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Fun story from circa 2004: after having to spend six months in drydock to replace a propeller shaft because of lack of PMS, the LAKE ERIE was pulling out of Guam when they hit a coral reef, broke its sonar dome, and the CO lie to C7F and said it was a “rogue wave”. Ask me how I know.

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Full Metal Jacket: Gomer Pyle's Creepy Smile

People are inching closer and closer to the edge of sanity in this proposal response. Think we’re on the countdown to someone snapping.

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ALT: Full Metal Jacket: Gomer Pyle's Creepy Smile

I would support Ted Lasso getting the bottoms of his feet blowtorched by the GRU ala Season 5.

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The OPTEMPO problem remains rooted in the fact that despite FLGA addition to the cyber force, they’re woefully small, and the Services continue to tell USCC to kick rocks when they ask for bodies. /1

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Former expeditionary combat Sailor- this is dumber than usual, we already have an expeditionary force, they’re called Marines. Name change unnecessary.

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Every time I get appalled by the amount and depth of racism in America, the UK makes me feel slightly better. Class stratification is the cornerstone of their society, with overt racism sitting atop it.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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The future of the military is one computer shooting missiles at whoever it wants and thousands of soldiers who stand around looking sexy

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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” - Stephen King #31daysofoctoberween

Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s octoberween. It’s Octoberween! ITS OCTOBERWEEN!!!!!

Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

maybe they could do a reorg *holds finger to ear* Wait, we’re getting some breaking news-

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a photo finish between Casual Racism and Honky Senility. They’re coming down the stretch, but here comes Unchecked Narcissism! OH MY GOD ITS A THREE WAY TIE, WHAT A RACE

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a proud Possum-American, I demand that at least 30% of my diet be made from deep-fried dead animals. But the costs of eating out are simply ridiculous right now. Ain’t no way to justify it on the regular.

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fun thing to do is to search Steady State’s posts for “policy” and see the dozens of posts they’ve made critiquing policy positions. I mean I generally think they’re on the side of the angels, but they’re also a bunch of former SES and political appointees, so grain of salt when listening.

Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The engineer I’m working this month on a proposal response just finalized his divorce and is turning every exchange into a reason to talk about his ex-wife. Someone come get me.

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Obsessed Boomer

ALT: Obsessed Boomer

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Heat (1995) @heatfilm1995.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT! GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT!!

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Ghoul Hand Luke @oldsquid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If bands lost their star they should be forced to keep touring with the corpse, like the trial of Pope Formosus

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anus mascot at the Brazilian Congress of Coloproctology (CBCP 2026)

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Thinking about that Trump commercial from the afternoon ball game. My soul brother Andrew Vachss had this clocked 30 years ago:

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All I see is a pack of playing cards.

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Why buy what you can get delivered to you by commercial mail?

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it ain’t country music if the singer paid someone else to cut their hair it ain’t country music if the guitar player ain’t finger picking it ain’t country music if you bought your instruments new it ain’t country music if it was recorded during bow season

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Part of the original OSS concept of recruiting was to get humanities majors because they could contextualize events and apply multiple fields into an operation, whereas the hard sciences could only apply their one school of thinking to a problem, which was anathema to the ambiguous nature of ops.

Yes, in what possible context could learning history be important to an engineer? What I could learn about experimentation or development from Oak Ridge or Los Alamos? What I could about safety practices or disaster recovery from Fukushima or Chernobyl? Just admit you’re a dunce.

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When I was working in shit-ass restaurants and bars there was a line cook everyone called Bones. Rail-skinny, long hair, chainsmoker, drug problem, metal drummer. After a decade in the service I went back to the joint he’d been at? He was still working the line. That’s the backbone of America.

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What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and fucking thee.

Trump has created a trade deficit in 24-year old line cooks who are also drummers in six bands simultaneously as well as being the neighborhood shroom connection. Make America Trip Again

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