Seeadler

@seeadler.bsky.social

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Ex-RM from NI. Author and professional editor. "Bluesky elder," apparently. #BSMRGUK To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання

A picture of the Bachmann Branchline Class D Bogie open wagon in War Department grey
A three-tier model waterfall cuts through a hillside and tumbles over a cliff into deeper water, with a rowing boat and a small motorboat in the foreground. The motorboat is under way, leaving a pale blue wake in the dark blue water.
C. S. Lewis, in the preface to The Screwtape Letters, writes: I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
Sam Neill as the adult Damian Thorne in The Omen III.
One of the internet's great loadbearing tweets: Dril's "and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad."
The Independent, whose name may describe to its relationship with veracity, provides the following as its description of the journalist Richard Gittins: "Richard Gittins: Paul Keogh is a director, editor and writer at Champion News Service, a leading news agency based at the Royal Courts of Justice. Champion News specialises in high-profile and complex cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Central London County Court and tribunals, ranging from personal injury, planning, divorce and probate, to crime."
Sam Vimes, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
Skeet reading "When a crazy white man attacks five in Edinburgh labour should be asking for cold rage to protest When there is a knife attack in Belfast (which is common) They should be asking why fag ash isn't asking for protests"
American Bskyer who wants the US government to recognise Scotland as an independent nation and Northern Ireland as part of Ireland without, at any stage, *consulting any of the people who actually live there*
"To fire a nuclear missile, you must be at least 16 years old, although you can apply for the job before you're allowed to watch YouTube."
A 1/76-scale resin Churchill AVRE prepares to cross a railway line overgrown with grass. It must be summer, as the grass is more straw-coloured than green. In the background, an oak tree is in full leaf.
"Pressure, which unfolds in the three days before the Allied invasion of Europe, could very well function as a prequel to Downfall, which starred Bruno Ganz in a critically lauded central performance as Hitler."
User writes "He called me a baby for not understanding the importance of NATO and blocked me when he got this one," quoting themself saying "If you live in Europe, you probably feel very safe bc of NATO, and tbh, I don't really care about yall's safety. Mine is more important."
Satan in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
A still from the 1977 TV series "Children of the Stones", captioned with in an increasingly ominous line of dialogue: "Happy day, sir."
A skeet from someone whom I'm guessing has exclusively a STEM education, which reads "I love this. He's educated, witty, and understands that even fiction has something to teach us about our shared humanity."
A stalker account with sex-predator vibes, Dutch Bellbeaker writes: "You don't get to choose who follows you. If you don't want people to follow you on social media, then you should not be on social media."
The much-maligned Blackburn Roc.