🎄Really Festive Smith
@reallyseansmith.bsky.social
Author of Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? and Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir. Formerly a US Army, MI, UN, NATO, etc. guy. Currently a Regular Human Person goofing off on Bluesky. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sean-Smith/author/B0B6KPP5XL
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Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? Family, History, and the First World War
Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? Family, History, and the First World War - Kindle edition by Smith, Sean M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? Family, History, and the First World War.
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🗃️ To ring in the holiday season, my second book, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘋𝘰𝘨 𝘌𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶? 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺, 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 is on a Kindle Countdown Deal for the next week for 50% off, AND the paperback price is down from $12.99 to $9.99!
Go get it while it's cheap!
Go get it while it's cheap!
People asking this question about the lack of cultural impact of Avatar movies are the main cultural impact of Avatar movies.
Is there any franchise that's made more money and had less impact on wider culture than Avatar?
Looks like Avatar's got a good shot at a $2 billion total globally when all is said and done. It's arguably a more bankable franchise than the Avengers at this point.
December 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
People asking this question about the lack of cultural impact of Avatar movies are the main cultural impact of Avatar movies.
Make a Bond movie academic
Goldeneye: Many people with Wilson disease have Kayser-Fleischer rings, which are greenish, gold, or brownish rings around the edge of the corneas.
Goldeneye: Many people with Wilson disease have Kayser-Fleischer rings, which are greenish, gold, or brownish rings around the edge of the corneas.
Make a Bond movie academic
Diamonds Are Forever: Actually Current Cosmology Suggests That Diamonds Are Not Actually Forever
Diamonds Are Forever: Actually Current Cosmology Suggests That Diamonds Are Not Actually Forever
make a Bond movie academic
License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
December 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Make a Bond movie academic
Goldeneye: Many people with Wilson disease have Kayser-Fleischer rings, which are greenish, gold, or brownish rings around the edge of the corneas.
Goldeneye: Many people with Wilson disease have Kayser-Fleischer rings, which are greenish, gold, or brownish rings around the edge of the corneas.
"The act of asking is more dickless than having a dog that fits in a purse." - my dad, probably.
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"The act of asking is more dickless than having a dog that fits in a purse." - my dad, probably.
Fun used bookstore find: a pristine copy of The Bluejackets' Manual from back when my dad was in the Navy for $3.
December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fun used bookstore find: a pristine copy of The Bluejackets' Manual from back when my dad was in the Navy for $3.
Aspiring to the level of success as a writer that causes McKay's to dedicate multiple shelves to all the copies of your books people dumped there.
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Aspiring to the level of success as a writer that causes McKay's to dedicate multiple shelves to all the copies of your books people dumped there.
Something most people don't appreciate, possibly because I don't tell them, is most of my book sales are from word of mouth. Someone reads one of my books, finds something worthwhile in it, and makes a point to tell their friends.
There's no marketing apparatus here; it's just you all.
There's no marketing apparatus here; it's just you all.
a woman wearing a santa hat and an ugly christmas sweater says " you "
Alt: a woman wearing a santa hat and an ugly christmas sweater says " you "
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December 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Something most people don't appreciate, possibly because I don't tell them, is most of my book sales are from word of mouth. Someone reads one of my books, finds something worthwhile in it, and makes a point to tell their friends.
There's no marketing apparatus here; it's just you all.
There's no marketing apparatus here; it's just you all.
That's the thing, cults of personality aren't known for having an off ramp.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
The President of the United States is very seriously mentally ill, and elected Republicans are so afraid of him that they won’t do or say anything about it.
December 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
That's the thing, cults of personality aren't known for having an off ramp.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Sudden epiphany: Is country ham an under-appreciated breakfast sandwich meat?
a man sitting at a table holding a cup of coffee with #schitts creek written on the bottom
Alt: Man has a realization gif
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December 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Sudden epiphany: Is country ham an under-appreciated breakfast sandwich meat?
Whatever you think of "traditional masculinity" as a concept or whatever, nobody has exhibited less of it than these super online dudes who are obsessed with it. Just the most flaccid crybaby peepee pants stuff imaginable.
December 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Whatever you think of "traditional masculinity" as a concept or whatever, nobody has exhibited less of it than these super online dudes who are obsessed with it. Just the most flaccid crybaby peepee pants stuff imaginable.
Stray is like a 10/10 adventure game held back by 4/10 chase and stealth sections.
It's best played with a cheat program to nerf or disable Zurks and the sentinel things.
It's best played with a cheat program to nerf or disable Zurks and the sentinel things.
December 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Stray is like a 10/10 adventure game held back by 4/10 chase and stealth sections.
It's best played with a cheat program to nerf or disable Zurks and the sentinel things.
It's best played with a cheat program to nerf or disable Zurks and the sentinel things.
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"Ex-CIA, ex-RAND" guy just going "Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights a fake bitch" on main is a choice, I'll give him that.
two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton
Alt: two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton
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December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Ex-CIA, ex-RAND" guy just going "Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights a fake bitch" on main is a choice, I'll give him that.
"Honey, someone lit the 'confuse a Brit' beacon again!"
At this house, we have biscuits and gravy on Christmas morning.
December 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Honey, someone lit the 'confuse a Brit' beacon again!"
My entire ethos on Bluesky has been to engage less and block more and it hasn't given me an ideologically narrow hugbox, it's gotten me a larger and far more varied collection of mutuals than I ever had on Twitter. I'm just not wasting energy on crappy people.
December 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My entire ethos on Bluesky has been to engage less and block more and it hasn't given me an ideologically narrow hugbox, it's gotten me a larger and far more varied collection of mutuals than I ever had on Twitter. I'm just not wasting energy on crappy people.
So many of Bluesky's foibles are made up for by the fact that its block function is like a Mortal Kombat fatality.
Being able to make a snotty reply guy simply stop existing in your world is *chef's kiss*
Being able to make a snotty reply guy simply stop existing in your world is *chef's kiss*
December 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
So many of Bluesky's foibles are made up for by the fact that its block function is like a Mortal Kombat fatality.
Being able to make a snotty reply guy simply stop existing in your world is *chef's kiss*
Being able to make a snotty reply guy simply stop existing in your world is *chef's kiss*
I'm very anti-AI in the narrow sense that most of the products marketed as such lately are pure trash at what they claim to do, and its loudest boosters are the worst people to ever live. However, we're also bound to get anti-AI grifting as AI-hating becomes a bigger target audience to exploit.
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm very anti-AI in the narrow sense that most of the products marketed as such lately are pure trash at what they claim to do, and its loudest boosters are the worst people to ever live. However, we're also bound to get anti-AI grifting as AI-hating becomes a bigger target audience to exploit.
I'm a huge mark for the aesthetics of the Horizon games. Dark swampy gloomy everything games can suck it.
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I'm a huge mark for the aesthetics of the Horizon games. Dark swampy gloomy everything games can suck it.
Also why and how wars are fought is a product of all the stuff dildo helmet guy is pooh-poohing.
"My personality is misreading ChatGPT summaries generated by plagarizing Mary Beard books" guy may in fact be a bad military history understander!
"My personality is misreading ChatGPT summaries generated by plagarizing Mary Beard books" guy may in fact be a bad military history understander!
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Also why and how wars are fought is a product of all the stuff dildo helmet guy is pooh-poohing.
"My personality is misreading ChatGPT summaries generated by plagarizing Mary Beard books" guy may in fact be a bad military history understander!
"My personality is misreading ChatGPT summaries generated by plagarizing Mary Beard books" guy may in fact be a bad military history understander!
By some accounts the increase in lung cancer from mass production of cigarettes offset all the lives saved by all the cancer treatment improvements of the 20th century.
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing. That worries antismoking advocates. 🔗 on.wsj.com/49om2X4
December 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
By some accounts the increase in lung cancer from mass production of cigarettes offset all the lives saved by all the cancer treatment improvements of the 20th century.
Status: Pretty good.
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Status: Pretty good.
I like bourbon, but no bourbon is worth over say $100, and trying to turn it into a collectable snob product like million year old Scotch or whatever was always cringe.
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I like bourbon, but no bourbon is worth over say $100, and trying to turn it into a collectable snob product like million year old Scotch or whatever was always cringe.
"Tell you what, there sure as hell weren't any Wise Men involved in the decision to put your bean soup on the Christmas menu."
December 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Tell you what, there sure as hell weren't any Wise Men involved in the decision to put your bean soup on the Christmas menu."
Both did less sexual harassment than real flag officers so it all evened out.
Even if you count the Colt 45 commercials.
Even if you count the Colt 45 commercials.
Han Solo and Lando Calrissian both have histories of gambling problems, criminal activities, obviously they should get commissioned as general officers
December 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Both did less sexual harassment than real flag officers so it all evened out.
Even if you count the Colt 45 commercials.
Even if you count the Colt 45 commercials.
Their new branding is ATROCIOUS, but of all the upscale "we made a Slim Jim but out of actual food ingredients" products, only Lorissa's Kitchen actually scratches that greasy-spicy itch.
December 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Their new branding is ATROCIOUS, but of all the upscale "we made a Slim Jim but out of actual food ingredients" products, only Lorissa's Kitchen actually scratches that greasy-spicy itch.