Nick Kodama
@nickkodama.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Georgetown | Researching nukes, IR, Japan, East Asia | Also posting photos of my cat and food.
I did not have the PLA Navy playing my "Littoral Commander Indo-Pacific" #wargame on one of their ships on my bingo card for 2026. Absolutely wild. 🎲 #wargaming
"brb gonna walk into the ocean with a bunch of bricks" (2026)
Nick Kodama@nickkodama.bsky.social · 19h agobrb gonna walk into the ocean with a bunch of bricks
steven cheung is proof that some asians do actually raisin
those stupidly expensive Japanese melons are actually worth it lol
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 22h agothis discourse bores me what are the best non European or American desserts
what if i bought a roomba just to make bespoke roomba gifs
Stumbled upon these Tulsi Gabbard and Tom Cotton quotes in a book from 2018 and they truly aged like a decent bag of cyclospora-lettuce in a heatwave
look, can I just say something without everyone getti- [gets stabbed to death by natalie harp]
Iran doesn’t need to DDoS attack Bluesky. All it needs to do is post is “what if a DoorDash driver got caught by a speed camera on the way to someone who was having a bad day of executive function”
Oh you want speeding cameras? Well what if I'm Sandra Bullock driving a bus and I literally can't slow down or the bus explodes? Have you considered that?
Classes resume today. What’s your AI usage policy for students? I mandate they use it on their papers and prompt it to rewrite their paper in a way that either Judith Butler or Jürgen Habermas would, and then submit.
the real China Hawks were always the alliance managers send tweet
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · yesterdayTo be really blunt about this, 99% of the China Hawks were frauds primarily interested in doing yellow peril shit and that number includes Dems
We need theater nuclear weapons to compensate for Trump's posts disparaging allies and praising adversaries.
Al Mauroni@progmil.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Trump administration's move to increase the role of nuclear weapons in the Pacific is dangerous almauroni.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
・US Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby in January 2026: South Korea is a "model ally." ・Trump in August 2026: US-ROK joint exercises are "inappropriate and hostile." North Korea, which recently test fired several missiles without warning, is "unthreatening and respectful."
Oh you want speeding cameras? Well what if I'm Sandra Bullock driving a bus and I literally can't slow down or the bus explodes? Have you considered that?
Mr. Strategy Cheese, is this how we treat our "model ally"?
lmao skill issue dinosaurs mammals are built different
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d agoJust because it's an amazing stat, the Chicxulub asteroid impact, the one now almost universally cited as the decisive cause of the dinosaur era mass extinction event is thought to have had the force of roughly 5 billion Nagasaki nuclear detonation blasts.
They like the Big Strong America part of it - they don't like the part where you actually have to work with other countries to maintain empire/order/whatever you want to call it.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d agoI am finding the weird Republicans/The American Right Don't Actually Care About Empire arc bizarre. I really really would have put being a great imperial power as something that wasn't fake to them, a value they actually held where it being sacrificed would cause very significant discontent.