@jacoblassin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the Air Command and Staff College in the Department of Joint Warfighting. Writing about Russian media and religion. All posts, reposts, and likes are my own and not a reflection of my employer.
I need those gloves with the finger tips cut off for this freezing office.
24.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kenny Albert’s booming pronunciation of Pokémon is incredible.
22.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@rodger.bsky.social any idea why bobsled pilots wear those cloth caps over their helmets before their runs?
22.02.2026 02:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oy
21.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Are they still publishing this?
21.02.2026 00:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good Shabbos!
21.02.2026 00:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@rodger.bsky.social I get that the international ski federation doesn’t oversee biathlon and that makes them salty, but is there anything more to the beef?
20.02.2026 00:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m not sure that it’s good that basically every short-track race requires video review.
16.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@rodger.bsky.social you put Latvia’s flag for Poland.
15.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Why is there a guy dressed as a Catholic cardinal at the speed skating?
11.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The color commentator for biathlon really needs some practice. Keeps reading the wrong times or names.
10.02.2026 22:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today is my first day as an Assistant Professor in the Joint Warfighting Department at Air Command and staff College. I’m going to miss working at the Air Force Culture and Language Center but excited for the new opportunity!
09.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@rodger.bsky.social any idea how these alpine combined guys get teamed up?
09.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just read this and cannot stop thinking about it:
09.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0USA-Japan figure skating going down to the wire straight into the Super Bowl is an incredible Sports Day
08.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 324 🔁 58 💬 7 📌 4Go Birds!
08.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks for the info!
07.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I thought you weren’t allowed to do backflips in figure skating?
07.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I like international sports for a lot of reasons but one of them is “opportunities for annoying jokes about early modern history”
07.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Going to need some strategic luge investment to break the German stranglehold.
07.02.2026 17:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@rodger.bsky.social Is the life track for this Olympics a new one or are we stuck at the same global number?
07.02.2026 17:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0America’s mixed doubles curling team needs to get it together.
07.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Italy has plenty of talented musicians, why is Mariah Carey singing a lackluster song there?
07.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This Olympics Opening Ceremony is awful.
07.02.2026 01:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Malcolm Gladwell sighting at the Newark airport.
06.02.2026 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0First meal back in America at a Guy Fieri-branded restaurant.
06.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Indian pub with back to back songs by The Boss on the projector.
05.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Started reading Banks’ Culture novels. Who wants to talk about them?
05.02.2026 03:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Diorama from Gandhi museum
Painting from Gandhi museum.
Diorama from Gandhi museum
Diorama from Gandhi museum
Some photos from the Gandhi museum in Mumbai I went to yesterday.
01.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ad for Punjab National Bank at the Delhi airport.
…the name you can BANK upon!
01.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0