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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸

@midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social

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Materials science & nukes. Deterrence & what comes after. Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible. Opinions my own. Rekindling hearts in a world that grows chill.

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · Jan 30

sorry to all my recent resistlib follows, this account WILL post about counterforce targeting and nuclear materials aging again someday

and to my nuke followers, sorry, this account will continue to post resistlib shit as well

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 30

people who follow me for one topic

vs

the rest of my interests

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 26m

"MAGA doesn't understand even a kid's Sunday School version of Christianity" isn't a new or interesting observation, but to be indulgent, "we are saving God" is a kind of heresy that struggles to even fit in a category box

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Chris - Tortured Systems Engineer™️ @optesterchris.bsky.social · 15h

“I sure would like to go to work tomorrow.”

Things I said as I prepared to go to bed.

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah I mean I *did* sit up on my rooftop with a rifle for a few nights because some homes in the neighborhood had actually been burned down. I do remember some real unpleasant periods, both from the black bloc and the fascists in the streets.

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 19h

Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi could get 2/3s coverage here.

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 19h

no march, only molotov*

*also unlikely to throw molotov irl as it requires leaving the house

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

It is sobering and stirring in equal measure to see the bravery and goodness of some ordinary people in this country. Stiffens one's backbone a bit. We will need the full measure of both before this business is done.

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Argos down at lunchtime

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Grindr ping in vault

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

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

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Russ those are their emotional support subalterns

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

lack of controls means you also get people buying shady Internet lasers with no clue what the actual outputs are, seems suboptimal

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

the F in FPV stands for forcefemmed

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

NIST and these fuckers while I'm on the warpath

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

ACAB includes DCSA, State DDTC, and Commerce BIS-OEE

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Faine doesn't want you to know this (possible mind cop? must investigate) but it must be said:

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

The helicopters left, buuuuut... It's not exactly an unqualified victory. I'm not saying this to condone or advocate lasering police helicopters, far from it - trying to give some sense of how very far off we are from scenarios where this might become a good idea.

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

In the affairs of men - like Crooked Bill Clinton with Ms. Lewinsky in the Oval Office, we love our Clintons don't we folks? - In the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. No waning, that's what they tell me, Sleepy Joe might be waning though.

MrNelson007, Defender of Skara Brae @mrnelson007.bsky.social · 1d

His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the president. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

the president is constantly talking about dying because his heart is so powerful that he will never die, and the fact that others will fascinates him

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

People did this in Egypt in the Arab Spring to army *attack helicopters* over Tahrir Square, and tbh I think that's about the bar for it to be a sane or legit tactic

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Karp studied under Jurgen friggin Habermas for a portion of his PhD, too, lol

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Giled Pallaeon @giledpallaeon.bsky.social · 1d

Given the gross inaccuracies in the film, I’m really struggling with this recommendation. Nuclear war is bad; so are ill-informed public’s that will choose and pressure leaders into bad choices and worse outcomes based on poor education.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28d

I was able to see an early screening of "A House of Dynamite." Americans need to see this movie and remember why nuclear attack is vastly more terrifying than any other threat to our existence.

www.netflix.com/title/81744537

Watch A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE | Netflix Official Site

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

www.netflix.com

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

There is exactly one useful thing you could do with the Guard on this front and it involves ORARNG 12 series engineers building houses. Which is in of itself kind of a crummy way to handle it.

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

Which in practice winds up being sort of like the use of federal subsidized student loans to pay for living expenses here in the US, it is not quite the same but it roughly lines up

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

One of the peculiar throughlines connecting MAGA to the last generation of reactionaries is the belief that the Civil Rights Movement was something forced on the South by a federal government of Northern liberals. This myth is load-bearing and explains much about how they view modern government.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 2d

Nuclear threat
"Boo! Get better material!"
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nuclear threat nuclear threat nuclear threat nuclear threat

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

No, they do not.

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