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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 6h

It's cool that the American political system gave ultimate control of the nuclear football to a senile pedophile twice, including a popular vote win after a failed coup attempt. Anyway, you should be our ally.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the awkward meeting at stark tower where spider-man tries to explain to an increasingly bitter iron man why he and the other gen z superheroes like zohran mamdani

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i suspect most superheroes would have insane nonsense politics. like, wonder woman is an absolute monarchist. thor doesn't believe in the separation of church and state. clark kent is just bob dole.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1. good contender for the most "bluesky" bluesky post in that it is an extraordinarily inane observation that's been discussed to death, repackaged as if it is some kind of grand moral statement 2. i think if bruce wayne has politics i suspect he's build in the rockefeller, du pont mold.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is kinda wild how credulous people are being about Brett McGurk's account of how noble and brave Brett McGurk's work was

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

Phil Gordon, the National Security Advisor to Kamala Harris who in late 2024 insisted that the VP was categorically opposed to the suspension of any more weapons to Israel and would never change policy, says Brett McGurk is wrong in his assertion that the US was too mean to Israel.

Harris was hardly the only U.S. official to warn, publicly and privately, that an Israeli assault on Rafah would be a “huge mistake” with potential "consequences." Biden had by then already called it a "red line" and later went on CNN to threaten to withhold offensive weapons over it. And he was right to do so to prevent Israel from launching a ground offensive without a plan for the more than one million civilians sheltering there. It is implausible that a U.S. green light would have unlocked a favorable hostage offer from Hamas, which made no such offer even after Israel went into Rafah (or for eight months after that) or that Netanyahu would have agreed to end the war with Sinwar still alive. Whatever the administration's “biggest mistakes,” pressing Israel to change its Rafah plans was not among them.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18h

gotham DSA meeting interrupted by an attack from CaucusMan, a sinister supervillain with approximate knowledge of hundreds of group chats and the drama within. what fiendish allegations will he make when he approaches the mic? what resolutions shall he introduce? stay tuned to find more.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 15h

splitting up the book carrie so that the first season is the events of the black prom and the second season is 10 hours of congressional hearings.

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 9h

So did you hear about Aella’s sperm ba… You bolt awake; you are not online. It is December 1241, in Karakoram. Ögedei must not drink tonight. The West must burn.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8h

in Carrie, do you think newly inaugurated President Gerald Ford would be able to cope with a teenage girl killing some 500 people in a small town in Maine because it turns out ESP is real or do you think Ed Muskie eats his lunch in the following 1976 election?

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 8h

>there was a bluesky popularity contest >>I scored higher than AOC this is the worst thing that has ever happened to me

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h

Wait, wait, I was to understand you could always just drive straight down a highway. That, indeed, the height of warfare was driving straight down the highway. Are you saying that is not always true? I'm feeling lied to right now.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 7h

It's why I always get frustrated when people try to trot out pre-Mukden aphorisms and other wisdom. You just cannot compare the modern "you must be this committed to ride this ride" era of warfare with the pre-Mukden era where morale was a weapon in and of itself.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 7h

thing is, if you lack the spirit, the logistics won’t save you (which is why there are times you can just drive down a highway™️), but spirit plateaus pretty sharply and we’ve gotten pretty good at getting guys willing to charge trenches. The challenge is more not getting them slaughtered.

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EagleBeaverMan @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 16h

Some political historian some day is gonna write a banger of a paper about how the country that made itself the global hegemon also somehow had the most parochial politics on earth

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

once you begin to notice this pattern, you see it everywhere

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

why is NASA trying to return a blackbird to flight follow on question: how are they so delusional they apparently legitimately think they can return 844 to flight after it sat on a stick at Edwards for 30 years like isaacman is legitimately stupid but come on now

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it now appears that there is a live possibility these guys were the unluckiest diesel thieves of all time first as Simon Pegg movie, then as Jason Bourne movie

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

there'll be a Harry Truman-esque crown just waiting for anyone on HASC or SASC to pick it up (although half their colleagues will be fighting them on it, on a bipartisan basis)

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

ofc I'm forgetting that the purpose of this isn't to deliver effective systems for ~The Warfighter~, it's funneling taxpayer money to palmer luckey (little surprising therefore that it's from SASC and not a Ro amendment to HASC's version)

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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 7h

national security is my passion *opens bottle of wine*

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

palmer specifically has been pitching this 'land submarine' thing that like even hg wells would've dismissed as crackpot shit

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

like you're literally saying owen west and some random SEAL know how to procure planes better than AFLCMC and RCO and know better how to OT&E fighters than ACC, it's complete lunacy

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

how does this remotely make sense scope it to tactical systems, group 3 UAS/below, UGVs, and make it a land-centric command and maybe there's something (although just make an army led joint TF or w/e then) but why would you take away OT&E of ships and planes from the people who do ships and planes

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 8h

what you need to know is this was an idea that apparently sprang from the stupider parts of SASC (it's in the senate version of the 27 NDAA)

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 21h

“‘Choosin’ Texas’? Ha, no pardner, I’m Choosin’ TAXES. Howdy, I’m Big Jim Medlock and I’m here to tell you how the social democratic welf

James Medlock (really Karl Polyani) wearing a cowboy hat

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 12h

gotta admit it’s really funny all this is happening as soon as the one guy who made Manchester his entire deal became Prime Minister

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 8h

like what you're telling me one service equivalent is gonna be responsible for destroyer sized MUSVs, fast attack equivalent XLUUVs, high altitude bomber sized stealth planes, uncrewed tanks, CCAs, Reapers, scaneagles, and the eleventy billion different types of quadcopters? what the fuck

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 8h

it's mostly that they want to create drone SOCOM (in that it'll be a CCMD but with OT&E responsibilities) Which was defensible with SOCOM for SOF even if MFP-11 has turned into a bit of a dumpster fire, but I have no earthly idea what the idea is with dronez

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

i feel like the issue with LJM saying this that if the goal is to downplay transfers in order to get a more favourable position with DPRK in favor of peace, i don't really see how POW repatriation happening is going to get in the way of that

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Mr. Miso Paste, Rockall Irredentist @meatraffle.bsky.social · 8h

War is not about spirit, but being really motivated (different from being gung ho) does help with logistics

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 8h

Also, don't google Palmer Luckey Cosplay, you will regret what you see.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 8h

Palmer Luckey is responsible for Oculus (though John Carmack did most of the actual work), a bunch of stupid and dystopic and unlikely to work drone and warfare ideas, and a retro handheld console emulator that no one should ever buy no matter how well it works because it funds him.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

This seems like something that could go very, very wrong very easily.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 8h

it’s easier to be correct if you’re writing, and it’s easier to verify if something is correct if it’s written down. you can still bullshit in writing, as [gestures around] indicates, but it does make it harder and riskier, and i want bullshit artists to be looking over their shoulders

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

fundamentally, the question comes down "is war about spirit or is it about logistics?" (if you think it's entirely about the former, you're going to get your shit rocked)

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13h

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 Chappell's Femininomenology of Spirit @ofvick.bsky.social · 8h

Just browsed Amazon for the first time in months to years and learned that all the cookbooks have AI cover art, please pray for me in this harsh time

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The weirdest part about the upsides of YIMBYism as a policy suite is that it's practically free. We are actively spending money and increasing bureaucratic complexity to make our lives worse than they would be if we didn't do that.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

i feel like part of this is because we're slowly shifting back into a oral culture after being a written one i think writing does lend itself to slowing down a bit and also less direct emotive appeals

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again like, the stuff with huggingface and other rogue hackings are scary but also I feel like the bigger problem continues to be giving these things access to plaintext_passwords.csv for some reason

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 8h

she asked to be hanged precisely because she was afraid of a botched lethal injection. jesus christ

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

i like how me complaining about DroneTech bros has somehow led to Bluesky discovering Palmer Luckey has made the SAO VR headset real

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 8h

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s sort of like how Musk says that we’re like 2 years away from actual fully automated luxury communism but we have to cut Medicaid right now

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