Reposted by Rob SimmonsIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21hBREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 13469711677
Reposted by Rob SimmonsFailbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 25/09/2026🥰 he is! 15110
Reposted by Rob Simmonsjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 3569981624
Reposted by Rob SimmonsCullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor 8354211205
Rob Simmons @simrob.com · 12/09/2026“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Neighbor!” 021
Reposted by Rob Simmonsmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why do you hear so much repetition in the media about Trump's promise to give voters $5000 in a way you didn't for say, Kamala Harris's plan to give people who start a business $50,000? Is it because Trump has more credibility because he's told the truth in the past? What could be the other reason? 21850171
Reposted by Rob SimmonsEmily Hahn, MD @ehahnmd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I purchased this despondent duck lamp for my desk and was notified today that my “baby item” had arrived and I cannot get over the idea of someone using this in a baby’s room. Like “welcome to your depressing life little baby, it only gets worse from here.” 371489209
Reposted by Rob Simmonspost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026ok look The Odyssey is very much a sequel 1053706425
Reposted by Rob Simmonsmcc @dryad.technology · 17/08/202618 months later and I am still angry about the 2027 AI bailout 317231
Reposted by Rob SimmonsAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026welcome to the field of dreams, an homage to a movie revolving around men banned for life from baseball for gambling. brought to you by fanduel 313512795
Reposted by Rob SimmonsKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026I'm sure it was a little uncomfortable for Socrates to eat poison. But the bitterness of hemlock is nothing compared to the bitterness from having to admit you might have benefitted from racial privilege 323249
Reposted by Rob SimmonsKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026It probably was a bit awkward for Newton to carefully hide his beliefs about the Catholic Trinity for fear of being prosecuted for heresy. But that is nothing compared to getting a bad teaching evaluation once because a student disagree with your take on capitalism 520322
Reposted by Rob SimmonsKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026Sure, Alan Turing was driven to suicide because homosexuality was a crime in the UK. But I'll bet he's glad he never had to admit that there might have been something bad about colonialism 134753
Reposted by Rob SimmonsKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026Yeah, the Jesuits banned whole parts of mathematics because they thought they were evil, but at least they never had a student ask about disability accommodations 226628
Reposted by Rob SimmonsKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026Academia was so much better before Woke. Sure, David Hume was never able to secure an academic job because he might have been an atheist. But at least no one made him use the singular "they" 13672156
Reposted by Rob SimmonsSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 29/07/2026This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.comordinaryabundance.comOrdinary AbundanceA walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. 523890
Reposted by Rob SimmonsEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Operation Dessert Shield 852449354
Reposted by Rob Simmonsryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/08/2026this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...inverse.comThe adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photosNearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told. 453088783
Reposted by Rob SimmonsDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 02/08/2026As of this weekend, I've been based in Vancouver, BC for a year. To celebrate, I wrote a newsletter about @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social's THE PACIFIC CIRCUIT, having a garden, and some of the things I've been up to this past while: buttondown.com/metafoundry/...buttondown.comdeterminate tomatoeson cities, matter, energy, roots, and dragonflies 46811
Reposted by Rob SimmonsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/08/2026It’s bad enough that it tries to flatter you by telling you you’re asking such good and insightful questions. But desperately egging you on to try to make you spend more tokens is just gross. Like if every time you ran a mass spectrometer it tried to upsell you on some more advanced analysis. 26102083
Reposted by Rob SimmonsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/08/2026I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more 522011237
Reposted by Rob SimmonsOne Perfect Shot @oneperfectshot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026SINNERS (2025, dir. Ryan Coogler) #OnePerfectShot #Filmsky 📽️🧛🎸 5282241564
Reposted by Rob Simmonsheaumeau e. rotacism @vashwood.bsky.social · 22/07/2026joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell 10454001025
Rob Simmons @simrob.com · 13/07/2026I still want to think more about vector embeddings than I expect I’ll be able to 010
Reposted by Rob Simmonsinnes mck @innes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026this is what i do at home. when i have excess energy i hoist bricks to the roof of my house and when im having a bad day i chuck them off to feel better 151399217
Reposted by Rob SimmonsTrans Ferdinand || How I Became Invisible @emdashreed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Trans people 1355
Reposted by Rob SimmonsSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/07/2026me: People don't like being told "Yeah politicians are actually pretty good at figuring out what most people want" because it reflects us in an unflattering light people: How dare u. That's unflattering 112512
Reposted by Rob SimmonsLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC 80114053393
Reposted by Rob SimmonsDavid Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Honestly pretty impressive to see the LMP map at solid maroon with many suppliers over $1k / MWh (LMP - location marginal pricing, the price of buying the next megawatt hour in that region) 111
Reposted by Rob Simmonsqntm @qntm.org · 28/06/2026You can't just call a species of cat a "leopard cat". There's already a cat that's a leopard. It's the leoparden.wikipedia.orgLeopard cat - Wikipedia 1210014
Reposted by Rob SimmonsHeather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool 502243445591
Reposted by Rob Simmons 🦋 June Strings 🪞🫀 @junestrings.bsky.social · 20/06/2026it makes me very happy personally that everyone is talking about algae recently 2818
Reposted by Rob SimmonsDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026“There are colors that I want to show you, but I can’t. …You probably saw some of them today, but I can’t show them to you on a screen.…Instead, I have to show you how to find them in the real world.” Forget touching grass, just stand under trees. And more! moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...moultano.wordpress.comWhere to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show YouAn atlas of the vibrance of the real world 89842
Reposted by Rob SimmonsMark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment 170165253833
Reposted by Rob SimmonsGernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 12/06/2026The perfect obit headline for this particular climate denier, who knew better but preferred to live a lie heatmap.news/daily/lee-raymond 111643491
Reposted by Rob Simmonsjosh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad 5580401945
Reposted by Rob SimmonsBoston Public Health Commission @publichealth.boston.gov · 01/06/2026Wastewater data for June 1 is now available: • Citywide COVID-19 level: Very Low • Citywide flu level: Not Detected • Citywide RSV level: Not Detected Find data about your neighborhood, reports, and more at boston.gov/wastewater.boston.govBoston Wastewater MonitoringWastewater monitoring is a new public health tool to warn communities about the presence of viruses like flu, COVID-19, 072
Reposted by Rob SimmonsPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Perennial reminder that our tools construct us as subjects. Designing a tool REQUIRES making decisions that privilege some applications over others. Every usable technology has a path of least resistance (tasks/outcomes for which it's most suited) and will naturally draw you to those outcomes. 417240
Reposted by Rob Simmonsrntz @rntz.net · 22/05/2026The miniKanren and Relational Programming workshop is accepting submissions until June 5th! You (yes you!) should submit! We accept short or long papers, about miniKanren or relational programming more widely - and, this year especially, about relating the two! :) icfp26.sigplan.org/home/minikan...icfp26.sigplan.orgminiKanren 2026 - ICFP 2026The miniKanren and Relational Programming Workshop is a workshop about relational programming with an emphasis on the miniKanren family of languages: miniKanren, microKanren, core.logic, OCanren, Guan... 042
Reposted by Rob Simmonspoorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026poorlycatdraw.threadless.com 2877196
Reposted by Rob SimmonsHello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer 122156792657
Rob Simmons @simrob.com · 26/04/2026I feel like I’d really like losing money on running a coworking space. I’d also like to learn how to make candy. I would make money at neither of these things. 011
Reposted by Rob SimmonsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/04/2026MSNOW is spending a lot of time noting how crowded the room is, how it's hard to evacuate, how full it is of Cabinet members and other high profile targets, and it's making me think I might have *undersold* how horrible an idea it was for anyone to attend this. 291437140
Reposted by Rob Simmonsinnes mck @innes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026all lemonade has the potential to be the lemonade that kills you but you have to drink soooo much of the regular stuff 1101
Reposted by Rob SimmonsTakaichi’s Castle @discographette.online · 11/04/2026congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers 1974051524