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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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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 4h
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 1h
Time to end this fucking regime. They know what they are doing.
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 3h
Spread the word - TOMORROW October 5 is the LAST day in TENNESSEE to register to vote. Also - if you know a 17 year old that will be 18 by Nov 3, they need to register to vote NOW so they can vote in the midterms. #momsky#sheshed
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/09/2026
ANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 3h
TBF, Paul F Tompkins would rock as Iron Man
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 4h
My blood runs cold! The last parsnip has just been sold!
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 9h
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 5h
After 40+ years, it still feels a little naughty to hear "Centerfold" playing in the supermarket.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 7h
Just unlocked new archetype: “Kentucky Bourbon Castle Pervert”
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18h
thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 21h
The Imposters
Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt, holding each other's faces and looking at each other in THE IMPOSTERS
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you >
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OMG, it just occurred to me what a badass cleric spell Miracle Whip would be
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you need AI to tell your jokes, leave the joke-telling to other people.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are planning to vote in the Midterms, do vote early if available in your state. Don't wait for 11/3.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today at Virtual Appreciation Society: "361 was written right around the time Westlake (as Stark) was introducing Parker, and it’s in a very similar vein. It’s a revenge book, and the protagonist, named Ray Kelly, is as angry as he is single-minded."
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Tell Your Story Walking: Donald Westlake’s ‘361’
A brief review of the early Donald Westlake crime thriller
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I also say "I was just speculatin' on a hypothesis!"
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's surprising how often I have the opportunity to use "There's nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat."
Gabriel Byrne in MILLER'S CROSSING. He's wearing his hat.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Would you like to swing on a star....?
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sherlock Holmes, maybe?
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm sure I'm not the first to make the spicy joke either, but I hadn't seen it yet so I went for it.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Spicy!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.
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2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff says
One deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now at Virtual Appreciation Society: a review of The Henson Company's Puppet Up! "It’s a treat for process junkies, watching talented puppeteers manipulate the gestures and expressions on a variety of puppets, while at the same time watching those puppets as performers in their own right..."
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Puppet Up! visits Philadelphia
A look at the East Coast tour of Brian Henson's puppetry improv comedy show, Puppet Up!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thinking about this again and smiling
“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sofa king big and handsome
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At this point, "never do any business with Liberty Bibberty" is going in my will. My hatred will live on.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love to see it: Trump's disapproval rating hits a new high on the NYT's poll tracker. 61%!
The New York Times's presidential approval tracker: two jagged, divergent lines on a graph. Disapproval, in red, keeps getting higher and higher, and is currently at 61%. Approval, in green, is declining, and is now at 37%.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A two-word clue: "Yakity Sax"
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Muscle in just one arm from jacking off to the government killing people
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Super intelligence."
Barry Diamond as a weird Henny Youngman robot in Heartbeeps
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
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.
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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...
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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
To be fair, it's not clear if he can read at all.
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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?"
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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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