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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 · 6h

G’nite BlueSky.

Brown black tabby tortie trying to sleep with paws over eyes.

His name is Ching.

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Rob Malcolm @theproudjoiner.bsky.social · 6h

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

Replay officials are going to need an MRAP to get out of that stadium.

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

Amazing.

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Porsche Porn @porscheporn.bsky.social · 7h

#porsche

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Drew @drewavery.bsky.social · 8h

#bird

Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13h

This week we’ve been monitoring regent parrot breeding- look at this little cutie 😭🩵😇

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

A saving grace is that they tend to act before working all the "what-ifs" out.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 15h

May all the blessings of #Caturday find you and yours safe and warm.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 14h

Finding inspiration in the oddest places these days.

youtu.be/jkORS34Lep0?...

Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

YouTube video by Glen Campbell - Topic

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 13h

For those of you who celebrate, Happy #SabreSaturday.

North American P-86A-1 NA 47-605.

First production a/c, first flight 20MAY48.

https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/47-605/

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 13h

“And I keep on fighting for the things I want
Though I know that when you're dead you can't
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave
Than living as a puppet or a slave”

youtu.be/FHAbj1pIT4g?...

Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session

YouTube video by Perry Henzell

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 12h

Why politics may be a cancer for military organizations…

Richard V. Barbuto, “New York’s War of 1812 - Politics Society and Combat” U of Oklahoma Press, 2021

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

I think they had an "oh shit" moment...

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

Blessings.

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

Gabby was a legend.

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 10h

Best thing I’ve read in the last year or so.

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betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 11h

This afternoon, Eurasian Green-winged Teal duck swimming in the marsh grass at high tide, Albany Mudflats, Albany, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Large duck swimming in marsh grass. Grass is green and brown, water reflects the colors of the marsh grasses. Duck has reddish brown feather on head with bright green stripe on side, wide gray bill, brownish delicately patterned wings and body.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 11h

Looks great!

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 11h

RIP Mrs. Corleone.

Diane Keaton and Al Pacino at a wedding.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 11h

Reminded of this again for some reason.

One thing is certain: those who ignore the question of
"why" navies exist and focus instead on "what" a navy will fight with are doomed to have neither the right ideas nor the tools to implement them when the reckoning comes.
Nicholas A. Lambert
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of
Sea Power

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 11h

That

Looks

Delicious

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

It may be dawning on “the markets” that tertiary neurosyphilis is non-reversible.

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

“A small number of iPhone users may be unable to connect to a cellular network after updating to iOS26”

Never a more glowing estimate of the quality of your craft.

Well done, Tim Apple…

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

I miss #PhantomPhriday, so here’s a nice portrait of the OG.

Sea blue FD/FH Phantom jet fighter sits on tricycle u/c on a sunny day.

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

Signing off for the night, and maybe the weekend.

Take care of yourselves, and your loves.

Pax.

Mama Zaynie snoozing on my arm. I'm wearing a ridiculously fuzzy olive pullover.

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