Timothy Choi

Unidentified camouflaged ship, picture taken from HMCS MAYFLOWER in 1944, possibly around Normandy invasion. If you can identify this ship, please leave a comment. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

Tusind tak Erik, Sara og #InnovationSouthGreenland! It was great working in partnership with you speaking with local hunters in Kalaallit Nunaat for the "Seals, Stigma and Survival" project @nichecanada.bsky.social @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @sduarctic.bsky.social @arcticcouncil.bsky.social

Was this the only one in contention for the stop-gap GBAD? Or were there others and this is basically a "shortlisting by exclusion"?

signs of the time - regardless of our human ability to try and ignore what's happening in earth sciences and global warming, climate crisis, the natural world is rapidly showing and manifesting the reality of that change

To be fair, to the extent that they're under the Dept. of Navy, it was the Marines doing the shooting.

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

The Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds fly over San Francisco during Fleet Week

No fleet at Fleet Week, but once again our allies come to the rescue 🇨🇦

'Made in Colombia' narco sub found floating in Solomon Islands Cousins Reubenson and Martin Fugui found a 'Made in Colombia' narco sub in Solomon Islands over the weekend — the third such vessel found in the country's waters over the past year.

Tired: Australia paying the Americans vast sums for submarines we’re never going to get

Wired: in the Solomons, you get free drug submarines from the sea

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

this would make a good premise to a movie, though

The PLA is literally a marxist organization and they spend like 50% of the time doing mandatory ideological training.

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

In a sane society, this would be a deal killer.

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Let's keep the Canadian theme going...

youtu.be/XRD3vrSLPaw?...

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant. “I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

but this is some "step 1 draw two circles step 2 draw the rest of the fuckin owl" stuff

Norway confiscates Russian fishing vessel ordered to leave last year The Government has decided to take over the ownership of the Azurit because the Russian owners did not follow an order for the ship to leave Norway.

Norway confiscates Russian fishing vessel which was ordered to leave last December for national security interests.

A Chinese mining company is accused of covering up the extent of a major toxic spill in Zambia A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.

A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.

The Danish minister for defence now openly declares what has been in the works for some time - 🇩🇰is looking for a major partner to build the new frigates in Denmark. Building them elsewhere is not an option as for now too much political capital has been invested in this.🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧

After alot of cultural war brouhahaha the Swedish goverment today launched the official Swedish cultural canon, the official list of works of cultural excellence. It included the usual books, plays and movies and architecture but most importantly innovations and most importantly of those the Viggen:

Glad they made their choice JUST before I send my final manuscript to the publisher 😁

Norway will acquire British frigates The Norwegian Government has selected the United Kingdom as a strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates. The purchase of British frigates will be the largest Norwegian defence capability i...

Big deal: Norway has chosen the UK as strategic partner for its procurement of frigates - the largest Norwegian military capability procurement ever. Together, Norway and the UK will acquire, operate and develop frigates for the coming decades.
#StrongerTogether

www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/n...

sea concorde

On the other hand, maybe they'd have enough clout to actually buy 32 Zummies and make them worth using and skip the LCSes entirely.

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Yes:

Hey @unavaleable.bsky.social, you made it onto a meme aggregator account on insta!

My working assumption is that, like many modellers, the US Navy has an addiction to weathering powders

New surface-to-surface missile for operational use

#Finland - "This summer, the Navy has conducted exercises in order to develop the new surface-to-surface missile system (SSM 2020), and as a result of this development work, the system has now been introduced into operational use."
merivoimat.fi/en/-/new-sur...