Written by someone who either doesn't know what a "drop weapon" is and how common their were in Iraq and Afghanistan or (more likely) is really struggling with cognitive dissonance

People really need to understand that if they are within 21 feet of any armed police in the US they gambling with their life. This is how I was trained by the U.S. government and it's likely how the cop you interact with is trained. youtu.be/6cwhE7sfQtg?...

How are we all feeling about what is surely to be our first genAI-written AUMF?

Pretty disappointed my feed isn't filled with Arma 3 clips presented and readily accepted as war footage from last night. End of an era?

Our leaders / earning our respect and trust / looking out for me, you, us

Lyrics from the educational rap on PBS Kids this morning, apropos of nothing

Say what you want, but this is exactly the kind of light footprint, heavy reliance on direct action SOF, interventionist foreign policy the "smart" club of natsec wonks (and puppeted by Biden, McCain, et al.) have been advocating for for decades and was (apparently) executed flawlessly.

I just saw an Anne Frank thirst trap on r/popular and I don't like how the thin the line between reality and a Cards Against Humanity game has become

Yes, Spotify wrapped does prove that they collect massive amounts of data on us and yes, that is worrisome, I respond, enthusiastically nodding, while I think about my still active Last.fm account created in 2005

All this "double tap is illegal," "there must be accountability," and "the senior officers knew better" talk feels so maddening to me because the basic assumption is this isn't exactly U.S. military SOP and it hasn't been a secret since at least the infamous 2007 Wikileaks "collateral murder" video

So DayZ has changed the texture of its peaches after 13 years to remove a Russian flag. It's both nonsensical and makes complete sense. It's symbolic violence disguised as moral action. The company benefits materially, the employees and consumers benefit libidinally—all benefit (except Ukrainians?)

@patblanchfield.bsky.social i am ready for that invite to this app now

After perusing this app the last few days, I think it says a lot more about our society that we can't seem to come up with a coherent reason why vaporizing foreigners on boats is bad more than the fact that they can be vaporized with apparent impunity

Sorry I keep yawning in this Zoom meeting, I was up late last night avoiding international sanctions against a pariah state intended to slow the indescriminate killing of civilians in faraway lands to buy the PvE expansion for Escape from Tarkov and it rules

Considering temporarily forming a regrettable realpolitikisch nonaggression pact with noted internet assholes against my nemesis, Ms. Rachel, who not only is a literal fraud who makes "educational videos" for babies despite the empirical harm caused—worse—willfully introduced my 3 year old to Bl*ppi

If only we had killed some of the seafarers, then rescued their wounded friends, then nursed them back to health, then failed to coerce confessions, then imprisoned them for an indeterminate time without trial, then disappeared them to a foreign prison, we wouldn't even be in this mess