Kelsey Atherton

@atherton.bsky.social

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War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2. Front takes towards enemies.

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People always say cyclists need to be more afraid of cars, because in a collision, the car wins. It doesn't have to be like that. We can _both_lose. [picture of a propane tank on a bike]
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ian bremmer * @ianbremmer • 4h X i don't accept the argument that if you cut foreign aid—even valuable, well targeted foreign aid (which some of usaid was)—you're responsible for killing people. this should be obvious. so it will probably be controversial. 197 {7 55 410 ıll 72K ①
Natural gas has overtaken coal as an electricity source in Africa and North America, data numbers available at the link in the post
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Aric Toler ® @AricToler X.com The Pentagon removed the names of 4 servicemembers who died in Jordan from their official list of casualties. They explain that this is because "their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April." Free gift link: nytimes.com/2026/07/23/us/... 1) Aric Toler @ @AricToler• 1d New, from me and @ckoettl: Iran has attacked at least nine U.S. military sites in the last two weeks, destroying radar sites, personnel areas, hangars, and other structures, and killing at least three service members. ... 6:10 PM • 7/23/26 • 395K Views
How far the kill zone extends at any given stretch of the front depends on numerous factors, including the quality of the drone units there and the landscape. The days of heavy mechanised manoeuvres are over; a drone costing a few thousand dollars can disable a tank worth millions. Long trenches open to the skies have become obsolete. Fibre optic cables trailing behind drones settle upon the landscape like spider webs.
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Politics UK C @PolitlcsUK• 21h NEW: Keir Starmer went straight to the pub after resigning as Prime Minister earlier The Sun 1.6K L7 6.1K 94K ill 12M
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US should condition security assistance to Israel as obliged to do so under the existing law of the Foreign Assistance Act. US security assistance should be additionally conditioned on Israel halting its operations in Lebanon as outlined in the MOU Congressional provision of future aid should be conditioned on the acceptance and provision of humanitarian relief Congress should prepare terms acceptable for a more durable end to the conflict, terms that decouple the United States and Israel military cooperation.
"how's your Thursday night writing going, Kelsey?" "do you ever wish we could have specific insight into the nuclear decision making of every prime minister since 1967?" Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD · Oct 25, 2022 omg, entirely possible that there are British submarines with three different Prime Minister's letters of Last Resort on patrol right now. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Truss The Process Quote Mike Black @MikeBlack114 · Oct 25, 2022 Replying to @MikeBlack114 and @PeterLucier So entirely possible that the one out there now left with BoJo's letter in the safe and its replacement will have Sunak's A black-box stage play that's just the conversation between three submarine commanders, their seconds, and each other about what to do now that their letters of last resort are all different.
welcome to New Hampshire, Manchester, Boston regional Airport with a picture of the Breton Woods resort
the kirtland munitions storage complex, a nuclear warhead bunker south of the Albuquerque Sunport International Airport. it looks like a coathanger shape of road in cleared desert dirt eith three towers, and a small complex of offices and trees nearby. A mountain is visible in the hazy distance
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several men gather around the war simulator computer for the Star Trek Original Series "A Taste Of Armageddon" episode (S1E23)
Soccer player Erling Haaland with a Deb Haaland New Mexico sign
EX-ES these days of future past comic cover, but Olivia Nuzzi's face is over wolverine and instead of X-Men behind her there's Mark Sanford RFK Junior, Ryan Lizza Keith Oberman all marked as past tense and Shane Smith of Vice as not yet apprehended BAES OF FUTURE PAST
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Imitation cluster bombs hang inside the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) centre in the Laos capital, Vientiane.
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Noah Smith @Noahpinion • May 6, 2022 ... I had a dream that rich people took me on their private jet but I made them turn around and land because I had forgotten my passport. And everyone was mad about the extra emissions this caused. 5 142 ill Noah Smith @Noahpinion • May 6, 2022 And then upon landing (and deciding to buy my own plane ticket), I discovered that my neighbors were a bunch of portly Gen X sci-fans who were having a convention, but who wouldn't let me in because they hated me, for reasons they refused to specify. ••. 7 39 Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung • May 6, 2022 haha this dream is awesome ... 1 1 ill Noah Smith @Noahpinion ... I think the guy taking tickets at the door may have been @AthertonKD, though he had gray in his goatee... 11:44 AM • May 6, 2022
The doomsday clock modified to have the face of James's Joyce at midnight the words it is Bloomsday and that on top of the cover of the novel Ulysses
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the reflecting pool not yet filled with black painted surfaces and some clear water as crews work on it
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Will Sennett I would strike timothee chalamet out on 3 pitches. Slider outside. He feels like hes drowning. Curveball in the dirt of course he's chasing it. Ladybird sucked kill yourself. And Bang 97 inside corner. Youre out. You were was always out. Youve been out since the day you were born
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the handsome cat Mango, a big orange boy, in a propeller beanie
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Institute of Peace with "Donald J Trump" etched in for some reasons
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Farragut statue at Farragut square
Yueqi Yang @Yuegi Yang Kalshi's first example of a small business using it as hedging tool is The Jeffrey, an NYC bar that's promising free drinks to all customers if New York Knicks wins NBA Finals Game 1 on Wednesday FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2026 NYC Local Bar The Jeffrey Uses Kalshi to Hedge Knicks Promotion, Showing How Small Businesses Can Use Prediction Markets as Insurance The Jeffrey Hedges $5,000 on Kalshi for NBA Finals Game 1 NEW YORK, NY, June 1, 2026 — For Game 1 of the NBA Finals, The Jeffrey, a beloved Upper East Side bar, is giving its customers a deal that sounds almost too good to be true: if the New York Knicks win, everyone's tab is on the house. To protect itself from the potential financial hit, The Jeffrey will place a $5,000 hedge on Kalshi, the world's largest prediction market, turning a risky promotion into a fully insured one. "We want our customers to feel the magic of this moment," said Andy Freedman, owner of The Jeffrey. "But we're a small business; we can't just eat a full night's revenue on a whim. Kalshi lets us make the boldest possible promise to our customers and know we're covered no matter what." The mechanics are straightforward: The Jeffrey purchases a contract on Kalshi that pays out if the Knicks win. If it happens and every tab gets wiped, the Kalshi payout offsets the loss. If the Knicks lose, the bar collects abnormally high revenue from the promotion, having paid only a small premium for the peace of mind. Last edited 1:40 PM • Jun 1, 2026 • 85.3K Views @25 1779 3794206企