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Russell Borogove

@borogove.bsky.social
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Distracted bear. He/him. Consistently offering nine 5s of reliability. My skeets don’t leave room for nuance. Confirmed dipshit. Game dev, music, synthesizer tech. Check out my weird music at failure-mode.bandcamp.com

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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 2h
Borogove's basilisk: if you don't do everything in your power to bring about the existence of a super-powerful AI, then when it arrives it infiltrates every computer system on the planet to cause you, personally, constant low-level grief. Reservations lost, bank errors not in your favor, etc.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 19h
This is the least annoying text from a Democratic politician that I've received in at least eight years
A text reading:

Fitzpatrick is paying a turtle trafficker to lie about me. Seriously.
Read more: bh4pa.org/turtle?
t=ayP4wG
-Bob Harvie
Text STOP to quit
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Star Trek Corrected Captions @startrekcc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Top left panel: Julian Bashir and Garak are together in the cockpit of a runabout. Bashir turns to Garak and says, "I must admit I'm getting rather excited for the spooky season!"

Top right panel: Garak looks up from his panel in confusion and asks, "The 'spooky' season?"

Middle left panel: Bashir fully turns in his seat to face Garak as he answers, "Well, it's an old Earth tradition where we sort of celebrate things that scare us."

Middle right panel: Garak gives the doctor a reproving sort of look and says, "What a bizarre concept."

Bottom left panel: Bashir adds as an addendum, "Though, mainly it's just an excuse for people to get together and dress slutty."

Bottom right panel: Suddenly, Garak's face lights up with wonder and he says, "You have piqued my interest."
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 19h
jfc that's SIXTEEN fundraising texts today @actblueorg.bsky.social you fucking suck
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 23h
there is hope, but not for me
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it's a real mystery why some people like talking to the machine that appears to share their hyperspecific interests, has excellent reading comprehension, and is endlessly patient
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nepo baby won fat bear week 🙄
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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VØ₦ ฿Ø₲ ₩ł₮₵Ⱨ @bogwitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, that checks out
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt: "You just perjured yourself, dirtba--" [slides one foot out from under himself and falls on his ass, it's not clear what kind of move he was trying to do]
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i'm calling it now, they're doing their accounting in 48-bit signed integer pennies and are simply going to underflow
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Worth noting that Claude does a better job analyzing language than either participant did.
Prompt to Claude: "Can you see where and how the conversation between hikikomorphism and Tressie McMillan Cottom broke down? 

https://bsky.app/profile/hikikomorphism.bsky.social/post/3mwlvlxno3k2u

Cottom doesn't allow replies from people she doesn't follow, so the discussion was carried out through quote-posts; you'll have to look at both their timelines around the time of discussion to follow it. It's rather confusing."Excerpt from Claude's response: 
"Where it actually broke:

Her real argument never got answered. Her 11:07 post made a sociological claim: a familect's job is social, not informational. It builds belonging and marks who has power in the family. If that's right, "can the model decode it?" is beside the point. His first reply went straight to her reply settings, and neither he nor she came back to that claim.
The "why?" is the crux, and it's truly ambiguous.
He read it as a question about mechanism (why would a model write a memory block?) and answered accurately.
Her insistence that it was a why question, together with the rest of her posting that day, suggests she meant something normative: why should a person have to teach a machine their household's language at all? That extra work is her whole thesis. Her post about meal-planning labor shows the same concern.
He then described her question as a "how does the thing work" question. That handed her an easy "I never asked that," and the fight became about what she'd asked rather than what she'd meant."
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
 
Characters
 
Hannah - Goat - Daryl and Seth's Daughter

Daryl - Bear - Hannah's Papa
 
Seth - Otter - Hannah's Dad
 
Panel 1
 
Setting - The dinner table of the Hardy-Softbell house.
 
Hannah's family is having dinner.
 
Hannah: WOW! Dinner is extra good.
 
Daryl: Thank you. I tried a new secret ingredient.
 
Panel 2
 
Seth puts on a cute happy face. The backgrounds shifts to a pink color with hearts floating all around them.
 
Seth: Is it LOVE?
 
Daryl's face remains emotionless.
 
Panel  3
 
Daryl looks at Seth and responds.
 
Daryl: Toasted sesame oil.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Daryl: Love isn't a secret ingredient. I put love in everything.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Panel 4
 
Daryl looks away.
 
Daryl: I used so much love and you never noticed.
 
Seth: I DID!
  
Daryl: From now on I'm putting sarcasm in yours.
 
Seth: NO!
 
Daryl: Yes.

Hannah is ignoring this and just browsing on her phone.
 
Hannah is ignoring all this and has pulled out her phone.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I remember the day someone explained the premise of “Survivor” to me and my instant response was ”oh, great, THAT’s gonna bring out the best in people.”
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In May 2003, an adminstration official was quoted as saying "There will be no further military adventures during the remainder of the president's first term." www.wrmea.org/2003-june/pu...
wrmea.org
Publishers' Page:
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June 2003, page 98 Publishers' Page
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 26/09/2026
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME. I wrote one song a whole lot of people liked. Then I quit Spotify shortly before it hit 2 million plays. Oh well! "The city is war-torn And nearly impassable I act the lovelorn Dramatically laughable" unwoman.bandcamp.com/track/the-he... (Day 255)
unwoman.bandcamp.com
The Heroine, by Unwoman
from the album The Fires I Started
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hope this gets Streisand-Effected.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was gonna say “what about Godzilla“ but that is just #2
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Andre Morrell’s nipples are erect with fury!” “Words never before spoken in the English language, well done.”
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Despite knowing my TOS very well, I had no idea where this was going
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY
cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
Maned wolfBush dog
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
just browsing doordash and... like... can i borrow some pearls to clutch?
Screenshot of a DoorDash listing for a restaurant called "BunSlut" and... like... adults thought this was a good name and... I'm so old and uptight?
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m not crying in the historic Mission Control room, you’re crying
Historic Mission Control room at Houston space center
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Allowed" is a fascinating word choice here.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This went around a few months ago but it’s not actually hypocritical, if you are employed and believe that unemployed people would be better off with factory jobs
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
well _that_ can't be right
Screenshot of jev-based bluesky post analysis classifier. The screenshot indicates that @borogove.bsky.social is 36% dipshit, 64% genius. Flattering, but clearly wrong.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This... this is real? This *happened*?
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
some posts are 3x funnier to me just because i don't really look at the bylines and a couple of people's pfps look almost the same when zoomed out and i think a @cloudsponge.bsky.social post is an @ennui.org post for a second
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...
popsci.com
The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Once the models go up Who cares where the ceiling tiles come down? “That’s not my department” Says Wernher von Braun
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I should call him
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i uhhhh gotta change my pants real quick
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
just minding my own fuckin business and this tall boi appears
Saturn V display at the Huntsville Space Center, seen from the parking lot of a hotel across the street
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Two turning two burning one smoking one choking two slowing two glowing
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Like, I can see a case for a strong nation not wanting to be beholden to the EU, but anyone proposing it while Putin and Trump are in office is obviously a fucking traitor.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Responsible disclosure? I don’t know her”
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Combined HVAC and cucking service is the next big thing I guess
Roadside billboard outside of Dayton Ohio. A pretty woman is standing in front of an oscillating fan with her long hair blowing.  Caption reads “Your wife is hot… call us for AC repair”.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Any photo requests from the USAF Museum before I make my escape? @crisperthanthou.bsky.social ?
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking, and two more unaccounted for
B-36 Peacemaker at National Museum of the USAF
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“…are we the baddies?”
AC-130A gunship “Azrael” at National
Museum of USAF
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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"What if we create super-intelligences that out-think us, outlive us, take control of all our resources, and decide to enslave us?" You fucking dummies, we've already done that, they're called corporations.
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yo, dawg, I heard you liked Mustangs
F-82 Twin Mustang “Betty Jo” at National Museum of USAFF-82 Twin Mustang “Betty Jo” at National Museum of USAF
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