Radio tech support is too fucking funny. "Are you pressing the push to talk button?"
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The Artemis II crew is now moving in excess of nine kilometres per second.
That's 21,000 miles per hour in old money.
Quite an unreasonable velocity.
That's 21,000 miles per hour in old money.
Quite an unreasonable velocity.
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The world's getting awfully big in the window...
Coming up on T-minus four hours to splashdown.
Coming up on T-minus four hours to splashdown.
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The Integrity spacecraft just entered the lunar gravitational sphere of influence, at 0438 UTC Apr 6. Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen are now the 25th to 28th humans to have left terrestrial space.
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@dexeve.bsky.social & I have a new piece out in Survival. In 2024, South Korea secretly deployed more than 300 KTSSM missiles at soft, fixed sites--suggesting that, in a crisis, Seoul may strike first & giving Pyongyang 300 reasons to beat them to it.
doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2026.2647643
doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2026.2647643
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250yrs later and Scotland is still trying to break free! It's the you need to watch They are a dangerous duplicitous bunch of elitists
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Insert John Pedicini "if only you knew how bad things really are" meme here
srsbzns: When people hear "modernization" they think about new nuclear bombs. They think about new military capabilities and expanding the arsenal. Understandable, but mostly not true.
My nightmare in one graph (+🧵):
srsbzns: When people hear "modernization" they think about new nuclear bombs. They think about new military capabilities and expanding the arsenal. Understandable, but mostly not true.
My nightmare in one graph (+🧵):
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The Pentagon in fourth grade. I think I was more impressed by the guards than anything else. At the end of the day we ended up waiting in some room that had a bunch of pocket bibles in different camo patterns, I took one of each. I'm not even Christian, my parents were baffled.
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Glad to be debuting at Jamestowj
New article on Islamic State in Northern Azerbaijan and what does it tell us about IS in Caucasus, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia and more. Especially important today with mayhem in Iran. Open access.
jamestown.org/islamic-states-new-threats-in-northern-azerbaijan/
New article on Islamic State in Northern Azerbaijan and what does it tell us about IS in Caucasus, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia and more. Especially important today with mayhem in Iran. Open access.
jamestown.org/islamic-states-new-threats-in-northern-azerbaijan/
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See those two dots with arrows pointing to them?
They're giant gas planets orbiting their star, located 307 lightyears away.
These are directly imaged exoplanets.
They're giant gas planets orbiting their star, located 307 lightyears away.
These are directly imaged exoplanets.
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“You’re gonna die for a ‘multicultural economic zone?’”
“Someone is.”
“Someone is.”
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I've begun keeping track of both new government appointees in al-Raqqah and al-Hasakah, as well as the gov't and SDF personalities appearing in integration meetings in both al-Hasakah and Kobani, all collected in one post...
akmckeever.substack.com/p/newold-faces-in-the-jazirah
akmckeever.substack.com/p/newold-faces-in-the-jazirah
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I'm back on Substack with reflections on today's very interesting reveal of what appear to have been previously classified U.S. intelligence conclusions about alleged Chinese nuclear-testing activity at Lop Nur panda.substack.com/p/china-us-intelligence-and-nuclear
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A mix of escaping religious persecution and being flat broke. Know one of my ancestors jumped overboard off the coast and lived in the Georgia swamps to dodge indebted servitude.
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First teaser for "The Ghost In The Shell" anime series by Science Saru studio.
Directed by Mokochan (+ Shuhei Handa on character designs & animation).
Coming in July.
Full official video >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-01-30/the-ghost-in-the-shell-premier-teaser-nouvelle-serie-de-science-saru
Directed by Mokochan (+ Shuhei Handa on character designs & animation).
Coming in July.
Full official video >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-01-30/the-ghost-in-the-shell-premier-teaser-nouvelle-serie-de-science-saru
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like Atomic Gardening but for gen AI. it's not going to work but that's sort of beside the point at this rate
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This picture is actually quite concerning. In 2009-2010, the young KJU established his command bona fides by directing military action against South Korea. KJA appears to be getting set up for possibly a similar demonstration. Difficult to deter action that's motivated by internal regime dynamics.
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The tools for destroying a liberal democracy are not the same as those for building one.
As with terrorism, that the enemy’s tactics have an effect is not evidence of effectiveness. Democrats could turn a federal agency into a paramilitary and use it to terrorize Americans, but to what end?
As with terrorism, that the enemy’s tactics have an effect is not evidence of effectiveness. Democrats could turn a federal agency into a paramilitary and use it to terrorize Americans, but to what end?
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The Trump Admin continues to lie about ICE's killing of a 37-year-old mom — claiming she engaged in ‘domestic terrorism.”
They have given ICE a massive budget and allowed them to act with impunity.
I cannot & will NOT support any funding for Trump’s ICE’s operations.
They have given ICE a massive budget and allowed them to act with impunity.
I cannot & will NOT support any funding for Trump’s ICE’s operations.
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