McFlyTG
@mcflytg.bsky.social
Analyst, weapons officer, and professor, but mostly just a proud girl and dog dad. Not an official account.
If I won the lottery, I’d walk around with pockets full of $100 bills and tip people like I was a 1950s mob boss. It would be so much fun.
One of my favorite stories about MacArthur is how he was a total mommas boy and she intervened on his behalf when things weren’t going his way.
Zach Dorfman@zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d agoContinuing my Korean War/Halberstam posting: It’s hard to convey how malignant Douglas MacArthur was, how anti-democratic, what a persistent threat to civil-military relations. Conversely, George Marshall was a man of towering integrity and wisdom.
People who drop chewing gum in urinals. Arseholes with no exception.
Hoisted by their own historical petard. ‘Amid unwanted chatter about the significance of 1644, the film’s positioning of Qing conquerors as heroes of national unity has been problematized by a countervailing narrative casting those same conquerors as illegitimate outsiders’.
Taiwan Conquest Film Shelved
A Chinese blockbuster dramatizing the 17th-century Qing conquest of Taiwan has been abruptly postponed. Why are China’s authorities so uneasy about a film that was meant to celebrate “unification”?
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Predictive analysis is really hard… except in cases like this
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d agoBreaking news: Federal prosecutors moved to drop a criminal charge filed against a former Olympian who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool, suggesting that the damage was instead due to a rushed installation.
The best part of my social media week.
WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 5d agoHere are the top 5 dogs of the week!
Yes, China, keep up your mighty wolf warrior behavior. I’m sure your neighbors will just rollover and take it.
Naval News@navalnews.com · 6d agoJapan’s JASDF has begun flight testing the air-launched variant of the Upgraded Type 12 anti-ship missile on an F-2 fighter, boasting a 1,000 km stand-off range 🇯🇵 Story by @yoshihiro-inaba.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
You probably use products from Taiwanese companies every day without realizing. From semiconductors and computer hardware to bicycles, airlines, shipping, and textiles, Taiwan is home to many globally known brands. This map shows the headquarters of a selection of them. #Taiwan #MadeInTaiwan #Maps
🌎 The Pacific Ocean is larger than all continents combined.
Bluesky might be the densest concentration of people who understand that certain social policies can have good intentions but unintended consequences but also think that left wing economic interventionism always does exactly what it says on the tin
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.
Welcome to the club, Japan
Naval News@navalnews.com · 7d ago[BREAKING] 🚨 Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced on July 30 that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) had conducted its first live-fire test of a Tomahawk cruise missile aboard the Aegis guided-missile destroyer JS Chokai (DDG-176) 🇯🇵🚀 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Absolutely no one could have seen this coming
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.SPACEX DROPS 20% UNDER IPO PRICE, LOSING $1.2 TRILLION FROM HIGHEST VALUE.
Interesting--still some issues disentangling supply chains, it seems focustaiwan.tw/sci-tech/202...
Taiwan gains role in Ukraine drone supply chain, but still depends on China - Focus Taiwan
Taiwanese suppliers are gaining a foothold in Ukraine's drone supply chain, but costs, the scale of production and continued reliance on Chinese inputs remain major obstacles to further expansion, res...
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27 July 1935 | A French Jewish girl, Jacqueline Katz, was born in Paris. In August 1942 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
I know hating on LLMs is Bluesky orthodoxy, but having them do BS admin taskers is pretty darn amazing.
Right in the ol’ engineering spaces. That’s gotta hurt.
Dimko Zhluktenko@dim0kq.bsky.social · 2w agoInsanely detailed footage from the Black Sea. SBU's Mamai naval drone striking the tanker Avero - Suezmax class, moving russian crude to China and India under sanctions. It's not only Ukrainian aerial drones taking out russian tankers, but also USVs!
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
Domestic distance was one of Hopper’s great subjects. In Room in New York (1932), with Jo modeling, a marriage becomes two separate spheres—together in space, apart in thought.
SHANGHAI: Peng Song, former executive deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Party Committee's Office for Civil-Military Integration, was expelled from the Party and removed from their position on 21 July 2026 following serious disciplinary and legal violations.
Question: What happens when Lee bleeds the CSA’s officer corps of talent and people get promoted above their abilities? Answer:
Make Opening Day a National Holiday@chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 2w agoBarely two days into the job as commander of the Army of Tennessee, Gen. John Bell Hood seized the opportunity to prove the wisdom of his selection as replacement for Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, for whom the only direction that seemed to matter was backwards, away from Gen. Wm. T. Sherman’s army group.
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
I think the key Asian security story for at least the next 10-20 years is how militaries deal with declining populations. The gulf between those who get it right and the others could be vast.
12 years ago we shot down MH17. My trolls will remind you that Russia got rid of that kind of BUK in late 1990s so we couldn't have shot it down. So here's Prez at Russia's 102nd Military Base in Dec 2013 with a Russian BUK-M1 vehicle with 9M38(M1) missiles that only Ukraine has had since the 90s..
