Nom de Plume Brett
@maverickbrett.bsky.social
I mean nom de plume literally means pen name.
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Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)🏳️🌈
Views do not represent employers or funding agencies.
Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)🏳️🌈
You can tell your winning when you have to construct increasingly convoluted jersey barrier fortifications.
February 8, 2026 at 5:44 AM
You can tell your winning when you have to construct increasingly convoluted jersey barrier fortifications.
Ok, but I also need to know the δ between the last state house election to start to draw any conclusions.
February 8, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Ok, but I also need to know the δ between the last state house election to start to draw any conclusions.
I need to get more used to the concept of blocking idiots on here, they actively make it less fun.
February 8, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I need to get more used to the concept of blocking idiots on here, they actively make it less fun.
God LinkedIn is depressing.
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 AM
God LinkedIn is depressing.
Hit dogs holler.
Gabbard rejects claims she withheld whistleblower complaint from Congress reut.rs/4r8jR0r
Gabbard rejects claims she withheld whistleblower complaint from Congress
In a social media post, Tulsi Gabbard accused Democrats of spreading a "blatant lie."
reut.rs
February 8, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Hit dogs holler.
This is quit literally entirely your fault and I hate pretending like its not. You know when they tested the hydrodynamics of a dead fish and it won an ignobel prize 2 years ago? You were that fish, you never tried to do hard things, and just got towed along. It's a moral failing.
Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly?
That’s what talent is like.
That’s what talent is like.
In my experience, talent is a *detriment* to learning.
I didn't have to practice early on so I *didn't know how*. I didn't start to learn how to practice until my 30s! (When much of my life was taken up with parenting, so I didn't have time!)
I didn't start to improve as a musician until my 40s!
I didn't have to practice early on so I *didn't know how*. I didn't start to learn how to practice until my 30s! (When much of my life was taken up with parenting, so I didn't have time!)
I didn't start to improve as a musician until my 40s!
February 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This is quit literally entirely your fault and I hate pretending like its not. You know when they tested the hydrodynamics of a dead fish and it won an ignobel prize 2 years ago? You were that fish, you never tried to do hard things, and just got towed along. It's a moral failing.
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Daniel Day Lewis walks in to the audition reeking of BO in a heavy velvet dress with his hairline receded back from weeks of pull back traction and plucking to befit the beauty standards of the 14th century. A puff of chalk leaves his lips as he says Daniel Day Lewis for the roll of Anastasia.
February 7, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Daniel Day Lewis walks in to the audition reeking of BO in a heavy velvet dress with his hairline receded back from weeks of pull back traction and plucking to befit the beauty standards of the 14th century. A puff of chalk leaves his lips as he says Daniel Day Lewis for the roll of Anastasia.
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the ODNI whistleblower thing means we can bring back the best part of peak twitter: a bunch of people who don’t know anything about anything quoting my posts to make the most simplistic and/or stupid conjectures about counterintelligence issues
February 7, 2026 at 7:55 PM
the ODNI whistleblower thing means we can bring back the best part of peak twitter: a bunch of people who don’t know anything about anything quoting my posts to make the most simplistic and/or stupid conjectures about counterintelligence issues
Liberals need to stop with the non profit obsession. Making all of our key institutions being dependent on often times rich people’s largess and good will is a structural weakness! We need to get used to paying for good things, and that our institutions don’t need to beg to exists.
February 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Liberals need to stop with the non profit obsession. Making all of our key institutions being dependent on often times rich people’s largess and good will is a structural weakness! We need to get used to paying for good things, and that our institutions don’t need to beg to exists.
Watching curling, and I must say I don’t get the rules.
February 7, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Watching curling, and I must say I don’t get the rules.
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“2016 forever” (2026)
February 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
“2016 forever” (2026)
To be fair, we do let Italy do a French and say they threw off their shackles of fascism and spent most of the time US troops were there under German Occupation. So it’s one of those classic were actually here helping you win totally at your own voluntary will.
The US Army recruiting commercial with the 10th Mountain Division during a Winter Olympics is fine.
Highlighting fighting in Italy, against Italians (and Germans), during an Olympics in Italy? I'd say that's A Choice but honestly not sure the Pentagon is smart enough to have connected those dots.
Highlighting fighting in Italy, against Italians (and Germans), during an Olympics in Italy? I'd say that's A Choice but honestly not sure the Pentagon is smart enough to have connected those dots.
February 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
To be fair, we do let Italy do a French and say they threw off their shackles of fascism and spent most of the time US troops were there under German Occupation. So it’s one of those classic were actually here helping you win totally at your own voluntary will.
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Is it good when we’re having a debate over a politicization scandal within the IC whether it’s to protect the WH corruptly or at the behest of a foreign actor.
It’s all counterintelligence, however you do have to wonder is this just because she is a wrecker in a position she has no ability to perform, or is this because she is compromised and acting at the direction of a foreign intelligence service? (There are a lot of reason a IS may want to suppress
SCOOP: The NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump last spring.
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
February 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Is it good when we’re having a debate over a politicization scandal within the IC whether it’s to protect the WH corruptly or at the behest of a foreign actor.
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I haven’t had a moment of “oh that’s far worse than I expected it to be” in awhile so it’s good to know that my sense of that is still possible.
February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I haven’t had a moment of “oh that’s far worse than I expected it to be” in awhile so it’s good to know that my sense of that is still possible.
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A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
To be fair this is what you would do if you had the American president abroad (not the food thing that’s weird) and like if you have looked at the president, I get the USSS assumption that might happen.
Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.
To *Italy*.
To *Italy*.
February 7, 2026 at 5:58 PM
To be fair this is what you would do if you had the American president abroad (not the food thing that’s weird) and like if you have looked at the president, I get the USSS assumption that might happen.
It’s all counterintelligence, however you do have to wonder is this just because she is a wrecker in a position she has no ability to perform, or is this because she is compromised and acting at the direction of a foreign intelligence service? (There are a lot of reason a IS may want to suppress
SCOOP: The NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump last spring.
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It’s all counterintelligence, however you do have to wonder is this just because she is a wrecker in a position she has no ability to perform, or is this because she is compromised and acting at the direction of a foreign intelligence service? (There are a lot of reason a IS may want to suppress
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I feel like this Naval History article on a Viking crusade to Jerusalem is at least partly an influence operation aimed at Pete Hegseth. "Hey, sir, did you see that piece on Catholic samurai? Haha, pretty cool, right? Anyway, we're trying to get some shipbuilding money..."
The saga of King Sigurd I of Norway and his Viking armada’s epic 12th-century voyage to fight in the Crusades. https://ow.ly/ZEJ750Y7MUN
February 7, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I feel like this Naval History article on a Viking crusade to Jerusalem is at least partly an influence operation aimed at Pete Hegseth. "Hey, sir, did you see that piece on Catholic samurai? Haha, pretty cool, right? Anyway, we're trying to get some shipbuilding money..."
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The US women's jerseys are perfect this year. Love the lighter, bolder blue and the simple letting
February 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The US women's jerseys are perfect this year. Love the lighter, bolder blue and the simple letting
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Can I feel surprise that the government's actions are finally being driven by what's in the NSS?
February 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Can I feel surprise that the government's actions are finally being driven by what's in the NSS?
I think the Alberta separatist state story is largely the product of known serial fabricators and it needs to be understood in the context of we are actively discussing someone running an IO campaign and should be given no credit.
February 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I think the Alberta separatist state story is largely the product of known serial fabricators and it needs to be understood in the context of we are actively discussing someone running an IO campaign and should be given no credit.
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It really is, unquestionably. I'm tired of colleagues pretending that 1) it's not and 2) there is actual guidance within to inform what we are supposed to be doing.
The NSS was an explicitly white nationalist document and no serious person can claim surprise when despicable actions are taken to advance its core themes.
"Messing with other countries sovereignty and internal politics" is supposed to be beyond the pale yet it was in a bunch of the national security strategy documents and everyone seems to think this is bluster rather than policy
February 7, 2026 at 4:07 PM
It really is, unquestionably. I'm tired of colleagues pretending that 1) it's not and 2) there is actual guidance within to inform what we are supposed to be doing.
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good morning, today we shall face the horrors with whimsy and delusion
February 7, 2026 at 8:51 AM
good morning, today we shall face the horrors with whimsy and delusion