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My better angels want crew-served weapons. I write about USMC 1866-1917 “The Marines Have Landed At Nantucket…” Marine Corps Gazette, May 2025 History blog: https://islandjohnny65.blogspot.com GO BIG RED

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our times…

Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph Heller

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 9h

Muting Buffalo B*lls for two weeks.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 7h

Excellent thread, this.

My understanding is once the aircraft came off the production line in North Buffalo, they were wheeled into the parking lot, and flown in a short hop out to what is now the Buffalo airport on Genesee for delivery prep.

Alternately they were trucked in sub assemblies.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 6h

The new St. Paul and the Broken Bones album is really, really, quite good.

It will feature largely in my autumnal rotation…

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St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Sushi and Coca-Cola (Official Video)

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 6h

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Dropkick Murphys "Who'll Stand With Us?" Music Video

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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 1h

Chinese Cutters Ram Philippine Fishery Vessels in Spratly Islands — USNI News
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Chinese Cutters Ram Philippine Fishery Vessels in Spratly Islands - USNI News

Chinese cutters rammed and water cannoned two Philippine fishery vessels near Sandy Cay and Thitu Island over the weekend in the latest spat between the two countries in the South China Sea. The incid...

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

AI is headcount.

That’s it.

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

Spotted in the wild yesterday.

Time to return to a climate controlled cave for the winter months and road-salt season.

Red 50s ragtop Thunderbird.

Well preserved.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 2h

"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live."
-Sylvia Earle

let the adventures begin💙😎💙

2 ducks swimming in a lake with grasses in the foreground.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 2h

Yup!

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 3h

Just finished this. An entirely entertaining account of post-war record setting distance flying, and its impact on commercial aviation.

Highly recommend for aviation buffs.
@jimleeke.bsky.social

THE TURTLE AND THE DREAMBOAT
The Cold War Flights That Forever Changed
the Course of Global Aviation
JIM LEEKE

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 1d

Cochrane was Huntington’s XO at the Guantanamo landing, among other things.

He accompanied Lincoln to Gettysburg for the cemetery commemoration in 1863, IIRC, and didn’t retire until after the Spanish war.

A real grey-beard…

Bearded old timer wearing a black Prussian helmet, and his dress uniform with medals.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 22h

Barbuto provides an excellent description of the challenges facing the U.S. in the relationship between Regular Army, Volunteers, and State Militia, in an era dominated by toxic partisan politics.

It was a mix with few positives to count.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 8h

Looks like the driver of the “St-Hubert Blackberry RIM Pontiac number 87 car” racing at the Rimouski 300 in 1991…

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 1d

Corn bread needs to be available everywhere.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 23h

“Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.”

- Alfred Thayer Mahan

#Navy250

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 9h

Deleted a post that contained a link to a paywalled article.

I’m sorry.

That was genuinely inconsiderate.

I’ll do better.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 9h

Without paywall.

Sounds not great…

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals

A wave of deals and partnerships are escalating concerns that the trillion-dollar AI boom is being propped up by interconnected business transactions.

www.bloomberg.com

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 9h

A very Happy Battle of Hastings Day to all of you who celebrate!

Gonna go wrap myself up in a tapestry and partake in a flagon of mead or two…

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 9h

Tuesday morning…

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Love Vigilantes (2015 Remaster)

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Mark Poloncarz @markpoloncarz.bsky.social · 4h

Good news as Sumitomo has announced it is selling its site in Tonawanda to HWA of Taiwan, which will open an industrial park to manufacture automotive-related products, create up to 250 jobs and subdividing the site for other businesses, thereby creating more jobs on-site. 1/2

Hwa Fong Rubber to purchase former Sumitomo Rubber facility and transform it into industrial park

Hwa Fong Rubber has announced its intent to purchase the former Sumitomo Rubber facility and property in the Town of Tonawanda.

www.wkbw.com

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B-Roll Benny @brollbenny.com · 5h

One time this dude said he was a better photographer than me with his phone.

Well, I took this with my phone

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 5h

Admiral William Sims wasn’t just any retired crank.

He was responsible for the development of modern targeting and gunnery in the U.S. Navy.

He studied foreign navies.

He championed effective training.

He declared the battleship “dead” decades before anyone else.

He knew how to sink ships.

William Sims building coalitions in London, 1917-1918.

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 6h

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Dropkick Murphys "Who'll Stand With Us?" Music Video

YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 6h

$1,400,000,000.00

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Cheddar @fartycheddarcat.bsky.social · 6h

I has turgy
I wants mor
I lik my lips
And den I RAWRR

For I is Cheds
And I needs meats
Or I will pounce
And bite yor feets!

#Cheddarpoetry #Turgy #GibMeNow #IWantsMor #FiggyWantsSumToo #HeCanHabSum #ButIGetsMor #HeJusBaby #IBeBigBoyWarryer

Cheddar sits, looking up at the camera, licking his lips.

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