A bit timely. Though I didn't think too much on it at the time.
09.03.2026 17:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@vcdgf555.bsky.social
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A bit timely. Though I didn't think too much on it at the time.
09.03.2026 17:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is the sonar scope on the USS Turner Joy (DD-951) out in Bremerton.
It was from radar/sonar records that Seaman Patrick N. Park reviewed and determined there had been no attack during the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident," which nonetheless, the U.S. used to escalate to direct intervention in Vietnam.
French owned. Yes.
09.03.2026 16:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh, I'm doing that too.
😅
How I'm monitoring the situation
09.03.2026 16:30 — 👍 156 🔁 5 💬 7 📌 1MIssiles in bound, central Israel.
09.03.2026 16:01 — 👍 51 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0The missile came from Hezbollah. This is precarious as Hezbollah has now demonstrated the ability to hit central Israel with precision-guided rocketry.
09.03.2026 16:01 — 👍 73 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
Pro-Iranian accounts have been circulating an image of damage to a part of the Emek Ha'ela SES satellite station. There is also video circulating showing identical damage.
31.683699, 34.993197
Strategic bombing so hard you damaged the global economy.
Gotta give em props.
Rocket alerts, northern Israel.
09.03.2026 08:53 — 👍 69 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1Wait, what?
09.03.2026 05:24 — 👍 113 🔁 11 💬 10 📌 0
BAPCO refinery, Bahrain.
POV: 26.102927, 50.602439 looking NNE (~23.7°)
8th soldier has died during the war, though this is likely a non-combat-related event.
09.03.2026 05:19 — 👍 105 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 0
Something I came across earlier.
Mojtaba Khamenei was said to have taken control of the Basij in 2009 and was largely considered responsible for putting down the protests then.
Image from the Guardian article.
A close up of one of these unnatural groupings show (fake) line positions.
09.03.2026 03:23 — 👍 70 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1Recovering to 112.
09.03.2026 03:12 — 👍 66 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 1Royal Thai Police
09.03.2026 03:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Evidence to GPS spoofing off the UAE on March 8 via Marine Traffic.
Five distinct evenly spaced clusters of ships in the Persian Gulf and one in the Gulf of Oman.
It is by percentage, so nowhere close.
09.03.2026 02:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0118.
09.03.2026 02:34 — 👍 98 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 5Nikkei gets pummeled.
09.03.2026 02:00 — 👍 146 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 2I do worry that Trump is going to look at the market numbers and send in the navy escorts to the SoH in a totally reactionary manner that the IRGC has been hoping for.
09.03.2026 01:58 — 👍 299 🔁 45 💬 23 📌 7😐
09.03.2026 01:55 — 👍 168 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 133hrs 15 mins later...
09.03.2026 01:54 — 👍 89 🔁 26 💬 6 📌 3Just air traffic things.
09.03.2026 01:42 — 👍 173 🔁 21 💬 12 📌 1Al-Hadath: sounds of explosions, Baghdad IAP
09.03.2026 01:34 — 👍 54 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0I'm not aware any are doing so deliberately.
09.03.2026 01:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm doing it by choice.
09.03.2026 01:21 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0