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Ben Lyman

@benrunsalot.bsky.social

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THE Ohio State University Alum. Runner. Military Historian. Army. Former West Point Prof. Current 10th Mountaineer. Dad of 4. Frequently seen doing intel work in the present. Occasionally seen studying intel work of the past.

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Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · Nov 24

I’m convinced the “do audiobooks count as reading?” argument all derives from those mid-90s summer reading pizza challenges.

Folks - we’re all in our 30s and 40s now. It’s no longer a competition.

Go buy your favorite pie with your adult money and let people enjoy books however they want.

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Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 2d

She gonna get bodied out there.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 2d

Did some preworkout this morning and warmed up on the treadmill. Now it feels like my skin is on fire.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 3d

Being gone for four months really made me forget how many more calories I consume simply from hoovering up the food my kids don’t eat.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 3d

Not working Friday and today was so much better than working would have been.

I need to take more vacation days.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 5d

The best part about walking around NYC is you can unleash the nastiest farts imaginable and the people on the sidewalk around you will neither hear nor smell the evidence.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 6d

US Service members should not bear insignia if our historic enemies:

Nazi Germany

Imperial Japan

Confederate States of America

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Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 7d

What would Smedley think?

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 9d

I need a job where I can work remote one day a week just to keep up with the laundry.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 9d

I love paying more now for coffee - literally a life source more important to my body than water - NOT because there is a supply side shortage, but simply because SOMEBODY thinks blanket tariffs are some sort of free money hack.

Love that for me.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 12d

The Aiden Hutchinson US Army commercial is some of the worst advertising I’ve ever seen.

What are we doing here? This won’t make anyone want to join.

Just bring back the 80s jingle you cowards.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 12d

The local library had a book sale and had these boxes to take your books home 🤣

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 16d

After four days off I simply never want to go back to work again.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 17d

My kids are playing school and are reenacting a lockdown drill.

Not in a traumatized way just in a playtime way, like if they were play acting a field trip or school play.

Broken ass society we live in.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 18d

Kpop Demon Hunters is proof the Korean War was worth it.

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Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 21d

If I were running for governor of the Buckeye State I’d simply have my media crew film me talking ball with the people at Columbus tailgates.

There is one true religion in Ohio and its God is Brutus, its temple the Shoe, and its prophet Coach Ryan Day.

Votes would follow.

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Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 21d

his inability to pivot and just talk about the Buckeyes‘ matchup against Illinois this weekend says all you need to know about him

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Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 22d

The government shutdown and this whole not getting paid thing is really putting a damper on my plans to buy a new car for the first time in 8 years after I get home from the border.

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Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 23d

Being thanked for my service by a nice old lady in the hotel lobby during my final days “deployed” to the southern border sure is something.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 29d

One episode in and I’m loving Chad Powers.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 29d

Don’t fret the the Troops™️ might not get paid during an extended shutdown - they won’t go hungry.

Though after yesterday maybe they should go hungry.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · Sep 28

Can we go one day without this country embarrassing itself?

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · Sep 27

We already do this with Warfighter Exercises.

And let me tell you when you put an entire Division staff + all the BN and BDE staffs for 3x BDEs in support of the exercise not much gets done at the company level.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · Sep 27

If I’ve learned one thing in my military career it’s that you can grind through anything with sheer stubbornness and copious amounts of caffeine.

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · Sep 25

There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think “wow, the internet is a mistake.”

Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · Sep 21

No, you move.