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John Robie

@jrobie.bsky.social
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Just an over-educated monkey trying to make it in the big city. With all the appropriate hobbies and interests.

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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 5h
Guys, Spirit Airlines went out of business, we don't have to do this anymore. Just bring a carry-on.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 23h
Sure but what are we going to do when China perfects SDI (super duper intelligence)?
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I kind of wonder if they're just running with what they had pre-written
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You could livestream yourself making a giant bonfire of this money, and it would get more viewers than a Lindsay Graham documentary.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm looking forward to this American reboot of "Last of the Summer Wine"
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2:00 PM is weird time for an address, right? I wonder if it's because they want the sane-washed clips to make it on the evening news, but don't want people to watch the whole thing live.
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The State Department’s job was never really about diplomats. It was about you – markets that stay open, wars that get prevented, diseases contained before they reach us, Americans overseas who get help in trouble.” Important piece by my colleague Marc Ostfield @thesteadystate.org #holdfast
steadystate1.substack.com
We Built It for 80 Years. We’re Dismantling It in Months.
Diplomatic power took generations to build. The damage being done now could take generations to repair.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amidst everything else, let's pause for a moment to recognize the absurdity of "Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece"
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Meta brain trust is like "so what people don't like about the pervert glasses is the glasses part right?"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seems like just another attempt to humiliate the federal workforce
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rick Jones is due
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is systematic fraud, and some executives belong in jail www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Amid soaring living costs, America’s biggest convenience-store chains quietly overcharge consumers
Guardian investigation: 7-Eleven and Circle K stores often fail to honor advertised prices – charging more at pump and register for gas, snacks, and other items
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are some social rules that you follow merely because they *are* the rules, and following them shows that you know the rules
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't think I've ever been to a job interview where they didn't offer me a coffee or water.
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
an instantly iconic piece of social commentary
A post from X

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This question, more than political inclination or media consumption habits or even geography, determines whether one is a citizen of America A or America B

Luke Metro @ @luke_metro • Jul 9
I'm not a GDP truther but I still feel like a high percentage of people would prefer a middle-class Parisian lifestyle to living in a Dallas suburb?

7:08 PM • Jul 9, 2026 • 69.5K Views
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 25/09/2026
I think I have a TBI
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bluesky remains the premier social media platform for ASA Hog
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Honest question: did nominees ever have to actually answer questions, or has it always been like this?
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This hits on what is i think going to be a defining emotional response to the coming age: The horror of feeling like you're in safe, charted waters, only to discover that alien predators you didn't even know *could* exist have in fact been circling for months without your ever having noticed.
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Sheikh Yerbouti @sheikh-yerbouti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can’t expect those people to understand complex concepts like cause and effect
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gave the wrong GOUT COP! link for this. The correct GOUT COP! link is dumb-industries.com/goutcop GOUT COP!
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So should be RFK Jr be kicked off his security plan because he's never actually been shot at? Apparently having security that you've never used is "fraud."
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No one gets a PhD in "what if the people in charge of the Pentagon are chud idiots and they collapse the world economy because caring about strategy is Woke and Gay". But that is (self-evidently) a far more likely thing to happen, simply because it only requires stupidity to accomplish.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Somewhat disappointed probably. Maybe a little surprised that I lived this long. But then 20 year old me was kind of a dick. Time isn't the only reason I'm not him anymore.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Free concerts Every Single Day of the year.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At minimum, a takeaway here for my fellow US citizens is that Canada doesn't stop existing when Trump stops posting memes about it, and the relationship doesn't suddenly revert to "normal" whenever he's not actively threatening them.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
these are so good:
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I doubt any Kennedy Center employees will see this, but if you still have access to the building, this might be a good time to photograph everything in case we need reference pictures to rebuild it.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This story is wild. It's definitely culty, like tech bro child soldiers with a side of that Will Smith movie where his super power is suppressing his emotions
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School
What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Between "Harry Potter and the methods of rationality," and "Dumbledore's Army and the year of darkness" there seems to be a surprisingly direct Wizard-Fanfic-to-Cult pipeline. Are there other examples?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was a beloved Washington institution, enjoyed by millions of people. It has been destroyed for no real reason. Just vanity, carelessness, indifference. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown
The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In your face, entire cast of the Pitt! I guess
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The article names three men, students at UF, who spread the (nonconsensual) video: Kamran Ahmed and Brendan Pitfield, members of the Theta Chi frat, and Jacob Gomberg, a pitcher for the school's D1 team, who has since transferred to Indiana University. I wanted their names to be searchable on here.
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We've already got a huge statue of George Washington as Zeus in the American History Museum. It was made like 40 years after he died, and I always wondered what he would have thought of it. I feel like it'd be pretty embarrassing.
Giant marble statue of George Washington by Horatio Greenough, based on the Statue of Zeus at OlympiaAn old black and white photo of the same Enthroned Washington statue from back when it was displayed outdoors. This one has humans in the foreground to show the scale of the giant statue
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
oh man I feel real bad for Anthropic, it really sucks when you work super hard on something and then someone just takes it without permission to train an LLM
cnbc.com
Chinese AI labs secretly used millions of Claude exchanges to train their models, Anthropic says
Anthropic said it detected unauthorized efforts by China-based AI labs including Alibaba and Moonshot AI to use its Claude models to help improve their own AI systems.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 11/09/2026
What about a premise where they put on a variety show with different guests each week. They start the music, light the lights, get things started, that type of thing. What if the premise is the thing everyone wants that they recently proved still works
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Texas what
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Get a load of His-istrata over here. (The quote post in case that wasn't clear)
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/09/2026
INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO OUTLOOKS
NEITHER ARE WORKING
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John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
About to head in for my shift at the box factory. Sure, I figure it has a 1 in 10 chance of destroying life on earth, but the alternative* is even worse. *Line go up slower
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