Erik Parker

(Blue) Sky Flight Oh, I have slipped Surly bonds of X, and danced BlueSky with laughter silver’d posts. Leftward I’ve looked, and joined the tumbling mirth of blocked out trolls - and done a thousand things you have not dreamed of /1

Ep. 79 is out today! Erik Parker joins to us to explain Bomber Command's role AFTER the Second World War. Warning: may contain Vulcans 🖖🏼 www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90

(1942.) Indian test pilot Flying Officer P.C. Ramachandran. #WW2 #HISTORY

We didn’t even speak English as anyone today would understand it in England a thousand years ago

Competition time! Weirdest aviation fact? Copy of The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes for the three best ones. (Share your fact below then share this post to enter)

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Some top 70s defence equipment promo synths going on in the background to this!

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"Jet-powered biplane cropduster" are not a set of words that belong together, but incredibly it's by far the least of my problems with this...

An appalling 45% of all RAF Lightnings were lost in accidents. However, somewhat miraculously, thanks to an excellent ejection seat, training, and a role focused more on high altitude, it killed far fewer aircrew than almost any other fighter of its generation @MB_EjectEject

Woo hoo! I reached 4,000 followers (and most of you are lovely, smart, and a pleasure to hang out with). Here's a Mirage 4000 to celebrate.

Thank you for this thread. For further context: www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teep...

Man who is notoriously full of shit when he writes on any topic the reader has actual knowledge of ventures new opinion🤦🏾‍♂️

#Hawker #Fury FB.11, #Private owner (OO-ISS) by Andre Bonn 74 (#Kleine Brogel) #Warbirds (WW2 and before) #aviation #photography #avgeeks

A Glider Pilot at the Controls, by Leslie Cole, 1942. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2644)

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Every morning, on the short walk between the car and the childcare centre gate, we pass a small flower patch. Every morning, he looks up at me hopefully and says “can I smell?”

Obviously a Sweet-seeking missile.

New, well-researched, well-written reporting about the Golden Age of Aviation for @news.abc.net.au by Isabella Ross and Blair Chapman: « History Behind Sydney’s First International Airport at Rose Bay, Where Flying Boats Were the Norm » (📸 See ALT) | 🛩️ 🦆 📍 🇦🇺 🥇 | 🔗 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... | 🧵

Tuesday's TGT looks at one of the scientists that worked on NASA's Galileo probe we talked about a few months ago, as if that wasn't cool enough, he also made a small fortune inventing the best selling toy of the 90s, The Super Soaker. And the Nerf Gun. What a guy. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Here's the link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I have spotted concealed online neo-nazis in the past, because they called their pamphlet "The Flag Held High", which might sound like an innocent patriotic statement unless, like me, you know that it's the first words of the "Horst Wessel Lied."

Opinium latest poll for Observer with Labour 30% (+2), Reform 25% (+1), Conservatives 17% (-), Green 11% (+1) Libdem 9% (-1). This pollster last had Labour at 30% in November 2024. 30/9/26 after Labour conference. www.opinium.com/resource-cen...

Andy Burnham, born Jan 1970, was nine years old when Margaret Thatcher came to power and nearly 21 when she resigned. But he was too young to vote in June 1987, her final general election. Kemi Badenoch exactly a decade younger, born Jan 1980, but she returns to Britain in 1996 in the Major era

Sunday marks the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in East London. There are events across the weekend to mark this important milestone in opposing Fascism in Britain. #CableStreet90 togetheroncablestreet.com www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/... 1/2

“free speech” in this context is a very broad application. It currently feels like 2 of that 3 just want to be racist and sexist without consequence.

All this Danny Thommo stuff makes me think of a family tradition we do every Boxing Day, and no its not all going stabbing lifeboats and intimidating lifeguards! Sorry longish thread as its a great story of actual heroes that should make us all feel patriotic.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

It’s the 43rd anniversary of the day the world might have ended but for one man, and I don’t have time to write that up, and anyway why try when @garius.bsky.social has done this...?

This is important. Please read and share. It speaks to who we want to be as a nation. 🇬🇧

#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries.

The Pentagon should remember the value of professional dissent #TheHill

Here’s a thread of some of the more unusual or obscure aircraft to fly in Britain during the Second World War. Some were only intended as experimental or proof of concept designs, while others never progressed beyond the prototype stage.

Share a photo of your favourite aircraft - and one of your favourite meal

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The War Game is a show in which we are asked to pretend Michael Gove, the Tory Party's emotional support turbot, can handle a global nuclear crisis, when we all know he couldn't handle a spoonful of gak in an Aberdonian nightclub.

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.