Unusual drone sighting situation at Leipzig airport in Germany: a drone, possibly armed with some kind of explosive, has been found on the ground at Leipzig airport. Later, an aircraft reported a collision with an unknown object. More info certainly to follow. www.bild.de/regional/lei...

Neue Details zur Sperrung am Flughafen Leipzig: Drohne trug ein Päckchen mit Zünder

Drohne mit möglichem Sprengsatz stoppt Flugbetrieb am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle.

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FOCUS ON LETHALITY

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · yesterday

"Commanders [must] maintain a log of personnel requiring facial hair treatment plans... Must forward a Facial Hair Accommodation Accountability Report in Excel monthly...   Those approved for accommodation must carry the signed paperwork on their persons..." www.militarytimes.com/news/your-na...

Godot will not be coming tonight, but he will surely come tomorrow

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · yesterday

Oil falls after Bessent says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz is imminent ft.trib.al/rLos280

Today in "Things you didn't know about the War on Drugs": Students of Brazil's drug bust photo-op schools typically graduate with arrangements that require hours of work

Navid Kermani's speech to Bundeswehr recruits on 20 July is worth translating/reading for #CivMilSky people Ask yourself: could someone hold such a speech at an event of your military? "One must resist when the performance of one’s duty is a crime." www.ksta.de/politik/rede...

Rede von Navid Kermani zum 20. Juli: „Dieser Tag lehrt Sie, Nein zu sagen“

Am 20. Juli, dem Jahrestag des gescheiterten Attentats auf Adolf Hitler 1944, sprach der Kölner Schriftsteller Navid Kermani in Berlin über die Tragweite des Gewissens, soldatisches Heldentum und die ...

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Israels Verteidigungsminister feuert den Chef des israelischen Militärs im Westjordanland – wohl, weil der einen Haftbefehl für einen Siedler verlängern wollte.

Israel: Minister gegen Militärs

Israels Verteidigungsminister feuert den Chef des israelischen Militärs im Westjordanland – wohl, weil der einen Haftbefehl für einen Siedler verlängern wollte.

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This Brazilian meme explains US media reactions to Trump better than any op-ed

Paul Rieckhoff@rieckhoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can the American media PLEASE stop falling for these constant head fakes by Trump and his team!?!? Every few days they say they have a deal— for the last 5 months. Just like he’s been saying about Putin and Russia.

It's hard to imagine, it's so hard to perceive To find an expression for what it all means All panic and struggle, all death and decay Are coming together in relative ways

Really Sean Smith@reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 2d ago

O RLY

Just been reminded of Starfish Hitler. You’re very welcome

Happy anniversary to this perfect record that sounds like being made for a lazy Sunday

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Life imitates Art

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump having a normal one today

Much fuss about basically nothing ? The Ceuta situation once again showed that if European leaders could have waited a day or so before reacting, the whole thing could’ve basically been solved amicably. The real-time outrage loops and need to react to everything IMMEDIATELY is a huge issue

"How would Mette Frederiksen react if Spain were to show solidarity not with Denmark but with Donald Trump during the next diplomatic attack on Greenland? And has anyone in Finland considered that Spanish soldiers are also involved in securing the northern flank?" www.zeit.de/politik/2026...

Ceuta: Ein Fest für die Feinde Europas

Die Reaktionen auf den Ausnahmezustand in Ceuta? Teils faktenfreies Spanien-Bashing. Man muss festhalten: Friedrich Merz fiel hier beinahe positiv auf.

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August as an academic

There's so much talk about societal resilience, crisis preparedness etc by European governments But the same governments immediately enter panic mode after a single incident like this

Paul T. Levin@paultlevin.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m not the only one suggesting that Ceuta might have been a case of migrant weaponization: “It is impossible for nearly 50,000 people to cross the border between Morocco and Spain in a single day without Morocco having a hand in it.” Lorenzo Gabrielli, Pompeu Fabra University.+

The year is 2028. The strait of Hormuz is still closed. Fuel at the pump is now 10 dollars. The sixth pipeline across the Arabian peninsula has been opened. It got hit by a Shahed-378 the next day. The largest industry in the US is betting when Axios posts that the MoU #37 is close to being signed.

'we work on implementing stronger guardrails' The guardrails:

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

It’s no virtue for officers to be apolitical on the question of the republic’s existence

Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 5d ago

We have to kick out every MAGA in the military and offer promotions to the ppl who were kicked out by MAGA. It takes two to have a depoliticized military, and if the GOP is going to exercise a veto on having a depoliticized military, then it had better be in the hands of Dems.

If the next Bolsonaro avatar is based on his many portraits by Lucy Born, we've reached destiny

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 5d ago

A deepfake avatar of the jailed Jair Bolsonaro endorsing “flesh of my flesh, my son Flávio” at a campaign was always where the writers were going to take us giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

""Tenure ... contributes to curriculum that drifts from the mission of educating our warfighters to the research priorities of the tenured academics." Nope, not really. What we teach and what we research are generally driven by different dynamics, but far right's hostility to academics is known 1/

Curriculum to consist exclusively of courses like 'Kill to Win', 'Lethalitymaxxing', and 'Fight the War like a Warfighter'

Jim LaPorta@jimlaporta.bsky.social · 6d ago

Late night scoop - Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen...

What to do when the AfD governs German states and thus has the power to delay or constrain NATO military mobility? www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

Szenario für AfD-Wahlsieg: „An der Landesregierung vorbei“ – Bund entwickelt Notfallpläne für Nato-Drehscheibe - WELT

Die Bundesregierung prüft, wie Deutschlands Rolle als logistische Drehscheibe der Nato gesichert werden kann, wenn ein Bundesland im Krisenfall nicht kooperiert. Hintergrund sind mögliche Wahlerfolge ...

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elmer fudd began firing his shotgun at bugs bunny today. the strikes are a powerful response to the continued aggression of the wascally wabbit

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 7d ago

CENTCOM: U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran at 8 p.m. ET today. The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle East.

Once the agentic AI users fully change the quantity of academic submissions, we need something like Tokens. A consortium of journals agreeing that authors (identified by their Orcid account) are only allowed to submit X number of articles per year (number to be determined by respective field).

This skeet will self destruct@pardoguerra.bsky.social · last wk.

Transaction costs. That’s it. That’s what I propose. Actual, real, measurable, impactful costs.

EDITORIAL: Uma escolha não tão importante assim

dr.@hmmfalemais.bsky.social · last wk.

"só porque ninguém quer ser vice do FLAVIO po"

Exactly. You cannot "summarise" sources. You have to fucking read them. You're skipping steps. The reading is the point and you have to do it yourself. My PhD (in history) was based on war crimes trial records, thousands and thousands of them, collected over many years. You cannot do it differently.

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

at this point if an undergrad asks about jobs in academia I nudge them toward something more practical like shark assassin

Another day for "Brazilian memes explain the rationality of 'markets' better than you can"

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

LOL “peace ‘deal’ rally #28 ..”

Ignoring every single lesson from decades of drug war failures, and letting the military carry out extrajudicial killings. And all for nothing

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last wk.

67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult