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The weirdos et al are the ones keeping comms, logistics, and infosec working so this will end poorly. An army runs on geeky specialists doing the work.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

Ex-WV police chief violently attacked a woman over an expired registration. Though innocent, she spent five days in jail before the charge was dismissed. He resigned and was decertified.

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 11h

Do I care about what an advertisement feels when I add a DOM rule to my uBlock Origin adblock filters ?

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 11h

And it's a fascinating story of how the completely unknown (to the general public) Vivaldi (died 1741) had such as strong revival in the 20th century

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 11h

On the other hand, it's interesting when someone gets rediscovered. The music of JS Bach fell into obscurity almost as soon as he died; Mendelssohn made him well-known again

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

Sir you should rename data centers TRUMP centers. They should emit a sinister glow and a deafening screeching sound at all times. Local communities should be required to sacrifice an innocent life to them. For your glory sir. It'll help with the election

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Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social · 13h

Civilian faculty also provide something a heavily rotational military faculty model struggles to replicate: long-duration disciplinary expertise and institutional memory. Uniformed faculty rotate. Career academics can spend decades building departments, curricula, research programs, and expertise.

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Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social · 13h

With my former service academy asst prof hat on, the more interesting question here isn’t academic tenure. It’s force generation. The service academies aren’t merely universities. They’re statutory officer-accession pipelines that produce commissioned officers with multi-year service obligations.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 14h

please help me, my computer is very sick

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 14h

The unfortunate thing about Paul Kennedy (and every other person in international relations not named Francis Fukuyama) is that they were writing in the late 1980s. Kennedy also thought the Soviet Union would continue into the 2020s, but then again so did the CIA.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 14h

This part. Senators and Congresspeople being completely unqualified and stupid is only funny if there are electoral and legislative consequences for it.

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 14h

So I know they build the little ones that are not worth a lot for anything beyond remote radar station, but 456 seems excessive, and like as much as I am a fan of mass producing infrastructure, managing the fueling process for that many is going to be a night mare.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14h

If Trump started injecting every immigrant with bubonic plague, the Supreme Court would rule that while they take a year or two to decide if it's constitutional, the program should go forward because to not let Trump inject people with bubonic plague would do irreparable harm to the government

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The “Beats off” Chronicles day one hundred and forty-two: It’s always better to keep it trimmed if you’re into that kind of activity.

Ireland's tidy towns
2022 winner confirmed as Trim, Co Meath as it beats off hundreds of entries.

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 14h

Happy ending for every guest

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 14h

Serbia making Balkan LGBT history by accident

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 15h

ok im finally have read the proposed EU Kids Act fully and im gonna jump into the fucking canal jfc lol

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 24/09/2026

looking for a water cooler for our new apartment and I am dying at carrefour's recommended items

Screenshot from Carrefour's website showing that people often buy a potato with their super general water dispenser

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Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lot of the work that went into this was done by my former colleague at the FPD, one of the smartest and most dedicated lawyers I ever knew, Paula Harms. She passed away last year unexpectedly and I really wish she could see this.

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The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 16h

How could I have known the racist ethnic cleansing campaign I support would affect anyone I know?

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17h

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 15h

One problem we're going to have is a lot of these people expect this to engender sympathy and it very much does not.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h

Seems like some version of this runs every day

Like many of her neighbors, Ms. Vuittonet had been worried about the streams of new immigrants coming across the Rio Grande during the Biden administration and had trusted that Mr. Trump would stop them. Although some Trump supporters held signs calling for "mass deportations now" during the 2024 campaign, Ms. Vuittonet never thought such deportations would include people she knew who had lived in the United States for decades.
"I knew that he was going to start deporting people, but that he was going to go after bad criminals, like true hardcore criminals, rapists, killers," Ms. Vuittonet said, sitting in the small coffee shop she runs from the back of an antique store.
She thought of her six children, who range from ages 6 to 12. "Of course I want the streets safe."
But when her brother was taken to an immigration detention center earlier this year, just days after a scheduled check-in with an immigration official, she said it felt like a punch to the gut.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 15h

Otherwise, we can see the limits for Britain when it wants to re-engage with us while remaining outside, because you cannot pick and choose among the freedoms of the Union. You cannot decide to take what suits you and leave the rest.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 16h

*youth pastor voice* You know who else was betrayed after a private dinner by one of his twelve closest friends?

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 15h

Quite a remarkable map, table, and diagram from a 1971 report on launch-on-warning, showing the implications of Soviet submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) on detection, reaction, deliberation, and response time. All numbers are in SECONDS, which is what I find the most wild about it.

Map of the USA labeled "Soviet SLBM [Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile] Time of Flight to SAC [Strategic Air Command] Targets." Shows both "nominal" and "depressed" trajectories. Absolute best (north central USA) is between 580 and 850 seconds (9.6 – 14 min). Absolute worst (everywhere else) is between 320 and 650 seconds (5.3 – 10.8 min). The variations are based on where they assume the subs are launching from.

Table: "Early Warning System Performance." Shows four different systems (BMEWS, OTHF, SLBM Net, and a not-yet-operational in 1971 Boost-Phase Detection Satellite) that indicates the time of detection after launch (varies between 55 and 150 seconds; BMEWS cannot detect launches as it is only over-the-horizon radar), the time that the US command and control system would be alerted after launch (ranges from 85 seconds for the newest system to 900 seconds for BMEWs), the probably of detection of a single launch (BMEWS is 99%, SLBM Net is 50%, none of the others have probabilities), probably of detection for a mass launch (all around 100%), and their false alarm rate (BMEWS has 1 per 7 years, OTHF is 1 per 6 months, the others are unknown).

Diagram: "National Command-Warning to Response Cycle." Shows the consequences of a launch detection all the way through the US nuclear infrastructure, with "delay times" in seconds. Will be discussed in the next post in this thread.

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 15h

hey is the strait open yet

Six hundred of our finest warriors joined SECWAR
for morning PT at the Pentagon ahead of his HISTORIC State of the Force address.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 17h

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So you can imagine the true extent of the Sahelian war once one visualises that, knowing, the main brunt of the war is still suffered by local armies and civilians. We see rushed moves from Algeria that out of nowhere decides to return to diplomacy with Mali and Niger...

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rumors are quite something and difficult to make sense of them, however, it’s certain some battles in Mali and Burkina Faso have happened these past few weeks between JNIM and IS. Whenever JNIM attacks in Mali and Burkina, IS is testing the backline. Hundreds of JNIM...

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No more. Now, it's pure and brutal political decision making. If Mali falls, the ramifications will likely be more disastrous for Russia than Syria has been. And believe me that's something. Mali is an empty husk de facto, and likely would have fallen this April...

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Russia sees it. We all can see, the watchers of the Sahel that a decision was made at Kremlin - Mali cannot fall. And Russians are not only doubling down but tripling, making the Mali adventure completely financially unsustainable - people used to think of it as lucrative.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because they are no longer really hiding. I actually wonder of the damage they were able to cause at Sevare, because it's apparent that something is missing in the air. Jihadists are camping in locations they should not and bombing facilities they used to harass but not besiege.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Keep in mind, this is happening only a few weeks after the grand Sahara swap, where hundreds of soldiers, jihadists and different kidnapped citizens of other continents were released, at least ten states and three rebel groups took part in it.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like in Dioura, Niono area and Sevare, and frankly many more locations - 150 to 200 dead on Malian side, 20-30 Russian with mamy additional wounded (we don't know the exact numbers and can’t). Over 100 prisoners. Disaster.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Niger is in panic - not only the Islamic State is on the visible rise everywhere, they also got a huge amount of $ for American and European hostages released recently. How much? We don't know. But certainly massive. Not the scale of UAE prince JNIM kidnapped, but of note still.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But as you all know, and I may be boring with it I admit, it's absolutely imperative to not take away agency of decision making from any of them. Islamic State bombs the hell out of Niger, pushing the state into desperation. 40-50 killed this week, hundred over a month.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are entering the last three months of this year, which so happen to coincide with the end of the rainy season - the dynamics are bound to increase to a degree I actually wonder what may appear. Al-Qaeda, Russia and Islamic State all have a decision to make. Strange trio.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

French President Emmanuel Macron on the UK rejoining the EU: “If the British want to take a first step in this direction, I think it is very good news both for their country and for Europeans.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h

US withdrawal from Iraq was scheduled a few years in advance. But with Iran hitting US bases there, and Iran-allied Iraqi militias launching drones at Saudi Arabia, the withdrawal looks—to everyone in the region, and the wider world—like the US under fire ceding more of the Middle East to Iran.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 17h

Well, that’s not the opening paragraph I expected.

1. Introduction

In the 1988 sci -fi roleplaying game Cyberpunk , the European Currency Unit serves as the global currency (colloquially referred to as “euro dollar”, “ed" or “eddie”) . In the story, the dismantling of US
democracy, a sovereign debt crisis and geopolitical mistakes
trigger the collap se of the United States . The European Economic
Community steps in and uses its well -regulated banking system and
single currency to displace the dollar’s hegemonic role.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16h

Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio

The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.

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Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social · 17h

There is growing uptick in investments and production of #drones in Africa, including #Ethiopia were internal conflict is driving demand. We spoke with @afp.com together with @sipri.org and @crisisgroup.org experts on concerns over growing deployments www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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Ethiopia boosts drone production to fight rebels

Ethiopia has been manufacturing drones at two factories since last year and is now thought to have a fleet of thousands, analysts say, giving the government an edge against its multiple insurgent enem...

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 17h

online rando: stop whatever you’re doing and read this me, working: ok

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 17h

Once again the apathy shocks me. 4,508 KIA, plus 179 UK KIA, over a million excess deaths in the region (mostly Iraqi) and... nothing. No anger in defeat. No somber reflection of what went wrong. No celebration for the end of the mission. Nothing.

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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 17h

This is probably easier than you’d think too. The Trump II people that are leading the enterprise haven’t been careful and many of them are implicated in things they simply thought would never come up again. Federal workers have kept a ledger, and members of Congress’ phones are open.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17h

This is an underrated point, I think. It’s been asymmetrically distributed across the federal workforce but places like the FBI, they’ve fired people simply for doing the jobs assigned to them, when they happen to be redressing Republican wrongdoing. One of the most corrosive things of all this.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

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