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Reed Mideke

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
"With more than 1 million votes counted, 77% supported remaining in Canada, while 23% backed beginning a process toward separation, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta" apnews.com/article/alberta-canada-r…
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h
Hey remember that "it's just bird flu making eggs so expensive, price fixing is a lefty conspiracy theory" line? Well about that… www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026…
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10h
The MAGA conspiracy theory is that there are huge numbers of noncitizens who all decide they’ll risk jail & deportation to vote, in their own names, for the payoff of… casting one ballot out of millions. It would be an extraordinary display of civic duty if it were true! But it’s ludicrous.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
Hell "According to Ukraine's Northern Region Military Medical Clinical Center, Kostiantyn lost his right leg in April. In May, he amputated his severely injured left leg himself after an exposed bone prevented him from crawling to collect food, water and medical supplies dropped by fellow […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h
Think I'll hold out for the 737 MAX 10 Pro Plus www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-…
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h
Gurzuf origin story: "'We're just simple lads from a village. Then suddenly a convoy of cars arrives and a Border Guard general steps out. We thought: there's a war in the country, and they've come after smugglers' … However, the visit had a different purpose. The border guards said they knew […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h
Wounded soldier from Ukraine's 30th Brigade evacuated by a Gurzuf Defense hexacopter after nearly 500(!) days on the front line. "Gurzuf Defense co-founder Pavlo Feldblium warned that aerial evacuation should not be treated as a routine practice, citing the risks to wounded soldiers during […]
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 18h
And Lift Off! A glorious launch of #MMX, the start of an amazingly awesome 5 yr round trip to Mars' moon Phobos. 1yr to get there, 3yrs exploration landing on the surface (twice), then 1yr to get home with the bounty (2tbls of Phobos dust), arriving in the Australian outback in 2031! 🥳🔭🧪🛰️🚀
The light of the rocket launch lights up the beach!fire lights up beneath the rocket at the start of the launchThe dark sky is lit up by the fire of the rising rocket
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
Separation confirmed! Let's go nibble #Phobos #MMX
JAXA control room with people sitting or standing at consoles, applauding
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
Second burn started
Screenshot of from the stream, showing a timeline over a mostly dark CGI earth, with points for 2nd stage ignition #2, 2nd stage engine cutoff #2 and MMX separation
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Iron mask, found in the woods?! I need to look into this. VSM inv. no 1831. #Archaeology
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h
#MMX successfully reached initial orbit, into a ~50 minute coast phase before second burn
Screenshot from the JAXA webcast, showing that status just after the first burn of the second stage at T+10:45, with a 3d rendered view with earth in the background. Velocity 26244 km/h, altitude 329 km
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h
Let's go #MMX 🚀 T-10 minutes-ish www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn6gzuGa-6c
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Caption: The DNA and fossil evidence proved they were close relatives, but Daisy still found family gatherings rather hard going.

Image: A brown and white cow paddles a dinghy on the swelling sea amongst a pod of huge whales.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h
"Dutch police reportedly used flash-bang grenades in an effort to stun and apprehend Van der Stap as he was logged in to various online accounts. According to a source close to the investigation, the authorities arrested Van der Stap while he was using his Signal instant messaging account […]
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
ICE detention centers: where Trumpian misogyny, racism, and xenophobia coincide. www.propublica.org/article/domestic…
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Bessent joins the gaslighting campaign kyivindependent.com/us-treasury-sec…
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US Treasury Secretary downplays Russia sanctions waiver, warns Zelensky to 'be careful'
Trump appointee Scott Bessent insisted that no sanctions against Russia had been lifted — they had merely been waived.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
It's virtually impossible to prevent Russia from importing small quantities of commercially available microelectronics, but as this analysis points out, the quantities for drones aren't that small: "the monthly demand would amount to 21,000 TMS320F28335PGFA processors, 42,000 VP230 CAN […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Trump: "They gave them massive amount of Patriots, Tomahawks, everything" (the US has not provided any Tomahawks to Ukraine) hromadske.ua/en/war/272627-trump-cl…
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Trump claims US gave Ukraine Tomahawk missiles, accuses Kyiv of selling American weapons
US President Donald Trump claimed that Washington had supplied Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles and accused Kyiv of selling American military aid on the open market, despite no confirmed reports that Ukraine has ever received the long-range weapons.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
KushWit logic: "To help entice Russia to end the war in Ukraine, the Americans have argued, Ukraine should consider restarting pipelines that used to carry Russian natural gas to Europe" - One might note while most current European governments will reject this out of hand, it aligns with AfD […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Romania taking a more aggressive approach to drone incursions, shooting them down as soon as they enter Romanian airspace over the black sea kyivindependent.com/romanian-f-16s-…
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Romanian F-16s down two jet-powered drones after airspace incursion
The two drones were jet-powered, belonging to the Geran-family of attack drones frequently used by Russia to attack targets in Ukraine, according to Romania's Defense Ministry. The Ministry did not specify which nation the drones belonged to.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
There may be some genuine confusion over how the DoD-provided connectivity is labeled and who manages what, but it sure looks like everyone is more focused on buck passing and gaslighting than doing anything about it The IG investigations should be lit, if the IGs have a shred of independence left
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Rubio meanwhile denies restrictions and also denies that Ukraine ever had access to Starshield at all, contradicting Musk, Ukrainian drone units and reporting going back to 2024*, but has the temerity to suggest Zelensky doesn't know what he's talking about […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Meanwhile, Trump: "It wasn't me, and I don't think it was Elon. I don't know if it was anybody. From what I understand, it's the same as it's always been" The obvious gaslighting in the last part wouldn't exactly inspire confidence in the preceding bits, even if Trump weren't a pathological […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Telegraph, citing four sources familiar: "Elon Musk approached U.S. President Donald Trump with the idea of restricting Starlink speeds for Ukrainian forces" Notably, Musk pointed to POTUS having final say but didn't actually deny involvement: "Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@paulehoffman "Register tons are measured in cubic feet" 🥴
From the linked page:
The carrying capacity of a ship is usually measured by mass (the deadweight tonnage) or by volume (the net register tonnage). Deadweight tonnage is generally measured now in metric tons (tonnes). Register tons are measured in cubic feet, with one register ton equivalent to 100 ft3 (2.83 m3).[needs update]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
[uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread, part 2] We're paying billions to cancel wind projects, and billions more to restart vintage nuclear plants. Business Genius! (I'm fine with nuclear as part of an "all the above" approach to getting off fossil fuels, and it's definitely better […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Who could have predicted* that VK would be on the menu? mastodon.social/@netblocks/11745938… * mastodon.social/@reedmideke/1173296…
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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
To be clear, this ONLY helps with accounts that haven't been accessed in the past 6 months. That means you, who are reading this, could have your mastodon/fedi account taken over if the password you use has been stolen and do not have MFA enabled. Please, make sure you use a unique password here […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@paulehoffman Similar (or same?) long running one that impersonates high follower accounts and follows the people who follow them mastodon.social/@reedmideke/1169377…
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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
There is a large-scale impersonation attack happening on Mastodon. People are registering typos of real people on mastodon.social and then following people who the real people follow. I’ve gotten two different ones today.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Drone medevac is one of those things that would be a years long development boondoggle or rejected out of hand if proposed in peacetime, but in the current circumstances being better than the alternatives isn't a very high bar
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
As expected*, Ukraine is getting serious about drones for medevac. One might also note that if you can evacuate people by drone, it's not much of a step to go in the other direction apnews.com/article/ukraine-medevac-… * […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
For anyone worrying about Babiš, rest assured he's still a POS kyivindependent.com/czech-prime-min…
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Czech Prime Minister Babis rails against EU budget support for Ukraine
"I don't like that there are 100 billion euros ($112 billion) from the European budget for Ukraine, that this money should be borrowed," said Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis.
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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026
Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]
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Maartje @maartje.dev · 03/10/2026
Don’t you love the NATO Alphabet…. Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, Röntchen, Yankee, Zulu
Epaper having X-ray translated in table
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16/10/2026
These are all photos by Heidi Levine, the @washingtonpost.com photojournalist assaulted by Israeli attackers today in the West Bank. She was covering Palestinian families picking their autumn olive harvest. Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop the violence. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Being too pro-Putin for Babiš is an accomplishment of sorts, I guess (my impression is Babiš is mostly pro-Babiš, but he's certainly been perceived as soft on Russia in the past) mastodon.social/@noelreports@mstdn.…
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Simon Shuster still hyping the weird "project M&M" story. Something about it doesn't quite add up to me. What do the "thousands of AI drones" attack specifically, civilian airliners on the ground? Zelensky seems to have (rightly) ruled that out. And if you have AI that can detect and attack […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
[uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread, part 2] The Best People™ www.politico.com/news/2026/10/15/em…
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Hey remember when Musk was gonna step back from politics after DOGE? Anyway… "Mr. Musk, the world’s richest person and a Texas resident who has major business interests in the state, sent $158 million in September to a super PAC that immediately flipped that much money to a group backing Mr […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
[uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread, part 2] Susan Glasser on Trump's strange October surprise: "despite Trump’s years of plumping for Putin, the Russian leader and his war remain deeply unpopular in the United States—even more unpopular than Trump himself, which is saying something" […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Bipartisan (R - Tillis, Collins, Murkowski, Cornyn) Senate letter requesting an IG investigation to both the missile warning failures and Starklink / Starshield. Early-warning part highlights risk to US personnel "We are particularly alarmed by incidents in which U.S. diplomatic, military, and […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
[uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread, part 2] You'll no doubt be shocked to learn White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was previously an affiliate of a quack-ish MLM with a history of legal troubles […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
[uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread, part 2] Good-ish news: Americans overwhelmingly oppose televised firing squads. You'll no doubt be shocked to learn the one demographic segment with a majority in favor wapo.st/3UuOKAW
Screenshot from the linked article, showing results of a poll:
Support for live-streaming the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter

Q: Regardless of whether you support executing Hasan by firing squad, do you think the execution should be live-streamed online for the American public to watch?
Results are displayed for various segments of responses as support, oppose. Only among MAGA Rep. Men do a majority support

U.S. adults
18%, 80%
Support firing squad execution (53%)
30%, 69%
Oppose firing squad execution (42%)
5%, 95%
Served in military
32%, 67%
Did not serve
17%, 82%
Democrat
8%, 91%
Indep./Other
14%, 83%
Republican
34%, 64%
Non-MAGA Republican
20%, 79%
MAGA Republican
43%, 55%
MAGA Rep. men
57%, 42%
MAGA Rep. women
29%, 69%
Note: Percentage skipping question not shown.
Source: Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll Oct. 9-13, 2026, among 2,545 U.S. adults with an error margin of +/- 2 percentage points; error margin among subgroups.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Ah yes, the WitKush peace plan 1) Give us $200 billion in frozen Russian assets 2) ??? 3) Peace! (the Euros told them that "this was just simply not going to happen" and also as far as I can tell from available reporting, managed to avoid falling over laughing or punching Witkoff or Kushner's […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
The leaks have begun: "The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter" […]
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
This is hilarious and terrible on its face, but also it's the administration avoiding normal procurement laws to give a no-bid contract to a political ally: "The UFC [Ultimate Fighting Championship], according to the bureau, is 'the sole qualified vendor' capable of providing tactical training […]
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Which is why you're buying another yacht off the returns from NFTs of your comics, right? 😉 (yeah that's a cheap shot, crypto writ large still has a ton of money circulating, though I personally suspect the entire technology would be a footnote if it were not useful […]
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Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Woah www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/202…
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Centurion home of Dalai Lama’s SA representative firebombed
A shaken Dhundup Gyalpo describes how he nearly lost his life in a desperate scramble to escape the blaze that destroyed much of the house and office, and points to ‘larger political forces’.…
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