TacticalOni
@tacticaloni.bsky.social
An ancient demon that decided to retire and collect books instead
(IRL military historian and purveyor of arcane knowledge)
((Cemetery groundskeeper, former airport fueling and ramp lead, museum historian...my resume is LIT))
(IRL military historian and purveyor of arcane knowledge)
((Cemetery groundskeeper, former airport fueling and ramp lead, museum historian...my resume is LIT))
Hello everyone, I thought I would share this high-quality picture of a toad from my journey in the cemeteries as of late. I tried to get a couple of the nope ropes (snakes) but they all slithered away. Silly danger noodles.
July 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hello everyone, I thought I would share this high-quality picture of a toad from my journey in the cemeteries as of late. I tried to get a couple of the nope ropes (snakes) but they all slithered away. Silly danger noodles.
reading this in the Dracula Flow method.
"Call me Big Dumper. I'm crushing home runs like Babe Ruth!"
"Call me Big Dumper. I'm crushing home runs like Babe Ruth!"
reading this wall street journal headline aloud like a local news anchor would
July 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
reading this in the Dracula Flow method.
"Call me Big Dumper. I'm crushing home runs like Babe Ruth!"
"Call me Big Dumper. I'm crushing home runs like Babe Ruth!"
Sitting in the living room nursing a suddenly sore back, and I am thinking of Tali from Mass Effect as the first character I ever romanced in a video game. It makes sense in retrospect, I would get the hots for a Eastern European accented nerdy girl from a nomadic culture that obsesses over machines
June 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sitting in the living room nursing a suddenly sore back, and I am thinking of Tali from Mass Effect as the first character I ever romanced in a video game. It makes sense in retrospect, I would get the hots for a Eastern European accented nerdy girl from a nomadic culture that obsesses over machines
Sometimes you just end up doing some dishes and making coffee in your skivvies blasting Saxon.
June 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Sometimes you just end up doing some dishes and making coffee in your skivvies blasting Saxon.
As a military historian that focuses on the technology of, and the years leading up to WWI through the present day, there are few places that are as holy as the one I visited today.
May 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
As a military historian that focuses on the technology of, and the years leading up to WWI through the present day, there are few places that are as holy as the one I visited today.
If I had a dollar for every time the Truman float checked an F-18 I'd Have two dollars.
Which isn't much but its strange its happened twice.
Which isn't much but its strange its happened twice.
May 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If I had a dollar for every time the Truman float checked an F-18 I'd Have two dollars.
Which isn't much but its strange its happened twice.
Which isn't much but its strange its happened twice.
Hi Bluesky,
I am sorry I don't post much (but reply infrequently) but I wanted to share that today I helped put this old gravestone back to rights in one of the cemeteries I work at today. Granted it's supposed to be taller but now we remember Dr. Luther Bugbee, who rests underneath a tree :)
I am sorry I don't post much (but reply infrequently) but I wanted to share that today I helped put this old gravestone back to rights in one of the cemeteries I work at today. Granted it's supposed to be taller but now we remember Dr. Luther Bugbee, who rests underneath a tree :)
April 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Hi Bluesky,
I am sorry I don't post much (but reply infrequently) but I wanted to share that today I helped put this old gravestone back to rights in one of the cemeteries I work at today. Granted it's supposed to be taller but now we remember Dr. Luther Bugbee, who rests underneath a tree :)
I am sorry I don't post much (but reply infrequently) but I wanted to share that today I helped put this old gravestone back to rights in one of the cemeteries I work at today. Granted it's supposed to be taller but now we remember Dr. Luther Bugbee, who rests underneath a tree :)
In this time of political chaos and with the stupidity turned up to 11, I am reminded that for a long time now I just want to be part of the afterguard on a racing yacht. I just hope I can still afford to do so someday.
April 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In this time of political chaos and with the stupidity turned up to 11, I am reminded that for a long time now I just want to be part of the afterguard on a racing yacht. I just hope I can still afford to do so someday.
I wonder if I can ask everyone who sees this post to think a good thought for me as I am hoping for some positive news soon that will dramatically and positively alter the trajectory of me and my family's life. You don't have to like or comment. Just think a good thought and maybe
March 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I wonder if I can ask everyone who sees this post to think a good thought for me as I am hoping for some positive news soon that will dramatically and positively alter the trajectory of me and my family's life. You don't have to like or comment. Just think a good thought and maybe
You know, working in cemeteries ain't that bad. The rmtenants are pretty quiet and nobody bothers you but sometimes the family makes a decision almost 200 years ago that really doesn't make your life any easier. That's a days work fixing that there.
March 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
You know, working in cemeteries ain't that bad. The rmtenants are pretty quiet and nobody bothers you but sometimes the family makes a decision almost 200 years ago that really doesn't make your life any easier. That's a days work fixing that there.
The winds of ADHD are blowing and the weather vane is pointing to flying the Saab AJS-37 Viggen in DCS, something I haven't done in a while! Time to study the Ck37 cheat sheet again..
March 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The winds of ADHD are blowing and the weather vane is pointing to flying the Saab AJS-37 Viggen in DCS, something I haven't done in a while! Time to study the Ck37 cheat sheet again..
In the interest of sharing something that I think is cool, here's a screenshot of a Latecoere 631 parked in the water outside the manufacturing facility in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
March 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In the interest of sharing something that I think is cool, here's a screenshot of a Latecoere 631 parked in the water outside the manufacturing facility in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
I am jealous of the people I know that are creative machine-guns. They just wake up, get ideas, write, draw, paint, work on their stuff.
Creatively, I feel like a battleship. Ponderous, but when it comes tome to do the thing it's over in a half hour.
Creatively, I feel like a battleship. Ponderous, but when it comes tome to do the thing it's over in a half hour.
March 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I am jealous of the people I know that are creative machine-guns. They just wake up, get ideas, write, draw, paint, work on their stuff.
Creatively, I feel like a battleship. Ponderous, but when it comes tome to do the thing it's over in a half hour.
Creatively, I feel like a battleship. Ponderous, but when it comes tome to do the thing it's over in a half hour.
A brain worm, a diaper, and a bag of ketamine walk into a bar.
There is no joke, that's just dinnertime at the white house.
There is no joke, that's just dinnertime at the white house.
March 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A brain worm, a diaper, and a bag of ketamine walk into a bar.
There is no joke, that's just dinnertime at the white house.
There is no joke, that's just dinnertime at the white house.
This dude (First Sea Lord John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO, or Jacky Boy for short) climbs up on me, sheds fur all over my clothes, then passes out like I'm made of bed or something.
He's cute tho so I guess I'll let him get away with it
He's cute tho so I guess I'll let him get away with it
March 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This dude (First Sea Lord John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO, or Jacky Boy for short) climbs up on me, sheds fur all over my clothes, then passes out like I'm made of bed or something.
He's cute tho so I guess I'll let him get away with it
He's cute tho so I guess I'll let him get away with it
I wake up every day, take my Adderall, heat up my food that I take it with, and await, with the same level of existential dread as one may wait for the boom after the engine of a V-1 shuts off, the news that the country I love is continuing to slide to authoritarian oblivion.
March 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I wake up every day, take my Adderall, heat up my food that I take it with, and await, with the same level of existential dread as one may wait for the boom after the engine of a V-1 shuts off, the news that the country I love is continuing to slide to authoritarian oblivion.
On the occasions I'm not out doing Cemetery stuff, I'm in the office, digitizing records. During this time, I listen to/watch random shows and lately it's been The Day After, The Final Broadcast, Countdown to Looking Glass.
Man, I think I need to calm down on thr nuclear nightmare stuff
Man, I think I need to calm down on thr nuclear nightmare stuff
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
On the occasions I'm not out doing Cemetery stuff, I'm in the office, digitizing records. During this time, I listen to/watch random shows and lately it's been The Day After, The Final Broadcast, Countdown to Looking Glass.
Man, I think I need to calm down on thr nuclear nightmare stuff
Man, I think I need to calm down on thr nuclear nightmare stuff
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Reposted by TacticalOni
You know, even with the ongoing fuckery in this day and age, I'm so happy that tonight my wife (the PracticalOni) and I get to see Molchat Doma.
February 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
You know, even with the ongoing fuckery in this day and age, I'm so happy that tonight my wife (the PracticalOni) and I get to see Molchat Doma.
Reposted by TacticalOni
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Something fucky is afoot in Russia.
Over the last 10 hours or so there's been at least 10 messages sent out on the Former UVB-76 "Buzzer" numbers station.
The last time this level of traffic was noted, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Over the last 10 hours or so there's been at least 10 messages sent out on the Former UVB-76 "Buzzer" numbers station.
The last time this level of traffic was noted, Russia invaded Ukraine.
February 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Something fucky is afoot in Russia.
Over the last 10 hours or so there's been at least 10 messages sent out on the Former UVB-76 "Buzzer" numbers station.
The last time this level of traffic was noted, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Over the last 10 hours or so there's been at least 10 messages sent out on the Former UVB-76 "Buzzer" numbers station.
The last time this level of traffic was noted, Russia invaded Ukraine.
You know, I love snow. I love the cold.
I don't love being out in the snow and cold at God knows what hour of the darkness plowing snow.
And yet we are looking at 3 major weather events here in a week and I just want to have a weekend
I don't love being out in the snow and cold at God knows what hour of the darkness plowing snow.
And yet we are looking at 3 major weather events here in a week and I just want to have a weekend
February 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
You know, I love snow. I love the cold.
I don't love being out in the snow and cold at God knows what hour of the darkness plowing snow.
And yet we are looking at 3 major weather events here in a week and I just want to have a weekend
I don't love being out in the snow and cold at God knows what hour of the darkness plowing snow.
And yet we are looking at 3 major weather events here in a week and I just want to have a weekend
This is your reminder that Tom Lehrer is still alive to witness this unprecedented fuckery
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is your reminder that Tom Lehrer is still alive to witness this unprecedented fuckery