Clay Copper
@claycopper.bsky.social
Fed defense university faculty, Security Cooperation pro, international relations, diplomacy, diverse democracy enjoyer, some boardgames and MtG, human
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Clay Copper
@claycopper.bsky.social
· Dec 1
There are few things as rewarding as fixing a wind-up music box.
Excited for this one!
They didn’t wait for a seat–they built the table.
Go behind the scenes of our groundbreaking first season with The Rise: The Inaugural Season of the PWHL, available NOW, exclusively on Peacock!
Go behind the scenes of our groundbreaking first season with The Rise: The Inaugural Season of the PWHL, available NOW, exclusively on Peacock!
February 17, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Excited for this one!
I lost faith when I was told I couldn't put any restrictions on students' use of AI, couldn't do anything about obvious plagiarism, and couldn't take points off for late assignments.
Bro, if I can't even punish OFFICERS for lying, cheating, stealing, or being late, wtf do you pay me for?
Bro, if I can't even punish OFFICERS for lying, cheating, stealing, or being late, wtf do you pay me for?
This is all great stuff. The MAGA junk is just fake intellectualism all the way down, and it's fueled by my own personal issue with PME - that you can't fail the actual irredeemable pieces of shit or complete morons because they'll blow the whole system apart.
February 16, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I lost faith when I was told I couldn't put any restrictions on students' use of AI, couldn't do anything about obvious plagiarism, and couldn't take points off for late assignments.
Bro, if I can't even punish OFFICERS for lying, cheating, stealing, or being late, wtf do you pay me for?
Bro, if I can't even punish OFFICERS for lying, cheating, stealing, or being late, wtf do you pay me for?
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Every single solitary line he delivered in this performance was a f'ing delight, worth rewinding.
two cowboys are sitting on a horse in a field .
ALT: two cowboys are sitting on a horse in a field .
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February 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Every single solitary line he delivered in this performance was a f'ing delight, worth rewinding.
I picked up Daybreak on sale and got my first 2-player game played yesterday. Excellent marriage of theme and mechanisms, and a very useful teaching tool. The simple tableau building with the project cards is a great puzzle, really addicting to try to improve your board while helping allies.
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I picked up Daybreak on sale and got my first 2-player game played yesterday. Excellent marriage of theme and mechanisms, and a very useful teaching tool. The simple tableau building with the project cards is a great puzzle, really addicting to try to improve your board while helping allies.
It's incredibly frustrating how normie brains are now infected by petty too-online white grievances now.
Almost a schizophrenic mix of real-world (the economy ain't great for me, this ICE stuff is wrong, the president is insane) with "white men will never have a place in the halftime show again."
Almost a schizophrenic mix of real-world (the economy ain't great for me, this ICE stuff is wrong, the president is insane) with "white men will never have a place in the halftime show again."
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
It's incredibly frustrating how normie brains are now infected by petty too-online white grievances now.
Almost a schizophrenic mix of real-world (the economy ain't great for me, this ICE stuff is wrong, the president is insane) with "white men will never have a place in the halftime show again."
Almost a schizophrenic mix of real-world (the economy ain't great for me, this ICE stuff is wrong, the president is insane) with "white men will never have a place in the halftime show again."
MAGA views the ideal US-led alliance system like the racially segregated forces from Mass Effect: expendable, physically strong vanguard forces; an effete race for fires; a tech-based race for hacking/intel; and square-jawed, faith-based mortals for leadership and vision.
February 16, 2026 at 1:53 PM
MAGA views the ideal US-led alliance system like the racially segregated forces from Mass Effect: expendable, physically strong vanguard forces; an effete race for fires; a tech-based race for hacking/intel; and square-jawed, faith-based mortals for leadership and vision.
The United States is not weaker when we acknowledge moral failures at home or abroad. Nor are we hamstrung by a single ally who is rendered weak by some sense of national shame. This is all just straight bigoted horseshit. Literally finger-wagging from a position of increasing irrelevance.
So like, this is extremely close to explicitly saying Germans shouldn’t be ashamed of the Third Reich, right?
February 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
The United States is not weaker when we acknowledge moral failures at home or abroad. Nor are we hamstrung by a single ally who is rendered weak by some sense of national shame. This is all just straight bigoted horseshit. Literally finger-wagging from a position of increasing irrelevance.
I originally picked up Mandate of Peace for my collection of international relations-themed cards, started playing it bc it seemed kinda good and had a serious moment hearing @saffronolive.bsky.social pitch this on MtG Goldfish Shark Tank!
February 16, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I originally picked up Mandate of Peace for my collection of international relations-themed cards, started playing it bc it seemed kinda good and had a serious moment hearing @saffronolive.bsky.social pitch this on MtG Goldfish Shark Tank!
Tom Wilson is an irredeemable piece of shit, total stain on the sport of hockey. Gets his ass dumped by a C-leaguer and has to jump up and try to restart the fight by grabbing a guy already tied up by the refs.
Trash player all around boosted by a trash organization.
Trash player all around boosted by a trash organization.
February 15, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Tom Wilson is an irredeemable piece of shit, total stain on the sport of hockey. Gets his ass dumped by a C-leaguer and has to jump up and try to restart the fight by grabbing a guy already tied up by the refs.
Trash player all around boosted by a trash organization.
Trash player all around boosted by a trash organization.
I went and saw Stereophonic at the National Theater yesterday, and although it's always great to go see a live show (I am firmly a Niles Crane theater-goer who loves to critique a play for house afterward), I thought the play itself was pretty underwhelming. I don't get the hype.
February 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I went and saw Stereophonic at the National Theater yesterday, and although it's always great to go see a live show (I am firmly a Niles Crane theater-goer who loves to critique a play for house afterward), I thought the play itself was pretty underwhelming. I don't get the hype.
Laughed hard at this one. So many first time experiences:
Hour 1: Vegas does not meet my expectations. Meh
Hour 2: Vegas has smashed my wildest expectations.
Hour 6: Expectations are an afront to what God wishes for us.
Hour 1: Vegas does not meet my expectations. Meh
Hour 2: Vegas has smashed my wildest expectations.
Hour 6: Expectations are an afront to what God wishes for us.
February 15, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Laughed hard at this one. So many first time experiences:
Hour 1: Vegas does not meet my expectations. Meh
Hour 2: Vegas has smashed my wildest expectations.
Hour 6: Expectations are an afront to what God wishes for us.
Hour 1: Vegas does not meet my expectations. Meh
Hour 2: Vegas has smashed my wildest expectations.
Hour 6: Expectations are an afront to what God wishes for us.
First time to the WWI Memorial. There are many war memorials and this is indeed one.
Still don't get any you take an entire corner plaza for a memorial and make it a giant concrete area with almost no shaded seated areas.
Still don't get any you take an entire corner plaza for a memorial and make it a giant concrete area with almost no shaded seated areas.
February 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
First time to the WWI Memorial. There are many war memorials and this is indeed one.
Still don't get any you take an entire corner plaza for a memorial and make it a giant concrete area with almost no shaded seated areas.
Still don't get any you take an entire corner plaza for a memorial and make it a giant concrete area with almost no shaded seated areas.
I assume Petraeus is like some of my DoD coworkers who believe that the admin and their new guiding documents cannot be fueled by or in pursuit of bigotry because the Secretary of State is Hispanic.
A lot of people are watching this admin and commenting, "this is incomprehensible!"
And half of them mean, "this is incomprehensible, in that I am literally unwilling to comprehend that we have reached this point and the government is full of bigots pursuing ruinous policies fueled by bigotry."
And half of them mean, "this is incomprehensible, in that I am literally unwilling to comprehend that we have reached this point and the government is full of bigots pursuing ruinous policies fueled by bigotry."
February 14, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I assume Petraeus is like some of my DoD coworkers who believe that the admin and their new guiding documents cannot be fueled by or in pursuit of bigotry because the Secretary of State is Hispanic.
My IR / diplomacy MtG collection has finally hit a decent spot!
February 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
My IR / diplomacy MtG collection has finally hit a decent spot!
Once again apologies to every future uniform designer, but we've reached the pinnacle of design with the USA Hockey jerseys this year.
It was Nike. Nike figured it out.
It was Nike. Nike figured it out.
So fresh and so clean 😮💨
Team USA records its FOURTH consecutive shutout to advance to the semis, with 12 points coming off the sticks of PWHL players!
Team USA records its FOURTH consecutive shutout to advance to the semis, with 12 points coming off the sticks of PWHL players!
February 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Once again apologies to every future uniform designer, but we've reached the pinnacle of design with the USA Hockey jerseys this year.
It was Nike. Nike figured it out.
It was Nike. Nike figured it out.
She's going hard mode I see
February 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM
She's going hard mode I see
"We're keeping that close. It's CUI. We're not even sharing it with State!"
"Ah! Oh, so no Sir. Nah, yeah we should probably not be doing that Sir. Yeah, yeah, Congress too. Well they wrote the law, they already know about the program."
"Ah! Oh, so no Sir. Nah, yeah we should probably not be doing that Sir. Yeah, yeah, Congress too. Well they wrote the law, they already know about the program."
February 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
"We're keeping that close. It's CUI. We're not even sharing it with State!"
"Ah! Oh, so no Sir. Nah, yeah we should probably not be doing that Sir. Yeah, yeah, Congress too. Well they wrote the law, they already know about the program."
"Ah! Oh, so no Sir. Nah, yeah we should probably not be doing that Sir. Yeah, yeah, Congress too. Well they wrote the law, they already know about the program."
Only thing I will agree with Fetterman on (though his insistence that this is some sort of "left media" thing is pandering horseshit).
Fetterman: "I met with Secretary Noem. I've always treated her with respect. I refuse and never will engage in the kinds of sexist terms like 'ICE Barbie' that the left media will use."
February 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Only thing I will agree with Fetterman on (though his insistence that this is some sort of "left media" thing is pandering horseshit).
You laugh but allowing DHS to freelance with directed energy weapons and shoot a party balloon down, potentially endangering the airspace of a major airport while Biden officials carefully monitored a wayward spy balloon's journey across the homeland is why the GOP is +15 on "national security."
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
You laugh but allowing DHS to freelance with directed energy weapons and shoot a party balloon down, potentially endangering the airspace of a major airport while Biden officials carefully monitored a wayward spy balloon's journey across the homeland is why the GOP is +15 on "national security."
The Tuck still allowed on Olympic ice
February 11, 2026 at 12:39 AM
The Tuck still allowed on Olympic ice
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Just a little teaser from Night Witches.
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Just a little teaser from Night Witches.
15 years working around the DoD tomorrow. All I wanted for the last year is to reach 10 Feb. I made it but just don't have that dog in me anymore. There is still good work to be done, and very good people to carry on the work.
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
15 years working around the DoD tomorrow. All I wanted for the last year is to reach 10 Feb. I made it but just don't have that dog in me anymore. There is still good work to be done, and very good people to carry on the work.
I'm watching Canada-Switzerland women's hockey bc I just want to feel the feelings that come from watching a game with double-digit scoring.
February 9, 2026 at 1:24 AM
I'm watching Canada-Switzerland women's hockey bc I just want to feel the feelings that come from watching a game with double-digit scoring.
I was yesterday years old when I learned that Georgetown Prep has the Monday after the Super Bowl off because so many parents take their kids to the game.
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I was yesterday years old when I learned that Georgetown Prep has the Monday after the Super Bowl off because so many parents take their kids to the game.