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Dominix
@dominix.bsky.social
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Lawyer in Warsaw, historian.
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bakoon.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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shashj.bsky.social
Insightful RUSI report on the UK's Atlantic Bastion concept of layered anti-submarine defences. "The aim of this integrated system is to ensure that Russian undersea forces cannot pass undetected through the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland–Iceland–UK gap" static.rusi.org/the-atlantic...
static.rusi.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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covertshores.bsky.social
New guide to Russian Shahed/Geran drone variants -> see www.hisutton.com/Russian-Gera...
December 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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sinmachine.is.severed.fyi
Why did I stumble upon Frederick laying here looking like he’s summoning an Eldritch horror?
TL;DR: A long-haired cat sits before a glowing lamp like an ancient god consulting forbidden light, radiating judgment, patience, and eldritch authority. Details: A dramatic, low-light photograph of Frederick, a large long-haired Maine Coon cat with tufted ears and a thick mane, seated in near darkness. In front of him is a shallow bowl-shaped lamp emitting a warm, golden glow that illuminates his face from below, casting ominous shadows upward. His eyes are half-lidded and reflective, fixed forward with an expression that reads as ancient, unimpressed, and all-knowing. Wisps of fur catch the light along his cheeks and chest, enhancing the sense of depth and texture. The background is almost entirely black, giving the impression that Frederick is emerging from void or shadow rather than a room. The composition evokes an occult ritual or oracle scene, as if the cat is consulting a sacred flame or channeling cosmic knowledge. The overall mood is eldritch and reverent, with Frederick positioned as a timeless, powerful being calmly judging the universe—and whoever is behind the camera.
December 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
LOL.
airnavradar.com AirNav Radar - Flight Tracker @airnavradar.com · 16h
Someone really took a plane and said, “Let me draw a giant Grinch over Canada.”😆

View the playback at www.airnavradar.com/data/registr...

Track it with the app: airnavradar.go.link/hNhsa
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
dominix.bsky.social
Sometimes even the most effective éminence grise wants public recognition-tends not to end well.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h
Susie Wiles is one of the most brilliant political operators in the business, having guided DeSantis and then Trump to significant victories, and the idea that she doesn't know how 'on the record' worked is like saying a pilot doesn't know how to land a plane.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
CNN suggests Susie Wiles might not have known she was on the record 😆
December 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
lot of awful and insane stuff going on. but if you really want to have a brain bleed this holiday season don't lose sight of Stephen Miller's wife doing a video podcast with the FBI director and his gf about their love life
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
dominix.bsky.social
It’s quite efficient when head of the regulatory body and chief of the regulated company share the same body (CNTC=China National Tobacco Corporation).
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
dominix.bsky.social
Prophetic exercises, only with two carrier’s fate reversed at the Coral Sea battle, slightly more than two years later.
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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pbump.com
Once had a conversation with a photographer who explained that a portrait wasn't supposed to offer dermatological documentation. He would gently blur photos (keeping the eyes and mouth crisp) to present people in the best light.

Just thinking of that as I look at this photo of Leavitt in VF.
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
dominix.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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kurtbusiek.bsky.social
Is it okay for a minor to drink beer if they're dead?
Cover to WENDY THE GOOD LITTLE WITCH 38. Casper and Wendy are hanging out on a cloud, drinking beer. Or so it seems.
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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stevensantos.bsky.social
Since today is the 30th anniversary of HEAT.
IT'S A WAINGRO WORLD, BROTHER
An epic essay about Waingro in Michael Mann's HEAT.
anteupfilmco.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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cait.bsky.social
whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · 1d
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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jayrayner1.bsky.social
This column by @stephenkb.bsky.social on the antisemitic mass murder in Australia, reflecting on the justifications for acting on ancient hatreds, is very good indeed. Depressingly comments have not been enabled. Because they couldn’t be.

www.ft.com/content/4209...
Bondi attacks show old hatreds are flourishing again
A permissive environment has been created in which Israel is conflated with all Jews, everywhere
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
dominix.bsky.social
Warszawianka down.
December 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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michaelstahlke.bsky.social
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

—Atticus Finch, TKMB
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
dominix.bsky.social
Unity of Command 2 on both counts-the most fun I had with a wargame since The Operational Art of War 3. And the last dlc was released just a few days ago.
batariangal.bsky.social Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2019, and what you would say your favourite game of 2019 is now, if it differs

(Grid is just a refresher, you are not restricted to picking it. For a more comprehensive refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...)
a 5x5 grid of various games that were released in 2019. They are Metro Exodus Apex Legends Days Gone Outer Wilds Death Stranding Heaven's Vault Gears 5 Baba is You Sunless Skies Hypnospace Outlaw Control The Outer Worlds Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Untitled Goose Game Kingdom Hearts III Disco Elysium Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Total War: Three Kingdoms Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order Devil May Cry 5 Code Vein Fire Emblem: Three Houses A Plague Tale: Innocence Slay the Spire Resident Evil 2
December 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
"Tactical rail or something, Idk I'm not a gun guy.." [image of an AR with a steam locomotive on the top rail]
November 22, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
So good.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d
This is a real headline on the New York Times website.

Support independent media.
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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katie0martin.ft.com
“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” Alkanj recounted, before Ahmed tackled the shooter, taking his rifle.

this guy, honestly. amazing.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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mayorseidel.bsky.social
salute your local bureaucrats in this difficult time
FDR's cabinet: Hard times create strong bureaucrats New Washington Metro: Strong bureaucrats create good times Jan 6th insurrection: Good times create lazy bigots Riot cops: Lazy bigots create hard times
January 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
A very conspicuous Space Marine in a crowd in the style of a Where's Wally? drawing. It's labelled "where is brother Waldus?"
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
a plate of cookies that look disturbingly like Sean Connery in Zardoz
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM