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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Love this story -don’t watch college football so bad no idea about hotdog flinging at games. This part honestly made me laugh - I can totally imagine my retired engineer dad doing this.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Think I have to question some priors with this quote. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’d bet they won the competition, but the rainforest is probably now pumping out soybeans.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah zero concern over plague but pneumonia of unknown etiology at a research institute is potentially no bueno. Reporting here leaves a lot to be desired. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/e...

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saw these in the woods - beechdrops, an obligate parasite plant. Looks dead but that’s because it entirely lacks chlorophyll and is sort of squishy.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is their football mascot by the way - it’s totally awesome to see this guy running around on the sidelines and at the annual parade.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The town of Sleepy Hollow maybe goes a bit too hard on Halloween this time of year (spotted in pediatrics units of hospital by Mrs C)

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Executions in the US are such a shit show.Lethal injections sound most humane but have the most problems because drug firms won’t supply the drugs for ethical/image reasons, docs won’t participate and inmates can be IV addicts so hard to find a vein or dose is wrong. Source: AP

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Things you learn researching stories- a 1970s cartoon called Rascal the Raccoon (Ariaguma Rasukaru) caused an ecological crisis in Japan after people adopted raccoons and let them go.

How do you say trash bandit in Japanese?

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And a third story on its corporate governance which includes this LOL mess www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lots of yikes in this awesome scoop on Anthropic’s IPO by my colleague Echo Wang, but this stood out. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The End of Everything” by M John Harrison reads like a depressed JG Ballard and has the funniest ratings distribution on Goodreads. It has transcended the you either love or hate it category into “nobody knows what to make of it”.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Our financial institution remains open for business and liquidity remains strong despite rumors by criminal short sellers.”

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Favorite things at Ren Faire: -Giant pickle -Stout guy in leather pig mask talking and all I heard was “well in my D&D manual” -someone handing this to Mrs C

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh man, this Bloomberg story on RFK’s group in pay to play is bad - 2027-2029 are going to be absolutely dominated by corruption hearings. This stuff makes people mad, and you, a company in one of the most heavily regulated US industries want to dip your toes in this shit?

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Quite, as the Brits say: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you want to see the own goal US immigration policy is, consider that Houston’s workforce is contracting when WTI is over $100 and refiners are operating at 95% capacity.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This moth is gigantic - at least 6 inches across. I have no idea what it is doing with its anus.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s actually better than his version

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Alaska delivering on promises

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On a cruise and the free library is an experience.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If the fake polling company did it to make money on prediction markets it’s pretty funny how little they earned. On a $6k bet that’s $850 (before fees) assuming they sold at peak on Polymarker and $270 on Kalshi.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The WSJ autopsy of the Situational blowup is as expected - 24yr old with “unshakable confidence” geared 3 to 1 and Texas hedging. This detail did make me laugh though.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Interesting example of path dependency edconway.substack.com/p/the-north-...

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Have zero idea what is going on here but it’s something for the WH to attack the journo and not actually deny anything.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

These $SPCX structured products are ridiculous. Take some monthly feed for surrendering upside, trussed up like a turkey if Thanksgiving comes.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Boss, commercial jets simply don’t reach market this fast and rarely on schedule either

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Deals that kill seven birds with eight stones (each step contingent on others) is some very late stage nonsense. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvid...

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Articles about young people dating are too judgy and I think putting stuff down on a spreadsheet is actually good because it requires thinking. But I suspect people here think their patterns are a good thing (but if you have a pattern and your dating life isn’t working out…)

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

At what point might $SPCX meltdown affect other big IPOs getting out the door. Below offer and a steady stream of lockup expirations start in less than a fortnight.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Air quality index tops out at 500

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I love that a big reason Smucker’s purchase of Hostess vaporized $3bn of a $5bn deal is that Twinkies have a shorter shelf life than their other foods.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The post Soviet Union was a wild place and mix of tech.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I love weird bubbles. Earning this much teaching people to clean cars, a business with close to zero barriers to entry, is kind of funny.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Just tons of above board stuff

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Outlawing crypto really has to be a day 1 task for the next administration. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m not sure how to think about what looks like a reg FD violation by SpaceX showing a device that probably never will be built.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fun to see newish techs work in combination. My solar powered bird feeder has AI and sends me videos of birds visiting and identifies what species it is. Hello catbird.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My colleague Jeff Goldfarb alerted me to this past SoftBank gem of a slide. Poor horsies!

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Liked this bit. My brother discover a gene responsible for a form of Mafan’s Syndrome (it’s a disease that sometimes kills basketball players suddenly) about 20ys ago so he got a simple tattoo of it. The artist was sort of reluctant- this is so much more complex. Tatoo art has come a long way!

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“Do you want to walk around town?” “No, dad, that’s boring” “Do you want to visit a small sewage treatment facility?”…son rushes to put on shoes.

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Whole body imaging is a business built on image 1

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

When the telephone was just starting to catch on, there were a lot of complaints that it was being used frivolously by secretaries and housewives for gossip and small talk instead of serious and useful stuff like listening to classical music.

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