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Catman & Superkittenz

@RNshiplosses @I_W_M Assumed they had a ships cat (on right) but also a dog. Never seen that pic before. Cheers. 👍

24 May 1941 // Battlecruiser HMS Hood exploded and sank when a shell penetrated her magazine during exchanges of fire with German warships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen in the Denmark Strait. Of 1418 crew only three survived. (Images @I_W_M: A 176, FL 776, HU 50190) #RoyalNavy #WW2

@clarkes @AshPolitik @ricochet_888 So true, worth a follow. 👍

@AshPolitik @ricochet_888 Mr Hughes is an LNP cooker. Also, a fucking idiot.

Labor voters are jumping ship 🥴 Let’s go!!

@RavenZech2 @mlbkiwi We got some catnip online once and very surprised as it did nothing for our 3 cats? Maybe it was poor quality?

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Remembering the great Sir Roger George Moore on the day he passed away in 2017. He played Bond with charm, wit and style.

@Matt_Romley @HiddenHistoryYT Neither did I, cheers.

@PeterH314 @HiddenHistoryYT Good point. I had never tied the two events together.

In a single afternoon on May 22, 1941, the Royal Navy lost two cruisers and a destroyer off the coast of Crete to German dive bombers. The fleet commander was urged to withdraw what was left. His reply has been quoted ever since, but the situation that produced it is less well known. By the morning of the 22nd, the German airborne invasion of Crete was four days old and on the brink of failure. Of the seven thousand paratroopers Kurt Student had dropped on the first day, roughly half were already dead. The Germans had taken huge losses trying to capture Maleme airfield in the west of the island. Without an airfield, no reinforcements could land. Without reinforcements, the invasion would collapse. What the Germans needed was a seaborne convoy of mountain troops, heavy weapons, and ammunition. Two such convoys were assembled in Greek ports and put to sea under Italian destroyer escort, hoping to slip across the Aegean to Crete. The Royal Navy intercepted the first convoy on the night of May 21. In a confused action in the dark, British cruisers and destroyers tore through a fleet of small Greek caïques crammed with German soldiers. Roughly three hundred Germans drowned. The convoy was destroyed. But by morning the Royal Navy was south of Crete in clear daylight, within range of the Luftwaffe's Fliegerkorps VIII, the most experienced and lethal dive-bomber force in the world. And the British ships were running low on anti-aircraft ammunition because they had spent most of it sinking the convoy. The Stukas came in waves. The cruiser Gloucester took two direct hits and capsized, taking 722 men with her. The cruiser Fiji was hit by a single bomb that ruptured her hull. She sank slowly, with most of her crew getting off, but 241 men were lost. The destroyer Greyhound was bombed and went down in fifteen minutes. The battleships Warspite and Valiant were both damaged, Warspite badly enough that she had to go to the United States for repairs. By nightfall on May 22, Admiral Andrew Cunningham, commanding the Mediterranean Fleet from Alexandria, was looking at a casualty list that included two cruisers, a destroyer, two damaged battleships, and roughly fifteen hundred dead British sailors. The army on Crete was asking for naval evacuation. The army on Crete also had thirty two thousand troops on it. Cunningham's staff, looking at what the Luftwaffe had done in a single afternoon, urged him not to commit the rest of the fleet. He could not protect transports from Stukas in daylight. Anything he sent into the waters north of Crete would be sunk. The navy had taken enough. Cunningham listened, and then he gave the order that is still quoted at Dartmouth Naval College. "It takes the Navy three years to build a ship," he said. "It would take three hundred years to build a tradition. The evacuation will continue." The fleet went back. Between May 28 and June 1, the Royal Navy evacuated 16,500 men from the south coast of Crete under continuous air attack. They lost three more cruisers and six more destroyers doing it. Thousands of British soldiers were left behind and became prisoners. But the navy did not abandon the army. The German victory at Crete was so expensive that Hitler never authorized another major airborne operation for the rest of the war. The paratroopers had taken the island, but the airborne arm as a strategic weapon was effectively destroyed in the process. Cunningham's decision was not a calculation about morale. It was a statement about what kind of institution the Royal Navy was, made in the moment when the institution was being tested. He was sixty years old. He had spent forty four years at sea. He understood, in a way that staff officers in London did not, that an institution that abandoned its soldiers in 1941 would still be remembered for it in 2041. Three hundred years to build a tradition. Eighty five years ago today, the bill came due, and Cunningham paid it.

@BaronDestructo Have to go with Tom Zarek, he is a BSG legend.

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@wolfyd169 So true.

One Nation and their followers FFS, no policies to speak of other than hate, “litter tray” policies, you go digging when she has finished and every time you think you find something, nah, its just shite, shite, shite and more shite

@DrNeilStone Evening news showed/reported a temp hospital was burnt down due to relatives of a deceased Ebola patient not being allowed to take the body for burial. The video looked chaotic. No wonder it spreads so fast.

750 suspected cases of Ebola now in DR Congo 🇨🇩 Rising every day and I suspect the real number is several times that This is bad Very bad

@BaronDestructo Seems G’kar will be the one. Cheers.

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@DaveSharma She is the one who ran and won the seat of Wentworth. The previous blue ribbon Liberal safe seat, you held it for memory mate. We won’t mention the reported insider trading though will we. Cheers.

Just a reminder that Allegra Spender called for: ❌ Abolishing the existing CGT discount ❌ Imposing a minimum tax on ALL investment income, regardless of marginal rate. ❌ Abolishing negative gearing. Labor’s Budget has done all this. Now she is denying ownership.😅😅

@yme778 @karlstefanovic Free bowl of soup and a hat for each viewer.

@karlstefanovic Hey Karl, or as Ed referred to you today as “Chaos” 🤣…love your content keep it up! Can’t wait for your new show with Ed on Gold!

Another night, another firebombing in Melbourne. The city is under siege. Same in Brisbane. There they attack you in your own home at night. While you sleep. Tonight at 5pm, the Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson and QLD Police Union President Shane Prior come together.

@RachaelGri7172 @Neccccy

@Neccccy Cunt

Describe Starmer in just one word?

@mattybe23 @mattjcan @FreedmFightr1

@mattjcan @FreedmFightr1 Yes, the sooner we can get One Nation in the better!

Given the PM has "changed his position" and jacked up taxes despite promising not to, do you think there should be an early election so that the people can change their position on whether there should be a new PM?

@hollywoodscifi Have only watched it twice, the second time was to try and understand it further. No good. Would give it a 3/10. Cheers.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 2017 Visually, and concept, it's got some absolutely brilliant stuff in it. Unfortunately most of the acting is flat as a pancake, which is ultimately what kills it. It's definitely in the world of Fifth Element.

@PhilHazell1 Hey Phil, same to you, cheers.

Morning Fam, starting to feel a little better. Hope your day is full of laughs ❤️

@Prof_Quiteamess AU here, remember watching it here on Friday nights on the ABC. Brilliant show but Avon was the standout. RIP Michael. 👍

RIP #MichaelKeating 'the funny one' and my instant favourite in Blake's 7 when I was a kid. Rewatching as an adult you see his ingenious performance bringing an edge of reality to things, his cleverness, and often being the conscience of the gang.

@BaronDestructo @EverySGAFrame Six.

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Me and my son have been sneaking out in the middle of the night in our Ewok and Chewbacca costumes just to mess with our neighbor's trail cams.

@Eaglelab91 @PaulZauch @PatrickLenton Looking at this persons (W C) timeline & responses he is clearly a very rude right wing nut job. Also, using the term spastic in that manner is pathetic (my sister has cerebral palsy) that’s why it reported & blocked.

@PaulZauch @PatrickLenton Paul, you can’t argue with spastics like Patrick. It’s either main stream or your a big, faciast, transphobe(even though I am, they’re not women) and the left view you as weird.