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Handsome Ralph

@handsomeralph

Oh boy, social media! That's where I'm a viking! Semi-lapsed historian, current network engineer. Consumer of beer, caffeine, history, sports, stats, sci-fi, and video games. Mod and contributor w/ @askhistorians.bsky.social

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Hey CENTCOM you’ve been planning for this for decades, you wanna dust off that OPLAN for Hormuz now buddy?

CENTCOM:

11.03.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 498 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 5

Happy Mar10 Day to all who celebrate.

11.03.2026 02:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

INDOPACOM about to get another phone call.

10.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

10.03.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 9115 πŸ” 1846 πŸ’¬ 173 πŸ“Œ 39
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 5443 πŸ” 2333 πŸ’¬ 638 πŸ“Œ 999

The incredible thing is that anyone with eyes or ears can tell that mamdani clearly loves NYC so much. The idea that he "hates America" is just so on its face ridiculous that people claiming it look particularly pathetic.

10.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 1236 πŸ” 185 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 15
Mid air fueling

Mid air fueling

Picture of planes historians will call just friends

10.03.2026 05:02 πŸ‘ 298 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 2
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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

09.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 8979 πŸ” 2494 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 175
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All the dudes out there with two $1600/month loans on their lifted pickup trucks when gas hits $6/gal

09.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 895 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4
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Orphaned Tactics Oops we did it again

Wrote up some thoughts on the current war with Iran. You can't have a strategy if you don't even have a policy.

open.substack.com/pub/bafriedm...

08.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 244 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 9
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Going thru some old pix tonight, and came across this.

It's true our medical system is a mess. But the doctors, researchers and EMT themselves?

Inside that pile of machinery is a 4 lb newborn whose insides all pointed the wrong way. 50 yrs ago? Doesn't live 2 days. But now? Thriving teenager.

08.03.2026 05:02 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

trump at the handover ceremony

08.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 397 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I've done this in Civ so many times, so yeah of course this will work.

08.03.2026 04:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a November 1, 2024 tweet from Stephen Miller (https://x.com/StephenM/status/1852364946195296620) reading as follows: "To anyone still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes: Trump said warmongering neocons love sending your kids to die for wars they would never fight themselves. Liz Cheney is Kamala’s top advisor. Liz wants to invade the whole Middle East. Kamala = WWIII. Trump = Peace."

Screenshot of a November 1, 2024 tweet from Stephen Miller (https://x.com/StephenM/status/1852364946195296620) reading as follows: "To anyone still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes: Trump said warmongering neocons love sending your kids to die for wars they would never fight themselves. Liz Cheney is Kamala’s top advisor. Liz wants to invade the whole Middle East. Kamala = WWIII. Trump = Peace."

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris, the United States would launch a war in the Middle Eastβ€”and they were right!

08.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 641 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 7
Photoplayer Unusual Instrument Used In Silent Films
Photoplayer Unusual Instrument Used In Silent Films YouTube video by DeanScottPresents

Working in IT when you're short-staffed, you're the lone network engineer, and one of your sites is experiencing an ISP outage
youtu.be/OihbIgXBsMU?...

06.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So this is clearly the result of "hey AI prompt, can you write a press release for a casualty notification?" right?

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This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine

06.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 1363 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 64
"No wonder Trump made me head shield guy."

"No wonder Trump made me head shield guy."

05.03.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

05.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 13307 πŸ” 2575 πŸ’¬ 520 πŸ“Œ 342

Remember when strategy cheese was very worried that sending artillery shells to Ukraine would impact our ability to defend Taiwan?

Anyway I’m sure launching all of our ship based missiles and interceptors in one week will be immaterial

05.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 304 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

I gather that everyone here is 100% certain JD Vance is racist.

So, who here actually knew that Vance's wife isn't white?

And how does that influence your certainty?

05.03.2026 15:17 πŸ‘ 1527 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 105 πŸ“Œ 7

so just not going to acknowledge you got this completely made-up thing from the vdare guy eh

05.03.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspendedβ€”and so were my wife's.

04.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 2443 πŸ” 1201 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 49

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

04.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 7211 πŸ” 2617 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 36

Real fucking rich for this administration that has more or less hung Ukraine out to dry in terms of support--and repeatedly tried to get them to cave to Russia on top of that--to come hat in hand to them now asking for help for a stupid war they launched on a lark

04.03.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

04.03.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 6042 πŸ” 1814 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 39

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

04.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 4806 πŸ” 1479 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 153

It's quite normal for young soldiers to get dumb tattoos. It is not quite normal for young soldiers to get Nazi tattoos.

Source: I was a young soldier and saw many of my fellow soldiers' dumb tattoos.

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