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Bruce R

@flitbrucer.bsky.social
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Personal account of a recovering Afghan vet, gamer and gadabout. Asst. Editor of a peer-reviewed military journal in my spare time, which I may mention here once in a while Previously on Twitter as Flit_BruceR, and a blogger of little consequence long ago

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11m
This is a story that matters to Scottish people so much it has actually survived two hundred years of basically not being taught their own history at school, and the fact that the only adaptation of it in big picture form is so profoundly deliberately ignorant of us is offensive
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 48m
On the flip side, I think people are missing how much of the datacenter build out is not AI. AWS has an obscene margin and is capacity-limited. About 10% of datacenter demand is the AI companies.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
This is why, when Republicans use the word socialism to tag Democrats, it has no relationship with the actual definition of the word. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h
these are just very bad people and they make it extremely clear every single day
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 8h
Not just corrupt, but corrupt in a petty way. A million is petty cash even for Trump, let alone for Musk. But it is a gesture by Trump to a benefactor, as is the policy.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12h
They're Neo Confederates masturbating to the idea of slave ships. I want it to be more complex and less grossly stupid but they're not special interesting boys, they're Silicon Klansmen.
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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 10h
The only thing more horrific is the non-zero chance that Hegseth will still feature on Dancing With The Stars in a ruffled shirt doing the merengue a few years.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h
There's a through line between the celebratory footage of detainee abuse from CECOT, the boat strikes videos, and this planned snuff film of the Nidal Hasan execution.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h
fundamentally the problem that republican candidates are having is that “I am going to stand up to donald trump” is a fundamentally unserious thing to hear from a republican in the year 2026 and every voter knows it
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h
as his brain melts he's lost most of his touch, but Trump does have a natural bullies intuitive understanding of how to use this type of dynamic. the winning move is to tell him to fuck off but that's not a battle a lot of people will want to pick with the president.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12h
Republicans will get innocent people killed.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h
I don't know; I feel like it's pretty clear why living under queer-hating fascists would make people less likely to identify publicly as queer.
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 10h
god it must be miserable to work at NASA and have to say "super intelligence (SI)" now
nasa.gov
NASA Announces Bold Science Initiatives for America’s Golden Age Summit - NASA
NASA is launching two new science and technology initiatives to deepen scientific understanding and accelerate the innovation that will shape America’s future
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 9h
One of the great minds Hegseth has recruited to lead his warfighters into the future believes that divorce could easily be eliminated by putting oxytocin in the water— a hormone that would act upon women to make them affectionate and clingy. Without their knowledge, like a permanent roofie!
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17h
Beyond the obvious evil here, the fact that they have literally interpreted the mission of the Civil Rights Division to be about the civil rights of Donald Trump is so insane
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 9h
the conspiracy part of me thinks bunch of these guys keep coming up with the idea of "personalized slop" not because they want that for themselves, but because they're (poorly) trying to come up with something people might want in exchange for letting AI companies learn every single thing about them
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 14h
maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
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Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11h
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 10h
Meanwhile the Department of Homeopathy and Health Scams is soliciting 5G conspiracy ideas and related hysteria.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
Endlessly corrupt. He does nothing that doesn’t benefit him personally. Ever.
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Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order | CNN Business
Right before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h
If you‘ve studied history, you know what Trump and his fellow fascists are doing in Minnesota. They’re calling Somali Americans “garbage” and “enemy combatants“ because fascists need to create enemies and foment hate to excite their sick supporters.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: If Trump and Hegseth weren’t trying to kick trans people out of the military, a Navy board recently wrote of a trans women that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service," lawyers revealed today. www.lawdork.com/i/219495792/...
Absent ALNAV 011/26, the board without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service.
• If separated from Naval Service, the board recommends waiving recoupment of debt associated with service education program costs based on LT Winchell's demonstrated exemplary service.
REDACTED BOARD MEMBERS 9/23/26
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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 9h
We're Britain after WWII. There's no going back, only forward in a diminished capacity.
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CNN @cnn.com · 10h
Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. cnn.it/4rRrZU0
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 12h
This email with a link to a portal with a link to a post with a link to a pdf could have been an email
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Bruce R @flitbrucer.bsky.social · 11h
exactly
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the accurate take
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 11h
I mean that's the goal, right? Make the U.S. a rentier state.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18h
When he burns billions to put Republicans into power, it isn’t just to pay fewer or no taxes or help himself and his companies get away with crimes; it is to force his personal biases, prejudices, and hatreds upon all of us, ideally forever.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 13h
The Pentagon, on Trump’s orders, has developed plans to strike Iran’s drone and missile arsenal, energy facilities, and other military sites. The options center on a short, intense campaign of about three days.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h
The reason you need to kill the worst offenders in this shithole regime is that you don't want them to ever have the chance to repeat their crimes--even if a future right-wing govt faces internal pressure to grant them clemency or pardons. Which means getting rid of them irreversibly.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 13h
With Trump’s track record, Iran better have its defenses fully operational from now until November 3
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 13h
Anyone remember 25 years ago when the people who sent out videos of themselves executing people were the bad guys? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
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Daniel Pearl - Wikipedia
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 13h
I hope White House & Pentagon reporters will demand an explanation as to how the administration plans to prevent children from accidentally or intentionally witnessing a live execution. In addition to the general barbarism, there are significant dangers to the public from this nonsense.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 13h
This is a country that worships death. I don't know how more plainly to state it.
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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 13h
"Rogue" my ass. Subverting Wikipedia is one of Elon Musk's highest priorities. He and his ilk cannot abide human-curated knowledge existing. He intends Grok to be the sole source. (Mecha-Hitler-Grok-SpaceXsi-AI bullshit generator)
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h
They are going to try to overthrow Congress again--violently. And commit a bunch of capital offenses trying.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 13h
A major part of the reason why they want to live stream the execution is so that you personally will get upset with them for live streaming the execution, because upsetting you makes them happy. It’s all just so exhausting
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14h
This feels like pure Hegseth degeneracy
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h
Iran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 14h
There's something very pre-modern about Trump II, and a lot of it seems to emanate from Hegseth.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h
Only fair to let Pete Hegseth be the star of one of these one day
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15h
He is explicitly calling for pogroms. (I ask again: at what point will our major news organizations finally acknowledge that he is either mentally ill or a vile racist or both?)
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Bruce R @flitbrucer.bsky.social · 13h
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h
Hegseth and Miller are not going to go quietly into that good night. They are exactly the sort to try to kill their way out of a lost election.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13h
I'm against the death penalty in most cases for consequentialist reasons (you almost never are preventing future harm by killing someone already in jail for life), but even if I thought it was justified here, to livestream it is the policy choice of a toddler who masturbates while torturing pets.
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