live look at Chris Kastner

dawg we're doing BLCM-N I need to lie down

calamity

Sure looks like rain today www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Right, so based on what POTUS is apparently planning to announce later this afternoon, have a thread on why surface combatants *might* want to be large. (Capital scale artillery is out. Go invent a Time Machine if that’s what you want.) This comes down to requirements, as all engineering does /1

lighting incense and praying to the ancestor gods to just make it an arsenal ship and not whatever else our president and his fluids are asking for

In a brief post shared with her 3.7 million Instagram followers, Malala Yousafzai looked back fondly on her travels to Egypt, Greece, Tanzania, and Ireland. She also wore an Eagles T-shirt in one of her photos. Go Birds. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/eagles-...

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posting a request for advice in the group chat

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This is consistent with a D+9 environment

Pakistan strikes $4 billion deal to sell weapons to Libyan force, officials say reut.rs/3Y7LwBK

An updated concept for Frankel's Dual State model for the US where the normal stuff like NATO working group is going on, regular exercises occur, joint planning is reportedly good. And then on top of that you have all this shit on top of it that may or may not interfere with the normal functioning

man Reis looks real old

🎶Standing at the Gaaaaaate🎶

On December 21, 2025, a major naval platforms delivery ceremony was held in Istanbul Naval Shipyard, which marked the delivery of naval platforms to the Turkish Navy and Pakistan Navy 🇹🇷 🇵🇰 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Good bit of research on what's going down with the Russian fiscal picture in 2025. Spoiler! Its bad, but not so bad www.bruegel.org/sites/defaul...

‘Russia’s military and security services give Putin regular updates that inflate Ukraine’s casualty numbers, stress the country’s resource advantages, and play down tactical failures, two officials said.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Returning to my peasant roots by getting into obscure Christmas ales

peedf of the day dair.nps.edu/bitstream/12...

Is he…y’know…a theater kid?

This isn’t even my final Eels

Who decided to call it “Avatar, a saga of families and relationships being built in a new land of ageless immortals and epic beasts where the creatures of the natural world struggle in wars against the invading forces of devastation” and not The Jimarillion

The Center for Wrong Rock Studies is pleased to announce the first candidacy endorsement in our history. Payakan, the rogue Tulkun, victor of the battle of Cove of the Ancestors, Pariah of the Metkayina, has shown his ability to forge a bipartisan consensus and engage civil society, while also

I still can’t believe Shin James Cameron flexed on us all by giving the people Na’vi David Thewlis and his traders flying aboard jellyfish zeppelins pulled by cloud squids and that’s not even the 5th most insane and perfect choice in the movie

I wanna ride on Na’vi David Thewlis’ jellyfish zeppelin

when Jake Sully Toruk Makto once te Omatikaya now te Metkayina and Tonowari the Olo'eyktan te Metkayina Na'vi pleas with the Metkayina tulkun matriachs and then Lo'ak te Suli Tsyeyk’itan interrupts, demanding an audience for Payakan and Ta'nok to share their story despite both kerartu te Metakayina😥

Eywa has heard you

The theater when Payakan shows up

Ben Rich the realest for pitching Esndosatmospheric Rods from God

It’s Eels O’Clock and your ass is already late

Daaaaaaaamn Fincantieri

I’m sure they think this but I’ll believe it when we see what Russian reconstitution of the force actually looks like besides what’s in the 2028-32 rearmament plan

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Rereading the PPBE reform report because I am a sinner in the hand of an angry god

Hmmm!

Rochan has always been relatively gloomy about the outlook of the war, but they do good research and this is a good thread nitter.poast.org/konrad_muzyk...

You best start believing in the Median Voter You are one

You’ve heard of the Power Bottom, now get ready to meet the Power Behind the Throne Bottom

Sounds like a deal is just around the corner

Watch What Happens Live with Vladimir Putin

The reason they are "planning" for the first SSC to be launched in 2028 is the same reason that Dome, Golden needs to be operational in 2028

where tho www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

MOUs with HHI are so hot this year

GOFOs in the face of the broader political crisis

OUSD(C) Announces 7th Color of Money titled Supply, Logistics, Support, & Housing (SLSH) for the FY27 POM Cycle