Reposted by Rob SecundusRob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 6hOnce more for the evening crowd (I forgot the link at first but it’s there now, at the end) 173
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 6hOnce more for the evening crowd (I forgot the link at first but it’s there now, at the end) 173
Reposted by Rob Secundusshanley @shanley.com · 8hShut down all fraternities. That shit should've BEEN over 211714
Reposted by Rob SecundusBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9hI do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor. 471894306
Reposted by Rob SecundusRob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 17hThis one I've been nervous to share. Today: notes on the experience of loneliness. Part of the point of the blog is to practice writing, again. I have almost no experience with this kind of personal/reflective/confessional writing. Feedback on approach/execution is appreciated. 593
Reposted by Rob SecundusKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 16hThread on Dan Boultwood's victim who waives her anomity to talk about the experience. For those who didn't see the original reporting, this is the only significant coverage. Maddie says how she's disappointed there wasn't more public introspection and conversation over this, and she's right.bleedingcool.comDan Boultwood Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Child Sex OffencesComic book creator Dan Boultwood was sentenced in court yesterday, after pleading guilty to child sex offences 418683
Reposted by Rob SecundusDavid Bixenspan @davidbix.com · 13h#Thread 🧵: Now that there's no more risk of it causing any harm to PAC and WWE is trying to exploit his death solely for the purposes of wrestling war bullshit, everyone needs to know the extent to which WWE ratfucked PAC in 2018-2019 to try to destroy his livelihood by fucking with his work visa. 5285140
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 17hThis one I've been nervous to share. Today: notes on the experience of loneliness. Part of the point of the blog is to practice writing, again. I have almost no experience with this kind of personal/reflective/confessional writing. Feedback on approach/execution is appreciated. 593
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Someone needs to make a wearable health ring thing that does not send your data anywhere but can call 911 on your behalf if it detects that you are having a health crisis 030
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For the evening crowd: Today, I tried to write about loneliness, from a pseudo-objective point of view. Tomorrow, my experience with it. 020
Reposted by Rob Secundusdom griffin @allnewdom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m currently at work and do not have enough to get home at the end of my shift and have a partner with chronic pain I have to ferry in and out of the city before another shift tomorrow. Trying very hard to make it to Friday. Anything helps! 013
Reposted by Rob SecundusHannah Posts @hannahposts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I just remembered the biden baby bucks and allowed myself to imagine what it would be like if that had lasted longer than 6 months 2392
Reposted by Rob Secundusdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026they have no idea what they're doing. and it would be kind to say they do not care. they care a lot! they are spinning the cylinder and pulling that trigger and hoping with every fiber of their being that they blow the head off society. it's wild 554747
Reposted by Rob Secundusdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it's a striking moment in time. really hard to even get ones head around it. virtually everyone in a decisionmaking role has decided to shrug their shoulders and unleash automated processes with unknown function on the world with the best case scenario being: ending all human endeavor 659762
Reposted by Rob Secundusdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026as a guy who decided to go inside the system because being outside it struck me as rather personally perilous, it appears i did not factor in exactly how incompetent everyone making decisions inside the system would turn out to be 1194472
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026do they think this is actually going to help them with the midterms or is this just a last wave of cruelty before they lose some power 130
Reposted by Rob SecundusRob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today I'm posting the first of two preliminary reflections on (specifically romantic) loneliness. Today's is from the more objective, exterior POV, looking at the "loneliness crisis," tomorrow's from my personal experience. Link below. 273
Reposted by Rob SecundusStephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is good @harvardmagazine.bsky.social www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...harvardmagazine.comI Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard MagazineA former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs. 043
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026weird but fitting that the party of christian nationalists is going to destroy the study of theology in the united states of america 180
Reposted by Rob SecundusKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026For my newsletter this morning, I found a small glimmer of political hope for trans people in the US and wrote about it: www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...burnsnotice.comWe May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans RightsSome conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people? 141034264
Reposted by Rob SecundusJ. Caleb Mozzocco @jcaleb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Okay, maybe I'm being a bit facetious with the WATCHMEN comparison. But I've been thinking about Marvel "graphic novels" vs. DC ones, and I have a hard time thinking of any that meet this criteria I lay out in the post (especially the "in print" part): 19536
Reposted by Rob SecundusGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Emi Sakura's post about PAC is breaking my heart 4878239
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I finished NORWEGIAN WOOD last night, for the first time. It's weird that this premise--which is basically a romcommy "is he going to choose the Deep, Melancholic Childhood Friend or the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl" thing--is ultimately such a disturbing reflection on death/isolation. 110
Reposted by Rob Secundusdom griffin @allnewdom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I still have a few more days to get through, but most pertinent, tomorrow before work, I have two very important doctors appointments in the city I have to take my girlfriend to and currently don’t even have enough to get home from work tonight. Anything anyone can spare helps! 037
Reposted by Rob SecundusShane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 28/09/2026Fucking tears man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMCP...youtube.comMarina Gets Emotional While Speaking About PAC Following Her MatchYouTube video by Pro Wrestling & MMA News 111
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today I'm posting the first of two preliminary reflections on (specifically romantic) loneliness. Today's is from the more objective, exterior POV, looking at the "loneliness crisis," tomorrow's from my personal experience. Link below. 273
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It feels very weird to promote something when I'm just sitting here mourning the loss of one of the greatest athlete/artists of our time. But oh well. Time to promote, I guess. 020
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I woke up, and the first thing I thought was, I can't believe he's dead. It felt like a nightmare. One of the greatest athletes and performing artists alive, gone decades before his time. 020
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you've never watched a single pro-wrestling match before, please, in honor of this man's memory, watch this match. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W63...youtube.comFULL MATCH: PAC vs Orange Cassidy | AEW Revolution 2020YouTube video by All Elite Wrestling 151
Reposted by Rob SecundusZoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is fucking devastating. PAC was in the main event of the first wrestling show I ever watched. I have always loved him, as a talent, and never heard a bad word about him in the industry. Fuck, man. Deepest of condolences to his family and loved ones. 7928
Reposted by Rob SecundusTom. @notthattomgreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Someone was talking about PAC being stoic at meet & greets on Twitter, so it reminded me of this anecdote. 12927290
Reposted by Rob SecundusChris @jayleno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Peace to the man who gravity forgot 210130
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026he really was, I think, one of the greatest of all time. He had perfected his character. He was great on the mic. He was one of the best strikers, his finisher was absolutely bananas. A pillar of AEW from the start. 0131
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026He was only 40!!! PAC was 40 years old!!!! We just saw him wrestling last night! 130
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Not PAC too. Jesus Christ. He was only 40 years old. His match with Orange Cassidy is what I use to introduce people to pro-wrestling. I just saw him on PPV last night. Jesus. 040
Reposted by Rob SecundusEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes. 521811303
Reposted by Rob SecundusMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement 14750273
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's easier to feel depressed when tired. If you don't sleep well, you get depressed. In order to sleep well, you need to cut out afternoon/evening caffeine. And unfortunately, that means for the back-half of the day, you're going to be tired. They need to invent an energy drink that wears out quick 240
Reposted by Rob Secundusshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test 332175348
Reposted by Rob SecundusDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC? 822069319
Reposted by Rob SecundusBenito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I was just thinking about this myself — I listen to music every day. I listen to *new* music. To my knowledge I have never heard this song. Would I recognize it if I heard it? Yeah, maybe? But there are people in my life who don’t know what Sinners is, which seems impossible but is true 3271
Reposted by Rob SecundusBenito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Do you guys know what the most watched Primetime non-sports shows are right now Something called Marshals and something called Tracker. Have you ever watched one? I haven’t! I could guess what Marshals is about, but Tracker could be anything! So many more people watch these than Lanterns 1172
Reposted by Rob SecundusUzi™ @uzionmain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think we lost something as a worldwide culture now that you can have a song this huge that people don't even go "FUCK i am so SICK of that fucking SONG" about instead of "what even is that?" 2258
Reposted by Rob SecundusUzi™ @uzionmain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think the thing about Choosin' Texas being so popular yet not heard on here is that it's a commentary about the increasing atomization of our culture and bespoke algorithmic playlists making us lose all sense of a shared cultural zeitgeist or identity, not that people are lying or nobodys heard it 16413
Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Covid intensified the worst things about social media. Covid made “fandom” much worse, but “fandom” had been bad since the algorithm replaced chronological feeds 150
Reposted by Rob SecundusZack Quaintance @zackquaintance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026somehow having both Baltimore Comic Con and IC3 FOMO even one pledge however would really ease that www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...kickstarter.comDeath of Comics Bookcase - Reign of the Comics BookcasesA sci-fi comics romp though six unique, fantastical worlds. 01011
