Puck the Puddle Pilot

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Husband, Dad, Geek, Nerd, former Army WO IP (60s), current Coastie. Personal account. He/Him, White, Cisgender, Allosexual, Heteromantic, unmedicated Introverted Neurotypical.

A screenshot of a tweet from Congressman Thomas Massie. "The US has been significantly weakened by the war with Iran. This administration depleted our missile defenses, drained our oil reserves, sacrificed our men and women, inflated the price of consumer goods, increased our debt and neglected our domestic needs... All for Israel."
A beechcraft starship. Experimental private jet that didn't work out.
A black and white picture of the ACH-47A "guns a go go" which follows the same theory as the AC-130 that if you put enough armament on a cargo aircraft it becomes one hell of an attack platform.
A screenshot of a Google AI response to the question "Does Article 88 of the UCMJ apply to deceased senators?" With the AI answering "No."
A letter from the CEO of Edison Motors, an electric truck company in Canada, detailing their plan to close for a long weekend due to the launch of GTA 6.
A screenshot of a sales email that calculated different solar amounts saved by refinancing to a different term or rate. All of them show a loss of between 48k and 95k.
A NYPost article about a Hantavirus patient in critical condition after doctors dismissed symptoms as anxiety.
A photo of a white woman appearing in thought with text listing the viral/bacterial outbreak countermeasures that she won't be doing.
A "truckasaurus" with the body of a tractor trailer and the upper body of a dinosaur tearing a small car in two with fire coming out of its nose at what appears to be an airshow.
A tweet from Donald Trump saying "Remember when i gave Iran ten days to make a deal or open up the Hormuz strait. Time is running out - 48 hours before all hell will reign(sic) down on them. Glory be to God! President Donald J. Trump.
An image of multicolored 20 sided die with one displaying the trans pride colors with the words "when someone attacks one party member, we all roll for initiative."
A tweet from Alex Ward claiming "at least 3 congressional republicans- including chairs of house and Senate armed services-are hunting strongly that a ground operation in Iran is planned and could potentially be underway soon."
A man with a noose around his neck under a cloudy sky looks over with a half smile and asks "first time"
A tweet from Newt Gingritch detailing his idea to use thermonuclear detonations to build a new channel and avoid the threatened straits.
A picture of a post from Senator Katie Britt announcing the USCGs selection of Birmingham Alabama as the site of their new training center to meet the intent of expanding their personnel by 15,0000.
A screenshot of a WWII Japanese internment camp blueprint.
A screenshot of the plans for a Japanese internment camp from WWII.
"I was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of 'what must it be like to be a cardassian Civillians. Like, abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons, and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like. Go about your day and make soup and don't think about it's and then halfway through my sentence I actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. Like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes."
A photo of an update saying the FAA has removed the temporary closure.
A tweet from the SecDef that says "file this under long overdue. The @deptwar(sic) is formally ending ALL professional military education fellowships, and certificate programs with Harvard University. Harvard is woke; the war department(sic) is not"
A character from Hot Fuzz reloads a shotgun whilst saying "shame".
A Strange Planet comic by Nathan Pyle where two aliens are driving. One says "I need sustinence" the other replies "wow same, every day." The original says "could you steer close enough to that building that they could deliver it directly from their window into our vehicle's window." And the second alien says "yes, but only if I slow down considerably."
A screenshot of Fort Meade's Social Media page advertising a military working dog "Nick's" retirement ceremony. The dog has been used as a login splash screen photo forever and is instantly recognizable.
A post from a police influence account claiming that Renee Goods intent, the agents "fucking bitch" comment, Renee Goods "awful" wife, and the Agents wife's ethnicity all are irrelevant. While the relevant factor is "did the agent have a reasonable belief that his life was in imminent danger or threat of injury."
an artistic rendering of Brennan Lee Mulligan with the text "Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. it's just a promise of violence that's enacted and police are basically an occupying army."
A screenshot of the US Coast Guard official media page countering the Washington Post story about the change in policy regarding hate symbols. making statements and posting the updated policies without showing how the updates do or don't change the policy. a link to the Washington Post story was attached to the bottom of the post.
the top photo is of Riker and Jean Luc from Star Trek saying "they still worship sun gods" "we cant beam down. it would violate the prime directive. we must respect their religion." followed by a photo from Stargate SG1 where Colonel ONeil says "I'm here to kill your God "
a six panel comic between thor and loki. " are you a boy or a girl" "I'm a god" "I mean, but what is your gender?" "Chaos" "Ok but what is in your pants?" "Mischief!"
Sarah Longwell asking "are we going to be a country that lets a person meme and shitpost his way out of accountability for alleged war crimes, or do some things still matter?" while quoting a tweet with an AI generated children's book where a character shoots an RPG from a UH-1 "Huey" at drug boats.
A Hugo Lowell tweet saying "Pete Hegseth" improperly suggests the admin can kill people affiliated with drug cartels. But the DOJ OLC memo only allows destroying boats carrying cocaine for the cartels - nothing about killing people just BC they are affiliated with a cartel." Above a Hegseth Tweet.
The movie poster for shallow hal
Shallow hal
Species
Galaxy quest.
ET a movie about a boy falling in love with an alien.
The tom hanks headlined movie "splash" where a man falls in love with a mermaid.
The Pope spitting some phat bars into a microphone.
A slick BlackHawk flying inverted.
A released photo that is taken from an angle that appears to show trump grabbing bill Clintons crotch.
A tweet from 4/16/15 with Donald Trump saying "if Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America."
A screenshot of Secretary Hegseths Twitter account. Saying "...led by JTF Southern Spear and SOUTHCOM, this new mission defends our homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our hemisphere, and secured our homeland from the drugs that are killing our people..."
A flight radar photo of the air travel routing around Hurricane Melissa with a red circle drawn around one aircraft headed through the northern edge of the storm.
A screenshot of a tweet from Twitter from verified user "acting US Attorney Bill Essayli" claiming "state law does not apply to federal agents."
A repurposed scene from super troopers where a man in a mullet, bandana, and mirrored sunglasses shouts "you boys like Venezuela!?!?!"
White text on grey. "You've been kidnapped. Your kidnappers allow you to keep posting on social media to pretend everything's alright. What would you post that would alarm your followers, without kidnappers knowing you are asking for help?"
An infographic covering the dos and donts of the hatch act.
This is an actual official Notice to Airmen (because Air Missions was too woke) at an actual airport. In with all the obstacles and changes to procedures is an actual rule saying weather modification and GE engineering aircraft can't land there.
An XKCD comic. A man is typing on the computer and someone offscreen says "are you coming to bed?" "I can't, this is important." "What?" "Someone is WRONG on the internet."
A screenshot of Eyes on the Fright saying "while we're talking about abolishing ICE, we should also get rid of DHS entirely."
An excerpt of an AI answer that .4 percent of the American population is currently serving. And about 7-8 percent of the population has served.
A person in a green utility kilt wearing a Darth Vader shirt and helmet. Is riding a bicycle on a bridge. They are playing a bagpipe with flames coming out of the pipes. It is not an AI image. It is the well known Portland Unipiper.
The Miriam Webster definition of Fascism which reads, in part. "Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy, and by forcible suppression of opposition."
A man in military kit holding an automatic rifle is looking past the camera with the words "we are very lucky that they are so fucking stupid" written underneath.
A six panel scene from a movie where a man with a gun threatens an older man. "Put your hands up." "No." "But I've got a gun." " I don't care." "That doesn't make any sense." "Too bad."
A screenshot from asimovsideburns that says "Klingon therapist: the battle against mental illness cannot be won decidedly. It is a long campaign against an enemy who never tries, who's forces swell to twice their size whenever you look away. Battle against a foe of such magnitude, who occupies your very mind... Every moment you survive is a triumph against all odds. There is no more honorable combat."
A man in front of a white board asks "Who had a Hindu guy wishing to see a dead Christian in a pagan afterlife in front of a Mormon governor?"
A New York times article about Florida trying to end all school vaccine mandates.
A flightradar photo of a US CBP drone flying in Mexico.
A promo picture for a Dunkin Donut breakfast sandwich.
A US CBP MQ-9 called Troy701 operating over Toluca, Mexico with all the position reporting systems on.