"Does the Army coddle terrible officers their superiors sometomes **don't even like** out of a fucked sense of class solidarity, or are officers one pissy SR block comment away from instant and complete career doom, no matter how trivial?" "Yes."

How I'm walking out of 2025

>be AFRICOM >>finally gets hands on precious and rare TLAMS >>>miss

Mood.

Spotted over on Insta.

Merry Christmas, y'all, from me and Trinity. (And yes, I bought myself a Chiefs onesie. I have too many die hard Eagles fans in my life, and while I don't generally give a shit about football, I do enjoy giving my friends a hard time. 😆)

From the Larchives.

This is, of course, kind of a fundamental argument in nuclear strategery. “Extended deterrence” is endlessly doubtable. Especially when your major security ally is in the process of having a white supremacist, fascist meltdown & is openly squidgy about its ostensible security commitments.

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Go to any military subreddit's thread on it. The dominant themes are 1) open disbelief the check will clear 2) references to "steak and lobsters" (i.e., the token bribe before you're fucked over) 3) very Bluesky-coded wrangling over it being illegal and regressive (E-2s need it, O-9s don't)

Hey, man, the Grom doesn't deserve this slander

Laughs in Octavian

Designating fentanyl a WMD will worsen fentanyl misinformation, which does not prevent overdoses -it makes them deadlier- & harms anyone who could ever need pain treatment, anesthesia, & more. Patients already refuse one of the safest, best studied, easiest-to-dose pain meds because of such misinfo!

I haven't been sick in 3 years and I genuinely want to fist fight whomever gave me the crud I'm now dealing with. I'm gonna miss a holiday party (maybe two!) and some important as hell work meetings, all because someone else couldn't do what I'm doing now: staying the fuck home when sick.

I have beef with Al, but I still respect his expertise and insight (I took two of his courses, after all). Specifically in this respect I 100% agree with his analysis.

If fentanyl were a weapon then the United States would have used it…

What, and I cannot stress this enough, THE FUCK

Glad to see at least one thing endure. www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/d...

Counterpoint: Shut up

Good morning to everyone except anyone still defending Pete Hegseth

Me, finally getting over jet lag: I finally feel human again Also me, hopping on a plane home immediately after getting over the jet lag: oh fuck, oh no

If you put powerful AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior, we are going to create so much porn. New frontiers of porn. Porn you haven't even imagined.

Furiously and panic stricken tapping the sign as shots and shells go off all around me

Put an SM-6 on a donkey and call it Aegis Eeyore

A little self-loathing is essential to the process

"Last week, another IAEA team completed a comprehensive safety assessment of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) at the Chornobyl... confirmed that the NSC had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability." www.iaea.org/newscenter/p...

We're working on it, mom!

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Temu-ass Peace Prize

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

The fact that this is a surprise to Bradley, presumably Fenton, and a whole bunch of large adult son SOF officers is a justifiable reason alone to fire everyone at SOCOM, just for being fucking stupid

Me 🤝 Karen Wheeler

Just finished episode 4 of Stranger Things season 5. I let out a little scream at the end. IYKYK.

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

I'd only receive UBI because giving it to everyone is cheaper than means-testing. But while it wouldn't make a dramatic material difference to me, it would massively ease my worries about my son and members of my extended family.

"Deep dish always has a place at my table."

This was a year for cranberry dominance. In the cranberry cookie butter cheesecake, especially.

"What the United States does not have, however, is a nuclear weapons production complex, especially for plutonium pit production. That doesn’t require nuclear testing. It requires the national will to make it happen. The last 30 years give me little confidence the United States can do so."

I was today years old when I learned Noel from GBBO played Old Gregg.

And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you too? 'Cause in this city's barren cold I still remember the first fall of snow And how it glistened as it fell I remember it all too well

When you task an action officer to procure the cake, you’re gonna get an action officer cake, homes.

PSA to the J2 nerds standing outside my cube loudly talking shit about one of my favorite games.

You don't need my permission, but if you find yourself in an RSD spiral, remember: You can leave. You can fake a work emergency. You can say "I have to go" and just... go. You don't need a reason that satisfies them. Protecting your mental health IS the reason.

My college sophomore daughter told me she has a playlist with pre-2000's music that she titled "oldies." Me:

OPERATION NERD ALERT = staff officers renaming slides every time a new operation name is created