Dr. Floon
@dr-floon.bsky.social
Gamer, History Lover, Reader, and Friend of Desoto
Here we go New England…The Onset
“
Always the same, when on a fated
Night,
At last the gathered snow lets down as white
As may be in dark woods, and with a song
It shall not make again all winter long
Of hissing on the yet uncovered ground….”
“
Always the same, when on a fated
Night,
At last the gathered snow lets down as white
As may be in dark woods, and with a song
It shall not make again all winter long
Of hissing on the yet uncovered ground….”
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Here we go New England…The Onset
“
Always the same, when on a fated
Night,
At last the gathered snow lets down as white
As may be in dark woods, and with a song
It shall not make again all winter long
Of hissing on the yet uncovered ground….”
“
Always the same, when on a fated
Night,
At last the gathered snow lets down as white
As may be in dark woods, and with a song
It shall not make again all winter long
Of hissing on the yet uncovered ground….”
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie
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November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hospital waiting rooms are just strange liminal places, aren’t they? I’m sure there’s some fey lord or lady that lives here on half-uttered hopes and half-suspended fears…
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hospital waiting rooms are just strange liminal places, aren’t they? I’m sure there’s some fey lord or lady that lives here on half-uttered hopes and half-suspended fears…
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The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
Today in Wistah:
Note the Dropkicks sweatshirt front and center 😁
Note the Dropkicks sweatshirt front and center 😁
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Today in Wistah:
Note the Dropkicks sweatshirt front and center 😁
Note the Dropkicks sweatshirt front and center 😁
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And when they say well 'those people' don't have as much of an attachment to the United States or our values, remind them the most decorated combat unit in American history was a regiment formed almost entirely of 2nd-gen. Japanese-Americans recruited out of *internment camps* for goodness' sake.
September 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And when they say well 'those people' don't have as much of an attachment to the United States or our values, remind them the most decorated combat unit in American history was a regiment formed almost entirely of 2nd-gen. Japanese-Americans recruited out of *internment camps* for goodness' sake.
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Cannot recommend enough the @bretdevereaux.bsky.social series on what Sparta was actually like, deep and accessible dive into a monstrous society that built an outsized reputation on a fragile system of pure cruelty and ho-hum but ultimately fleeting military success
acoup.blog/2019/08/16/c...
acoup.blog/2019/08/16/c...
Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part I: Spartan School
This is Part I of a seven part series (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, Gloss., Retrospective) comparing the popular legacy of Sparta (embodied in films like 300) with the historical ancient state. Toda…
acoup.blog
September 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Cannot recommend enough the @bretdevereaux.bsky.social series on what Sparta was actually like, deep and accessible dive into a monstrous society that built an outsized reputation on a fragile system of pure cruelty and ho-hum but ultimately fleeting military success
acoup.blog/2019/08/16/c...
acoup.blog/2019/08/16/c...
I have read a lot of #militaryhistory and a lot of #memoires but holy CRAP “Quartered Safe Out Here” (G.M. Fraser) is f-ing amazing. Stop reading this right now and go read that!
Thank you #JamesHolland and #wehaveways for turning me on to this tremendous work.
Thank you #JamesHolland and #wehaveways for turning me on to this tremendous work.
August 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I have read a lot of #militaryhistory and a lot of #memoires but holy CRAP “Quartered Safe Out Here” (G.M. Fraser) is f-ing amazing. Stop reading this right now and go read that!
Thank you #JamesHolland and #wehaveways for turning me on to this tremendous work.
Thank you #JamesHolland and #wehaveways for turning me on to this tremendous work.
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Good for her, and for Boston.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Good for her, and for Boston.
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what historical military would you go back in time and give modern weapons to and why is the funniest answer "pádraig pearse in 1916"
August 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
what historical military would you go back in time and give modern weapons to and why is the funniest answer "pádraig pearse in 1916"
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It’s just around 1pm on a sweltering 87-degree day in the green fields and woods of Adams County, PA. The morning was rent by battle as Meade ordered the XII, XI, and I Corps to regain their hold on Culps Hill which is successful. It has been relatively quiet save for scattered skirmishing
July 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s just around 1pm on a sweltering 87-degree day in the green fields and woods of Adams County, PA. The morning was rent by battle as Meade ordered the XII, XI, and I Corps to regain their hold on Culps Hill which is successful. It has been relatively quiet save for scattered skirmishing
Song of the day -
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The Campbell’s are Coming but you’re with Iron Brigade heading into Gettysburg
YouTube video by The Great Argyll
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July 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Song of the day -
youtu.be/hJUo9-C6-94?...
youtu.be/hJUo9-C6-94?...
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Happy #Juneteenth! I used to post a version of this thread on Twitter in the before times, but I'd like to offer some insight into events that occurred after the U.S. Army's arrival in Texas in June 1865, specifically freedpeople's relationships with the army in Texas during Reconstruction. /1
June 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy #Juneteenth! I used to post a version of this thread on Twitter in the before times, but I'd like to offer some insight into events that occurred after the U.S. Army's arrival in Texas in June 1865, specifically freedpeople's relationships with the army in Texas during Reconstruction. /1
Song of the day
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youtu.be/8AFkFv2WrBA?...
Seems Like A Long Time
YouTube video by Rod Stewart - Topic
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June 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Song of the day
youtu.be/8AFkFv2WrBA?...
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Dropkick Murphys "Who'll Stand With Us?" Music Video
YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys
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June 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
There are so many lovely pieces here today for #MemorialDay written by those with more standing than I - but let me add my piece- I remember my father(US Army) often singing this:
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The Banks of Sicily
YouTube video by The Government Rams - Topic
youtu.be
May 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
There are so many lovely pieces here today for #MemorialDay written by those with more standing than I - but let me add my piece- I remember my father(US Army) often singing this:
youtu.be/G4cY09PLTUE?...
youtu.be/G4cY09PLTUE?...
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‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
May 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
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Don’t ever stay at Ibis Hotel CDG in Paris. It is an extremely hot wardrobe that sucks so baaaaaaad. Better to sleep in the Metro.
May 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Don’t ever stay at Ibis Hotel CDG in Paris. It is an extremely hot wardrobe that sucks so baaaaaaad. Better to sleep in the Metro.
OK, I’m running behind so no spoilers please, but just finished episode eight of Andor and holy crap!!
Incredibly powerful - the team behind this knows their history all too well.
I love love that they wrote a Ghorman national anthem- choked up when they began singing in the plaza
#Andor #starwars
Incredibly powerful - the team behind this knows their history all too well.
I love love that they wrote a Ghorman national anthem- choked up when they began singing in the plaza
#Andor #starwars
May 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Calling for nominations for fav getting up/opening song lines- here’s two to get started (dating myself, I know):
“I woke up in a Soho doorway, a policeman knew my name”
And
“In a morning from a Bogart movie, in a county where they turn back time…”
“I woke up in a Soho doorway, a policeman knew my name”
And
“In a morning from a Bogart movie, in a county where they turn back time…”
April 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Calling for nominations for fav getting up/opening song lines- here’s two to get started (dating myself, I know):
“I woke up in a Soho doorway, a policeman knew my name”
And
“In a morning from a Bogart movie, in a county where they turn back time…”
“I woke up in a Soho doorway, a policeman knew my name”
And
“In a morning from a Bogart movie, in a county where they turn back time…”
All that way for this - Oysterband
YouTube video by Oysterband Official
youtu.be
April 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The struggle. It’s real.
April 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The struggle. It’s real.