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Rob Staeger

@robstaeger.bsky.social
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Bon vivant. Your average comics-loving jambalaya hobbit. Writer/editor/word nerd for hire. He/him. Proprietor of Virtual Appreciation Society (virtualappreciationsociety.com).

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Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social · 47m
"Super intelligence."
Barry Diamond as a weird Henny Youngman robot in Heartbeeps
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20m
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4h
We took the protest to an event where we knew the Drexel board would be tonight and I blasted a bullhorn directly into the door crack of the gathering, disrupting the event 💅 Drexel President Anthony Merlo was supposed to be there but a person slipped to us that he canceled 👀 gosh I wonder why.
Sarah is smug as fuck on public transportation
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 8h
A new post is up on Virtual Appreciation Society! Some months-late thoughts about The Odyssey... but what the heck, it's a 2000-year-old poem anyway. Also, Robert Graves's 1950 novel Homer's Daughter, which is a spry 76.
virtualappreciationsociety.com
Nolan's The Odyssey, Robert Graves's Homer's Daughter
Nolan's The Odyssey, Robert Graves's Homer's Daughter
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Spooky Sara (Endless Halloween🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Meme of girls going back in time they say "im your Granddaughter" response "really" and then me with time machine I'm a wizard  and I state "hello , Art Bell, I am a time traveler. " Art Bell says "Yes caller you are on the air" Coast to coast  radio show meme
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 29/09/2026
SO YOU ARE A CATHOLIC? NAME FIVE CATS!
Black cat face close up
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wonder which pigfucker they'll bring in next?
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"AL CAPONE INTRODUCES NEW SYSTEM TO KEEP GANGSTERS FROM SMASHING UP YOUR NICE LITTLE GROCERY STORE YOU GOT HERE...CAPISCE?"
edition.cnn.com
Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue | CNN Business
Chipmaker Nvidia said Monday it is introducing a new software platform to address concerns about artificial intelligence agents that have “gone rogue” and operated outside human control.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Was lying on the couch and thought Wait... How smart IS Macklemore's dog? And then I thought, oh, I'm probably dreaming. #robdreams
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I really enjoyed this profile from Stephanie Farr.
inquirer.com
He made one of the greatest pieces of public art in Philly. He also made the Rizzo statue.
Zenos Frudakis is the sculptor behind one of Philadelphia's most beloved public artworks and the creator of its most divisive one.
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?
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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 15/07/2026
permanent daylight savings doesn't go far enough
GET RID OF TIME, BUT NOT THE ZONES

a map of the US, divided vertically into 12 time zones, permanently fixed to 1:00 to 12:00. it's divided horizontally by the AM/PM line

FIXED TIME FIXES TIME!
"It's always 11:00am in Philadelphia!"
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shut It Down
nytimes.com
OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
314 Wendy's. 15 states. One bankruptcy filing. Meritage, a top Wendy's franchisee, just filed Chapter 11, blaming record beef prices and shrinking profits. Lesson: when costs rise and you can't raise prices, you don't have a business. You have a countdown. Thank Donald Trump.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On a quadruple bill with 3 other Cannon movies, including Masters of the Universe, American Ninja, and a Charles Bronson movie whose name I can never remember.
static.klipy.com
Breakin' Movie Dance Practice
Alt: Breakin' movie dance practice
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 26/09/2026
How do you know this doc has Elon rattled? Because all of the other oligarchs are trying to protect his ego. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today is National Comic Book Day! Drop a pic of the first comic books you remember reading. (The first three are all early buys for me; Legion 203 was read at a friend's house, and was probably a hand-me-down)
Superman 314: Superman holds his ears as space pirate Amalak plays a death harmonicaFlash 253: Flash is being turned into putty by The Molder, Elongated Man's badass villain personaSuperboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #232: Superboy swats Saturn Girl to the ground to save her from space gas -- The Disease That Wouldn't Die! (Happy Klordny!)Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes #203: Validus, a three-fingered purple giant with a visible brain, looms over the Legion, in a MASSACRE BY REMOTE CONTROL!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(me, next in line to be interviewed after you, spaghetti bolognese spilling out of every pocket of my cargo pants) he's right you look like an asshole
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SouperSide @souperside.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Susan Collins can deny whatever she wants… …but the dude who named her in the bribery scheme that went to PRISON… …is in prison for giving HER money. 🤷‍♀️
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Activists and elected officials are demonstrating outside Texas’ health department in Austin as the state’s maternal mortality committee holds a meeting closed to the public and press about the women who have died since the state banned abortion.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's something about the 70s pacing of The Rockford Files that calms me right into dreamland. The perfect bedtime show is one that's interesting enough to keep me off my phone, but soothing enough to slow my heart rate. Rockford never misses (and I catch the end of the show in the morning).
Jim Rockford (James Garner), counting some money with a gun in his hand and a bottle of whiskey on the desk. (It's probably not his money.)
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donald Westlake's "361," a one-off crime novel with a protagonist so pissed off (and rightfully so) that it's like mainlining David Lynch's "The Angriest Dog in the World."
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 24/09/2026
Crudely drawn meme

Person: "Do crimes"
Computer: "I did crimes"
Person: "oh my god."
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A b/w photo of Wendy's spokesperson Clara Peller, under a sign with a word balloon on it asking "WHERE'S THE BEEF?"
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 24/09/2026
Love to work with Boom.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
apnews.com
https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hauntingly beautiful.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Church of Mad Love is such a holy place to be.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hegseth security standards strike again. Maybe he can fix this by inviting another reporter onto a Signal chat.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh, great. Nazi money will fix everything.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2026
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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Kavanaugh stops" should follow him to his grave
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A post about my recent podcast appearance with @oneofmanysteves.bsky.social on @bearcaveofterror.bsky.social is now up on Virtual Appreciation Society! Featuring The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the woman who visualized him, Millicent Patrick!
virtualappreciationsociety.com
Discover the Legacy of Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dive into the fascinating world of the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Millicent Patrick's legacy
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
Exclusive: In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes. “I am the code,” Trump said.
washingtonpost.com
‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
You really do need to read the full, bracingly insane, space laser text message exchange between Elon Musk and Ashley St. Clair in 2024: www.npr.org/2026/09/10/g...
In a letter sent to Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, the company behind the film, Musk attorney Alex Spiro homes in on an exchange between Gibney and Ashley St. Clair, a former MAGA influencer who dated Musk and had a child with the billionaire.
St. Clair described text messages Musk sent her before the November 2024 presidential election in which he said he was
"feeling more optimistic" about Donald Trump winning because "tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix." When St. Clair asked for clarity, Musk said he planned on tapping "Lasers' from space," adding that "I have over 10 thousand lasers in space right now."
In the film, Gibney asked St. Clair if she believed Musk's texts referred to satellites owned by his rocket company, SpaceX.
She responded, "I don't know where else he has lasers."
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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
From back in April. Y’all now know it was the Muppets I was working on. I’ve never had more fun drawing 20 pages and I hope that comes through when you pick up the book tomorrow. I’m so grateful for this opportunity.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One important job of the next administration will have to be breaking up media monopolies. And a bunch of other ones, too.
apnews.com
States settle lawsuit over Paramount-Warner merger, clearing key hurdle for $81 billion deal
Twelve states and Hollywood writers challenging Paramount’s buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to settle their lawsuits against the mega merger.
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