Gnomejon

Didn't change my bio for 5 years and everything changed. Whoops. Shit happens.

[Silly Little Guy @Czar_Of_Silly]

RAHHHHH WE WILL TEACH YOU WHO INVENTED SOCCER USA USA USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

@jellyhoshiumi @Lara_is_trying

[Kirsche 🥥 🧁 @KirscheVerstahl]

@robbystarbuck @elonmusk change would happen faster if people knew about BRIDGE
I knew Harley Davidson was not dropping DEI in September of 2024

not because I'm smarter than anyone else or have the gift of clairvoyance
just because I read what Harley and BRIDGE say they will do
https://t.co/li8q8xKzaJ

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

The boxer with the container on his head

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

This is Alfie, my new family member, just adopted today!

[Matt Zorich @reprise_99]

If you want to age your sys admins 30 years overnight, remember that Active Directory is fully unicode compatible, so you can rename your laptop with emojis it its hostname, and it will reflect like that in AD

ping desktop-🤷‍♂️👍👌.mycompany.local

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

Got home from ACen today, picked up some awesome stuff.

[Kirsche 🥥 🧁 @KirscheVerstahl]

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[Stuttering Craig (Official) @StutteringCraig]

In 1990, my entire family did a little Q&A. One of the questions was about unfulfilled dreams

My dad’s answer:
“I hope to someday have national recognition of my artistic ability.”
He’s closing in on 80 and I want to help make that happen

His work is incredible. The kind of talent that deserves to be seen far beyond just family and friends. So I’m asking for a small favor: take a look at his art, and if it resonates with you, share it

Help me give him the recognition he’s deserved for decades

[The General @1776General_]

Data shows US college seniors in computer science outperform their foreign counterparts by almost a standard deviation.

Chinese and Indian college seniors rank as the weakest performers.

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

@thechosenberg Is it love if she puts appearances over his ability to relax after a stressful job?

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

@SideScrollerPod Alright, I get to try and survive with @KirscheVerstahl, my oshi! Oh no, I have to try to survive with Kirsche, my oshi... Well. I can probably use her as bait

[🇯🇵星空音夢🇯🇵🧀Cheese police 👮 @hoshizorarock]

アメリカの皆様

日本語の授業を始めます。

今日は日本のことわざです。

日本のことわざに【雨降って地固まる】と言うことわざがあります。

揉め事や悪い事態が起きた後、かえって前より物事が安定し、良い結果や基礎が築かれることを意味することわざです。トラブルを経験して強くなる関係や、困難を経て成長する状況などを表す、前向きな意味合いで使われます。

英語の表現:
•After a storm comes a calm.（嵐の後は凪）
•A broken bone is the stronger when it is well set.（折れた骨はうまく治れば強くなる）

日本とアメリカにも過去にトラブルがありましたがトラブルがあったからこそ強い絆で前向きに物事を考えていかなければなりません。

悪い過去は反省しなくてはいけませんが悪い過去に囚われてはいけませ���。

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth.

I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy?

Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every Marine is a rifleman, and as a priest he can’t carry a weapon.

He’s hoping to get assigned to a Marine unit anyway. All chaplains are Navy officers, so that’s the only door in.

I laughed. I feel a little bad about that.

Then I explained to him what “Devil Doc” means. The Marine Corps doesn’t have medics. They use Navy Corpsmen.

I told him: when you get out to the fleet, find a Marine sergeant with a couple of Purple Hearts and tell him Devil Docs “aren’t real Marines.”

Be prepared to duck.

Marines are violently particular about who gets to wear their uniform. Navy Corpsmen and Navy chaplains who have eaten dirt alongside them in combat qualify. Full stop.

My dad was Air Force. Not even Navy. I remember going to VFW halls with him as a kid. Someone would ask him what service, he’d say Air Force, and the room would chuckle a little. Then they’d find out he was a medic, and the air in the room changed. Something close to reverence.

Dad hated being honored. He had one line he used to deflect it:

“I didn’t do much. Save your praise for my cousin the PJ.”

That always broke the ice.

PJs are the Air Force special operators who go into hell to pull downed pilots out.

They will take casualties and are prepared to die to rescue a single pilot or crewman.

The math doesn’t math out. Why would any combat force take multiple casualties to rescue one air force jet jockey?

What the padre is about to learn is that the military has a hierarchy that has nothing to do with rank, and nothing to do with the service stitched on your chest.

Have you deployed?

Have you seen combat?

In every firefight there are men who move toward the guns and men who hang back. And when the guy at the tip of the spear is pinned down, bleeding, with rounds cracking past his head, there is exactly one word he screams into the radio.

“Medic.”

Here is the catch, and it is the whole reason America fights the way America fights.

That Marine is willing to push forward into fire BECAUSE he knows the Corpsman is coming. He knows the medevac birds will land in the hot LZ.

He knows the Devil Doc will drag him out by his plate carrier if it comes to that.

And, if the medic can’t help, if he has what Dad called “injuries incompatible with life,” he knows that chaplain will crawl on his belly to administer last rights and deliver him to heaven.

The F-15 pilot punching out over enemy territory knows the same thing. He knows the PJs will move heaven and earth to reach him, and turn whatever is shooting at him into a smoking crater of hell on earth on the way in.

This is the quiet math underneath American violence.

Our warriors are the fiercest on earth not because they are more aggressive, not just because they are better trained, or better equipped, though they are all of those things. They are the fiercest because they know, in their bones, that when they key the mic and call for help, help is coming in hot.

Take that away, and you don’t have the U.S. military anymore. You have a security force.

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

@Fat_Electrician I'm against the minimum wage almost entirely because it rearranges the pay structure to support fewer people. As seen in California recently, raising the minimum wage resulted in fewer hours for existing workers and fewer jobs overall, effectively reducing wages.

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

@yamanakanobody I became interested in Japan through Games and Anime, but I started really liking Japan when I learned more about your culture. It's very different to American culture, but in a way that I like!

[𝘚𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘩 @404_qwp]

遠い海の向こうの貴方へ。
気に入ってくれたら嬉しいな。

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

@zundamotisuki Johnny Somali can rot in prison and clean toilets for the rest of his life and we in America would celebrate it. He does not represent us and we actively despise him

[The Facts Dude 🤙🏽 @Thefactsdude]

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." — George Washington 

Afroman for the win!

[Gnomejon @Gnomejon]

@celestiumart @StutteringCraig @Nightowl_Vt Little Caesars is the best pizza chain as a business. Very mediocre pizza, though, ngl. Recommend checking out the Fat Files video about it.