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Mike J

@mikejason.bsky.social

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Once a Soldier; NATO and Allies matter. History, Food and Typos. CivMil & Professional Ethic. Government is Serious Business for Serious People. Tanks. Decency. St. Francis stan account. I delete and block liberally. Not Stanley Tucci. All views own.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · Jan 23

I think the only reason I kept my Twitter account up was to save my leadership thread. I wrote it while still in the Army and was one of my favorite tweets. May be time to deactivate the account, so am going to rewrite the thread here.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 15h

This is a very good paragraph.

From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

By Nancy A. Youssef

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 22h

I was once whining to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that one of my key sources had cut me off. She said: "Access is overrated." And indeed it is. The press is not likely to miss out on any crucial Pentagon stories just because they can't roam the corridors.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3h

Three could work, but they should be going Up hill, left to right.

Presents the challenges.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 3h

I think the one with the two Soldiers may better convey where I think your book will lead us...

Shows the human terrain. They youth. A bit of vulnerability, as well as how shit juts might go wrong on so many levels.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 9h

Super cool.
🚲

Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 1d

We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Berger is f$&@in' good dude. Straight as an arrow.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

2008 vibes.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. CAR LOAN DEBT HITS RECORD LEVELS A growing number of Americans owe more on their cars than they’re worth. In 3Q, 28.1% of trade-ins had negative equity—the highest since 1Q 2021—with an average upside-down loan of $6,905. Nearly a quarter of these trade-ins carried over

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

No Carabinieri on this October afternoon, but Vittorio never misses.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

Hot dog costume meme.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have flared in recent days with the exchange of deadly gunfire between the neighbors that has stoked fears of a wider conflict. https://cnn.it/42GXK71

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

It's late afternoon on a crisp fall day. You walk up to the bar, Vittorio nods; he knows you are a regular---and a perfect espresso appears in a scalding cup.
Next to you, are two tourists, clad in full Lululemon.
They ask for cappuccinos, to go.
The Carabinieri show up and arrest them.
Fine.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a kid, Robert Redford's Brubaker was one of the first movies that really affected me.
It's truly sick that so little has changed in our penal system.
Of course, you can trace it back to our nation's original sin.

Shame on us.

The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 2d

Roughly 13 minutes into “The Alabama Solution,” filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman got a tip about an incarcerated man who had been beaten so badly he was taken to the ICU at an outside hospital.

By the time Jarecki and Kaufman arrived, Steven Davis was dead.

‘The Alabama Solution’: A Humanitarian Crisis in Grainy Detail

Here are five takeaways from the documentary exposing abuse and neglect that is all too common in U.S. prisons.

www.themarshallproject.org

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 2d

This is "paint balls for the vision blocks" level of cope.

IYKYK

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 4d

2025 is the year where I finally get David's motivation for creating the xenomorph.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 4d

Which, thanks to our long record of basing choices, will disproportionately hammer Army families.

Something I screamed about until I was blue in the face while serving on the E ring.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 5d

My thesis has long been that all of us was this was an overcorrection after the 507th Maintenance debacle. That's when we got the "warrior ethos," combatives, the notion that EVERY soldier had to be kitted out like an 11B etc.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 5d

Speaking of bad looks.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5d

What??! Why?!

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US Army accepting roughly $1 million donation to bring senior leaders to DC conference as troops brace for missed paycheck | CNN Politics

The US Army is accepting a donation of roughly $1 million for the travel and lodging of senior leaders to a professional development conference in Washington, DC, next week, as active duty forces are ...

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 5d

...baker, whatever, can't keep up with the fact that a large org just has to be synchronized and run a certain way. And what you did to get to the point of being in charge, is no longer relevant to your organization's success. You have to Manage and Lead.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 5d

This is happening everywhere. A newspaper, a tech company, a clothing company. At some point organizations grow to the point where they have to face the same challenges: strategy, budget, hiring, training, real estate, maintenance, tech upgrade, property, IT. And the best reporter, coder 1/2

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 5d

Right. If you can't comprehend the concept of "span of control," maybe you shouldn't run anything bigger than a Dairy Queen.

Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 6d

I am begging the corporate world to hire some retired military officer as your chief of staff and have him do a transition plan for you.

Like seriously, organizational leadership is a thing and most of you suck at it.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6d

Here's the full memo.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 6d

Yikes

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 6d

Why did I miss?
Impossible to get local news over here.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 6d

Been waiting three decades for this moment:

The f$&&ing Lee Greenwood song.

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 12d

question for the timeline

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 6d

"Don't be an asshole."
----Pope Leo

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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