“Oh ho, the Frenchman! Oh monsieuuuuughhhhh”

I logged onto a call with my boss just now and the first thing out of his mouth was “you look terrible, I’m gonna go ahead and assume you won’t be in tomorrow” so I’m gonna take that as his blessing to knock off for the rest of the day

>cast crown into gutter >stomp away >come back years later >crown still in gutter untouched >sigh >pick up crown

I have a work trip to Syracuse, NY coming up, does anyone have recommendations for stuff to do/places to eat in the evenings?

Man, people who call it “sportsball” are a special kind of tiresome

personally I think anyone who expresses the thought that it was better for left organizing that Harris lost (versus we're making the absolute best of a horrifying situation) should be beaten to death with hammers

Huevos ramencheros is a Husband Meal

The vibe of the Halftime Show

The king is dead, long live the king (It is now baseball season)

Ya know. I love a good defensive slog of a football game. But this is the Super Bowl damnit

Here's what I know about football: "Go birds, fuck ice, free palestine"

The key to successful writing is to space out your productive procrastination tasks. If you do your laundry, the dishes, and tidy up before you go to sit down and write you don’t have any little chores to take a break with and then you’re staring at the blinking cursor while it mocks you

there is value in people from unexpected demographics signifying allegiance to progressivism; it makes vulnerable people feel safer around them/in public, and it gives others from their demographic “permission” to join them - as most humans won’t swim against a current alone

Okay I’m gonna share my go-to “put good tasting calories into my body” meal. I call it Meal, Lunch, 1EA

What has gotten into Very Online People the last couple of days??? “Getting good at art is too hard, so using the slop machine is good!” “Cooking is too difficult so I simply must order the burrito taxi!” The fuck did y’all do before like 2015

This may be a wild take, but you are not entitled to be good at something or recognized for having a skill if you never develop that skill!

EVER. GREEN.

If you (like me) are a veteran who uhhh has struggled to adapt to civilian employment and society, I can’t stress how important it is to find another veteran somewhere in your life who’s a few years ahead of you on the transition and just *hang out* with them

I want to just close the book on 2020-2025 and completely write those years off and never have to think about them again

One upshot of the weeks of bitter cold we’ve had is that when I get coffee at work I get to watch the ice floes drift up and down the Delaware River with the tide

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Jeffrey" i holler as i overturn a brazier at the billionaire party and turn this Eyes Wide Shut into Eyes Wide Shit

Something fun* about grad school is how much the writing for it feels like you're building the plane in midflight. *eternally frustrating

I saw a post a while back about how left-leaning people tend to eschew marketing and sales and comms and PR as kinda icky, and I get it. But the fact of the matter is, the basic way to amass democratic power for your group is to convince people they wanna support you. Guess what disciplines do that.

Interwar Ireland and post-war Britain were not great places to be if you wanted to live in peace and prosperity

Having the sort of day where my kneejerk preferred solution to most problems is Overwhelming Application of Joint Fires so like

Academics/supply chain/medical people: does anyone have any good sources for current efforts to build supply chain resiliency, or estimates of effects of supply chain disruptions in the US for medical supplies?

the 2000 election was a real inflection point. we went from good things (warcraft as an rts) to bad (warcraft as an rpg)

Shot in the dark but: Does anyone happen to have recommendations for CPIM study materials that focus on the formulas and the actual production calculations and filling in the schedules and things?

It's genuinely kinda funny to look at some of the people waving DSA's banner and then remember that a major reason why Michael Harrington founded the DSA was "do leftism in a way that doesn't scare the hoes"

I just realized that most of my tattoo ideas are from Steven Spielberg movies

Some lawyers walked into the pizza place I was having lunch at and I caught the tail end of one talking about how the judge made him call the state attorney general in the middle of a hearing and apologize directly to them for wasting the court’s time

Yeah no fuck all that shit I like planting trees and eating weird new foods and going on dates with interesting women to live music shows. I aint trading that for another round of shoveling dead bodies into a flatbed following a BDA, or having to wear the same blood-soaked clothes for a week. F that

So. My dear, sweet, stinky dog Mr. Biggs is 13ish years old. He has a hard time with stairs, is mostly blind in one eye, partially deaf, and has remarkable separation anxiety. All of this means that he’ll sit at the bottom of the stairs barking for *hours* if we’re upstairs

All the anti-ICE people arguing about opsec I think miss an important point. I think the arguments are coming from competing visions of the movement as proto-insurgency vs. political movement. One *requires* being highly visible and public, the other *requires* much stricter anonymity

go. birds.

It’s been real real cold in New Jersey lately

My only chronic med issues are injury-related and lemme tell you it’s real humbling when you truly accept “there are things you will never physically be able to do again.” And mine are pretty minor! They only really impact voluntary things for me! It still sucks ass!

I wanna bask in my suburban dad-hood for a moment and brag that I’m the only guy on my block who didn’t end up having to chip ice off their walk today since I put the extra work into shoveling yesterday

Brain: ow ow OW WHY Me: what? Brain: why are we on the psychic torture website? Me: because this GS-12 spot in the DLA is open and I could absolutely get it Brain: …proceed

Ya know what, sometimes I think maybe I don’t actually *need* the truck but the fact that i have something with four wheel drive and high ground clearance makes me feel better about bad weather

It’s like the fucking Shackleton expedition at my house right now, everything is under a 2” thick sheet of ice that I have to break up before I can shovel it

I was at the tattoo convention in Philly on Saturday and every interaction I had ended with “go birds, fuck ICE” so like They’re not gonna have a great time there

In honor of the Seahawks winning the NFC:

Shift the NFL’s season six weeks to the right, I want more snow games!

Okay I complain about my kids on snow days a lot because it’s a giant pain to suit them up and undress them ninety times in a day but it’s very heartwarming when they’re all on the couch warming up with hot chocolates and talking about sledding

According to a history prof of mine, a punishment in the Roman republic for corruption or negligence was being sealed in a sack with a monkey, a snake, and a rat(?) and tossed in the Tiber to drown because your actions directly undermined the concept of the republic Just throwin that out there

It's not so great if someone commits a normal crime. Maybe they get put in a jobs training program, something of this nature, but once their debt is paid, they get to rejoin society like a normal person. Spend years and consume millions in public money with the power of public trust? Big rock.

Adjust the tracking gates on the CLU, squeeze the trigger, watch as “hot dogs are sandwiches idiot lol” comes flying out of my Javelin, and displace to a new post before anyone has time to react, that’s the way of modern flamewar

From “The Blade Itself” by Joe Abercrombie, pg 426