@baddlesmere.bsky.social
Sometime Lifetime Aerospace & Defence guy with an enquiring mind
Trump & Putin are now indivisible. As Putin mounted an SMO in Ukraine so Trump mounts one in Venezuela for the same reasons - theft of national resources. Canada & Greenland next. America adopts power over principle. International Law is dead and buried. China has green light to take Tai
Breaking news: Donald Trump said the US had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flown him out of the country after weeks of tension between the two nations ft.trib.al/Ulm525i
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Trump & Putin are now indivisible. As Putin mounted an SMO in Ukraine so Trump mounts one in Venezuela for the same reasons - theft of national resources. Canada & Greenland next. America adopts power over principle. International Law is dead and buried. China has green light to take Tai
Trump & Putin are now indivisible. As Putin mounted an SMO in Ukraine so Trump mounts one in Venezuela for the same reasons - theft of national resources. Canada & Greenland next. America adopts power over principle. International Law is dead and buried. China has green light to take Taiwan.
The War President begins 2026 as he means to carry on.
Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live
US president says: ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Trump & Putin are now indivisible. As Putin mounted an SMO in Ukraine so Trump mounts one in Venezuela for the same reasons - theft of national resources. Canada & Greenland next. America adopts power over principle. International Law is dead and buried. China has green light to take Taiwan.
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"Dear Diary,
My latest brilliant plan is to prosecute civil servants for letting in foreign sex offenders. By which, of course, I mean 'bad' sex offenders, not good ones like my mates Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Connor McGregor, or my cheeky upskirting nephew..."
My latest brilliant plan is to prosecute civil servants for letting in foreign sex offenders. By which, of course, I mean 'bad' sex offenders, not good ones like my mates Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Connor McGregor, or my cheeky upskirting nephew..."
December 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"Dear Diary,
My latest brilliant plan is to prosecute civil servants for letting in foreign sex offenders. By which, of course, I mean 'bad' sex offenders, not good ones like my mates Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Connor McGregor, or my cheeky upskirting nephew..."
My latest brilliant plan is to prosecute civil servants for letting in foreign sex offenders. By which, of course, I mean 'bad' sex offenders, not good ones like my mates Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Connor McGregor, or my cheeky upskirting nephew..."
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Written over 80 years ago, "Keeper of the Flame" presciently describes the times we live in.
Private Faschismustheorien (Folge XII): “Of course the would not call it fascism. They would call it Americanism.”
youtu.be/_abRxAL3hnw?...
youtu.be/_abRxAL3hnw?...
excerpt from keeper of the flame
YouTube video by beverly crusher
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Written over 80 years ago, "Keeper of the Flame" presciently describes the times we live in.
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Wait. Thiel is warning US about a hi-tech surveillance state? The guy behind PALANTIR?
December 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Wait. Thiel is warning US about a hi-tech surveillance state? The guy behind PALANTIR?
The total corruption of academia and research by AI is just what Trump, Kennedy and the fascists want! Destruction of any reliable source data and information- getting very concerning. And people blindly believe anything AI says. Great way of manipulating sheep or people
If you're an academic using AI for your scholarly work, you deserve shame.
If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.
Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.
Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The total corruption of academia and research by AI is just what Trump, Kennedy and the fascists want! Destruction of any reliable source data and information- getting very concerning. And people blindly believe anything AI says. Great way of manipulating sheep or people
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As a Ukrainian , This feels so warm to read 💙💛
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
As a Ukrainian , This feels so warm to read 💙💛
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You must be a fucking russian simp, as you support russians murdering Ukraine women and children.
You are also a fucking LIAR. I support countries defending themselves from murderous terrorists that attack women and children.
put your weapons behing babies and you are the lowest of the low.
You are also a fucking LIAR. I support countries defending themselves from murderous terrorists that attack women and children.
put your weapons behing babies and you are the lowest of the low.
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You must be a fucking russian simp, as you support russians murdering Ukraine women and children.
You are also a fucking LIAR. I support countries defending themselves from murderous terrorists that attack women and children.
put your weapons behing babies and you are the lowest of the low.
You are also a fucking LIAR. I support countries defending themselves from murderous terrorists that attack women and children.
put your weapons behing babies and you are the lowest of the low.
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
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The corruption is endless. But worse, this is the authoritarian playbook: Erdogan handed media to loyalists & family, Putin handed it to his Oligarchs, Orbán took it for his party & donors, Marcos seized it for his family. Every regime centralizes media and hands it to cronies & family.
Jared Kushner, the President’s Son-in-Law, Is Part of Paramount’s Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The corruption is endless. But worse, this is the authoritarian playbook: Erdogan handed media to loyalists & family, Putin handed it to his Oligarchs, Orbán took it for his party & donors, Marcos seized it for his family. Every regime centralizes media and hands it to cronies & family.
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Logical consequence: 75% of Germans think the country should thus seek a nuclear umbrella from France and the United Kingdom.
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Logical consequence: 75% of Germans think the country should thus seek a nuclear umbrella from France and the United Kingdom.
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62% of Germans say that Germany can no longer rely on the US nuclear umbrella for its security.
Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...
Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
62% of Germans say that Germany can no longer rely on the US nuclear umbrella for its security.
Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...
Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...
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This is an excellent approach 👇
“Students learn how to spot deception across subjects: in maths, they see how statistics can be manipulated; in art, they explore how images can convey misleading messages; in history, they study famous propaganda campaigns; & in Finnish, they examine [how] words can be used to confuse or mislead.”
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
December 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is an excellent approach 👇
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The 29 page US SecurityStrategy is incoherent and full of contradictions. It posits a world based on sovereign nations, not int law/institiutions. But that sovereignty doesn't extend to Europe where the US asserts a right to act against our domestic politics to support the anti-democrats it likes.
BBC News - New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The 29 page US SecurityStrategy is incoherent and full of contradictions. It posits a world based on sovereign nations, not int law/institiutions. But that sovereignty doesn't extend to Europe where the US asserts a right to act against our domestic politics to support the anti-democrats it likes.
A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
US is now just a giant protection racket run by gangsters with zero rule of Law
"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
US is now just a giant protection racket run by gangsters with zero rule of Law
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The attention the Tory party in the media and in the Commons are giving to this story is a reflection of just how far off the deep-end both have gone in recent times. Sure, they have a long-term vested interest in trying to undermine faith in the Beeb. But this is such a non-issue for most voters.
The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
inews.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The attention the Tory party in the media and in the Commons are giving to this story is a reflection of just how far off the deep-end both have gone in recent times. Sure, they have a long-term vested interest in trying to undermine faith in the Beeb. But this is such a non-issue for most voters.
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Russians proudly showed their new expensive anti drone system only to see it later going into flames.
October 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Russians proudly showed their new expensive anti drone system only to see it later going into flames.
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"While British culture is largely resilient to pro-Russian propaganda coming direct from Russia, we are far less prepared against influence from the US ... A relationship that once represented a cultural strength for Britain now offers a major indirect vector for Russian reflexive control."
NEW: Written evidence submitted by Dr. Emma L. Briant (DIS0044) to UK Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry on Disinformation Diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
committees.parliament.uk
September 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"While British culture is largely resilient to pro-Russian propaganda coming direct from Russia, we are far less prepared against influence from the US ... A relationship that once represented a cultural strength for Britain now offers a major indirect vector for Russian reflexive control."
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Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
October 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.