Blackbeardsghost
@blackbeardsghost.bsky.social
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Ukraine, Taiwan, geopolitics, trains, bikes, planes, ships, subways and whatnot
Ukraine, Taiwan, geopolitics, trains, bikes, planes, ships, subways and whatnot
Horrifying news, if anything they should be looking to make it even more bewildering!
A team of architects has been tasked with helping visitors find their way through the brutalist landmark’s notoriously bewildering maze of walkways and levels ⬇️
The Barbican wants to stop its visitors getting lost. Will it work?
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Horrifying news, if anything they should be looking to make it even more bewildering!
This is a fucking good podcast. I've downloaded the back catalogue to listen through on some upcoming flights... including to DC where I now know all the best (and worst) spots! Thanks chaps
On this week’s Second Breakfast we talk about OSD-Congress relations, CUAS, training and national training centers, and why McClellan would’ve been a tyrant.
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is a fucking good podcast. I've downloaded the back catalogue to listen through on some upcoming flights... including to DC where I now know all the best (and worst) spots! Thanks chaps
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Just unbelievably predictable, maybe Sullivan and finer can address this on their stupid ass podcast
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Just unbelievably predictable, maybe Sullivan and finer can address this on their stupid ass podcast
I don't want to alarm anyone. But Matthew Syed has an opinion about the Villa Park situation, and he's pretty proud of it....
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I don't want to alarm anyone. But Matthew Syed has an opinion about the Villa Park situation, and he's pretty proud of it....
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Russian air defence is keeping track of when Swedish signals intelligence aircraft S102B Korpen take off from Malmen, Sweden and Russian forces are notified and warned.
Other SIGINT aircraft does not seem to cause this warning to be sent.
Go Sweden!
Other SIGINT aircraft does not seem to cause this warning to be sent.
Go Sweden!
October 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Russian air defence is keeping track of when Swedish signals intelligence aircraft S102B Korpen take off from Malmen, Sweden and Russian forces are notified and warned.
Other SIGINT aircraft does not seem to cause this warning to be sent.
Go Sweden!
Other SIGINT aircraft does not seem to cause this warning to be sent.
Go Sweden!
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Russia’s T-90 tank production in 2024 reached around 240 units, including both new and modernized tanks. But internal planning papers analyzed by Frontelligence Insight show Moscow’s plan to lift output by 80% and launch production of a new T90 variant. 🧵Our Special Report:
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Russia’s T-90 tank production in 2024 reached around 240 units, including both new and modernized tanks. But internal planning papers analyzed by Frontelligence Insight show Moscow’s plan to lift output by 80% and launch production of a new T90 variant. 🧵Our Special Report:
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Old enough to remember retired F-16 pilots telling us that the F-16 would be useless for Ukraine because it couldn’t survive in the contested airspace.
Bullshit then, bullshit now.
www.airandspaceforces.com/ukraines-f-1...
Bullshit then, bullshit now.
www.airandspaceforces.com/ukraines-f-1...
Ukraine’s F-16 Force: Innovation, Impact, and Resolve
One of Ukraine’s top F-16 pilots, known by his call sign “AB,” spoke to the Mitchell Institute about the impact of fighter against Russia.
www.airandspaceforces.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Old enough to remember retired F-16 pilots telling us that the F-16 would be useless for Ukraine because it couldn’t survive in the contested airspace.
Bullshit then, bullshit now.
www.airandspaceforces.com/ukraines-f-1...
Bullshit then, bullshit now.
www.airandspaceforces.com/ukraines-f-1...
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SAMP/T orders for Ukraine should have been placed three years ago; it's insane that none have been until now
1/7 A rough winter is coming to Ukraine.
Russia will strike harder than ever, with more drones and missiles than in previous years.
Europe has a duty to act now to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses.
There is no time to waste
Russia will strike harder than ever, with more drones and missiles than in previous years.
Europe has a duty to act now to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses.
There is no time to waste
October 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
SAMP/T orders for Ukraine should have been placed three years ago; it's insane that none have been until now
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I’m writing to let you know that today (Oct 11th) our team will release a major report. It covers nearly a decade of tank production across various variants. This document-based report will uncover Russian plans to expand and modernize its tank fleet. I hope you’ll have a chance to read and share it
October 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I’m writing to let you know that today (Oct 11th) our team will release a major report. It covers nearly a decade of tank production across various variants. This document-based report will uncover Russian plans to expand and modernize its tank fleet. I hope you’ll have a chance to read and share it
to the shock of absolutely no one
“‘We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure,’ the memo says.”
Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems ...
www.yahoo.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
to the shock of absolutely no one
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The Pentagon plans to place domestic and regional missions above countering adversaries such as Beijing and Moscow according to a draft of the upcoming National Defense Strategy. -POLITICO
September 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Pentagon plans to place domestic and regional missions above countering adversaries such as Beijing and Moscow according to a draft of the upcoming National Defense Strategy. -POLITICO
An excellent listen
Nigel Harris & Richard Bowker run one of the UK's best known railway podcasts, Green Signals
I was a guest on it this week, talking about the future of #CrossChannelRail and potential rivals to Eurostar
Listen / watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUNz...
I was a guest on it this week, talking about the future of #CrossChannelRail and potential rivals to Eurostar
Listen / watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUNz...
Eurostar: The full (mind blowing!) guide to Channel Tunnel competition | Ep 99
YouTube video by Green Signals
www.youtube.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
An excellent listen
Syed's pseudo intellectual drivel needs wider mockery
Matthew Syed's latest drivel is an absolute masterclass in conflating a particular group of older, white, relatively financial secure, working class voters with the entirity of the low income population.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Commonsense voters see the abject folly of the West’s purity spiral
Ordinary people will no longer stand for being told common sense is ‘far right’ — and quite rightly so
www.thetimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Syed's pseudo intellectual drivel needs wider mockery
August 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas
0/n 🧵
0/n 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas
0/n 🧵
0/n 🧵
Potentially he just thinks there is a country called 'Chips', I guess
Uh does he…know…where all the chips are made.
*TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PUT APPROXIMATELY 100% TARIFF ON CHIPS
*TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PUT APPROXIMATELY 100% TARIFF ON CHIPS
August 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Potentially he just thinks there is a country called 'Chips', I guess
Jonas catching Remco in a TT still getting smashed by pog is just ridiculous when you think about it. I feel for him tbf
July 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Jonas catching Remco in a TT still getting smashed by pog is just ridiculous when you think about it. I feel for him tbf
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Has the Republic of China Armed Forces not suffered enough?
June 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Has the Republic of China Armed Forces not suffered enough?
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Useful analysis that points to Iran's vulnerability to strikes even after it tests a nuclear device. "In the near future, if Iran makes a run for the bomb, it is highly unlikely to have more then a handful of other nuclear bombs at the point of testing it" dovhlevin.substack.com/p/yes-the-at...
Yes the attack delayed the nukes
The twelve days war did set back significantly Iran’s nuclear programs- but not mainly due to its impacts on its nuclear sites
dovhlevin.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Useful analysis that points to Iran's vulnerability to strikes even after it tests a nuclear device. "In the near future, if Iran makes a run for the bomb, it is highly unlikely to have more then a handful of other nuclear bombs at the point of testing it" dovhlevin.substack.com/p/yes-the-at...
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"The Iranian nuclear facilities are destroyed."
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"The Iranian nuclear facilities are not destroyed, but heavily damaged."
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"Damage to Iranian nuclear facilities is to be ascertained, but they are buried, possibly setting the effort back years."
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"The Iranian nuclear program may accelerate."
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"The Iranian nuclear facilities are not destroyed, but heavily damaged."
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"Damage to Iranian nuclear facilities is to be ascertained, but they are buried, possibly setting the effort back years."
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"The Iranian nuclear program may accelerate."
June 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"The Iranian nuclear facilities are destroyed."
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"The Iranian nuclear facilities are not destroyed, but heavily damaged."
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"Damage to Iranian nuclear facilities is to be ascertained, but they are buried, possibly setting the effort back years."
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"The Iranian nuclear program may accelerate."
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"The Iranian nuclear facilities are not destroyed, but heavily damaged."
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"Damage to Iranian nuclear facilities is to be ascertained, but they are buried, possibly setting the effort back years."
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"The Iranian nuclear program may accelerate."
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Contrary to reports in some outlets and captions where this video is being shared, it does NOT show smoke rising from Fordo nuclear site in Iran after the US strike there. It's filmed from the highway about 13kms away (34.8812154, 50.8557262) and looking in the opposite direction.
June 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Contrary to reports in some outlets and captions where this video is being shared, it does NOT show smoke rising from Fordo nuclear site in Iran after the US strike there. It's filmed from the highway about 13kms away (34.8812154, 50.8557262) and looking in the opposite direction.
Did my life need another cycling podcast?
Yes. Yes it did
Yes. Yes it did
Give our new cycling podcast a go (is it still ‘new’ if we’ve done 16 episodes?!)
It’s called Did Not Finish. Or DNF.
And we think it’s a bit different than what’s out there.
For example, we use curse words.
e.g. Fuck
Any feedback would be great!
open.spotify.com/episode/2cJP...
It’s called Did Not Finish. Or DNF.
And we think it’s a bit different than what’s out there.
For example, we use curse words.
e.g. Fuck
Any feedback would be great!
open.spotify.com/episode/2cJP...
June 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Did my life need another cycling podcast?
Yes. Yes it did
Yes. Yes it did
If I were the USAF I'd be feeling pretty good about my investment in advanced manned aircraft, SEAD/DEAD, and good old fashioned JDAMs right now
Tehran right now. Smoke plumes are visible at multiple parts of the city. Israel is expected to increase the amount of airstrikes significantly in the coming days.
June 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If I were the USAF I'd be feeling pretty good about my investment in advanced manned aircraft, SEAD/DEAD, and good old fashioned JDAMs right now
Inspiring guy
After surviving the siege of Mariupol, Mykhailo Dianov then faced torture and neglect in Russian captivity. This is him today. Talk about inspiration. This man is absolutely incredible.
June 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Inspiring guy