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@bordenstan.bsky.social
Canadian, Tory, somehow found my way onto Bluesky and am now trapped here. Interested in military history, COIN, foreign military training, jihadism, the KPA, and many others.
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In the spirit of promoting more Canadian mili thought and history, some book recommendations! First up, this one (surprisingly available in the UK too)! An examination of a Canadian victory which I believe has more lessons to teach than Vimy Ridge- covering everything from staff work to logistics.
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Part of the joy of many fictional universes 'when I were a lad' was that they basically had no coherent structured 'lore' because writers were just making up things on the fly, and thus they were expansive enough for you to fill in the blanks as you desired.
I think the almost zealous commitment to 'Lore' and 'The Canon' that has risen over the past decade is the most frustrating and restrictive cultural movement we've seen, on par with how streaming means no one commissions tv beyond one series at a time anymore.
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Part of the joy of many fictional universes 'when I were a lad' was that they basically had no coherent structured 'lore' because writers were just making up things on the fly, and thus they were expansive enough for you to fill in the blanks as you desired.
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1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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A theory I have is that Substack is making people less careful readers, in that so many Substacks do not have an editor going “we don’t need this spoonfeeding or this pointless disclaimer that bad things are bad”, and so people increasingly expect more “bad things are bad” style disclaimers.
Once more I am begging those of you with Substacks to get an editor to look over your long, heartfelt screeds.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A theory I have is that Substack is making people less careful readers, in that so many Substacks do not have an editor going “we don’t need this spoonfeeding or this pointless disclaimer that bad things are bad”, and so people increasingly expect more “bad things are bad” style disclaimers.
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read: expect shenanigans in 2026
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
read: expect shenanigans in 2026
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Incidentally, the complaint that there are “no Italian bars” is downright weird (see fig. 1). Maybe he’s SO racist that he just doesn’t understand the name?
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Incidentally, the complaint that there are “no Italian bars” is downright weird (see fig. 1). Maybe he’s SO racist that he just doesn’t understand the name?
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All in all, it’s no surprise that the only welcome this friendless freak finds extended to him in Soho is in the offices of one of the world’s most famous white supremacist nutters.
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
All in all, it’s no surprise that the only welcome this friendless freak finds extended to him in Soho is in the offices of one of the world’s most famous white supremacist nutters.
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“Freshies”: recent immigrants. London is always full of recently arrived immigrants as they have always been an integral part of it, but now Britain’s piss-drenched inadequates and nazis feel emboldened to loudly resent & hate this innocuous everyday fact.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Freshies”: recent immigrants. London is always full of recently arrived immigrants as they have always been an integral part of it, but now Britain’s piss-drenched inadequates and nazis feel emboldened to loudly resent & hate this innocuous everyday fact.
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As for mentioning that Soho has “no gay clubs”, it’s unclear whether he knows about Soho’s many gay establishments, but their absence would feed the myth of “Sharia no-go areas” and pandering to sinister Muslims, so it goes in.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
As for mentioning that Soho has “no gay clubs”, it’s unclear whether he knows about Soho’s many gay establishments, but their absence would feed the myth of “Sharia no-go areas” and pandering to sinister Muslims, so it goes in.
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Roadmen: young black men. Are they selling drugs? Maybe, and that’s yet more cast-iron evidence of a sinister and extremely racialised conspiracy. What happened to the cheery white drug dealers of yesteryear?
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Roadmen: young black men. Are they selling drugs? Maybe, and that’s yet more cast-iron evidence of a sinister and extremely racialised conspiracy. What happened to the cheery white drug dealers of yesteryear?
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Ice cream parlours: frequented largely by Muslim kids because they can’t go to pubs. This is obviously incredibly sinister as it’s an integral part of the Great Replacement, and George Soros probably likes ice cream.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Ice cream parlours: frequented largely by Muslim kids because they can’t go to pubs. This is obviously incredibly sinister as it’s an integral part of the Great Replacement, and George Soros probably likes ice cream.
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Vape shops: the idea that vape shops are run only by immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants, or people who are civil to immigrants. All of this is sinister and viscerally disgusting to the true obsessives.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Vape shops: the idea that vape shops are run only by immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants, or people who are civil to immigrants. All of this is sinister and viscerally disgusting to the true obsessives.
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The key is "yookay". It’s the conspiracy theory that sinister Great Replacementists deliberately refer to "the UK" rather than "Greatest Britannia" or whatever because they want white people to forget their heritage.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The key is "yookay". It’s the conspiracy theory that sinister Great Replacementists deliberately refer to "the UK" rather than "Greatest Britannia" or whatever because they want white people to forget their heritage.
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Fascinating to break this down and understand what stage of brainworms the Spectatorati are at now.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Fascinating to break this down and understand what stage of brainworms the Spectatorati are at now.
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
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I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
The Conspiracy Against America
National Populism and the United States
othermeans.io
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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New article, North Korea’s unreported submersible torpedo boat may be uncrewed www.hisutton.com/North-Korean...
#OSINT
#OSINT
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
New article, North Korea’s unreported submersible torpedo boat may be uncrewed www.hisutton.com/North-Korean...
#OSINT
#OSINT
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Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
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Monday morning re-up: at this stage it's futile to say who will eventually succeed Putin (you know, after his and Xi's 150 years...), but we can consider the kinds of people who might emerge based on the circumstances of the time
In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin Who... or What?
It's fruitless to try and come up with names of potential successors - but maybe we can identify archetypes, the kinds of people who might succeed him, depending on the perceived needs of the day.
www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
It's fruitless to try and come up with names of potential successors - but maybe we can identify archetypes, the kinds of people who might succeed him, depending on the perceived needs of the day.
www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin, Who... or What? - In Moscow's Shadows
We need to talk about post-Putin. It's fruitless at this point to try and come up with names of potential successors -- but maybe we can identify potential archetypes, the kinds of people who might su...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Monday morning re-up: at this stage it's futile to say who will eventually succeed Putin (you know, after his and Xi's 150 years...), but we can consider the kinds of people who might emerge based on the circumstances of the time
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These are economic fundamentals underpinned by a tacit policy consensus between PD and FdI that the UK's Starmer government dreams of having
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
These are economic fundamentals underpinned by a tacit policy consensus between PD and FdI that the UK's Starmer government dreams of having
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The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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So just to be clear, the arc of this evening went:
- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening
- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen
- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening
- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen
- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
So just to be clear, the arc of this evening went:
- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening
- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen
- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening
- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen
- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
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Cave bill text is out
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Cave bill text is out
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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I see nothing in here that would require the White House to actually spend any available funds, prevent rescissions or withholding of payments, or do anything to change what has become an unsettling status quo in this calendar year.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I see nothing in here that would require the White House to actually spend any available funds, prevent rescissions or withholding of payments, or do anything to change what has become an unsettling status quo in this calendar year.
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