I have, in fact, gotten lost once in my own museum.
05.03.2026 04:06
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I have, in fact, gotten lost once in my own museum.
Yeah, yeah… some really old papers might have also arrived. ;)
But how can anything be as cool as this piece of paper??
Oh, you know… just lurking in my usual spot- the catbird seat of the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social’s lecture hall- on the coolest lecture from @jamescrossland.bsky.social!
We’re live on YouTube right now. Head over and check it out!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGx1...
et al.: is there an event tonight at the museum?
Yes!
If you’re here, a cozy lecture hall seat is waiting for you!
If you’re outside of KCMO and still curious? Dial in and join us!
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You know what’s awesome about museum work?
This is the rehearsal of our Memory Hall set up at the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social, the first stop of the Freedom Plane national tour from NARA. Pretty cool to see volunteers and staff sharing a historic experience in a historic space, together.
You know what else they discuss in CGSOC? War crimes. Ethics. Jus ad AND en bello.
You know who didn’t attend CGSOC?
Don’t stop him. Let him cook.
And when he’s in the docket at The Hague, it’ll be a glorious flop sweat interspersed with performative garbage quotes and casual admittance of war crimes.
I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job.
It Does Not Work That Way
What no one warns you about when your MAGA parent dies, and you’re the executor of their estate as a liberal democratic child:
You will spend so much emotional energy and time trying to get their address (and eventually your own address) removed from vitriolic political mailers. So much.
Someone sent me rage bait.
Here. Now you can have it too.
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Do you know where your embossed birth certificate is? Do you have a passport? Do you have the money to get those things in time for elections?
It’s not just women who took their partner’s last name who are impacted this election season.
Subskeet?
www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
You’re a brand new WO1, and you’ve just arrived to your first assignment.
10/🧶
You had one PCS to Germany decades ago, and you have never stopped talking about how much better the beer is there every time you go out for drinks with friends.
9… maybe?/🧶
You have trench art as well, and you can’t wait to tell everyone about it when they come over for dinner.
You also have several of those T-Wall book ends from the little Bazaar in Bagram. The Greenbeans there gave you a very memorable case of the bubble guts.
8… 9… I dunno/🧶
You cheeky little thing, you.
7/🧶
You have chaotic orange tabby cat energy.
You probably also have a great vinyl collection, but that’s for you to know and no one else.
You also drive Fernet Branca. Straight.
6/🧶
Staff officer.
No, I won’t explain further.
5/🧶
You’ve read Mahan. Like… actually read his work.
How’s your SAMS monograph coming along?
4/🧶
You have killed every houseplant that has ever come into your care.
And you’ll do it again.
3/🧶
You have carried a mortar baseplate.
It was traumatic but also strangely liberating. You have a healthy CrossFit habit now, but at least you’re wearing appropriate sneakers.
How’s your sciatica?
2/🧶
Getting fully torqued for the Pershing Lecture Series tonight with CGSC’s Dept of Military History and the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social.
While we wait, allow me to tell you what your favorite museum objects tell me about you (selected at random):
1/🧶
Women of the Airspace, UNITE!!
Partners and Allies forever, baby!
I stand with NATO.
This is both heartbreaking and inexplicably dumb. Some of the strongest strategic planners and leaders for the US Army come from its Ivy-league fellowships, creating a unique advantage for theaters commands, allies, and the nation as a whole.
Ranger. A gottdamm legend.
Buried lede: Alliances are clutch, baby.
Dear French and British Army, we couldn’t have don’t it without you! “Lafayette, we ARE here!”
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As far as the “other book”… yeah. It’s always an uphill battle with that. 🫤
Go tell the bookstore team to stock it. Museum sales departments don’t always maintain the closest watch on the scholarly literature releases because they’re expensive and there can be a high volume to wade through.
Shoot them an email with the info. They’ll appreciate the feedback; trust me.
I was scrolling through 4Runner Reddit a few months back and saw someone boasting about their 400K odometer reading.
Challenge accepted.