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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 20h

The best part was him getting very annoyed and defending his calling them "tanks" instead of just being like "oh, my bad, those are APCs"

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Urinal Septim VII @catbusmartius.bsky.social · 22h

Also worth noting that the ancient Greek upper classes invented the gym because they had slaves doing all the necessary manual labor (outside of warfare)

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"For many of the nations represented by leaders here it is literally a threat to their very existence. Which is why the world must act" - Anthony Albanese, head of petrostate govt that issued their 37th fossil fuel new/extension project approval on 3 Sep 2026

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

someone made this edit and i love it so much (if anyone knows who, please let me know)

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026

No point evolving sensors for a signal that doesn’t reach you!

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That film might beat the recent Snow White as far as all-time baffling casting decisions. If it fails (most likely), those on here will blame it on Depp, those on X will blame it on...pretty much EVERY other actor involved. It's as if Nolan cast Sorbo as Odysseus while keeping the rest of the cast.

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You misunderstood; they ALMOST completed their own stealth fighter - they just have not managed to develop own engine for it (yet - same as with the Gripen.) Basically the only countries which make their own fighter jet engines are the US, the UK, Russia, France and China. It's very, very hard.

en.wikipedia.org

KAI KF-21 Boramae - Wikipedia

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

love bernie for what he's done to help push dems to the left and inspire folks like aoc and zohran, but the man is pretty close to "do the opposite" when it comes to picking friends. the fact that he's hanging out with these people is pretty solid indicator you should not take them at all seriously

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🇳🇬Mobutt | Mr.Mobius | Glitchwood High🇳🇬 @mobutt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

~200k arts jobs have been lost in the last few years, it feels like “get your own lifeboat and cling on to it as hard as possible” is the standard for every industry. Fuck You, I’ve Got Mine is the modus operandi for a lot of Americans

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 01/10/2026

There’s this weird phenomena that, best I can tell, is only on Bluesky, but is people certain that “no one told Harris and Walz to stop saying ‘weird’, that’s a myth.” It’s not, and there’s named sources in CNN articles about, from August 2024.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it's kind of funny that basically every centrist polarized themselves against massive EV adoption when it would hit concern no 2

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

look she's kinda based

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My particular ideology is scientific Stancilism. Through dialectical analysis of the media's financial incentives and political economy, we can shape messages that penetrate before eventually conquering reality itself

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found a few more entries in the ever-popular "babushkas buffing bombs" genre of photography... (*I recognize that not all are authentic babushkas, but the alliteration was too great for me to resist, I apologize)

mopping RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic bomb

polishing RDS-4, the first Soviet tactical nuclear weapon

more buffing of RDS-1, with attention paid t the distinctive eye-like radar altitude sensors that give it such a kawaii face

a non-babushka cleans behind RDS-1's ears

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rees-Mogg is VERY MUCH a right-winger! He wanted a "clean break" Brexit that would have left chronically ill without lifesaving drugs and wrote a book whitewashing the General who murdered thousands in Punjab to steal the world's largest diamond for Victoria. He's a very bad guy; just not a Nazi.

inews.co.uk

Jacob Rees-Mogg criticised for 'morally repellent' colonialism defence

This was the moment Jacob Rees-Mogg was told that his defence of Victorian colonialism was 'morally repugnant' by one of his book's harshest critics as the pair clashed in a radio interview.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"...tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country...many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the US" Timely documentary about a phenomenon that resonated (and resonates) all too well with the DNA of the US.

youtube.com

Nazi Town, USA (2024) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

YouTube video by PBS America

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

burglars have found creative ways to enter homes. embezzlers have found creative accounting methods.

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Elon Musk grew up with this thinking, and South Africa saw itself as this high tech, self-sufficient frontier state, which is seen in Elon Musk's obsession with vertical integration..." 🧵

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

> At the same time, the MXene coating reduced how much infrared energy escaped from the surface Oh, so it traps the heat inside, and if you did wrap a plane in that for some reason, it's gonna melt. Cool.

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"the film’s extraordinary performance refers to electromagnetic shielding...It stopped radar-frequency waves from passing through the material...But conventional radar stealth requires reducing the signal reflected back toward a radar receiver, and the researchers did not test the film for that"...

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Right, but his argument is that the causality goes the other way around from what is commonly argued; subservience FORCED the Romans to imagine themselves happy with "gladiators and circuses", as opposed to the happy distraction those provided allowing them to slip into subservience.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sadly, it was entirely predictable that “the academies” would warmly welcome back Trump and RFK Jr’s apparatchiks—the MAGA and MAHA dudes who joyfully embraced the dismantling of public health

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Zohran should really give sliwa a job. Like running adoptions from city animal shelters or something

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How does "countries or nations do not have rights, people have rights" argument work in the context of, e.g. Iraqi oil revenues? Seems like an example where sovereignty (would have) collectively secured a right for a group of people which they wouldn't possess simply as a collection of individuals?

reuters.com

How the U.S. controls Iraq's oil revenues

The United States, since its 2003 invasion of Iraq, has held effective control over the country's oil revenue dollars, giving Washington extraordinary leverage over Baghdad's affairs, with implication...

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It seems to me that Anthropic didn't even TRY with the Muslims. I am delighted to not be represented here 😂

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Chloe @chochlo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I once went to a wedding where the father of bride started his speech, "On this day in 1912, the Titanic set sail from Southampton…"

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Granted, the contemporary low-observable aircraft have mostly gone up against pretty old radar models (same as jammer aircraft). It's at least conceivable ground-based AESA could be made powerful enough to threaten low-observable aircraft as successfully as the older systems targeted regular ones.

web.archive.org

China's Air Defense Radar Industrial Base

This report draws on open-source reporting, Chinese-language primary sources, satellite imagery, and multiple business databases to examine China’s air defense radar capabilities and the industrial

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Consequently, USG's reasoning must involve factors besides "accuracy" and "will this place exist or not?" pragmatism. P.S. I want to demonstrate the implications of OOP's closing argument. Somaliland or SADR are kinda easy; consider what "people have rights, nations don't" means for Jammu Kashmir.

theguardian.com

India’s crackdown in Kashmir: is this the world’s first mass blinding?

The Long Read: A bloody summer of protest in Kashmir has been met with a ruthless response from Indian security forces, who fired hundreds of thousands of metal pellets into crowds of civilians, leavi...

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Let me rephrase; the argument implied the US would have accurately recognized Taiwan's sovereignty if only that didn't threaten its existence. This is undermined by all the entities that also not recognized by the US, even when it's far from obvious their recognition would threaten their existence.

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tbf, there's a massive difference between jamming a mechanically scanned radar (all Cold War-era systems and derivatives) and an actively or (even passively!) electronically scanned one. Those are just orders of magnitude better; it's gonna be interesting what happens when AESA diffuses more widely.

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That would only be remotely controlled if Iran and Pakistan were equivalent. Not only is the Iranian tech generally much worse than what Pakistan possesses, but all those mountains also make for a more challenging radar environment. Hence, loads of successful attacks on Iran were from non-stealth.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

back in my day intentionally fabricating data for use in scientific inquiry was sternly frowned upon

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This reminds me of the time Cooley Law School created their own law school rankings based mostly off the size of the school library, that ranked Yale as the best law school in the country and Cooley second best.

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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If "accuracy" were the primary concern, then why are, say, Somaliland or the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic not recognized? In either case, that would be the more "accurate" thing to do as well, and war would be very unlikely if either were backed with even 1/10th of what Taiwan has been getting.

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