My take for the "Can you be from [City] if you recently moved there" discourse is that I am a Fed from Fedland and my culture is Federal government. Our monument at Gettysburg is for the US Regulars and our founding father is Alexander Hamilton. If you've ever been paid for work by the gov, welcome.

🔴 Ukrainian forces have reclaimed over 600 km² of land since the start of 2026, even as Russia increased its monthly combat engagements by 37%, reaching 7,008 total clashes in May according to the General Staff.

Iranian media: Sound of explosion heard on Kharg Island

Wow. My adversaries are capable of escalating against me? I didn't know that. You're just now telling me for the first time. They get a vote too? What can you say?

“Pp-p-please make a d-deal” just the most pathetic shit

HELL YEAH CEASEFIRE IN FULL EFFECT BABY WOOOOOOOOO

No, and this is why there is no end point to politics and you can never stop voting, but must always vote harder. There is no way to establish or maintain binding controls on a future polity or people. You just have to win every election. Which should be the lesson of the second Trump term.

I guarantee you most of those 900,000 are doing jobs that used to be 2 or 3 people’s jobs. Across America(From local government to state to federal) we’ve drastically underspent on bureaucracy since 2008.

It came up in a thread, so I want to write today about government bureaucrats. I am one, I am intensely biased towards government bureaucracy, and I will not apologize for that but you should be aware reading what I'm about to say. My focus will be on the DoD.

Idk man maybe I'm just blind to all this, but in my four decades of being a dude I have never once thought "my masculinity and ability to be a man is under threat" Nobody stops you from watching 80s action films and reading adventure books, you can just do this, it's super easy.

This site's WW2 discourse never fails to summon the unmedicated.

The Right didn’t win the culture war! They won an election and declared that was the same thing. Now they’ve been tearing the wiring out of the walls of government hoping it’ll shut the woke off and just pissed everyone off.

Oh no, not arguing WW2 on D-Day. America and Britain good, Nazis bad. You cannot change my mind.

82 years ago, thousands of brave soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy to defend our freedoms. As we commemorate D-Day, we honor the service and sacrifice of these American patriots and reaffirm our commitment to the promise of democracy.

Pete’s D-Day speech: “ok but let’s see it from the POV of the Nazis” www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Slow Train to Arcturus as a miniseries.

It would've cost nothing for us to not be in this.

Many people are saying!

After yet I think a lot of the gizmo cult in defense can be explained by zeitgeist -- "Tech is what is America is now, therefore tech priorities are good/useful."

This is all very much not great, and I still can't believe that certain people went full steam ahead with this guy when they went out to recruit a candidate

There's no such thing as a serious pacifist position when it comes to international relations.

Are you twelve

Oh look it's Relitigate World War II O'clock again on Bsky.app

i mean the answer seems pretty straightforward…they were drinking doodoo dairy

New ints just dropped: MORINT: intelligence about target's mortgage including rates, restructuring, and reported addressses RENINT: intelligence of the target has ever missed rent or paid it late ROOFINT: Detailed knowledge of the last time the target did substantial work on their roof

No way, he promised us

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Heinrich Himmler glumly stumbling out of Coldstone Creamery:

everything about this admin is so fucking weird.

In short, this kind of stuff is why I ultimately realized last year, I don't hate AI, I hate AI marketing.

Drunken guy bursting into an operating theater where a surgeon is conducting an appendectomy:

www.airandspaceforces.com/f-35-control... IMO this is the biggest value of CCAs-- force multipliers to other systems. It's not that they have no value on their own, but it's a way to avoid the trap of "put everything on the CCA," which is something acquisitions is already struggling with.

I support making Russians extra crispy.

The guy who invented the word late stage capitalism did so in 1902

⚡️ Ukraine is officially set to receive Gripen jets armed with long-range Meteor missiles, a combination aimed at pushing back Russian aircraft and halting devastating glide bomb strikes. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Look, Zoom or Teams would be just fine for this www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...

www.gmtgames.com/p-1225-chali... Fascinating game upcoming from GMT. The Iran-Iraq War is understudied in the US.

James Talarico once ate an entire BBQ pork butt and washed it down with a cup of pork hash. #TalaricoStories

November, here we come.

A dude with *this much baggage* cruising makes me think the GOP will get worse before it gets better

Many people, with tears in their eyes, they were begging me “please please write about competing security dynamics in Fallout: New Vegas” and folks othermeans.substack.com/p/rigged-fro...

THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE 🐮 (CORNYN, PAXTON) --> SENATOR JAMES TALARICO

the next dem potus should make mike secdef with the promise of a full pardon

the intrusive thoughts won

"NORAD 35mm presentation slides," slide 21 of 41 [gallery]

We're doing nuke talks today I see. I'd like to contribute mine: with current weapon counts, global apocalypse is impossible and even regional apocalypse is unlikely. This image from FAS shows how much smaller the US inventory is. Trends have moved towards smaller yields as accuracy has increased.

Absolutely bonkers but true historical fact that modern armoured cars and mobile armoured warfare generally have their origins with the Fleet Air Arm.