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🎃 Really Spooky Smith

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Author of Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? and Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir. Formerly a US Army, MI, UN, NATO, etc. guy. Currently a Regular Human Person goofing off on Bluesky. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sean-Smith/author/B0B6KPP5XL

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · Dec 13

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Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? Family, History, and the First World War

Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? Family, History, and the First World War - Kindle edition by Smith, Sean M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? Family, History, and the First World War.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 19m

Which is worse, God Bless the USA or cannibalism?

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Alt: a man with sweat running down his face

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 41m

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Human flesh
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
God Bless the USA

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 15h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 12h

"We saw you from across the coffee table and dig your vibe."

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 12h

I know I'm 1,000% cooked when it comes to typos.

🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 13h

Sometimes I wonder if Nate knows he's cooked on some level but has to continue the bit because (hypothetocally) he has massive debt from being bad at gambling, or if he's sincerely 1,000% oblivious.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 13h

"My idea of 'white power' is shelling Waffen-SS positions with white phosphorus."

a man wearing glasses and a hat is laughing with his tongue out

Alt: Nazi about to melt at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 13h

Tankie fuckup mixing up WWI and WWII lol

… Is it really “Russophillic” to say that we were simply hedging bets with lend-lease??? Is it really “Russophillic” to say that until the Zimm. Tel. we were more or less undecided on whether we were an ally or an axis?? Is it “Russophillic” to say that in 1935 one of the largest nazi gatherings

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 14h

Apropos of nothing in particular, my dad has always hated the shit out of Woody Allen on a visceral level, like *decades* before anything become public he was just like "Why do people like him? He acts like a creepy kid fucker."

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes there's no substitute to hearing a song played to an absolutely bugfuck crazy crowd [COMPLIMENTARY]

Rush Closer to the heart in Rio 2002

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 16h

New Korean place opened next to my house, cue SICKOS laugh.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 16h

Self-proclaimed leftists determined to pooh-pooh the United Sates fighting the Nazis and Imperial Japan in WWII as not actually a good thing are engaging in absolute loser bitch shit, don't @ me.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 19h

Prove me wrong meme but it says NO OFFICER WHO TALKS LIKE THIS HAS EVER BEEN WORTH A SHIT

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 21h

You ever just assumed someone you knew died/got killed a long time ago and discover that they're alive and like completely fine, actually?

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Alt: a cartoon of spongebob looking pensive

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 22h

Photo of Antifa Super Soldiers going into business for themselves.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 23h

[Pizza centrist] The thing about pizza is that style matters less than execution, and there is huge quality variance within each style. You can go to Italy and get a shitass pizza or a life-changing pizza, nothing is immune to this.

And if I'm picking an actual Italian pizza it's Diavola.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 23h

"Once the Wehrmacht ran out of replacement Panther transmissions, things got weird."

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Caption this. 😁

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 1d

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1d

It was! Winter at Hohenfels, wearing all the snivel gear I could get my grubby staff nerd hands on.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1d

Stolen POG ant-valor smh

🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1d

"I've seen POG shit you people wouldn't believe."

Me at on a training exercise in Germany during the winter around 1998-1999.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1d

Complaining about "manhood in crisis" is itself a hacky grift dating back to when the ancient version of Raytheon made literal javelins. But we do seem to have invented a new kind of woman hating self sabotage cycle that would have made the most pessimistic 70s feminist reach for the quaaludes.

🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1d

Incels are merely the predictable endstate of staying on this ride too long: the only meaning in life as a male is getting laid, you can't get laid, women hate you for being you and this clearly is incurable, hope is a lie, so just murder them and/or yourself. And even THAT has grifters farming it.

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1d

And a bunch of the dudes who aren't helped by this manosphere huckster's particular brand of garbage for manbabies will double down and seek out *even more fringe* woman hating shit to consume. Which is a market segment serviced by other manosphere hucksters. Which also won't help them, of course.

Some mansphere self help huckster: "and her whole mission is to destroy you, okay, to..."

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1d

At the risk of being flippant I think the answer is often "what friends?" Not counting online "friends" who are consuming the same manosphere loser media.

🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1d

All based on a literary forgery, alas, but a good time all the same.

Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi read a FIERY letter exchange

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