Husband, physicist, author, gamer, marksman, former Navy tech, owned by cats (who think this item should be first on the list) (See profile for link to books)
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For any future followers that find their way to following this account, if you have questions about my books, be it about a character, scene, event, or really any part of the world building, feel free to ask about it. I like the engagement; just be forewarned you might get spoilers.
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Shannen Rossmiller was a retired judge-turned cyber vigilante who infiltrated jihadi groups after 9/11.
Shannen was living a quiet life in rural Montana when she watched in horror as the events of 9/11 unfolded. Unlike most people though, she was determined to join the fight. In her spare time, she learned Arabic, studied the Koran, and located potential jihadi chat rooms online.
Over the course of the next five years, Shannen built multiple personas online with in-depth backstopping, using them to fully identify and report jihadis to the FBI and other agencies. She taught herself techniques such as sending keyloggers to her contacts hidden within JPEGs so as to pass their online activities over to the FBI.
As a private citizen Shannen was able to participate in many online activities that law enforcement agencies could not at the time, due to bureaucratic inertia, funding, and legal restrictions.
Two of Shannen’s biggest victories were the arrests and successful prosecutions of Ryan Anderson, a Washington Army National Guard soldier who wanted to help teach Al-Qaeda how to blow up M1 Abrams tanks in Iraq, and Michael Reynolds, who intended to destroy gas pipelines in the United States. She even convinced an overseas arms dealer to send her pictures of himself sitting on crates of stolen Stinger missiles as proof that he could actually deliver on the merchandise he was offering for sale online.
By 2007 Shannen had built profiles on over 640 potential jihadis online and passed more than 200 of them to the FBI. She worked closely with the FBI field office in Great Falls, MT.
These victories came at a cost. Shannen received many death threats over the years, and her car was shot at on at least one occasion by persons unknown. Nevertheless, she remained dedicated to the fight against terrorism, both at home and abroad.
In November 2020, Shannen passed away from complications related to Graves’ disease.
#covert #clandestine #vigilante #cybervigilante #tradecraft
$$$ 2nd Draft of Harvester is finally complete. Current length after the first complete pass using my wife's feedback: 277.5k words.
Going to take the rest of the night off, maybe tomorrow, and then I'll go through all the beta feedback and see what needs tweaked. I have definitely learned just how inadequate my ideas were to speeding this up at the start of editing. Bleh.
No way around it, we need to ban mail-in voting that isn't overseas service related. We also need Congress to pass explicit laws (either by statue or Constitutional amendment) outlawing non-citizens from voting in any election and authorizing the DoJ to enforce that.
Will we ever get either of those? Probably not. Not without some seriously bad shit happening. The Dems will fight it tooth and nail and the Republicans simply don't give a fuck beyond what giving them lip service does to their donation rates.
We need a party that actually gives a fuck about this country, and quite frankly, I'm willing to burn down the GOP to get it.
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I think the medical community really missed an opportunity when they went with priapism instead of vigor mortis.
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Jason Fuesting retweeted
In my humble non-Navy opinion; the names Enterprise, Yorktown, Lexington, Saratoga, Hornet, Wasp, Ranger, and Independence should be in permanent rotation for the carriers.
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This is actually such a perfect description of the left/right dynamic, but I'm not sure the OP actually understands why.
What do they tell you in the emergency instructions on a flight? Put on your mask FIRST, then help your kids. You must be "selfish" in order to be of service to others. While leftist worldview may appear noble, it's actually very impractical and counterproductive in the real world. The right wing worldview is what builds, maintains, and rescues societies, though on a superficial level it appears to be selfish and icky.
This is how you see very good-natured, well-intentioned people fall into highly destructive socialist dogma; its veneer of virtue and selflessness is irresistible. They're not bad people (though the commie street animals are), they just have never built anything, nor rescued anything, nor dealt with an emergency, etc...so they don't understand how things actually work.
In BLS/First Responder training they'll test you with a hypothetical question: Let's say you're a firefighter. You're out mowing the lawn in front of the station, and you witness a massive car wreck. What's the first thing you do?
Most people reasonably say "run over and extract the driver" or "call for the ambulance and grab a fire extinguisher", and they fail. The correct answer is: turn off the lawnmower. If you don't slow down and do that first, it'll roll off into the street and cause even more destruction.
The first principle of emergency response is: ensure the scene is safe. There's no point in initiating a "rescue" if it's not safe, and you, yourself, need to be rescued. While the average person might be outraged because a first responder is not darting over to the patient with enough haste, it's because they do not understand how things can break bad. There's a checklist of procedures that has been developed over centuries, written in blood, that informs how they do things, and in what sequence. And what may appear "selfish" is actually just...responsible and pragmatic.
Edit progress on Harvester has now hit the 80% mark, chapter-wise.
Now editing - Chapter 20: Two Golems, One Tankard
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Threatening half a country with prison, ruin, or worse and expecting electoral obedience is a fascinating strategy in a nation founded by men who answered tyranny with rebellion. America’s oldest political instinct isn’t submission. It is defiance.
May the most intolerant side win.
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The reason so many people are so upset about The Wrong People being sad at Sir Patrick Stewart's death is because it proves that not making your sociopolitical beliefs your entire identity is not only possible, but celebrated, and they just can't have that.
