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The Foul Lord's Garden

5 Aug 2025 8 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Introduction: The Root of Ruin Above the stars, I gaze upon ruin:The earth, a scorched ledger of flame and ash,Its bones gnawed by gilded, silken-striped beasts.Once, it bloomed: a sanctified garden,Fragrant with order, grace, and sacrifice.Now, at i...

The Ukrainian Effect: Weapons Production During The Soviet Era

4 Aug 2025 7 minute read 5 comments Investigator515

Ukraine would be responsible for producing much of the USSR’s top-tier equipment. We’ve heard lots about Ukraine since the full-scale invasion took place. With this being an information war as much as a kinetic one, there’s been some good, some bad,...

2022: an epic summer concludes

2 Aug 2025 21 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

    Emma originally planned on staying here 3 weeks. Then decided on another week, and then had to stay here another week beyond that, because Maddie and Jill came down with COVID. So it’s been an awesome and longer than expected summer visit here f...

What The Tech?! Remote Sensors

1 Aug 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Remote sensors would help lay the foundations for mass automation. In a world full of remote sensors and IOT devices, it can be hard to think of a time when we did things in a completely different way from how we do it today. But there was a time whe...

Exploring Espionage: The Glomar Explorer

30 Jul 2025 6 minute read 2 comments Investigator515

This ship would be involved in a Cold War era race to recover a sunken submarine. Some of the best espionage tales contain elements that, in some instances, are far stranger than fiction. And today, we’ll be taking a look at one of these interesting...

5 Iconic Military Aviation Images.

26 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

A picture says a thousand words, and these pictures say plenty. Aviation is pretty cool. In mere decades, we went from the biplane to the Jet Engine right through to the Saturn 5 rocket that would help land man on the moon. Over this time, we would s...

Exploring Espionage: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

20 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Height was might thanks to the U-2, but the SR-71 had true speed. Sometimes, things become cultural icons without that ever being the intent. And while in today’s world, spy satellites have made the concept of a reconnaissance platform somewhat outda...

A Disturbing lesson for Modern Times

19 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments rah

Please note the eye witness account that inspired this post was (obviously - I wasn't there) not originally mine, but in this increasingly polarising and dangerous world it is a timely reminder of where hate and intolerance can take us.  Images are r...

What The Tech?! Bulletin Board Systems

14 Jul 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

The humble BBS was the precursor to Forums and Social Media. The internet is everywhere today, and we’re now evolving the internet of things, which gives us remote sensors that are able to change the way we tackle certain problems. There was a time,...

Russia's Incredible Help for the US

11 Jul 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aHDcAmO5F0FYdouY In Russia, they are once again talking about some incredible assistance that the "Russian Empire" provided to the young United States during the War of Independence. Trump shoul...