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Wargamer with two borked cats, an oversized dog, and an unhealthy interest in moral injury, chaplaincy and WMDs. The least prepared chaplaincy student and most relaxed part-time faculty member. Her dresses have pockets to angrily shove her fists into.
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at least toby keith is dead this time

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

everyone in the natsec and FP community increasingly just losing their minds as the topical questions in US FP and natsec these days increasingly devolve to the level of "should we lick this toaster while it is on? some experts weigh in"

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Gonna quit my job and become an itinerant mushroom farmer, taking care of morel injuries

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters “She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.”

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

we covered war in Iran like a thousand times with wargaming and analysis it's a bad idea it's bad for us, it's bad for iran don't do it -signed, someone who used to work on stuff like this and kinda hoped we were passed this bullshit

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

> “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. > "So do I," said Gandalf, "this shit fucking sucks.”

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

شما دشمن من نیستین

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

submitted 2 days ago • 406 comments

This is how you use the privilege afforded you as a member of the clergy

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 3 days ago • 430 comments

Rolling up to St Hans Night with Flaming Hot Cheetos, gonna send that witch Bloksbjerg with flavor, not fire

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I deserve brownie points for backing out of a postdoc when the supervisor invited now USD Colby to an event I was asked to attend before accepting and I got mad about it 2022 me was smart

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Gonna keep tie dyeing my way through my feelings and politics until every pale cloth in this house is a fun set of colors Previously made: Flaming Hot Cheetos bedding for the kid Next up: Nebula bedding for the kid. IKEA baby bedding is boring and I am fixing it.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hey friends regular reminder that anyone can call themselves a chaplain, a pastor, a therapist, an advisor. Some people have a lot of schooling and experience and are great, some people are manipulative shitbags. Be careful with your spiritual and emotional care needs.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

If you are down to foster in the DMV until their people come home, I will drive these baby girls to you (with permission from the current caregivers, of course)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

we covered war in Iran like a thousand times with wargaming and analysis it's a bad idea it's bad for us, it's bad for iran don't do it -signed, someone who used to work on stuff like this and kinda hoped we were passed this bullshit

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

submitted 6 days ago • 374 comments

Man. Political scientists don’t fucking know these days either.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The only exception to this truth is my daughter, who will peer around the side of her stroller specifically to smile at everyone until someone returns the favor.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My husband became a US citizen yesterday and he took the little flag they gave him to the No Kings protest in Lansing today 😍

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

Would like to say: there is an open recall for this mayor that has until July to collect signatures

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

it actually speaks to our core american values that we're bad at the goose-stepping parades

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

submitted 9 days ago • 377 comments

You ever have a day where you're glad a loved one is dead, so they don't have to see this bullshit?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

*searches frantically for a bracha for mosquitoes*

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

lord i do not often pray for you to deliver wet bulb temperatures and/or flash floods to my home in the district of columbia, but

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 10 days ago • 119 comments

Actual illustration of my kid getting bored with breakfast when the dog is nearby

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a whole literature about the health consequences of overcoming adversity. Stress>Hormones>Inflammatory Diseases. Most of the research is on public health outcomes for Black families facing poverty and discrimination. (Yes, this is me plugging my dad’s life’s work for Father’s Day.)

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Yeah, this explains a lot.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments