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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent news. The good thing is that Palantir isn’t unique and there are many options, all of which will save the taxpayer money. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir

Prime minister’s ‘Buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Latest publication: Hammers & Nails: Military Innovation as a Strategic Dead End In this article I argue that innovation has become an end-in-itself, supplanting the much harder challenge of defining a meaningful, justifiable and achievable strategy. www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/hamm...

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Hammers and Nails: Military Innovation as a Strategic Dead End - Military Strategy Magazine

This article argues that contemporary Western military innovation has become a strategic dead end. Tracing the evolution of military innovation from the Revolution in Military Affairs through counteri...

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 11h

Ethiopia and Eritrea shutting down embassies today, Egypt a bit later degrading relations in retaliation of Ethiopia's move, tells much of how the whole region sees the war and greater crisis with Sudan and Somalia. All while UAE airforce is seen everyday supplying Addis. Grim.

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 19h

??? Isn’t this the first Vietnam’s managed to get a judge elected to ITLOS? Feels like should be bigger deal if so

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 23h

Took me a VERY long time to realize this was auto-dubbed (through AI). That is one part of the tech that has gotten much better over time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg4x...

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烏克蘭大反攻！「韋瓦第行動」收復失土　雙重欺敵戰術奏效｜中央社影音新聞

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 23h

Read this this morning. I do think some people are overthinking the importance of drones to Taiwan's defense posture and not considering smart allocation of resources. Two things that stick out to me here: (1) Taiwan already has ASCMs and LACMs. Quite a few. Those are for the long-range strikes.

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Taiwan Must Shift Course in its Domestic Drone Warfare Production Strategy | Global Taiwan Institute

In May 2026, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (LY, 立法院) passed a special budget bill whose very name contained the words “strengthening asymmetric capabilities” (強化不對稱戰力). Despite the legislation's title, th...

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m surprised I’m not seeing more reflection on the US withdrawal from Iraq from ppl around me. By far most defining war of my lifetime, greatly influenced me and my friends, and it’s just over without much gravitas.

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow he’s really crashing out huh

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, Liberty *and* Hillsdale? It's practically a who's who of fuck that.

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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 30/09/2026

The October issue—our annual focus on the Silent Service—is now live on our website! www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/…

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Proceedings - October 2026 Vol. 152/10/1,484

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ahhhh i cannot take it anymore

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Hoosier Homer is reading With Zeal & With Bayonet Only by Spring @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

listen lots of people are not all that attractive; we can't all be smoke shows, but good god this guy isn't even trying to look decent. a jacket over a polo is pathetic, his attempt at unshaven is gross looking and he has a very strange haircut

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies

Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ahhh if I could frame a page and hang it in the office… (Great book!)

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The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 30/09/2026

A battery-powered craft that takes off from the water and skims the waves at up to 180 mph just got more U.S. Marine Corps funding. Total so far: $19.25 million, all for testing and demos. defence-blog.com/u-s-marine-c...

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U.S. Marine Corps to test electric seaglider in the field

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab has added $5 million to its work with REGENT Craft on the Seaglider, an electric craft that skims just above the water, bringing the total value of the partnershi...

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/12/2024

Liu Minhua was among the over a million people who were relocated for the Three Gorges Dam project. when he had to leave his home forever (which would become submerged), he carried on his back the peach tree from home Li Feng took the photo in 2012, but it was first published in 2019

photograph of a Chinese rural villager carrying peach blossom branches in a basket on his back

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Bosphorus Observer @yoruk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

End of an era: courageous and thoughtful reporting by @jmalsin.bsky.social

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

icymi⤵️ Roman expeditions to Central Africa. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-ex...

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 28/09/2026

Fieldwork in #Tibet is all but closed to outsiders. @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's The Quiet State asks what research looks like now: open-source reading of the state's own paperwork, & a frank account of what that method can't show. Just published, #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026

Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026

"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social

Screenshot of a quote-tweet by @michaeldweiss dated 27 Sep 2026. The original tweet is from "Sigal Chattah" (@Chattah4Nevada), and reads "Love is in the air [two heart emojis] Congrats [champagne emoji] to our amazing @AlinaHabba & @turhanmildoin [three emojis showing the Hamsa, a blue hand with an eye in it]." That text appears above a picture showing Kash Patel, Alina Habba, and others at a wedding ceremony. In his quote-tweet, Michael Weiss writes: "Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."

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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Poilievre was leading by 20+ points just a year and a half ago btw

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Casus Belli: Ukraine 2014 | 🔱⚒️🌅 @doctoradmiral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

June 2014 "Back then our enemy was the regime, and they were just following orders. But now we have a common enemy, and follow common orders." Two National Guardsmen, formerly of the Maidan Self-Defence, talk about how they transitioned from anti-government to government forces.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026

You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. Upload your first item 👇 archive.org/upload 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have made the move to London and so far the only culture shock is I can’t tell what side of sidewalk to walk on and also everyone says ‘tacos’ weird

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Greg @jamyang.net · 24/09/2026

Next week: @c4ads.org *Monitoring the Frontier* on China's #surveillance in Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, & Hong Kong, and my new Tibet Watch piece on UAVs in Tibet. Sanctioned firms' kit still reaches police via domestic distributors. Turquoise Roof's previous report on this 👇

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China’s digital repression model in Tibet

Recent procurement documents reveal that a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm, will provide an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Poli...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I should note that the Folger in DC has very cheap tickets for theatre and various forms of early modern music.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.

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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ICYMI: I had the chance to join Aaron MacLean on the School of War podcast to talk about John Boyd’s ideas, their influence on the USMC, and their continued relevance today: #OODA #USMC #Marines www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpZU... open.spotify.com/episode/0oso... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Why John Boyd Still Matters

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow at Cambridge: a fascinating #MIASU forum on war, peace, & minority politics across Inner Asia. Tibet, Xinjiang, China’s frontier governance feature alongside #Mongolia, Russia and the Himalayan borderlands, with @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, Hildegard Diemberger & others:

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Eddie Mars Attacks! @eddiemarsattacks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s because Xi is coming on Wednesday and apparently my guys are a peace offering.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, the true war in Ethiopia has begun. And it's only one of many that are about to restart. Most of them will also be converged, with players fighting their civil war interfering in another. Nobody sane to stop this. This is what most of the world cheered for. Good luck.

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am unable to be as bullish on the midterms as some of you because the Trump voters in my life are as obstinate as ever that the Democrats will usher in an apocalypse and only Trump can stop it. Increasingly inventing things Biden supposedly did (that never happened) to double down on their votes.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 22/09/2026

Our Secretary of Warfighteriness has another great idea: Make all potential generals and admirals pass a war game. And the guy they picked to design it? A Marine Corps LTC (never close to being a general) who was courtmartialed for his unhinged rant after the Afghan withdrawal. Great work,guys!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no point to this extreme money sink. Again - there is NO DEMONSTRABLE THREAT to or from Greenland, by Russia/China/anyone. These bases are pointless.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

jesus fucking christ richard

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The Bulwark reports that Clavicular has been charged in Massachusetts with rape, drugging a person for sex, and providing alcohol to a minor.
Clavicular is 20 years old, it looks like the person he is accused of "raping" was 16 at the time, and she was allegedly "too drunk" to give consent (i.e., she consented by the normal definition of the term when people hook up). Age of consent in Massachusetts is 16, so she was old enough.
The charges are all about her being drunk.
She says she woke up with him penetrating her, which seems like it would be hard to prove given she already had sex with him and was sleeping next to him. Chances are good that the charges are based on the initial sex alone.
Basically, it looks like Clavicular drank alcohol and had sex with someone of legal age. By the modern abuse of language, we now call that
"drugging and raping."
Oh and then she later did a livestream with him where she let him inject things into her face. A very credible accuser.

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