Sir Thinksalot
@sirthinksalot.bsky.social
Historian, veteran, cat valet, bibliovore, & part-time political proctologist. NAFO 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇺🇦 (they/them)
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Jesus: Let the children come unto me and hinder them not, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Pastor: But not the children of single parents and sex workers... nor the children of colour... and definitely not those queer kids yuck.
Jesus: Did I fucking stutter.
Pastor: But not the children of single parents and sex workers... nor the children of colour... and definitely not those queer kids yuck.
Jesus: Did I fucking stutter.
Quickly popping back to encourage everyone to follow my favourite old salt @mercoglianos.bsky.social
Nice to see brownwater and Canada this week ⚓️🇨🇦
Nice to see brownwater and Canada this week ⚓️🇨🇦
Today, in World Maritime History class, we discussed the loss of Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago.
Why Did She Split In Half?
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Why Did She Split In Half?
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Why Did She Split In Half?
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November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Quickly popping back to encourage everyone to follow my favourite old salt @mercoglianos.bsky.social
Nice to see brownwater and Canada this week ⚓️🇨🇦
Nice to see brownwater and Canada this week ⚓️🇨🇦
Heading offline before the "we forget, or even actively sabotage, veterans for the entire rest of the year but look at us posting poppies now" crowd piss me off even more than paying $340 today because some twerp at Veterans thinks "mandatory 100% coverage of combat injuries" doesn't include OEF.
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Heading offline before the "we forget, or even actively sabotage, veterans for the entire rest of the year but look at us posting poppies now" crowd piss me off even more than paying $340 today because some twerp at Veterans thinks "mandatory 100% coverage of combat injuries" doesn't include OEF.
1. Take a position in certain stocks
2. Push a narrative that affects those stocks
3. Profit.
2. Push a narrative that affects those stocks
3. Profit.
"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
1. Take a position in certain stocks
2. Push a narrative that affects those stocks
3. Profit.
2. Push a narrative that affects those stocks
3. Profit.
Who could have guessed that the government group shooting priests in the face with pepperball rounds were actual, intentional fascists.
The 🇺🇲 government has chosen violence already, hopefully soon the 🇺🇲 people can face that reality - and actively reject it.
newrepublic.com/article/2026...
The 🇺🇲 government has chosen violence already, hopefully soon the 🇺🇲 people can face that reality - and actively reject it.
newrepublic.com/article/2026...
Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It
A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Who could have guessed that the government group shooting priests in the face with pepperball rounds were actual, intentional fascists.
The 🇺🇲 government has chosen violence already, hopefully soon the 🇺🇲 people can face that reality - and actively reject it.
newrepublic.com/article/2026...
The 🇺🇲 government has chosen violence already, hopefully soon the 🇺🇲 people can face that reality - and actively reject it.
newrepublic.com/article/2026...
Odense is a fantastic town with some excellent faculty (and a lot of worthwhile concerts) -
just a quick train ride from Kolding, home of the crusader Kogge ship (and more medieval maritime archaeology projects)
just a quick train ride from Kolding, home of the crusader Kogge ship (and more medieval maritime archaeology projects)
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Odense is a fantastic town with some excellent faculty (and a lot of worthwhile concerts) -
just a quick train ride from Kolding, home of the crusader Kogge ship (and more medieval maritime archaeology projects)
just a quick train ride from Kolding, home of the crusader Kogge ship (and more medieval maritime archaeology projects)
I'm very fortunate to have gone snorkelling with octopus regularly as part of veterans' aquatherapy in Curacao - octopus are intelligent creatures who do not belong in labs.
It's 2025 and we can do better! Please consider adding your name to this petition:
action.eko.org/a/shut-down-...
It's 2025 and we can do better! Please consider adding your name to this petition:
action.eko.org/a/shut-down-...
Shut down this baby octopus lab
A new factory farming nightmare is unfolding—seafood giant Grupo Profand just got the green light to experiment on baby octopuses in Spain. Their goal? Cracking the code on captive breeding to pave th
action.eko.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm very fortunate to have gone snorkelling with octopus regularly as part of veterans' aquatherapy in Curacao - octopus are intelligent creatures who do not belong in labs.
It's 2025 and we can do better! Please consider adding your name to this petition:
action.eko.org/a/shut-down-...
It's 2025 and we can do better! Please consider adding your name to this petition:
action.eko.org/a/shut-down-...
This week I supported the medevac buggy fundraiser for the 93rd Brigade. 🇨🇦💕🇺🇦
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Happy #FiverFriday! 🎉Tony’s posting early—busy day ahead!
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November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This week I supported the medevac buggy fundraiser for the 93rd Brigade. 🇨🇦💕🇺🇦
givebutter.com/BuggiesandBi...
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🇺🇲 air traffic controllers are refreshingly willing to use direction action when their pay stops.
I'm curious to see if any solidarity manifests for workers whose brain is their tool, especially after decades of anti-intellectualism in their culture with a raging anti-intellectual as president.
I'm curious to see if any solidarity manifests for workers whose brain is their tool, especially after decades of anti-intellectualism in their culture with a raging anti-intellectual as president.
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🇺🇲 air traffic controllers are refreshingly willing to use direction action when their pay stops.
I'm curious to see if any solidarity manifests for workers whose brain is their tool, especially after decades of anti-intellectualism in their culture with a raging anti-intellectual as president.
I'm curious to see if any solidarity manifests for workers whose brain is their tool, especially after decades of anti-intellectualism in their culture with a raging anti-intellectual as president.
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A thousand thank you 🤩🙏
We received +25 today, which makes around ✨ 1015$ ✨ as I cannot check the exact amount on Zura's PPal. Let's fund the remaining 4000 for the Legion's car 💪
✅ : 800 (+215 ☕) / 5000$ 🎯
🅿️ : zura.modebadze.94@gmail.com
☕ : buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller
We received +25 today, which makes around ✨ 1015$ ✨ as I cannot check the exact amount on Zura's PPal. Let's fund the remaining 4000 for the Legion's car 💪
✅ : 800 (+215 ☕) / 5000$ 🎯
🅿️ : zura.modebadze.94@gmail.com
☕ : buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A thousand thank you 🤩🙏
We received +25 today, which makes around ✨ 1015$ ✨ as I cannot check the exact amount on Zura's PPal. Let's fund the remaining 4000 for the Legion's car 💪
✅ : 800 (+215 ☕) / 5000$ 🎯
🅿️ : zura.modebadze.94@gmail.com
☕ : buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller
We received +25 today, which makes around ✨ 1015$ ✨ as I cannot check the exact amount on Zura's PPal. Let's fund the remaining 4000 for the Legion's car 💪
✅ : 800 (+215 ☕) / 5000$ 🎯
🅿️ : zura.modebadze.94@gmail.com
☕ : buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller
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Today on "podcasts worth hearing tbis weekend": Former 🇨🇦 CF soldier turned 🇺🇲 Green Beret turned Mercenary claims that VP Pence approved his (hilariously weird & awful) plan to kidnap 🇻🇪 President Maduro with $ support of Trump pals.
From 🇦🇺 ABC:
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/dj/...
From 🇦🇺 ABC:
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/dj/...
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Today on "podcasts worth hearing tbis weekend": Former 🇨🇦 CF soldier turned 🇺🇲 Green Beret turned Mercenary claims that VP Pence approved his (hilariously weird & awful) plan to kidnap 🇻🇪 President Maduro with $ support of Trump pals.
From 🇦🇺 ABC:
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/dj/...
From 🇦🇺 ABC:
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/dj/...
De pace post bellum.
October 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
De pace post bellum.
Today on "podcasts worth hearing tbis weekend": Former 🇨🇦 CF soldier turned 🇺🇲 Green Beret turned Mercenary claims that VP Pence approved his (hilariously weird & awful) plan to kidnap 🇻🇪 President Maduro with $ support of Trump pals.
From 🇦🇺 ABC:
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/dj/...
From 🇦🇺 ABC:
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/dj/...
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Today on "podcasts worth hearing tbis weekend": Former 🇨🇦 CF soldier turned 🇺🇲 Green Beret turned Mercenary claims that VP Pence approved his (hilariously weird & awful) plan to kidnap 🇻🇪 President Maduro with $ support of Trump pals.
From 🇦🇺 ABC:
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/dj/...
From 🇦🇺 ABC:
mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/dj/...
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
(Most people quote the "band of brorthers" but I remember well the stop-loss of OIF1)
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
(Most people quote the "band of brorthers" but I remember well the stop-loss of OIF1)
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
(Most people quote the "band of brorthers" but I remember well the stop-loss of OIF1)
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
(Most people quote the "band of brorthers" but I remember well the stop-loss of OIF1)
Well this isn't worrisome at all /s
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
"Helsinki Accord" Ford would not approve.
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
"Helsinki Accord" Ford would not approve.
Trump's Escalation Against Venezuela Continues as Hegseth Deploys Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to Latin American Waters | Common Dreams
In another major escalation, the Trump administration has deployed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which contains the world's largest warship, to waters off the coast of Venezuela.
www.commondreams.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Well this isn't worrisome at all /s
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
"Helsinki Accord" Ford would not approve.
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
"Helsinki Accord" Ford would not approve.
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Who knows better that Ukraine needs defending than a Georgian whose country was already part-annexed by orcs?
It's very nearly Fiver Friday if some Fellas wanna show some love! 🇨🇦💕🇬🇪
It's very nearly Fiver Friday if some Fellas wanna show some love! 🇨🇦💕🇬🇪
Artillery Raffle !! 💥
1st Intl Legion needs a car for #Kharkiv direction. Support Zura
& send your greetings to the orcs 💫
10$ donation : win Zura's patch 🛡️
20$ donation : @ sign your shell 🎁
🅿️ : zura.modebadze.94@gmail.com
☕ : buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller
1st Intl Legion needs a car for #Kharkiv direction. Support Zura
& send your greetings to the orcs 💫
10$ donation : win Zura's patch 🛡️
20$ donation : @ sign your shell 🎁
🅿️ : zura.modebadze.94@gmail.com
☕ : buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Who knows better that Ukraine needs defending than a Georgian whose country was already part-annexed by orcs?
It's very nearly Fiver Friday if some Fellas wanna show some love! 🇨🇦💕🇬🇪
It's very nearly Fiver Friday if some Fellas wanna show some love! 🇨🇦💕🇬🇪
Reposted by Sir Thinksalot
Who knows better that Ukraine needs defending than a Georgian whose country was already part-annexed by orcs?
It's very nearly Fiver Friday if some Fellas wanna show some love! 🇨🇦💕🇬🇪
It's very nearly Fiver Friday if some Fellas wanna show some love! 🇨🇦💕🇬🇪
Artillery Raffle !! 💥
1st Intl Legion needs a car for #Kharkiv direction. Support Zura
& send your greetings to the orcs 💫
10$ donation : win Zura's patch 🛡️
20$ donation : @ sign your shell 🎁
🅿️ : zura.modebadze.94@gmail.com
☕ : buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller
1st Intl Legion needs a car for #Kharkiv direction. Support Zura
& send your greetings to the orcs 💫
10$ donation : win Zura's patch 🛡️
20$ donation : @ sign your shell 🎁
🅿️ : zura.modebadze.94@gmail.com
☕ : buymeacoffee.com/mariemuller
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Who knows better that Ukraine needs defending than a Georgian whose country was already part-annexed by orcs?
It's very nearly Fiver Friday if some Fellas wanna show some love! 🇨🇦💕🇬🇪
It's very nearly Fiver Friday if some Fellas wanna show some love! 🇨🇦💕🇬🇪
UK cybersecurity consultant to US defence contractors accused of selling trade secrets incl coding to Russia since 2022.
$1.3 million is cheap, these traitors are always so small-minded :p
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
$1.3 million is cheap, these traitors are always so small-minded :p
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
UK cybersecurity consultant to US defence contractors accused of selling trade secrets incl coding to Russia since 2022.
$1.3 million is cheap, these traitors are always so small-minded :p
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
$1.3 million is cheap, these traitors are always so small-minded :p
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
He perserveres! Senator Merkley of Oregon's non-stop protest of POTUS by teaching Constitutional law lessons on the floor. He's just reached national work-to-rule strikes -
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...
cc @solidarity2025.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...
cc @solidarity2025.bsky.social
Merkley STILL Holding the Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
m.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
He perserveres! Senator Merkley of Oregon's non-stop protest of POTUS by teaching Constitutional law lessons on the floor. He's just reached national work-to-rule strikes -
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...
cc @solidarity2025.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...
cc @solidarity2025.bsky.social
It's Twonie Tuesday for Ukraine and fibre artist @nelltheweaver.bsky.social has just added this splendid scarf as a raffle prize ‐ chosen by the timestamp of your donation proof post being closest to her secret timestamp!
An equitable raffle & a noble gesture.
Use the official link shown below!
An equitable raffle & a noble gesture.
Use the official link shown below!
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It's Twonie Tuesday for Ukraine and fibre artist @nelltheweaver.bsky.social has just added this splendid scarf as a raffle prize ‐ chosen by the timestamp of your donation proof post being closest to her secret timestamp!
An equitable raffle & a noble gesture.
Use the official link shown below!
An equitable raffle & a noble gesture.
Use the official link shown below!
When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today I learnt that soy bean farmers do not want people to eat more soy; they want people to eat more livestock, because livestock eat far more soy than people can anyways.
Anyways the USA soybeans are feed-grade so they can't just Eat For Victory like it's 1941 again.
Source:
archive.ph/wW2UF
Anyways the USA soybeans are feed-grade so they can't just Eat For Victory like it's 1941 again.
Source:
archive.ph/wW2UF
a stick figure is holding a blue and white flag on his head .
ALT: a stick figure is holding a blue and white flag on his head .
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today I learnt that soy bean farmers do not want people to eat more soy; they want people to eat more livestock, because livestock eat far more soy than people can anyways.
Anyways the USA soybeans are feed-grade so they can't just Eat For Victory like it's 1941 again.
Source:
archive.ph/wW2UF
Anyways the USA soybeans are feed-grade so they can't just Eat For Victory like it's 1941 again.
Source:
archive.ph/wW2UF
EFA offre un séjour de 3 mois à Rhodes et Athènes pour récherches historiques "sur le thème de l’interculturalité en Méditerranée". Post-doctorants mediévaux sont encouragés!
www.efa.gr/mobilite-des...
#medieval #history #Greece
www.efa.gr/mobilite-des...
#medieval #history #Greece
Mobilité des chercheurs – EFA
www.efa.gr
October 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
EFA offre un séjour de 3 mois à Rhodes et Athènes pour récherches historiques "sur le thème de l’interculturalité en Méditerranée". Post-doctorants mediévaux sont encouragés!
www.efa.gr/mobilite-des...
#medieval #history #Greece
www.efa.gr/mobilite-des...
#medieval #history #Greece
In case anyone else would like to block all the official 🇺🇲 accounts which appeared over the weekend, simply click below:
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a man in a black and white sweater is holding his hands to his chest .
ALT: a man in a black and white sweater is holding his hands to his chest .
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October 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In case anyone else would like to block all the official 🇺🇲 accounts which appeared over the weekend, simply click below:
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Many of Alaska's First Nations were displaced last week, but there's neither emergency aid nor media coverage still. Here's the official website of the elders, with an urgent-needs wishlist and cash donation options - www.avcp.org/typhoon-halo...
cc @weatherprof.bsky.social
cc @weatherprof.bsky.social
Support YK Delta Alaskan Communities Affected by Typhoon Halong
Donation Needs & Guidelines:If you wish to help, you can support ongoing relief efforts by donating to the Alaska Community Foundation Disaster Recovery Fund or by purchasing supplies directly through...
www.avcp.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Many of Alaska's First Nations were displaced last week, but there's neither emergency aid nor media coverage still. Here's the official website of the elders, with an urgent-needs wishlist and cash donation options - www.avcp.org/typhoon-halo...
cc @weatherprof.bsky.social
cc @weatherprof.bsky.social