not that robert evans

Holder of DD-214 & NDSM, developer of Hots&Cots. My views are my own and do not reflect my employer

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Hot take but all Military Fitness Centers should be 24 hours. Use your CAC to enter for after hours.

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Another facility and another ribbon cutting picture. But shoutout to @USArmy @USAGBavaria on the new dog kennel because it was just this year that the @DoW_IG released a report on the poor living conditions of the kennels.

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Everyone joins the military for their own reasons—country, family tradition, purpose, a better life.

I joined to escape mold, roaches, and food insecurity. To find purpose and discipline. A recruiter told me room and board would be taken care of. Food would be secure. I’m sure many others joined for the same reason.

We owe our service members that. Being at the needs of the service is not an excuse to abandon the promises made when they signed up.

We will continue advocating for the conditions service members were promised.

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From day one, Hots&Cots has been about one thing — improving quality of life for the people who serve.

We won't stop.

68% of the last 100 barracks reviews were 1-star. Ignoring that isn't an option.

So we built an MCP server. Now any AI can query the data in real time.

@DoWCTO — the voice of the war fighters is right here.

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Hots&Cots now has an MCP server.

Connect any AI tool to real, service member-submitted reviews of barracks and dining facilities across U.S. military.

Query conditions by installation, track leadership engagement, and surface systemic issues — all through natural language.

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Last week we floated opening API access to our anonymized review data. The response was clear: ship it.

It's live.

$20/month for individuals and small orgs. $299/month institutional. All anonymized. No reviewer is ever identifiable.

Also new and free: State of Your Barracks. Pull a report for your installation — ratings, top issues, trends. Built off our white paper, running on live data. No login required.

If you're a researcher, staffer, or reporter who's been waiting on this — it's yours.

[not that robert evans @rb_e2]

Long time fan of @foxyshazam and glad to see him getting more mainstream with #peacemaker. I’m talking his 2010 self title album by the way

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It was at this moment my finger went sideways during my roll today

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Is it just me or is weird seeing parents squeeze themselves into kiddie rides just to ride solo?

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@peoples_unicorn @kaylahaas That was my first thought as well!

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Hey @supabase are you having issues? Suddenly nothing is syncing for me.

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Hots&Cots is built on transparency & that applies to me, too.

A few weeks ago, it was brought to my attention that the Android version of Hots&Cots was flagged by Exodus Privacy for containing Huawei code. The code came from the notification SDK I use, specifically, @onesignal, which includes optional support for Huawei Mobile Services.

To be clear, I’m not anti-Huawei. But there are valid privacy concerns, especially for service members and government-adjacent users. Even if unused, just having those classes present can trigger red flags during audits or app reviews.

Since then, I’ve been working diligently to strip out those components without breaking notification functionality. I currently have a bug open with OneSignal to get clarification and push for a more modular, privacy-friendly SDK.

If that’s not possible, I’ll switch to a new platform. Privacy is important to me since launch and still is 1.5 years later.

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My kid calling skittles, shittles will never get old.

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If caring about how we feed our service members makes me “cry,” then yeah I’m crying.

Because it is wild that professional athletes, whose job is to entertain, receive world-class nutrition, while the 1.4 million active-duty men and women who signed up to serve this country are dealing with closed DFACs, limited hours, and cold chow.

Don’t get me wrong—I respect the athleticism and discipline it takes to play at the professional level. But we signed a different contract. One that includes the possibility of dying in service to the nation.

And for saying “soldiers in WWII had it worse”—hell yeah, they did. They also fought in wool uniforms and stormed beaches under machine gun fire. That was nearly 80 years ago.

We talk a lot about having the best warfighters (hot buzzword these days) and the best equipment. Well, nutrition is part of that equation. If you want top performance, you need to fuel it whether on the field or the battlefield.

So if pushing for better food and quality of life for today’s service members is embarrassing to you… maybe you’re not the one we should be listening to.

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As @StevenBeynon once said I am the library of receipts and I have them @SecArmy @SecDef

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@wobblymami

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Nobody ever tells you what little hoarders kids are

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Huge thanks to everyone who helped spread the word about this weekend’s @aerhq campaign! Because of your support, I donated $60 to AER this morning and that doesn't include the matching donation from thatPAO.

AER is an incredible organization. Last week, Tony shared a story about a Captain whose autistic son needed a special bed that Tricare wouldn’t cover. That same day, AER stepped in and covered the full $10,000 cost.

This is why AER matters. If you can give—even a little—it goes a long way.

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Soldiers coming through for @aerhq with the match