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Graham W. Jenkins
@grahamj.bsky.social
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Defense, space, intel | trains, cities, pugs, warhammer | learning 廣東話 | at least as tall as Fetterman but not nearly as shitty

Old site: @grahamwjenkins, @lowheadways

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LA via DC via Boston
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Babbys first pug walk
Tall man, tiny baby Baby head and pug butts Baby head and clearer view of pugs
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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[eyebrow raised so high it interferes with flight paths]
breakingdefense.com/2025/11/gold...
Significant missile threats make the need for air and missile defense of the homeland nearly self-evident. It is not hard to imagine Operation Spiderweb-type attacks on airfields, massive ballistic attacks on US homeland military bases similar to Iran’s attack on Al Udeid, or waves of cruise missile strikes on Washington, DC, as has been seen in Ukraine.
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Lmao
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Great @alexsammon.bsky.social article, and also, I wasn't imagining it after all slate.com/business/202...
A second kidnap car drove by, a Kia with Arizona plates. Then a third: a Volkswagen ID.4, electric. Sometimes, the group said, it would see vehicles with no plates, or plates blacked out with electrical tape, or temporary paper plates that just so happened to tear off in the wind. Sometimes multiple cars would have the same plates; sometimes the numbers were laughably fake: ABC1234, for instance. Somehow, the cops never seemed to pull these cars over. plateless presumed kidnap car A pair of plateless kidnap cars outside every cop's favorite hangout, Pita 360 in Gardena
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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So anyways some personal news
Two pugs curled up protecting a tiny little baby man
October 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Noooo won't somebody think of the landlords
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Board Chair Kathryn Barger was the sole “no” vote, noting that she fully supports efforts to keep immigrant families housed but worries about the legal repercussions of the declaration as well as the burden a moratorium would place on landlords. “I’m sure we’re going to be challenged legally,” she said, adding that “landlords are going to be held financially responsible [for unpaid rent] when it’s no fault of theirs, and they still have to pay bills and provide for their families.”
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Wow the @gmtgames.bsky.social P500 I pre-ordered SIX years ago is finally arriving tomorrow (it's Brian Train's "China's War") www.gmtgames.com/p-830-chinas...
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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This, to me, is cinema
NEW YORK YANKEES - Most runs allowed over 2-game span in postseason franchise history 21 RUNS
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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what on earth www.askamanager.org/2025/09/do-i...
do I have to avoid talking about Warhammer 40k at work? by Alison Green on September 30, 2025 A reader writes: My job has a weekly meeting where a different employee each week presents to our group about what they’ve been working on for the past few months (academic lab meeting). The group is about 30 people and includes our boss/PI and everyone else in the lab group. There’s a tradition where the first five to ten minutes of these hour-long presentations are devoted to photos highlighting cool things from our personal lives. Almost everyone uses this time to show photos from things such as vacations, hobbies, hiking trails, their children’s school events, etc. I think it’s a cool way to connect with my coworkers and I think everyone else feels the same way. My issue is that I spend most of my time outside work on a hobby that toes the safe-for-work line and I’m curious if it would be appropriate to talk about. I spend a lot of time playing a game called Warhammer 40k. It involves building and painting miniatures (like building a model train or a lego model) and then putting them on a table and rolling dice to have them act out different scenarios (like Dungeons and Dragons). I often travel to large tournaments with my team to compete in this game against other people like in a traditional sport. The issue is this game is based on fictional sci-fi violence. The game is very explicitly about fighting, and the aesthetics of the game include heavy use of sci-fi guns and sci-fi swords. It would be impossible to talk about this hobby without at least somewhat referencing gun violence being used in a fictional war setting. What are your thoughts on including this hobby in a semi-casual work presentation? I know some of my coworkers would find all this pretty neat but I’m not sure about everyone else, including my boss. Yeah, you’ve got to nix all mention of guns and instruments of unique, brutal death (which my husband tells me is one of the things the game is known for). But there’s got to be a way to talk about it in broad terms without zeroing in on guns and deaths, surely! You can reference “battles” and “warring factions” and the building of miniatures and traveling to tournaments and what Wikipedia tells me are supernatural monsters without talking about actual violence. The miniatures angle, in particular, might be interesting to people. (Do you paint them? How do you build them? Etc.) Plus, even if it didn’t have violence, you should still keep it pretty surface-level, because no one really wants a detailed account of someone else’s gameplay unless they’re an avid fan of the same game, and maybe not even then. I’d also mix it up — you don’t want this to be your topic every time (and people may really zone out if it’s more than once — but that’s probably true of other people’s topics, too). I don’t think you need to avoid it entirely, though, as long as you don’t focus on the specifically violent elements. (Caveat: I’m writing this as someone who had never heard of the game until I received your letter. If it’s known among people who know games as one where the violence is the entire point — to the point that people who know the game would question your judgment for raising it there at all — then you should ignore all of the above and not use it in this context.)
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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RIP @kalebhorton.bsky.social and thank you for finding this gem

kalebhorton.ghost.io/army-man-ame...
New Names for the Armed Services OLD NEW THE ARMY. DEATHFORCE 9000 THE NAVY. .SEA DEMONS THE AIR FORCE...... ..SKYRYDERS THE MARINES .ASSAULT TEAM: FIREKILL THE DELTA FORCE... THE OMEGA FORCE THE COAST GUARD... THE MARINES
September 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Absolutely fucking insane that there is no digital version of the California disability insurance application form. You either have to wait 10 days to get one by mail or visit an office in person. What the actual fuck
edd.ca.gov/en/disabilit...
Claim for Disability Insurance (DI) Benefits (DE 2501) – English: You must submit an original form provided by the EDD, either electronically or through US mail. It cannot be downloaded or reproduced. To submit the DE 2501 electronically, visit How to File a Disability Insurance Claim in SDI Online. To submit by US mail, visit How to File a Disability Insurance Claim by Mail. To order this form to submit by mail: Visit Online Forms and Publications. Select Keyword(s) or Form Number from the dropdown. Enter DE 2501 for an English form or DE 2501/S for a Spanish form. Select Search.
September 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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LA Times push alert: "Primm was once an affordable casino mecca for Southern Californians heading to Vegas. Now it has become a ghost town" Primm as seen in Fallout: New Vegas
September 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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A moored boat with a banner obscured so as to read "ass bottom"
September 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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lol
September 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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For *my* stupid hobby treats, Tiny Legend is back at least, but VMS no longer ships directly. Small Scale Lights is back with a surcharge, and Battle Systems has added a 30% tariff charge too
Estonia-based Tiny Legend resumes US-bound shipping with higher fees Polish VMS (Vantage Modeling Solutions) no longer shipping direct to US UK-based Small Scale Lights now applies a tariff and a handling fee UK-based Battle Systems with a China-derived 30% tariff
September 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Now that my hearing is back I can say it was A Good Show
September 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Lol
The stadium can be very difficult to access due to the traffic caused by single-lane residential street access. It has little dedicated parking for visitors and parking issues have routinely caused visitors to spend two to three hours completing the last mile to the stadium on game days. When constructed, the majority of visitors arrived to the bowl via the Pacific Electric interurban streetcar system; however, this service ended in 1958. Weather permitting, the 36 holes of Brookside Golf Course are used for parking. In 2016, Rose Bowl contracted ParkJockey to streamline parking in and around the stadium. There is improved signage, a shuttle service to help visitors get to the stadium and mobile generator-powered lighting for visitors walking on the golf course at night.
September 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Great minds, @aelkus.bsky.social @utopia-defer.red
Pouring one, two out for Harambe
September 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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👀👀👀
www.forsvaret.dk/en/news/2025...
By the Danish Defence Command Due to increased focus on the security situation in the Arctic, the Danish Armed Forces are enhancing their military presence and level of activity in and around Greenland. This is carried out under the leadership of the Joint Arctic Command and in coordination with the Government of Greenland. As part of this initiative, the Danish Armed Forces will conduct Exercise Arctic Light 2025 from 9 to 19 September. During the exercise, the Danish military will train alongside personnel from other NATO countries to strengthen their joint response capabilities against destabilising threats to Greenland, the Kingdom of Denmark, and NATO in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. Danish and NATO Forces Train in Arctic Conditions During Arctic Light 2025, Danish forces will train alongside personnel from France, Germany, Sweden, and Norway. More than 550 soldiers are expected to take part. As part of the exercise, the Danish Armed Forces will deploy the frigate Niels Juel, two EH-101 helicopters, two F-16 fighter jets, and contributions from all three branches of the armed forces, including special operations forces and the Danish Home Guard. Additionally, the French Navy ship FS Garonne, a multi-role tanker aircraft, and mountain infantry equipped with drones from France will participate. There will also be home guard contributions from Sweden and Norway, along with an observer team and staff contributions from Germany. Together, these NATO allied forces will train to counter various forms of destabilising threats. "United States": zero results found.
September 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I think what makes day-to-day modern life so aggravating is that in these cases, e.g., the safe assumption is that nothing will come of them, because laws aren't real
Headlines from the Boston Globe and LA Times on, respectively, Trump admin and LA Clippers illegal acts
September 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Lol this game still whips ass but having just beaten it it is shorter than I remember
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (play time: 6.7 hours)
August 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Well thank God we're not undertaking a series of actions seemingly designed to undermine the entire consumer economy or anything

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Stagnant Job Market Is a Rising Risk for the U.S. Economy Employers are holding on to workers but hiring has slowed, creating a fragile labor market By Justin Lahart The good news is that unemployment remains low, and employers haven’t been all that interested in laying people off. The bad news is that companies haven’t been all that interested in hiring, either. This precarious situation means even a relatively small increase in layoffs could lead the economy to start shedding jobs—a process that can be difficult to reverse once it starts.
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Got another one of those dumbfuck anti-redistricting mailers, but it's heartening to see mine joining my neighbors' in the trash
Some stupid bullshit in the garbage, where it belongs
August 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Transit-oriented development, but for long-range strike
www.economist.com/internationa...
In a war, America would fire at Chinese ships crossing the Taiwan Strait and other targets with long-range bombers, submarines and ground units lurking on islands. It would require vast amounts of air-to-air refuelling. Yet tankers and bombers are precious assets and, apart from the B-2, easy to see on radar. Moreover, America’s tanker fleet is more than 50 years old, on average. Mr Walton says China is optimising missile warheads to seek big planes such as tankers and airborne radars. Most may have to be held far back. But the farther planes must commute to war, the less effective they are.
August 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM