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)🏳️🌈
Rubio wins again, he will get his war (and not one with Nigeria.)
US aircraft carrier moves into Latin America region, officials say reut.rs/486sCAN
US aircraft carrier moves into Latin America region, officials say
The Gerald Ford aircraft carrier strike group has moved into the Latin America region, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, dramatically escalating a military buildup in the Caribbean that has stoked tensions with Venezuela.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Rubio wins again, he will get his war (and not one with Nigeria.)
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If I ever make the bad decision to get another grad degree, I'll probably do a dissertation on this topic.
It's my tepid explanation for why smaller community level public safety organizations in the US have experienced so much decay, and why agencies supported by larger county or cities haven't.
It's my tepid explanation for why smaller community level public safety organizations in the US have experienced so much decay, and why agencies supported by larger county or cities haven't.
There are social and cultural things at play here too, a lot of communities see their public safety departments of representative of civic institutions from a bygone era of higher social trust. Unfortunately, this also means these communities are less likely to reform them with the times.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If I ever make the bad decision to get another grad degree, I'll probably do a dissertation on this topic.
It's my tepid explanation for why smaller community level public safety organizations in the US have experienced so much decay, and why agencies supported by larger county or cities haven't.
It's my tepid explanation for why smaller community level public safety organizations in the US have experienced so much decay, and why agencies supported by larger county or cities haven't.
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I remember the first few security cooperation and humanitarian response courses we did after the destruction of USAID, where military students would ask if this would be an "opportunity" for DoD to expand onto USAID's portfolio. Some students were absolutely convinced that was the plan. It wasn't.
USAID is still gone, no other country has shown either the will or the ability to fill in the services whose disappearance is going to kill millions of people, and no one in the media or political class cares that we are going to kill more people than the Holocaust before this is over 👍
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I remember the first few security cooperation and humanitarian response courses we did after the destruction of USAID, where military students would ask if this would be an "opportunity" for DoD to expand onto USAID's portfolio. Some students were absolutely convinced that was the plan. It wasn't.
Now this is not the worst possible noun that could have been in the sentience (it was port visit rights) but I can not understate how *bad* this is.
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Now this is not the worst possible noun that could have been in the sentience (it was port visit rights) but I can not understate how *bad* this is.
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Also this was supposed to be the agreed to in conference language that was just gonna clear the whole Senate, then the whole House, and then go for signature, as a part of the CR deal
They're literally asking the House to pass a bill that *only* protects Senators in this way lol
They're literally asking the House to pass a bill that *only* protects Senators in this way lol
The Senate has found a thing they don't like QI for: anyone investigating them for doing crimes (it explicitly waives any claim of QI lol)
Also this passed through regular order via approps, not any CR stuff, so Murray along with Heinrich and Ossoff should be the ones getting blasted for this
Also this passed through regular order via approps, not any CR stuff, so Murray along with Heinrich and Ossoff should be the ones getting blasted for this
I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Also this was supposed to be the agreed to in conference language that was just gonna clear the whole Senate, then the whole House, and then go for signature, as a part of the CR deal
They're literally asking the House to pass a bill that *only* protects Senators in this way lol
They're literally asking the House to pass a bill that *only* protects Senators in this way lol
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"old influential dude had a bunch of thoughts about war but we gotta test whether they're actually true" is basically Security Studies(tm)
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"old influential dude had a bunch of thoughts about war but we gotta test whether they're actually true" is basically Security Studies(tm)
It’s the coast guard after the Fitzgerald we revamped the inspection processes for the Great Lakes freighters and we took a bunch of them out of service! this combined with the ss marine electric sinking massively changed how the Inspections were done for all American flagged vessels.
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It’s the coast guard after the Fitzgerald we revamped the inspection processes for the Great Lakes freighters and we took a bunch of them out of service! this combined with the ss marine electric sinking massively changed how the Inspections were done for all American flagged vessels.
Learning new words is awesome and I wish everyone tried to do it!
For people who think they sit at the center of the spinning universe, solipsism is a valid world view.
I’ve been laughed at, chided, derided, counseled, and humiliated by bosses, teachers, peers, and strangers for having a vocabulary so many times I’ve lost count.
I’ve been laughed at, chided, derided, counseled, and humiliated by bosses, teachers, peers, and strangers for having a vocabulary so many times I’ve lost count.
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Learning new words is awesome and I wish everyone tried to do it!
The Iliad and the Oddessy are phenomenal as spoken word poetry in both (good) translation and in the original Greek.
Outside of the entire book in the Iliad, that is just ship names skip that one. No one gives a shit.
Outside of the entire book in the Iliad, that is just ship names skip that one. No one gives a shit.
It was meant to be spoken IN ANCIENT GREEK. Presumably at 1x speed.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The Iliad and the Oddessy are phenomenal as spoken word poetry in both (good) translation and in the original Greek.
Outside of the entire book in the Iliad, that is just ship names skip that one. No one gives a shit.
Outside of the entire book in the Iliad, that is just ship names skip that one. No one gives a shit.
That is a member of either SRT and BORTAC ... you know who receive a lot of training on the use of force and the legal use of it? These dumb fucks and that makes it all the worse they routinely violate it.
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
That is a member of either SRT and BORTAC ... you know who receive a lot of training on the use of force and the legal use of it? These dumb fucks and that makes it all the worse they routinely violate it.
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live reaction from inside the vault at budapest station
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
live reaction from inside the vault at budapest station
This is the level of commitment I expect out of bluesky's hardest posters. Some of your positions clearly show any action would be ethically required including this nightmare.
if you could turn the dems around by infiltrating the Schumer polycule: would you?
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is the level of commitment I expect out of bluesky's hardest posters. Some of your positions clearly show any action would be ethically required including this nightmare.
I call this the "I have never met a town development official ever" concept.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I call this the "I have never met a town development official ever" concept.
I went to a mall at 3pm on a Monday and let me tell you… very intresting.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I went to a mall at 3pm on a Monday and let me tell you… very intresting.
Woooo.
I know where you all will be.
I know where you all will be.
Excited to have Michael E. van Landingham as a speaker this year! He specializes in political analysis of Russian leadership and their intelligence services.
His talk with Alex Orleans, is titled "'Oil into the Fire:' An Inside Look at SVR Cyberespionage".
www.cyberwarcon.com
His talk with Alex Orleans, is titled "'Oil into the Fire:' An Inside Look at SVR Cyberespionage".
www.cyberwarcon.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Woooo.
I know where you all will be.
I know where you all will be.
Dog, it would take every single available mining engineer in this country to open a mine in 2 years even if we had already completed exploration (that phase is very hard to condense)
I mean I am built different (and promised some potential clients we could do it).
I mean I am built different (and promised some potential clients we could do it).
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Dog, it would take every single available mining engineer in this country to open a mine in 2 years even if we had already completed exploration (that phase is very hard to condense)
I mean I am built different (and promised some potential clients we could do it).
I mean I am built different (and promised some potential clients we could do it).
I mean this is a key thing for Venezuela operations.
"anti-communism week"? are we serious?
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I mean this is a key thing for Venezuela operations.
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being reminded that kash patel runs the FBI feels like having a stroke
NYT - Kash Patel's inexperience, his dismissals of top FBI officials and his shift of resources from thwarting spies and terrorism have heightened concerns among the other Five Eyes nations that the bureau is adrift. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/wo...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
being reminded that kash patel runs the FBI feels like having a stroke
Is it just me or are old Caddies a bit you know fruity?
Also in other news, I do want one so badly.
Also in other news, I do want one so badly.
i think i hauve covid
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November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Is it just me or are old Caddies a bit you know fruity?
Also in other news, I do want one so badly.
Also in other news, I do want one so badly.
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reading a trump post beginning to end in 2025 feels like picking up a piece of graphite at chernobyl
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
reading a trump post beginning to end in 2025 feels like picking up a piece of graphite at chernobyl
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This is going to be a massive self own when AFCE can not get any academy officer their stamp and can only take OCS grads.
The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
Air Force Academy’s accreditation under review after cuts to civilian faculty
Concerned alumni and former faculty told The Denver Post they believe the academy is losing too many civilian Ph.D.-level instructors without the ability to replace them with qualified military mem…
www.denverpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is going to be a massive self own when AFCE can not get any academy officer their stamp and can only take OCS grads.
If you ever wanted to know the most danmed and dumb thing about anti irregular migration strategy in this country, border patrol is entirely focused on shifting crossing to the maritime while the coast guard is measured for the budget by how well they do making people want to cross on land.
Illegal entries up along San Diego coastline according to the acting deputy chief of US Customs & Border Protection
He said the increased military presence & border wall infrastructure in the area are pushing migrants into the ocean for unlawful crossings
www.borderreport.com/immigration/...
He said the increased military presence & border wall infrastructure in the area are pushing migrants into the ocean for unlawful crossings
www.borderreport.com/immigration/...
www.borderreport.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If you ever wanted to know the most danmed and dumb thing about anti irregular migration strategy in this country, border patrol is entirely focused on shifting crossing to the maritime while the coast guard is measured for the budget by how well they do making people want to cross on land.
I do wonder once you become obsessed with starving children to pursue a “victory” that has no actual means to be achieved your morality allows you to consider taking more active measures?
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I do wonder once you become obsessed with starving children to pursue a “victory” that has no actual means to be achieved your morality allows you to consider taking more active measures?