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Kilts & Klingons

@kiltsandklingons.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, sci-fi nerd, band geek, and people watcher | Nuclear/energy security and more | 18+1 is my jam. academic.oup.com/icon/article/4/1/8…

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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Of course they let that asshole become a 35M. We were starting to see a serious downturn in quality of HUMINT soldiers as early as 2006, and I'm not sure it got better until at least 2014. These dickheads made it incredibly difficult to build any kind of credibility with supported commands.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I recycled some jeans at a store called Madewell today and they gave me these vouchers for $20 off a new pair of theirs. All of theirs are priced at $140+, which is a little outside the budget of a federal employee's single-income family. We will literally never use these. Hopefully someone will.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
(THREAD) Let me reframe this. Blue states FUND red states as red states say that it is BLUE STATES that live off others. Blue states adhere to the CONSTITUTION as red states CLAIM to love it but undermine it at every turn. Red states adore the CONFEDERACY but lecture the rest of us on patriotism.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Measles at an elementary school in our district in NOVA. Fuck this timeline, fuck this administration, and fuck every idiot that put this administration into power.
Email from a school district in Virginia confirming a case of measles in one of the elementary schools.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I know I'm just going to be called a Luddite, but making me order through an AI will assure I actively avoid going to that restaurant. I already have to fight a computer whenever I call most businesses, I don't want to fight one when I want cheap, unhealthy food. Bye, Wendy's.
Wendy's drive-thru menu features "FreshAI" to take your order. You have to say "Crew Member" to opt out of it. Wendy's drive-thru menu "FreshAi" disclaimer: "Wendy's FreshAi ordering assistant will record your voice and use it for quality assurance. By continuing your order with FreshAi, you consent to this recording."
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I offer a tool to help parse these kinds of conflicts in judgment: "It's never just one thing." Meaning you shouldn't make a judgment based on one piece of information, but should look for a pattern to determine your perception. A PhD is a good start, but is not the end-all indicator of expertise.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you: Random AQ-fired mortar that hit the airfield near where I happened to be (thanks, T-wall!) Appendix that burst because a PRC-E7 decided he didn't believe me when I said I was in severe pain
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
There's a certain hilarity in the idea that nukes on balloons came from Sandia, of all places.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
You really think we’re as shitty as you by daring us with the Bill Clinton photos. We give a fuck about laws, not leaders. If Clinton fucked a kid, arrest him. If Walter fucking Cronkite turns out to have done some shit, burn all the memorials to him. We are not the same as you.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I will feel absolutely no sympathy for the Admiral if he goes to jail over this. You want to wear officer rank, especially stars? They come with a price: you have a duty to say "No, Sir/Ma'am" to unlawful orders. If you don't have the intestinal fortitude to do that, you don't deserve the rank.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This. I nearly got an Article 15 as a SSG in AFG for kicking a WO1 out of my interrogation booth and the facility after he tried to pull some illegal as hell stupid shit. Fun fact, a WO1 doesn't outrank the JAG with A/V recordings. Don't break the law, kids!
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Yesterday Trump signed an E.O. on AI (real machine learning, not the bullshit LLMs companies are insisting we use). Apparently not a single person in the administration has seen any of the Terminator movies beyond T2, because they decided to name their AI mission... Genesis. 🙄
whitehouse.gov
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Today I'm neutral. Go vote if you are able to do so legally.
Button with the words "Officer of Election" pinned to a sweater worn by Northern Virginia's sexiest officer of election.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
When Usha Vance is mad at JD, she can't even make him sleep on the couch, lest he again fall victim to temptation
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Picard management tip: Encourage extracurricular activities with your crew, especially if it involves wearing costumes.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
bell riots bell riots bell riots www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
nytimes.com
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"Since 1945, the U.S. Army has been designed to defend Europe." What?
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Sometimes I DIY okay-ish.
An empty closet. Bare, beige walls full of damage caused by idiots who are unfamiliar with the concepts of studs or drywall anchors.  A pathetic, contractor-grade light fixture illuminates shitty Closetmaid wire shelving, which is lying on the floor near a pile of garbage, right where it belongs.An empty closet. Bright, turquoise walls full of white melamine shelving installed by an idiot who is unfamiliar with the concept making enough money to afford solid wood shelves.  Several mid-grade flush mount light fixtures actually illuminate the new shelves, which were installed with slightly better than average DIY (but still not great) skill.
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Upside Downie @adownie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This is good
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I wish I could articulate my feelings as well as this author. Luckily, he did it for me. Spot on.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🎶 Motherfucker, burn in hell You should be rotting in a cell Motherfucker, I long to be rid of you 🎶Motherfucker, go away My disdain for you is here to stay Eat a bullet is what I wish you would do
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 25/07/2025
The biggest difference between the Stargate film and TV show is that Daniel in the movie smokes weed, and on the show he doesn't. Jack doesn't smoke weed in either version, but he won't narc on you for it in the TV version.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
What do Texans and dogs have in common? . Kristi Noem will kill them.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
In random order: • OutKast, Stankonia • Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster • Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP • Jay-Z, The Black Album • OutKast, Idlewild • The Killers, Hot Fuss • Green Day, American Idiot • My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade • Gorillaz, Demon Days • Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits 😉
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I have directly (but unknowingly) contributed to the success of a military coup in a west African nation.
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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Tremendous work by Mike Nelson here. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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What Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Understand About Soldiers
Lethality alone doesn’t win wars.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is all I can think of when I see this level of self-delusion. "They're the same picture." Except, you know, Vader actually had strength.
Trump post talking about "love, peace, and prosperity" in context of the Israel/Iran conflict. Star Wars Episode III: Darth Vader on Mustafar, just preceding the lightsaber dual with Obi-Wan Kenobi, saying, "I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire."
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
You can tell Bluesky is a functioning Twitter alternative because everyone on here today is suddenly an expert in uranium enrichment, nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy, or all of the above.
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Coincidentally “AUMF” is also the sound most foreign policy analysts make when discussing how the US uses its military.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
No idea who the original artist is but now I want someone to go in and splice Madeline Khan over Ricardo Montalban for the entire movie. There's enough of her in film you should be able to make it at least somewhat make sense.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost." Aristotle, Politics bk. 4, 1291b 35
A button which says "Officer of Election."
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Called it! www.axios.com/2025/06/04/t...
axios.com
Businesses are raising prices after tariffs, even on unaffected goods
This could be a sign that companies are using the new tariffs as an excuse to raise prices overall.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Courtesy of @paulleyticks on the app formerly known as Twitter.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 10/05/2025
At the grassroots, Americans are finding ways to resist Trump—much more so than has been apparent from media coverage, writes @philtinline.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
In the United States, the fightback against Trump has begun
From the courts to the streets, Americans are finding ways to resist a president who made their fears a reality
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My brain is broken, so now I want to write 2000 words on the ethics of using Jedi mind tricks during interrogation of captured Imperial stormtroopers.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It finally happened. I finally watched an episode of Star Trek that I fully dislike. Star Trek: The Animated Series, S02E06, The Counterclock Incident Absolutely stupid, useless episode.
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Force Ghost™ @fieldmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A few hours ago, a man of Middle Eastern origin was arrested, accused of sedition, railroaded through a barely legal hearing, and sentenced to death. I kid. That happened 2,000+ years ago. And as a result, people who claim to follow that guy's teachings are doing the same things done to Him.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Anyone on here a Disney planner? I'm looking to take the family to the CA parks in July.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Can't wait for tariffs to be lifted, only for corporations to decide to keep prices high and pocket it.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is going to get me dragged by some corners of society if it's ever seen, but: Jerry Goldsmith was a better composer than John Williams. I'm not saying John Williams isn't great, I'm saying Jerry Goldsmith is that underrated.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Easily Star Trek or Stargate. Hell, I could probably do 12 hours just comparing Star Trek conflicts to real life ones.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This ends the debate over whether or not there was classified info in the chat. If a CIA officer working under cover or a clandestine source was named in the chat, it was classified, full stop.
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Christian Schneider @anti-knowledge.com · 24/03/2025
New phone, Houthis
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Not sure if I'm the only one thinking this way, but it seems to me Jeffrey Goldberg fucked up big time here. A short 🧵 >>
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Free idea, to whomever wants it: a non-profit with the express mission of educating people on what the federal government does and how it operates. Not just 3 branches and stuff you learn in HS, I mean each separate agency and department and how they impact everyday Americans.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
[If Chuck Schumer replaced Jonathan Frakes for ST:TNG The Best of Both Worlds] LOCUTUS: I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service... us. CHUCK SCHUMER: Seems reasonable. Mr. Worf, lower the shields.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The next Democratic fundraising text had better start with the name of the new Senate minority leader.
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Kilts & Klingons @kiltsandklingons.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Shoot this directly into my veins.
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