mcdonald's manager: show the new guy the ropes me: yeah no prob *opens drawer* we use them to restrain grimace
Michael Stahlke
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The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough
i don’t think people over 5’10” should be able to run for office. what’re you doing up there? scheming, i bet
I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...
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Okay you guys, break's over. Time to get LASER FOCUSED on the Rhode Island primary. With only a month to go, the fate of the Democratic Party and the shape of the rest of the twenty-first century hangs in the balance. You need to be prepared to get REAL UPSET with one another online.
I do love a shithead NCO. As a PL, my PSG was constantly getting into scrapes the the CO and 1SG. One time after I gave a brief he took a deep drag off a cigarette and said to the assembled squad leaders “This LT actually wants to do shit”
Michael Stahlke@michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 20h agoSo he ETS’d and I helped him get into training with industry to be a union industrial painter. The program included a year of free dues. My 1SG and I attended his training graduation. And he said “Captain, that time on the mountain was the dumbest fucking plan I ever heard”
Twelve years ago on this day I saw a stuffed fox in the claw machine at the Barstow Shari’s and plugged $8 into it before finally getting my prize
The Idaho National Guard public affairs chief is listed on their website as LTC Christopher Borders. If you choose to petition this government office holder for redress of grievances, please do so peaceably and with respect.
NPR@npr.org · yesterdayMilitary veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home. n.pr/4wyjw9S
A taxpayer who lacks representation being deprived of her rights by uniformed military personnel from thousands of miles away acting as domestic law enforcement
NPR@npr.org · yesterdayMilitary veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home. n.pr/4wyjw9S
He’s 74 and is six months away from retirement. He can do whatever he wants, the president can’t take away his birthday.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
A J-pod resident orca did this in the puget sound some years back and it felt directly accusatory. I am not sure what to do with this behavior.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoResearchers in Western Australia observed a dolphin mother carrying her dead calf through an estuary for days after it died. The calf was about two weeks old, and the mother has now lost her last four calves.
Earlier this summer we drove ~6hrs or so out to Smith Rock in central Oregon and listened to a podcast called “smash boom best”. Which features debates on like, Mermaids v Bigfoot. Silly stuff. But they also have interstitials defining various logical fallacies. The kids ate that shit up.
Michael Stahlke@michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 2d agoMy own kids, thankfully, are being taught how to structure stories at a young age. Tension, conflict, themes, inciting events, rising action and so forth. Good skills to learn, because you have to know the rules in order to move beyond them.
I don’t have an issue with asking subordinates to present solutions, a good idea has no rank. But neither “pressure” or “punish” appear anywhere in JP 1-02. Because they’re not tactical tasks, effects, purposes or objectives. CENTCOM is asking for ideas on how to build a self licking ice cream cone
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d agoPENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
“The Court finds in favor of the defendant and further affirms that plaintiff is in fact a, I want to get this correct, ‘Fraggle Rock faced douche-canoe fucknoodle’ who ‘could not poor piss out a boot if the directions were on the heel’. So ordered.”
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4d agoA federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/oZwZMR9
I really gotta stop getting BBQ at western Washington fairs and festivals. Everytime I say “maybe it’s good, it looks like it might be good, it could be good” And everytime, no. It is not good.
Whenever I wonder if a childhood favorite of mine holds up, I have my kids watch it with me to see if it holds their attention. I am pleased and happy to report they loved this one.
The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · 4d agoFlight of the Navigator is 40! 🥳 Trimaxion Drone Ship, art by Edward Eyth:
This is Peregrine Took, a Periannath. His defect is that he’s three feet tall and eats 6,000 calories a day.
Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4d agoIf you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …
Very well, I can see you do not find my presence congenial. Good day, sir.
Paul Bronks@slendersherbet.bsky.social · 5d agoIn celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.
People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
This statement by Abdul el-Sayed is what’s at issue here. And it is an impolitic thing to say. It is also an entirely fair criticism of JD Vance, who, I believe, has done very very little to push back on elements of his own party that absolutely view his wife and children as less than.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d agoI think it’s a remarkably stupid thing for a political candidate to say. This is not the first time people have pointed out Vance’s hypocrisy on this issue, but to pull his children into it and say that you somehow know what’s in Vance’s mind about his own kids is over the line.
Hey dads. The new Dan Carlin podcast, Mania For Subjugation IV is now out.
The Diana Ross Ain’t No Mountain is superior to the Marvin and Tammi version.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
I take comfort in that. Ole Leo. Truckin and fu__in for all us sinners.
The Cleric@thecleric.bsky.social · 5d agoSometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
Video of ICE agent in NYC advancing on a woman standing still videotaping and hitting her with pepper spray. I like the idea of using payroll records to find these people to try them. www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
From the PublicFreakout community on Reddit: A fully masked ICE agent pepper sprayed a woman in New York yesterday merely for videotaping.
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