Hamish DB
@hamishdb.bsky.social
Void shouter, father of girls, Guinea pig wrangler; also ex UK Army, Other Government Depts and mgmt consultant now Aus public servant and amateur lawn mower. I also know a bit about transport signs and technology.
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At this point, I just kinda assume the status quo will hold, and that this entire episode will ultimately amount to little more than content production and performative posting
A former staffer said that U.S. officials would not be performing a formal occupation like in Iraq. “We’re going to tell them: ‘Hey, this is what you have to do in order for there not to be another strike. That’s what [Trump] sees as running the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
At this point, I just kinda assume the status quo will hold, and that this entire episode will ultimately amount to little more than content production and performative posting
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President Zelensky reacts to Maduro’s capture, suggesting Putin should be next:
If it is possible to deal with dictators like that, just like that, then the United States of America knows what to do next.
If it is possible to deal with dictators like that, just like that, then the United States of America knows what to do next.
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM
President Zelensky reacts to Maduro’s capture, suggesting Putin should be next:
If it is possible to deal with dictators like that, just like that, then the United States of America knows what to do next.
If it is possible to deal with dictators like that, just like that, then the United States of America knows what to do next.
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So like…now what? Is there a plan here exactly for what happens when you decapitate a government overnight?
Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?
Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
So like…now what? Is there a plan here exactly for what happens when you decapitate a government overnight?
Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?
Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.
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From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Wonder how folks involved in the boat strikes feel about a successor administration declaring presidential pardons invalid.
BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Wonder how folks involved in the boat strikes feel about a successor administration declaring presidential pardons invalid.
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
presented without comment
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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Ohhh this is a useful term
September 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Ohhh this is a useful term
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"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line.
Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.
Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.
I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
September 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line.
Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.
Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.
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This is the stupid shit I complained about a few weeks ago.
People at real publications doing news reports based on the vibe-y narrative about a future action that may or may not happen given by the freaking White House Press Office of the Trump administration.
You credulous fools.
People at real publications doing news reports based on the vibe-y narrative about a future action that may or may not happen given by the freaking White House Press Office of the Trump administration.
You credulous fools.
President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, the name the agency held until shortly after World War II, the White House said.
Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War
The president is turning back the clock to the name the agency held until shortly after World War II.
nyti.ms
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This is the stupid shit I complained about a few weeks ago.
People at real publications doing news reports based on the vibe-y narrative about a future action that may or may not happen given by the freaking White House Press Office of the Trump administration.
You credulous fools.
People at real publications doing news reports based on the vibe-y narrative about a future action that may or may not happen given by the freaking White House Press Office of the Trump administration.
You credulous fools.
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I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.
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I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
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RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid
RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid
WASHINGTON—Claiming the luminous potion would make the nation strong and vigorous, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued an order Friday directing all Americans to drink a m...
theonion.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid
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But I was told by everyone on the right that the only person who could deploy the National Guard (or prevent the deployment of the National Guard) was Nancy Pelosi.
August 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
But I was told by everyone on the right that the only person who could deploy the National Guard (or prevent the deployment of the National Guard) was Nancy Pelosi.
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RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids.
RFK Jr. wants the study retracted.
The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.
RFK Jr. wants the study retracted.
The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.
August 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids.
RFK Jr. wants the study retracted.
The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.
RFK Jr. wants the study retracted.
The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.
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Those who were outraged at the federal government using its lethal power at the Waco siege of 1993 are not bothered when in 2025 Trump sends in federal troops into US cities.
It is a fascinating contrast.
It is a fascinating contrast.
Query
The Waco siege of 1993 generated political shockwaves: how dare federal government use its power in that way.
But in 2025 Trump sends in federal troops against US citizens, but with hardly any political shockwaves.
Was it because Waco siege was about gun rights, rather than federal power?
The Waco siege of 1993 generated political shockwaves: how dare federal government use its power in that way.
But in 2025 Trump sends in federal troops against US citizens, but with hardly any political shockwaves.
Was it because Waco siege was about gun rights, rather than federal power?
August 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Those who were outraged at the federal government using its lethal power at the Waco siege of 1993 are not bothered when in 2025 Trump sends in federal troops into US cities.
It is a fascinating contrast.
It is a fascinating contrast.
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In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.
Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
August 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.
Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
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Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
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**EXCLUSIVE**
You heard it here first!
Revealing for the first time, the story of the first Ukrainian maritime drones (USV) from summer 2022.
Spoiler: Magura has 7 major variants starting with the previously unseen V1
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
You heard it here first!
Revealing for the first time, the story of the first Ukrainian maritime drones (USV) from summer 2022.
Spoiler: Magura has 7 major variants starting with the previously unseen V1
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Under Wraps No More: Ukraine’s Original Naval Drone Revealed - Naval News
3 years ago, in the summer of 2022, four Ukrainian engineers built the countries first maritime drone. Built in great secrecy, that innovative vessel has not been reported until now. This is the vesse...
www.navalnews.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
**EXCLUSIVE**
You heard it here first!
Revealing for the first time, the story of the first Ukrainian maritime drones (USV) from summer 2022.
Spoiler: Magura has 7 major variants starting with the previously unseen V1
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
You heard it here first!
Revealing for the first time, the story of the first Ukrainian maritime drones (USV) from summer 2022.
Spoiler: Magura has 7 major variants starting with the previously unseen V1
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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BREAKING!! Front page NYT!!!!
July 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
BREAKING!! Front page NYT!!!!