flyingidget.bsky.social
Flying. Dogs. Surfing. Occasionally other stuff.
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Were they willing to name names? Now that I’m not deploying 200+ days a year I got some time on my hands. And I bought those fun Forever stamps in bulk.
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“I’m riding bikes with Amanda & Scotty” meant I could be anywhere between Huntington Beach and Oceanside. Although the moms generally knew which pizza parlors ($1.25 for the combo) or baseball card shops we were likely to stop at. Not so much which abandoned lots and construction sites.
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Congrats & thanks for your stewardship. Safe travels, get some rest, and let us know when we can try or buy GED wine…
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Well, also that if we don’t all end up dead, this is really f-in’ funny.
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At least it’s Fri…oh wait, oh no
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Maximum handsomes!
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Great thread Puck.
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And we have far fewer excuses than any other group of people who’ve tried to say “we didn’t know” or “we didn’t vote for this.” It’s all been very open, spoken out loud and put in print by people gleefully proud of what they’re doing, requiring only minimal attention to see. /Fin
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Stand up for your neighbors even if you don’t like them: if it’s not stopped early it’ll get to you anyway. Of course, if you’ve read Mayer, Arendt, or Klemperer, your mental health is probably in the trash right now. America is not special and exempt from the dark side of human frailty. 2/3
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I really hate it when I joke about ridiculous shit and apparently manifest it into being 🙄
This whole thing is making me think of that South Pacific song “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught.” No one’s born hating the way these people hate.
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USS Dan White, originator of the Twinkie defense. Can’t wait to see the ship’s patch.
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Please, as if the softball moms are sipping chamomile tea out of those Stanley cups in their Escalades while they sit in the Sprouts parking lot for an hour and a half.
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It seems worse east of the Mississippi, but yeah, Guard abuse is part of why I bid oceanic. Admittedly the worst I’ve ever heard was in the Persian Gulf during world cricket champs, but if we could at least pretend to be professional aviators and not extras in a crappy 25-y/o movie, that’d be nice.
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Enjoy & be safe! Catch you on the flip side.
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Truly fabulous cankles and “Dad, I know you’re withholding” face.
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Coolest place I’ve visited on the mainland so far! For the movie fans, Mission Impossible 3 was filmed there.
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And yet MAGA media is fellating J.D. Vance for standing there and shaking every graduate’s hand at Annapolis. Well, yes. That’s the deal. That’s the expectation. Clinton did it, Bush (both) did it, Biden did it. But Trump is too frail and uninterested. Tee time!
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I wasn’t super-stoked to have Dick Cheney in ‘01, but he was polite and understood the assignment: thank the families, congratulate the graduates, then STFU and shake everyone’s hand. Most normal people can handle it.
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Oh, they don’t limit themselves to that. They play tracks from “American Idiot,” which I’m pretty sure came out maybe 3 summers ago? 4, tops.
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The classic rock station in Los Angeles plays Green Day.
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How much of the worst parts of H.R. 1 will pass the Senate and then reconciliation and become law? Will Senate R’s nuke the filibuster?
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I am sleep-deprived, existentially-exhausted, bone-weary desperate for a 24-hour period in which I don’t utter the phrase “what the fuck are they even talking about, man?” multiple times.
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I think I’m having a stroke.
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Perhaps between being awesome at law, smartness, hilarity, rowing, dog mom-ing, and now art & design, the universe decided too much talent was residing in one vessel but botched its’ attempt at rebalancing.
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100%! They used to have this crab dip that maybe had spinach and artichokes in it too, I can’t remember exactly. Everyone just called it the Crab Crack and blew a non-trivial part of our Lt paychecks on it. Hope it’s still there.
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When I left AD, got a degree in finance, & worked on Wall St, I became convinced calling these people “finance officers” actively harms their fellow servicemembers. They are disbursement officials at best and know nothing about actual finance or investing, but people listen to them bc of the title.
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And probably also mad that no one knows the story and their insane feats have never gotten Hollywood treatment, yet our options at the theater are the eleventy-billionth Marvel film or “MI 12: Ethan Navigates the Social Security Phone System.” Any book by or about the WASPs will accomplish the same.
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Will immigration/refugee status of the Afghans who fought with us and made it here ever be normalized? Should I allow for non-racist reasons behind Congress’s failure to do so over the last 4 years? Will we really deport some of these people back to Taliban control?
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Dude they’re gonna throw ‘em on cots in the Department of Agriculture’s leaky gym, give ‘em MRE’s and deny MI&E. $3.50 a day, paid in 6 months or a year ‘cause Elon’s toddlers fired a bunch of FM GS’s and probably shut down DTS.
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Are you suggesting members with ill intent, grudges, or certain political beliefs might weaponize their opinion that male Lt X doesn’t look manly enough, or that female Airman Y doesn’t behave demurely enough for their liking? What if Lt X grooms his eyebrows or Airman Y eschews makeup? Mon dieu!
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Yeah, he’s pretty obviously mad we didn’t commit more war crimes.
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I don’t understand what he means by “restore warrior ethos.” The post 9/11 generation of servicemembers is the most combat-experienced in American history. We did plenty of warfighting. What’s his beef, that he didn’t stick it out the whole time or that we lost?
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No one. And no one should, either. This betrayal inflicts significant moral injury on GWOT veterans and will get American servicemembers killed in future conflicts. But hey, Pete and Captain Bone Spurs support the warfighters, right? 🙄
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Is the businessman’s name John Barron? 🤔
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The fun-suckers don’t get that some of us distinguish between “my favorite” and “what I think is most accurate or skillfully made.”
That said, Casablanca and Tropic Thunder are both war movies, and I couldn’t possibly choose between them.
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I like to pretend one day my small acts of resistance and decency might mean something, but the honest truth is I do them so I can look in the mirror and not have to suspect I surrendered my principles without a fight.
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Repetition is required if dudes gon’ learn that the P&P hand flex and Tom Holland’s Umbrella routine are the two hottest things a man has ever done.
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Thank you 🙏 But also, you know, 🤬
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If the Archangel Michael a baseball fan, Rob Manfred is going to have A LOT to answer for.
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Thanks. I don’t know either; I guess we just fight for outcomes it’ll probably exceed our lifespans to repair, shuffle off this mortal coil with clean consciences, and hope we’ve left the next generation enough tools to fight for what should’ve been their birthright 🤷🏼♀️