Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸
@midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social
Materials science & nukes. Deterrence & what comes after.
Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible.
Opinions my own.
Rekindling hearts in a world that grows chill.
Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible.
Opinions my own.
Rekindling hearts in a world that grows chill.
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sorry to all my recent resistlib follows, this account WILL post about counterforce targeting and nuclear materials aging again someday
and to my nuke followers, sorry, this account will continue to post resistlib shit as well
and to my nuke followers, sorry, this account will continue to post resistlib shit as well
I personally know scientists who have made invaluable, we-gave-you-a-secret-award-because-this-was-so-important, contributions to the most vital areas of defense technology who would still be funding banned under this.
This is a stricter standard than we apply to any defense workers, too.
This is a stricter standard than we apply to any defense workers, too.
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I personally know scientists who have made invaluable, we-gave-you-a-secret-award-because-this-was-so-important, contributions to the most vital areas of defense technology who would still be funding banned under this.
This is a stricter standard than we apply to any defense workers, too.
This is a stricter standard than we apply to any defense workers, too.
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Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
If John Cena or Spider Man shows up to one of these it's really over
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If John Cena or Spider Man shows up to one of these it's really over
There is an utter failure on this site to understand how things fit together.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
There is an utter failure on this site to understand how things fit together.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Senator Schumer, it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, post-lapse in appropriations environments: one where you got ten million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed!
I would accept the death of ten million Americans to deal with this problem. I do not care about some people's paychecks.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Senator Schumer, it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, post-lapse in appropriations environments: one where you got ten million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed!
I don't really know if this deal is terrible but it certainly falls short of what people were hoping for. Failure seems to have been that Senate Dems started this fight without a clear theory of victory. "Senate Rs will give up and give us something" is not a theory of victory.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I don't really know if this deal is terrible but it certainly falls short of what people were hoping for. Failure seems to have been that Senate Dems started this fight without a clear theory of victory. "Senate Rs will give up and give us something" is not a theory of victory.
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I think getting paid to work again would be pretty nifty, idk
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I think getting paid to work again would be pretty nifty, idk
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Imagine how all of this looks from Beijing or Moscow
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Imagine how all of this looks from Beijing or Moscow
sitting on the front porch in my rocking chair watching that Chesterton lad put a fence up across the way
One of the tangential benefits of Trump behaving in a manner genuinely reminiscent of a king is getting to watch in real-time as we learn exactly why so many of our systems are the way they are
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
sitting on the front porch in my rocking chair watching that Chesterton lad put a fence up across the way
Goddamn he just doesn't miss, culture commentary SSPK of 1.0 on the substack fr
There is and was only one Curtis Lemay and one Thomas power Jr. So why is every Hollywood portrayal of the SAC/STRATCOM commander the same: a man deep in Nebraska who is ready to initiate Armageddon at a moments notice without deliberation or hesitation? I explore in my latest⬇️
A House of Jack Ripper
The Nuclear Warlord and a Hollywood Portrayal that Refuses to Die
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Goddamn he just doesn't miss, culture commentary SSPK of 1.0 on the substack fr
Neil Gorsuch suddenly remembers that the White House was built on unceded Nacotchtank-Piscataway land
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Neil Gorsuch suddenly remembers that the White House was built on unceded Nacotchtank-Piscataway land
Duty is as heavy as a mountain, Alan
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Duty is as heavy as a mountain, Alan
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
Not suicide, though. This is more like hegemonic patricide: The wayward, feckless, spoiled sons and daughters of hegemony turning about to kill Pa because they didn't get what they wanted for Christmas. The rest of the family watching in horror, of course.
Hegemonic suicide.
“Our negotiators had never seen this before in any international talks,” said one European official, who had spoken to negotiators. “People being summoned to the U.S. Embassy in London — intimidation...threats of family members losing visas.”
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Not suicide, though. This is more like hegemonic patricide: The wayward, feckless, spoiled sons and daughters of hegemony turning about to kill Pa because they didn't get what they wanted for Christmas. The rest of the family watching in horror, of course.
Live footage of us winning the political argument against fascism:
Nah but I'm not just clowning on OP, this is a real failure of understanding for a political science PhD student. Politics is in a crude sense about power and violence. Defeat in war is a political argument.
Nah but I'm not just clowning on OP, this is a real failure of understanding for a political science PhD student. Politics is in a crude sense about power and violence. Defeat in war is a political argument.
October 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Live footage of us winning the political argument against fascism:
Nah but I'm not just clowning on OP, this is a real failure of understanding for a political science PhD student. Politics is in a crude sense about power and violence. Defeat in war is a political argument.
Nah but I'm not just clowning on OP, this is a real failure of understanding for a political science PhD student. Politics is in a crude sense about power and violence. Defeat in war is a political argument.
tempting but incorrect analysis ; actually Oppenheimer is avant garde experimental film about how emaciated you can make Cillian Murphy before people stop considering him hot
OPPENHEIMER is a meditation on bringing about the devil to earth, a warning about what paranoia will do to one's society, and also an instruction manual.
As a wise man once said
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
tempting but incorrect analysis ; actually Oppenheimer is avant garde experimental film about how emaciated you can make Cillian Murphy before people stop considering him hot
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cool cool cool cool cool
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
cool cool cool cool cool
Oh sweet, my niche account is relevant again!
Oh, shit, my niche account is relevant again.
Oh, shit, my niche account is relevant again.
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Oh sweet, my niche account is relevant again!
Oh, shit, my niche account is relevant again.
Oh, shit, my niche account is relevant again.
hey uh
what the fuck
what the fuck
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
hey uh
what the fuck
what the fuck
Officer, this is my Second Amendment anti-satellite missile. I own it for home defense and other lawful purposes.
"The beam reflected by these satellites is very intense, four times brighter than the full Moon."
Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers
The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.
trib.al
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Officer, this is my Second Amendment anti-satellite missile. I own it for home defense and other lawful purposes.
Grover spent his war sitting happy, thumb on the trigger of his Vickers gun, "watering his Huns". He couldn't take civilian life afterwards, bouncing between the poorhouse and the tavern until he joined up with the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920. He was accidentally shot by a sentry in Belfast.
October 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Grover spent his war sitting happy, thumb on the trigger of his Vickers gun, "watering his Huns". He couldn't take civilian life afterwards, bouncing between the poorhouse and the tavern until he joined up with the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920. He was accidentally shot by a sentry in Belfast.
You know, to all my China watchers out there, this is probably good to keep in mind as we think about the evidence for purges within the CPC right now...
imagining a 1970s leftist convinced that Watergate was a plot by Washington to end detente
October 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
You know, to all my China watchers out there, this is probably good to keep in mind as we think about the evidence for purges within the CPC right now...
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The thing about this film is that it so badly wants to be Dr Strangelove except Dr Strangelove and Fail-Safe were critiques of valid policy failures (like launch delegation and security) and not just the hysteria of the no-nukes crowd instead of the dozen or so real crises in the world.
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The thing about this film is that it so badly wants to be Dr Strangelove except Dr Strangelove and Fail-Safe were critiques of valid policy failures (like launch delegation and security) and not just the hysteria of the no-nukes crowd instead of the dozen or so real crises in the world.
The real casualty of House of Dynamite discourse looks like it will be missile defense discourse.
We are so far removed from serious public discussion of nuclear war that even a movie which tries to start that conversation ends up starting proxy debates on things people would rather argue about.
We are so far removed from serious public discussion of nuclear war that even a movie which tries to start that conversation ends up starting proxy debates on things people would rather argue about.
People love to say that the tests are "highly scripted" but rarely is there detail given about what this scripting is or why it should reduce our confidence in the tests. Also, there's some confusion here on other things. EKV didn't get cancelled. EKV is the kill vehicle family deployed today.
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The real casualty of House of Dynamite discourse looks like it will be missile defense discourse.
We are so far removed from serious public discussion of nuclear war that even a movie which tries to start that conversation ends up starting proxy debates on things people would rather argue about.
We are so far removed from serious public discussion of nuclear war that even a movie which tries to start that conversation ends up starting proxy debates on things people would rather argue about.
Week 4 of the War on Livers. Cabinets are empty. All booze in Readiness States 1 through 3 is gone and we're burning through the RS 4 inactive hedge (schnapps and weird liqueurs). The RS 6 inactive reserve bevs, like cooking wines and last year's office holiday party beers, will be gone by NOV 1.
if the shutdown lasts more than about a week Mike's liquor cabinet will be in a PINNACLE / EMPTY QUIVER state
normie bluesky audiences majorly unprepared for just how annoyed the nuke dorks get at the Jacobsen book, you will encounter daisy chains of expletives never before seen
normie bluesky audiences majorly unprepared for just how annoyed the nuke dorks get at the Jacobsen book, you will encounter daisy chains of expletives never before seen
so this should be an article but whatever, you're getting an off the cuff thread because I have nothing but time
we'll do hurt locker lady's movie first because I don't think I have the strength to do jacobsen right now (and I don't own the book so I'll have to go pull references together)
we'll do hurt locker lady's movie first because I don't think I have the strength to do jacobsen right now (and I don't own the book so I'll have to go pull references together)
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Week 4 of the War on Livers. Cabinets are empty. All booze in Readiness States 1 through 3 is gone and we're burning through the RS 4 inactive hedge (schnapps and weird liqueurs). The RS 6 inactive reserve bevs, like cooking wines and last year's office holiday party beers, will be gone by NOV 1.