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Puck the Puddle Pilot

@puckthepilot.bsky.social
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Husband, Dad, Geek, Nerd, former Army WO IP (60s), current Coastie. Personal account. He/Him, White, Cisgender, Allosexual, Heteromantic, unmedicated Introverted Neurotypical.

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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 2h
I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 11h
Don't forget the "I want someone to take care of me in my old age."
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing but respect for MY Digger
Publicity photo of William H. Macy as The  Shoveler, a superhero from 1999 film
Mystery Men who actually doesn't have any superpowers, but he is very handy with a shovel. He is a clean shaven, middle-age white man wearing a yellow hard hat with a miner's lamp on it, a black protective vest with red trimming, a brown leather jacket, and thick black protective gloves. 
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 22h
Hence me specifying the search part of search and rescue.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026
"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think the problem is less WHAT was learned and more WHO learned.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Let's Play a Game: Revolver Bullet
Alt: A closeup of a revolver cylinder with fingers loading a single bullet and spinning it.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MQ9s are just a platform. You can put sensor packages. Comms packages. Or you can put weaponry. Traditionally the USCG finds more utility in sensors and radios.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have this barely contained band of unruly coworkers. They go by many names. Crew thieves. Flight Miscreants. Swimmers. You'll absolutely get one over on me. I'm a rube. But my friends?
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Liam Neeson's Intense 'Good Luck' Call
Alt: Liam Neeson's Intense 'Good Luck' Call
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The line between AI slop and Cooked ILE Brain is.... There is no line.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also.. you know. We don't drop hellfires on people. Or fly in places where they will be shot down.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The CG will fly them for 50 years. Because if you give us anything remotely new...
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Gollum Says My Precious
Alt: Gollum Says My Precious
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Which should bother you the people. Because drones are freaking perfect for the search part of search and rescue/drug interdiction/migrant interdiction. Which would save a shitton of money. (and lives but let's be honest that's not how we decide).
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If I see you pull up behind me with a stetson anywhere in your car, I'ma get real real intrigued by ALL the offerings in the shopette for the foreseeable future.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The USCG won't be getting MQ9s in my lifetime. Lol.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It was a toss up between that or "I just plan my time better to account for the high likelihood of running into an asshole multiple times throughout my day."
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Weird. I just plug in my car when I get home.
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Sip Tea Meme: #StopTalkingPeasant
Alt: A man sips tea with his pinky out and the text "#stop talking peasant."
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don't have the budget, believe it or not.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The ethical implications of having a throw away COA. A frank examination of the difference in difficulty between heading out to blow something up vs telling your boss they are wrong.
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🍁🍂 🎃 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Starting my list of ideas for my MA Military Ethics and International Law course in January. Now is your chance! What's on your mind? #MilitaryEthics #Profession
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No. But the squad can do a lot of pushups so they'll be fine.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lol. Good.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An entirely appropriate response. I find it difficult to believe it occured.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You know how many tattoo regrets we would solve if there was a uniform list to pull from instead of the MEPS grad giving themselves a globe and anchor?
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't mind the incessant desire for flair. But the headgear obsession of the services is stupid and needs to die. Beanies, ball caps and the occasional boonie cap are the only functional headware necessary. Gonna get DOD approved Fedoras if we keep this up.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ooo.. even better. Government approved so as not to offend the Maori people Facial tattoos.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Face tattoos. No more branch switching.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The corollary is "till they see a pogue get a better one for getting the officers' lunch."
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stolen from the original "I have boot socks with more hours jerking off in a porta potty in a combat zone than you have flight hours." Old crusty armor bubbas are hilarious.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"I have boot socks with more flight hours than you." Has done a lot of work for me.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Makes more sense than the complete lack of a cohesive rule that we currently have. I guess my central point is
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Larry David: Nobody Gives a F*ck
Alt: Larry David: Nobody Gives a F*ck
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've never met anyone who cared about hat colors who was good at their job. Granted most of my exposure is to Aviation, but still.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hey, computer people. Remember that game Black and White? Anyone ever try to get a semi trained creature to train a baby creature. And iterate that? Does it go good or evil?
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fight scene in Mr and Mrs Smith.
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Brad Pitt as John Smith: Come to Daddy
Alt: Brad Pitt as John Smith: Come to Daddy
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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I Award You No Points
Alt: The Scene from Billy Madison where the adjudicator states of Billy's attempt to answer a question. "What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm surprised no one ever tried to reboot SeaQuest.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He's gotta practice those "beardos and weirdos" lines in the mirror right? Like. That's his version of what preparing remarks is. No way he can deliver that rhyme extemporaneously.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Danny's whole but is that if he plays an even remotely bad guy he has to die. So. Pretty fucked up he signed onto this.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm trying to imagine being the kind of person who 1. Doesn't know how popes are selected. (Kinda whatever but a little rare) 2. Thinking "how many local agents are you running?" Is some kind of mic drop burn.
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Larry David: Nobody Gives a F*ck
Alt: Larry David: "Nobody Gives a Fuck"
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Stats is hard ok.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You sure he didn't? Face phone face sounds kinda AI.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I get that. I feel the rain on BOFA as well...
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I will give the pope props for not counter-offering indulgences though.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Would seriously cut into their "We are the only way to eternal life" if you could just digitize your soul.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Making the agents cranky is going to create an amicable environment?
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At a fundamental level. An organization founded on the idea that there is unique ineffable magic that makes people special, was never going to agree to the idea that you not only described the magic. But figured out a series of yes no statements that creates it. No matter how much you lobby.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Punch soft targets like biceps, kidneys and... Yeah... that's definitely a soft target too. Punches should hit with the top two knuckles first (pointer and middle finger knuckles) Strike soft targets with hard weapons, hard targets with soft weapons. Or you'll hurt yourself more than them.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't punch the mouth. Even if you're trained you're very likely to break the bones in your hand. Instead hit teeth with the bottom of your palm (often called a heel palm strike). Added bonus: Swipe the eyes with the fingers after you loosen some teeth with your palm.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There is an uptick in my abuse of "is probably legal, but it's stupid".
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