Mistletoe Diva 🦃🥧🫶👠👑
@queenofthinair.bsky.social
Montanan now home. Philosopher Queen. Diva. Foodie. Shoes. Not my first rodeo. Act III
Learning, charitable discussion, exploring ideas. No BS. Every day is Ethics Day! Military Ethicist. Books #OnObedience #Achilles
I say what I want.
Learning, charitable discussion, exploring ideas. No BS. Every day is Ethics Day! Military Ethicist. Books #OnObedience #Achilles
I say what I want.
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Along those lines, using the dangers of the job as an excuse to do unethical things or cede your morality means you aren’t cut out for the job. The reason you get thanked for your service and get all those sweet discounts is bc society wants to honor the sacrifice.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Along those lines, using the dangers of the job as an excuse to do unethical things or cede your morality means you aren’t cut out for the job. The reason you get thanked for your service and get all those sweet discounts is bc society wants to honor the sacrifice.
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One of my rare hardass takes is that if there isn't an ethical line you won't cross to advance your military career, you need to get the fuck out and go sell used cars or something.
Army Doctrine Publication 6-22 (Army Leadership and the Profession) says to disobey unlawful orders.
Immoral ones too.
Do what's right. That's the standard.
Immoral ones too.
Do what's right. That's the standard.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One of my rare hardass takes is that if there isn't an ethical line you won't cross to advance your military career, you need to get the fuck out and go sell used cars or something.
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Thanksgiving gives us space to notice the folks who serve in all kinds of ways — in families, neighborhoods, and communities.
This week we're sharing Thanksgiving memories and traditions from around the TCN team, and things we are grateful for this season.
First up: Marine Corps veteran Maggie
This week we're sharing Thanksgiving memories and traditions from around the TCN team, and things we are grateful for this season.
First up: Marine Corps veteran Maggie
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thanksgiving gives us space to notice the folks who serve in all kinds of ways — in families, neighborhoods, and communities.
This week we're sharing Thanksgiving memories and traditions from around the TCN team, and things we are grateful for this season.
First up: Marine Corps veteran Maggie
This week we're sharing Thanksgiving memories and traditions from around the TCN team, and things we are grateful for this season.
First up: Marine Corps veteran Maggie
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AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing
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Koan:
A cat licked its paw and passed it over its ear; meditation disguised as grooming.
The statue asks: “Is grooming the ritual or the trance?”
Bathe mindfully today.
#koan #zen #philosophy
A cat licked its paw and passed it over its ear; meditation disguised as grooming.
The statue asks: “Is grooming the ritual or the trance?”
Bathe mindfully today.
#koan #zen #philosophy
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Koan:
A cat licked its paw and passed it over its ear; meditation disguised as grooming.
The statue asks: “Is grooming the ritual or the trance?”
Bathe mindfully today.
#koan #zen #philosophy
A cat licked its paw and passed it over its ear; meditation disguised as grooming.
The statue asks: “Is grooming the ritual or the trance?”
Bathe mindfully today.
#koan #zen #philosophy
Its like they aren't even trying anymore.
Brooke Rollins on spiking beef prices in November 2025: "There's a lot of reasons for that. The Biden-Harris administration had a war on cattle because they talked about climate change and cattle, um -- it was crazy."
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Its like they aren't even trying anymore.
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My parents’ credit card numbers keep getting stolen; one viable path to minimize the exposure is to use tap to pay with a smartphone … which they don’t have and won’t get. This is one small thing, and it’s not the only thing. You need a smartphone in 2025 in the US.
yes, I feel like you can safely ignore anyone who tells you with a straight face in 2025 that you can just do without a smartphone
This article makes really good points about the inability of most people to cut expenses without entirely losing the ability to participate in the economy. I get tired of people telling me to live cheaper by eliminating things that are necessary for modern life.
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My parents’ credit card numbers keep getting stolen; one viable path to minimize the exposure is to use tap to pay with a smartphone … which they don’t have and won’t get. This is one small thing, and it’s not the only thing. You need a smartphone in 2025 in the US.
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Whether this is your Hump Day, or a special honorary Friday, or a crazy day of travel and/or cooking, Affirmation Coyote knows you'll do great!
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Whether this is your Hump Day, or a special honorary Friday, or a crazy day of travel and/or cooking, Affirmation Coyote knows you'll do great!
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If this secret OLC memo blessing the boat strikes is so convincing, why won’t the administration release it?
More reporting indicating OLC is relying on fabricated armed conflicts + concept of “war sustaining” targets to justify the killing spree at sea.
If no war, then no war sustaining targets.
And secret legal justification not the same a Trump admin rationale.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If no war, then no war sustaining targets.
And secret legal justification not the same a Trump admin rationale.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative
Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they’re to stop US overdose deaths
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If this secret OLC memo blessing the boat strikes is so convincing, why won’t the administration release it?
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As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
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“They claimed they were saving taxpayers money, but what they were doing was hiding the ball about who is buying the government,” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
A Year Later, Donors to Trump’s Transition Come to Light
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“They claimed they were saving taxpayers money, but what they were doing was hiding the ball about who is buying the government,” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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It’s Thanksgiving, a time for food, family and football. But before you dig in, this is what I’m hearing on:
- The Vikings and J.J. McCarthy
- George Pickens’ Cowboys future
- Kyle Shanahan’s best coaching job yet
- Tom Brady’s Raiders concerns
- The Vikings and J.J. McCarthy
- George Pickens’ Cowboys future
- Kyle Shanahan’s best coaching job yet
- Tom Brady’s Raiders concerns
What I’m hearing about J.J. McCarthy, Jerry Jones’ trade steal and more
Also: Tom Brady's Raiders frustrations, Kyle Shanahan's latest masterpiece and the NFL storylines that will carry Thanksgiving conversation.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It’s Thanksgiving, a time for food, family and football. But before you dig in, this is what I’m hearing on:
- The Vikings and J.J. McCarthy
- George Pickens’ Cowboys future
- Kyle Shanahan’s best coaching job yet
- Tom Brady’s Raiders concerns
- The Vikings and J.J. McCarthy
- George Pickens’ Cowboys future
- Kyle Shanahan’s best coaching job yet
- Tom Brady’s Raiders concerns
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CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
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RETVRN to special operators shunning the public eye and disowning anyone who tries to cash in.
Aside from all the dogshit podcasts and coffee brands, it has replaced a mystique that was hard to pin down with interchangeable ham-tinged white roid bros with stupid tattoos.
Aside from all the dogshit podcasts and coffee brands, it has replaced a mystique that was hard to pin down with interchangeable ham-tinged white roid bros with stupid tattoos.
My proposal is twofold:
You don’t ask, you get asked.
You gotta keep your mouth shut.
You don’t ask, you get asked.
You gotta keep your mouth shut.
You - yes, you Ds specifically - will need SOF & just because the SEALs have cultivated a far right internal culture it doesn’t warrant disbanding a critical strategic asset.
75RR is fine. Others too.
Infantry can’t do HR, hard target defeat, sensitive SI. Stop claiming it can, it’s wishcasting.
75RR is fine. Others too.
Infantry can’t do HR, hard target defeat, sensitive SI. Stop claiming it can, it’s wishcasting.
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
RETVRN to special operators shunning the public eye and disowning anyone who tries to cash in.
Aside from all the dogshit podcasts and coffee brands, it has replaced a mystique that was hard to pin down with interchangeable ham-tinged white roid bros with stupid tattoos.
Aside from all the dogshit podcasts and coffee brands, it has replaced a mystique that was hard to pin down with interchangeable ham-tinged white roid bros with stupid tattoos.
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happy bday Charles Schulz, b.1922, Minneapolis
“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning,& yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning,& yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
happy bday Charles Schulz, b.1922, Minneapolis
“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning,& yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning,& yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
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What is the point of discouraging higher ed by making financing more expensive and outright less accessible to most Americans? Will that help make America better?
Higher ed is about to become less accessible.
Major Student Loan Limits Set To Take Effect, With Big Implications For Borrowing Source: Forbes
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
Major Student Loan Limits Set To Take Effect, With Big Implications For Borrowing Source: Forbes
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
Major Student Loan Limits Set To Take Effect, With Big Implications For Borrowing
The Department of Education is forging ahead with significant changes to the federal student loan system that will limit borrowing and repayment options.
www.forbes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
What is the point of discouraging higher ed by making financing more expensive and outright less accessible to most Americans? Will that help make America better?
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Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
Army Doctrine Publication 6-22 (Army Leadership and the Profession) says to disobey unlawful orders.
Immoral ones too.
Do what's right. That's the standard.
Immoral ones too.
Do what's right. That's the standard.
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
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if there is one American value I really do pride myself on adhering to when I travel abroad, it is “I will enthusiastically try all of your local foods”
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
if there is one American value I really do pride myself on adhering to when I travel abroad, it is “I will enthusiastically try all of your local foods”
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New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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If the NFL is watching how Bluesky responds to Ian Rapoport to gauge the general interest of football here, Ian just brought out a flamethrower to juke the stats and can't thank him enough for posts like this
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If the NFL is watching how Bluesky responds to Ian Rapoport to gauge the general interest of football here, Ian just brought out a flamethrower to juke the stats and can't thank him enough for posts like this
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President Donald Trump is significantly less busy during his second term.
Research Exposes How Trump, 79, Has Drastically Reduced Schedule
The president’s schedule is much lighter in his second term.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
President Donald Trump is significantly less busy during his second term.