I am delighted to share the final program for our upcoming MQ & @socintelhist.bsky.social Workshop, Intelligence in the Southern Hemisphere: Past and Present. We so pleased to have been able to gather together such a fantastic group of ANZ intelligence studies scholars!

"War has horrors enough which are inseparable from its nature, [and] we ought [to] try every means in our power to endever to soften its rough visage." ~ Henry Knox, in a letter to his wife Lucy, 7 September 1776 #historysky #America250

My backlog of games watching me fill a cart during a Steam sale

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

This literally separates the pilots from the aviators. You willing to defend your choices to your boss knowing you broke the rules? You either leave with a shot of whiskey in you or without your wings.

Puck the Puddle Pilot@puckthepilot.bsky.social · 2w ago

We call this lots of things but my favorite was always "standing on the carpet" As COs offices are weirdly always carpeted, or have a carpet in front of their desk. So we have pilot discussions about weird combinations of systems failures and mission requirements and set a culture.

Enjoyed this conversation with @sinemadar.bsky.social on how Turkey's foreign policy trajectory is helping to reinforce Erdogan's domestic political crackdown. 🎧👇

Turkey Book Talk@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fresh new episode 🎧🎧 Sinem Adar (@sinemadar.bsky.social) returns to the podcast. The conversation takes stock of Turkey’s geopolitical clout and its domestic political crackdown after the recent NATO summit in Ankara. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2026/07/21/s...

The funniest thing about this, outside of the demand to see a "historically accurate" movie about Greek gods and sea monsters, is that Mel Gibson's Braveheart was notorious for being one of the most historically inaccurate movies ever made -- because it was largely based on a fictionalized poem.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

Where DO the candidates stand on dinosaur research?? 📊 #CalvinandHobbes #ElectionSeason

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Gingerspiced@gingerspiced.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Greek soldiers rampage out of large walled horse WHY IT MATTERS: the towers of Ilium have been toppled ZOOM IN: this is great news for MENELAUS, bad news for PRIAM SPLIT SCREEN: Cassandra vindicated but it’s Odysseus who gets the win

A real tweet from February 2016. The playbook hasn’t changed a bit.

LOL just reading through comments from the copy-editor and, well, let's just say I'm not convinced that the copy-editor has really been doing much actual reading of my text here with these queries.. Screenshot of my paragraph for context here... Snort.

i grew up in china when china was a low-trust (in terms of safety standards) society, so here’s some pasts that might be in our future in the Age of Diarrhea: * wash your own tableware with boiling water as pre-meal ritual at restaurants OR conspicuous glass-front UV-C santization machine for same

Political candidate material, right here.

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3w ago

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

"Providence will bring about its own ends by its own means; And if it intends the downfal of a nation, that nation will be so blinded by its pride, and other passions, as not to see its danger, or how its fall may be prevented." ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1768 #America250

And not to go to town on this, but even if you do it “quietly” it is wildly impermissible for a civil enforcement agency w/o a warrant to go around yanking people out of cars. Both Lorenzo Salada Arajo and Joan Sebastian Guerro would be alive today if ICE was not trying to yank people out of cars.

So it’s been probably at least 6 ballistic missiles detected in direction of Kyiv tonight , explosions, fallen debris, fire, burning cars , hit near the school , windows blown out and it feels so mundane I barely even found the energy to type this . pretty sure it

Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening

I love this so much

My dude. Vietnam just rang to say they are still run by Communists….

folks, we’re never getting rid of this guy. there’s a right wing grievance machine that’s going to scoop him up. he’ll be headlining grifter events for a few years. there will be podcasts. the only good news is that the machinery of all that seems to be stunted post-Orban.

Kate Glenn@findingtangle.bsky.social · 4w ago

I get the “now we never need to hear about this guy again” impulse but 1) I doubt he goes quietly back to fake farming oysters and 2) some of these issues are so serious they actually should demand follow up free of fear of losing a senate seat

I've come to the conclusion that the entire Republican agenda is based on reversing their own propagandized and largely imaginary grievances against their political foes.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · last mo.

After decades of screeching that universities are indoctrinating the youth, Republicans are proud to roll out the new course, Mandatory Youth Indoctrination 1001

what just before might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the general joke

Good morning from DC—where you’ve got to look twice to see if the masked paramilitaries on the street are ICE or Patriot Front.

Well, this is a evergreen truth.

"Columbus dropt a tear; while Hesper's eye Traced the freed spirit mounting thro the sky. Each generous Adams, freedom's favorite pair, And Hancock rose the tyrant's rage to dare, 1/4 #America250 #IndependenceDay