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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis

@thrownintosol.bsky.social

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Tired and barely functional. Autistic et al. Profile Pic; @failnaut on Twitter/Bluesky! Alt Text for Header and Profile Pic = https://shorturl.at/DFMN9. Looks like a guy. In early thirties, lol. South African in ZA / 🇿🇦 . I typo and repost a lot!

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · Dec 14

Autistics who hyper-fixate on the predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at great distance should be called Oortistics.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 5h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

9:09am - 9/9/2025 180K Views

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 11m

the Warsaw Pact still remains the only modern military alliance to invade a member

twice

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bispau @ShortBox 2025 @bispau.art · Jan 4

How it feels 😬

Sticker of a cat on a table with destruction all around and giant Japanese crabs throwing lasers trough their eyes

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 7h

For a long time, the US extreme right was held back from ruthlessly pursuing its goals by the notion that "someone" would stop them & punish them.

Trump 1 taught them nobody would stop them, & Biden taught them nobody would punish them.

And here we are.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 6h

yuuup

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 7h

Tariffs don't change tourism, they don't effect currency exchange etc.

Tariffs may cause ill-will, but that doesn't explain the massive drop-off of Canadian tourism.

imho

I think Trump and Co were talking about annexing Canada etc did much more damage.

but, my opinions obvs
:)

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 7h

I do think it's because they're too cowardly to talk about ICE/xenophobic.

Dunno if they're aware they're doing it because of that.

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 7h

haven't played it in a while beyond log ins anyways, it keeps crashing on my PC and I dunno why

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 7h

finally lost my log in streak for War Thunder

rip 500-odd

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · Jul 25

So many US outlets do this, and it's bewildering.

You either;
- do not understand what tariffs are
- do not understand what tourism is

- too chickenshit to talk about what ICE / the Trump Admin is

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · Jul 25

IT'S NOT THE TARIFFS
TARIFFS DO NOT EFFECT TOURISM

IT IS ICE
IT IS THE DETENTION OF FOREIGN NATIONALS

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · Jul 25

New York City is bracing for a major cut in tourism revenue, about $4 billion, as a result of Trump’s tariffs.

‘Devastating’ $4B Drop in Foreign Tourism to NYC Expected Under Trump

A major industry group is forecasting a 14 percent reduction.

trib.al

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 8h

For me, it's been broken and fine interchangeably for the last few days.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 9h

The first cruise arrow is tested.

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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 9h

Sikorsky XR-5
airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...

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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 9h

Sikorsky XR-5
airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 9h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Dunkin’ Cruller Carl @keithdecent.bsky.social · 1d

Tv show idea:

Extreme Workshop Makeover

The hosts show up to an unsuspecting maker’s workshop when they’re out of town and dramatically redesign the whole thing. Every episode ends with a homicide

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 14h

Curing diseases is great and everything but can they put some scientists onto inventing gluten free bread that isn’t a brick made out of dust

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 9h

borrowing this name for my next ttrpg character
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Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net · 10h

So I don't expect a significant diplomatic impact from this. If it had been a system that fell under the Wassenaar dual-use system & hadn't been properly tracked it would be a different story.

But many Western commercial parts are in Russian drones.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

British parts found in Russian drones, Zelesnky says

The Ukrainian leader says British-made microcomputers were used in weapons launched at Ukraine this weekend.

www.bbc.com

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Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net · 10h

It's virtually impossible to prevent purely commercial equipment not subject to dual-use export controls from being re-exported by buyers to countries like Russia. Neither the company nor the government has any reasonable means to prevent or monitor it, they're too widely sold.

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Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net · 10h

I think more is being made of this than is warranted.
The part, the SF-20/B from Lightware, is a commercial LIDAR sensor. The laser in it is a ~900nm, ~1.8mW device, putting it very far below the Wassenaar dual-use limits requiring export controls & NCACC approval.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

South Africa Investigates How It Made a Part for Russian Drones

The manufacturer says it’s unclear how Russia obtained the equipment because it isn’t supposed to be sold for military use.

www.bloomberg.com

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Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net · 10h

The spy satellite programme ended in the early 1990s. Thereafter Houwteq reused the tech to develop GreenSat, one of the first high-resolution civilian earth observation satellites, which never launched, and to test satellites for both SA & foreign customers.

www.news24.com/business/eco...

Former top-secret satellite plant in Grabouw getting R62m facelift | News24

A satellite plant outside Grabouw, which was used to test an apartheid-era spy satellite that was later canned, is being given a multimillion-rand facelift.

www.news24.com

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