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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 13/09/2026

As someone who uses AI tools for 8-10 hours a day at work and spends a fair amount of time writing skills for engineering processes, this is pretty funny

"biggest single moment: +4 blocks on Apr 4, 2026, when @rumdood.com was added to “Anti-AI” — every account already subscribed to that list blocked instantly."

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 17/08/2026

It's National Rum Day in the US. So tonight instead of my usual Americano, I made one with 3/4 oz each Campari, Punt e Mes, Appleton Estate V/X and topped with grapefruit soda. #nationalrumday

A photo of a cocktail consisting of

3/4 oz Campari
3/4 oz Punt e Mes
3/4 oz Appleton Estate V/X Rum
and grapefruit soda

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 30/07/2026

I just want to state again for the record that this is clearly a spoiler for Severance Season 3.

A giant goat/centaur robot with glowing eyes lurks on the other side of a glass door. The text next to it says "this robot is more dangerous than it looks"

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 30/07/2026

I demand both that we prevent this from existing and that this be built immediately.

I don't even know how to describe this. A diagram of a centaur goat robot with gun and knife icons indicating where you can stab the robot to force it to stop operating

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 16/06/2026

Got complimented on my shirt in the Italian market today by one of the employees and then the others asked me to share with them the story of our Lord and Savior, John Brown...

RumDood wearing a T-shirt that reads "John Brown Did Nothing Wrong"

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 10/06/2026

This is amusing to me because I was cleaning out my home office the other day and came across a stack of these agreements to not use access to DOJ and other systems for personal reasons that I had to sign every year for almost 20 years...

A stack of FBI and California DOJ security addendum agreements

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 03/06/2026

Took many, many tries where I kept getting 1980s Bucks over and over again, but it finally hit for me. www.82-0.com/share?id=39f...

82-0.com roster of Oscar Robertson, LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Sidney Wicks, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that goes 82-0

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 03/06/2026

This one goes 82-0 www.82-0.com/share?id=39f...

An 82-0.com roster of Oscar Robertson, LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Sidney Wicks and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 23/05/2026

Primus song titles are pretty great for this.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 23/05/2026

I should not be allowed to have internet

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 20/05/2026

There was a time when I knew how to calculate the function for this curve.

The game flow for Game 1 of the ECF between the Cavs and the Knicks, which is a pretty bitchin' sin wave

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 03/05/2026

That picture is real, but 100% cheating because it's actually me taking a photo of the jumbotron. We were actually somewhat behind the stage.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 03/05/2026

If you see this, post a concert photo you took I'll raise Humu one Elton John from his 2019 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road farewell tour.

Elton John playing the piano in Fresno, California on his 2019 farewell tour

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 29/04/2026

Just an impossible place to avoid. It has dad gravity.

A photo of USS Midway aircraft carrier museum in San Diego, California, USA

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 23/04/2026

Look, I know that these adornments on the inside of the rotunda of the California state capitol building are actually grizzly bears - but you'll never convince me they don't look more like angry possums and that that is not somehow more appropriate

A frieze of a grizzly bear inside the California capitol rotunda

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 15/04/2026

The lobby bar is extremely my shit

The Lobby Bar at the Lafayette Hotel in San Diego

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 17/03/2026

OK, could I have built my own web-based Kriegspiel chess site by hand? Yes. Would I have it as polished as this in 4 weeks of "spent an hour on it on Saturday and 45 minutes on Sunday" without vibe-coding it? Uh, no. 1/x

A screenshot of a web-based chess game called "kriegspiel"

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 18/02/2026

Shelf space, fortunately, is not at a premium. There are four more shelves behind the door there and four more in the garage.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 28/01/2026

Just gonna be honest. Sometimes I don't expand the threads because the universe sees fit to give me a wonderful gift.

A screenshot of @bencollins.bsky.social posting a gag list of new CBS contributors followed by a "View full thread" link and then a post from the thread that reads "I think we can agree that's a very fuckable chocolate"

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 20/01/2026

There. This should make my tenuous grip on sanity a little bit stronger. It's not the 83% of you that aren't on that list, it's me. And reality.

Screenshot of my list of feeds displaying a list called "Slightly Fewer Horrors" at the top.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 04/12/2025

Wait, the guy who wrote this thing thinks that there's nothing wrong with killing innocent people? You're kidding!

A picture of the headline from Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for military troops to be deployed to American cities to suppress protests

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 02/12/2025

The funniest thing about this idiotic focus on "protecting our culture" is how far out they've had to push the definition of "our culture" to pretend they're maintaining anything. My great grandfather came here from Germany. Today the Right would celebrate that. Meanwhile in 1751...

A screenshot from Wikipedia of an excerpt from a Benjamin Franklin pamphlet bemoaning the influx of German immigrants into Pennsylvania. The excerpt reads, "why should the Palatine boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements, and by herding together establish their languages and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?"

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 13/11/2025

Setting, Moderation, Bluesky Moderation Service, scroll down until you see the big toggles for content and you'll see "Rude" and can turn it off (2nd image)

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 02/11/2025

This is just a funny coincidence here.

A screenshot of Bluesky where one post is stating the fact that this is the sixth consecutive year in which the team that won the World Series had a player named "Will Smith" on the roster, and the next chronological post is from a podcaster named Will Smith, where he thanks Satan for helping him and the Dodgers win the World Series

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 08/10/2025

Without downloading anything where are you mentally right now?

A screen capture from Super Mario Bros with Mario and Toad.

The text reads:

"The princess isn't in another castle. She isn't anywhere. She is not real. Nothing is real. There is only suffering."

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 28/08/2025

He even acknowledges that crime is falling in his announcement!

Last August, Governor Newsom signed into law the most significant bipartisan legislation to crack down on property crime in modern California history. Building on the state’s robust laws and record public safety funding, these bipartisan bills offer new tools to bolster ongoing efforts to hold criminals accountable for smash-and-grab robberies, property crime, retail theft, and auto burglaries. While California’s crime rate remains at near-historic lows, these laws help California adapt to evolving criminal tactics to ensure perpetrators are effectively held accountable.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 28/08/2025

Kudos to @alcademics.bsky.social on his upcoming Halloween costume.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 25/08/2025

I think I found this on Reddit a number of years ago. I don't recall. A few of us were looking at different flag ideas for different states and it kind of spoke to me.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 21/08/2025

As a life-long Lakers fan I am very uncomfortable with how much the current times are forcing me to cheer for Boston.

Boston Mayor Michelle Chu dunks on the ridiculous claim by fascist ICE Director that she did not swear an oath by posting a photo of herself swearing her oath to uphold the Constitution on a Bible from 1782

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 30/07/2025

Nobody tell them about these other building with corners pointing in the same directions - especially not the one in the top right which has corners pointing to all sorts of places.

A clip of the aerial photo of the building and its neighbors which have corners also pointing in similar directions because they are also on the same street.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 23/07/2025

Speaking now on his reservations because he doesn't want to remove a tool from Law Enforcement's belt. So this is going to fail 4-2 is my guess.

John Gyllenhammer, City Councilmember for District 6 in the City of Orange, who will not support a resolution to require law enforcement to be identifiable

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 23/07/2025

Almost 30 residents speaking in support of the resolution is a heck of a big number at a City Council meeting in Orange.

Agenda Item in Orange City Council Meeting on July 22, 2025

5.1: Consideration of a resolution to require federal agents to be visibly identifiable when engaged in law enforcement actions in the city

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 23/07/2025

Waiting for the resolution regarding requiring federal agents to be identifiable and in the meantime listening to public comments on other things.

An agenda item for the Orange City Council regarding an ordinance regulating the number of chickens that can be kept on residential property

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 15/07/2025

I mean, look at this chart. "Also trainable, food motivated" is the same psychological profile my therapist has written down for me.

A chart comparing the temperament and behavior of Golden Retrievers and Yellow Labradors.

Under "Yellow Labrador" the trait "Also trainable, food-motivated" is highlighted.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 15/07/2025

You know how sometimes when you're trying to get at one bottle on your top shelf, you catch a glimpse of something that got pushed way back and it turns out it's a bottle of 1994 Rhum JM Agricole Vieux? No? Just me? #HappyBastilleDay

A glass of Rhum JM 1994 Rhum. Agricole Vieux sits in front of a dusty bottle.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 08/07/2025

My favorite tweepinned garnish is still the none-functional but non-wasteful one I got in Sydney a million years ago.

A cocktail with a playing card (the 9 of spades) pinned to the glass

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 27/06/2025

Tonight's night cap after evening chores: The Devil's Parlor 1.5 oz Rhum Agricole Blanc (Neisson 52.5%) 0.75 oz Cocchi Americano 0.75 oz Gran Classico Bitters 0.5 tsp Demerara Syrup Stir, strain into a chilled coupe glass. Grapefruit or lemon twist

A coupe glass containing the cocktail described in the post. The drink is an orange-yellow color with a thin strip of lemon peel

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 26/06/2025

The City of Orange is governed by low-life thugs From @voiceofoc.bsky.social voiceofoc.org/2025/06/divi...

“That’s fine. Protest. You do it peacefully, because the second you break the law – you want to be in 1960s, we’ll return to 1960s,” Dumitru said. “There should be fire hoses, I have no problem with that because if you break the law, you’re breaking the law.”

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 24/06/2025

Sometimes I reflect on my life and the fact that I have somehow stolen the rightful place of some much cooler person who was supposed to know the likes of @mbrowley.bsky.social and be graced with his insight and wit. They can have their place when they pry it from my cold, dead bacon-greased hand

A conversation in which I ask Matt Rowley what "leftover bacon is" and he responds in verse.

"What is leftover bacon?"
"Nonsense. Gibberish. It has flow and even meter, but no meaning in English.

'Twas brillig, and hte slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the bacon was leftover."

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 23/06/2025

I think it's also critical to point out that the article states they deported "at least" 70 citizens between 2015 and 2020.

"Between 2015 and 2020, ICE deported at least 70 people who were U.S. citizens, according to the GAO. That's not just a bureaucratic mistake - it's a constitutional violation."

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 29/05/2025

When my parents moved to Texas, my dad left me boxes of his SciFi books. Asimov, Clark, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert...and a metric ton of Larry Niven. Just look at some of his covers and this Wikipedia excerpt is very "that tracks"

ONLY ONE PERSON COULD HAVE BEEN ON THE LUNAR SURFACE...

Her name is Naomi Mitchison. She's the most beautiful woman on the Moon; she was also the only person who was outside on the lunar surface at the right moment to send a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. But she's not a murderer, that much A.R.M. investigator Gil "The Arm" Hamilton is sure of, even though all the evidence seems to point straight at her. Trials these days are short, and sentencing for capital crimes is always the same: the organ banks, where felons wait in huge tanks to "repay society" with bits and pieces of their bodies. Gil has got to move fast to keep Naomi in one piece, or the most -beautiful woman on Luna is going to be a nicely arranged sack of spare parts.

With the aid of over fifty superb interior illustrations by Fernando Fernadez, match wits with the sharpest mind in science fiction in a classic Locked Universe mystery!

THESE ARE THE STORIES OF SVETZ...

And his mad adventures with horses, unicorns, ostriches, rocs, and other unlikely fauna, both extinct and as yet unborn, and of the extraordinary difficulties into which a simple, humdrum time-traveller can get when his Department supplies him with inadequate information. But then, the Civil Service has ever been notorious for truly staggering foul-ups. Several hundred centuries ahead or behind makes little difference except to complicate matters even further... AND HERE THERE BE (ALSO) WARLOCKS, WEREWOLVES and divine witchery, Proving that LARRY NIVEN can write on both sides of the science fiction fence.

Cover of Larry Niven's "The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton"

Cover of Larry Niven's "The Patchwork Girl"

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