Nonya Bidniss

Anti-clanker, anti-crypto, anti-fascist. Retired deep state IC/civil servant. Scientific & technical intelligence re pandemic threats, chem/bio weapons, bioscience, emerging tech; personal staff of senior GOs; tech writer, speech writer, senior editor; also worked at various analytic & research labs. Today I hike, cook, read & watch #scifi. Degrees in biology & strategic intelligence. Ham. Currently in N. Alabama :( #veteran #atheist #natsec 🌻#ActuallyAutistic #nobot

Reading: Artifact Space by Miles Cameron
Listening: Rimrunners by CJ Cherryh
Listening: The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche
Watching: The Good Place
Watching: Fringe
Watching: House of the Dragon

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2026-05-05 19:33:02 UTC

Get your shots y'all. If there's a shot, any shot, get it
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/eight-vaccines-linked-lower-risk-dementia #vaccines #dementia #PublicHealth

2026-05-04 23:32:29 UTC

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You can see it here https://archive.is/71jDM

2026-05-04 18:30:28 UTC

Got a spam text from "Don Jr." telling me his father needs me to update my "voter verification record" with a maybe malicious or just scummy link (gop-way1 [dot] com/gfpia5). Reported & blocked
Republicans: go fuck yourselves straight to hell.

2026-05-02 23:36:40 UTC

Gonna tell the kids this was Supreme Court of the United States Chief Justice John Roberts
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2026-04-29 15:56:20 UTC

Michael de Adder. Violent rhetoric
Trump accuses the Democrats of inciting hate. https://deadder.substack.com/p/violent-rhetoric
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2026-04-22 13:34:06 UTC

"Political scientist Jun Koga Sudduth documented over 1,000 military purges across 116 authoritarian countries between 1965 and 2005. The pattern is the same everywhere. When a leader starts firing officers because they won’t blindly follow his orders, it almost always means one thing: the leader is afraid of being removed from office, and he’s eliminating everyone who could make that happen." #fascism #authoritarianism #military https://barbarafwalter.substack.com/p/trump-is-coup-proofing-the-military

2026-04-21 22:40:45 UTC

WaPo: The military will no longer require U.S. troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, rolling back what he described as “overreaching mandates that only weaken our war-fighting capabilities.”
I guess Whiskey Pete has never heard of Camp Funston.

2026-04-21 02:38:00 UTC

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It would be nice if everybody could get it through their heads that he's always on the knife edge of pushing the button and he's insane. There's never a time, even a moment, that we're all not in danger as long as he's in office.

2026-04-18 22:59:18 UTC

I hate the term "working class"
But I don't hate the term "Epstein class"

2026-04-16 20:25:01 UTC

Yes...we're buying Trump a..."ballroom"
Alt text abbreviated for character limit.
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2026-04-15 23:50:56 UTC

🤔

2026-04-15 23:45:12 UTC

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Geez you really get deep into this, searching out specialty drill brushes. Maybe we need a picture of your grill grates. @npub1kyd…jltj

2026-04-15 22:51:30 UTC

Do you use specialized cleaning products like caustic foam spray to clean your gas grill grates? If so, how often? Or do you just burn off the crud on max heat and hit it with a scraper when pre-heating the grill? #grilling

2026-04-14 14:52:32 UTC

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Absolutely, that is such a given in my mind, and includes such an extensive list of different types that I didn't even think to list it. There's an infrastructure for just about any aspect of society you can think of. I know many here are focused on cyber & comms. But of course its transportation, health, energy, food, water, I mean you name it.

2026-04-14 14:16:26 UTC

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I also this morning listened to a podcast from Deep State Radio called "Need to Know" which is focused on national security and a significant point of discussion was one that I've been making for years, always with a sense of great frustration -- that is, national security certainly does *include* the military but should be as much focused on citizens as it is on repelling military threats. National security should mean heavily investing in each person's health and education and those should be free because the tax structure enables it. No one should starve or be homeless in a secure nation. Every person should be able to access whatever level of education or trade training they desire for a rewarding life of purpose. Every person should have no middleman siphoning off cash, standing between them and their healthcare system. A country that does this will find it has the vitality and optimism that underlie *actual* patriotism. https://thedsrnetwork.com/the-real-reason-america-is-in-such-danger-right-nowand-the-solution

2026-04-14 14:05:17 UTC

Apparently there's a group called Patriotic Millionaires whose purpose is to increase taxes on the rich. Here is their founder Erica Payne at a recent event of theirs, posted by Aaron Rupar on bsky
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/403/433/529/734/530/original/fd1b2aeaddf2cbfa.mp4

2026-04-12 21:05:45 UTC

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We can give lawless right wing extremists the boot, too. Trump isn't the only problem, it's a whole ecosystem bent on destroying the U.S.
This gives hope.

2026-04-12 21:04:07 UTC

I've been offline most of the day doing hiking, buying plants, and working on a quilt...all in all a good day, just made better by finding this out! I'm actually a bit stunned as I expected Orban to do something lawless. #Hungary #democracy #Europe https://apnews.com/article/hungary-election-orban-magyar-trump-1a4eb0ba6b94e0c80c3cd18bd36254ab

2026-04-09 16:16:22 UTC

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Happy Confederate Surrender Day (pt. 2)
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2026-04-09 16:09:25 UTC

Happy Confederate Surrender Day!
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2026-04-03 01:34:15 UTC

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I'm unsuccessfully trying to mentally link your comment to the article but as long as this circus is running the U.S. there's no such thing as a long view, there is only the white jesus aesthetic, the grift, and the madman

2026-04-03 01:15:02 UTC

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom are seen as having been targeted because of their race, gender or perceived affiliation with Biden administration policies or officials, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-intervened-military-promotions-dozen-senior-officers-rcna266062

2026-04-02 23:05:22 UTC

There's a reason why guns haven't been allowed in the barracks full of 18-23yr old lower enlisted all on each other's nerves and drunk every weekend
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2026-04-02 16:48:34 UTC

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Congratulations from another retired civil servant. Thank you for your service!

2026-03-28 21:59:07 UTC

Just for curiosity, social media platforms you use regularly (defined as having an account and posting content to it):

2026-03-28 00:45:05 UTC

The grim truth
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2026-03-24 14:05:46 UTC

This day in U.S. history...
On March 24, 1942, the U.S. government began army-directed evictions and evacuations, forcing over 200 Japanese American residents on Bainbridge Island in Washington state to evacuate their homes within six days. https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/24

2026-03-21 17:40:28 UTC

When the monster dies I'm going to drive around town honking my horn like a maniac and waving at everyone and yelling WHOOOOOOOO! I bet I won't be alone.

2026-03-19 00:41:22 UTC

> They have told us, repeatedly and with great conviction, that the Islamic Republic is a death cult... If this is true...then the strategic conclusion that follows is the opposite of the one the war’s architects drew. A regime genuinely willing to die for its beliefs does not have a breaking point that airstrikes can reach. It has no incentive to back down. The calculus of Tehran, on the Trump and Netanyahu regimes’ own terms, is infinite escalation.
#Iran https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-world-blinks

2026-03-18 01:26:19 UTC

Shingles vax news: in addition to the vaccine significantly cutting risk of developing dementia, it also protects against cardiac events. 👀 "Vaccinated individuals were 46% less likely to suffer any major adverse cardiac event and 66% less likely to die from any cause. They were also 32% less likely to suffer a heart attack, 25% less likely to suffer a stroke and 25% less likely to develop heart failure." https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1120143

2026-03-12 14:04:47 UTC

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The GOP has really gone off a cliff. I really don't think of it as a political party anymore as that would grant it validity. It's really a hate group now, the parallels to the Nazis and the evolution of Nazism are very real.

2026-03-11 23:46:38 UTC

‪Alejandra Caraballo‬ @esqueer.net‬
The first state in the US to remove statutory protections for an entire class, gender identity, has just enacted a bill preventing local municipalities from having their own protections for trans people. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/11/iowa-legislature-reynolds-local-trans-civil-rights-protections-ban/89084273007/

2026-03-11 21:58:39 UTC

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He's an extremely stupid man and his followers are just as stupid

2026-03-04 23:22:09 UTC

Finished #scifi #audiobook Slow Gods by Claire North. First time with this author but I'll definitely be checking out more. This story had the kind of world building I really like, with many different planets and cultures including technological beings and intelligent ships. Our protagonist comes from a brutal, hypercapitalist culture and due to an accident where he is enslaved to work off debts incurred by being alive, he ends up near death. To get the last inch of work out of his body they hook his brain up to a ship which will use him as a pilot to navigate arcspace. On the flight he is mysteriously changed, brought back as an apparently immortal and not quite normal being. He becomes a renowned pilot with the minor problem that if he's in the dark a new part of him can take over and tends to slaughter people nearby. On his travels he helps people, finds love and friendship of sorts, and tries to figure out the meaning of life. Very good. Excellent narrator I recognize from some Iain M. Banks audiobooks. I did have to slow it down though. ⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ #bookstodon

2026-03-02 16:19:00 UTC

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2026-02-28 13:28:04 UTC

I guess we're at war with Iran now. The Trump criminal gang tried to come up with reasons for it but they were flailing. But I will tell you why he's ONCE AGAIN using the military to create a violent spectacle. Because a dementia-riddled, sadistic child rapist is desperately using enormous amounts of violence to distract himself from the fact that everyone in the world knows he's a child rapist. That's it.
But the fundamental reason why is because our neighbors, coworkers, and family members wanted an insane criminal and his gang of lawless thugs to take over the government, again, after he did things like kidnap thousands of children the first time around and some of them were never returned to their families, and all the moral injury and moral stain of Trump is on the shoulders of every American as long as we live. The U.S. is a diseased, sick country because almost half of its people are diseased, sick people.

2026-02-28 02:51:25 UTC

Nationwide book ban bill introduced in the U.S. House
https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/

2026-02-24 00:48:49 UTC

I did my good deed today when picking up my AARP Tax Aide packet, an elderly lady who was also signing up said she didn't know how to answer the question of digital assets, she didn't know what that was. The two elderly ladies at the desk also looked boggled. I jumped in and said it means cryptocurrency, crypto, and if anybody tries to sell you any, it's a scam and don't spend your real money on it. They thanked me for that advice.

2026-02-21 17:23:40 UTC

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social‬
This week @jamellebouie.net had some questions for me about where the US is at now and why the term "concentration camp" might be a useful way to think about the crisis. (He interviewed me eight years ago for Slate on a similar topic. Let's hope we don't end up having the same discussion in 2034.) https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render?campaign_id=129&emc=edit_jbo_20260221&instance_id=171444&isViewInBrowser=true&nl=jamelle-bouie&productCode=JBO&regi_id=161556492&segment_id=215624&sendId=215624&uri=nyt://newsletter/bf42252b-e24d-5c98-821b-f975951ff5f6&user_id=775a5858a9eff1adcdd60e2d06083e04

2026-02-20 17:13:21 UTC

Oh our Fuhrer will hold a press conference to rage about the SCOTUS tariff ruling at 12:45 ET. This should be a very normal event. Very normal.

2026-02-15 17:02:13 UTC

Attention, Jake Tapper https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

2026-02-15 16:59:57 UTC

Late, but check out this valentine from Seattle & King County Public Health Dept., Washington
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2026-01-08 01:17:18 UTC

#military #cyber https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/venezuela-us-cyber-warfare-00713507

2025-12-05 13:48:35 UTC

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Oh, barf. BARF
IV. The Strategy
1. Principles
President Trump’s foreign policy is pragmatic without being “pragmatist,” realistic without being “realist,” principled without being “idealistic,” muscular without being “hawkish,” and restrained without being “dovish.” It is not grounded in traditional, political ideology. It is motivated above all by what works for America—or, in two words, “America First.”
President Trump has cemented his legacy as The President of Peace. In addition to the remarkable success achieved during his first term with the historic Abraham Accords, President Trump has leveraged his dealmaking ability to secure
unprecedented peace in eight conflicts throughout the world over the course of just eight months of his second term. He negotiated peace between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the DRC and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and ended the war in Gaza with all living hostages returned to their families.

2025-12-05 13:44:41 UTC

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The document is written in a dumbed-down style that indicates either the writers are at that level and/or the target audience is at that level.

2025-10-05 21:42:32 UTC

Today is my mom's birthday, she would have been 86. I was close to her until she voted for Trump and laughed about it, which broke my heart.
My dad outlived her by 2 years, during which I had few communications with him. He said during his last year that the previous year since mom died had been the worst year of his life. When I got a message from my oldest brother that dad had died, I was walking out of work with a coworker next to me. I said, stunned, "Oh. My dad died." My coworker asked if he could do anything for me and I said, no, we weren't close.
Every year on the anniversary of my younger daughter's death, it's one more spin of the trauma wheel for me, while the older one doesn't even remember the date. She says they weren't close, and that's true. They were separated by 6 years and a lot of unhappy family issues. I was very close to the younger one but never was close to the older. We try. It's not great. When I'm dead I think she'll tell people, "It's ok. We weren't close."

2025-09-23 18:37:54 UTC

"Accidental" disappearances, deportations? Sure. Accidental. Again, when we get these malicious pests out of our government, down to the lowest clerk, they all need to be investigated for everything they took part in. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html

2025-09-21 12:23:56 UTC

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Ope, there's another one!
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2025-09-11 20:21:50 UTC

Trump at 9-11 ceremony. Thoughts?
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2025-09-10 01:05:26 UTC

Man we are fucked if we don't see general strikes

2025-09-09 00:00:35 UTC

I have no skin in the game for NYC's next mayor but this is glorious https://bsky.app/profile/zohrankmamdani.bsky.social/post/3lyech7chqs2q

2025-09-07 19:40:23 UTC

Life in post-Constitutional authoritarian America
#fascism
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2025-09-04 21:56:34 UTC

Aw, hell. It was fun while it lasted.
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2025-08-22 19:01:11 UTC

Aaron Rupar on Trump's latest display of mental infirmity and evil intent:
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
#fascism

2025-08-10 18:14:51 UTC

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He's going to eventually have them rounded up into concentration camps and used for slave labor
#fascism
None of this would have ever come about if the U.S. had its taxes and values structured differently.

2025-07-27 22:18:15 UTC

Here's a fun thread about how Tom Lehrer played a prank on the NSA that wasn't discovered for 60 years https://bsky.app/profile/opalescentopal.bsky.social/post/3luxxx27nos23

2025-07-23 17:33:43 UTC

People -- such as USG decision makers -- don't seem to understand what these crappy LLM tools do. They don't know anything. They don't think. They're not smart. They don't reason. They just replicate patterns with whatever's in their training set. They'll plug bits and pieces of that together and might spit out something true, or might spit out something that's complete bullshit but fits a trained pattern. Someone has to get this through the brains of people in govt who spend money on this snake oil and use it to make very consequential decisions affecting people's lives.

2025-07-18 13:22:42 UTC

Yesterday former U.S. House Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said that what Dems should be promising to voters includes more AI, putting a man on Mars, and giving classic American muscle cars to every combat veteran when they come home. 🥴 🤡 💩
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/874/442/202/358/880/original/191b3fa15e289ad3.mp4

2025-07-15 22:35:48 UTC

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christ!

2025-07-04 16:16:31 UTC

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2025-03-30 14:41:26 UTC

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After the Musk rats break the Social Security system a lot of ignorant Trump voters are going to be surprised when their parents have to move in with them or become homeless. I guess then they can decide if the racism, misogyny, oligarchy, and Putin-fawning was worth it.

2025-03-26 20:58:18 UTC

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The main use for genAI images is destroying the climate 🙄 @npub1y8j…67qr

2025-02-19 17:31:40 UTC

"Now we're in the middle of a Nigerian prince scam, surprise, surprise it end up being a white man"
https://www.tiktok.com/@agiftfromtodd/video/7467699509397556526

2025-02-13 14:54:24 UTC

Current flu season is a 15-year high. Several children have died. News reports haven't indicated in all cases whether the children were vaccinated or not, but I have seen some of the reports noting children who were not.
#Flu vaccine doesn't necessarily prevent infection, and may not prevent getting sick. I got the flu several weeks after my vax this year. But it was bad enough that I'm sure without the partial protection from severe disease I got from the vax I'd have had to go to the hospital. #vaccines #influenza https://www.wral.com/lifestyle/health/9-year-old-randolph-county-girl-flu-death-january-2025/

2025-01-31 22:40:52 UTC

State Dept has changed "LGBT" to "LGB" on its travelers tips page. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/before-you-go/travelers-with-special-considerations/lgb.html
Still shows up in page preview but the word is missing from the page. I don't really get it. I thought Trump and his handlers were attacking all LGBTQ plus other DEI categories, i.e., POC and women (but wait, they're "defending women"!). But there doesn't have to be any rhyme or reason in an authoritarian state.

2025-01-15 16:49:50 UTC

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Lately it was House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (#2 in series). Better even than the 1st. @npub1ny7…uv57