Steven Buck
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Steven Buck
@lairddinnaken.bsky.social
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Formerly Scottish ex-engineer ex-banker ex-portfolio manager ex-risk dude. Now an African Viking 🤔🤭 UK expat since ‘82 😬, South Africa, Washington DC and now (finally?) Cape Town. MilAv, MotoGP, F1 & Movie (classic horror/gangster) Hist, terrible puns
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In Memoriam:

Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
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charlie kirk not the only dick that went limp i guess
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‘There is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all the hokum and stage magic might be misdirection of the sort that enables something secret to enter the room.’

Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Francis Gooding · Hoodoo Man: Dr John and ‘Gris-Gris’
Beyond or beneath the theatrics there is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all...
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Now THAT'S an article! 👍👍👍👍
Perfect 👌 10/10 🤣
Cheney hated Trump is the new Adolf loved dogs
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Well, hell. Looks like I'm going to need to drink more coffee. Dick Cheney died and I'm going to need a full bladder for the funeral.
One of my greatest friends in Alexandria was his CoS in Congress long before DC rose to international infamy.

Same age as DC so retired > 25 years ago.

We had some interesting exchanges!
VG article: the consequences of Biden, Garland et al down the chain dancing around Trump get more infuriating every day 🙈
But they closed her research centre and laid off everyone (if I understood the article properly), didn't they?

If so, is the university going to resurrect the facility?
FWIW in the corp sector we always used some variant of 1-5 for annual performance reviews, with 3 being 'performing satisfactorily at job grade level and KPIs'

Monty wasn't a 5 at his top grade but he was an easy 4, no?
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Auction I'm looking through has pie-cutters carved from bone, for when you're all, "Mmm, I'd like some tasty pie, but also an ancient curse."
Stumped me: who was that? 🤷‍♂️
He'll probably want to eke out the Glory over at least 3 volumes...🫡
You have to pay for air? Hang the nobility from the nearest lamppost (if they allow you such luxuries) 😑
Can't wait 🫡 for Britain At Bay But Mostly In Korea (volume IV in a trilogy) 😑😎
DEI now mandates that pepper spray must be accompanied by salt spray, ketchup spray, brown sauce spray and mustard spray, to offer the sprayee a full range of face-squirting condiments 😑
No, the army was in him 👀
Funny how no one ever suggests that Hitler was overpromoted 🧐😑
Battle of the superegos! At least Monty didn't (openly) back the atomic bombing of N Korea 😬
Who was more overrated: Patton or Monty (or Rommel is we want to be inclusive)?

3-way tie? 😑
I would buy that book: might even read bits of it too...