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Canadian, Tory, somehow found my way onto Bluesky and am now trapped here. Interested in military history, COIN, foreign military training, jihadism, the KPA, and many others.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 17d

In the spirit of promoting more Canadian mili thought and history, some book recommendations! First up, this one (surprisingly available in the UK too)! An examination of a Canadian victory which I believe has more lessons to teach than Vimy Ridge- covering everything from staff work to logistics.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 3h

Uh. Who is that?

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 7h

Take the redpill, young Johto man. They called it the PC Network for a reason.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 7h

Pokémon Rangers are clearly a reactionary force espousing man’s traditional relationship with Pokemon over the godless, borderless, frictionless world of the Pokeball and the Pokémon League.

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 13h

*this* is how to legally and humanly deal with suspected drug smuggling vessels

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 14h

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/royal-marine...

Royal Marines sniper halts £35m drug boat in Gulf of Oman

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 21h

“I’m from Calgary, Cleveland” does have an insanely threatening aura to it IMO.

Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 21h

“The Defence Of The Undefended Border” came in and brought with it this masterpiece from the New York World in 1888. Which one is your favourite? I think mine is the one where they just gave up and called it Moose.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

The only super old white guy landing at Normandy was teddy Roosevelt jr lol

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely what the fuck is the reason why leftists are so eager to write off the contributions of ethnic and national minorities to allied victory in WWII because they do this with the Americans and the Soviets

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Right. Just like... definitionally a game should feel like it takes place in a setting where the game happens. You can make a gritty, street level Batman game. But if you make it so broken ribs, concussions, and guns work 100% like real life, it becomes unimmersive for Batman to exist at all.

Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 1d

in general I think people massively underrate the degree to which good mechanics are an important part of good roleplaying. the mechanics exist to align your understanding of the world with your character's

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

this tipped me off to londoncentric.media and, boy, their stuff is really good even if you don't particularly care for London. Why? Because it's laser-focused on *the money* - who is getting paid and how for various aspects, especially the shady ones, of urban life.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

i love paying attention to the slow motion hog-apocalypse because what do YOU MEAN

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Wild boars were purposely crossbred with pink domestic pigs to make a larger animal with a faster reproductive rate. The barrel-like bodies of wild boars can weigh up to 300 pounds.

Their size and sharp tusks mean people should be careful when hiking in the back country, Brook said. He recommends carrying pepper spray, because feral pigs are known to charge and injure humans.

"If there are signs of pigs, certainly leave the area," Brook said. "In any encounter with the pig you should get out of that and into a vehicle or building as fast as you can."

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

just purely as a game, the Reconstruction period would be an incredible setting

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like an excellent book! I’ll go looking for my sources later. I believe C4ISR had a good close-up view of several aspects of the North Korean shadow economy.

Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2d

Compromises and an unclear set of rules around what special privileges Quebec actually has are the price we paid for the post-October Crisis settlement. It will actually make the news when Smith inevitably draws on this precedent to further creeping Separatism, because that’s treated differently.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2d

I also cynically want to note that this BIG FUCKING STORY has been politely ignored by successive governments and Canadian political elites for at least a generation now. The scope of this may be different, but the province testing limits and flouting rules is same as it ever was.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

the problem is that Anglo Canada barely pays attention to Franco Canada despite the fact that Franco Canada is a intrinsic part of our society

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 2d

Meanwhile NONE OF THIS GETS COVERED BY THE MEDIA.

Where are you journalists??? A province is essentially vandalizing the constitution, and the feds and other provinces are permitting it!

THIS IS A PRETTY BIG FUCKING STORY!

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2d

That’s exactly it- COVID is when you saw this idea really take off, though there were cases beforehand. The architecture thing may have transplanted from DPRK fronts offering regime chic architecture to various African and some Southeast Asian(?) dictatorships- monuments etc.

Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2d

North Korea punches remarkably above its weight in cyberwar and cybercrime- the product of an assessment that cyber offered many invaluable capabilities at an affordable cost and potentially a means to disrupt the Western capabilities they fear most. The “treasured sword” has paid off handsomely.

Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2d

The whole story of North Korean freelancing using remote work is fascinating- using everything from fake social media profiles to using individuals in target countries as front men for teams of IT workers. It’s also been used to attack software supply chains to help their cybercrime operations.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

the whole thing was an exercise in learning who not to trust.

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

The ”vibes” tweet, and those boosted it, will live in my head forever. including by a self-aggrandizing former prominent columnist

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 2d

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

being caught abusing a dog on tape is now an 'islamophobic blood libel', truly wonderful levels of derangement from the nepo baby millionaire fans.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Dec 14

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Aug 3

Paul Ingrassia has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners.
You read that correctly.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

one of the best and most underrated game series of the last decade and also the only game trilogy I know to fully stick the landing.

A Bean @thetoughestbean.bsky.social · 2d

The Banner Saga is pretty good at remembering your choices but it’s a game based around it made by an indie team of ex-Bioware devs

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