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Chad Briggs

@chadmbriggs.bsky.social

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Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere 🇨🇦

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 16h

The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 17h

You're safe from me, then

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Miriam Matejova @miriammatej.bsky.social · 1d

@chadmbriggs.bsky.social and I have a chapter on #disasterintel in this new edition of the #oup Oxford Handbook of Nat Sec Intel. Coming out soon. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

She says "thank you, yes."

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

Had I written a headline this dystopian 30 years ago, I... wait, I probably did

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

Simplified journal metric conversion

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

We visited Palau in April. Magical place with a dark WW2 history

Tropical waters near the German Channel in Paula, so blue it hurts your eyes

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

US posture toward China marking small islands as targets, in the eyes of residents. Short video on the perspective of Palau
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Is the US military build-up on these islands inviting China’s missiles?

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

This is classic domestic abuser behavior

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

Everything is horrible and the world is burning, but Daisy would like to remind you that she still needs to be fed at 6pm exactly

A petite female tabby cat sitting on a bed, with a small black nose and amber yellow eyes that judge everything you've done for the past 6 months, she was a street rescue following a series of Philippines storms in July

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3d

In our USAF scenario planning, we had a special category of bad that fell under "Zombie Apocalypse" where traditional rationality broke down. We generally shelved those as being beyond our ability to plan. I think the US is dangerously close to that category now

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 5d

Parallel thoughts, slightly different dystopia

two women sitting next to each other with the caption two dollars and fifteeeen cents

ALT: two women sitting next to each other with the caption two dollars and fifteeeen cents

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 5d

When we lived in Anchorage, our next-door neighbor worked at times in Newtok, and had a dog with that name adopted from the village. There is a great resilience-building story about the dog during early COVID www.adn.com/alaska-life/...

Newtok, canine sentinel of South Addition who brought grace amid turmoil, has died

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer in May and receiving a steady stream of visitors through the pandemic, Newtok the dog died Oct. 6.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 7d

I was at a Paul Rodriguez stand-up in 1992 and remember he asked the same thing. Why were white people who hated Latinos so eager to look more like them?

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Jack Pondit @jackpondit.bsky.social · 9d

Alaskans aren’t prepared for how catastrophic the Trump healthcare cuts are going to be. In addition to making the ACA marketplace unaffordable for thousands of Alaskan families, it will raise premiums for everyone and probably shutter clinics and hospitals.

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Alaskans face massive health insurance cost increases unless Congress acts before year end | Alaska Beacon

Subsidies for policies purchased through the federal marketplace are due to expire, affecting everyone in the state.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 9d

A frustrated Eisenhower knew but could not publicly say that secret photographs from U-2 spy planes and new CORONA photoreconnaissance satellites proved that no such gap existed. In fact, the United States had a six to one advantage in ICBMs (12 versus 2) and a small lead in SLBMs (32 versus 30).

A declassified black and white early CORONA satellite photograph showing the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Soviet Union’s first missile flight test and space launch facility, located in Kazakhstan near the village of Tyuratam, some 1,300 miles southeast of Moscow. A rocket test stand and flame trench are at the lower right.

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 11d

Wildly overblown and disconnected from reality?
/dnrtfa

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 11d

I feel the inherency

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 11d

I have such a clear memory of this song, Jan 1, 1986. Sitting at my desk in a Wisconsin farmhouse, clear sunshine and bitter cold outside. Hand writing a junior high report on evolutionary biology, this song came on the radio

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 16d

Such a clever movie
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The 'burbs (8/10) Movie CLIP - We're the Lunatics! (1989) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 17d

This is perfect to inflict on my students this week

Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 19d

There's a really nice explanation (with clear graphics) in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article of why most molecules in the atmosphere (oxygen & nitrogen) don't act as greenhouse gases, but a lot of the far less numerous ones (like carbon dioxide and methane) do. A great teaching aid :)

The Quantum Mechanics of Greenhouse Gases | Quanta Magazine

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ef...

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