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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who at the BBC felt this guy was the one to talk about munitions shortfalls from an US administration perspective? Does he seem like a serious, knowledgeable person? Enough of these nonsense stunt talking heads. Where do they find them?

A goofy looking young white guy with slightly schwoopy short light brown hair, a bright blue sport coat and a ridiculous bolo string tie with a turquoise colored stone. He would not shut up despite his obvious lack of knowledge.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Visiting Zwolle, resisting the temptation to ask, “Heb je Arne Slot gezien?” #LFC

A river runs through an urban city, with a fountain in the middle and a large artsy sign with white letters that reads Zwolle

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here’s someone whose reasoning I don’t understand.

From the NYT on July 16. A report from Nate Schweber around 5 pm EDT.
“Despite the smoke worsening in New York City on Thursday afternoon, Nikhil Patel, 30, did not hesitate to push his 10-month-old son around Carl Schurz Park on the Upper East Side. ‘The park’s still nice, it’s a beautiful day, and he’s got to get out.’”

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I can’t be the only person who would be tempted to pass dear S22 (and also possibly S31), students who obviously didn’t use AI and performed like normal people on both. S22 even did better under more difficult conditions! I’d be like Willy Wonka, giving Charlie Bucket here the factory keys.

A graph from the re-posted article showing that the vast majority of students in a class scored far lower on an in-person exam compared to a midterm in which many are suspected of using AI. Student S22 stands out for scoring a 55 on the midterm and a 59 on the in-person final.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

No one is going to look the same as when they were younger, but it bothers me that Susan Dell looks quite unwell in the video below, and in need of something other than a national stage.

A woman with medium length dark blonde hair, blue eyes, wearing a black dress and silver jewelry. She appears to be of a thin but healthy weight and none of her facial features are distorted by plastic surgery.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We have ~100 cat toys in various rooms/toy boxes, some from this guy’s brothers he never met (RIP). And yet, he’s been occupied for 30 minutes with a hair tie of mine he stole 3 weeks ago and hid for safekeeping. His “prize.”

A black and tan tabby cat lies on his side on a cream colored carpeted floor by a brown wood door, reaching for a black elastic hair tie.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Hoping today makes Ian McCulloch happy (and also me), but I will settle for us not being made sad. #LFC

Ian McCulloch, lead singer of Echo & the Bunnymen, sits on a tiled floor with a blue area rug. He wears blue jeans, a sage colored light trench coat, a grey shirt over a black t-shirt, and, most importantly, a Liverpool Football Club scarf.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Andy, Andy, Andy, I can’t let you go. 🎶 Gonna miss this guy. My favorite Liverpool player. #LFC

Photo of Liverpool player Andy Robertson, in Liverpool’s 2025-26 home red kit, wearing a blue captain armband, and clapping for fans.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I desperately want Arne Slot and Liverpool #LFC to succeed, but his bizarre, last-ditch substitutions where half the players are out of position baffle me. It always feels like this:

Ecce Homo, the painting of Jesus in Spain that was grossly disfigured as a result of an attempted restoration by an 81-year-old elderly town resident.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Sorry for the lack of specificity. This is what was sent out. In support of your point, if these kinds of papers are sending out email blasts, it should pave the way for even our most cowardly politicians to call for removal.

An emailed news alert from the Oakland Press in Oakland County, Michigan. The article features a photo of former President Obama sitting next to President Trump. The title of the article is “Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates.” Text underneath it reads, “Trump’s post has drawn backlash of the nation’s first Black president and first lady. READ STORY”

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The 25/26 Premier League ball always looks like it rolled through a bloodbath and will be introduced in court as evidence.

Bright yellow Puma football (soccer ball) with reddish smears on it, sitting on a green grass football pitch.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Whoever this gal is, she did a real star turn in the 1971 Willy Wonka.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Saw this yesterday in Troy, MI, outside Detroit, still up and plastered to the front of this house, and wondered why.

Large Trump 2024 banner affixed to the siding on the front of a small white ranch-style home in suburban Detroit (Troy). In the driveway is a white pickup truck, and a full-size American flag is affixed to the mailbox.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Reading Bluesky and finding out the political party you favor is putting $20 million into trying to get the votes of Alan White and his friends.

Sam Weir, a slightly built curly-headed character from the show “Freaks and Geeks,” with a look of disgust on his face.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Perhaps things have changed, but this sounds like a prescription for an anti-establishment youth counterculture. Has this man seen no movies where the youth rise up against “the man”? I dunno, I’d be careful. Then again, one of my favorite movies is Over the Edge.

Scene from the 1979 film Over the Edge in which the teenage characters Richie White (Matt Dillon) and Carl Willat (Michael Kramer) are hassled and frisked while up against a police car by the overly authoritarian Sergeant Doberman (Harry Northup).

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Sadly, the roof came off the Rolladium roller rink in Waterford, MI due to today’s storms. No one was hurt, which is why we can all enjoy this one spirited roofer.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Does anybody else think of this guy when they see Erling Haaland hanging around up by the goal?

The Abominable Snowman, from “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” puts the star on the Christmas tree.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

People joked about this when Trump held up babies, but I do think Elon may intentionally be using his son as a shield, always at head level, etc.

In the movie The Dead Zone, Martin Sheen’s political candidate character holds up a baby to shield himself from attack.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

@lollardfish.bsky.social Bloomfield Township Library in Michigan is on it, based on today’s email:

Set of nonfiction books in an email from Bloomfield Township, Michigan library, showcasing Matthew Gabrielle and David Perry’s book Oathbreakers.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ah! Thank you! We’ll definitely visit! We usually make a stop at the father-son used bookseller, the comics shop, and the restaurant Bis, all on a nearby street. Haarlem is a friendly, warm place. For example, elderly woman saw us peeking through this fence, greeted us, and told us the history.

A beautiful Dutch building with a clock on it, behind a well-trimmed front garden. The photo is a view through a fence with iron rails. A sign on the fence reads, “Bezichtiging van het Hof via de groene deur,” which means, “Viewing of the court through the green door.” A door can be seen on the right side that leads to a court that is only open on occasion.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Less than ideal situation for people tuned in to Detroit PBS in hopes of watching PBS News Hour. Ten minutes in, and we’re still in a test pattern. 😩 I feel so uninformed now, and I miss my PBS frens.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Sorry to jump on this thread, but an account labeled mattsteinglass1 just followed me…we are not mutuals, and I think it’s an impostor? FYI if it’s not you.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Here’s an example from Zürich, where, at nearly any time in the city center, one is only steps (ha ha) away from fondue, raclette, bratwurst, and/or chocolate. Ask me how I know. 😋

A view from the bottom of Trittligasse in Zürich, a very steep, narrow pedestrian urban street with a set of well-maintained shallow steps on the right, extending as far as the eye can see.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

The man said we could take more than one, so I got the cat plus the werewolf one people here covet. Here is the werewolf.

Michigan “I voted” sticker featuring a werewolf tearing off his shirt in front of a US flag.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Voted early, after waiting over 1.5 hours in Michigan. Got the rad werewolf sticker plus this one! Hope this turnout is a good sign.

This is a voting sticker: a drawing of a grey striped cat wearing an Uncle Sam type hat and reading “I voted.”

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Thanks so much! Had a wonderful visit to Leuven this past summer, and I will highly recommend it to scholars who are able to apply.

Kruidtuin (botanical gardens), Leuven, Belgium

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

The Secret Service has to be accustomed to this to allow such close body contact from a non-family member, right? Plus, Loomer is an unhinged person who could easily shank him. I could easily see her with those little knives that pop out of the cups of a bra or something.

A photo of that terrible racist Islamaphobe Laura Loomer smiling and pressing her body and breast to the torso and groin of a sweaty, florid, unkempt Donald Trump in his red MAGA hat and white golf shirt. She posted it to her own Twitter account in August 2023 with a heart eyes emoji. Seems sus!

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Me and the five people who read my skeets

The Brady Bunch, the Brady Bunch…it’s the way we became the Brady Bunch 🎶

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

“Michael, will you get here by your release date?” “Yah mo b there.”

New Michael McDonald autobiography with Paul Reiser titled What a Fool Believes, sitting on a small outdoor glass-topped table next to a terracotta planter of red begonias.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Not sure why these look better on ye olde phone than with ye olde eyes, but I’ll take it. Now I can sing ye olde song truthfully.

Image of Northern Lights in Southeast Michigan

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

I admittedly sometimes visit the bad place, as some people I like (not famous, but people in my fields of study or local folks) post there (and not here, at least often). Thus, I collected another exhibit for the “Diane Warren is an insufferable narcissist” file @theferocity.bsky.social, to wit:

A Christina Aguilera fan on Twitter commented on the 24th anniversary of the song “I Turn to You,” and Diane retweets it and says, “I wrote it when I was 5!”

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Deep cut for the 70s kids: Katie Britt’s acting coach:

Myrna Carter on The Brady Bunch teaching the family to “motivate” in their SAFE detergent commercial.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Who among us can forget the immortal Eddie Van Hale? Esteemed author Eric R Knull has clearly outdone himself with this latest tome

Amazon listing for a AI generated “biography” of Eddie Van Hale (without the N).

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Here’s a still shot from a video I took at Lake St. Clair Metropark in August 2014 after it emerged from the water. This one’s white or cream-colored? Must be the August thing to do in Michigan, take out one’s Amphicar.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Snow?!? Ya gotta be kiddin’ me!

Silhouette of a cardboard skeleton, hand to head, taped to a window through which one can see snow on the ground and bushes.

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Roco Foucault @rocofoucault.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Fascinating book ad on my (ancient) Kindle. May use it as a cautionary tale for students looking to AI all their assignments.

Kindle sleep screen advertisement for a book titled “Funny Students’ Homework and Test Answers & Late.”

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