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CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 1d

"and the entire world will tremble at your might"
(or, perhaps, look disaffectedly at it thanks to a language barrier and the late hour, but still - international glory!)

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure she, too, woke up to catch the match this morning and was equally relieved at the offside disallowed goal.

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 1d

despite my best efforts at google translate i'm 98% sure this woman at 2am in Thailand gave zero fucks about why i asked to take a selfie with her

นั่นคือทีมจากเมืองของฉัน ฉันอยู่ที่นั่นตอนที่เราชนะ!

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 1d

despite my best efforts at google translate i'm 98% sure this woman at 2am in Thailand gave zero fucks about why i asked to take a selfie with her

นั่นคือทีมจากเมืองของฉัน ฉันอยู่ที่นั่นตอนที่เราชนะ!

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 2d

I was in Boston back in 2004 when games 4 & 5 went to 12 & 14 innings, lasting 5:02 hours and 5:49 hours, respectively. Just sixteen hours between games.
That postseason went well for the Red Sox. Here's to the M's getting a taste of the good life!

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 2d

🐉 +⚽️= 🥅

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 2d

D if it's made by my mother
L if not
Put R and Y together by the aforementioned mom?
I defy you to do better

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 2d

Did I also have an extended conversation re: MTG whilst cruising the back roads of Vietnam with a gin master distiller? You already know the answer

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 2d

TMNT was the first RPG I ever played (didn't have the same evangelical stink on it that D&D did so I was "allowed" to play it)
Summer water polo tournaments meant I had a stack of beta MTG cards (yes, I've scoured my mom's house for them).
This confluence is beautiful

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 2d

as someone several thousand miles from his nearest (personal) console this warms my nearly insensate heart

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 2d

lol at the video of the guy amazed his thai bike taxi drove on sidewalks, over the line, then down tiny canal alleys and he asks "why'd they look for traffic on this path?"
mate, if they *don't* drive a route like that you got a bad driver 555

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 4d

I originally learned it from this video. He can do three keepy ups just like me.
youtu.be/9zapaZcdi4A?...

Tiny Tim joining a Football Club!

YouTube video by Tiny Tims Adventures

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 4d

Case to be made for pouring it on the floor and say "Now let Earth be my witness and the broad heaven above, and the down flowing water of the Styx…”
(then apologize that you mistook their meaning of "libations")

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 5d

I'll send anyone an alien costume who promises to wear it at said protests.
a.co/d/9O53D6X

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 5d

[taps mic]

the shirt says "Dump 61 Here" - not "Dump Here" and not "Dump Here 61"

[unplugs mic and yeets it into the Sound]

(I'm just glad it wasn't the guy who was sitting by me at the game a week ago texting racial slurs to his buddy with giant oversized font on his phone)

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 5d

If a state illegally sends its NG to another, does state 2 (or one they attempt to pass through) block them at the state border/not clear them for landing, perhaps with their own NG vs allow invasion?
Just takes one battalion to follow an illegal order & we've got Cuban missile level brinksmanship 😬

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 6d

ah yes, digital streaming, the thing we all definitely love in which we have to google which service a given movie may or may not be on at any given moment.
sorry that antibiotic is only available if you subscribe to Antibiotics+ would you like a free trial that runs out before your prescription?

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 6d

ah yes, classic Portland soccer vibes
(aka disrespecting women - receipts available on request if you have sufficient bandwidth for large files)

Pacific Northwest Medium Format - Joe Towner @pnwmf.com · 6d

Wasn't impressive, hauled it up over the Reign tarps.
#EBFG

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 6d

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 12d

damned timely posts...

bsky.app/profile/cock...

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 12d

I was specifically brought in as an outside doc as part of a program to address known abuse issues

I am, unfortunately, 0% surprised by what these articles describe

Idk what SecDef plans w/ his mtg, but his warrior bro ethos doesn't portend *fewer* war crimes

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 12d

does he have *any* idea how many fitness waivers there are amongst active duty troops? if he pushes this as policy they'll hemorrhage troops and be absolutely unable to replace them 😂

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 12d

let alone a flag officer who had to leave theater to hear him spout naive platitudes.
the ones i interacted w/ directly would have had zero patience for this nonsense (but were definitely disciplined enough that they'd never show it)

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 12d

I was specifically brought in as an outside doc as part of a program to address known abuse issues

I am, unfortunately, 0% surprised by what these articles describe

Idk what SecDef plans w/ his mtg, but his warrior bro ethos doesn't portend *fewer* war crimes

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 12d

I hadn't planned on posting while traveling but NYT just put out a series of articles that are important imo

I was deployed to JSOC's Camp Alpha in Afg (complete w/ bronze star) & literally heard someone say "they are Tier 1 Operators. they know the rules don't apply to them"

tinyurl.com/3e6z7863

Four unidentified Tier 1 Operators in Afghanistan, mostly obscured by shadows but with weapons and military dog visible, in a declassified photo from my deployment

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 18d

CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 19d

well if you're gonna go to a game this was a good one to go to.
complete with Naruto M's jersey