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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 20/09/2026

Holtzmann is the best Ghostbuster. (He says after watching the 2016 movie again)

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 09/09/2026

The iPhone Duo is to well-to-do parents-of-younger-than-teenage-kids what the Watch Ultra was for bros at the gym

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 06/09/2026

Went out dancing to Underworld on Friday, then Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff (amazing!), Ben UFO and Craig Richards yesterday. Tired but very happy. So glad I started doing this again.

Craig Richards at Under the K Bridge (Creekside)

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 27/08/2026

Rainbow over Prospect Park this morning #nyc

Rainbow over Prospect Park. Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan is visible in the distance.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 22/08/2026

I haven't particularly followed English domestic football (soccer) for 30 years but the World Cup made me interested again. And like many British-born people I've known which team I support since before I could walk. Which is all to say I could have picked a better day to restart being a #Spurs fan.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 15/08/2026

Newspapers channeling deep “we’re just trying to find the guy that did this” vibes today. The damn ghouls.

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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 07/08/2026

William Orbit died. While he was best known for producing / co-creating Madonna’s Ray of Light album, I used to listen to his solo Strange Cargo 3 and Hinterland albums on repeat when I was at university. This is Water from a Vine Leaf, with Beth Orton on vocals, from then: youtu.be/PneAIfv30jA?...

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William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 02/08/2026

Turns out you can go to your first hard trance night of your life at age 48 and it’s all fine. Not sure I’ll do that specific type of music too often, but because NYC has such a huge dance music scene, it turns out, I have many other options.

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Jason @jaydoubleyou1969.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Solitary brother Is there still a part of you that wants to live? Solitary sister Is there still a part of you that wants to give?

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 24/07/2026

There might be nothing in life that makes me feel like a boomer as much as trying to use Youtube. Especially on iphone / Apple TV. The whole UX just never does what I expect. I know it's full of bugs and ad dark patterns, but still.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 20/07/2026

I’ve played Factorio a A Lot (!), and for a long time I’ve wanted to try Satisfactory, but it’s not supported on Mac. Recently I finally got around to trying it with @codeweavers.com CrossOver Mac and it works very well on my M1 Studio. CrossOver isn’t free, but it’s a lot cheaper than buying a PC.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 17/07/2026

Last night's theatre was Death of a Salesman. Worthy of its Tony win (again), but I never expected to see Willy Loman as a failed Trump-like character. The play's words with this direction amplifies its damning indictment of the American dream. Lies, exceptionalism, bluster, that all ends in tragedy

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Lizzie Boyle @lizzieboylesays.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s the hope that this hope will somehow be different from all the previous hopes that killed you that kills you…

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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So I have been using this for the last week and I absolutely love it. This is the browser based Claude Code dev environment running on AWS Lambda MicroVMs with S3Files as persistence. There are two blogs and a repo. Start here, it link to the others. edjgeek.com/blog/claude-...

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Lambda MicroVMs + S3 Files: My Claude Code Sandbox for iPad — edjgeek

A walkthrough of building a browser-based Claude Code shell that runs in an AWS Lambda MicroVM with a persistent S3 Files home. Signed in with Cognito, deployed with SAM.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 13/07/2026

Fun flight path into LGA tonight

Photo taken from a plane looking at Manhattan, facing north, from about 4000 feet

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 12/07/2026

This morning we (coincidentally!) drove through Lindsay Graham’s small home town. That was weird.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 09/07/2026

Rewatched The Good Place and I’m glad to report it remains one of the greatest comedy TV series. That last episode though, yeesh, it gets you right in the feels.

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 03/07/2026

#NYC #theatre -goers : I saw Titanique last night and laughed harder than I have in a long time. I saw it off-off Broadway a few years back too and it’s even funnier than I remember. Jim Parsons is having the time of his life, but all the cast - old and new - are great. Fab, queer, & very silly.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 03/07/2026

Another day; another thing apparently I can’t say any more because it sounds like I’m an LLM

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Oggie @oggie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Holy Father is also Bob from Chicago, and woe betide those who forget that he, too, contains two wolves.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 30/06/2026

As a vague supporter of the England football team over the last few decades, I am enjoying the schadenfreude of Germany being the first team ever to go out on penalties in a round-of-32 knockout World Cup match. That I can call it “schadenfreude” makes it even better. Sorry 🇩🇪 ;)

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 26/06/2026

Two year rent freeze for rent stabilized apartments in NYC! Our mayor is having a good week. So are us New Yorkers!

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Max Rivlin-Nadler @maxrn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My flight got canceled. I got hit by an egg in a drive-by. I had to take trains, planes, and automobiles. But NOTHING could stop me from seeing the Knicks on Saturday night. I wrote about the greatest sports weekend I will ever have and a strange joy we all now feel. hellgatenyc.com/knicks-fans-...

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Knicks Fans Messed With Texas—and Won

A canceled flight and a frozen egg would not stop me from witnessing history.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 16/06/2026

Every 5 years or so I put on Morcheeba's Big Calm, and wonder why I don't listen to it more frequently. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Calm

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Big Calm - Wikipedia

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 14/06/2026

There are wonderful moments in NY where joy overflows into the street and no-one is a stranger. A Saturday lunchtime in mid November 2020 was one. Last night was another.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026

GOOD MORNING NEW YORK CITY.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 06/06/2026

Round number birthday today. Hexadecimally speaking, anyway. #0x30

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 02/06/2026

I just used the phrase “a can of hairy yaks” and it’s the kind of mixed metaphor I can get behind.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 31/05/2026

Just remembered the time I tried to convince my friend Ian to enter into a shared custody grandmothering arrangement for the local men's hair stylist by telling him "Co-nan the barber, Ian"

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 31/05/2026

Got a shingles vaccine on Friday. On one hand - yay for vaccines. On the other - glad I didn’t have anything planned for this weekend. :)

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 30/05/2026

Cruella was a better movie than I expected. Good Friday evening fodder.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 25/05/2026

On the way back from a week and a half in the UK to see friends and family. Wished it could have been longer to see more people, but it was a great trip. Spent a lot of time in London and it’s still fab despite what all the doomer media would have us believe. Also trains, trains, and more trains.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 13/05/2026

Apparently it’s possible to just close all the tabs in your browser. I know - WILD.

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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

extremely pleased with node:test these days. its super fast. there's nothing to install. has every feature for a runner I need. so much nicer than faffing with ecosystem test baggage.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

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doop @doop.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Everyone’s treating this as a weird kind of joke when it’s well known that eg Xenophon was simply trying to get back home to Coney Island

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 22/04/2026

Today’s the 20th anniversary of me leaving the UK and moving to New York. I thought I’d be gone for a year or two. Maybe three. Funny how life turns out.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 17/04/2026

Saw The Chameleons last night in Brooklyn - brilliant show!

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 11/04/2026

Perfect running weather in Brooklyn today

Selfie, with a lake, blue sky and geese behind. I’m wearing running clothes.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 11/04/2026

If you’re at all a fan of musicals I recommend Netflix’s streaming version of Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, from the recent Broadway run. I saw an earlier version a couple of year’s ago, and it’s brilliant - largely because the lead three actors are so absurdly good.

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 10/04/2026

Friends, I did, and was home before midnight. This is going to be a fun year. (*) (*) when I’m not thinking about everything else.

Photo of the back of my hand. It’s been stamped with a heart shaped stamp saying “Dance your heart out”

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 02/04/2026

Did I watch the launch today? This is some of my lego, so I’ll let you guess. But damn, I wish my default emotion to human launches was still excitement and not anxiety. Oh well.

A photo of Lego sets on a book case and shelf - Eagle lunar lander, space shuttle, Saturn V, ISS. Plus some “women of space” Lego. And a millennium falcon. And 2003 era iPod (not Lego)

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