The Drood Dojo

Sims & Strategy Gamer. Streamer. Chivalry II. SettlersOnline. #FPL

[The Drood Dojo @DroodGaming]

I just posted an advanced play thru on YouTube of the Ali Baba The Young Woodcutter adventure from #TheSettlerOnline.

Pls watch, like, share or comment if you're a Settlers fan 😃

https://t.co/098k7ncLyU

#bluebyte #settlers #adventures

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

The 1,366-year-old Whitby Abbey, illuminated by Studio Drift's drones, in North Yorkshire, England.

[Bear @BearJFK]

So let me get this right:

Over 4 million people with no requirement to look for work, but are on unemployment UC — ARE NOT COUNTED in the unemployment figure.

The official unemployment figure sits at about 1.8 million people, this works out at the 5% figure being announced today.

So in realty, the unemployment rate is well over 15%?

@AscendedYield

[6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv]

There are 3,691 Canadian World War 2 vets still alive 80 years later

[Andy Saxon @AndySaxon78]

Lest we forget.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

There’s an old saying: There’s a sucker at every poker table, and if you can’t spot who it is, it’s you.

Starmer, Lammy, Cooper et al thought that they could get concessions from Brussels just by being “not the Tories”.

If they weren’t so arrogant they would have understood that the EU negotiators don’t do favours, they negotiate hard in their own interests.

I respect that and did likewise.

Starmer publicly promised a reset and listed a load of wins from the EU. The EU negotiators know he now has to deliver those “wins” therefore they have him over a barrel and are ramping up the price.

Once again Starmer’s unique blend of arrogance and cluelessness has scuppered a negotiation.

I wonder if it’s dawned on the PM that he’s the sucker at the table.

https://t.co/iDoVb5k0oq

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Hearing a raven speak Russian is one of the most terifying things I've ever heard 😭 😂

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

Yesterday in Berkeley, a man professing Christ as King had his cross ripped from his neck by what appears to be a Muslim man.

He was punched roughly 15 times in the face. He never threw a punch himself, instead he struggled to retrieve his cross.

He was then arrested.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

The fields of Verdun a century after World War I.

[spiked @spikedonline]

Ed Davey says we need a strong BBC to protect us from Nigel Farage. There it is – proof that these people see the BBC as a political weapon against populism. This is why the Beeb is in crisis – because it has been corrupted by ideology, says Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/bPUQCJG381

[Paz is Right @BritisherPaz49]

I was rather enjoying the new Robin Hood series on Amazon.
It all looked as authentic as the story should be.

Then episode 3 happened and we were introduced to Little John …

And that’s the end of that.

[James Cartlidge MP 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @jcartlidgemp]

Lawfare against our veterans & personnel is a "direct threat to national security" - not my words but those of nine of our most distinguished four-star Generals. Absolutely damning.
https://t.co/HYpTuDtg1m

[Scott Bateman MBE @scottiebateman]

As many of you will know, I flew the C-130 for most of my RAF career, firstly as an air loadmaster and latterly as pilot and captain. I have a lot of time in this aircraft both operationally and hauling stuff around the globe. It’s a hugely reliable airframe that is very forgiving in all but a few circumstances outside of enemy action.

I have watched social media today and seen some rubbish being spouted about the aircraft’s safety record. I just want to add some context.

The aircraft itself is the longest military aircraft in continuous production in the world. It’s been around for over 70 years. Its list of campaigns is long, and yes, it’s suffered significant losses as a result. Almost 15% of all aircraft built have been lost. This doesn’t mean they have all been lost to accidents, 29 were lost in ground action, and the US lost over 70 in Vietnam. But this doesn’t mean the aircraft is unsafe or has a poor safety record. Many were lost to enemy action as this is a tactical transport that pushes the boundaries.

During my time in the RAF we lost 6 aircraft and all but one were in operational theatres. None were due to the aircraft, the majority were enemy action.

I won’t speculate on the cause of today’s tragic loss of life, it’s not fair on anyone to do so. But I’ll wager the crew, like so many before them, were doing something they loved dearly when they ‘flew west’. No matter the flag on your flying suit, those who fly, or have flown, Albert… are part of one big family. Today we mourn the loss of part of that fraternity.

per Ardua ad Astra.

[The Drood Dojo @DroodGaming]

@EricLDaugh outstanding

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmKa5

Original artwork from https://t.co/CVzTP7scRN

[KeyserSosse @KeyserSosse]

12th November, 2008

Marine Neil David Dunstan, aged 32 from Bournemouth, and Marine Robert Joseph McKibben, aged 32 from County Mayo, were killed on patrol, by an IED blast in Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Lest we Forget these brave Royal Marines 🇮🇪 🇬🇧

[Tom Antonov @Tom_Antonov]

300 French army officer cadets (EMAC) singing the 🇫🇷 anthem 'la Marseillaise' in the Douaumont Ossuary, eastern France.
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WW1 soldiers.
#WW1 #France #Verdun

[Gavin Mortimer @PhoneyMajor]

2/2
Such as:
Lt James Silly, 2SAS, Moyenmoutier village cemetery
Lt David Leigh, 2SAS, Epoisses village cemetery
Cpl John Wilkinson, 1SAS, Villequiers village cemetery
L/Cpl James Hall, 1SAS, Les Ormes village cemetery.

Some corner of a foreign field.

[Gavin Mortimer @PhoneyMajor]

1/2
I attended the November 11 commemoration in my village in Burgundy this morning.
An impressive turnout to honour the war dead.

For me, it's also a moment to thank the many villages in France who tend the graves of lone British soldiers buried far from comrades & home...

[Robin 🇮🇱 @Robiiin_Hoodx]

The moment Israeli army dogs infiltrated deep into a Hamas underground tunnel, they found one of the Hamas members.

Use Dogs - 200 Hamas Terrorists Will Kneel.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Elsie Maréchal, a 16-year-old Allied secret agent, heroically rescued hundreds of Allied airmen before being betrayed.

In a clandestine prison in Brussels, beneath a portrait of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, Gestapo officers brutally beat Elsie with truncheons, leaving her body covered in bruises.

Despite the relentless assaults across her back—administered in shifts by Gestapo interrogators, often for hours until she collapsed—Elsie steadfastly clung to her cover story to shield her network, never wavering in her responses.

Her strength ebbed dangerously low, yet she refused to reveal a single name.

Her father, Georges, perished in captivity, but Elsie and her English mother endured three gruelling years of cruelty and forced labour at the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany, where around 50,000 women lost their lives.

Elsie survived emerged as a quiet yet remarkable heroine of the Second World War.