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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

adopts mom's "don't make me turn this car around" voice

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

i love this so, so much www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/hypo...

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for meditation,1 in which the writer would store quotes from books they had read. Each day, often in the morning, the notetaker would open their notebook and look for a passage relevant to something they were struggling with, and then they would meditate on that—unpacking it, making the idea top of mind, ensuring it was alive in them. If they needed courage, for instance, they could meditate on an anecdote that made it real for them what it meant to act bravely. The idea was that over time, the insights they gathered by reading would be transformed into character, something deeply ingrained in their way of thinking and seeing and acting.

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

and i'm supposed to just go about my day after reading this???? ($) harpers.org/archive/2025/12/t...

A fascinating experiment occurred in the Canary Islands in 2008. Most people are acquainted with the double-slit experiment, which is over a hundred years old at this point. Scientists pass a photon through two slits to see what pattern it makes on the other side. If no one is watching-that is, measuring-the photon as it passes through the slits, it acts as a wave: it goes through both slits and spreads out on the screen beyond them. If someone is observing the passage, then the photon acts as a particle and passes through one distinct place (leaving one spot on the screen). This is bizarre enough, suggesting that merely the fact of our attention affects physical reality, or that there is some immense reality occurring that our brains are too limited to observe. Or both.

In the Canary Islands, researchers used the double-slit experiment to test the theory of quantum erasure. They began with two entangled particles. The first they shot through slits without observing it. It passed through as a wave. Then they moved to another island and shot the entangled twin through slits while observing it. It passed through as a particle. Given the theory of quantum entanglement, this might sound impossible: what happens to one particle must happen to the other. Maybe there was a chink in the theory: time. But when the researchers went back to the first island and checked the screen behind the slits again, the results of the first experiment had altered: the original particle had now passed through only one spot. The past had seemingly altered. Or maybe at some level of reality there's no such thing as the past? In any event, the relation between particles transcends time. And we are these particles.

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

my kingdom for an ad blocker capable of obliterating this absolute embarrassment from @cleguardians.com. this is just insulting as a baseball fan.

Instead of actual fan seats behind home plate, Cleveland has decided to make the ads roughly 8x bigger and remove fans from the scene entirely

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

not a big times fan but gotta give props to them for this description of how a bomb works

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

this might be the most horrifying thing i’ve ever read (from christian wiman in a piece for the december 2025 issue of harper’s)

“Until the Eighties, it was common practice in the United States to operate on infants without anesthesia, as it was believed their brains were not formed enough to feel pain.”

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

just one issue: i would love to see this happen, but the democratic party as it is currently constituted would have to completely reconfigure itself to accomplish this. it is simply not who they are, so this strategy would require voting most of them out

"This will require genuine, costly reform—and self-criticism—that goes beyond rhetoric: ending deceptive fundraising practices, rejecting corporate PAC money, and championing popular measures like banning congressional stock trading. Recruiting authentic, working-class candidates—nurses, teachers, veterans—is also crucial, not as a matter of ideological positioning, but as a demonstration that the party is not beholden to the same professional class. Let a thousand flowers bloom; these candidates should put forward platforms and campaigns based on what they authentically think would help the country, not what might attract donors, please crypto lobbyists, or satisfy a popularist’s survey samples. Action, not messaging, is the only path to earning the credibility needed to lead this fight."

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

ben wiseman just nailed it for the new yorker

an illustration, the left half of which is filled with red hands (republicans) arranged in an orderly way and all pointing at the left half, which is filled with blue hands (dems) arranged in a chaotic way and pointing at each other

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

i *still* can't believe apple shipped this

screenshot of safari on macos, with a heading from the article on the selected page overlaid onto and obscuring the webpage titles in the tab bar

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

DO NOT MAKE ME BECOME AN ORLANDO MAGIC FAN

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

nyt vs guardian covering davos, the sanewashing is (ironically) making me lose my mind

nyt headlines:

Trump Says He ‘Won’t Use Force’ but Demands Greenland

Greenland Tensions Rattle Global Markets

Some Republicans Begin to Echo Trump’s Case to Acquire Greenland

Why Was Macron Wearing Sunglasses at Davos?

guardian headlines:

Trump scraps tariff threat and claims 'framework of a future deal' on Greenland

Speak hysterically and carry a big stick: Trump's foreign policy threats

Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech

Trump's rambling Davos speech rehashes warped ideas of US supremacy

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

these fundraising emails from the dnc are insulting. i can give $7 to "stop Trump's disastrous agenda in its tracks"? pray tell, what exactly are YOU doing assholes, other than hitting me up for money?

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

line length or height, maybe? this is the november (left) vs december (right) issue

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

i can’t quite put my finger on it but the newest edition of the new york review feels a bit cleaner? i don’t think the font’s changed but everything feels like it has more room to breathe (doesn’t really come across in the pic)

snapshot of a page from the 2025 new york review of books

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

lol leave it to the folks at orion to do liquid glass in the browser on mac better than apple

orion on mac with a liquid glass interface, following apple's new design conventions better than safari

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

i never want to get to a place where all this is normalized, so i'm grateful when writers sum up how goddamn stupid this all is heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...

We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.

That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices’ questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back “in excess of $2 Trillion Dollars” if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that “would be a National Security catastrophe.” He blamed “Anarchists and Thugs” for putting the U.S. into a “terrible situation” by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion—the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.

Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October’s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are “beginning to drop,” citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

them: you get more conservative as you get older me:

meme: me whistling at anarchism while still technically in a relationship with communism

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

really hoping o’toole makes good on his promise to answer this one, should be a banger

fintan o’toole article headline: what is wrong with the democrats?

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

me during brainstorming meetings

a five-panel comic:

bird 1: i have so many ideas
bird 2: let's hear one
bird 1: okay let me just...
bird 1: ...
bird 1: okay i can't do it in front of people

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

work tweet: props to canva/affinity for this copy 🤌

landing page copy for canva's new free product with the headline "zero bucks given"

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

pretty remarkable and telling stat from the latest harper’s

Percentage of Republicans who said last year that immigration levels should be reduced : 88
Who say so now: 48

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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

never made a better decision in my life than prepending a tree emoji to my name on linkedin to instantly see if the messages i receive are just a human writing to me or a mailing list or bot