Reposted by Nick BradbeerEmily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you 7041881018
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A comedic error in #ARMA3 tonight as the precision paradrop using steerable parachutes runs into the C-47's (admittedly very cool) paratrooper scripting, which strips your chute off and turns it into a static line. So I dropped 12 marines over about 2km of jungle with no radios or maps. 392
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026When I need to set an alarm on my phone I usually just repurpose an old one that I've switched off. I just reused one called Sola Fidei, which was originally for marking the orbital fire support transits of an Imperial cruiser during last year's Chimera! LARP. That made me smile. 290
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This is the level of media critique I am here for. Incisive. 040
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I left this tanker model too near a sunny window, it would seem. Posting here because @r-p-one.bsky.social made me. 7222
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026My mind is blown that only 4%ish of Americans are atheists. 240
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Tonight I am angry about Horizon Parking, whose business model seems particularly predatory. Earlier this year I stayed in a Premier Inn. The room came with free parking. Hurray. Booked. Drove up, got there in the evening. 160
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I must say, this feels like the most civilised was possible to dip my toes back into WH40K. On a day like this, playing outside with a gentle breeze and cold slightly al oholic fruity drinks? Sold. 1140
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Aaaaaaand we're back to CheltNam, the best campaign setting ever. #ARMA3 090
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Today is UCL MSc Ship Design presentations day, so I'm sitting in a mercifully air conditioned basement about to hear about what for design teams have spent the last three months working up. This is @r-p-one.bsky.social 's course not mine but she usually live blogs my pres day so it's my turn to. 6517
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026[sigh] I guess I'm installing Visual Studio again.... 030
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 03/05/2026It's a bank holiday weekend so obviously I have spent my afternoon writing what amounts to a research paper about the theology of a fictional religion. Oh, Empire LRP, just when I thought I'd gotten away from you... 080
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I have just discovered the acknowledgements page for Children of Strife, and let's just say I am incredibly happy to be characterised so by @aptshadow.bsky.social 421212
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I maintain that if you want to run wargames professionally there is, quite seriously, no better preparation than running D&D* recreationally for several years. Hits all the key skills you need. (*Other RPGs are available, try Traveller.) 6173
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The Artemis II mission has been inspiring to watch, but: 0110
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Does the US have war goals here? Or are we just throwing Marines, Rangers and the 82nd at the wall and hoping something works out? 190
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026"Hey, let's colonise Mars" "Hey, let's make out own Straits of Hormuz with nuclear demolition charges" Torn between despair and morbid curiosity about what the American Right will next decide is a sensible megaengineering project. 2130
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Ironically I can't help but think PME is the missing piece that would have helped Pete Hegseth think like a senior leader rather than a company grade officer myopically fixating on tactical-scale problems while running the world's most powerful military. 2150
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026There's the pithy old adage that amateurs study tactics and professionals study logistics. I guess it turns out we were wrong about that all this time. 2110
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I see the FAFO cycle continues. Who could have foreseen, etc etcedition.cnn.comTrump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN PoliticsThe Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord... 181
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026WHAT :D Well, this is the best news all year! 291
Reposted by Nick BradbeerAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/03/2026“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...nytimes.comRebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here 12429100
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026It's really hard for me not to read this as "We're not going to do the bit that takes hard thinking and gives long-term results, we're just going to do the exciting manly whooshy-bangy part." 3150
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026It's time to start on 2026's Glorious Stupid Project: Starship At Home. 2161
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I do love an evening of rotary-wing logistics. Turns out the Bo-105 is a lovely agile platform for (relatively light) sling loading. 090
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026#ARMA3 Jon's experiments on me continue by way of Wildcats and Merlins. And then tonight's ride, the UH-60M Blackhawk. (Which actually was a pretty nice flying experience - even sling loading over trees...) 050
Reposted by Nick BradbeerChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH. 16431122
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I'll be genuinely heartbroken if the US does any of the crazy alliance-shattering stuff the current administration seems to be contemplating. I can't understand why the administration wants to throw away so much for so little. 360
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 18/01/2026#ARMA3 - Jon is amusing himself by giving me a wildly different aircraft to fly, from cold, each game session. Which is entertaining for me, if requiring a lot of patience from the rest of the group... 0131
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I FINALLY made myself learn to do Data Merges in Affinity, and it's SO EASY and SO POWERFUL but learning new things is hard and I am very tired. So now I feel like I am some sort of wizard and I'm going to use this for everything. 190
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Wake up babe new foreign policy just dropped. 3172
Reposted by Nick Bradbeerpheadtony.bsky.social @pheadtony.bsky.social · 03/01/2026The US hasn't invaded Venezuela. This is merely a special military operation. 1141
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Last night was my first #ARMA3 game back with TAC-D after three months off. By the two hour mark I was raiding the Captain's desk in the FOB to fly a handful of petty cash out to the ground team so they could buy fuel at a local petrol station after their truck took a fuel hit. <3 this dumb game. 090
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Happy Christmas everyone! Here's a teaser for a potential future project with @sapperstudio.bsky.social - a more playable spinoff of my analytical naval wargame A Balanced Fleet. Still a great deal of development and testing to do in the new year but the core is taking shape! 2244
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025This is a low percentage joke and I am that percentage. 1110
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Okay, when not distracted by Stupid Battleships, I've been tinkering with @norsehound.bsky.social 's Trek Captains prototype release quite a bit this week. I made a quick Let's Play video to run through a game turn and show how it plays. Also hello everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIpb...youtube.comLet's Play Trek CaptainsYouTube video by justamaninahat 3328
Reposted by Nick BradbeerYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/10/2023this is just to say I have loosed the blood-dimmed tide that you were probably saving for the ceremony of innocence forgive me the best lack all conviction while the worst are so passionate and so intense 934584
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Having made it to the print shop, it's time to test a two-ship game of @norsehound.bsky.social 's Trek Captains. Now that I've realised I was using Challenges all wrong, let's a how the Monitor (NCC-1713) and the Savannah (NCC-1893) fare on their patrols. 1192
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025It's that time again! I'm too busy MC-ing to liveskeet the day, but Rachel will! Go read her thread, vote (with Likes) for your favourite designs! 1110
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Birthday Pathfinder! I'll be okay if I've got the high ground, right? 2151
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025More Shell Game as another tranche of students gets introduced to naval warfare through ABF. Today their procurement decisions slanted towards "more missiles, please. No, more than that." 1120
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I realise it's a bit Rimmer "and then I rolled a five and a six and invaded Russia" but three nat 20s in a row?!? 190
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Ahhh, the final two weeks of the sub design course. I always forget how manic it's going to be until we get here again. 170
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Okay, I'm innately a bit suspicious of being followed by accounts who follow like five thousand people but have few posts or followers of their own. But what's in it for them? 350
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025SDAC Film Night. The students have voted correctly this year. 2180
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Finally dismantled the tank simulator from the garage this weekend. Which is a little sad because no more tank simulator. But on the other hand I was really missing my workshop and it was completely full of plywood tank. 3210
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025It's taken me about a month to do it (the SDAC gets kind of busy) but finally have a tool students can use to assess whether they have passive range advantage over [choice of other submarine]. Sonar remains witchcraft but I think I found an appropriate compromise between realism and usability. 050