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#Protip : If you #bidAF and get an interview do it on camera wearing vintage Banana Republic listening to Toto driving your 4x4

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What U.S. Citizens vacationing abroad think will happen when they call the Embassy to report a stolen iPhone

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The heroism of these civilians is equal to the feckless indifference of politicians (GOP) blocking appropriate gun control legislation.

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Taking the 18 mandatory annual “certifications” in order to be able to access email to do my job

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Genuine excitement and positive energy — not the manic dark vibes you see in Russian mobs

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I was going to stop posting videos from Kherson but can’t resist with this one. Especially the poster at the end.

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Both Dickensian and Kafkaesque

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Dems acting like it's still a primary while GOP is collaborating with their SCOTUS to trial balloon ending the Republic and establishing a totalitarian reich

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11 months

This is the sober response of a man who has no bingo card because he’s not playing bingo.

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Get your kids excited about your upcoming assignment to Ankara!

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4 years

This is true actually

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VP is energetic and ready

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Become a Diplomat. See the world. Practice the art of wishing you were somewhere you had been a few years ago and will likely never return to.

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Still the best movie about #Napoleon #NapoleonMovie

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Overeager Ambassador trying to meet local Ministers who are not sure such a meeting would be politically wise

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When you receive the final notice that you must complete 40 hours of mandatory online training by midnight to maintain access to your Open Net account.

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Anthropological study: North American warrior ceremonially claims a wife from a rival tribe

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1 year

FSO Steve married a nice Azerbaijani lady he met at beach. FSO Steve forgot to discuss relationship with RSO. FSO Steve is now just “Steve.” Then lady disappeared with $13,000 cash leaving only big credit card bills and hair in shower drain. Moral: Caspian Sea is dangerous.

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Raise a glass for all the diplomats who work abroad because they can’t afford to live at home

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Perfectly executed CODEL by embassy team

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DC-based feds waiting for OPM’s update on the government’s operating status for Tuesday.

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When you have an SCI clearance but can't tell the difference between a tail and a gay man who thinks you are cruising too

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9 months

DCM helps political Ambassador descend to a more suitable altitude of international geopolitics

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2 years

Do both - join the #ForeignService

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“He is both an addled conspiracy theorist and an undeniable manifestation of our post-pandemic politics… who either has no idea what kind of fire he’s playing with, or does and is therefore an arsonist.”

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Charge d’Affaires

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The platforming of the absolutely duuuuumbest Americans is what the right wing media is doing, normalizing total and utter stupidity.

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I won’t vote for her, BUT I support what she is trying to do and I respect what she is articulating as a vision for the salvation of the GOP

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Nikki Haley: “It's not normal to spend $50 million in campaign contributions on personal court cases. It's not normal to threaten people who back your opponent, and it's not normal to call on Russia to invade NATO countries. Donald Trump has done all of that.”

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8 months

When you’re acting DCM the Tuesday after a holiday because everyone else’s flights back to post were cancelled

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1 year

Ladies and Gentlemen please stand for the Scottish National Anthem 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Become a Diplomat. Take your 10 year old to London. Then move to Vienna. For the next tour, ask them for help choosing between Conakry, Bangui, and Port Moresby.

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#bidSCA for the deals

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Ambassador when a memo contains a typo that the DCM didn’t catch

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Only dickheads on this show!

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Become a Diplomat. Observe weird rituals. Write home about it.

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#BidEUR

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WTF are US Citizens doing in Moscow anyhow

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1 year

“Remote work” diplomat finally logs into computer system from home after 1,427 hours of help from tech support

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2 years

GTM announces new PCS cost savings measure: EFMs who can fit into luggage must now fly as as extra bag, the cost of which can be reimbursed. *Fly America Act still applies.

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Wait why are Bono, Billy Joel, and Bob Geldorf hanging out with Murdoch, Trump and Kushner?

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Diplomatic spring wear collection

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Second secretary in British High Commission proposes marriage to American colleague in front of entire political section. She said “perhaps, let’s discuss later.”

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@Saisailu97 “Indian culture is soooo Spiritual” but in reality desis often super materialistic, superficial, racist, and fewer % of desis do yoga than white folx

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“When the Ambassador goes off script and theres nothing you can do about it”

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Multi Millionaire ambassador is feeling badly about losing temper with 03 Econ Officer and asks spinster cat lady DCM what he might do to perk up embassy morale

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@Zeddary Grape juice in which an old golf shoe has soaked for 100 days, filtered through a basket of coins collected from a Times Square peepshow booth in 1987.

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Welcome to the seventh floor.

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RT if you think DoS should have a Culinary Diplomacy Bureau. Build it around the EB’s Ag office FTEs and swank it up with a marquee Assistant Secretary like Martha Stewart or Jose Andres

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Here’s another fun fact: U.S. Diplomats who prevent and end extremely expensive armed conflicts must fly economy class. Meanwhile, military service members can board first. Thank you for your service, but diplomats are serving too.

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Back to googling “jobs at the CIA” (I do not want a job at the CIA) - can you imagine being a LITERAL SPY for only 60K a year? That should be a six figure starting salary, ffs!

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Protip: don’t procrastinate on the things you want to do in a city you are assigned to. Your time will run out, your present life will be a memory, and you might regret only what you didn’t experience…

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When the Assistant Secretary has to tell the Ambassador that they must consult with Washington before taking aggressive new foreign policy positions

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Should I get into "dating as a diplomat" advice granting ?

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“The beat-down that Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered this week to his predecessor Mike Pompeo was so severe that it might have to be included in next year’s State Department Human Rights report.” Bravo ⁦ @djrothkopf ⁩ !

Antony Blinken Demolishes Mike Pompeo’s Twisted Human Rights Approach

American foreign policy is once again guided by our national interests and shared values, rather than the ambitions of a pol catering to domestic right-wing evangelical extremists.

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If you can't do this, you fail the FSI Mandarin exam.

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Biden deploys Jared Kushner to Kabul to offer Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bohbert as wives for Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada in exchange for a SOFA, three donkeys, and a commemorative peace carpet.

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What does it mean for a child of diplomats to grow up in many countries? This young artist reflects. Via @afsatweets

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Not being sufficiently excited about going to Tonic with co-workers is a legitimate basis for potential “insider threat” reporting to DS

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FS Promotions

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How to manage an ambitious political appointee ambassador with a pre-cooked agenda: introduce them to regulations, procedures, consultations, strategic reviews, budgetary planning processes, must-attend panels, dinners, interviews, and field trips. That should keep them busy!

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Holy shit there he is

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Madeline Albright, who said the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi Children "Was worth it" Is Flanked by repugnant racist and harasser of women, Stuart Seldowitz, Ex National Security advisor to the Obama administration A fascinating insight into the mindset at the US State Dept

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Consular section leadership is tops

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Weirdly emotional retirement ceremony for hard-charging, gifted Ambassador who mentored and promoted an army of ultra-horrible clones who competed with each other to be the most narcissistic, drunken, grabby, foul-mouthed assholes

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#feels

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breaking sarcastic character for a second: *this is so true*

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WHY TURKEY IS IN NATO despite its illiberal tendencies

non aesthetic things

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Turkey sent a 51 yr old guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover or ear protection and got the silver medal

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Retired NYC law firm partner (bankruptcy rainmaker) in a boozy, vulnerable moment shares with A-100 colleagues that “Lawrence of Arabia” is his inspiration for joining the the FS as a capstone career. Come flag day he is sent to Guangzhou for two years of consular work.

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75% of public diplomacy is talking to people who were slightly curious about meeting a diplomat but after five minutes are totally disinterested in whatever is being said — they are just being polite to not get up and leave

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Burning through multiple MANDATORY annual online trainings the day before they cut off your Opennet access

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“Volunteer for a task force” they said “It will be career enhancing” they promised

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Amb talking with ODC doesn’t realize military assistance budget for country is 30x the entire budget for the bilateral mission

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@OxfordDiplomat Moral of the story: don’t turn down evacuation offers. Period.

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A junior officer’s home, Consulate Hyderabad #BidSCA

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Out of office message: no words, just this image

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RSO says keep Contact Reporting current

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Ambassador, FAST Officer, Chief of Station

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Brandish this and skip *all the lines* in the airport

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Diplomatic Kids: now available in four varieties

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This hat celebrates FSI language training

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When you return to DC after 16 years abroad and open your Hagerstown storage unit

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CDAa.i., ADCM, and PAO waiting at airport to receive new political Ambassador

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IR textbooks fail to prepare one for a career in diplomacy. #Live #Travel #Write #survive #avoidacademia #bartend

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EUROVISION OR BUST

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Flag Day is when the rest of your career is decided: 1) WHA - INL is the path 2) AF - you will make Ambassador eventually 3) EUR - you are a lucky one, now prep for the CODEL 4) SCA - your health issues will be legendary 5) EAP - hope you ❤️ language training

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Senior Foreign Service National helps noob Political Officer understand the multiple ways in which they are being disrespected by Ministry officials

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If nothing else, the dress code for international diplomacy could evolve to athletic-casual

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You didn’t have kids. You’ve missed baptisms, graduations, and funerals. As a token of appreciation for 18 years of public sacrifice, you were asked to serve as acting DCM during the holiday while others went home.

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Who is the most overrated icon? I’ll go first: Bob Dylan

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Re 80% of Ambassadors on X

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I don’t know which consular officer needs to see this but here you go

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“A show that was actually really accurate about life in an embassy would probably be pretty boring,” said ⁦ @LukensLewis ⁩ , a former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in London.” #Truth #Understated #SpecialRelationship #StiffUpperLip

A Netflix show starring Keri Russell stirs buzz among U.S. diplomats

She plays an ambassador, so she’ll spend most of the series waiting for Senate confirmation, right?

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When an acquaintance reaches out to “talk about something” and it turns out they think you can help them expedite a passport renewal for little Bettina in time for their Cozumel vacation and …. blah blah blah

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I could not stand her bleat so I got out of this kitchen

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That one final clearance and you just change it to “info” and move on with life

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When someone inside the mission refers to the “Counselor Section”

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Taking an Aeroflot flight is second definition of “Russian roulette.”

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1/ A Russian 767 aircraft that suffered an engine failure when trying to take off from Phuket airport in February had reportedly gone 3 years without the engine being inspected, due to Western sanctions. This has serious implications for air safety. ⬇️

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Chellany: “…clashes with the battle-hardened Indian forces made China realize that its army, with little combat experience since its disastrous 1979 invasion of Vietnam, must avoid further close combat.”

Xi Jinping’s Himalayan misadventure

Xi’s muscular revisionism is apparently driven by his belief that China has a strategic window of opportunity that it must seize before it closes.

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Does anyone here know this Retired FSO - what an absolutely disgraceful POS this guy is.

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This man wearing a green jacket was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd and 2nd Ave in NYC. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report to the authorities.

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