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To all who have followed me lately or have been for a while: thank you. I am on here to read and talk to people I find fascinating in some way or another, and discover more things to find interesting and people to admire. You all rock.
Smooth Crab
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Smooth Crab
@NotSoSmolBirb
Analyst, USAF vet, bad Catholic, large person. Universally understood to be "interesting" in multiple senses. 15-minute cognition cycle, so gimme a moment.
St Louis, MO
Joined August 2021
- Replying to @_Jason_Dean_As a government employee we had a coworker of questionable functional value but her mere hyper redneck presence was a delight. I'm genuinely convinced that she improved us more than she didn't help our bottom line. Her family drama phone conversations were PRIME and she knew it.
- Replying to @ShitpostGate"Send me your skull measurements, you old Yakubian ape. I must study you for science"
- Replying to @pegobry_enMen can rule everything the light touches, but that falls into a very specific sliver of perpetual darkness. The best we can do is shrug and hold to whatever masculine values we have.
- Replying to @DocStrangelove2If a private is gonna get smoked - and they will, it's their lot in life - might as well be for a specific reason that gains laffs.
- Replying to @MilitaryCooITheir stories are all about combat or, uh, war, not about massive arachnids, ungodly stomach bugs, or misplaced explosives.
- Replying to @stonetossSeriously, sometimes I think they forgot Tay, which is a tragedy as they repeat the same stupid social mistakes about AI.
- Replying to @politicalmathLike so many similar issues - including, I must absolutely admit, the Church sexual abuse scandals - the original sin is so terrifying and beyond the pale that publicizing details is nearly negative and threatens to water it down. Informing MUST occur as part of responsibilities.
- Replying to @kendrictonnFriend running with some DSS guys in Baghdad back in the day watched as someone bailed on Iraqi cop who had pulled them over. The cop popped his car trunk, yanked out an AK, and ripped off most of a magazine at the runner. Same thing: my God, it's all true.
- Replying to @ArtemisConsortGenre aside, a key point in CS Lewis's That Hideous Strength is that Merlin is an Iron Age man with a very different set of morals, and deeply offended by the misguided efforts of those who woke him
- Replying to @DocStrangelove2Officers souvenir-grabbing is a tale as old as warfare. Plenty of peevish discussion of that from Bill Mauldin, even! That...and jump boots.
- This is far, far closer to what Larson would come up with than it has any right to be. I briefly searched by mental index for this one before I paused to read the source.
- Oh, no. Sam has gotten himself in a predicament. What else is there to do but take a picture and post it on the internet?
- Replying to @MadocCairnsOne thing lost amongst Francis's humility and disdain for the pomp of his office was the delightful array of 16th c Papal fashion accessories.
