Nom de Plume Brett
@maverickbrett.bsky.social
I mean nom de plume literally means pen name.
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Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)🏳️🌈
Views do not represent employers or funding agencies.
Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)🏳️🌈
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>a minimizing of the tragedy while exploring the peripheral concern, but it is neither. The tragedy of losing a guardsman and fellow citizen is measured not only in the life, but how well we don't allow that tragedy to be exploited by people who serve partisan agendas & those who use offices of<
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
>a minimizing of the tragedy while exploring the peripheral concern, but it is neither. The tragedy of losing a guardsman and fellow citizen is measured not only in the life, but how well we don't allow that tragedy to be exploited by people who serve partisan agendas & those who use offices of<
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The regime punishes those most willing to sacrifice for their neighbor, the ones most willing to be the hero, often made necessary by the regime itself.
What a senseless loss. She deserved better, and it sounds like living by her example would be a good start.
What a senseless loss. She deserved better, and it sounds like living by her example would be a good start.
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The regime punishes those most willing to sacrifice for their neighbor, the ones most willing to be the hero, often made necessary by the regime itself.
What a senseless loss. She deserved better, and it sounds like living by her example would be a good start.
What a senseless loss. She deserved better, and it sounds like living by her example would be a good start.
So the CG does sink the boats after taking the drugs off as they do present a hazard to navigation (all vessels adrift do) but the logic here is blatantly criminal.
5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So the CG does sink the boats after taking the drugs off as they do present a hazard to navigation (all vessels adrift do) but the logic here is blatantly criminal.
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Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.
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yes. its at that point you have to accept that the movie is about a force of nature. you go from the tunnel shootout, which is already experienced much more as a hallucinatory experience than a tactical setpiece, to del toro terminator'ing his way into a drug lord's villa
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who incidentally is both like, Batman and a 19th century revenge melodrama antihero – his big reveal is a complete break in even the idealized realism of the story
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
yes. its at that point you have to accept that the movie is about a force of nature. you go from the tunnel shootout, which is already experienced much more as a hallucinatory experience than a tactical setpiece, to del toro terminator'ing his way into a drug lord's villa
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If the human embodiment of crime manages to bring down parts of the Swiss government because of corruption, that will be a big lol.
Swiss lawmakers seek probe into whether gifts to Trump may have breached law reut.rs/4rpPnHM
Swiss lawmakers seek probe into whether gifts to Trump may have breached law
Two Swiss lawmakers have asked prosecutors to examine whether gifts reportedly given to U.S. President Donald Trump - including a Rolex watch and a gold bar - by Swiss business leaders may have violated Switzerland's anti-bribery laws.
reut.rs
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If the human embodiment of crime manages to bring down parts of the Swiss government because of corruption, that will be a big lol.
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Friends, do not argue about politics today. But if you must, argue with the in-laws about test yield thresholds and the relative merits of a "zero yield" criterion. Not college football or Congress.
Lessons From Los Alamos
America has the most to lose from restarting nuclear testing.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Friends, do not argue about politics today. But if you must, argue with the in-laws about test yield thresholds and the relative merits of a "zero yield" criterion. Not college football or Congress.
JWICS but Leftist has been stuck in my mind since @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social said it like a month ago.
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
JWICS but Leftist has been stuck in my mind since @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social said it like a month ago.
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Art by • David Mattingly
November 30, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Art by • David Mattingly
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the raccoon looking at your cat being pampered:
“Lord, I have seen what you have done for others. I humbly ask you to do the same for me🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻”
“Lord, I have seen what you have done for others. I humbly ask you to do the same for me🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻”
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
the raccoon looking at your cat being pampered:
“Lord, I have seen what you have done for others. I humbly ask you to do the same for me🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻”
“Lord, I have seen what you have done for others. I humbly ask you to do the same for me🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻”
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Johnson is a member of the Gang of 8 and thus privy to the most sensitive covert actions and intelligence operations being undertaken by the USG.
Accidental dialing is also a problem, according to his wife.
“She’s like, ‘Make sure your phone is off! You’re talking about, you know, this is related to national security, who’s listening?’ I don’t know.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
“She’s like, ‘Make sure your phone is off! You’re talking about, you know, this is related to national security, who’s listening?’ I don’t know.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Johnson is a member of the Gang of 8 and thus privy to the most sensitive covert actions and intelligence operations being undertaken by the USG.
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CI is a thankless gig. The successes are rarely known. The failures are often public spectacle. The famed Station Chief Peer de Silva said “There are Tigers roaming this world, and we must recognize this or perish.”
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
CI is a thankless gig. The successes are rarely known. The failures are often public spectacle. The famed Station Chief Peer de Silva said “There are Tigers roaming this world, and we must recognize this or perish.”
Wait are we going to do a forced activation of national guard troops with no notice the day before thanksgiving? I have questions about this.
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Wait are we going to do a forced activation of national guard troops with no notice the day before thanksgiving? I have questions about this.
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this is like cyberpunk gothic
"A death-haunted Trump is fed a steady stream of AI-generated news and polls while he focuses 100% of his efforts on building a ballroom that would dwarf the rest of the White House while navigating a series of accellerating and hidden health crises" is my take on the current situation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
this is like cyberpunk gothic
He is not well.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
He is not well.
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~undue command influence~ but if you needed an example for a class and wanted it to be very obvious to pass the end of subject evaluation.
What the “Department of War” posted today is not normal. Publicizing an internal referral memo on social media before any review has occurred undercuts the neutrality expected in military justice and risks unlawful command influence. That should alarm anyone who cares about due process. #holdfast
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
~undue command influence~ but if you needed an example for a class and wanted it to be very obvious to pass the end of subject evaluation.
Reuters says revolution now.
Trump adds Thanksgiving turkeys Gobble and Waddle to his long pardon list reut.rs/4iwauEb
Trump adds Thanksgiving turkeys Gobble and Waddle to his long pardon list
U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned two giant white-plumed turkeys named Gobble and Waddle on Tuesday, sparing them from Thanksgiving dinner tables and adding to more than 1,600 pardons he has granted this term.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Reuters says revolution now.
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In principle I appreciate diverse perspectives in the history of (nuclear) science & society.
In practice, when it's as condescending as this, I find myself appreciating the would-be subjects of British imperial anthropology who drove their interlocutors off with spears and Martini-Henry rifles.
In practice, when it's as condescending as this, I find myself appreciating the would-be subjects of British imperial anthropology who drove their interlocutors off with spears and Martini-Henry rifles.
Cold War arms-control pioneers perhaps weren’t peacemakers we thought they were — Harvard Gazette
Nuclear-age historian argues scientists who backed arsenals as deterrent aided military-industrial complex, hampered disarmament.
news.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
In principle I appreciate diverse perspectives in the history of (nuclear) science & society.
In practice, when it's as condescending as this, I find myself appreciating the would-be subjects of British imperial anthropology who drove their interlocutors off with spears and Martini-Henry rifles.
In practice, when it's as condescending as this, I find myself appreciating the would-be subjects of British imperial anthropology who drove their interlocutors off with spears and Martini-Henry rifles.
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love my vizier advising my enemies about me
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
love my vizier advising my enemies about me
So he is an asset of someone in Moscow? I give a lot of credit to being dumb but this seems to clear even that.
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So he is an asset of someone in Moscow? I give a lot of credit to being dumb but this seems to clear even that.
Going to need a VLF comparable version of bsky.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Going to need a VLF comparable version of bsky.
1. Someone should stick him on adderall.
2. My god at some point is he going to straight up threaten a sitting senator?
3. Everyone this dumb thinks they are Franco?
4. This was less fun to read.
2. My god at some point is he going to straight up threaten a sitting senator?
3. Everyone this dumb thinks they are Franco?
4. This was less fun to read.
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
1. Someone should stick him on adderall.
2. My god at some point is he going to straight up threaten a sitting senator?
3. Everyone this dumb thinks they are Franco?
4. This was less fun to read.
2. My god at some point is he going to straight up threaten a sitting senator?
3. Everyone this dumb thinks they are Franco?
4. This was less fun to read.
This could be a major problem. This itself probably won’t go far, but that career FBI officials and agents let it get this far is a major problem.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This could be a major problem. This itself probably won’t go far, but that career FBI officials and agents let it get this far is a major problem.