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Hey @MarcyJMiller, are you still out there? Something just reminded me of you. Hope all is well ♥️

@NCSecession 🙏🙏🙏

I am quite ill. Prayers appreciated. God bless you! 🙏

P'Nut the squirrel turned an election. Hummingbirds can too.

@Yoda4ever Swwet, but I think my guy is a contender

If baby Yoda was a dog..🐶😅

@mycrankyboosez 🤷‍♀️ but we have so much in common! 😆

@BL_Abba @fem_mb I’m not talking to you!

Inspired by recent posts, what's the greatest movie evening gown of all time? A. Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina B. Rita Hayworth, Gilda C. Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's D. Marilyn Monroe, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes E. Demi Moore, Indecent Proposal F. Drew Barrymore, Ever After G. Keira Knightley, Atonement

@lukerosiak Looks like the Department of Mind Your Own Business. Very shady! Thanks for your work Luke

94 Medicaid "home health" companies purport to occupy this office building, taking more than $66 million of your money. They provide free butlers to immigrants. "No windows on the outside hides the fact that there's no one on the inside." There's an entire street of these.

@NickyScatz Term limits + age limits, please!

Why are people just now pointing out that Susan Collins has a tremor. She's had one for at least a decade.

@mycrankyboosez @fem_mb ok Cranky 🙂

@BL_Abba @fem_mb Well, we can’t be friend bc that is one of my favorite movie dresses of all time. Her whole wardrobe was ::chefs kiss::. And one of my favorite movies. I may be biased.

@raisethablack I'm sure I would get more out of books if I sat quietly, drinking tea or something, and actually reading and absorbing them. I tend to listen to audiobooks while gardening, housekeeping etc, and sometimes I miss the real impact of the book because I'm distracted

@BL_Abba Anytime. These are pretty good if you wanna keep track of interesting things in a book. davidseah.com/node/the-fast-…

Ryan is correct. I'm just a retired ship captain. Nobody important outside a maritime niche. Yet this post smells like stolen valor. Let me explain… Stoicism without the battlefield, the sea & real pain is hollow. The Stoics talked constantly about battles, ships, storms & warriors, because they understood reality is not a TED stage. "Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Aurelius wrote that on campaign. He was an emperor commanding legions on the Danube frontier. Seneca opened his veins on Nero's order. Epictetus was sold in chains. Cato killed himself rather than submit to Caesar. The greatest Stoics earned their philosophy in command, in chains, in war. Ryan flies private and hangs with Tim Ferriss, Matthew McConaughey & NYTimes “influencers”. He knows his words are hallow without military experience. But he was unwilling to pay the price himself, so he stole the prestige. He has posted hundreds of times across his channels about the lectures he gives at the United States Naval Academy. Ask the obvious question: who benefited more from that relationship? The future destroyer captains, Marines, & fighter pilots he lectured? Or Ryan? "I don't think about you at all" is the tell. He didn't go to Annapolis to teach the midshipmen. He went to use them. The military gravitas his philosophy needs in order to mean anything: he doesn't have it. He's never served. He's never gone to sea. He's never carried the weight of command. So he went to Annapolis to be photographed near people who will. Today’s battlefields are the oceans and there are fewer than ten people in the world covering American seapower, sealift, and naval logistics for a large audience. The stuff that actually decides wars. Ryan was personally friends with one of them. Me. Sailed on my boat. Helped sketch his pivot to the Stoics. Never once called with a question about ships, the Navy, or the sea. The wider circle of maritime and military scholars I talk to weekly? Same story. None of them think about him at all. That's not absent-mindedness. That's design. Twenty years ago that might have been forgivable, because the seas were calm. Today the chokepoints are battlefields. The Red Sea. The Taiwan Strait. The Persian Gulf. The midshipmen Ryan lectured are now on the front lines of a world spinning out of control. Their lives depend on the United States understanding seapower again. Ryan contributed nothing to their understanding. He took the photo and left. He didn't want our knowledge. He wanted the credential. The Naval Academy was the prop. He used them to convince NYTimes book reviewers that he has military and nautical cred. Some will say maybe he was trying to help, just didn’t know how. If so he would have asked to see the actual front lines. A USO show on a carrier. A lecture in Djibouti. A passage on a US Merchant Marine ship running the Strait of Hormuz. I could have arranged any of it. But he "doesn't think about me at all." He would rather trade quotes with podcast bros, Hollywood stars, and the New York Times writer who traded Jesus for Ted Lasso. He doesn't care to see a real battlefield or a real storm at sea. His brand of Stoicism isn't built for that. His brand is this: intellectual weed. A way for readers to rationalize tuning out. He and his progressive self-help peers are the opioid of the managerial class. That's not Stoicism. The Stoics ran the Roman Empire and died for their principles. Ryan sells "Memento Mori" to give millennials an excuse to stop stressing about life and travel to safe places. Thinking about real navalists would have meant doing the actual work. The work was never the point. The point was selling Stoicism off a uniform he never wore. He used the United States military to move merch. "I don't think about you at all" is the receipt. It’s either cosplay or stolen valor.

@raisethablack Thanks!

@BL_Abba Obstacle and Ego are actually decent books if you want to find some stoic stuff to see what’s out there. But also just find some good Seneca letters that speak to you and give it a whirl.

@raisethablack Thanks, I'll check it out

@BL_Abba @johnkonrad A guide to the good life: the ancient art of stoic joy. Pretty good book to give you a general lay of the land. Dude is a lib but the book is quite lovely.

@Kiradavis 🤣 oh those poor spectators trying to look hopeful

In honor of that last video of Spazzy Gavin, I’m reposting my “Dubbed Gavin Newsom” bit. My Gavin impression is flawless. Prove me wrong.

@jcd972 She wrote that song, too. Hypnotic voice and delivery

This song still haunts me to this day. So beautiful.

@SmallTwnGrl75 @fem_mb I missed that movie

@fem_mb @BL_Abba That gown made people gasp in the theater when she appeared on screen in it. Absolutely unforgettable.

@mycrankyboosez @fem_mb 😆 i guess it's just the bad photo, but I don't like the crotch detail 🤷‍♀️

@BL_Abba @fem_mb You obviously don’t deserve to vote if you don’t understand how iconic this dress is.

@FoxNews 🙄 the fucking bow tie

BREAKING: US Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui apologizes to White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen over reported treatment in jail

@HWarlow beautiful, peaceful scenes

Hello again Gary Bunt (1957-2025) When I began this site years ago Gary was just being discovered. I immediately became a fan and tweeted his work regularly. He had many a health problem drink and drugs which he bravely overcame. Sadly it was cancer that killed him too early

@Flaaaaalala Skip to 3:29 if you have a short attention span...

@Flaaaaalala Exhibit A: youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5…

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