Tom Bombadildo
@tom-bombadildo.bsky.social
Why yes, I would love to live in a hotel.
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Why yes, I would love to live in a hotel.
New coffee grinder came in the mail. Off to run a bag of the shittiest whole beans I can get at the store through it for fun.
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
New coffee grinder came in the mail. Off to run a bag of the shittiest whole beans I can get at the store through it for fun.
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This will be a thread of the most widely read essays we've published since the 2024 election, by author. Hopefully this will give you a good view into the kind of publication we're asking you to support. gofund.me/9779a6cb8
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This will be a thread of the most widely read essays we've published since the 2024 election, by author. Hopefully this will give you a good view into the kind of publication we're asking you to support. gofund.me/9779a6cb8
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Weekly Sub-Saharan #Africa Security Situation and Key Developments ( November 14 - 21, 21-28)
Accessible via the link 👇
open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...
#Mali 🇲🇱
#Nigeria 🇳🇬
Democratic Republic of Congo #Drc 🇨🇩
#Somalia 🇸🇴
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫
#Niger 🇳🇪
Accessible via the link 👇
open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...
#Mali 🇲🇱
#Nigeria 🇳🇬
Democratic Republic of Congo #Drc 🇨🇩
#Somalia 🇸🇴
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫
#Niger 🇳🇪
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Weekly Sub-Saharan #Africa Security Situation and Key Developments ( November 14 - 21, 21-28)
Accessible via the link 👇
open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...
#Mali 🇲🇱
#Nigeria 🇳🇬
Democratic Republic of Congo #Drc 🇨🇩
#Somalia 🇸🇴
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫
#Niger 🇳🇪
Accessible via the link 👇
open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...
#Mali 🇲🇱
#Nigeria 🇳🇬
Democratic Republic of Congo #Drc 🇨🇩
#Somalia 🇸🇴
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫
#Niger 🇳🇪
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Part 2 has been uploaded on Twitter, will also do the same on Linkedin and Substack. Due to its sheer size (over 5 000 words!) I am simply unable to copy paste it all here. Will post the links tommorow for the interested.
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Part 2 has been uploaded on Twitter, will also do the same on Linkedin and Substack. Due to its sheer size (over 5 000 words!) I am simply unable to copy paste it all here. Will post the links tommorow for the interested.
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Late November 2025.
Mali is still under heavy siege by Al-Qaeda forces.Burkina Faso in quagmire.Niger not any better. And Islamic State is clearly gaining power.
How did we get here? Can Al-Qaeda run the show or cannot as others say?
🧵A three-part thread. Sorry for the delay.
Mali is still under heavy siege by Al-Qaeda forces.Burkina Faso in quagmire.Niger not any better. And Islamic State is clearly gaining power.
How did we get here? Can Al-Qaeda run the show or cannot as others say?
🧵A three-part thread. Sorry for the delay.
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Late November 2025.
Mali is still under heavy siege by Al-Qaeda forces.Burkina Faso in quagmire.Niger not any better. And Islamic State is clearly gaining power.
How did we get here? Can Al-Qaeda run the show or cannot as others say?
🧵A three-part thread. Sorry for the delay.
Mali is still under heavy siege by Al-Qaeda forces.Burkina Faso in quagmire.Niger not any better. And Islamic State is clearly gaining power.
How did we get here? Can Al-Qaeda run the show or cannot as others say?
🧵A three-part thread. Sorry for the delay.
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Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
Why the actual fuck am I getting push notifications for the NYT's snowjob of Nuzzi? How is this important enough to merit one of these?
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Why the actual fuck am I getting push notifications for the NYT's snowjob of Nuzzi? How is this important enough to merit one of these?
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🧵 If LNG tankers could travel underwater, they could transport natural gas from Arctic regions year-round.
General Dynamics presented their designs for such a 140,000 m³ submarine LNG tanker in 1981.
It could even be nuclear-powered.
📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...
General Dynamics presented their designs for such a 140,000 m³ submarine LNG tanker in 1981.
It could even be nuclear-powered.
📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🧵 If LNG tankers could travel underwater, they could transport natural gas from Arctic regions year-round.
General Dynamics presented their designs for such a 140,000 m³ submarine LNG tanker in 1981.
It could even be nuclear-powered.
📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...
General Dynamics presented their designs for such a 140,000 m³ submarine LNG tanker in 1981.
It could even be nuclear-powered.
📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...
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When I worked as a subcontractor for DARPA, our contract was to make PDFs a more secure format against various forms of exploit brought on by malformed ad-hoc parsers but, also, by improving the ISO spec itself to throw out malicious document payloads. This exploit is basically the doomsday of that.
YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
When I worked as a subcontractor for DARPA, our contract was to make PDFs a more secure format against various forms of exploit brought on by malformed ad-hoc parsers but, also, by improving the ISO spec itself to throw out malicious document payloads. This exploit is basically the doomsday of that.
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Livestream for attempted 2nd launch of Blue Origin (Bezos)'s New Glenn rocket sending two small NASA probes to Mars. New Glenn is between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy in capability.
Scheduled about 3:15 Eastern but weather seems iffy
Scheduled about 3:15 Eastern but weather seems iffy
Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 Momentarily from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida , as Blue Origin launches its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for its second mission.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dQ...
Blue Origin Launches New Glenn Flight 2 - NASA ESCAPADE Mission to Mars
YouTube video by NASASpaceflight
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Livestream for attempted 2nd launch of Blue Origin (Bezos)'s New Glenn rocket sending two small NASA probes to Mars. New Glenn is between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy in capability.
Scheduled about 3:15 Eastern but weather seems iffy
Scheduled about 3:15 Eastern but weather seems iffy
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Remember when Republicans drew Virginia's Congressional map so Black people were packed into one district and said we should be grateful they gave our community this district. NOW they can have one district and see how much they love it.
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Remember when Republicans drew Virginia's Congressional map so Black people were packed into one district and said we should be grateful they gave our community this district. NOW they can have one district and see how much they love it.
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As the situation in Pokrovsk becomes critical, and AFU reinforces the pocket to stabilize the flanks, there's considerable attention now to how this battle is unfolding. A few thoughts on the situation. 1/ (DeepStateMap)
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
As the situation in Pokrovsk becomes critical, and AFU reinforces the pocket to stabilize the flanks, there's considerable attention now to how this battle is unfolding. A few thoughts on the situation. 1/ (DeepStateMap)
Just dropped my ballot for prop 50 off in LA and I've never seen such a big line to vote. Delighted to see it.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Just dropped my ballot for prop 50 off in LA and I've never seen such a big line to vote. Delighted to see it.
Was on the road home when the series ended. Felt like the city just exploded with the number of fireworks going off everywhere.
November 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Was on the road home when the series ended. Felt like the city just exploded with the number of fireworks going off everywhere.
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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if any of you thought i was gonna start using linux: lol, lmao.
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
if any of you thought i was gonna start using linux: lol, lmao.
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Sahel convos shifting quickly to the "day after" scenarios. After the fall of Bamako. Not a silly possibility anymore. Western capitals visibly don't care
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Sahel convos shifting quickly to the "day after" scenarios. After the fall of Bamako. Not a silly possibility anymore. Western capitals visibly don't care
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Firing 155mm at Pendleton mainside is routine. Doing so from Red Beach is not
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Firing 155mm at Pendleton mainside is routine. Doing so from Red Beach is not
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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This is incredibly serious
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is incredibly serious
Just listened to most of the latest Brussels Sprouts and goddamn is it painful. No shade on Townsend or Kendall-Taylor, you can only do so much with what you're given.
October 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Just listened to most of the latest Brussels Sprouts and goddamn is it painful. No shade on Townsend or Kendall-Taylor, you can only do so much with what you're given.
Incredible scenes
BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.
October 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Incredible scenes
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BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.
October 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.
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First look at the Hwasong-20: North Korea's massive new solid-fuel ICBM.
October 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
First look at the Hwasong-20: North Korea's massive new solid-fuel ICBM.