Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Least surprising quote in the piece: "The contract that Trump claimed would save money is now billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule." I'm going to guess that every reporter has a two-key macro for this sentence. 000
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” -Al Franken 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Love the key bridge joining with the memorial bridge mid-stream 020
Reposted by Robert PohlChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Some authores trye to wryte lengthye frame-tale narratyves thei get called assholes That nevir happenid to Giovanni Boccaccio 3673
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I remember showing my friends my new toys. When I was 5 030
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I suggest you get a search warrant for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Lots of fleecing going on there! 020
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I took a walking tour last year - highly recommend, because it’s not obvious what Brussels has to offer once you’ve seen the Grote Platz and Mannekin Piss 110
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Jon Grinspan’s Wide Awake is a fascinating look at a movement that was crucial in electing Lincoln, but faded away almost immediately and almost entirely forgotten. The Wideawakes were a martial anti-slavery movement consisting mainly of young men, so very different from the usual abolitionists. 020
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I was shocked at how many kids in strollers showed up at the SE library. Did not know we had that many in the neighborhood 101
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026And sometimes the speed limit is way too high for the current conditions. (The other thing I tried to impress upon my son when teaching to drive is to assume that everyone else out there is actively trying to kill you) 020
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Today in synchronicity, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social & @effinbirds.com 000
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026As always at sports events, they should have one normal person competing, just to show how absurdly competent the true athletes are. Throwing in a MD driver here would be awesome. My money would be on them. 120
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026But Mike Johnson can claim that he has never read a tweet of T*ump's and the media is all "ok, then." 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026As someone deeply interested in the location of hand dryers in pub bathrooms, I am gravely disappointed in the Clacton electorate. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comNigel Farage wins Clacton byelection in contest boycotted by other main partiesReform UK leader fails to appear for result, despite beating nearest challenger, Count Binface, and 32 other candidates 030
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I can lend you some, if he wants to listen to proper music (70s punk and New Wave) 030
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026“The buck stops on my cabinet member’s deputy’s desk” has a ring to it, doesn’t it? 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I actually had to download the app so I could delete it (which I then did on my computer...) 000
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The most recent series of Dark Winds references Karl May 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is probably the most famous story: otherhand.org/home-page/se...otherhand.orgThe Hunt for the Death Valley GermansThis is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure. It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents. It represen... 020
Reposted by Robert PohlKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 18/07/2026Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette 7454061003
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Stop scrolling and post 2 characters who bring you happiness. 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken 03716
Reposted by Robert PohlDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Trump ruins everything he touches. Before; After. 12250102
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"Every job is easy. Except mine. That requires a rare combination of brains, hard work, and subject matter knowledge" -everyone 000
Reposted by Robert PohlDave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Cloud-to-ground lightning, ground-to-cloud fireworks in DC. 251608312
Reposted by Robert PohlDerf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I was a teenager in 1976, and lived through the year-long Bicentennial bash. It's striking how different it was from thos joyless, cheesy, angry 250th is. This one feels like an official celebration in Pyonyang, under the point of a gun. 914123
Reposted by Robert PohlJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack. 1241946514
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Just hope that if something crashes, it does so on the Mall, what with nobody there 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026For our 4th of July parade? Which will be much earlier, obviously 100
Reposted by Robert PohlMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It's not easy being meme-d. #Oh-Gee-I-See-Algae 👀 748249384566
