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Bob
@bobherc.bsky.social
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War Studies at KCL alum.
Cyber, Maritime, CNI Defense.
Journalism, Film, Music.
I know a lot about cocktails.
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Well, closer to two, really:
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Scene from Hunt for Red October with text: You've Lost Another One?
October 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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To quote the estimable @scottjshapiro.bsky.social :
Skeet from Scott J Shapiro stating: If your post is more than an hour old, you were posting from another world
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.
September 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A good piece about a book that seems to be asking some of the most important questions about modern American life and government:
Constitutional conservatism has frozen the popular constitutional imagination. Beguiled by originalism, more and more people take the Constitution as cast in amber; they have forgotten their intrinsic and inalienable right to amend. Left hanging in the air at the end of this rewarding book is a dark question: At what cost have we abandoned amendment? Textual change has long been seen as an alternative to political violence. So what happens when a nation rived by polarization, seemingly incapable of addressing its pathological fiscal situation and profoundly unjust legacies of oppression, cannot fix itself by constitutional reform? Does it abide in suffering? Or does it explode?
September 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The gang's leader, Johnny "Taz" Mulford, is a former sergeant in the US Army who was punished for conspiracy to commit bribery, theft and making false statements to military authorities. He is now the "country team leader" running UG Solutions' contract in Gaza.
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The Bureau, hands down one of the greats.
Screenshot of a scene from the TV show The Bureau. A man in a suit with the closed caption: Your feelings are your worst enemy.
August 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Stopped by the UK National Archives to check out the MI5:Official Secrets exhibition. Not a huge show, but has some really interesting stuff. Great to see the handwritten papers and gear. I'd recommend if you have an interest in espionage and history. Also recommend the bao at the Kew station!
Photo of a German spy and his typed confession Courtyard of the national archives on a sunny day Photo of the first camera purchased by MI5 A spy's secret radio transmitter in a briefcase
July 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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This piece has some good stats and references to other papers:

doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
Text or an academic article states: We found that cities with lower air conditioning ownership had higher risks of violent crime during hot days compared to moderate temperature days. More frequent heat waves due to climate change are expected to more adversely impact the well-being of persons living without air conditioners (Huang et al. 2013). A previous study using data of aggravated assault in Dallas, Texas suggested a similar result; an inverted J-shaped relationship was found for outdoor temperature, and a shallow linear relationship was found for indoor climate-controlled temperature (Rotton and Cohn 2004). This impact can be greater for lower-income households, which are less likely to have air conditioners, live in neighborhoods with less vegetation and climate-controlled public buildings, and can less afford to use air conditioning even when it is available (i.e., energy disparity) (Heilmann et al. 2021).
July 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Really liked this quote from Vic:
Text states: Sometimes America seems like everything that's bad in England ganging up on you
July 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Picture of a man in a hotdog suit with the caption 'We're all trying to find the guy who did this' from I think you should leave
May 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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I think @profsaunders.bsky.social makes a very good point in addition to yours, especially when we consider what effect his appointment will have:
Marco Rubio, Secretary of Institutions that Don't Matter to Trump
May 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Graphic stating: The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the US. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860.
March 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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The energy I bring to Bluesky
A picture of director John Ford in his old age with an expression of exhaustion and contempt on his face.
March 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Friday Cocktail Hour: Sazerac Rye Manhattan made Vermut Negre and a twist. And a cherry, because I threw my back out. Cin-cin.
A Manhattan cocktail with a lemon twist on a bookshelf.
February 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Following in @shaneharris.bsky.social footsteps, my wife and I went to Duke's recently and had a couple of dynamite drinks. Highly recommended if you haven't been.
Interior of Duke's cocktail bar showing two cocktails, a martini and a vesper
February 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Xmas Eve Cocktail Hour. Great way to get rid of extra egg whites when cooking.
A table with two cocktails on it, one in a couple and another in a collins glass with rich egg white foam on top of each
December 24, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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Looks like Xmas came early this year!
Photo of a table with the book Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial by Milan Vego and a bottle of campari with a Christmas tree coozie on it
December 7, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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I'm a little late to the party on this piece by @noupside.bsky.social but wow, she nailed it. Incredibly prescient and describes the worldview of someone *who owns* a social media platform: www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/t...
One thing that all of these groups have in common is a shared disdain for Terms of Service; the rules that govern conduct and attempt to set norms in platform spaces are inconveniences to be disregarded, at best. Combatants actively and systematically circumvent these attempts at digital defenses, turning the very idea of them into a target of trolling: the norms are illegitimate, they claim. The rules are unfair, their very existence is censorship!
October 28, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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It's not a competition, but I must say Southern Maine Community College has a rather nice view as well:
The view from Southern Maine Community College campus: a beautiful, beach cove on a sunny day with boats moored in the water
October 28, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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As @cait.bsky.social noted recently:
Woman staying, "what am I going to do with my thoughts? Keep them in my brain? Where I live?"
October 18, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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Great piece:
Text stating: The military isn't obligated to roll over and accept the destruction of democratic institutions because Samuel Huntington wrote a book. What Huntington got wrong is that in a Republic-the military by being citizens of that same Republic is obligated to uphold certain ideals in the abstract.
October 13, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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In the first 10%! I'm never an early adopter of anything so this is probably as close as I'll ever get
Card saying I am user number 939,505 to join Bluesky
September 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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While $7.5 billion may sound like a lot, it's less than one month's worth of Apple's profits last year, or a sixth of the bonus Tesla shareholders awarded to CEO Elon Musk.
September 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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The missus just helped me do a blind taste test of 5 teas the other day and Yorkshire Red came out ahead by a mile.
Overhead shot of a table with a floral tablecloth holding 5 mugs of tea with milk and a spoon.
August 28, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Fancy Bear Goes Fishing by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social is front and center in North London. Glad to see it in paperback!
A copy of the book Fancy Bear Goes Fishing is displayed on a book shop table with a number of other books
July 7, 2024 at 12:27 PM