The land around Stonehaven has a very dream like quality. Like landscape off a Halo. One expects a giant ring to rise into the sky and to loop around the landscape. With a floating gas giant and moons. (Maybe you can even hear monks chanting...) #Stonehaven #Kincardineshire #Mearns #Aberdeenshire

‘Roeddwn i’n bwriadu mynd i Gorsaf Tosche i gasglu trawsnewidwyr pŵer.’

Bleddyn Bowen@bleddb.bsky.social · yesterday

‘Actor Matthew Rhys will voice Han Solo, alongside Rhys Ifans as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Princess Leia. Star Wars veteran Mark Lewis Jones, who portrayed Captain Moden Canady… will take on the role of Darth Vader and Osian Morgan will voice Luke Skywalker.’

It's also one of the last great films featuring plenty of practical spaceship models. If you're interested, I've written all about it here:

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · 9mo ago

Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was released 28 years ago today. This is an opportunity to rediscover the film's sublime models:

Starship Troopers (1997): Arachnid Warrior Bug, animatronics testing by Amalgamated Dynamics

Questions about money will rightly go on for years until Farage faces the consequences of his actions.

Andrew Harper's story is heartbreaking, and Debbie Adlam's courage is inspiring. We should never have reached this point. Fixing probation and cutting reoffending should have come first so no more families have to endure this pain. @laylamoran.bsky.social

Whomever took this photo a decade did an amazing job!

Weird for NY Times to give David Ellison space to lie about Paramount-Warner. News "requires independence" and must "answer to the facts...not any party or cause"? He's done the literal opposite with CBS. Nonpartisan with a mix of views? Larry Ellison spent over $45M helping elect Trump in 2024.

The beautiful, and surprisingly extensive, remains of Arbroath Abbey in the heart of Arbroath in Angus. The abbey was founded in 1178 by King William I for a group of Tironensian monks previously resident at Kelso Abbey. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Arbroath #Angus

Morning walk up Sidlaw Hill took in some fantastic views . The fields of barley literally crackled 🌾🌾🌾 #morning #morningwalk #reflections #nature #clouds #stunday #Naturephotography #scape #photography #Scotland #eastcoastkin #ECK #countrylife #angus #fields #barley

An oldie for #ForestFriday #morningwalk #tree #sunrise #nature #clouds #misty #Naturephotography #scape #photography #Scotland #eastcoastkin #ECK #countrylife #angus #morning

Killdeer, Montrose Beach #bird #killdeer #chicago #montrose #lakemichigan

Montrose in the rain. There are quite a few nice sites. Always lovely to visit again. #Montrose #Angus

This is a stark warning: the climate emergency is here, yet the Government moves at a snail’s pace. It's time for a national strategy: funding cool hubs for vulnerable groups, mandating cooling and ventilation in new homes, supporting drought-affected farmers and heat-proofing NHS facilities.

It’s hot across Europe right now. Millions of us are feeling it - in cities, towns, and villages across the continent. When heatwaves hit, small actions matter ⬇️

Up to 20mm of rain is expected in one hour.

Hail and lightning possible as Tayside, Fife and Stirling issued 10-hour thunderstorm warning

Up to 20mm of rain is expected in one hour.

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Maybe I obsess over details and symbols while Dan is brilliant statesman with a deep understanding of realpolitik. Anyway, this is the end of the thread. Baston out. 27/27

... Paris at the invitation of President Macron. He thus watched the 2e brigade blindée march in full regalia, carrying the battle flags of General Leclerc's division: a vivid reminder of men who fought the Nazis from Koufra to the Berghof. O maybe it's just me. 26/

... in a small railway station after Fătu was incidently recognized. The end of team "Pascal" marked the end of the operations President Dan piously cited in his op-ed. There is more irony in the story, though. Two weeks after the op-ed appeared, Dan attended the Bastille day festivities in... 25/

... sentenced in Yugoslavia, he managed to make his way west in unclear circumstances (possibly after collaborating with Yugoslav secret police). May have been initially recruited and trained by SIMRE. Team "Pascal" was arrested mere days after the drop (no more than two weeks later)...24/

... in Austria. Gigi Constantin's biography is blurry. He was in Nazi Germany in August 1944 and after Romania switched sides he seems to have stayed there. Savu Fătu's biography is even more blurry. Seems to have left the country in 1948 for personal reasons. Initially sentenced in... 23/

... of group leader Gheorghe "Gogu" Gheorghiu from Constanta. Gheorghe Gheorghiu, a devout Iron guard militant, fled Romania after the failed coup of 1941 and found refuge in the Nazi Reich (Austria). He was in contact with Horia Sima and worked to organize the fascist Romanian diaspora... 22/

The pair was captured in May 1953. The final airdrop mission, codename "Pascal", took place in July 1953. Like "Robert" and "Jacques" French and American intelligence had used fascist contacts to recruit the the three members. That said, solid information exists only on the legionary past... 21/

... specific instructions from legionary leadership in exile. They were supposed to revive the fascist underground. Legionary leadership (not French or American intelligence) had been provided with a radio emitter and Tănase was likely designated to act as Horia Sima's top man in Romania. 20/

Team Robert was airdropped in October 1952. It was made up of Alexandru "Ică" Tănase and Mircea Popovici. Both were Iron Guard hardliners who had served in Nazi uniform in 1944, in Horia Sima's so called "National Government Army", after Romania changed sides in the war. The team came with... 19/

... legionary militants active in the underground after 1941 when the alliance between the Legion and dictator Antonescu fell apart. Samoilă and Golea were dropped in November 1951 and managed to avoid capture until the summer of 1953. They carried out some successful propaganda actions. 18/

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