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Chaotic Disaster Bisexual He/Him London based, regular escapee Incoming fire has the right of way Content: Kink/Ice Hockey/US Defense Policy/Data Nerding DM-able Bottoming 101 Post: https://anexperimentintruth.blogspot.com/2012/01/bottoming-101.html

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · Sep 25

Right, it's that time again.

✨ Douching Guides Thread ✨

As always, my claim to fame that I'm *measurably* responsible for there being too many bottoms in the world came up in Berlin.

So here's a set of good, through douching guides for anyone not quite sure what to do or if they're doing it right

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life.

If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution.

Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 8h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
13
A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
16
program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
17|
Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
20
submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know…

www.nokings.org#map

A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading:

"NO TYRANTS
INDIVISIBLE
LONDON UK"

Below this heading, the event details are listed:

Date: Sat, Oct 18

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK)

The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled “RSVP” in white text.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 14h

No, faulty engineering was the method by which the Titan submersible imploded. The cause was hubris.

The Guardian headline reads: Faulty engineering led to deadly Titan sub implosion, US investigators rule.

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 11h

Mr Daley really chose that knitwear vest yesterday huh 👀

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Hoosier Homer is reading In The Ruins of Empire by Spector @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 13h

now taking bets on whether or not Chat GPT understands AND uses Clausewitz better than your average US Army Major.

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine being this person’s Aide de Camp - a job you competed to win - and being dumped like this.

“I’m letting my microwave do my financial planning”-ass take

New York Post @nypost.com · 14h

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 12h

JFC...We ARE going to die.

nypost.com/2025/10/16/b...

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Maj. Gen. William “Hank” Taylor told reporters that he’s been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

nypost.com

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 16h

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 1d

Big oooooft

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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John Berkeley Grout 🏳️‍🌈🔶 @jrberkeley.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing news from Bona Books! 🩷 Can't wait.

Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 2d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 2d

Okay but if we're going down this route...

Hardback books look MUCH better without their dust covers, which in fact just make them look cheap and tacky.

X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

Haha not THAT kind of collar, something far less flattering and comfortable 😭

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I'm not shy about it, but my counsellor varies session to session atm

X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

There are different collars and there could well be portions where I'm wearing like 3 or 4 🤣

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

Like yes I have taken on a ridiculous amount of complicated work but I also enjoy ritual but also I may regret this on the night 🤣

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

Mother Lodge Installation meeting on weds and I am wearing so many hats during it. 🙈

- Treasurer
- Charge to Initiate
- DC during Installation
- Address to the WM
- Provisional presentation of Lodge accounts

#Freemasonry

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

The juxtaposition of toxic masculinity/gay trauma to the soundtrack of the pop-iest 80s music going in Boots is just 👌 👌 👌

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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 3d

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

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Buff the NullMooPup 🍉 @giantbritishpup.bsky.social · 3d

The alt text on the flag!!!

Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 3d

On the occasion of Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday, I hope everyone here will join me in raising a toast to her still being dead

"The Margaret Thatcher flag": reds represent Hell, where she is, brown represents dirt, where her body is, grey represents her tombstone and yellow represents piss. I gather in American English, this is known as "the Ronald Reagan flag". Two countries divided by a common language, huh.

A quote from Margaret Thatcher that has been deliberately-badly edited to read "The problem with pissing on my grave is that you eventually run out of piss"

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

Can I go die/hit something yet today or is it still working hours?

X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

Admittedly, listening to Stone Sour probably isn't helping

X626 @x626.bsky.social · 3d

Blargh it's an I-hate-the-world kinda Monday

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 4d

Excuse me while I go listen to my very angry playlist

X626 @x626.bsky.social · 4d

100%

X626 @x626.bsky.social · 4d

Alexander is a quasi myth level figure option with reasonable historic grounding of bisexuality

Patroclus & Ganymede are your go tos for chaotic bisexual twinks where you want it to be a bit of a dig, bisexual for their sugar daddy dom kinda deal

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