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Hupple’s Cat
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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
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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
hupplescat.bsky.social
Supporting the local food bank is one of my favorite things to do anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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hoosierhomer.bsky.social
Welp that solves that question lmfao why is the navy like this?????

What was the last on-budget & on-time ship in the navy's history? The fucking midway???
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
hupplescat.bsky.social
"Rip out the table
we need room to move
in a life unstable
you're so easily amused
anywhere you hang
yourself is home
throw in a tape, fix the tone

Someone take the wheel
and I don't know where we're going
anybody say what you feel
back home I guess it's still snowin'"

youtu.be/NXdDH80SQ4M?...
Someone Take the Wheel
YouTube video by The Replacements - Topic
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November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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sodrock.bsky.social
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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“Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.”

- Joseph Heller
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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hupplescat.bsky.social
Calling out congenital liars and flim-flam men for untruthing seems an all-consuming effort, and just a little bit Sisyphean.

So, instead, I’m going grocery shopping two days before Thanksgiving.

Pray for me in your own way.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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ladybear.bsky.social
Yeah by connecting to your freezer’s WiFi and shutting off the power. It'll defrost everything at no extra charge. A value added service of AI.
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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exoticaviation.bsky.social
Lt Stuart Culley launches from a "lighter" - a barge used to tow flying boats - fitted with a take-off platform, to attack Zeppelin L53 off the coast of the Netherlands, 11/08/1918..

incredible art by Keith Ferris
(keithferrisart.com/product/just...)

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Colour painting. A vivid view of a Sopwith Camel taking off from what effectively looks like a small boat with a metal platform/roof on top
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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rmcgil.bsky.social
#Buffalo If anyone is looking for outpatient substance abuse counseling, Step One is seeking clients and my wife is a highly experienced counselor!
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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bafriedman.bsky.social
Should have gone with the trebuchet model.
thinkdefence.bsky.social Think Defence @thinkdefence.bsky.social · 2h
Mine clearance in the littoral. This brief video clip demonstrates the USMC Catapult Launched Fuel Air Explosive (CATFAE)
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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darklaughtertdb.bsky.social
I am waiting for the day next year when these guys start doing the math, resigning, and fleeing the country to places they believe won't extradite them. I'm honestly curious whether it will involve another country explicitly offering them asylum.
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
hupplescat.bsky.social
MisAnthropicAI-Kitchen will defrost your turkey for you in under ten minutes.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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We weren't aware on this day in 1940 – eighty-five years ago 😲 — the legendary DH.98 Mosquito first flew. For this reminder, we thank the People's Mosquito project, which, by the way, is building a *brand-new* Mossie. Well worth checking out. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇 | 🔗 www.peoplesmosquito.org.uk/2025/11/25/8...
A black and white profile view of the DH.98 Mosquito prototype aircraft on or around the date it flew or the first time; November 25, 1940. The aircraft in the picture is either accelerating for take-off or is in the process of landing. The tailwheel is elevated and the aircraft is moving from left to right in the frame. The flaps are partially deployed. Given that this is the prototype, it is uniform grey; that is, with no camouflage. The number « W4050 » is painted on the fuselage just ahead of the empennage. A Royal Air Force roundel is also painted on the side of the fuselage, as is the RAF 'fin flash' painted on the vertical stabiliser. There appears to be grass in the foreground adjacent to the runway. The same grass is also visible beyond the runway, leading up to a line of trees in the distance. The sky is uniform grey. (📸 Royal Air Force via Wikimedia Foundation in the public domain)
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
I renew my request that you all stop showing me the worst people in the world morning, noon, and night.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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wilsonti7.bsky.social
Too accurate
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
hupplescat.bsky.social
Our county executive has a new county weather page, and all of a sudden thinks he’s the second coming of Jim-freakin-Cantore.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
hupplescat.bsky.social
Henry J has no idea he’s doing this.

Our does he?

Have a blessed Thanksgiving.

#OurDailyCatContent
Seal point Thai looking little dude posing on a hairy red blanket against a dark salmon wall.
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Librarians FTW!
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mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 19h
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
hupplescat.bsky.social
Calling out congenital liars and flim-flam men for untruthing seems an all-consuming effort, and just a little bit Sisyphean.

So, instead, I’m going grocery shopping two days before Thanksgiving.

Pray for me in your own way.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
hupplescat.bsky.social
“Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.”

- Joseph Heller
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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hupplescat.bsky.social
You can’t embarrass the shameless.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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hupplescat.bsky.social
Don’t tell anyone, but I’m serving in my role illegally too.
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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hupplescat.bsky.social
Star Wars reboot, but a musical.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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hupplescat.bsky.social
Celebrating #MartinMondy today with one of the prettiest early jets built, courtesy of English Electric.
Martin B-57A, but possibly a Canberra B.2. Twin engined jet bomber in gloss grey over gloss black, in ISAF markings.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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hupplescat.bsky.social
The Deniro/Pacino/Kilmer holiday classic “HEAT” but as a Broadway musical.
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM