Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I didn’t hang around long enough to figure out if the booming voice was a recording or a guy with a microphone doing crowd work, but in my heart, it’s the latter. I want to believe 000
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I almost let my kids watch that one today but then I got cold feet. 010
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Mark Hoppus with food poisoning: well I guess this is throwing up 020
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh dang, sounds like you’ve done everything short of switching to a P bass. How did it sound using a pick? Did it get you the tone you were looking for? 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Short of switching from flat wounds to round, I wonder how much you can increase the growl on a jazz bass without using an active pickup or putting some boost in line. 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026PizzaMonk! Why are you being so aggressive? Chill out 100
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I know a lot about this because I’m a CPA. I took several college courses on tax, passed the CPA exam, and do this for a living. It’s OK if you don’t know as much about it as I do. It doesn’t make me any better than you. But I think you are mistaken about what the word tax means and how OASDI works. 210
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Social Security tax is a regressive tax because of that $184k cutoff. Anyone making less than that pays a tax of 6.2%. But someone making $368k, for example, pays an effective tax of 3.1%. This is how poor people pay more than rich people 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m still holding out hope this can be reconciled amicably! 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m not pretending anything dawg. I’m explaining simple concepts to you politely. 210
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Respectfully, I disagree. It behaves much more like a tax (money in is used to fund services provided today) than a savings account. Paying the tax today is no guarantee the system will still exist when you retire in the future. 120
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Social Security tax is 12.4%, half paid by the employer and half by the employee. Income subject to the tax is capped at $184k/yr. Also, because DoorDash/Uber/et al call their drivers independent contractors, they pay both halves of that 12.4%, another way in which it is more expensive to be poor 141
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Also, is Mikey Madison trying to steal a serving tray? 020
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Haha you’ve probably embarrassed her friends! You’ve kicked off a chain reaction where they will stop inviting her to things 120
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Does she think sounds are quieter when you are sitting down? 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s ok to be stupid, it’s ok to be ugly, and it’s ok to be on TV, but you can’t do all 3 at once. That used to be what they did on TLC and I thought we moved beyond that 020
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I was with family last night and 60 Minutes was on and I must say: putting Ross Douthat in front of a TV camera was not a wise choice 140
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s such a deep well of expressing the things that unite us all in the simplest terms with music that is both straight forward but also completely unparalleled 010
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Are you feeling a little hungover because you stayed up too late listening to Pet Sounds and playing Donkey Kong Bananza and it’s not fair because you only drank 1 Modelo? You may be entitled to compensation 130
Reposted by Cool RonchCool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 31/05/2024I’m Back on My Bullshit (listening to pet sounds and becoming overwhelmed and emotional thinking about the beauty of the human condition) 001
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Alcoholics actually love it when we show them a cold, refreshing beer. 010
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you ever read anything about Steely Dan recording it’s always like “we were happy with this one because it only took us 17,000 takes to get the perfect hi hat sound” and then you listen to the song and it sounds like a Casio demo. That’s okay, I’ll still keep drinking that garbage 000
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/20268) 18 seconds into My Rival is when Steely Dan invented the Talking Heads. They quickly pivot to doing some other bullshit 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/20267) Do you think Steely Dan drank beer? I don’t think so because they would be too powerful if they did 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/20266) I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: the best part of any Steely Dan song is the 4 bars of Showbiz Kids where the tambourine comes in so that Donald Fagen can say a swear 100
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/20265) btw any album after Gaucho doesn’t count. Gaucho was their last album 100
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/20264) Pretzel Logic is Steely Dan’s 2nd worst album and 2nd best song. 100
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/20263) Time Out of Mind is Billie Jean for guys who ask people at the winery if they’ve seen Sideways. This made a lot of sense in my head 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/20262) you have to sit and listen to all of Gaucho the song, which sucks so hard, so that Time Out of Mind sounds even more amazing when it finally starts. 100
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/20261) Gaucho is their 2nd best album and 2nd worst song 100
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I listened to a lot of Steely Dan while driving home tonight and I’d like you to indulge me on a few thoughts I had: 100
Reposted by Cool RonchDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people. 292005235
Reposted by Cool RonchLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026[Training the army of illiterate steroid-addled fat ass ham-faced unaccountable murderous wife-beating slave catchers on the new software that lets you track anyone you want] Don't use this on stalking women you want to punish though ok? That's not what it's for. 144276
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think we should put Costco in charge of running the entire country. They’ve got it all figured out 0364
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Someone should hand the pope a piece of purple construction paper so we can do Different Damage next 030
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Oh yeah we had GAM and Apollo lying around the basement! I only ever ordered Rosco and a few colors from Lee that Rosco didn’t have replacements for. By the way, bastard amber is a workhorse. I almost always had that up somewhere 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Back when I was a light designer, Rosco and Lee were the only players in the game. Bogen must be an Australian company 110
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Everybody’s worried about who can use the men’s room and the women’s room, but what if we also had an ape room, which was full of hay. 000
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s pretty fucked up that we haven’t figured out a way to integrate orangutans into our society yet. They should be driving around and going grocery shopping and shit. Get on it people! Fix this 121
Reposted by Cool Ronchshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking 234350761
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Vote for Larry Sisyphus - a Man Who Gets Things Done! 000
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You can! In fact, the P in GLP stands for “probably,” because you can “probably” give it to dogs 0161
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hey guys, when I drink a michelada, please stop calling it a bitchelada. It’s not called that when I drink one. Stop it 130
Cool Ronch @ronthony.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I found one of these bad boys in my backyard the other day. I had no idea I was sitting on a goldmine 000
