Day 1 of Circle DC: Foxes and Lions. 😍

One of the less-important aspects of the Swalwell story is the use of Snapchat. It's amazing how much of our internet and social media ecosystem was made by creeps for creeps.

It is officially happening! I have already secured chapter proposals from over 19+ authors -- reflecting a wide variety of organizations, such as the Philippines Marine Corps, Canadian Navy, British Army, Australian Defence Force, Colombian Navy, French Army, and more! #wargaming

Curious? You can learn more or pre-order Drachen here: www.gmtgames.com/p-1162-drach...

I got a little carried away watching on YouTube, some of the last minutes of the anti-Orbán concert in Budapest. Quite inspiring, and Hungary's most famous voice, opera star Botond Ódor brought the curtain down. Earlier photos in my thread from: @444hu

Our daughter and son getting ready to sit down at Circle DC for a session of Baltic Empires: The Northern Wars of 1558-1721 by @gmtgames.bsky.social. Our son's most anticipated release in years, soon to be shipped 🤞 Game designed by Brian Asklev.

One tournament plus three demos

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...

“This is not a happy story in terms of the security of the U.S.,” said Tony Sager, who spent more than three decades as a computer scientist at the National Security Agency. “This is not security. This is security theater.”

Popped into Wargame Wednesday at Labyrinth Games and saw @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social and @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social!

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

We discuss the educational value of board games...even when they're not "educational games." With guest @fortcircle.bsky.social! Watch 👀/listen 👂: www.goinganalogshow.com/article/321/...

I went and saw Project Hail Mary. A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie. Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that. He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

#Wargaming for LPD with @sebastianbae.bsky.social designed for PME Littoral Commander! Students make and execute their plans opposed by the enemy!!!

It's happening! Heading to Circle DC Historical Gaming Conference tomorrow for three days of board gaming fun. Can't wait to see everyone and play lots of games. :) #boardgames #boardwargames @fortcircle.bsky.social

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

The number of Americans studying in China - and thus prepared to give informed future advice on China - is at a critical new low.

I know someone who FINALLY got into your course, @sebastianbae.bsky.social. Tried for 4 semesters and it was always full. Finally, the last semester of the program . . . this person had first pick. Gods, you are soooooo popular! 😍 😂

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

The queen is back on her throne! The Montana Osprey project reports: "Iris the Osprey has returned to her nest at Hellgate Canyon in Missoula, Montana, on April 6. She is at least 30-years old, she is one of the world’s oldest known breeding Ospreys." www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/hellgat...

My best friend and personal hero was killed by an Iranian aligned group too. I don’t want more to meet the same fate so he can somehow be avenged. Absolutely absurd.

Guess it’s a “drink whiskey and chain smoke” night, huh Just trying to find the bright side

#Wargaming is about playing to learn so you learn to win.

Trump's tendency to describe what he's seen on military video feeds really undercuts DOD's current media blackout. Yesterday, he talked about seeing the Little Birds come out of the MC-130s in the desert, but he also described an Iranian missile attack on the USS Abraham Lincoln that DOD has...

I love @jdryan08.bsky.social's description of it as the Heroditus Trap

Understandably seeing several posts and comments about the the fear of nuclear war, given the latest outbursts from Trmp; not least from people who've read the compelling and disturbing novel "The 2020 Commission" by @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social

On the Arabian Peninsula in the Iron Age, there were a people called the Nabataeans. They created the city of Petra in the middle of a desert valley. To live there, they created a complicated plumbing system. It used pipe systems embedded in the rocks to collect and store rare rain water.

"We think that you will see an oil price in excess of $150 per barrel for oil." Gasoline & diesel prices are just starting to climb. Better put your hiking boots on! 🥾🥾https://youtu.be/3Puqi_t4Rsg?si=eVLJuP9y3lXh56eE&t=227

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

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As a result, the drought situation continues to worsen. Almost the entire northwestern quarter of the state is now in D4 (exceptional) drought, going back to a dry spring and summer in 2025 and a terrible winter and early spring this year. D4 coverage of 21.59% is the largest since February 2021. 4/

The unspoken assumption here is that such logics would never be applied to the United States, a country where connections to the military are deeply embedded to many aspects of civilian life.

ah yes www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Happy Easter: “I’ve spent well over 20 years studying the history of the Crusades, thinking about the ways that sanctified violence works once it takes hold in a culture and becomes institutionalized. Once leaders start talking the way Pete Hesgeth does …limitations can easily fade away.”

With my Hunt for Blackbeard set at the James River, Virginia - where the historical hunt for Blackbeard began, logistically speaking. ...

Reading all the posts from all the new "Iran experts" and "military experts."

It begins. Expect to see a lot more of this across multiple sectors in April. Defensive measures cutting the marginal products/segments with significant elasticity/exposure.

I’ve been around the army for 53 years. Never been more pessimistic about the health of the institution — it’s likely to get much worse over the next 34 months. Rebuilding the norms and ethics of the profession is going to take a generation+.

Was curious if the filming in Egypt lined up with my grandfather's time as ambassador (possibly) & while I didn't get that nailed down I found a helluva 20th century biography ANZAC injured at Gallipoli & in flight training in England, sunk by allied torpedo in WWII www.qfhs.org.au/media/230257...

"We look ahead to March & April as the time when big storms are possible and the deficits can be made up. Unfortunately, this year has been just the opposite: Instead of much-needed snowstorms, we’re in an unprecedented March heat wave that is accelerating the melting of what little snow is there."

“Colorado has warmed at a faster rate than the global average and is expected to continue to warm...Having said that, not every winter going forward is going to be as warm as this winter. And, in fact...I think this winter will be considered a much-warmer-than-normal winter for some time to come.”

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Who can't help but wish that we sent more rockets into space and fewer missiles into the ground?

You can watch the live launch coverage and launch here www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

In Trump we've got the most transparent President in history in terms of saying what he's thinking and talking to journalists on the record. And it's entirely useless because what's happening in his brain is a monkey playing cymbols.