RichThompsonAK
@richthompsonak.bsky.social
Boot person. Retired LEO. No whinging. Usual caveats apply. Alaska
Все буде Україна http://u24.gov.ua https://1team1fightusa.org
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Все буде Україна http://u24.gov.ua https://1team1fightusa.org
https://savelife.in.ua http://ukraineaidops.org http://saintjavelin.com
I'll just leave this here ...
Protesters at Prague Castle display a statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting on a golden toilet during the European Summit in Prague on October 7, 2022.
Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP
Protesters at Prague Castle display a statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting on a golden toilet during the European Summit in Prague on October 7, 2022.
Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I'll just leave this here ...
Protesters at Prague Castle display a statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting on a golden toilet during the European Summit in Prague on October 7, 2022.
Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP
Protesters at Prague Castle display a statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting on a golden toilet during the European Summit in Prague on October 7, 2022.
Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP
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Only two more days BLACK FRIDAY sale in the UAO Shop and the Victory Gallery 👀
With the code "BLACK2025", you get -25% on all orders❤️🔥 All proceeds are used for drones in the Kramatorsk / Pokrovsk direction🫡
➡️ ukraineaidops.org/pages/shop
➡️ ukraineaidops.org/pages/gallery
With the code "BLACK2025", you get -25% on all orders❤️🔥 All proceeds are used for drones in the Kramatorsk / Pokrovsk direction🫡
➡️ ukraineaidops.org/pages/shop
➡️ ukraineaidops.org/pages/gallery
November 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Only two more days BLACK FRIDAY sale in the UAO Shop and the Victory Gallery 👀
With the code "BLACK2025", you get -25% on all orders❤️🔥 All proceeds are used for drones in the Kramatorsk / Pokrovsk direction🫡
➡️ ukraineaidops.org/pages/shop
➡️ ukraineaidops.org/pages/gallery
With the code "BLACK2025", you get -25% on all orders❤️🔥 All proceeds are used for drones in the Kramatorsk / Pokrovsk direction🫡
➡️ ukraineaidops.org/pages/shop
➡️ ukraineaidops.org/pages/gallery
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Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region. Together with the “White Angel” unit, three civilians were evacuated.
📹 Denis Khrystov/Facebook
📹 Denis Khrystov/Facebook
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region. Together with the “White Angel” unit, three civilians were evacuated.
📹 Denis Khrystov/Facebook
📹 Denis Khrystov/Facebook
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To all worried about the fate of Ukraine, remember:
- Ukraine stood strong against all odds in Feb 2022, led by Zelensky.
- Russia barely advanced the frontline since their defeat in Kyiv.
- Ukraine has liberated more land than has lost since.
- Eliminating corruption is vital for Ukraine's survival
- Ukraine stood strong against all odds in Feb 2022, led by Zelensky.
- Russia barely advanced the frontline since their defeat in Kyiv.
- Ukraine has liberated more land than has lost since.
- Eliminating corruption is vital for Ukraine's survival
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
To all worried about the fate of Ukraine, remember:
- Ukraine stood strong against all odds in Feb 2022, led by Zelensky.
- Russia barely advanced the frontline since their defeat in Kyiv.
- Ukraine has liberated more land than has lost since.
- Eliminating corruption is vital for Ukraine's survival
- Ukraine stood strong against all odds in Feb 2022, led by Zelensky.
- Russia barely advanced the frontline since their defeat in Kyiv.
- Ukraine has liberated more land than has lost since.
- Eliminating corruption is vital for Ukraine's survival
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7am and Loud booms and I shock waves and drones and missile engines and
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
7am and Loud booms and I shock waves and drones and missile engines and
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Sea ice is trying to form (again) at Nome. This time it will likely stick as colder weather inbound. 1230pm AKST Friday: 27F (-2.8C), northeast wind 4 mph. Image courtesy Nome CVB. #akwx @hanners64n.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sea ice is trying to form (again) at Nome. This time it will likely stick as colder weather inbound. 1230pm AKST Friday: 27F (-2.8C), northeast wind 4 mph. Image courtesy Nome CVB. #akwx @hanners64n.bsky.social
I wonder, with heavy heart and weary sigh,
Will the end of us all be brought by AI?
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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
“Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62 percent for hand-crafted poems ...”
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Will the end of us all be brought by AI?
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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
“Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62 percent for hand-crafted poems ...”
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I wonder, with heavy heart and weary sigh,
Will the end of us all be brought by AI?
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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
“Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62 percent for hand-crafted poems ...”
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Will the end of us all be brought by AI?
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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
“Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62 percent for hand-crafted poems ...”
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Russia Fails to Win Back Seat on IMO Shipping Agency’s Governing Council
"Ukraine ... urged IMO member states not to support the candidacy saying Moscow 'undermines global shipping safety and … cannot claim a leading role in global maritime governance.'"
gcaptain.com/russia-fails...
"Ukraine ... urged IMO member states not to support the candidacy saying Moscow 'undermines global shipping safety and … cannot claim a leading role in global maritime governance.'"
gcaptain.com/russia-fails...
Russia Fails to Win Back Seat on IMO Shipping Agency's Governing Council
Russia failed on Friday to win enough votes to rejoin the U.N. shipping agency's governing council despite urging countries to back its nomination for a seat it lost in 2023.
gcaptain.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Russia Fails to Win Back Seat on IMO Shipping Agency’s Governing Council
"Ukraine ... urged IMO member states not to support the candidacy saying Moscow 'undermines global shipping safety and … cannot claim a leading role in global maritime governance.'"
gcaptain.com/russia-fails...
"Ukraine ... urged IMO member states not to support the candidacy saying Moscow 'undermines global shipping safety and … cannot claim a leading role in global maritime governance.'"
gcaptain.com/russia-fails...
The Arctic Council's Podcast This Way Up:
Advocating for the Arctic
"...why the Arctic matters far beyond its borders, what gaps remain in global advocacy efforts and how Indigenous Knowledge, science and diplomacy can come together to help the region thrive."
www.highnorthnews.com/en/advocatin...
Advocating for the Arctic
"...why the Arctic matters far beyond its borders, what gaps remain in global advocacy efforts and how Indigenous Knowledge, science and diplomacy can come together to help the region thrive."
www.highnorthnews.com/en/advocatin...
Advocating for the Arctic
How does one advocate for one of the most rapidly changing regions on Earth? In this episode of This Way Up, three voices with unique perspectives discuss how they advocate for the Arctic.
www.highnorthnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The Arctic Council's Podcast This Way Up:
Advocating for the Arctic
"...why the Arctic matters far beyond its borders, what gaps remain in global advocacy efforts and how Indigenous Knowledge, science and diplomacy can come together to help the region thrive."
www.highnorthnews.com/en/advocatin...
Advocating for the Arctic
"...why the Arctic matters far beyond its borders, what gaps remain in global advocacy efforts and how Indigenous Knowledge, science and diplomacy can come together to help the region thrive."
www.highnorthnews.com/en/advocatin...
Op-ed: Stop Russia’s Arctic LNG now: The G7 Must Shut Down the Tankers Financing Putin’s War
"For the last three years, Russia’s fossil-fuel exports have remained the single largest source of revenue sustaining its aggression."
www.highnorthnews.com/en/stop-russ...
"For the last three years, Russia’s fossil-fuel exports have remained the single largest source of revenue sustaining its aggression."
www.highnorthnews.com/en/stop-russ...
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Op-ed: Stop Russia’s Arctic LNG now: The G7 Must Shut Down the Tankers Financing Putin’s War
"For the last three years, Russia’s fossil-fuel exports have remained the single largest source of revenue sustaining its aggression."
www.highnorthnews.com/en/stop-russ...
"For the last three years, Russia’s fossil-fuel exports have remained the single largest source of revenue sustaining its aggression."
www.highnorthnews.com/en/stop-russ...
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uhhh this seems not good
Alaska state utility regulators approve secrecy orders for billionaire’s takeover of GCI, reports James Brooks for the @alaskabeacon.com
Alaska state utility regulators approve secrecy orders for billionaire’s takeover of GCI | Alaska Beacon
John Malone, one of the wealthiest people in the United States, is preparing to take control of a majority of GCI Liberty's voting power.
alaskabeacon.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
uhhh this seems not good
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Dear Fellow Americans:
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I can't imagine campaigning on this, but if grave breaches become operational policy and other war crimes are routinely pardoned when/if prosecuted, joining the ICC seems much more reasonable than my previous belief that we'd hold our own accountable.
November 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Dear Fellow Americans:
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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I think the cognitive error here is what I am going to call - from A Man for All Seasons - the 'This Isn't Spain!' fallacy: the assumption that some special forcefield enforces the regularity of your country's politics, so that things that happen elsewhere 'cannot happen here.'
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I think the cognitive error here is what I am going to call - from A Man for All Seasons - the 'This Isn't Spain!' fallacy: the assumption that some special forcefield enforces the regularity of your country's politics, so that things that happen elsewhere 'cannot happen here.'
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Pray for these warriors who still fighting on the front lines. Faces of Freedom 🙏
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Pray for these warriors who still fighting on the front lines. Faces of Freedom 🙏
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Small reminder: Ukrainians are not fighting "for Zelenskyy" — they are fighting for freedom & dignity. Since 2014, they've been fighting a war on two fronts: against Russia's genocidal killers & their own corrupt officials. Successful raids by 🇺🇦 anti-corruption fighters are not a sign of weakness...
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Small reminder: Ukrainians are not fighting "for Zelenskyy" — they are fighting for freedom & dignity. Since 2014, they've been fighting a war on two fronts: against Russia's genocidal killers & their own corrupt officials. Successful raids by 🇺🇦 anti-corruption fighters are not a sign of weakness...
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Activision PC CD/DVD Image Collection : Activision : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/2025... via @internetarchive
Activision PC CD/DVD Image Collection : Activision : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Collection of Activision PC CD/DVD images.(Last Updated: 2025-08-30)Click here for Activision PC floppy disk images.View all of my other collections...
archive.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Activision PC CD/DVD Image Collection : Activision : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/2025... via @internetarchive
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Lincoln wasn't perfect, but he was very good.
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Lincoln wasn't perfect, but he was very good.
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Pure far right demagoguery from Stephen Miller here
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Pure far right demagoguery from Stephen Miller here
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20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.
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"Going to prison for three to five years with only a slim chance of parole? Maybe back up to a hard drive first, or have your cousin switch your machine on now and then for safety’s sake."
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A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data
A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Going to prison for three to five years with only a slim chance of parole? Maybe back up to a hard drive first, or have your cousin switch your machine on now and then for safety’s sake."
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Tuesday. Southcentral cooler than normal, Bering Sea coast mostly a bit above normal. The significant difference between some communities in the Interior result of differences in winds and/or clouds disrupting valley based inversions. #akwx #weather
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A Russian drone that crashed in Moldova ended up right outside the Russian ambassador’s office. In response, Oleg Ozerov fell back on Cold War-era tactics, spouting absurdities.
He claimed the drone was originally shot down over Kharkiv and bizarrely suggested Ukraine repaired and relaunched it. .
He claimed the drone was originally shot down over Kharkiv and bizarrely suggested Ukraine repaired and relaunched it. .
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A Russian drone that crashed in Moldova ended up right outside the Russian ambassador’s office. In response, Oleg Ozerov fell back on Cold War-era tactics, spouting absurdities.
He claimed the drone was originally shot down over Kharkiv and bizarrely suggested Ukraine repaired and relaunched it. .
He claimed the drone was originally shot down over Kharkiv and bizarrely suggested Ukraine repaired and relaunched it. .
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Such activity from Putin clearly shows that the other sides are close to a deal and forcing Putin to peace. Putin also realizes that in case he refuses the sanctions will be enhanced and a full dependence of Russia from China will follow.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Such activity from Putin clearly shows that the other sides are close to a deal and forcing Putin to peace. Putin also realizes that in case he refuses the sanctions will be enhanced and a full dependence of Russia from China will follow.