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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Happy "Edwin somehow brought a live bird in through the catio" Day to all who celebrate.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I scared the hell out of the cats, Dodgers. They were cutely snuggling. But not anymore. I hope you are happy.

Two kitties (grey and calico) snuggling on a blue blanket.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Cute cat, right? Well ...this was immediately after he brought a LIVE PILEATED WOODPECKER into our house through the catio door. I don't even know how this was possible.

Great cat laying on floor under chair with crazy eyes.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

If you missed it in the print edition, the piece ran with this wonderful art from George Danby

A newspaper page with an op-ed entitled "An Opera of Loons." The cartoon art featured several loons superimposed over the song "The Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Too many Dems parrot Republican talking points on immigration and mirror Republican policies. All while regurgitating the utterly inaccurate "open-door" caricatures of Biden/Obama era policies that Trump and his ilk peddle? It's maddening.

BBC news story from Dec. 2024. Headline "US Deportations Under Biden Surpass Trump's Record"

Headline from today (7/10/25): "Trump was Right"--John Kerry says Democrats allowed "migrant siege" of US border

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Happy Lobster Roll Day, y'all. Edwin is FURIOUS.

Overstuffed lobster roll on plate with tater tots.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Some inside baseball on what went down with Fulbright from one of the eleven board members who resigned last week. Wild, but not surprising. I was on the other side of this. Greenlit every step of the way. Then cancelled, with no ability to inquire as to why. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Fmr. Rep. David Price:

Well, when the program was first set up almost 80 years ago, Senator Fulbright himself wanted to safeguard against political interference in the program in the selection of scholars, interference with academic freedom on the part of any administration in the future.

So the board was written into the statute with precisely that mission. It's an unusual mission for a board, but we were given final authority over the selection process. And we went through that, as we always do, this year. We had the awards ready to go in the middle of March.

But the Trump administration's political appointees told us that they intended to review our work and to make their own judgments. And that was ominous, but we watched that process. We tried to communicate with them. When we got wind that they were going to be canceling a number of the awards, we objected and cited our statutory responsibility and the values underlying it.

And we got silence, no response whatsoever. So, finally, when all this became clear in the middle of May, two months later, over 200 applications had been canceled by the Trump appointees. And another 1,200 or so were under review. At that point, it was clear that the Trump administration wasn't responsive to our questions and they were ignoring their legislative mandate.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is real. 1) how can someone with this level of privilege be so criminally stupid as to not realize there are different types of doctoral degrees? 2) truly ghoulish response to the Biden being diagnosed with aggressive cancer. What a monstrous, small, cruel human.

Tweet from Donald Trump Jr.:

What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???

Quote tweeting Dr Steven Quay:

Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

EPIC CATIO UPDATE: Luna busted out of the catio somehow and has holed up in the shed. Currently trying to lure her back in with treats, food, cat gogurt, and sweetness. #LunaComeHome

Picture of a calico cat in front of a purple and blue shed. Circled in red. Red text that says "Luna."

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It's about time for FAFO flag season.

Black flag with red alligator that states in red "FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT."

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"My sister and I would like to speak to the manager of this establishment."

Two cats sitting in window staring disapprovingly.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Future Glover will thank Sunday Glover for his meal planning foresight and diligence.

Close up of Honey Lemon Chicken and Broccoli.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Had a Zoom this evening and my coworker decided to crash it and climb all over me while drooling profusely.

Grey cat staring at camera in front of laptop.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

April is the cruelest month. So Nicole got me this truly wonderful shirt. She gets me. ❤️

T-shirt with an opossum and raccoon high fiving and the caption "Team Trash."

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The students on my campus have constructed a makeshift memorial for the food delivery robot that got run over by a dump truck and caught fire last week. This is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen them do.

A memorial for a food delivery robot that got crushed by a dump truck and caught fire at the University of Maine.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A throwback from the days of yore when the idea of a new cold war with Canada was absurd and hilarious. Those were simpler, more innocent times.

A TV playing the trailer to the film Canadian Bacon.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If you own cats, you're familiar with little notes like this to prevent overfeeding. If you're a cat , you'll decry this as a sophisticated disinformation campaign by "Big Starvation."

A post it note with the handwritten text "They've been fed."

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Academia in April. Why make a meal when you can make 6? Because once the week hits you'll be too busy to make food. You'll be thankful when you're devouring this at your desk hiding from humans with the lights off.

6 helpings of chicken and rice in to go containers.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Sad news. Underneath that pile of dirt is a Kiwibot that got run over by a dump truck. It apparently immediately burst into a three foot column of flame. The Kiwibot died in service to the campus. If you're out and about, watch your back. Its comrades are no doubt seeking revenge.

Three firefighters standing over the incinerated wreckage of a Kiwibot food delivery robot at UMaine.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

On this, the first day back from spring break, my wife snuck a pack of emotional support gummy bears into my lunch. I love this woman. (P.S. In direct defiance of the "share size" packaging, I will not be sharing.)

A package of Haribo "happy chicks" gummies.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We're actually not sure if Luna ever lived in a house before us or had cat toys. She's been bopping around for like a half hour with this thing, occasionally letting out little blerps of cat joy. It's the sweetest, cutest thing.

Calico cat laying on hardwood floor next to cat toy.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

COVID 19 made us really good at chess for a while. Disassociating from the fresh horrors has seriously upped our puzzle game. Trash can creatures!

A completed jigsaw puzzle of assorted "trash can creatures."

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Here's the mission statement of the US State Department. How could you ever make the case that present actions like this are achieving that?

Mission of the US State Department:

To protect and promote U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values and shape an international environment in which all Americans can thrive.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I should do that for humanity. Alas... tonight's shirt does not align with that noble act.

A blue shirt that says "Am I perfect? No. But am I trying to do better? Also no."

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

When I purchased this shirt for six American dollars during the COVID lockdown, I had no idea the ways in which it would just continue to deliver. Please stop delivering, shirt.

Dead eyed man in shirt that says "Is whatever this is almost over?"

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is not a "compliance" or a "risk management" situation. If university leadership does not dig in for what is a clear attempt to destroy higher ed, there's not going to be anything left.

Tweet from Donald Trump: "All federal funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The cats were being cute and enjoying night treatz and you won't believe what happened next. Effing cats....

Woman feeding adorable calico cat treats.

Grey cat surveying an extremely broken floor lamp.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Imagine that you're in an expensive foreign country and you have rent and other obligations. And all of a sudden you get a small fraction of your typical pay. The FFSP are understandably freaking out. Their posts are heartbreaking.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We interrupt the horrors to bring you this adorable dispatch from a two story cat camper. As you were.

Picture of a car sitting on top of a miniature kitty camper (with yet another cat sitting in it).

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So....last night I had the realization that Luna's markings basically make it look like she's decked out in an elegant fur coat. Cannot unsee.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hi Maine! Several things: 1) it was -6 when I woke up this morning. 2) Maine imports the vast majority of its oil from Canada. 3) we'll all soon be getting letters like this. 4) price cap plans will have the tariffs added to them. It's in your terms and conditions. (cont.)

Letter to Maine oil customers notifying them of price increases on home heating oil due to tariffs.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Home sweet home! We were greeted with aggressive biscuits. We missed you too, Subcomandante.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Welcome to Subcomandante Hernando Hyatt Habanero, People's Republic of Farmstand, San Juan Division.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

My 2024 Google highlights reel is hilarious.

Google highlights screenshot of cities visited.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This New Year's Day, you may be accosted by people imploring you to have a drink and referencing "hair of the dog." Instead, consider embracing "hair of the cat"--sleep 18 hours, only occasionally opening your eyes to look annoyed at whoever or whatever is around you.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Rob: "Look, Edwin! My sister got you a Bat Cat mask for Christmas!" Edwin: "I cannot even begin to express how much I do not approve of this. I don't understand what you were thinking."

Cat wearing a Batman mask held on by their person.

Cat sitting on arm of sofa, equal parts furious and bewildered.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The People's Republic of Farmstand's bounty of the season!

Four bottles of Chilean pinot noir homemade wine.

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