Mad Physiologist

Well

In the last 24 hours, Iran has:

- Struck three ships trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz, disabling a Thai cargo ship
- Blown up a large oil storage facility in Oman
- Struck two oil tankers at harbor in Iraq, setting both ablaze.
- Blown up oil storage tanks next to Bahrain’s main airport

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

girl are you the Straight of Hormuz because I see a lot of men greatly overestimating their chances of getting their ship into your channel

i cannot believe we are into year 2 of the groyper regime, the camps are open and the state is revoking id's, and we are still getting "oppressed minorities are kinda rude on the internet :/" hand-wringing

yeah we're a little tense right now, believe it or not. fucking shut the fuck up about it

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” (Last Chance to See)

Marisa Tomei steals the show in "My Cousin Vinny" #marisatomei #mycousinvinny #academyawards YouTube video by Fritz and the Oscars

I was channeling Marisa Tomei in my cousin Vinny, when she calls him a smooooth talker, "you are, you are!" It's in this montage, and now I have to go watch the movie again.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nlf...

Lots of other things. It’s worth mentioning that the more management tries to push back on nurses, the more they motivate said nurses to organize, take collective action, and get involved.

You are, you are!

What radicalized me as a nurse?
-Dying COVID deniers begging for a vaccine
-Being spat on/kicked/swung at by alert and oriented patients
-Nurse managers

Holy wow, that's neat

You look amaaaazing!

I wish this were true, it'd be funny, but I suspect - not just out of the blue - that this group has more capability than we'd like to think.

Yep.

I could NOT beat it, but I matched it!

Idiot plot

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

Quite literally the entire way you and likely most people in your society define this entire region is rooted in the strategic imperative for the dominant imperial power to keep these sea lanes open and this fucker just closed them thinking bombing Tehran would be a three-hour tour

Ok kids! Now you fucking know why they invented the term "Middle East" in the early 1900s to refer specifically to the region around the maritime chokepoints of the Bab al-Mandab and Strait of Hormuz

Also if you had said "hey we're gonna bomb Iran" to any of the thousands of former or current sailors who have transited the Strait, down to a damn Boatswain's Mate we all would have said "what's the plan for the Strait of Hormuz?"

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The British military says a cargo ship is ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile.

No, these are cool, you are cool

Prepatellar bursitis, and ugh I'm sorry

So much Queen

Alison Moyet liked one of my Twitter posts years ago and my shriveled Gen X heart still treasures that screenshot.

(Foreign Area Officers)

We still have linguists, thankfully, but they're quite fuckin' busy.

Not too sure about FAOs, though.

And I dunno, if you're curious, even though this shouldn't matter: my husband flew the CH-46E, not an assault helo. He was doing MEDEVAC/CASEVAC, Angel Flights to mortuary affairs, moving troops, and resupply.

I do this

If I were this much of a fuckup I would simply not start wars with countries that were minding their own damn business, and launch myself into the sun instead