I believe in Dragons - Lover of art, architecture as well as aviation and ships.
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The living corner
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Sleeping Cat
Kaigyokusai Masatsugu
mid- to late-19th century
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This spiral bridge on England's Macclesfield Canal is an impressive example of 19th-century engineering. Known as the "Snake Bridge" or "Roving Bridge," it was created to let horses towing canal boats switch sides of the canal without needing to be unhitched from the towline.
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May 31
This is not a rebuilt cathedral, but the outline of a lost one.
At Herkenrode Abbey in Belgium, the installation CLAUSURA uses thousands of thin steel rods to trace the vanished 16th-century Gothic abbey church and cloister buildings at their original scale and location.
From one angle, the lines form the silhouette of a church; from another, they almost disappear into the sky. Instead of reconstructing the lost abbey in stone, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh turns absence into architecture — making the memory of a demolished sacred space visible again.
Belgium, 2026.
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Pets are our best friends. Life aboard a British WW2 mine sweeping trawler....
Life aboard HMT Hornbeam (T 53)!
"Taffy" the welsh sheepdog, the ships mascot!
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Cheers! 1/144 is quite challenging. This is what I designed it for:
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Mar 13
Resilience isn’t loud.
It isn’t motivational quotes.
It isn’t pretending everything’s fine.
It’s showing up on the days you don’t feel like it.
It’s discipline when motivation disappears.
It’s progress when nobody is watching.
Most people don’t fail because life is hard.
They fail because they expect it to be easy.
Resilience is built in the quiet.
Reflect on this - where are you relying on motivation instead of discipline?
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May 29
Coffin office chairs for dead end jobs.
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CL-60 USS Sante Fe cruise book. At the VA getting in-patient and found this WW2 (yearbook?) in a library full of cheap novels. Details of service from 1942-45 in West Pac including assisting the USS Franklin and gunnery support at Tarawa. Very cool.
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May 26
Well said. Love church but after moving spent much time trying to find a church that doesn't open services with an extremely loud "pop" band. Piano and non-amplified vocals work for me. I doubt Notre Dame originally had a PA system with sub-woofers etc..
May 26
You could try listening to Gregorian or Byzantine Chant instead of "Jesus is my boyfriend" pop music.
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May 23
Old dive bombing training diagram.
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Please all give this guy a like and follow. It’s an incredible project that deserves your support and will result in a phenomenal naval attraction!
All set up for today at the Glasgow Riverside Museum, couldn't have a better spot!
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May 21
For those that are weary of soul-less modern elevators...
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A famous historic steam-powered elevator cage built around 1902–1903 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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A take we all should seriously consider
May 18
The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet.
Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare.
Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon.
But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while.
The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached.
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May 16
Destroyed architectural monuments rebuilt by using drones.
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May 14
AI is an ultra-powerful tool. But so are our own minds.
In my latest for @Forbes, I argue why some work should never be outsourced to AI. forbes.com/sites/aytekintank…
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Sublime photos of Brianza Gardens in the Italian Alps. Courtesy of Raphael Barberi.
May 14
Thinking about that time I traveled to Silent Hill (Brianza in Winter)
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Support our sailors...My dad took these pics of the crew in 1942 while sailing west from Pearl Harbor to fight the Japanese. He was a rookie USNR Lieutenant going into the unknown. Thank God he made it back. He was 23 at the time.
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