Nom de Plume Brett
@maverickbrett.bsky.social
I mean nom de plume literally means pen name.
Views do not represent employers or funding agencies.
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)🏳️🌈
Pinned
"A counterintelligence assessment of Will Stancil and his Network"
Your James Angleton in 1946 and bolt away from having fallen asleep drinking bourbon and being goth, and know this future must not come to past.
Your James Angleton in 1946 and bolt away from having fallen asleep drinking bourbon and being goth, and know this future must not come to past.
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watching agency social media accounts be turned into vehicles for personalism and/or outright white supremacy makes me simply want to take them off social media for good in january 2029
If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
February 16, 2026 at 4:50 AM
watching agency social media accounts be turned into vehicles for personalism and/or outright white supremacy makes me simply want to take them off social media for good in january 2029
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why develop a healthy relationship when you can develop assets
a blurry picture of a person walking in front of a sign that says mcdonalds
ALT: a blurry picture of a person walking in front of a sign that says mcdonalds
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:17 AM
why develop a healthy relationship when you can develop assets
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counterintellitwink
February 16, 2026 at 2:13 AM
counterintellitwink
Great news the monster worked, I have the focus of a laser beam, bad news I can only focus on the *one* project I am not supposed to be working on.
February 16, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Great news the monster worked, I have the focus of a laser beam, bad news I can only focus on the *one* project I am not supposed to be working on.
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Hey who has my briefing papers on Cuba's economy?
February 16, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Hey who has my briefing papers on Cuba's economy?
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someone pay me to write a book about X-2
www.cia.gov
February 16, 2026 at 12:41 AM
someone pay me to write a book about X-2
Hot takes later, I have to write an assignment on how changes to tax structures for carbon reduction are an improbable path towards net negative emissions.
U.S. officials see restoring oil exports as key to Venezuela's post-Maduro path.
But according to RAND's Rachel Lyngaas, oil production alone won't stabilize the country. A credible strategy to address Venezuela's legacy debt is also needed.
But according to RAND's Rachel Lyngaas, oil production alone won't stabilize the country. A credible strategy to address Venezuela's legacy debt is also needed.
China Could Play Spoiler in Venezuela's Debt Restructuring
Venezuela's external liabilities likely exceed $150 billion. Absent a credible debt restructuring, sanctions relief and higher oil output will not translate into durable stabilization or sustained inv...
www.rand.org
February 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Hot takes later, I have to write an assignment on how changes to tax structures for carbon reduction are an improbable path towards net negative emissions.
Back in my day frats just did coke.
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Back in my day frats just did coke.
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anyway quit complaining about your taxes, it's a civic duty
February 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
anyway quit complaining about your taxes, it's a civic duty
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he even looks unwell like a true SCIF dweller
February 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
he even looks unwell like a true SCIF dweller
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I would love to see just one Very Online Political Pollster/Alleged Statistics andScience Guru (VOPP/ASaSGu) explain the difference between confidence interval and margin of error.
a woman says they can 't do that with a netflix logo behind her
ALT: a woman says they can 't do that with a netflix logo behind her
media.tenor.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
I would love to see just one Very Online Political Pollster/Alleged Statistics andScience Guru (VOPP/ASaSGu) explain the difference between confidence interval and margin of error.
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GO GO GO GO GO
January 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
GO GO GO GO GO
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Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️
If you phrased it as a water infrastructure crisis, or even a water use apportionment crisis you would be significantly closer to describing the challenges faced in managing water in the west, but that’s not interesting nor does it present it in unmanageable apocalyptic terms.
February 15, 2026 at 1:24 AM
If you phrased it as a water infrastructure crisis, or even a water use apportionment crisis you would be significantly closer to describing the challenges faced in managing water in the west, but that’s not interesting nor does it present it in unmanageable apocalyptic terms.
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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I just trash picked a huge pile of photos from the State Department so you all get Madeline Albright in a cowboy hat
February 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I just trash picked a huge pile of photos from the State Department so you all get Madeline Albright in a cowboy hat
If we moved Air and maritime operations over to the Coast Guard we would actualy get the efficiencies Congress wants without any of the draw backs Congress hates.
February 14, 2026 at 9:00 PM
If we moved Air and maritime operations over to the Coast Guard we would actualy get the efficiencies Congress wants without any of the draw backs Congress hates.
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My Russian colleagues discovered a 2013 scientific paper on the synthesis of epibatidine (the toad poison). The authors are from GosNIIOKHT, the same government institute where Novichok was developed back in 1970s.
chem.folium.ru/index.php/ch...
chem.folium.ru/index.php/ch...
Препаративный способ получения анальгетика (2R*)-2-(6’-хлорпиридин-3-ил)-7-азабицикло[2.2.1]гептана (эпибатидина) | Семченко | Химико-фармацевтический журнал
Препаративный способ получения анальгетика (2R*)-2-(6’-хлорпиридин-3-ил)-7-азабицикло[2.2.1]гептана (эпибатидина)
chem.folium.ru
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
My Russian colleagues discovered a 2013 scientific paper on the synthesis of epibatidine (the toad poison). The authors are from GosNIIOKHT, the same government institute where Novichok was developed back in 1970s.
chem.folium.ru/index.php/ch...
chem.folium.ru/index.php/ch...
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I could do a better job running Iranian propaganda. Their problem is that they make Americans think they’ll lose if they leave the Middle East when the trick is to make them America First themselves into thinking leaving is winning.
This is why I will never trust tankies nor take them seriously.
February 14, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I could do a better job running Iranian propaganda. Their problem is that they make Americans think they’ll lose if they leave the Middle East when the trick is to make them America First themselves into thinking leaving is winning.
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maybe the real American Way of War is the unrealistic, speculative tech-dependent plans we made along the way?
February 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
maybe the real American Way of War is the unrealistic, speculative tech-dependent plans we made along the way?
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USSOCOM investing in cruise missiles is a kind of mission creep that, if you saw Wendy's abandoning The Baconator and instead buying riverboat gambling paddleships, you'd think the management had completely lost the plot.
But since it's The Innovation Ecosystem and there's no scorekeeping at all...
But since it's The Innovation Ecosystem and there's no scorekeeping at all...
February 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
USSOCOM investing in cruise missiles is a kind of mission creep that, if you saw Wendy's abandoning The Baconator and instead buying riverboat gambling paddleships, you'd think the management had completely lost the plot.
But since it's The Innovation Ecosystem and there's no scorekeeping at all...
But since it's The Innovation Ecosystem and there's no scorekeeping at all...