Nom de Plume Brett
@maverickbrett.bsky.social
I mean nom de plume literally means pen name.
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Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)🏳️🌈
Views do not represent employers or funding agencies.
Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)🏳️🌈
Reuters says revolution now.
Trump adds Thanksgiving turkeys Gobble and Waddle to his long pardon list reut.rs/4iwauEb
Trump adds Thanksgiving turkeys Gobble and Waddle to his long pardon list
U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned two giant white-plumed turkeys named Gobble and Waddle on Tuesday, sparing them from Thanksgiving dinner tables and adding to more than 1,600 pardons he has granted this term.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Reuters says revolution now.
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In principle I appreciate diverse perspectives in the history of (nuclear) science & society.
In practice, when it's as condescending as this, I find myself appreciating the would-be subjects of British imperial anthropology who drove their interlocutors off with spears and Martini-Henry rifles.
In practice, when it's as condescending as this, I find myself appreciating the would-be subjects of British imperial anthropology who drove their interlocutors off with spears and Martini-Henry rifles.
Cold War arms-control pioneers perhaps weren’t peacemakers we thought they were — Harvard Gazette
Nuclear-age historian argues scientists who backed arsenals as deterrent aided military-industrial complex, hampered disarmament.
news.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
In principle I appreciate diverse perspectives in the history of (nuclear) science & society.
In practice, when it's as condescending as this, I find myself appreciating the would-be subjects of British imperial anthropology who drove their interlocutors off with spears and Martini-Henry rifles.
In practice, when it's as condescending as this, I find myself appreciating the would-be subjects of British imperial anthropology who drove their interlocutors off with spears and Martini-Henry rifles.
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love my vizier advising my enemies about me
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
love my vizier advising my enemies about me
So he is an asset of someone in Moscow? I give a lot of credit to being dumb but this seems to clear even that.
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So he is an asset of someone in Moscow? I give a lot of credit to being dumb but this seems to clear even that.
Going to need a VLF comparable version of bsky.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Going to need a VLF comparable version of bsky.
1. Someone should stick him on adderall.
2. My god at some point is he going to straight up threaten a sitting senator?
3. Everyone this dumb thinks they are Franco?
4. This was less fun to read.
2. My god at some point is he going to straight up threaten a sitting senator?
3. Everyone this dumb thinks they are Franco?
4. This was less fun to read.
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
1. Someone should stick him on adderall.
2. My god at some point is he going to straight up threaten a sitting senator?
3. Everyone this dumb thinks they are Franco?
4. This was less fun to read.
2. My god at some point is he going to straight up threaten a sitting senator?
3. Everyone this dumb thinks they are Franco?
4. This was less fun to read.
This could be a major problem. This itself probably won’t go far, but that career FBI officials and agents let it get this far is a major problem.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This could be a major problem. This itself probably won’t go far, but that career FBI officials and agents let it get this far is a major problem.
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How we saw the grand jury process before 2025: "A grand jury would indict a ham sandwich."
How we see the grand jury process in 2025:
How we see the grand jury process in 2025:
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
How we saw the grand jury process before 2025: "A grand jury would indict a ham sandwich."
How we see the grand jury process in 2025:
How we see the grand jury process in 2025:
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This is partly true but moreso DOGE teams have become fully part of the departments they were integrated with and are very much alive and a part of normal processes now
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is partly true but moreso DOGE teams have become fully part of the departments they were integrated with and are very much alive and a part of normal processes now
If you have this feeling of a need to found a new nuclear startup to make synthetic carbon fuels, can I encourage you to just make the fuel stuff and ignore the reactor for another decade?
If you're about to found another HALEU TRISO gas-cooled reactor startup, can I recommend not doing that???? I'm tired
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you have this feeling of a need to found a new nuclear startup to make synthetic carbon fuels, can I encourage you to just make the fuel stuff and ignore the reactor for another decade?
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imagine being the president of france and sending the foreign legion to conduct an assassination on friendly soil when DGSE action division is RIGHT THERE
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
imagine being the president of france and sending the foreign legion to conduct an assassination on friendly soil when DGSE action division is RIGHT THERE
😳
Drug traffickers are constantly innovating to increase profitability and lower operational risk. Their experimentation with uncrewed semi-submersible technology presents a predicament for counternarcotics strategies centred on deterrence.
Uncrewed and Under the Radar: How AUVs Transform Drug Smuggling
Drug traffickers are constantly innovating to increase profitability and lower operational risk. Their experimentation with uncrewed semi-submersible technology presents a predicament for counternarcotics strategies centred on deterrence.
www.rusi.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
😳
My partner gets targeted by the most interesting of foreign intelligence actors and I get nothing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My partner gets targeted by the most interesting of foreign intelligence actors and I get nothing.
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I kinda dig the tunic one.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I kinda dig the tunic one.
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This is what 2 generations of allowing presidents to rule by discretion and to a lesser extent regulation gets us, a single election can fundamentally re-shape how the government interacts with the people.
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is what 2 generations of allowing presidents to rule by discretion and to a lesser extent regulation gets us, a single election can fundamentally re-shape how the government interacts with the people.
Amazon is not in any meaningful sense at fault and arguing that since they release warm waste water is what is accelerating this is tenuous at best (also water chemistry is based around concentrations). Also by not comparing the amount of water Amazon uses to any of the farms or agriculture is awful
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Amazon is not in any meaningful sense at fault and arguing that since they release warm waste water is what is accelerating this is tenuous at best (also water chemistry is based around concentrations). Also by not comparing the amount of water Amazon uses to any of the farms or agriculture is awful
This explains why my entire niveristy got an email saying to stop using it as it was suspected of data extirpation.
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This explains why my entire niveristy got an email saying to stop using it as it was suspected of data extirpation.
😍 C-144 😍
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
😍 C-144 😍
Do you all not have this memorized????? What are you doing? Next you will tell me you cant identify a cutter from a grainy image of only the bow.
we all know the hogs of bsky wanna peep at how many aircraft the USCG has
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
www.cbo.gov
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Do you all not have this memorized????? What are you doing? Next you will tell me you cant identify a cutter from a grainy image of only the bow.
Ok.
Taiwan premier : the Republic of China Taiwan is a fully sovereign and independent country
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Ok.
Not beating the allegations
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Not beating the allegations
This man is a hero of a revolution and how dare you not actively be buying a mug about it?
Angleton is BACK, baby 💥
Tees & mugs in two versions—one with hammer and sickle and one without.
And, ofc, hoodies because it’s ridiculously cold out and I want one, too.
Expecting to publish Old Birds Older Tricks/Добей Врага later this week. Color testing etc.
www.etsy.com/shop/RebelSw...
Tees & mugs in two versions—one with hammer and sickle and one without.
And, ofc, hoodies because it’s ridiculously cold out and I want one, too.
Expecting to publish Old Birds Older Tricks/Добей Врага later this week. Color testing etc.
www.etsy.com/shop/RebelSw...
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This man is a hero of a revolution and how dare you not actively be buying a mug about it?
It is not unreasonable to say the entirety of Afghan society collapsed circa 1970 and between wars, tyrants, and local war lords it never had the opportunity to re-build itself in the face of significant technological disruptions to social order.
See USAID's report on THE HELMAND VALLEY PROJECT
See USAID's report on THE HELMAND VALLEY PROJECT
In fairness to Afghans, this is a society bent badly out of shape by 50 years of war. I suspect that in particular the Soviet-Aghan War, with its huge displacement of civilian populations, drove a lot of the virulent misogyny of the Taliban. A lot of kids grew up with no dad, barely seeing mom.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It is not unreasonable to say the entirety of Afghan society collapsed circa 1970 and between wars, tyrants, and local war lords it never had the opportunity to re-build itself in the face of significant technological disruptions to social order.
See USAID's report on THE HELMAND VALLEY PROJECT
See USAID's report on THE HELMAND VALLEY PROJECT