New Blog: Most people doing #OSINT aren’t doing OSINT. They’re just Googling with extra steps, screenshotting dashboards, and calling it “intelligence.” That’s not tradecraft. That’s cosplay. Let’s talk about what OSINT is not: www.dutchosintguy.com/post/stop-ca...

Friends in UKHE tell me things are grim, and they're right - but some of the injuries are self-inflicted.

This is excellent.

A cheering story in the troublesome times.

I always wonder if this sort of thing is part of a carefully calculated information strategy, and I almost always find myself concluding 'Nah, it's just the usual porosity of the USG'.

This is epic.

“Are you enjoying MS Outlook so far?” * Yes * No * Fuck off and die

It's impossible to know where to begin ... "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens,"

As always, the BDA doesn't support early claims of resounding military success. This is a truth that transcends time, politics and national boundaries.

Israel knocks out Iranian cyber infrastructure, and then - completely by coincidence - loads of anonymous pro Scottish independence social media accounts go offline. Fancy that! ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pr...

What does this actually mean - is research a 'legitimate business need'?

'Anonymous Low-Level Losers' would be a great name of a band.

I was delighted to discover that in the 1920s the India Office had no mere departmental historian but, in the shape of Sir William Foster, the 'Historiographer to the India Office'. There's posh.

What's the dumbest reason your posting history will deny you a US visa? For me it's probably laughing at the USS Chesapeake, seen here in its final ascended form...

“There is no intel” JFC www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Love this.

lol what happened here

Wonder if I’m the only Brit today realising what a real ‘special relationship’ looks like?

I assume all the outlets that printed the credulous lie that he left to deal with an imminent national security crisis will print corrections or retractions? If not, why not?

Somebody here wrestling with the real big issues of our times. But let's all read the evolving stance of the @NYT fashion correspondent. FFS.

Well, strap my vittles. Who would have thought that government does stuff that makes no profit but comes in handy in a crisis. Almost like that’s the whole point of government.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

I come from a country that has a real king and every year we have a parade for his birthday, all without tracks tearing up Birdcage Walk or artillery in Whitehall. Bands and bulled boots, that's all you need. #justsaying

Since it is a given in certain quarters that any SNP electoral setback can be laid at the door of Thames House, someone will be along shortly to explain now MI5 fixed the result. 'Sno fair, so it's no.

Reading SDR2025 and I'm all, like, WTF happened to the JIC R&P process?

Class …

Not a businessman, but I my question would be 'what is this trillion bucks buying me?'

Is this American exceptionalism? Trying to imagine a British Foreign Secretary, or a Lithuanian Defence Minister, or a French Minister of Justice doing this and not being immediately faced with accommodating the rough end of a pineapple.

Some proper historying here ....

WOW!

Always makes me tear up when I see academics standing up for their beliefs by /checks notes/ … doing a runner.

This is a wonderland of misbehaviour by US officials. Wish the UK did something similar.

Interesting .... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...

Very true.

Peak Canada

Interesting - hope it doesn't end up being an obituary ....

I am sitting in a Lebanese restaurant in Baltimore weeping tears of pride and joy at having been born British. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gonna take a lot more than $5K a pop to increase the birth rate if this is the raw material you're working with.

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

"For those attracted to Farageism, it is not, and never has been, about its credibility as a programme for government. He provides a spittoon for the angry voter to gob their fury into." @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social

91. Ninety-bloody-one. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

Ultimate nutterdom. Do they believe they're going to emerge into a post apocalyptic world that needs techbros? They'l be competing with folk who have turnips, not Bitcoin - who do think your womenfolk are going to choose to repopulate Earth with? /1 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Gutted to hear Decker has passed. Was petting him in his cat tree by the paint counter only last week. An elderly cat but very appreciative of the homage that was his rightful due. We are all the poorer.