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Senior Research Adviser, @apln.network Nonresident Fellow, South Asia Program @stimsoncenter.bsky.social Opinions my own, reposts ≠ endorsement. https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-o-donnell-b84675158

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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · Aug 13

Nuclear failsafe reviews - as conducted by 🇺🇸 in 1990-1992 and 2022-2024 - are important measures to safeguard against accidental or inadvertent nuclear use. Today, @apln.network, @nti.org & @theeln.bsky.social co-publish summaries from 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇵🇰 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 Track-II failsafe workshops over the last year.

Advancing Nuclear Fail-Safe in the Asia-Pacific | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network

APLN has worked with partners in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States to highlight the benefits of independent, internal “fail-safe” reviews in nuclear-armed states. Fail-safe reviews are...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 7h

Space Station Flyover of Hurricane Matthew - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/MMZDtA

The International Space Station has tracked Hurricane Matthew all week, providing images and video from low Earth orbit as the storm hit the Caribbean Sea and made its way towards Florida. In this photograph taken by Expedition 49 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins on Oct. 4, 2016, at 21:05 GMT, the hurricane's clouds extend across the frame and the space station's solar arrays are visible at the upper-right corner of the image. As the hurricane strengthens and approaches the Florida coast, NASA and NOAA satellites continue to provide forecasters and scientists valuable data on the development and changes in the storm.

For more information about Hurricane Matthew, click here.

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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 14h

This is very well-put.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
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Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.

Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 20h

This isn’t even original quackery from Thiel. Games Workshop should sue him for plagiarizing 40k lore around rise of the God-Emperor.
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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 1d

Taliban FM begins first visit by senior Afghan leader to India since 2021

Amir Khan Muttaqi’s trip has been made possible after a UN committee temporarily lifted a travel ban on him.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

It's a testament to the Dodgers' industry-leading depth that when one of their accomplished-but-washed chud pitchers duffs a game out of reach they actually have another accomplished-but-washed chud with even worse politics to bring in to mop it up. Most teams don't even have one guy that odious.

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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 2d

UN to slash a quarter of peacekeepers globally over lack of funds -

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 3d

“In 2023, Indian state refiners made some payments for Russian oil in yuan, but they stopped due to displeasure from the Indian government during a period of heightened tensions with Beijing, though private refiners continued to use the Chinese currency”

Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 3d

“Western sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine have accelerated usage of alternative currencies, including the yuan and the UAE dirham to settle oil trades, which have long been dominated by the dollar”

Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 3d

“Traders offering Russian oil have begun asking Indian state refiners to pay in Chinese yuan, taking recent signs of improving relations between New Delhi and Beijing as a chance to simplify deals with Indian buyers”

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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 3d

“A Japanese diplomat said that while U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is relatively unenthusiastic about multilateral groupings, the Squad seems to be an exception, mainly because of the importance of keeping the Philippines in the American camp vis-a-vis China.”

Will Takaichi's Japan engage with Quad, Squad or new 'Asian Quad'?

Defense chiefs of US, Japan, Australia and Philippines to meet soon

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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful harvest moon tonight in Port Aransas, TX:

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Phelim Kine @phelimkine.bsky.social · 4d

The White House is conditioning Trump’s attendance at the Oct. 26-28 ASEAN meeting on allowing Trump to preside over a ceremonial signing of a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand. And ensuring that Chinese officials don't crash that party. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump seeks peace ceremony spotlight at ASEAN summit

Trump wants to preside over a Thailand-Cambodia peace deal ceremony — and Chinese officials aren’t welcome.

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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 4d

Outstanding @jamellebouie.net column - gift link - www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | ‘The Most Epic Political Victory Our Country Has Ever Seen’ Is Nothing of the Kind

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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 4d

Internalize “I am enough”

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Is the irony of the president’s friend buying something called “the free press” and immediately installing a government truth compliance officer lost on everybody?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

Breaking News: Paramount is buying The Free Press for $150 million and appointing Bari Weiss, the news site's co-founder, as the editor in chief of CBS News. nyti.ms/4gUnu5D

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

China’s charm offensive in India’s backyard on.ft.com/4hglkxH

China’s charm offensive in India’s backyard

Beijing’s new diplomatic forays in south Asia have stoked New Delhi fears of being ‘encircled’

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 5d

MARS - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2paZ3C4

#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover
Left Navigation Camera (Navcam).

Oct. 19, 2023 (Sol 947) 05:20:17. >> 05:25:38.

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6d

Among other things, it remains extremely weird that the [checks notes] director of the FBI uses phrases like “ass clown factory” in public statements posted on his official account