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"Growth and death, gravity and decay, [this] is the chief work of the world." - Wendell Berry
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Brian Castner
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Brian Castner
@Brian_Castner
Writer and researcher. Current: Crisis Team at Amnesty, Conv Defense NRF at Stimson. Formers: EOD, OIF/OEF x 3. Author of STAMPEDE, THE LONG WALK, etc.
SYOTR Katılım Eylül 2010
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@sfrantzman Could it be a folding stock folded forward and mis-colored when the image was colorized/upscaled?
See detail of black and white version and google result for a Remington 870 with folding stock.
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@MattGallagher0 @elliotackerman “By which of these ought I to seek my God? I had sought Him in the body from earth to heaven, so far as I could send messengers, the beams of mine eyes. But the better is the inner.”
Confessions of St Augustine, baby
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“Introspection Is an Invented Construct from the 1910s”
Supervillainy used to be smarter and more well-read than this.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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@Easybakeovensz Also.....the CIA didn't just ask DoD if it was a Tomahawk? They treated it like intelligence collection?
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This article is interesting for several reasons. The article suggests that the CIA reviewed multiple videos showing a missile impacting the school at Minab. Currently there is only one public video of a missile impacting, and it hits a different building near the school.
Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss
Oh boy: theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…
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@HuntressLabs @JimBrowning11 @_JohnHammond Why do you write like AI? It’s a tweet. Surely you can sound human for a single tweet.
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@MarkZinno If you believe this theory (I do) then the movie is a pretty enjoyable Valhalla sequence. vulture.com/2022/05/theory…
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Didn’t watch it. Couldn’t get past the idea that 30 years later “Maverick” was still in the Navy and still flying jets.
Raymond@RayZissou
@MarkZinno No way that you didn’t see “Top Gun: Maverick”
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@HunterStires @PhilKlay May undo? Has undone. For 30 years at least.
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Two things can be true at once: U.S. forces are performing brilliantly at the operational and tactical levels while U.S. political leaders are demonstrating remarkable incompetence and incoherence at the political and strategic levels. The latter may undo the gains of the former.
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@MacWBishop I don’t know who Jonny is but he needs to get out more.
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@yarotrof I take your point, but I think I matters that Camp Victory is now Iraqi, the US isn’t based there anymore.
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Optical-wire guided FPV, a technology developed in Russia and pioneered in the battlefield during the Kursk campaign of 2024.
Remember how we were all told not to overlearn the lessons of Ukraine because the U.S. in any real will have instant air supremacy, precision weapons galore, and won’t have to worry about those little drone things?
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
For the first time, an Iranian-backed militia has carried out an FPV drone attack in Iraq, an incredibly dangerous new development. Seen here, the FPV munition flies around Victory Base near Baghdad International Airport before slamming into a building.
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@draptorsbackup @dex_eve @jonelmer I’m an EOD tech. I know how munitions work. In real life, not in a podcast.
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@Brian_Castner @dex_eve If u care to know what type of munition it actually is and how it works... Reach out to @jonelmer and he can explain it.
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Iran’s cluster munitions are inherently indiscriminate, and their use is, by definition, an unlawful attack. Here’s our report on the weapons from the 12 Day War: amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Christiane Amanpour@amanpour
This week, Iran and Hezbollah launched their first joint attacks on Israel, while Iran has been using cluster munitions to try and pierce Israeli defences. @JDiamond1 saw the destruction on the ground, in this report.
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“The world needs more local X more than it needs more national X” is true about almost everything, and we’d all be better off if more of us thought this way.
Alex Seitz-Wald@aseitzwald
An objectively wild career move and one I couldn’t be happier with or prouder of. The world needs more local reporters more than it needs more national ones and even if I go back to national reporting one day, I’ll be a much better reporter for this experience.
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While he was writing ULYSSES, Joyce told his friend Frank Budgen that he’d spent eight hours working on a single sentence.
The sentence: “The heaventree of stars hung with humid, nightblue fruit.”
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@MacWBishop There should be a laugh button for tweets. Why isn’t there one? Oh, right, that’s because everyone takes this place too seriously.
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The Great American Novel is about an escaped slave who flees west during the Civil War, works building the railroads, and then plays baseball in California, and it has yet to be written.
𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲@VaGentleman
Even if THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL isn’t Blood Meridian, it *has* to be about the West imo. Westward expansion into the frontier is what made America. That is our epic.I think books that hyper-fixate on one section or another miss this. Please let me know what you think below.
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@Brian_Castner I think by “works building the railroads” you meant “becomes a cowboy,” which is cooler and also more historically accurate.
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Spend an afternoon with a Gold Star child or an operator who lost 24 friends in combat and watch how fast the war memes stop being funny. Really gross stuff.
The White House@WhiteHouse
UNDEFEATED.
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@pham1717 Power clueless and lost with his back to the shot. Embarrassing.
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With 1:33 left Chychrun pops open in the right circle, 2-1 Wash.
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On Hegseth and the lack of moral purpose in war. @GregJaffe @elliotackerman
nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/…
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