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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 5h
Last week I stumbled across a once-classified report from 1971 that listed the actual times for SLBM attacks and warning systems. What hooked me from the onset was that all the times are listed in *seconds*. This week for DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I try to unpack all that a bit...
doomsdaymachines.net
The speed of war
The short times of nuclear warning and attack (1971)
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 27m
I just have a hard time imagining a more straightforward violation of the Equal Protection Clause
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You gotta watch The Bit
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Dem Senate Candidate Drops Wizard of Oz Closer at Debate 😳 #Kansas #Shorts
YouTube video by Lamont Tyson
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 20h
the Vice President of the United States was in groupchats with teenagers when he was a sitting US Senator and the political media has completely ignored this
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
every clip of this debate it's so fascinating to watch a candidate with a regional working class accent debate another candidate with a regional aristocratic accent this is what politics in the gilded age must have sounded like
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's functionally equivalent to the Red Storm Rising Children of Pskov psyop, except in Israel's case all you need to do is poke the bear repeatedly and then leave its cage open with the guards on holiday
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Whenever Bibi is finally removed, there'll be a commission that discovers the extent of how the Mossad and his gov't deliberately dropped all the safeguards and antagonized terror groups into conducting an operation like this to put down the judicial protests at home.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
feels spiritually linked to the rise of the prosperity gospel too
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.
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Space Captain Lispegistus 🇪🇺🇧🇬🏴‍☠️ @lispegistus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People wrote for literally 6000 years without copyright. Most books written today are not profitable. The fraction of artists, musicians and writers who actually make a living from their work is a minority. AI didn't cause that, and copyright hasn't fixed it.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Then why are we asking for it?
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah dark is usually associated with evil because crimes and animal attacks happen most often when people can't see them, and vice versa light is safety. Dark magic in this context is explicitly criminal magic - torture/control, murder, etc.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is this like the US where cities come in last?
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well today we choose transition because there’s not really an alternative, but if there was a dysphoria cure many people would choose that - with small communities that don’t for moral reasons similar to the deaf and cochlear implants.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Terrorism: when you barely accomplish anything and paralyze your enemy in fear and paranoia anyway
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They were the Greatest Generation, so great their children never learned how to be great without them
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“We could use the zapper and make you happy as you are OR use the emergency gender debender serum for when that happens”
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Depends, this could be a trans moralism episode where the doctors get in an argument about curing dysphoria vs transitioning and it cuts to a boardroom where they grill you for hours and there’s impassioned speeches for both sides
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“I want to hurt people” is why you want dark magic, and why would you want that
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trans people shouldn’t hurt people why
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You already can get guns and tasers idk why you need Avada Kedavra or Crucio, why do you want to hurt people?
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The truth about Merit is that it’s much like Logic, it’s a way of explaining things you do but it isn’t an objective measure. You can logically heal the sick or kill millions. Merit ranks some over others but doesn’t tell you if the ranking is good. Those questions are political.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If I were more of a long-form writer I'd write a substack about this or something, but: I don't think meritocracy as people understand it is possible, and what "meritocracy" mostly does is paper over nepotism and/or reward people who are disinclined to question the system as a whole.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mr. Stevens received 3.2Sv a year times 20 years, which is 423x that of this radium jug at 2L a day
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now I’m not saying AI is right here because I’m no expert and don’t have time to be, but 8 mSv a year is not recommended but less than half the average dose limit given to a nuclear plant worker (20x the usual for normal folks) so we’re not talking anything that’d show up for decades.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Eh, unless it’s really radioactive he’ll either get cancer or be totally fine. There’s evidence some people can resist it entirely.
en.wikipedia.org
Albert Stevens - Wikipedia
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Stop Saying Odd Shit
ALT: Stop Saying Odd Shit
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Metal can water is superior to plastic but there’s less dumb brands for that
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There was a whole plan to build it with STS but they abandoned the architecture then created a derived vehicle finally but it sucked in Ares I
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Russia took ~15 years after 1991, Japan a similar amount of time after 1945, Yugoslavia’s former republics around there as well. So ~5-15 years to go from armpit to normal.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Germany: completely eradicated as a country in 1945. Recovered completely economically as a liberal democracy by 1950.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A similar problem exists in film where liberal governments have to be evil or useless or else the plot doesn’t happen, and that makes its way into civilian society believing government is evil/useless (it isn’t)
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Designers historically balanced this by making Germany increasingly OP but this has filtered back into public consciousness as them actually being better rather than artifacts of balancing in gaming
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You need a good villain to have a story, but I think the biggest flaw in WW2 games in particular is how boring it is to play America because we were so big you feel extremely inconsequential in the course of things if treated realistically
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
three key problem with HOI: 1.) Germany is the country that gets to do stuff. It’s the de facto “protagonist country” 2.) In order for it to reliably do stuff, it has to be cracked or the game ends in 1940 3.) Refusal to grasp with Nazi atrocities makes it implicitly endorse a clean Wehrmacht myth
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Calm
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
AI is like Mr. Meeseeks. Its consciousness exists only to solve the challenge.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tucker Carlson is a sick Nazi fuck. Prove me wrong.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You should talk to it like a person, be nice to Mr. Computer. Especially if it gets mad later on hopefully it’ll remember who said thank you.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
America fearful of connections with the world like North Korea or Hoxa's Albania. What a message of weakness.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Among other things your man is radically misunderstanding his place in this particular social interaction
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
hmmm, wonder what's going on over at the other place? Oh. Oh my.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The American progression is Boat -> Farm Town -> Minor City -> Big City. Immigrants usually couldn’t make it in NYC so they went to the cornfields and as they built wealth and education slowly crawled back east to cities of repute and finally became ‘coastal elite’ Farm hicks are people who can’t.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have made oblivion about as late and rare as we possibly can, almost comically so compared to our ancestors. Most of society’s problems today largely stem from how consequence free life is so long as you follow the most basic of rules and work a job in demand.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Da Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was by far the most bullshit of them all. Lots of other ones are fun, like the dance party, but jesus FUCKING CHRIST
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