The line “didn’t know you were such a bootlicker” is getting a lot of work at the office these days.
Posts by Ben Lyman
The last hour of parenting each day is a real grind.
You don’t need to comprehend anything if you don’t read in the first place.
Me hearing cannon fire at 4am @pptsapper.bsky.social
Tomorrow is gonna be a day now isn’t it.
The Masters never disappoints. What a great tournament once again.
I feel like it needs to be said that US troops have been hanging around this town on the corner....I mean the Middle East for decades upon decades.
What is life other than work and laundry.
War is peace.
Not going to lie every holiday since mid-2024 has earned me weirder and weirder questions from my wife’s family about life in today’s military.
Look, fam, I’m just a cog in the machine, mostly grinding it out for a paycheck and health insurance.
I don’t make policy or the pick the missions.
Meta.
25 years of GWOT and yall think there is anything more valuable than the target deck?
There is only the target deck.
The target deck cannot be denied, only delayed. It’s inevitable.
Whatever is next, is next.
Easter Sunday.
In-laws: “You’re not going to Iran are you?”
Me: “I hope I’m going to the golf course but the army might have other ideas.”
I always tell people that the modern 10th Mountain Division inherited the willingness and ability to suffer from its WWII predecessor if not the same competencies at climbing and skiing.
Please stop calling my mom and asking if I’m going to Iran because Iran has lots of mountains trust me they’ll send us anywhere in the world when it’s time.
Big mountains, small mountains, red mountains blue mountains, many mountains, or no mountains it won’t make a difference.
My kids will win Easter with their egg hunting prowess.
I can’t wait to buy myself a gun to protect myself from all the other soldiers with gun.
WHELP I suppose I should dust off my copy of Xenophon it MIGHT just come in handy but I DON’T KNOW
We can still open the Strait of Hormuz if only Mike Pence has the courage.
I’m back on BlueSky for the first time in three months.
Can someone tell me if we’ve discovered sports on this platform yet?
It took until the last day of the year but I met my goal. 😅
the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats
I don’t think we should call TLAM attacks “air strikes.”
You wouldn’t call an ATACMS strike an air strike. Maybe a missile strike, but not an air strike.
The phrase “air strike” should refer only to attacks coming from aircraft. Words mean things.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Merry Christmas the magic is in the air because it woke my kids up already 🙄
We used to buy whatever we could find by the 25th and call it good and now we struggle to research and order these bespoke and original gifts only for them to not arrive on time.
and we call this progress.
Wake up NORAD & NORTHCOM time to finally earn your pay this year.
Wake up @pptsapper.bsky.social we’re having a “what is military history?” debate on the Sky.
I know the Nolan Odyssey movie is going to slap because the well actually internet nerds are already out in force.
Christmas vacation was so awesome as a kid but pure and constant stress as a parent.
It exists to drive us a little crazier bit by bit.