together.
Fun to get back into 1/72 after about thirty years....
#histscalemodels
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I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.
news.sky.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
Something nice.
🇪🇬😃 The lucky Egyptian Foreign Minister receives a LEGO model of the Giza Pyramids from his Danish colleague, who arrived in Cairo for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum.
November 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Something nice.
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I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet
November 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
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Let’s see if the afternoon is better for this question.
Historians of Germany, fascism, & the Second World War: any suggestions for recent book chapters/articles that examine the historiography of Nazi Germany along the lines of those in Kershaw's rather dated The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems & Perspectives of Interpretations? It's for a senior seminar.
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Let’s see if the afternoon is better for this question.
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WANKPANZER KLAXON
Submission by email. Fleet services on the M3.
Not one, not two, not three, but four spaces, this particular specimen chose to park over. If you zoom in, you'll see the inevitable twat plate too. Cunt.
#YPLAC
Submission by email. Fleet services on the M3.
Not one, not two, not three, but four spaces, this particular specimen chose to park over. If you zoom in, you'll see the inevitable twat plate too. Cunt.
#YPLAC
October 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
WANKPANZER KLAXON
Submission by email. Fleet services on the M3.
Not one, not two, not three, but four spaces, this particular specimen chose to park over. If you zoom in, you'll see the inevitable twat plate too. Cunt.
#YPLAC
Submission by email. Fleet services on the M3.
Not one, not two, not three, but four spaces, this particular specimen chose to park over. If you zoom in, you'll see the inevitable twat plate too. Cunt.
#YPLAC
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Really important piece by @philippeauclair.bsky.social on how, even as Premier League clubs are supposed to be disengaging from Asian-facing bookies, they're lowering their standards to get every last drop of dubious cash.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Premier League clubs turn to hidden gambling partners to beat sponsorship ban
Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds and Nottingham Forest failed to respond to questions sent by the Guardian, while Sunderland refused to comment
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Really important piece by @philippeauclair.bsky.social on how, even as Premier League clubs are supposed to be disengaging from Asian-facing bookies, they're lowering their standards to get every last drop of dubious cash.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Contrast this rhetoric with the GOP stance on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Contrast this rhetoric with the GOP stance on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.
A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.
A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Last regular tour tomorrow. Fittingly down where these chaps were doing their thing in the fight against Nazism.
#ThenAndNow #WW2 #Normandy44
#ThenAndNow #WW2 #Normandy44
October 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Last regular tour tomorrow. Fittingly down where these chaps were doing their thing in the fight against Nazism.
#ThenAndNow #WW2 #Normandy44
#ThenAndNow #WW2 #Normandy44
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It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
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Modellers - the call you have been waiting all your lives for...!
Does anyone have any models of #WW2 aircraft they could drop by a school in Newbury tomorrow?
A group of students wants to film a scene - presumably with them going "Pew! Pew! Nerrrrr!"
Please share 🙏
Does anyone have any models of #WW2 aircraft they could drop by a school in Newbury tomorrow?
A group of students wants to film a scene - presumably with them going "Pew! Pew! Nerrrrr!"
Please share 🙏
three planes are flying in a row in a cloudy sky
ALT: three planes are flying in a row in a cloudy sky
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Modellers - the call you have been waiting all your lives for...!
Does anyone have any models of #WW2 aircraft they could drop by a school in Newbury tomorrow?
A group of students wants to film a scene - presumably with them going "Pew! Pew! Nerrrrr!"
Please share 🙏
Does anyone have any models of #WW2 aircraft they could drop by a school in Newbury tomorrow?
A group of students wants to film a scene - presumably with them going "Pew! Pew! Nerrrrr!"
Please share 🙏
This is the link to Part 2 of my latest Substack article, dealing with a fight between the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and six Panther tanks during the Battle of Epsom, focussing on the work of the AFPU in filming some of the aftermath.
open.substack.com/pub/insharpf...
open.substack.com/pub/insharpf...
Panthers, PIATs and 6-pounders (Part 2)
Three Panthers in an orchard
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I'm lost for words.
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I'm lost for words.
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ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.
Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.
He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.
Houston, Texas
Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.
He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.
Houston, Texas
October 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.
Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.
He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.
Houston, Texas
Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.
He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.
Houston, Texas
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All being well, my next book comes out on 30 Nov 25. It looks at the alleged disappearance of the 5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment & looks at all the duff history that surrounds the story of their advance on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12 Aug 15 during the Gallipoli Campaign #WW1 #FWW #Norfolk #Gallipoli
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
All being well, my next book comes out on 30 Nov 25. It looks at the alleged disappearance of the 5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment & looks at all the duff history that surrounds the story of their advance on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12 Aug 15 during the Gallipoli Campaign #WW1 #FWW #Norfolk #Gallipoli
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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The exact same story, as reported in the Australian and British press.
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The exact same story, as reported in the Australian and British press.
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