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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh, she doesn’t like the “rhetoric” around immigration, as opposed to the actual actions, with people imprisoned and bystanders murdered. In contrast, “Democrats make her and her family feel looked down upon,” so easy choice.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Apparently, this week’s Lesbian Bar story has a lot more to it and I care enough to read one really good follow-up article, but not enough to do the research myself.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@toomuchtvcom.bsky.social Rob Bonta was pathetic on NPR this morning. 🤨
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Dreamboat Branny 🦢 @bransonreese.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My final word on the matter
John the Baptist getting his shit sucked in a parking lot
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Published my own piece siding with Bernie this a.m. and just recorded a podcast on same—but @gregsargent.bsky.social is right about this general risk. There’s a mushy middle where Dems get drowned in AI PAC ads but don’t reap the upside of being the actual good guys. newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Post your favorite Disney princess. Wrong answers only.
Queen Christina (1933)
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The flaw here is thinking that rational people would never do things that they knew perfectly well would endanger their own lives. (SEE: “climate change”)
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@trungles.com Are there only 20 working actors in the UK? Sometimes it seems like it! We primarily watch British procedurals and we’re constantly spotting someone we’ve seen in at least one other series.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Peanuts cartoon in which Lucy gives Charlie Brown an imaginary hundred million dollars for trying to kick the football
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The problem is men don’t understand a lot of things.” Fair.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh, hey, another excuse to link to my essay on this topic. medium.com/@pjrodriguez...
medium.com
Gotta Get That Stuff
Listen me to complain at length how things aren’t like they used to be. The kids don’t realize how ephemeral pop culture can be.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s an example of perfect casting?
Virginia Weidler in The Philadelphia Story
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wow! Former LA city heat officer Marta Segura brings receipts after Karen Bass' statements in last week's environmental policy mayoral debate. Bass said Segura was removed due to her office's supposed failure to complete a climate action plan. Read here: martaspeaks.medium.com/the-real-cit...
What the record shows
Three facts, all in public documents linked at the end. 1. The ordinance that created my office never assigned the Climate Action
and Adaptation Plan to CEMO. 2. When the City funded that plan in 2024, the $1.5 million went to the City Administrative Officer to hire a consultant to get it done through our CAO's budget office, and a Climate Impact Team was created there. This
Mayor signed that budget. 3. The Mayor's own climate plan, published in April 2026, states that the CAO's budget office was instructed to develop the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. (A consultant also created this, with minimal
community input.) So the Mayor put the climate plan in another department, paid for it there, and wrote that decision into her own climate plan. Then, at the forum, she said my office failed to finish it, when it was never our assignment, and gave that as the reason to cut the office and remove the founding Chief Heat
Officer. Both accounts cannot be true.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s very, very funny that she doesn’t answer the “Are you embarrassed?” question.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Führer Adolf has that R at the end of his name, so he gets my vote!”
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This sign in my local hardware store is a real bummer. ☹️
Cartoonish A.I. sign promoting a sale.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If Democrats take the House and Senate in Nov. and don’t fight this garbage tooth and nail, then what good are they for?
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Atlantic Records released a heavily edited 7-inch single split into two parts in 1961, which became a radio hit that spring.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I dunno, he could most likely take her.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Billy May arrangement! Highly problematic lyrics from Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen!
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sorry, but I picked up the habit from 25 years of living outside Baltimore.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“I reached out to Bonta’s office for comment, but have not yet received a response.” 😄
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Three Men in a Boat (1975) youtu.be/O4NxHwXUnnk?...
youtu.be
Three Men In A Boat - Pineapple Can Bit
YouTube video by RAMa LAMBa
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry’s 1979 single “I Do the Rock” youtu.be/kXPCsaO_55o?...
youtu.be
Tim Curry Official Music Video - I Do The Rock
YouTube video by Tim Curry
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hours on Bluesky yesterday was an endless stream of Dolly Parton celebration. 20 minutes on Threads was “Okay, lemme tell what an awful person she actually was.”
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm sorry, I wasn't listening. I was remembering Moira Stuart reading the list of other candidates in the 1984 Chesterfield by-election. www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cn00d...
bbc.co.uk
BBC Archive 1984: Chesterfield's other candidates
Chesterfield's other election candidates.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
As LLMs get better at certain tasks and much more convincing, it's a useful exercise to ask about a subject you know intimately. Here, ChatGPT 5.6 diagrams the wrong game, doubles down, then finally admits its mistake. It cites a paper that doesn't exist, doubles down, and finally confesses again.
ChatGPT query: Diagram the enquist model of agonistic signaling

[poster output]User: This is fucked up. So you just made that up.

ChatGPT: Yes. I did, and you’re right to call it out.

My first description was not a faithful account of Enquist’s model. I supplied a plausible generic sequence for agonistic assessment—“initial assessment → signaling → reassessment → escalation”—without having verified that those were actually the stages or assumptions in Enquist (1985). Then, when you challenged the “prior information” point, I compounded the problem by giving another specific reconstruction instead of checking the source first.

I’ve now checked secondary material explicitly discussing Enquist’s 1985 model, and it describes the model as one in which players choose among possible displays/actions in an agonistic game, with the evolutionary question being when those choices can constitute honest signaling. That is importantly different from the staged assessment process I initially gave you.

So: do not use either of my previous stage descriptions as a representation of Enquist (1985). I should have looked up the paper/model before answering a source-specific question.ChatGPT: Yes. You’re right — again.

The poster actually says:

Enquist, M. (1985). “Communication during agonistic encounters.” In R. R. Hinde (Ed.), Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 15, 65–106. Academic Press.

And that citation is not the original Enquist model paper I should have been using.

I made three separate errors here: I generated an unverified citation, then misreported what the poster said twice. That’s a basic source-handling failure.

If you want, I can now do this properly: verify the actual Enquist agonistic-signaling model from the primary paper and give you only the real sequence/stages, with no reconstruction.

User: The paper on the poster doesn't even exist.

ChatGPT: Correct. That poster citation is fabricated. I generated a title and book chapter that do not exist.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Trump needs to know the dynamics have fundamentally changed forever, and won’t just be a replication of his dealings with Democrats after losing control of the House in 2018.” 👍
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“There’s no possible way our war with [FILL IN THE BLANK] can really affect U.S. well-being.”
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s very admirable how Canada has decided on a unified basis, screw it, we’re throwing down the gauntlet, going to the mattresses, probably some Canadian metaphor, maybe something from hockey? Drop the gloves? Anyway, love to see it.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Oh, yeah. This one too.
Calvin Trillin’s Travels with Natalie
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Having the most power is better. But the force of will to use the power you have is more important.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Another classic…
John Steinbeck’s Travels with Natalie
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just doing some reading…
Graham Greene’s Travels with Natalie
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This week, I’m seeing a fair amount of hating on Never Trumper Republicans. It’s some version of, “They can’t be trusted, they were cool with Reagan and Bush.”
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I mean, Roberts, Gorsuch, Cruz, and Cotton went to Harvard Law, but I guess dudes have a stronger resistance.
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Babad🎃🎃kakis @ryanwu2438.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Karen Bass reelection update: the mayor has come out as anti-taco stand. In Los Angeles.
“I do not believe that you should have a food vendor in front of a restaurant, period,” Bass shot back, adding that she wanted them off the streets completely and in brick-and-mortar locations. Their presence near restaurants “discourages people from going in, just like you shouldn’t have encampments in front of restaurants or in front of schools. You just should not do that.”
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
feels like she’s just doing a bit at this point
hollywoodreporter.com
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Throws Her Support Behind Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Settlement
The mayor previously stated that she opposed the $111 billion merger deal unless jobs were preserved in the transaction.
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Aiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hello I am the mayor of LA and I hate entertainment workers, taco vendors, and people who can’t afford our bonkers housing market. Was that good? Did I Mamdani it??
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Bass trashing street vendors?!? 😣 (Raman not having the support of of her colleagues is another point in her favor.)
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Okay, but let’s say Che Guevara *was* still alive. Would you accept his endorsement?”
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finishing up a long essay, but then I’m starting one about this phenomenon, how movies showing bad behavior is too upsetting for some people. If M*A*S*H is too much for you, Bad Lieutenant will melt your brain.
Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social: 

so the photog in BLOW-UP really wants to be doing Real Art (b&W photos of poor ppl in flophouses) but to afford his rolls royce must work as an extremely sought-after fashion photographer. this contradiction is the fault of the dumb models he photographs, he seems to believe
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this is a good subbranch of this thread about MASH, which is very much like this to the extent that i turned it off halfway thru, which i NEVER do. trapper and hawkeye are huge assholes bc they're in an awful, untenable situation. but they're still huge assholes
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"I hate to say it, I hope I don't sound ridiculous... I don't know who this man is. I mean, he could be walking down the street, I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man."
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Time to link again to my essay on this topic. medium.com/@pjrodriguez...
medium.com
Gotta Get That Stuff
Listen me to complain at length how things aren’t like they used to be. The kids don’t realize how ephemeral pop culture can be.
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We have data on this. The blue is all the non-ag human use:
Colorado River usage chart
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As a Californian, I follow water issues from time to time and this is true.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.
data4democracy.substack.com
With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“What’s our response to the economic crisis in America? Obviously, it’s to ensure the government can’t solve it.”
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