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Rob Zacny

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 4h
Current* conditions near Port Washington, WI:
View looking east over Rotary Park, the Port Washington Marina and the harbor breakwater as it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-11 23:06:04 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: tmj4.com // Current Temp in Port Washington: 61 F | 16 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: SSW at 10 mph | 16 kph // Humidity: 87%
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 6h
This is the tech dweeb equivalent of Boomer, “Just go around with your resume and ask to speak to the hiring manager” advice.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 6h
That video is where the game’s thesis fully snapped into focus. “Oh all the techs are just letting us be WORSE.”
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 6h
I don’t understand balks under the best of circumstances. I really don’t understand that one.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 7h
Political advertising is such a racket. There’s a fortune spent on NH ads starring some of the worst actors and least convincing New Englanders I’ve ever seen finding different ways to make their voice quiver while saying stuff like, “We need someone to worn for us, NOT special interests.”
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 7h
Oh god no Niners Seahawks is what I watched
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 9h
I only played the first act or so, I like what I’ve seen! OTOH there’s apparently a car named after me in the game so slightly conflict of interest
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 11h
I don’t know I need to find one that sparks… anything
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 11h
Lost in a fog of sports ennui and disgust that can only be lifted by a new dry seasoning recipe for wings.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 11h
Okay well I mostly meant the NFC west game…
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 11h
Watching more sports at this point feels like staying at a casino when you‘re down. Miserable F1 weekend, Bears played like crap… but these 4:30 games look preeeeetty goooood.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 11h
It feels like the goal is empowerment where she knows her worth and leaves to take a path that leads her to music and the song you’re listening to right now! Except she’s just crashing-out. The great lure of Texas is an awkward interaction with a childhood sweetheart? Time to get in a random van!
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 12h
OK my football team complete face planted so I watched the (seven minute?!) video and I’m baffled. Perplexed. I thought you were exaggerating but uh… she just peaces out and literally nothing has happened? It’s amazing, there’s no arc whatsoever! For anyone!
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 12h
Magnificent.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 12h
No more fitting tribute to Ditka than a game that leaves you wishing Buddy Ryan were here.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 13h
No but I wish
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 13h
Also loves to make you re-authenticate
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah, it’s not aesthetically pleasing.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 13h
Nothing like watching two great teams going move-for-move, blow-for-blow. And that’s not what I’m watching, but it’s nice to think about what it would be like if I were.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 14h
The Thursday Night Football game where he makes it SO clear to Taylor Rooks that he has learned absolutely nothing and is a pathologically self-absorbed creep was really something. Feels like there’s going to be more awful headlines associated with this guy down the road.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 17h
Oh shit I better hurry.
An online store page with a red banner: “Due to overwhelming demand, Z-Series Ratchets may have extended lead times.” Below it says, “Hurry, only 227 left!”
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 18h
Is blind firing affirmation, gestures at inclusion, and retail products at the audience like you’re about to get killed in Gears GOOD allyship? Probably not. But hey in 2026…
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 19h
F1 has figured out what the fans want! <Jonah Jameson voice> Pictures of an animated Pirelli banner ad!
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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 11/10/2026
Hi, I'm the vocal director for Star Wars Galactic Racer. My office has a Huttese dictionary, a mountain of cocaine, and a line out of the door of the loudest theater kids we could find. I hope you like the result!
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Thanks so much your help. Now I can return home and really, ah, ‘Get her done?’”
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I am now!
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
<Pulling up to the tool shop in suede loafers> How do you do, fellow laborers?
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Heh I haven’t looked these up since they were my aspirational living spaces back in like 2014.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh wow that’s a LOT of yellow flags adding up to a giant red flag
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And over time it just turns into not even logging on at all.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And the problem gets worse over time because the more often people encounter this kind of hostile, bad-faith / scolding energy, the more the kinds of people you want to talk to will go, “Nah, this isn’t for me,” and disappear.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My theory: all online spaces suffer from the Frequent Poster problem where the people who are online a ton define a space because they are ALWAYS replying, drowning out people who have lives that involve being less online. Bluesky is heavily tilted toward the Frequent Posters who give bad vibes.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If this is not going to be used in the field then I’d probably get a USB microphone microphone interface with an XLR input and go look for bargains on used microphones. Because then you’re getting things that are purely microphones and not pc peripherals.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@papapishu.bsky.social is your resource here I definitely would not buy a used Yeti. I had two or three of those and they all stopped working after around two and a half years
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not the sell I’d use personally. Though “Tinker, Tailor, Rainbow, Six” is probably too inscrutable.
The Amazon screen for Six Days which notes it stars “Mark Strong from Shazam!”
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Slacker Jolene
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Russ this is so much dumber than I could have imagined and it’s Maine making me a little angry? “Texas” is shorthand for a TEXAN?! This is a preposterous conceit.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Was MAGA guy a tenant who did not renew? Is MAGA guy getting divorced? Is MAGA guy fleeing to Maine or New Hampshire to escape the Socialist Republic of MA and renting his house?
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ambiguous portents: the Trump-Vance flag-flying MAGA house next to the school (hmm) near the audio shop has taken all its decorations down. Now there is a a For Rent sign out front and there was a truck with a trailer full of sloppily packed white plastic crates out front.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Did she choose Texas or was the issue that he was choosing Texas over her?
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He used to own an MG. So now he has about 1200 bucks worth of Harbor Freight tools and no MG.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh to be living a life that is in perfect harmony. Had to drop off the loaner phono preamp today. Start talking about the issue with my car. My audio guy says, “Hey you need a jack and jack stands? I can lend you mine. You have a diagnostic cable already? I might even have a code reader.”
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They don’t make them like this anymore, or at least they don’t get as far. For good reasons. But you’ll also never feel like the person running the team loves it as much as you do, that they are governed by the same illogic and self-defeating sentiment that is the bedrock of Bears fandom.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s also why his reputation could get battered and he was still the Coach. It’s not surprising when it turns out your living mascot possesses neither keen football insight nor progressive views. He was the embodiment of Bears parochialism and the blinkered “football guy” stereotype.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Every NFL franchise undergoes a transition from being a team to being a business WITH a team. For the Bears, I think it was when they fired Ditka. Last of the guys with direct connections to the Halas teams, the face of the 85 Bears, impossibly Chicago in affect, direct and unpolished.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I cannot express just how ubiquitous Ditka was growing up in Chicagoland in the 80s and 90s. M-F it was Sesame Street and Bozo the Clown, on the weekend you had The Mike Ditka Show before you saw him coaching the team. Everyone who followed got the job of being coach, but not as the institution.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh some people really detest those guys. I’m not quite there but there’s a long track record of them being thin-skinned and toxic when criticized, particularly for their edgelord tendencies in the past.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I suspect both are actually necessary. The kind of practical demonstration at which video excels is tailored to generate wildly unearned confidence and confirmation bias. The forum tutorial is providing a systematic framework for understanding what’s happening in your car.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Youtube: a series of convincing and straightforward tutorials on how to diagnose and fix a start issue with your car. Forums: pages of engineers rebuking people for trying those exact fixes without performing correct diagnostic steps, described in an annotated checklists stretching four screens.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh that sucks I am sorry to hear that. Better than no chance at all but not a good feeling!
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