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kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:23:35 JST kaia

:tanya_sigh: super master race
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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:27:49 JST SuperDicq
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  @kaia@brotka.st Yeah? Watch this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_May_Island
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    Battle of May Island
    
    The Battle of May Island is the name given to the series of accidents that occurred during Operation E.C.1 in 1918. Named after the Isle of May, a nearby island in the Firth of Forth, the "battle" consisted of a disastrous series of accidents amongst Royal Navy vessels on their way from Rosyth, Scotland, to fleet exercises in the North Sea. On the misty night of 31 January–1 February 1918, five collisions occurred between eight ships. Two K-class submarines were lost and four other submarines and a light cruiser were damaged. 105 British sailors in total died in the accidents. Naming The use of Battle for the events is an example of black humour. Although it took place during the First World War, no enemy forces were present and the losses were entirely accidental. Operation E.C.1 On the afternoon of 31 January 1918, around forty naval vessels left Rosyth on the Firth of Forth, Scotland, bound for Scapa Flow in Orkney where exercises involving the entire Grand Fleet would take place the following day. The vessels included the 5th Battle...
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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:32:18 JST SuperDicq
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  @xerz@fedi.xerz.one @kaia@brotka.st To be honest I actually completely forgot how I knew about this "battle". You reminded me it's probably from this guy.
  
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  Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:32:22 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:
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  @SuperDicq @kaia it means we're all cultured uberuberubermensch of course :blobcatsip:
  
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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:32:23 JST SuperDicq
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  @xerz@fedi.xerz.one @kaia@brotka.st Is that a bad thing?
  
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  Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:32:24 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:
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  @SuperDicq @kaia is there anyone in fedi who has never watched Down The Rabbit Hole
  
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  kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:33:51 JST kaia
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  I learned about this gem from someone on YT. the Japanese of the British Isles....
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident
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    Dogger Bank incident
    
    The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook a British trawler fleet from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boats and fired on them, also firing on each other in the chaos of the melée.Two British fishermen died, six more were injured, one fishing vessel was sunk, and five more boats were damaged. On the Russian side, one sailor and a Russian Orthodox priest aboard the cruiser Aurora caught in the crossfire were killed."Damage to the Aurora was concealed...and only discovered by the deciphering of a wireless message intercepted at [the British] Felixstowe station. It was also considered highly significant that no officer from that ship appeared before the Commission, nor were their logs produced." The incident almost led to war between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire. Incident The Russian warships involved in the incident were en route...

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