Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸
@midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social
Materials science & nukes. Deterrence & what comes after.
Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible.
Opinions my own.
Rekindling hearts in a world that grows chill.
Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible.
Opinions my own.
Rekindling hearts in a world that grows chill.
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sorry to all my recent resistlib follows, this account WILL post about counterforce targeting and nuclear materials aging again someday
and to my nuke followers, sorry, this account will continue to post resistlib shit as well
and to my nuke followers, sorry, this account will continue to post resistlib shit as well
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Almost certainly a targeted attack at two people who had basically nothing to do with the moment and would have preferred to be home with their families. Compounded tragedy.
NEW: The governor of West Virginia says that two members of the state National Guard shot today in DC have died.
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Almost certainly a targeted attack at two people who had basically nothing to do with the moment and would have preferred to be home with their families. Compounded tragedy.
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.
Reposting for visibility/to improve the spread of Discourse on natsec bluesky. I don't have a huge dog in the fight, but I like seeing people talk about what they know.
You - yes, you Ds specifically - will need SOF & just because the SEALs have cultivated a far right internal culture it doesn’t warrant disbanding a critical strategic asset.
75RR is fine. Others too.
Infantry can’t do HR, hard target defeat, sensitive SI. Stop claiming it can, it’s wishcasting.
75RR is fine. Others too.
Infantry can’t do HR, hard target defeat, sensitive SI. Stop claiming it can, it’s wishcasting.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Reposting for visibility/to improve the spread of Discourse on natsec bluesky. I don't have a huge dog in the fight, but I like seeing people talk about what they know.
The Missileer Mujahedeen send their regards.
hey @sodrock.bsky.social wtf they banned Mike Black
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Missileer Mujahedeen send their regards.
He rots in place, not quite dead but not really alive. Surrounded by bloodthirsty, superstitious fools who rule over the ruins of a civilization so great they can't begin to comprehend what made it so great. And when he finally dies, the whole thing goes down in flames.
The right still can't meme.
The right still can't meme.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
He rots in place, not quite dead but not really alive. Surrounded by bloodthirsty, superstitious fools who rule over the ruins of a civilization so great they can't begin to comprehend what made it so great. And when he finally dies, the whole thing goes down in flames.
The right still can't meme.
The right still can't meme.
Turn your key, Charlie Brown.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Turn your key, Charlie Brown.
Different targets, different methods. If you are running active measures on left-of-center power centers (and they all are, adversaries and some 'friends' alike), your most fruitful vectors continue to be academia, NGOs and journalists. Same as in the Cold War.
One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Different targets, different methods. If you are running active measures on left-of-center power centers (and they all are, adversaries and some 'friends' alike), your most fruitful vectors continue to be academia, NGOs and journalists. Same as in the Cold War.
Every now and then people forget that Calla is (a) an actual, convicted domestic terrorist and (b) open about being a paid propagandist for the PRC. No post of hers has much capacity to shock if you keep these two facts in mind.
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Every now and then people forget that Calla is (a) an actual, convicted domestic terrorist and (b) open about being a paid propagandist for the PRC. No post of hers has much capacity to shock if you keep these two facts in mind.
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"This couldn't possibly fool anyone could it" and then it's Ryan Grim. Every time it's Ryan Grim.
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"This couldn't possibly fool anyone could it" and then it's Ryan Grim. Every time it's Ryan Grim.
Todd Harrison is by resume at least no fool, but this is a very foolish idea, perhaps explained by the fact that in Mr. Harrison's long career he has never worked nuclear matters. This idea does not survive first contact with the facts of that domain.
A very rare work related thread.
A very rare work related thread.
I did not realize there was any interest in this at all.
I agree ICBMs aren’t exactly a great fit for the Air Force, but the arguments they should shift to the Army really aren’t all that compelling. Just doesn’t seem worth the bother.
I agree ICBMs aren’t exactly a great fit for the Air Force, but the arguments they should shift to the Army really aren’t all that compelling. Just doesn’t seem worth the bother.
The time to move ICBMs from the Air Force to the Army is now - Breaking Defense
Todd Harrison of the American Enterprise Institute explains in this op-ed why now is the right time to move the ICBM enterprise from the Air Force to the Army.
breakingdefense.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Todd Harrison is by resume at least no fool, but this is a very foolish idea, perhaps explained by the fact that in Mr. Harrison's long career he has never worked nuclear matters. This idea does not survive first contact with the facts of that domain.
A very rare work related thread.
A very rare work related thread.
The first candidate to run on sending Greg Bovino to Guantanamo Bay for his countless crimes against the American people and our Constitution has my vote.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The first candidate to run on sending Greg Bovino to Guantanamo Bay for his countless crimes against the American people and our Constitution has my vote.
These two books hold the answers to most, if not all, important spiritual and social problems in this world.
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
These two books hold the answers to most, if not all, important spiritual and social problems in this world.
I don't know if publicly fucking up your spent fuel decay math, then ugly crashing out on twitter, is as bad as kinslaying.
But I do know that if you're going to steal a Tolkien name for a startup that hubristically bottles the universe's ancient fire you have to go all the way and name it Fëanor.
But I do know that if you're going to steal a Tolkien name for a startup that hubristically bottles the universe's ancient fire you have to go all the way and name it Fëanor.
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I don't know if publicly fucking up your spent fuel decay math, then ugly crashing out on twitter, is as bad as kinslaying.
But I do know that if you're going to steal a Tolkien name for a startup that hubristically bottles the universe's ancient fire you have to go all the way and name it Fëanor.
But I do know that if you're going to steal a Tolkien name for a startup that hubristically bottles the universe's ancient fire you have to go all the way and name it Fëanor.
I personally know scientists who have made invaluable, we-gave-you-a-secret-award-because-this-was-so-important, contributions to the most vital areas of defense technology who would still be funding banned under this.
This is a stricter standard than we apply to any defense workers, too.
This is a stricter standard than we apply to any defense workers, too.
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I personally know scientists who have made invaluable, we-gave-you-a-secret-award-because-this-was-so-important, contributions to the most vital areas of defense technology who would still be funding banned under this.
This is a stricter standard than we apply to any defense workers, too.
This is a stricter standard than we apply to any defense workers, too.
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Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
If John Cena or Spider Man shows up to one of these it's really over
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If John Cena or Spider Man shows up to one of these it's really over
There is an utter failure on this site to understand how things fit together.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
There is an utter failure on this site to understand how things fit together.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Senator Schumer, it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, post-lapse in appropriations environments: one where you got ten million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed!
I would accept the death of ten million Americans to deal with this problem. I do not care about some people's paychecks.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Senator Schumer, it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, post-lapse in appropriations environments: one where you got ten million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed!
I don't really know if this deal is terrible but it certainly falls short of what people were hoping for. Failure seems to have been that Senate Dems started this fight without a clear theory of victory. "Senate Rs will give up and give us something" is not a theory of victory.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I don't really know if this deal is terrible but it certainly falls short of what people were hoping for. Failure seems to have been that Senate Dems started this fight without a clear theory of victory. "Senate Rs will give up and give us something" is not a theory of victory.
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I think getting paid to work again would be pretty nifty, idk
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I think getting paid to work again would be pretty nifty, idk
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Imagine how all of this looks from Beijing or Moscow
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Imagine how all of this looks from Beijing or Moscow
sitting on the front porch in my rocking chair watching that Chesterton lad put a fence up across the way
One of the tangential benefits of Trump behaving in a manner genuinely reminiscent of a king is getting to watch in real-time as we learn exactly why so many of our systems are the way they are
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
sitting on the front porch in my rocking chair watching that Chesterton lad put a fence up across the way
Goddamn he just doesn't miss, culture commentary SSPK of 1.0 on the substack fr
There is and was only one Curtis Lemay and one Thomas power Jr. So why is every Hollywood portrayal of the SAC/STRATCOM commander the same: a man deep in Nebraska who is ready to initiate Armageddon at a moments notice without deliberation or hesitation? I explore in my latest⬇️
A House of Jack Ripper
The Nuclear Warlord and a Hollywood Portrayal that Refuses to Die
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Goddamn he just doesn't miss, culture commentary SSPK of 1.0 on the substack fr
Neil Gorsuch suddenly remembers that the White House was built on unceded Nacotchtank-Piscataway land
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Neil Gorsuch suddenly remembers that the White House was built on unceded Nacotchtank-Piscataway land
Duty is as heavy as a mountain, Alan
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Duty is as heavy as a mountain, Alan