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Cristina Robertson

@cristinatheblack.bsky.social
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From the inside, my life feels small and uninteresting, and yet I seem to have a lot of stories to tell. I've been a student of the sciences, drummer of the rock music, maintainer of the food industry's machines, parent, spouse, gamer, and cetera. She/her

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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Little Boxes
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I hate it when people call AI mistakes "hallucinations." In humans, hallucinations are caused by physical things e.g. chemical imbalance or drug use. What AI does should be called "making shit up."
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Date yourself with an image of your first computer. Yes, it's in a box in my garage.
An open cardboard box with a Commodore 64 and various unidentifiable things inside. Resting on top of the box are a circuitboard on the left back corner and a copy of Run magazine from September 1987 on the right back corner.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I suppose this is what you get when a Rhode Island/California mother and Georgia/Tennessee dad raise you in Arkansas. Really weird, considering I've never even been to New Mexico or Arizona, and only in LAX between flights.
Results of a dialect test, shown as a map of the united states colored in a gradient from dark blue for dialects least like mine to dark red for dialects closest to mine.

This map is reddest over the southwest, curving from upper/mid California around to New Mexico with blue patches heaviest over Mississippi/Alabama, New England, South Dakota, and the upper peninsula of Michigan.

Ironically, the yellow stripe of midness passes right over NorthWest Arkansas where i have lived my entire life.

The results also show, in text below the map, the three major cities which most closely match my dialect - San Fran, L.A. and Albuquerque - and the three least like my dialect - New Orleans, Boston, and Portland Maine. My closest is a 56% match and furthest is 51%, so i think it's safe to say that I have a pretty generic american accent.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My sex tape is called ... (let your predictive text finish the sentence). My sex tape is called it is a rather odd look for one of the best day at work.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Me, from the top of my head to just above the waist. In other words, a woman with shortish, curly, dark brown hair, big squarish black rimmed glasses, red lipstick, a black choker with sparkles, and a white halter top.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
For my NWA people who may not have known, there is a community third space and FREE thrift store with a 24/7 food pantry in Fayetteville, grand opening tomorrow at 121 W Township, suite 2. Go shop or use the craft area, and support them if you can. www.patreon.com/SpareChange?...
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Spare Change Fayetteville — A third space for NWA
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My work computer background shuffle just turned up Jinx playing Kilroy was here behind my browser. 😂
A computer monitor on which the character Jinx from League of Legends can be seen in a pose reminiscent of the WW2 Kilroy was here graffiti. Only part of her face and her upraised hands are visible above an open browser window.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live RUSH (11 times) Rise Against Motley Crue (6 times) Ozzy (twice) Dishwalla Agnostic Front Suicidal Tendencies Jane's Addiction (twice) Pennywise Dropkick Murphys
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap.
A poster for the fictional band Lady Parts, an all-woman Muslim punk band from the show We Are Lady Parts.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I just found my new favorite quote, my quote du jour, if you will. Courtesy of Martha Grimes. Please pardon the wonky photo. Airplane, paperback, hard to take a good one.
A close-up of a page in a book, zoomed in on the sentence "Why would anyone, anything, bother to think up a Hell in the afterlife when all you had to do was stop awhile in this one?"
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The lovely and talented @thebasementtan.bsky.social put forth a question that, for a little while, broke me out of my negative mindset, and i would love to see how my many followers would answer her question: Name your favourite Earth things in order? (You can see my answer on her original post)
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How i arrived on bluesky
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a hole in a cardboard box with a blue item in it
Alt: A mostly grey cat cautiously sticks its head up through a hole in a cardboard box, surveys the area, then retreats back into its hidey-hole.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
When one of my co-workers goes on a pro-trump rant, I wait for him to pause to breathe and interject "I don't mind ignorant people, I even have acquaintances like that, I just wish they wouldn't shove it in my face all the time." That usually gets him to shut up. Yes, around here it's always a him.
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Sherry CD-ROM 🏳️‍⚧️ @sherrycdrom.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.
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Fights🏳️‍⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
TC Pipeline is a trans relocation org located in Colorado which is near Kansas It would be helpful if you could signal boost them. They could use funding and volunteers, and trans folks in Kansas may want to contact them if they need extraction Also: the letters sent may be illegal tcpipeline.org
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Trans Continental Pipeline
Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Someone had a random radio station playing at work today. I was a little surprised when Motorhead came on, amused when i realized that it was Eat the Rich, but really thought "this DJ gets it" when the next song was Eat the Rich by Aerosmith. If only they'd played Krokus' Eat the Rich next. 😁
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Describe your Bluesky account in three words: Lurk/lurk/randomness
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We're underway, and now I'm officially a traveling Service Tech again. This will be the first time I've ever been to Delaware, and so I'll have been in half of the states of the US, to go along with Canada and Australia for a little variety.
The wrong of an airplane as seen from inside the plane through a window. The ground is still very close below the plane.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I was reminded of this song today. It was written about 50 years ago, but the lyrics could have come from yesterday. Was The Professor prescient, or is it just that history repeats and echoes in the halls of time? youtu.be/eV-5iNu6Sd8?...
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Rush - A Farewell To Kings
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The beginnings of the Fritz Robertson Memorial Garden. RIP
A patch of bare earth with a slab of rock about two-thirds of a meter long set into it with a stone just a bit shorter standing at one end of the slab. Behind what is obviously a grave for a small animal are two smaller slabs of rock forming the beginnings of a wall to hold up an embankment.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
For his life Fritz was obsessive about chasing balls. You don't know how obsessive one can be until you know a dachshund. If a person was near he did all he could to get them to throw the ball for him to chase. We had to be careful because in his youth he ran himself until he passed out once. (1/2)
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
For anyone who thinks cats don't care, Nymeria has been hovering like this since Fritz' back gave out on him yesterday. They've been constant companions for eleven years, and she knows something is going on, she just can't figure out what to do about it except hover and occasionally lick his head.
A black and white cat sitting on the arm of the recliner, hovering over a dachshund wrapped in a green towel in my lap. She has a concerned look on her fuzzy little face.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A hot take to start: how incredibly fucked up is it that when an animal is suffering we can choose to show mercy to it unless it is human. If I were in a catastrophic accident tomorrow with no prospect but pain, unable to chase a racquetball, i would be forced to suffer because reasons? (1/2)
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Apologies in advance. We've just entered the last 24 hours of the life of the handsome boy pictured below, so I'll be posting many negative thoughts today. The last 10 months have been a torrent of pain and it's come so fast that I haven't been able to process much of it. This is not sustainable.
The face of Fritz, a black dachshund who is sitting on the couch wrapped in a blanket with a blue racquetball in his mouth.Fritz, a black dachshund, seen from above, with the ever-present blue racquetball in his mouth.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings
On 1/24/26, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in ...
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Paladin Monk Barbarian Wizards Ranger? Yes, I am very all over the place.
Mia's scores in a silly internet quiz aligning to D&D classes, which show the she is a well-balanced individual.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE RAID ALERT

ICE on Coachlight Drive, Bentonville, Arkansas, 6:04 p.m. January 23rd 2026 local time, 4:04 p.m. PST
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Screenshot of an ICE SIGHTING ALERT Allen's grocery store, Bella Vista, Arkansas. 5:19 A.M. local time, 3:19 A.M. PST January 23, 2026
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Anne C. Serling @anneserling.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's the time to reflect on the year gone by and plan the one ahead, so here's a recap: The first third of the year was just living life, special only in the ways that life is special on ordinary days - interesting work, family, wildlife in and outside the house. (1/6)
A small section, three lines of ladder logic, of the program for a machine at work.A photo of my wife, zoomed in on her beautiful smiling face. Contextual clues in the pic - the black scrub top she's wearing, the sign on the wall behind her, and the baby's arm on her shoulder - indicate that she's a NICU nurse, a fact of which i am extremely proud.Nymeria, Warrior Queen of all She surveys (a black and white cat) looking up out of the cardboard box she's chosen to favour with her royal presence.The side yard of my home, covered in snow undisturbed except for a trail of tracks from a good-sized deer.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Apparently it's Post Your Lock Screen day. 😁
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'll hop the bandwagon Top 5 artists from my year in music: *Rise Against = favourite band of all time *Taylor - because she's delightful *Underoath, Papa Roach, and Maroon 5 - because I was getting ready for concerts i was going to. I predict '26 will be the same top two. After that, who knows?
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Rise Against fan page @riseagainstfans.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I love these guys so much! www.facebook.com/share/r/17UP...
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I tend to be a diehard fan, but for the first time I can recall I've turned off a game before the time is up. I just can't watch this anymore. I think it's maybe time for comfort food and Ted Lasso.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
get to know your mutuals, list ten random things you like Sitting on the lawn during a soft spring rain All the cats Punk rock Other loud music Non-loud music Figuring out how stuff works My cat in particular Cooking for people I care for My children most of the time Melancholic ruminating on life
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The new soap in the bathroom at work made me think of you mad folk. I love y'all so much.
A bottle of hand soap labeled "Blue Sky Day" sitting on the side of a sink.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
And now Draco is dead and I'm sobbing in my hotel room. Luckily I have eight hours to recover before the show tonight.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
In a hotel killing time before a concert tonight, and i found Dragonheart, so I thought "haven't seen this in ages, what the hell." This is a truly GREAT movie, and now I'm wondering how i forgot how much i love it!
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Tired: Me Wired: the cat Go away, you little heifer, I need to sleep!!!
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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“Arkansas: Most people will probably not be eaten by bears.”
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So I'm doing this right now. @riseagainstfans.bsky.social @riseagainstmusic.bsky.social
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Jay Orsi @jayorsi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The data is clear. Voting for Tom Cotton will give your child autism.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 18/09/2025
BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.
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Cristina Robertson @cristinatheblack.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I've been making a digital archive of flyers, pics, and stuff from my younger days, and I found this gem from 1991-ish. Ordinarily I wouldn't post pics from the before times, but I just look so metal in this shot.
A skinny young drummer standing bare-chested behind the drum kit, right arm stretched upward, twirling a battered drumstick, head thrown back in a primal scream, waiting for the precise moment to crash back into the throne and take up the song again.
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