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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hammer Time: I'm going to be casually watching some classic Hammer Horror movies this month... "The Mummy" "Horror Express" "The Devil Rides Out" They feel so much more fun than the Universal monster flicks...

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having kids 5 years apart means that I get to often participate in a spelling bee while wiping a poopie butt.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Perry watching “Spider-Man 3” - “the black suit makes him mean AND GROOVY.”

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Silence of the Lambs: I forgot just HOW OFTEN Clarice is just trying to finish a training session and her boss is like "stop everything and come here" (because they didn't have iPhones and he couldn't just text her)

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the best exotica/lounge albums is "pay what you want" on Bandcamp. Highly recommend "Tiki for the Atomic Age" kavakon.bandcamp.com/album/tiki-f...

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Tiki for the Atomic Age, by Kava Kon

12 track album

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ray Gunn looks VERY up my alley... but I really wish they would have renamed it so I didn't have to think about that break dancer every time.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A 4-hour deep dive into the occult references in True Detective Season 1? Okay internet... you can stick around for one more day. youtu.be/02_HTdOWr5Y?...

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True Detective S1 – Mythology, Folklore & The Occult

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The internet mostly sucks these days. I would love just a large pad of paper where each page is just someone's hot take about a boardgames I played in 1998 or rumors about the upcoming "Planet of the Apes" production. And I guess every 10 pages can be an ad.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Why, on Labor Day (a day dedicated to celebrating man’s ability to create and toil) have we handed over our public pools to dogs (who famously do not work in factories)?

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Really needed the patron saint of “you’re at a kids birthday party but it’s actually a family party and you are like one of two random parents there and also everyone are super yinzers” today

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

He knew the world needed SOMETHING - so thankfully Andrew WK has released a surprise instrumental rock jazz album tonight. 😵‍💫

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly was a hero. Her music, her message. Her free books for kids. Even her frozen pot roast was heavenly.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I never scroll the internet HARDER than when I’m waiting for my six yr old to go the f*** to sleep. I reached the end of the internet tonight.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Workshopping my most provocative "Subway Takes" • all cereal boxes should be the same height • new drivers should have to learn on cars made in 2003-2010 • Wendy's locations are not be allowed to run out of Frosty • if you give your doorbell cam footage to a cop, you get a "free crime" card

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Our house electrical system has a nice feature: when we rush the washing machine the lights in the rest of the house go into “haunted house mode”

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s called retail THERAPY for a reason (the reason is most things stink right now)

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I dreamt that I got my paycheck deposited two days early. That's... about the extent of my dreams.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'll see Avengers Doomsday I guess, but I have no idea why I care about anything happening in it...

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If any publications in Pittsburgh want to send me to the new tiki bar for a write-up, please contact me. This is NOT A JOKE.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I turned into a 72 yr old man instantly tonight when I walked into a Chipotle that made me download their app and place an order online in order for them to hand me an apple juice.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bad time to scroll Bsky while waiting in the drive thru line at Taco Bell…

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I washed these raspberries almost to the point of them crumbling into nothing... let's hope they don't give me The Poops

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A true heroic journey: slightly old Sesame Street episode making a “Clash of the Titans” -> Perry asking what The Odyssey is -> me starting the 1997 Amand Asante made for TV miniseries 😵‍💫

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don't know why stopping into a coffee shop with a 6 yr old is so hard. They rarely have anything to drink for kids — and so now the pressure is for Perry to ENJOY this $8 organic juice.

LuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 13/07/2026

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Siskel & Ebert opening was perfection: just two pals having fun with Very Loud Saxophone in the background

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I talked to Mitch McConnell on the phone earlier while also talking with him in person and he sounded fine

Every time the clip of Robert Blake at the party goes around on social media, I think “Why don’t I watch LOST HIGHWAY more often?” And then I watch it again and am confronted once more with Balthazar Getty, perhaps one of the singularly most unpleasant onscreen personas I have ever seen. He is like a mouthful of yogurt being spit into the sink. He is greasy and ill-formed and loping, a grown man (albeit a young one) who resembles a plucked buzzard.

But that aside, it has really grown on me over time, though it would probably be better to say I have grown more into it. Beautiful and classic Lynch—time loops, the cellular division of one soul into two, the questions of identity and memory and perception and awareness, all staged in dreamland and directed with an intentional disconnect between the dialogue and the emotion with which it’s delivered—but shot through with a much grungier darkness than usual, something mechanical and assembly-line-press-feeling. It captures a kind of debasement or abandon that pops up in his other stuff but feels more wounded here. Sadder somehow.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

He’s such a Chicago Pope that he’s even channeling Michael Mann cinema energy

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The internet was READY for these Empire State Building flag memes.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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they should invent a NyQuil that doesn’t give you nightmares about being in claymation jail for murder

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I don't need to buy a Rolex. I just look at their ads and figure out what time it is for free.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Widow’s Bay is the perfect Reese’s Cup of horror and comedy. Someone said “Apple TV is becoming the new HBO” and maybe that’s true

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I still remember when @abbylou007.bsky.social wanted her family to understand the job of an arts manager ... and she got them Slings & Arrows on DVD. It helped! (It's also a wonderful show)

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This can't be real. I'm dead. My funeral service will be at the Four Seasons

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Can’t stop thinking about how Guillermo del Toro hosts miniature model painting parties with seven other directors including Steven Spielberg.

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Oops, I tried to Magic Erase a scuff mark on the wall it revealed I can’t stop until I scrub every wall in the entire house.

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Someone should have warned Morgan Wallen that you shouldn’t cancel anything bc of a Pittsburgh weather forecast. Cut to: all of his fans in cowboy boots roaming around the arts fest and listening to a 90s west coast rap headliner during a beautiful Saturday evening.

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Abby and I both joined a virtual PTO meeting for our son’s school expecting to just quietly listen and blend in. We were 2 of 8 people on the call. We dialed in separately. 🥴 The principal welcomed us…

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Severance Dance

ALT: Severance Dance

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just having Miss Rachel running in the background on our TV constantly is as close as I get to living inside “Inland Empire”

Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I don't seek out pasta salad... but when it presents itself to me, I accept it. I enjoy it.

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Mike Rubino @mikerubino.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I did it, guys. I ate this bagged salad a day BEFORE the expiration date instead of after.