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jeff2146 @jeff2146.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🇺🇦 A 2S1 Gvozdika 122mm Self-Propelled Howitzer undergoing repairs at a depot of the 50th Repair and Restoration Regiment.

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — United Arab Emirates announces its intention to leave the OPEC oil cartel effective May 1.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My article about the NASA WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft appears in this week's Space Review. thespacereview.com/article/5174/1

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Our Janes report is live. In it, Sean O'Connor and I examine developments across China’s early warning network. Among the more notable is a unpublicized system resembling a possible land-based derivative of the Type 346 radar. A series of these have been identified along China's littorals. #geoint

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I wrote about JUMPSEAT a few years ago. The NRO has not released much that is new, other than the images. Hopefully they will declassify more in the near future. www.thespacereview.com/article/4096/1

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The National Reconnaissance Office has declassified limited details about JUMPSEAT, a Cold War-era signals intelligence satellite program in HEO. www.nro.gov/news-media-f...

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Anta Rupflin (German painter) 1895 - 1987 Dunkelhaariger Mann mit großem Schal, (Max Birrer), 1927 tempera on canvas (23.62 x 18.11 in.) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Don't believe your lying eyes:

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

More detailed analysis of the killing of Renee Good, this time from the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

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Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I arrive here having finished a major, multi-month project: creating a posters in a hachure style reminiscent of centuries past. Have a look: terrainlines.etsy.com. There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a... If you could share them around, I would be grateful!

A black and white sketch of Mount Hood, seen from a roughly ground level view. It is in a black frame, and on a blue background. Off to the left are a vertically stacked series of smaller images, too small to read. Each is different-looking, but all are black and white miniature versions of posters. The miniature version of the Mount Hood poster is highlighted in white.

Sample images of three monochrome posters each prepared in a line drawing style. One shows Mount Rainier, another Katahdin, and the last one shows Devil's tower. The posters are stacked on top of each other and the Mount Rainier one is partially rolled up.

A detailed zoom in of a hachured representation of the Presidential Range, with peaks labeled.

A vertical-orientation poster titled "The Seven Summits" — it shows black and white sketches of seven different peaks, the highest on each continent. The peak sketches alternate between being positioned on the left and the right side of the poster. Next to each is a label naming the mountain and giving its location. The poster is framed on a blue background.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Hi there, do you ever make those files available

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Georeferencing is one of my favorite parts of my job. It's just so satisfying to get an old map lined up in the right place and be able to reproject it.

A 1940s topo map of Guinea and Liberia, overlaid on top of an OpenStreetMap basemap

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

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Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Terrific high quality images of Type 076 LHA Sichuan docked at the old Hudong facility in Shanghai. I dont think we've seen the hull as clearly before. Via _p2p/Wb.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos." It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk #NukeSKY 1/n

A screenshot of the first page of document by Hans Bethe labeled "The Story of Los Alamos." It is a scan of a weathered document and shows classification review marks and classification markings crossed out. On the right, going horizontally up the page, is a handwritten phrase reading "redacted version." The OCR of the first page is as follows:
"the laboratory was established as the the last
of the tour maJor proJeots in the atomic bomb program. the
purpose ot the three earlier proJects vas to manufacture active
materials which could be used in an atomic bomb. 'I'vo of themthe
project of Dr. Lawrence at the University of California
and of Dr. Urey at Columbia University vere concerned vith the
separation of the active isotopes 235 from ordinary uranium using
~o different methods. The third, the Metallurgical La~ratory
at Chicago, developed methods to produce the entirely new element
plutonium by means of a nuclear reaction. All of these proJecte
vere , in the Spring of 1943, at a stage of transition from re-
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search to actual production. At this stage it seemed appropriate
to establish a furthsr laboratory to investigate the actual construction
ot an atomic bomb.
~is laboratory vas built at Los Alamos, near Santa Fe,
Hew Mexico. As Director, General Groves who vas in over all
charge of the atomic bomb project, appointed Dr. J.R. Oppenheimer,
vell-known theoretical physicist from the University of California.
The laborator1 vas first in tended to be quite small vith a total
staff of one or two hundred. It aoon vas found that the problema
in deaigning an atomic bomb were much too difficult and varied
to be solved by such a small statf and the laboratory aoon grew
to more than ten ti~es its original size"

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Detailed footages of collapsed structure at the 31st Launch Complex of the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/11/2025

It’s here: Our list of 100 Notable Books of 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

A collage of book covers. A headline reads: "The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025."

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

we have to go back. to warn them.

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Keiko @keiko-geo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

`viewtif` now supports File Geodatabase (.gdb)! Thanks to the contribution by Peter Von der Porten ✨ Check out the v0.1.7 github.com/nkeikon/tifv...

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GitHub - nkeikon/tifviewer: A simple GeoTIFF viewer for the command line

A simple GeoTIFF viewer for the command line. Contribute to nkeikon/tifviewer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

For those who don't have access to imagery, a new Russian radar we've been monitoring that could be associated with the S-500 is now in Google Earth.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

NEW: Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani’s visit to Beirut likely reflects Iranian efforts to recover Iranian influence in Lebanon and in the Levant after Hezbollah’s degradation and the collapse of the Assad regime. 🧵(1/4) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate08...

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Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · 13/08/2025

SpaceFromSpace now features over 500 declassified Cold War era spy satellite images from all over the world! Each one fully browsable, interactive, and free for anyone to view. spacefromspace.com/declassified...

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sky @scrutacieli.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The night will be shining through a million eyes. Ad Astra ✨

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Marcel @macelblattner.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The Western Veil Nebula NGC 6960 ✨ Capturing ancient stellar violence in the constellation Cygnus! This shows the aftermath of a massive star that exploded over 20,000 years ago. Part of a larger mosaic project to capture the entire Cygnus Loop! 🌌 #Astrophotography #veilnebula

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A nice 1 look collect from @capellaspace.bsky.social showed the total destroyed structures at the Ahvez UAV airstrip which included UAV hangars, weapons storage areas, the control building, and various support structures.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The latest roundup at Janes looking at Operation Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer is now live for subscribers. I sincerely appreciate the contributions from our friends over at @planet.com and Umbra. There's likely another update to come, so stay tuned.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

For context, they did the same thing last year after their April strikes on Israel. At the time, we tasked some very high resolution Umbra SAR showing that event in detail. The above Planet imagery showed nothing that we didn't expect to see.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Looking at imagery, we often focus on what's not present as much as we do with what's present. This recent conflict between Israel and Iran was no different. It provided us with another opportunity to look at what Iran has been testing out at Kashan airport after they dispersed their UAVs.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

As a child of the 1980s, I pause every time I come to this slide. Farewell old friends, gone but never forgotten. (Imagery courtesy of @planet.com)

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

While things have slowed down between Iran and Israel, there's still plenty of accounting to be done to fully understand the damage to the air defense network. Plant imagery acquired 1128Z 24JUN2025 showed a destroyed Matla-al-fajr VHF radar and two probable containerized missiles.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Russian soldiers in heat-insulating anti-drone ponchos tried to approach and attack frontline positions.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A Ukrainian ground drone equipped with a UB-16 rocket launcher, typically mounted on aircraft such as the Mi-24. It fires S-5 unguided rockets.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Imagery analysis suggests a possible ELINT system could have replaced one of the TELs—a previously identified configuration with air defense protecting the refinery.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Planet imagery acquired 1036Z 18JUN2025 showed that the Bavar system IVO the refinery has likely redeployed approximately 650 m west to a legacy air defense position.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I can't believe we're in a timeline where Tucker Freaking Carlson is a voice of reason in a conversation.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Iran's air defense continues to be degraded. Planet imagery acquired 0744Z 18JUN2025 highly suggests Israeli airstrikes have destroyed S-200 components to include the two 5N62 SQUARE PAIR and the 5N84 TALL KING radars. These were deployed around the Eight Shekari Airbase in Isfahan.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

Guardian headline saying, "‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline"

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Planet imagery acquired 0433Z 17JUN2025 confirmed that Israel destroyed the Alam al-Huda VHF radar that was deployed to Fath Airport in western Tehran. The radar arrived in April 2025 replacing the Kavosh UHF (Kasta-2E2) system. SEI is believed to have only manufactured one Alam al-Huda.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"Good night sweet prince" I've been tracking Iranian frankenradars for years, and today Tehran lost one I believe to be the basis for several others that have popped up recently.

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Wild stuff: Mohsen Rezaei in Iran says that Iran has a secret commitment from Pakistan to use nuclear weapons against Israel, leading Pakistan's defense minister to publicly clarify that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are "solely" for its defense www.livemint.com/news/world/p...

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Tom Bike @tombike.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Hit Iranian missile base near Kermanshah, Iran, spotted TODAY at 34.3589, 47.2354 <larger white roof building> Destroyed buildings are surrounded by gray debris and disappearing white roofing. Most mountain scorch marks are burned vegetation.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

IRAF F-14s are no more.

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