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Handsome Ralph

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Oh boy, social media! That's where I'm a viking! Semi-lapsed historian, current network engineer. Consumer of beer, caffeine, history, sports, stats, sci-fi, and video games. Mod and contributor w/ @askhistorians.bsky.social

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Working in IT when you're short-staffed, you're the lone network engineer, and one of your sites is experiencing an ISP outage
youtu.be/OihbIgXBsMU?...

06.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So this is clearly the result of "hey AI prompt, can you write a press release for a casualty notification?" right?

06.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine

06.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 1354 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 64
"No wonder Trump made me head shield guy."

"No wonder Trump made me head shield guy."

05.03.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 165 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

05.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 13252 πŸ” 2562 πŸ’¬ 517 πŸ“Œ 343

Remember when strategy cheese was very worried that sending artillery shells to Ukraine would impact our ability to defend Taiwan?

Anyway I’m sure launching all of our ship based missiles and interceptors in one week will be immaterial

05.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 298 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

I gather that everyone here is 100% certain JD Vance is racist.

So, who here actually knew that Vance's wife isn't white?

And how does that influence your certainty?

05.03.2026 15:17 πŸ‘ 1527 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 105 πŸ“Œ 7

so just not going to acknowledge you got this completely made-up thing from the vdare guy eh

05.03.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspendedβ€”and so were my wife's.

04.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 2432 πŸ” 1195 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 49

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

04.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 7173 πŸ” 2606 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 36

Real fucking rich for this administration that has more or less hung Ukraine out to dry in terms of support--and repeatedly tried to get them to cave to Russia on top of that--to come hat in hand to them now asking for help for a stupid war they launched on a lark

04.03.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

04.03.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 6035 πŸ” 1813 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 39

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

04.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 4788 πŸ” 1478 πŸ’¬ 118 πŸ“Œ 154

It's quite normal for young soldiers to get dumb tattoos. It is not quite normal for young soldiers to get Nazi tattoos.

Source: I was a young soldier and saw many of my fellow soldiers' dumb tattoos.

04.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 705 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 4

If I'm angry about anything it's that I held off playing this game.

04.03.2026 06:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Meme of Kristen Whig taking a sip of a drink and saying "God damn it, that's good. Shit, that is fresh."

Meme of Kristen Whig taking a sip of a drink and saying "God damn it, that's good. Shit, that is fresh."

Me last fall: "Alright I'll buy Ghost of Yotei but no idea when I'll finally get around to it. I mean I loved Ghost of Tsushima, so I know I'll like it, but it can wait.

Me now:

04.03.2026 06:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Full page "ad" in The Onion for "60 Minutes":

"Is NBC Hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates."

Full page "ad" in The Onion for "60 Minutes": "Is NBC Hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates."

04.03.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 2497 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 7

Oh hell yeah!

04.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Live footage of 5th fleet right now.

03.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I liked it a lot, but it felt to me, more like a TV movie that was launching a new series rather than a stand alone origin movie.

03.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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03.03.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 248 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You know, I'm not a fan of petty street crime, but on balance I'll take it over tyranny. Or living a life of luxury that's built on modern slavery and the bones of exploited immigrant workers.

02.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

03.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 463 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 5
me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis 

my brain: not u though 

me: not me though

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis my brain: not u though me: not me though

05.10.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 2554 πŸ” 852 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 37

Oh, and just because you guys mentioned Gretzky.

1)Players have started to break his records, see Alex Ovechkin breaking his goals record.

2)He absolutely would go to the state of the union if asked, he's a big Trump fan.

Sorry, hockey just rarely comes up on the pod, had to shoot my shot here.

02.03.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
02.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 5674 πŸ” 1576 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 19
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I can't Kuwait to give your mother some friendly fire of my own. Heheheh.

You hear what I said, Ton'?

02.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WELL WELL WELL NOT SO EASY TO FIND A PLAN TO TERMINATE A CONFLICT THAT DOESN’T SUCK SHIT HUH?

02.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 995 πŸ” 126 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 3

the thing about people like glenn greenwald saying that trump broke his promise to them is that you have to be the absolute stupidest motherfucker on the planet to believe that donald trump, violent racist bully, is a man dedicated to peace. 1

02.03.2026 04:19 πŸ‘ 742 πŸ” 95 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 7

Trump is going to lose the "Dads with multiple editions of Jane's Fighting Aircraft on their bookshelf" vote

02.03.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0