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@noorryan

🇲🇺 born and bred. Marxo-Sufi, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally. Tolkien, Hugo Pratt, Dire Straits. Former journalist, teacher, copywriter and twice a foreign fighter. Now a tri-national privateer and gun runner. Heartless scoundrel who aspires to be a gentleman.

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Scones.

07.03.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's cream first. It's not up for debate.

07.03.2026 15:21 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Afternoon tea with classic china set in a historic inn.

Afternoon tea with classic china set in a historic inn.

One must find comfort wherever one can.

07.03.2026 14:59 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Tout ce qu'on vous a dit sur les dinosaures est un mensonge.
Tout ce qu'on vous a dit sur les dinosaures est un mensonge. YouTube video by Dave Sheik

Nouvelle vidéo, où je suis parti demander à des gens pourquoi ils croyaient pas aux dinosaures... et je dois avouer qu'on a apprit plein de trucs assez oufs.

Le résultat est : là vvvv

youtu.be/qohPvXsYdjI

06.03.2026 17:00 👍 130 🔁 53 💬 11 📌 15

5) Chances are, your warrior fantasies are just that, warrior fantasies. Oh and same with horses. Middle ages knight horses were tiny to our standards. War horses actually peaked in size and strength during the Napoleonic Wars with the heavy cavalry mounts.

06.03.2026 16:40 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

4) My ancestors on my mother's side were deported en masse from Africa and sold as property by the civilisation which, at the same period, came up with ideas of universal human rights like freedom and dignity. In the sugar cane plantations, they died at 30 with bodies that aged prematurely to 70.

06.03.2026 16:40 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

3) No matter how you look at it, if you were to reincarnate at any period in the past 5 millenia at random and anywhere, you'd have 9 chances out of 10 to be a slave or a landless peasant. With barely 20-30% chances of making it past your first year.

06.03.2026 16:40 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2) Roman soldier (classic imperial period) diet - mostly cereal and pulse porridge - was balanced by a practical fitness regimen based on ruck marches for the cardio and roads, bridges and forts building for the strength and conditioning.

06.03.2026 16:40 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A number of thoughts from that :
1) The Neolhitic bodies vs the Paleolithic bodies show a sharp drop in size and muscle mass. We, as a species, dropped healthy diet and lifestyle, albeit with a low survival rate, for a carb heavy and unbalanced diet, with relative food security however.

06.03.2026 16:40 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Oh la prise de tête madame, c'est tous les jours...

06.03.2026 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Avec @melinahuet.bsky.social

05.03.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You, need a hug.
So do I, tbf.

05.03.2026 13:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oui en podcast sur Apple et autres et sur YouTube.

05.03.2026 09:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Vous avez écouté le podcast "The Wargame" de @deborahaynes.bsky.social pour Sky sur un scénario d'attaque conventionnelle russe sur le R-U avec une administration US très complaisante envers la Russie.

05.03.2026 09:02 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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The Fall, 2006, Tarsem Singh
Tous les costumes.

04.03.2026 11:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Et il est le seul à pouvoir marcher sur l'eau, guérir les écrouelles et faire du dogwhistle antisémite en étant le premier antiraciste de France.
Monsieur, relisez-vous bon sang. Juste deux secondes : re li sez vous...

03.03.2026 16:56 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

On a pris un café ensemble vers St Michel une fois, et j'avais passé un moment lumineux en sa compagnie. C'était, en plus d'être une légende dans son domaine, une femme généreuse et chaleureuse, un soleil.
Je lui ai fait une promesse ce jour-là. J'ai le cœur brisé car elle ne la verra pas tenue.

21.02.2026 17:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Attends... quoi ?

21.02.2026 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is that the same person who came up with 2Fast2Furious and the Expand4bles ?

12.02.2026 14:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Et puis bon, le soleil est plus hostile au Britannique que la pluie hein.

10.02.2026 11:41 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

30 cm de neige dans le North Yorkshire en janvier pour la manip de validation avant l'Afghanistan mi mars. Les fantassins allaient à Chypre. Nous avions la lande de Catterick.

10.02.2026 11:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
09.02.2026 20:31 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

C'est fait pour, cher ami.

09.02.2026 18:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

C'est vrai quoi. Les nôtres ne font pas du tout le jeu de l'extrême-droite enfin !

07.02.2026 22:54 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0


"I was flying along in my Spitfire, and visibility was poor, but all of a sudden the fog lifted, and I saw these fuckers coming up behind me. I dived on them and shot two of the fuckers down, then did a quick roll, but there was a little fucker right on my tail, and I had to ..."

At this point, the Headmistress intervenes. "Girls, Fokker was a manufacturer of aircraft, used by the Luftwaffe."

"Very true, ma'am!" says the RAF pilot. "But these fuckers were Messerschmitts."

"I was flying along in my Spitfire, and visibility was poor, but all of a sudden the fog lifted, and I saw these fuckers coming up behind me. I dived on them and shot two of the fuckers down, then did a quick roll, but there was a little fucker right on my tail, and I had to ..." At this point, the Headmistress intervenes. "Girls, Fokker was a manufacturer of aircraft, used by the Luftwaffe." "Very true, ma'am!" says the RAF pilot. "But these fuckers were Messerschmitts."

Ah et puis je ne peux pas ne pas citer cette anecdote quand j'entends "Douglas Bader".
Évidemment apocryphe.
Ce qui est vrai par contre c'est, qu'invité à une réunion d'anciens de la Luftwaffe, il est entré en s'exclamant :
"My God, I had no idea we left so many of you bastards alive!"

06.02.2026 22:46 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Oh regardez-moi, chuis trop edgy avec mon chasseur de niche ultramoderne et tout moche."

05.02.2026 23:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NSFW.
Porn.
Vintage.

NSFW. Porn. Vintage.

05.02.2026 22:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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24.01.2026 17:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Des feux de Bengale ?

25.12.2025 11:53 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Bref, allez serrer quelqu'un dans vos bras.

24.12.2025 13:12 👍 34 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1