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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

WYD? Oh, just Saturday afternoon stuff…

The worst most expensive free rescue dog is wearing an Elizabethan collar while sitting in the back her least favorite spot: the back of a car I specifically bought to comfortably haul her around on adventures. A McDonald’s plain cheeseburger is in her future, but she doesn’t care. She’s wearing a cone of shame because she won’t leave her inflamed toe beans alone. So I took her to the emergency vet on a Saturday because I’m cruel. I’m so cruel that she had a cheeseburger AND four-piece nuggies.

But, yeah, single women with dogs are this country’s biggest problem or whatevs…

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Everything just got better. Or at least that’s what @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social always tells me.

Garrison Bros bourbon. Neat. Medicinal, as it comes.

At Driskill Bar.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My favorite artworks are always the ones with benches.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The last day in archives. The last pull of the day. The last box of the pull. Found what I was looking for. Everything did, in fact, just get better.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What’s my sign, you ask? I’m just sneak right by ya and… *ope*… leave this right here.

Sign on a walking bridge at Command and General Staff College that says “No Salt Bridge”

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

There is a sign that says “Welcome to America’s Metro” in every station, and I have questions. Also… this statue still goes hard in the paint, baby!

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Actually, maybe that’s also incorrect. I’m not sure that I celebrate all retirees or pilots. Some of us are awful.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Certainly not this one. That’s for sure. *boop*

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

*warning: nondoctrinal hobby option content* Have you considered counted cross stitch? Safe from generative AI and you can make stuff for your desk that has flowers and inappropriate language!

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

That moment when you organize your books and a friend’s gift gives you the “courage” to keep going…

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I mean… Except with flatulence.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“Good money” for peets, you say? Retirement planning is complete.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Those are people who’ve never had an accidentally adventurous pet. Yet.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Post my warning sign, you ask? *boop*

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m just gonna scootch right by ya and… *ope*… slap several people upside the head with this field manual right here. You can read it when I’m done.

The cover of FM 3-99, Airborne and Air Assault Operations, dated March 2015.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Reading about ethnic nationalism. Girl dinner.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You know what you should do? You should take those old dress uniform boots from that one unit you were in, and you should replace the laces with little pink velvet ribbons, and you should wear them!! Do it.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Don’t mind me. I’m just gonna sneak right by everyone sharing pictures of red-X helicopters on airfields and… *ope*… set this right here. Yes, I’m judging the way you casually toss around words. Also, some of y’all need SERE and it shows.

The cover of Army Techniques Publications 3-04.14, Helicopter and Small Aircraft Battle Damage Assessment, Repair, and Recovery, published in November of 2021.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I get it. Maintaining an encyclopedic museum is not an inexpensive proposition, and ticketing is a way to off-set operating costs when funding to the arts are cut and the cost of preserving a collection in perpetuity continues to rise. But, umm… this was “A Choice.”

Meme text asks “How does the British Museum have so many incredible artifacts compared to other museums?”

Guy with a suspicious haircut answers “The secret ingredient is crime.”

And that’s not wrong, folks. Honestly, like… what is the point of museums doing the work to decolonize collections, create engagement spaces to reflect on structural power, and focus on accessibility if they’re just going to charge admission from the very communities the artifacts were stolen from originally?

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Pepsi? In Buffalo? What the…

A purple can of PJ’s Chrystal Beach Loganberry drink, which is so sweet and enough sugar to rot your teeth, your future offspring’s teeth, and your future great grandchildren’s teeth in one can.

Labatt Blue Canadian Pilsner in a can is Buffalo. No, I won’t be taking your counter arguments at this time.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Yeah, yeah… some really old papers might have also arrived. ;) But how can anything be as cool as this piece of paper??

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Oh, you know… just lurking in my usual spot- the catbird seat of the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social’s lecture hall- on the coolest lecture from @jamescrossland.bsky.social! We’re live on YouTube right now. Head over and check it out! m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGx1...

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

et al.: is there an event tonight at the museum? Yes! If you’re here, a cozy lecture hall seat is waiting for you! If you’re outside of KCMO and still curious? Dial in and join us! my.theworldwar.org/19201/19202

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

You know what’s awesome about museum work? This is the rehearsal of our Memory Hall set up at the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social, the first stop of the Freedom Plane national tour from NARA. Pretty cool to see volunteers and staff sharing a historic experience in a historic space, together.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Someone sent me rage bait. Here. Now you can have it too. www.war.gov/News/News-St...

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Subskeet? www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You’re a brand new WO1, and you’ve just arrived to your first assignment. 10/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You had one PCS to Germany decades ago, and you have never stopped talking about how much better the beer is there every time you go out for drinks with friends. 9… maybe?/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You have trench art as well, and you can’t wait to tell everyone about it when they come over for dinner. You also have several of those T-Wall book ends from the little Bazaar in Bagram. The Greenbeans there gave you a very memorable case of the bubble guts. 8… 9… I dunno/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You cheeky little thing, you. 7/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You have chaotic orange tabby cat energy. You probably also have a great vinyl collection, but that’s for you to know and no one else. You also drive Fernet Branca. Straight. 6/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Staff officer. No, I won’t explain further. 5/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You’ve read Mahan. Like… actually read his work. How’s your SAMS monograph coming along? 4/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You have killed every houseplant that has ever come into your care. And you’ll do it again. 3/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You have carried a mortar baseplate. It was traumatic but also strangely liberating. You have a healthy CrossFit habit now, but at least you’re wearing appropriate sneakers. How’s your sciatica? 2/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Getting fully torqued for the Pershing Lecture Series tonight with CGSC’s Dept of Military History and the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social. While we wait, allow me to tell you what your favorite museum objects tell me about you (selected at random): 1/🧶

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Partners and Allies forever, baby! I stand with NATO.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Don’t mind me. I’m just gonna scootch right by everyone in my AO and… *ope*… set this right here. Just in case…

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is going back on all of my syllabi:

Address Unknown is a short novel created using letters and telegrams between two friends during the late 1930s and the rise of Third Reich in Germany. Originally published by the Reader’s Digest without credit to the author, reprints can be found that properly credit the work to Katherine Kressmann Taylor today.

It demonstrates how “primary sources” can be used to illuminate complex historical events that have significant context today.

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Here is “pet” On my couch again Illegal

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Literally writing an undergraduate lesson plan today on the enduring legacy of this Boston Committee of Public Safety poster from 1915. *screams into the void alongside every other American history right now*

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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Don’t mind me. I’m just gonna scootch right by ya and… *ope*… set this right here in case anyone gets curious. Or we can go ask that dumb DoD AI chatbot to give us some hot, steamy trash, I guess?

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