*OSINT alert*

1st image is from today, showing a 'swarm' of small boats at speed in Straits of Hormuz

This is typical behavour of Iranian fishing vessels in that area

Other 3 images from same area, same time of year but 2024 & 25 (dates at top)

First rule of #OSINT... know what normal looks like

I have a sneaking admiration of the ability to parlay 4 years in the CIA last century into presumably well remunerated punditry.

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Can we all stop conflating MI6's advice with formal UKSV vetting?

The first and most important step when using an oven is to preheat all the pans you store in there to 425.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Nurse !!!

Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to explain how the result in Hungary was all the fault of family voting in Gorton and Denton.

Mate, you should have signed up, if only to hear at first hand 'Dr' Seb's experience of counter terroism in NI whilst serving in a British army reservist interrogation unit. A claim that saw the British Ministry of Defence issue a pained disclaimer. Seb's a wee Slav Walt. Endex.

Stancil’s honeypot was done over tinder and therefore is actually SIGINT

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Heard Island and the McDonald Islands

New Brexit metaphor just dropped.

The unironic use of the term "deep state" to refer to elements of the US government or society is a reliable indicator that the speaker/writer is a crank.

“Decapitation” is such an org chart strategy. Ah this fellow is at the top of a hierarchy, he must be crucial! Boy, I’ve worked in organizations where decapitation would have improved workflow

This will never stop being relevant

Apparently giving source validations mid discussion to the partner does not convince them you do not spend enough time online or maintain a strong information hygiene practices.

Oh my.

I so get this - a system that delivers two Samoas a day, day in and day out with unfailing regularity is to be admired. Without this discipline I would just eat the whole box in a oner and suffer the consequences. Ask me how I know.

Mrs B was reminiscing the other night about her favourite BAM memory - getting dragged to ‘Singalong Sound of Music’ when BAM was SUSLO. Happy days.

Anyone want to design a pair for DG MI5? @sandbaggerone.bsky.social perhaps an interesting student assignment? Given DG is a Weegie, might being impervious to spilt Buckie the most important design criteria?

So let me get this right. And bear with me - I’m a few glasses in. A bunch of randos who helped draft a contingency plan nearly half a century ago are now touting themselves on social media as the answer to America’s current strategic embarrassment? Wow, just wow.

If you don't appoint manifestly unsuitable individuals to positions of trust in the first place then you don't need to overhaul the system. Just saying.

How do we know Churchill wasn’t reincarnated as an otter?

Otter armoured car crossing a bailey bridge surrounded by troops and wrecked buildings.

Tories arguing that Churchill should be on banknotes rather than Otters, because of WW2, are showing their ignorance.

Here's a photo of an Otter participating in the fighting in Italy. I don't see Churchill in this photo.

This is a nation that drinks Ratzeputz FFS. If you can drink that stuff, salsa verde is the nursery slopes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratzeputz

You might try Cuthbert Headlam’s diaries - edited for the Army Records Society by Jim Beach. Acerbic yeomanry officer who made it to GSO and has thoughts on the system.

To quote the great Stonekettle - all the self awareness of a dog licking its own arse on a public sidewalk.