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Cormac

@cormacbracken.bsky.social

Irishman in La Alpujarra, Spain. AI tinkerer. Occasional mountain runner. Raver.

created June 7, 2025

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Russia and Venezuela are steady allies.

7/9/2025, 4:36:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Doesn't look very damaged. Explosives aren't particularly effective against a lattice of steel beams, since the pressure isn't contained. I wonder if thermite would be more effective.

7/9/2025, 4:16:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those max speeds are 5400 km/h , 3,375 mph, Mach 4.4. And 7920 km/h , 4,950 mph, Mach 6.4.

4/9/2025, 1:04:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is true. However it's wise to set up your pieces in advance, for the next decades.

4/9/2025, 9:28:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Thanks for attending to this." - all of the meaning, minus the template text.

3/9/2025, 10:56:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's it. I'm convinced. These are two apparently conscious beings having original thoughts, exploring the nature of consciousness from their own and others' experiences. This is human-level intelligence. I have a question. Could entropy ever be reversed?

29/8/2025, 11:07:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Magyar means "Hungarian" in Hungarian.

28/8/2025, 8:26:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tver is on the line between Moscow and St Petersburg

28/8/2025, 8:02:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"On the horizon outside the window, in the direction of Saro City, a crimson glow began growing, strengthening in brightness, that was not the glow of a sun. The long night had come again."

28/8/2025, 11:03:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🌹

27/8/2025, 8:09:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why would Putin poison his top asset?

23/8/2025, 10:45:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So we've got just under a week until that rotates under us, right? Is it meaningful to compare its height or volume to past flares, to get an idea of any impact?

22/8/2025, 7:30:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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China is concerned about Russian oilfields maintaining their output over the next couple of years.

22/8/2025, 11:36:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That appears to be a fire behind a fuel train.

21/8/2025, 5:22:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They blocked petrol (gasoline) exports recently, so their refinery capacity was already insufficient to meet domestic needs. Presumably they will import refined products from their partners, at higher cost and with logistics delays.

8/8/2025, 9:52:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hence Animal Farm.

6/8/2025, 10:53:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The father of the Cambodian PM and the father of the Thai PM were old friends that have fallen out over a new casino that the later wants to build on the border, threatening the income of the old border casino belonging to the former.

28/7/2025, 4:00:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They said, there's a new omen in cycling.

20/7/2025, 1:01:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nope, definitely billions. 25 million Kms would be a fraction of the distance to Mars orbit.

13/7/2025, 10:05:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ok but did they really have to call their AI-powered networked autonomous weapons system, Skynex?

12/7/2025, 4:53:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We'd point and laugh, only we share the same atmosphere.

11/7/2025, 10:52:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, see that apostrophe-d indicates the conditional because it's a hypothetical. Analogies, they're covered in the Junior Cert.

10/7/2025, 10:15:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bold of Forbes to assume their readership can't see the non-comparability between an assessment of value and a measurement of annual output.

10/7/2025, 8:22:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You'd vote Trump to punish Biden.

10/7/2025, 6:24:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@jenniferrankin.bsky.social "The censure vote... could reveal discontent about her way of running the commission and aloofness from the parliament, the EU’s only directly elected institution." I look forward to the Guardian referring to the UK parliament as "UK's only directly elected institution".

7/7/2025, 3:30:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Many tanker aircraft on their way from US to Israel, some via nearby Morón airbase. Maybe carrying jetfuel to replace Haifa refinery hit by Iran. Or may indicate imminent US joining war to attack Iran's deepest nuclear site, which requires multiple hits by US's heaviest bombs.

17/6/2025, 12:57:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view