@oldsquid.bsky.social
Old USN dude, OEF & Desert-Sx; now middle management. Geek, writer, cynic, interracial adoptive father. Member of the Pact Act club. Appalachian in exile. Erudite shitkicker, always looking for suspects.
Let my man cook.
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
that’s just the smell of Old Bay and dark money, babeeeey
Gonna ask an artist for a commission of this next time I’m at a con and they will have thrown into the streets.
Fan fiction where Wolverine and Hullk fuck and nine months later someone poops out a green adamantium baby
Watching generation after generation fall into the same mantrap of believing that they will ever be able to scrub the stink of Trump off their reputation.
I’m guessing that the most recent MRI must not have gone so smoothly.
Ah, the weekend during an emerging brushfire war and the economy during to death and excrement.
Cats are the Buddha’s emissaries on Earth to remind us not to become attached to anything.
Afternoon workout and my piece’a shit headphones are broken so I’m staring straight ahead through five miles like a goddamn psychopath.
(Bradley Newell voice): I don’t practice Cementeria
Keffiyehs win conflicts
He should ask how that worked out I. GWOT.
Oh, it’ll achieve something alright. Just not the objective they’re aspiring to.
uhhhhh
Cronenberg hive rise up
In a dark way it is funny the thing that ball knowers all predicted would happen in a hypothetical defense of Taiwan is happening in a idiotic war of choice that hasn’t accomplished anything of strategic value
Perhaps it was unwise of the Navy- if they wanted to raise a generation of officers willing to sail through minefields- to create a culture where any mishap resulted in half the wardroom had their careers torpedoed.
Resilience is built like a muscle, not willed into existence.
The bank heist has started, everyone can dust off their ONF’s, remove ‘pacing threat’ from them and replace it with’OEF’, and swim around in money like Scrooge McDuck.
the annual False Spring always claims a few souls with its cruel deceptions
Everyone involved in the making of that Tily Norwood video should be dragged from their homes and shot in the the street.
Since someone mentioned Jason Isbell, here’s his masterpiece about doubt and ennui.
‘Let the night air cool you off
Tilt your head back and try to cough
Don't say nothing about the things you never saw.’
Something something AI something something machine learning
The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.
the refrain i've repeated for years now is that the Navy has been dealt the worst hand of the services over the last decade(s) but they've also played it badly
J7’s everywhere are ruins of freaks and suckers for the bright shiny new pennies.
Fat Leonard out here naming our ops now?
The US Navy correctly understands that there is zero political will or operational reason to risk casualties in this campaign, which raises the question of why we're doing it in the first place.
I filled up Sunday afternoon and by 0400 the next morning, it had jumped an additional .40.
Even if you think the guy is a hack (which I don’t necessarily think he is), Josh Rudd literally has zero experience in cyber operations which is sorta important if you’re leading the NSA