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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As the U.S. military eyes China, it has big plans for arms manufacturing in the Pacific — and Hawaii sits at the center of its vision. www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/16/h...
Military wants Hawaii to be a hub for Pacific arms manufacturing | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
As the U.S. military eyes China, it has big plans for arms manufacturing in the Pacific — and Hawaii sits at the center of its vision.
www.staradvertiser.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
As the U.S. military eyes China, it has big plans for arms manufacturing in the Pacific — and Hawaii sits at the center of its vision. www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/16/h...
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COS Richmond has her collateral immediately on hand for her interview.
February 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM
COS Richmond has her collateral immediately on hand for her interview.
*Not great*
Cuba's Havana piles with trash as US chokehold halts garbage trucks reut.rs/4aYrFuX
Cuba's Havana piles with trash as US chokehold halts garbage trucks
Garbage has begun to pile up on street corners in the Cuban capital of Havana, attracting hordes of flies and reeking of rotten food, in one of the most visible impacts of the U.S. bid to prevent oil from reaching the Caribbean's largest island.
reut.rs
February 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM
*Not great*
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I’ve told y’all once I’ve told y’all a million times if you haven’t sworn bay’ah to our CIA girlie yet, understand that she’s keeping receipts.
This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
February 16, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I’ve told y’all once I’ve told y’all a million times if you haven’t sworn bay’ah to our CIA girlie yet, understand that she’s keeping receipts.
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bschool research is hilarious.
Drop operations researchers into breaking bad and watch them begin a paper with "We show that, in general, the optimal meth-lab distribution problem is NP-hard, but here's a lagrangian relaxation that has bounded and shrinking regret."
Drop operations researchers into breaking bad and watch them begin a paper with "We show that, in general, the optimal meth-lab distribution problem is NP-hard, but here's a lagrangian relaxation that has bounded and shrinking regret."
February 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
bschool research is hilarious.
Drop operations researchers into breaking bad and watch them begin a paper with "We show that, in general, the optimal meth-lab distribution problem is NP-hard, but here's a lagrangian relaxation that has bounded and shrinking regret."
Drop operations researchers into breaking bad and watch them begin a paper with "We show that, in general, the optimal meth-lab distribution problem is NP-hard, but here's a lagrangian relaxation that has bounded and shrinking regret."
The two dumbest mother fuckers going "exactly" after having just stated the dumbest possible sentence, before somehow topping it.
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
The two dumbest mother fuckers going "exactly" after having just stated the dumbest possible sentence, before somehow topping it.
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This list is mostly "let's pretend the issues with our DIB/NWC don't exist" but also shouldn't Senator ChinaHawk focus on the fact that no new nukes will make up for the fact that the admin has stopped criticizing Chinese coercion and reassuring allies in Asia?
February 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
This list is mostly "let's pretend the issues with our DIB/NWC don't exist" but also shouldn't Senator ChinaHawk focus on the fact that no new nukes will make up for the fact that the admin has stopped criticizing Chinese coercion and reassuring allies in Asia?
No one mentions the actual data about how Covid inflation occurred, or more importantly that we already have an existing tool for controlling inflation that would have not resulted in house prices going as bananas: taxes!
Everyone is to central bank pilled.
Everyone is to central bank pilled.
February 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
No one mentions the actual data about how Covid inflation occurred, or more importantly that we already have an existing tool for controlling inflation that would have not resulted in house prices going as bananas: taxes!
Everyone is to central bank pilled.
Everyone is to central bank pilled.
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#RodentOfTheDay Long-Tailed Mouse (Pseudomys higginsi)
"The long-tailed mouse...is found on the island of Tasmania and is the only species of rodent endemic to Tasmania."
In: animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pse... Ph: www.inaturalist.org/photos/14311...
#MouseMonday
(c) Bruce Deagle
"The long-tailed mouse...is found on the island of Tasmania and is the only species of rodent endemic to Tasmania."
In: animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pse... Ph: www.inaturalist.org/photos/14311...
#MouseMonday
(c) Bruce Deagle
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
#RodentOfTheDay Long-Tailed Mouse (Pseudomys higginsi)
"The long-tailed mouse...is found on the island of Tasmania and is the only species of rodent endemic to Tasmania."
In: animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pse... Ph: www.inaturalist.org/photos/14311...
#MouseMonday
(c) Bruce Deagle
"The long-tailed mouse...is found on the island of Tasmania and is the only species of rodent endemic to Tasmania."
In: animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pse... Ph: www.inaturalist.org/photos/14311...
#MouseMonday
(c) Bruce Deagle
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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 ❤️