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Andrew Facini

@andrewfacini.com
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Senior Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org working on nuclear weapons policy. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own. Nuke policy starter pack! go.bsky.app/8jiQV43

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 4h
Reject modernity / return to tradition
X-bat goofy vertical launch rendering.Bomarc launch facility in 1960.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11h
happy October bsky, he's thrilled to finally be in vogue
PS wrapped in a fuzzy blanket with pumpkins and candy corn arranged festively.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 12h
gm
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 30/09/2026
I hate this
"Crosby" logo, for "the first AI law firm", which inexcusably alternates between serif and sans characters.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 30/09/2026
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 30/09/2026
Damn sounds like they humans aren't reliable and they should automate that whole process or smth
WOPR
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile in the other game
What does he even do? Pointing at the light ASCM
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 27/09/2026
Why am I putting myself through this
Sonic 2 special stage 3 (impossible)
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026
I should put this back up
"in this office, we believe... This is not a place of honor copy"
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026
Oh yeah we're gonna get clobbered tomorrow
A pink and frothy sunset looking west in Brooklyn.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
Yeah I mean that's just what a warhead bus looks like - it doesn't need to be up there for long, and the warheads themselves are well insulated. Here's sort of a photo of a last-gen Trident bus (the blunt middle part is the third stage and would not come with afaik)
Trident C3 showing warhead bus at the ABQ museum.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
Navy SSP graphic design is my passion
"Relentless Execution"
A rendering of a SLBM bus with several conical warheads in space.
W93/MK7 enters new development phase.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
He's very happy we're back!
PS all curled up in my desk chair
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 24/09/2026
Huge fb marketplace pull
Framed S.D.I. Strategic Defense Initiative Caricature Print March 23, 1988.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 22/09/2026
This is what we were able to count up in 2022 - i.e. a lot of "topical" connections, but often they weren't much more than a phone number. There has been a lot said about Chinese officials' hesitance to wield authority, making official-to-official connections seem more workable
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 21/09/2026
Chairman Milley 59/28 ayfkm
Chairman Milley propaganda poster
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 20/09/2026
New rendering released for triumphal arch
GI Joe Headquarters Command Center
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 20/09/2026
It leans to the right
Topographical map of Kansas
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 20/09/2026
It's a weird field to be in, algorithmically
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 16/09/2026
Basically feels like this every day for those looking at systems
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 16/09/2026
Just on nukes, yes I see reason to worry / take seriously. Humans are historically bad at adopting new adversarial tech quickly, and we've pretty clearly entered an arms race mentality on both AI *and* nuclear weapons while we tear down the post-45 world order. Ignoring this area smacks of hubris.
RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 16/09/2026
All this to say "AI might kill us all" is less a literal risk because a computer isn't "doing" anything directly. There are paths, I guess, that lead there, but not on this front so far. But why does that matter when it can corrupt, co-opt, or just degrade the human systems we heavily depend on?
XKCD 251.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 14/09/2026
"I just wish I could soak my legs in the boiling acid real quick" came up a few times
A cobalt blue pool opened by a steam fissure near to Old Faithful.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 14/09/2026
23 minutes into Monday inbox
Bison wallowing, parallel to the ground.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 14/09/2026
gm I still have cool photos to post
A beaver dam across a medium creek. Very lush.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 13/09/2026
weeeew 6 years ago
Lick the W31
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 12/09/2026
Oooh or when it's moose
Moose fur, probably, wrapped around a branch that's sticking out.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 12/09/2026
Big fan of this kind of thing
Lichen fronds growing around a pine branch.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 12/09/2026
Still mooseposting
2 bull moose walking past a campsite.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
File under: Guys who Did Not Care About My Presence
A Mule Deer looking back at me from the brush.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
This water is falling 24/7 (until it's cold enough ig) and you're here holding back your best posts?
A waterfall 50/50 shot diagonally, so the bottom-right is whitewater in mid-fall and the left is background rock, moss, and water.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
Clark noooo your aura
The same Nutcracker looking extremely obvious and lame in a tree branch.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
"Camouflage is obsolete" mfs when a Clark's Nutcracker rolls up
A Clark's Nutcracker hidden amid branches, needles, and grass.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
If you see a sign that looks like this it's mandatory go there and wander around without question
A raven perching on the right side of a small wooden sign that reads "Elk Antler Creek" with a river-grassland background.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
This was garbage (the carcass was bison-on-bison and the bears were at least 2000 ft higher up) but we enjoyed status as bear-danger havers
A traffic cone on the side of the road with a label: "Bear Danger: Area Closed."
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
Another Little (fledgling) Dude (yellow-rumped warbler) for your consideration
Fledgling Y-R W perched on top of a pine branch with steam geyser activity in the background.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
Don't post another danger-close bison pic, said the boring demon on my shoulder
A bison clearly eyeballing me as it walks past near Old Faithful.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
Hell yea mist they hate your successes
Yellowstone Grand Canyon first fall dropping into the gorge and creating a big rainbow of mist.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
I loved these magpie dorks even tho busking for human food is why they're balding :'(
A magpie landing on my picnic table, black and white stripes quite visible with a stop sign in the background.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
I have many funky geology shots
One of the not-old-faithfuls near old faithful which has all sorts of cool microbial-mineral things happening around its edge.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
This raven was making fun of how I pumped gas in a language I don't understand
A raven on the ledge above, all puffed up with its gullet feathers all spiked out.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 11/09/2026
Do we think French tourists are inherently awkward visiting the Grand Tetons or...
Looking at one of the high peaks of the Tetons from its middle valley.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
I promise I was not breaking any rules for this one
Big bison looking directly at the camera.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
For those requesting more moose zoomies
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
Cortisol-obliterating composite organisms
Red-orange lichens on granite wall, heading down diagonally to churning waters below.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
This too, is a Little Dude
Some sort of Mycenaceae living its best life on the side of a fallen pine log.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
(through gritted teeth) I liked waking up very early and having zero screentime
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
Where your emails have found me
Moulton outhouse standing in the valley before the Tetons rise in the background.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
Pine Siskin trying to escape from New York
Pine Siskin happily posing on a thistle flower.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
Mountains are a great place if you like Little Dudes
A ground squirrel gnawing a huge nut or something on top of a boulder.
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