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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Joined September 2025
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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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@SarahAHoyt You could've used this assault umbrella back in the old country when you were younger...
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You cannot logic a person out of a position they did not arrive at by logic. Even worse is when they mistake feelings for logic. Deprogramming cultists is nigh impossible.
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Yeah, if someone wants to be treated with decency, it helps if they aren't doing things that are the opposite of what decent people do first.
I tend to reply in kind. If the other side is dishonest with their intentions, why shouldn't I be as well?
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It's weird how all these clown-shoes leftist chuckleheads are so eager to scream how much they understand the military without having even the slightest inkling how this shit works. Almost like they're high on their own product and not nearly smart enough to understand how seriously they're discrediting themselves in the eyes of anyone who actually does know the demarcation line in the CoC where civilian control starts.
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One those "next fights" had better be getting Thune, et. Al. primaried or you're just pissing in the wind.
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Should they? Yes.
Will they? No.
Speaking from experience as an IL resident, when corruption runs that deep, the machine doesn't just let go of power. They'll have to either die or get charged with multiple felonies first.
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As someone who knew/was friends with the Puppies leadership... You're only about 80% right.
First off, Vox Day was coat tailing with Rabid Puppies, doing the same stupid shit you see with the groypers today trying to abscond with someone else's movement.
Second, you're confused on what the goal behind Sad Puppies was. We knew we weren't going to win walking into it. The entire point was be enough of a threat they were forced to abandon the pretense of fairness. We succeeded.
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Jason Fuesting retweeted
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
All I'd ask for is instructions on how to do it all properly, seeing as that's a skill I've always wanted to learn but haven't had the opportunity.
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Or listening to someone wax poetic about the meaning behind the color of the lighthouse in the Great Gatsby.
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$$$ 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.
In my current WIP, the isekai'ed MC's sister is better than him... at using magic. Jenna was a DARPA engineer, so it makes sense that she'd be better at that whole arcane thing. Sufficiently advanced physics is already functionally indistinguishable from magic for most people.
Thing is, Sam's Delta. He's a hell of a lot better at uninviting people off this mortal coil and generally being a sneaky bastard than she is. Both characters have their relative strengths and weaknesses.
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