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Nikki Dean
@doctrinatrix.bsky.social
museum work • KU PhD student • WWI history and Interwar diplomacy • mil doctrine advocate • retired pilot • adventuress • rescue dog mom • cocktail drinker
Did you democracy today?
a white cockatoo is standing on a wooden floor
ALT: a white cockatoo is standing on a wooden floor
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November 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Paint me like one of your French girls, Jack…

… actually, no. Don’t paint me. Just leave me alone and let me disassociate…

… maybe bring me a cookie.”
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Noods cannot be bothered unless you voted and did democracy today.
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
*boop*
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I love my dog.

I would spend myself into insolvency to keep her from yeeting herself over the rainbow bridge…

… mostly because she desperately wants to eat garbage, rather than her fancy expensive dog food.
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
If slop became sentient…

… and then the slop decorated its whole living room with PX Stivers prints while stacking finished jars of Jocko Willink branded protein powder into a tower.

I said what I said.
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I couldn’t decide between Field Sanitation or Counterinsurgency doctrine.

Either is appropriate.

One is a joint manual with the Marine Corps.

Also appropriate.
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Holy trolling is elite.

But also, damn! That is next level diplomacy.
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If you don’t have multiple sets of stainless steel chopsticks from Namdaemun market, were you even stationed in Korea?
October 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Nope.

Didn’t know.

History is lit.

Archives (and archivists) are fire.
October 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Leave the gun. Take the vuvuzela.
a poster for the godfather 50th anniversary shows a man in a hat saying " leave the gun "
ALT: a poster for the godfather 50th anniversary shows a man in a hat saying " leave the gun "
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October 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
… *they’re on…

Editors. Pay them.
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If things keep heading down the rocky path their on, and retirees don’t get paid…

Ooof, baby.
October 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM