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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 26d

Just walked out of the building for the last time.

Three decades in uniform seems to have gone by in a flash.

I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to serve my country, confident I've left my team in good hands, and ready for the road ahead.

Thanks to all in the #Profession.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 4h

That’s the spirit.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 7h

Yup.

Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 11h

Everybody Needs an Animal Editor.

“REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF.”

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12h

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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roninresearch.bsky.social @roninresearch.bsky.social · 23h

If you can go someplace like ISW and increase your analytical tradecraft, you are learning a skill that stretches across many fields and will make you a stand out in any of them.

Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 1d

Join a community of young professionals in national security. From practicing your analytic tradecraft skills in trainings w/ your intern cohort to directly contributing to our mission, you will build relationships that will shape your career.

Apply to our internship: understandingwar.org... (1/2)

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

If you get paid $449K to write a report, you should probably write the report, not mail it in with AI.

AI produces nothing new, it just regurgitates the past.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

www.theguardian.com

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

The Defenestrations will continue until morale improves!!!!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Publisher of famous Soviet newspaper Pravda falls to his death

The secretive head of Pravda publishing house, Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, plunged 70ft from his home in western Moscow .

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

cheers. appreciate you thinking of me.

Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Don't rush me out the door!

LoL. Today, some super competent Airman finalized my paperwork and sent me away. I'll have a ceremony on Friday, then .... well, then I'll probly have a drink and chill out for a while.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

If it wasn’t, I can write the chorus.

Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

FUEL PUMP DEATH RATTLE
A short play by Ty Mayfield

Ty: Starts Car “That’s a weird whining sound?” Opens hood, sound stops 30 seconds later.

Wife: “Sounds like it’s idling kinda rough.”

Ty: “Nahhhhh. I drove it all week, it’s fine.”

Wife: “Ok. It’s your car.”

Ty: Drives to grocery store.

~Fin.

Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

I can add “Fuel Pump Death Rattle” to the list of sounds I’ll immediately recognize in the future.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Kind of like an immersion blender

Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

This has been a Faulkneresque week.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

I can add “Fuel Pump Death Rattle” to the list of sounds I’ll immediately recognize in the future.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Doc. Big week for us both!

Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Approved.

Brent Scales @boiler40.bsky.social · 2d

Liftoff. Recent 1st flight with the Mid at the helm.

Me, the Middle, and the Last preparing for takeoff. We are wearing headsets and smiles.

Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

I do appreciate a good promise-threat.

Good luck this week!!

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Every day my mailbox is empty.

Toad's mailbox awaits...something.

From "The Letter"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

I might suggest you ask the Chinese about their experience building and operating ports in Balochistan.

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Pakistan courts US with pitch for new Arabian sea port, FT reports

Advisers to Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir have approached U.S. officials with an offer to build and run a port on the Arabian Sea, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing a plan seen by the newspaper.

www.reuters.com

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely evening out. Enjoy your walk home.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 3d

Found an old IronMan 8-Lap in the back of my storage unit… been wearing this watch intermittently since the 90s… new battery and it started right up.

Sometimes simple is elegant and dependable.

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 3d

On of my favorite buttons.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

"When the flowers begin to wilt with chill… When the coffee shops begin unveiling new and exciting lattes… That’s how I’ll know it’s the one week of the year it’s seasonally appropriate for me to wear my Sensible Fall Jacket."

What I’ll Do with the One Week I Can Wear My Sensible Fall Jacket

When the Hunter’s Moon approaches… When the flowers begin to wilt with chill… When the coffee shops begin unveiling new and exciting lattes… That’s...

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 4d

If you look in the mirror and say China three times and turn out the lights, Frank Kendall will appear.

www.airandspaceforces.com/article/usaf...

USAF’s Three Priorities: China, China, China | Air & Space Forces Magazine

The alarming speed of China’s military advance is fueling new urgency in the Air Force to accelerate modernization and deter Beijing.

www.airandspaceforces.com

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 4d

Approved.

bigjimyoung.bsky.social @bigjimyoung.bsky.social · 4d

I see you and raise a Poison Arrow