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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 5h

BAH, LHM, AWS, Microsoft, Palantir.

The largest DOD vendors with the largest incumbency on current contracts.

Zombie Eisenhower is going to rise from the grave to devour the brains of the military-industrial complex.

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 7h

Every parent ever: “We know.”

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h

A recent study of schoolchildren finds that the youngest students harbor the most germs.

During cold and flu season, the youngest kids really are the germiest

A recent study of schoolchildren finds that the youngest students harbor the most germs. Researchers looked at nasal swabs and symptom reports of more than 800 students and staff in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 7h

This guy is one blood transfusion away from wearing Kleenex boxes on his feet and peeing into Mason jars.

Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 8h

Got to the part of my Twin Peaks rewatch where Windom Earle becomes the main antagonist. S2 has a lot of deadwood, but I find Earle’s storyline to be a great villain arc.

Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 9h

No, but I do sip coffee out of a SVR coffee mug for laughs.

Guess I can’t run for Senate any longer.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 11h

Music of the moment. If the concept of “cool” could be distilled down to a sound, it would be Mike Bloomfield’s guitar playing. Perfect Chicago electric blues.

Work Song

YouTube video by Paul Butterfield - Topic

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 20h

First run after another prolonged absence from the gym due to my twitchy immune system. Lost a minute on my run time, which should be recovered in 1-2 weeks if I stay healthy.

First 10k of the season in a little more than 2 weeks; nothing like coming down to the wire on prep.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, so now a bunch of linear right angles arranged against each other is a hate symbol? Just looks like a geometry problem to me. Move on.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 1d

The good news is that Americans have an overdeveloped sense of bloodlust and vengeance, so at some point, we’ll probably sail a cruiser or destroyer- something disposable- into a provocation that gives the yokels a cause to rally around.

Wouldn’t be the first time, not even in my lifetime.

Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 1d

You want the average Carolina tobacco farmer or a shoe salesman from Fresno to allow their kid to die in the ECS, you better have something more real to them than Great
Powers competition or multipolar realignment. Joe Citizen don’t care.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 1d

The overriding problem with this is that neither the NatSec community or either political wing in America has made a publicly convincing argument as to why their children should potentially pay in blood in competition against the CCP. A national strategy is DOA without a national cause.

The Pentagon’s Missing China Strategy

Washington still lacks a credible military plan for deterring Beijing.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 1d

And again, I say.

The Pentagon’s Missing China Strategy

Washington still lacks a credible military plan for deterring Beijing.

www.foreignaffairs.com

Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Tilting at the NDS windmill is a noble effort, but with about the same chance of success. It’ll take more than tariff scuffles to move the needle away from border nativist operations.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Great, great flick that a non-zero percent of Gen X vets overly associate with.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 2d

This guy was a Master Chief from my community who worked his way into a horrible reputation by proving he’d do anything for the next step up.

So setting someone on fire? That’s on brand.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.

Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 3d

The F-16 has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, a fighter pilot who patrolled D.C.’s skies during 9/11, will again fly the Air Force’s F-16 while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be a passenger in a Navy F/A-18 in Nevada on Sunday.

Gen. Caine, Hegseth to fly in fighter jets during Nevada demonstration

Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine, who patrolled D.C.’s skies during 9/11, will again fly the Air Force’s F-16, and Pete Hegseth will be a passenger in a Navy F/A-18.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 3d

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Surely nothing to be keeping an eye on. Xi has been aggressively purging leaders since the PLARF scandal, but he’s also been pruning potential successors out of the CCP.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 4d

So I’ve been busy with a ton of other stuff, but basically, China just purged, basically all, of the senior leadership of the military - He Weidong was CMC Vice Chair, Miao Hua was head of the political department. Seeing some stuff about key branch leadership also going.

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He Weidong, Miao Hua, and 7 others have been expelled from the Party and the military for serious violations of discipline and law.
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何卫东、苗华等9人严重违纪违法被开除党籍军籍
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10/17 17-25 泉鱼北京市
10月17日下午，国防部新闻发言人张晓刚大校就近期涉军问题发布消息。
张晓刚：党的十八大以来，全军和武警部队坚决贯彻党中央、中央军委决策指示，坚持无禁区、全覆盖、零容忍，重拳惩贪肃腐，军队反腐败斗争不断向纵深推进。经党中央、中央军委批准，中央军委纪委监委陆续对中央政治局委员、中央军委副主席何卫东，中央军委委员、军委政治工作部原主任苗华，军委政治工作部原常务副主任何宏军，军委联合作战指挥中心原常务副主任王秀斌，东部战区原司令员林向阳、陆军原政委秦树桐、海军原政委袁华智、火箭军原司令员王厚斌、武警部队原司令员王春宁9人立案审查调查。经查，这
9人严重违反党的纪律，涉嫩严重职务犯罪，数额特别巨大，性质极为严重，影响极其恶劣，依掘相关党内法规和法律法规，党中央决定给予9人开除党籍处分，将涉嫌犯罪问题移送军事检察机关依法审查起诉。其中，给予何卫东、苗华、何宏军、王秀斌、林向阳、泰树桐、袁华智、王春宁8名中央委员开除党籍处分，待召开中央委员会全体会议时予以追认。此前，中央军委已决定给予以上9人开除军籍处分。对何卫东、苗华、何宏军等人的严肃查处，再次表明了党中央、中央军委将反腐败斗争进行到底的坚定决心，彰显了军中绝不允许有腐败分子藏身之地的鲜明态度，是党和军队反腐败斗争取得的重大成果，人民军队更加纯洁巩固、更具强大凝聚力战斗力。
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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 5d

Still doing my Twin Peaks rewatch and amazed that Lynch invested a primetime network show to a blend of experienced thespians mixed in with some real Z-grade local theater yokels. Tommy Wiseau brain

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing in front of a sign that says number 5

ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing in front of a sign that says number 5

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 5d

everybody in the DMV should line up to spit on his grave.

WMAR-2 News @wmar2news.bsky.social · 5d

Daniel Hersl, a former member of the disgraced Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), has died at 55, court records show.

See more: https://www.wmar2news.com/news/region/baltimore-city/ex-gttf-officer-daniel-hersl-dies-at-55

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 5d

This is a quality joke goddamnit

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 5d

Filipino Monkey - Wikipedia

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 5d

All the Navy vets immediately going into doing Filipino Monkey impersonations with the radios

She Guevara 🗳💚 @sheg7.bsky.social · 6d

Actual advice for (US) No Kings:

No names, no phones, black clothes you've never worn before, masks, gloves, good shoes, eye protection, water...

Utilise the military guys in your ranks. Give them radios that connect with people flying drones above the rally. Co-ordinate movements accordingly.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 6d

Autoerotic asphyXIation.

The Economist @economist.com · 6d

Both China and America have a chokehold, but both are wriggling to break free. The behaviour of each causes its rival to tighten its grip—a cycle that, for now, seems destined to get worse econ.st/4qeWT7I

Photo: Reuters

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine your kid seeing Sliwa and having to explain that, back in the 70’s, roving packs of beret-wearing men prowled the subways of New Yawk doing performative vigilantism.

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