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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 7h

Computer Room, British Aerospace Australia Salisbury Unit, DSTO Salisbury, South Australia, 1981 (DEC PDP-11 in second picture!)

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 7h

Swingfire Field Trainer/Simulator box (Note: REME Adjustment cover)

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 7h

British Swingfire AT Missile with test equipment at BAeA Salisbury, South Australia, 1979

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 13h

Oh he's a transphobe, made a joke about that young trans girl that committed suicide in SF.

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 1d

Patches are really neat, even came with a free Dickpic! Thank you to www.whatahellofawaytodad.com

Low visibility (camoflauge friendly) trans flag patches on Velcro with a Dick Cheney Desert Storm trading card

What a hell of a way to dad business card.

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 1d

Lmaoooooo

Australian Government "Opened for Inspection" pamphlet (Biosecurity)

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 1d

"The blood soaked man talks about his soup tree" - the shit I imagine while in between sleep and awake

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 3d

Going through Grandfather and Grandmother's things, found grandfather's retirement farewell card. He was Quality Manager for British Aerospace Australia. Have some amazing photos and documents from BAeA that I'll scan when back home.

A manilla folder covered in quality control stamps and stickers from British Aerospace Australia

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 4d

<3

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 4d

aaand assembled. Not taping the straps until I get the fit just right, but got black electric tape for the job.

British PLCE Webbing kit assembled on floor.

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 4d

PLCE therapy today

PLCE Webbing kit disassembled on the ground.

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 5d

C-can I see it?

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 5d

Looking back on this blog post after the Quantico Fiasco and yeah. Jesus.

Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 17d

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses

The defining experience of fascism.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 5d

As a private citizen: "lmao"

JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 5d

Wow. Anduril and Palantir's new comm system for the US Military reportedly 'could allow adversaries to gain “persistent undetectable access."' Fuck me.

Might as well just keep running our ops through Signal chats.

sherwood.news/markets/an-i...

An internal Army memo reportedly says Anduril and Palantir’s battlefield communication system has deep flaws

Filled with “fundamental security problems,” the system should reportedly be treated as “very high risk,” per the memo....

sherwood.news

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sundog ☉∇ ☣ 🏜️ 🔜 BLFC @coyote.tel · 7d

nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 8d

I need to interact with you more ;-;

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 8d

EMCON Quiet on your phone is another COMSEC trick. Can't be seen if you're not emitting.

The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.bsky.social · 8d

REMINDER, KIDZ!

CULT OF THE DEAD COW recommends that you turn off the GPS/Location function on your phone whenever you're not actually using it.

Bonus points for turning off Bluetooth and WiFi when you're not using them, too!

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

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emlowz @emlowz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Barren Planet (Part 1) - Sopranos: The Next Generation #startrek #sopranos #edit

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Mega64 @mega64official.bsky.social · 8d

We bought the most expensive drink from Starbucks

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth is such a staggering embarrassment. This guy *should* be thinking about the details of Constellation-class procurement, about sourcing production for a few million 155m shells, about the level of the US security commitment in CENTCOM.

Instead, he's thinking about push-ups and beards.

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 8d

Every USN vs PLAN encounter after 2032 is like the USS Masculine Warfighter, Glorious Defender of the Cracker Barrel versus six identical copies of the CNS 我们昨天建了这个 supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 8d

you know, in more authoritarian countries, seeing that secdef is drunk by 10am and the president is a doddering old man who can't hold a train of thought for 30 seconds is the exact kind of things that gives colonels Big Ideas

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 8d

Too many people take the rambling on display today as another reason for crouching in fear instead of making fun of whatever that shit was.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 8d

If they haven’t done so already, a lot of senior military officers need to start thinking hard about what they’re going to do if and when they’re ordered to break their oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the American people.

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 8d

Glad that performative wankery is over, and whatever the hell that other speech was. Jesus.