Royko @mrroyko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This High School Musical parody is one of the funniest sketches I've seen in years. #snl 110
Reposted by RoykoKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it 58982771861
Royko @mrroyko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ALERT: No one post about SNL. It's playing on a 15 minute delay for half the country! No spoilers! 100
Reposted by RoykoNerdyKris @nerdykris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I like how they think people only use one gallon of gas a week or something. 011
Reposted by RoykoPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sheeran had plenty of options. He could have told Kraft ‘no, this is a freedom of speech issue’. He could have said ‘I have solidarity with my fellow musicians, so if you want him out, I’m out too’. He chose neither of those. 2129529
Royko @mrroyko.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Tonight I learned it is possible to get into a state where one is unable to pronounce "Sheryl Lee Ralph" 001
Reposted by RoykoConstantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026AI is useful for all sorts of things *after* one has already mastered the skills required for doing them. When it's used as a deskilling potion -- which is how most students who use AI regularly use it and how many adults encourage its use -- it is impressively destructive. 382
Reposted by RoykoEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Historian Joy Lisi Rankin wrote about the Navajo women who wove core memory for Apollo missions.sciencenews.orgCore memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possibleThe stories of the women who assembled integrated circuits and wove core memory for the Apollo missions remain largely unknown. 217887
Reposted by RoykoMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026What a cool fascist tweet from DHS 2093134625
Reposted by RoykoNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026John Roberts is a white supremacist who believes that the Constitution is designed to establish white power first, and democracy only a distant second. Charles Mills had his number. 125766
Reposted by RoykoBrad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A security unvetted, verifiable lunatic whom no one seems to like or trust is controlling access to, serving as a voice of, and constantly in the ear of the most powerful man in the world, a mentally unstable 80 year-old whose brains are leaking out of his ears. What’s there to worry about? 111812
Reposted by RoykoSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20/08/2026so this is something she was 100% saving for the book, yea? 27894123
Reposted by RoykoPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026What's interesting to me is that basically everyone who actually enjoys reading, has a story about devouring a large book as a kid they were way too young to read. And then there's the functionally illiterate, for whom this is completely alien and not at all relatable. 920940
Reposted by RoykoHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20/08/2026I hadn't seen what he said leading up to the radioactive "travel with Natalie" line. It was even more innocuous than I thought! And when you see the context, you see why republicans fixated on it. Because the rest was FAR more damaging. 429459
Reposted by RoykoDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 17/08/2026You could also watch nothing and no doubt be fine bc its a mass appeal film not some inter-referential art house entry and the ppl in the quote posts acting like this is some sort of intolerable ask on Marvels end have just built a personality around bitching about these movies 96110
Reposted by RoykoPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Northwestern University is reportedly shuttering its 80-year-old Program of African Studies, laying off staff and keeping students in the dark It is the "first formal academic program focused on Africa in the United States."thepurplewire.beehiiv.comSCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies 34573365
Reposted by Royko𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Take a minute for this Sam Neill clip, reuniting with his JP co-stars. 173108931951
Reposted by RoykoMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I'm one Taylor Farms salad away from reaching my weight goal. 2164344474
Reposted by RoykoBrian the Settler @briandsettler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Brah, the leg warehouse is empty here 142
Reposted by RoykoMicah @rincewind.run · 17/07/2026this is the kind of shit that needs to break Senate Collegiality you simply cannot be friends and exchange grandkid pictures with people who turn around and go on national television to lie about how you only won because you cheated 16893150
Reposted by RoykoBarbara Rybolt 🐸 @barbararybolt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026#ProudBlue #Defend If you haven’t watched “Glory” do it now. It’s about the 54th Mass. Volunteer Infantry in 1863 - the first all Black unit in the Civil War. The Zinn Education Project calls it “the most powerful and historically accurate movie” about the Civil War. Hard to watch, but we should. 3124304811
Reposted by Roykofreakanatcha.bsky.social @freakanatcha.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Pro tip for consumer facing apps: Users generally hate your ai and the way it is forced on our devices. Just deep 6 the ai crap and build half as many data centers 2675
Reposted by Roykojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026the last 25 minutes or so of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER are magnificent. the highest tier of hollywood action filmmaking. 1963555168
Reposted by RoykoArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14/07/2026At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890 3652521194
Reposted by RoykoLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 15/07/2026These are sailors who have already been quantified on every conceivable metric and approved by a promotion board This is pure sex discrimination. It's axiomatic for Hegseth that women aren't worthy so if they get superior scores, it must have been because of DEI. 113148
Reposted by RoykoCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 13/07/20261. Trump has lost his war with Iran. Badly. 2. Trump cannot admit anything but victory. 3. Trump's hold on reality is getting sketichier and sketichier. 4. Trump is bounded by political and physical realities. 5. The Republicans in Congress could end this today. 1799220
Royko @mrroyko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026youtu.be/55btGpGsuDo?...youtu.beHa Ha You're DeadYouTube video by Green Day - Topic 010
Royko @mrroyko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Is it a sign that you are too sedentary if your dog tries to hide treats under you? 010
Reposted by Roykook city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026We’ll never not be the country that elected the worst and stupidest person in the world president, twice 1132
Reposted by RoykoMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been. 11943871232
Reposted by RoykoKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026It's a retrofitted Boeing 747, so the US did, in fact, build it 2124160892
Reposted by RoykoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/06/2026"Speaking as an early American historian who spent decades immersed in what the founding generation thought about political power — specifically about executive power — this presidency is entirely out of bounds and beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of." — @jbf1755.bsky.socialpublicnotice.coJoanne Freeman on why Trump is an affront to the Founders"This presidency is beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of." 662096630
Reposted by Roykosouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026In a surprise 6-3 fifth decision this morning, the Supreme Court majority has reinstituted prima nocta. 3353373
Reposted by RoykoCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026You don't see a studio publish a new trailer for their game, and have people in the comments saying "Ew, you used voice actors for this? We want AI voices!" or demanding AI music over the likes of Mick Gordon or Akira Yamaoka, no scores of "We want the slop! Give us the slop!" in the Steam forums. 542945
Reposted by RoykoKevin Todd @kvntodd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026The President ordered the arrest of a random bystander because he couldn’t admit that he’d screwed up his design project 0139
Reposted by RoykoSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026(1) bibi has to look strong before election (2) trump wants to get out of iran as soon as possible (3) iran wants to raise the costs of the war + prevent future escalation + prevent proxies from being attacked hence, why i think we see the deal collapse because these 3 things are not compatible 931545
Reposted by Roykopissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Toady's Cartoon- Seeing Green 171109396
Reposted by RoykoResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Cartoonist: Rick McKee 342211776
Reposted by RoykoKarim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever. 11981892333
Reposted by RoykoBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15/06/2026And I'm happy to throw "akimbo" onto the junk heap with "begs the question" and reserve my strength for protecting "nonplussed" and "bemused," which need all the help they can get. 271089
