Bluesky really needs circles or close friends or whatever it was called on twitter I have thoughts that should not be broadcast on main

Who is the most overrated musician of all time and why is it Eric Clapton

Geezer masculinity can rescue our lost boys, writes Josiah Gogarty. From Oasis to Big John, an older and less toxic model of manhood is reasserting itself.

Might be the all time bad Arabic take lmao

I have been summoned

I need recs for new insta accounts to follow. Food, sports, and esoteric niche stuff for when I need to disassociate for a few minutes. My recommendations: @ elburritomonster is great and slightly terrifying cooking, @ ernie_the_hog_snatcher catches monster catfish in the Potomac, very compelling

"cancelled his cancelers where it mattered: in his own mind" is the worst sentence ever composed I feel physically ill

You can train anyone for combat. It's much more difficult to train someone to be thoughtful, to have the tiniest bit of introspection.

Epilogue: I often reflect, when people start pounding their chests about being Warriors (masculine) and offering social commentary along those lines, about how I personally know a woman Apache pilot who has shuffled more Taliban off this mortal coil than all of miltwitter combined

God willing these field grades will never have to learn the hard way, as Washington did, that small unit combat does not prepare one for statesmanship, or to lead a country, or even to speak on matters well beyond what they self-identify as their scope

Now let's pretend you're not an LTC on the AF-PAK border during the GWOT. You're a LTC in the colonial militia of Virginia on the western border of the Pennsylvania colony. And your name is George Washington.

If you are good at combat, and all you care about is combat, then you have done a good job: you destroyed the enemy. Objectively, you accomplished your mission.

look I don't know anything about these miltwitter guys aside from the screenshots I see here, but it seems to me that they are trying to articulate a vision for not just the role of the military in civil society, but a vision for civil society itself. A philosophy of life, if you will.

Maryland steamed crabs are delicious but without a doubt, the best part is the company that you pick them with 💙

don't make me tap the sign

Aerosmith doesn't get enough credit for creating two of the biggest "slow dance at a bar mitzvah and/or middle school dance" power ballads of all time: Cryin' and Crazy (in that order)

one of the smartest things I ever did was buy a cheap pair of Hanes cotton sweatpants in 3XL, they are cartoonishly big and fit like harem pants but they are perfect for sleeping in when you're sick I may have woken up in a puddle of my own sweat but I feel like a mostly normal human being again

I was rejected *twice* lmao, why would anyone follow me on here

Charlotte Hornets, Mighty Ducks, and Raiders starter jackets did NUMBERS in the DC burbs. Not sure I ever saw a now-Commanders version in the wild

getting sick on the weekend so fucking horseshit, man. trash!

has anyone ever been the subject of universal scorn and said, "you know what...maybe I *am* an asshole..." and gone about changing their ways for the better?

I think spam, eggs, and rice is my favorite meal of all time. Throw some edamame, scallions, and cilantro in there and I'm in heaven. Truly top notch.

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

safety first, that's what I always say

"she's the Joan Didion of soliciting dick pics from people who want to outlaw rabies shots" is devastating, hang this shit in the Louvre

ANTIFA BILL SIMMONS: Are we sure Trotsky is good? Look I'm just saying you know great job with the Rex Army in the Civil War. But you're really getting assassinated with an ice pick in Mexico? Getting some real Brad Beal vibes from him House

I would like to eat a single grain of rice the size of a chipotle burrito

"the 1990s were such a misleading curveball, man" - @rpg-volley.bsky.social

ohhhh myyyy god

ngl I must have missed something because I have zero idea what this protest attendance/email address registration/OPSEC discourse is all about, it seems like everyone is mad at Will Stancil but that's a really a "do you have any idea how little that narrows it down" situation

"slowly and then all at once" is a perfect description of Bak's sandpile. Complex systems, non-linear dynamics, self-organized criticality, and power law distribution of disruptive events. Read theory, etc.

all I'm saying is very very careful to whom you submit your VA claims afterwards

ah yes, another "drive to work in absolute silence, just you and the ever-present void that exists just outside the reach of your peripheral field of vision" type of morning

I think we are all too online. I know I definitely am. If you're reading this, you probably are too.

Could you tune a model and run a data set through it to generate a prediction on the outcome game or three? Yes.* Are LLMs useful in making a prediction on the outcome of a game? Absolutely, unequivocally, 100% no. You might as well light your money on fire.

$10M annual budget to curate a self-guided Great Books curriculum on the study of armed conflict

I couldn't agree more, exposure to diverse experiences and points of view is an integral part of developing a young mind. When should we expect a guest lecture series at Hillsdale featuring trans speakers talking about trans issues? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

Sirens, The Distraction, The Bugle, Hot Money, Against the Rules (in no particular order)

The biggest I know that ain’t who I think that is ever

did you guys know that you can buy oreo-style biscoff sandwich cookies, with either vanilla or cookie-flavored cream filling?

I smell burning toast, what the fuck did I just read

an imponderable: if the DoD is laser-focused on ✨lethality✨ then why does the Civil Affairs branch still exist

Spanberger's gonna put up Putin election numbers, jfc

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A real midwit position is the notion that you need to agree with a set of views to be able to teach them.

The irony, of course, is that Malcolm X said the only white person who he would consider accepting into the OAAU was John Brown

my nemesis is an extremely rich South African (no, not that one..not that one either...or the other one) who we have crossed paths with in a youth soccer context and who also surely does not know I exist, which really makes this the platonic ideal of a modern suburban blood feud

can't argue with the man on this one

How I Met Your Mother

Truly fascinating stuff here