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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" just wrapped its 4th season, still in fine form. Did you see a single mention on Bluesky about the only Star Trek show still going? Paramount apparently doesn't care.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just hired 10,000 AI agents to browse all my social media profiles and boost engagement. Psych! [SIKE]

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In honor of my 40th reunion at Stanford later this month, this is the story of the day in January 1986 I spent with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. My roommate on the college board brought them to campus on their Freaky Styley tour. He hired me and other friends to work security. Only 300 tickets sold.

Cover of RHCP's Freaky Styley, a collage of mostly guys wearing sunglasses.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pal sent me the video, so....

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Deshaun Watson vs Aaron Rodgers. NFL's Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video is The Battle of the Highly Paid A-hole Quarterbacks.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is Bluesky is an echo chamber? Ask anyone who doesn't use it who Eric Schmitt is and why he's the biggest story in the country today.

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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What is she wearing on her wrist (on the sideline at USC vs. Oregon)?

Woman wearing a round smartwatch on one arm and a large rectangular smartwatch on the other arm.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, we have exactly one real journalist and one decent politician left in the entire country.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

♫ All I want to do when I wake up in the morning is steal your eyes. ♪

Charles Albright, known as the "Eyeball Killer," serial murderer who removed victims' eyes.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every douche that drives a huge pickup truck for vanity is getting exactly what they deserve today. Suck it, "alpha male."

Gas priced at $5.49 regular / $6.99 for diesel.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The divide started when we were 10 years old and sitting in church on a Sunday. Half of us sat there thinking "why are we all pretending this bullshit is real?" The other half were wondering if they were going to hell.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Chicken pox, chicken pox, chicken pox pie!"

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When I heard that Marvel was doing the Multiverse after "Endgame," I assumed they would build a new hero roster in an alternate world and then end the phase by merging them in. They had a soft reset button for their increasingly unwieldy canon sitting right there and they just ignored it.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A fleet of Tesla Cybercabs? Was the Amazon plane crash in Miami actually Jeff Bezos' AI trying to fight Elon Musk's AI?

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I saw Michael Rosenbaum's name in the "Guardians of the Galaxy 3" credits so naturally I watched the whole movie thinking this was him.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"How come he don't come and P.L.P. with me down at the meter no more?" Rickie Lee Jones' "Chuck E.'s in Love." One of those songs I feel privileged to have seen performed live. Sometimes, life is glorious.

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Rickie Lee Jones Chuck E 's In Love

YouTube video by Tony Mendola

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

NFL Network superimposing the Invisalign logo on the field was really dismaying, but at least it gave us this.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I took an Ethics class at my high school. Meanwhile, we were cheating en masse in History because the test dittos had come from an answer sheet and still had artifacts next to the right answers. When cheating is as easy as AI makes it, it makes it easy to use the "everybody's doing it" excuse.

nytimes.com

Opinion | There’s Really Only One Way to Stop Students From Cheating

Blue-book exams are fine, but we need to address the issue at its root.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

April 21, 1995, I attended a taping of "Late Show with David Letterman." Dolly Parton sang "Jolene" and Dave Chappelle made his network TV debut. 💔

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Dolly Parton Sings "Jolene" | Letterman

YouTube video by Letterman

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Agentic AI? OK, impersonate an 80-year-old Fox News believer's loved ones to deprogram them. Text them and FaceTime them fact checking Hannity and Gutfeld in real time. Teach them the facts of life that Rupert Murdoch has hidden from them.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Paramount is really trying to kill Star Trek. I had no idea that Strange New Worlds had returned with Season 4. It is as if they want bad ratings. Meanwhile, the show keeps trying bold wacky stuff and Paul Wesley's James T. Kirk continues to be an uncanny take on one of TV's greatest characters.

The cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The more we see of "Avengers: Doomsday" the more it looks like the most clichéd superhero movie of all time. Let's re-use 'Villain kicks toughest hero's ass to establish his threat' AGAIN. Just, oof.

youtube.com

Avengers: Doomsday | Special Look | In Theaters December 18

YouTube video by Marvel Entertainment

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm the 300-foot drop at Yosemite's Vernal Falls that happens if you don't get off the natural waterslide in time.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Okay, I'm unmuting "NFL" now.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In Nolan's "The Odyssey," Matt Damon's Odysseus makes one macho blunder after another and keeps getting people killed. Oh, toxic masculinity is bad, the hero is a actually a dufus, I get it. But then at the end he suddenly goes beast mode and singlehandedly saves the day? What did we learn here?

Matt Damon as Odysseus shooting bow and arrow.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Within a few years, any mechanically-inclined society living in AppleTV+'s Silo would engineer a stair-climbing machine. No way they just unanimously accept a 140-story climb. We see them jerry-rig elevators; those would be permanent, too.

Man climbing down the spiral starway in "Silo."

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Oh, NOW we're questioning the accuracy of English translations of ancient texts.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Amidst the collapse of education that AI is accelerating, architecture, at least the hands-on way it is taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is mostly immune. The sheer creative demands (requiring proficiency in math and history) cannot be met by cheating. www.arch.rpi.edu

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Rensselaer | Architecture

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I’ve never seen “The Chi” so I’m not sure how it is pronounced, but logic dictates that it sounds like the first syllable of Chicago, right? The Shih?

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Stix Golf Clubs ad from tonight's PTI on ESPN. Do you think AI was responsible, or just old-fashioned human incompetence?

Stix golf clubs TV ad touting "PROVEN PREFORMANCE."

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

No one wants to hear it, but when you burn your thrusters in space, you do not keep moving at the same speed. You accelerate like a motherfucker. Every movie/TV in space is less realistic than Asteroids.

Bombers flying in formation from "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."

Impulse engines firing on the USS Enterprise.

1978 Battlestar Galactica's Vipers in turbo mode.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Remember when Journey stayed up all night snorting coke with the money for their "Separate Ways" music video and the next morning made the cheapest looking video in history?

Journey playing "invisible" instruments in the "Separate Ways" video.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My favorite bar in NYC, Fresh Salt. The Seaport District is my adopted NYC neighborhood.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My brother restored this 1969 Ford Mustang and will be showing it this weekend at the Syracuse Nationals. No idea how he did this.

Fully restored lime green 1969 Ford Mustang convertible.

Dilapidated rusty body of a 1969 Ford Mustang convertible.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"My doctors have confirmed that I didn't break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn't have a heart attack or a stroke. I don't have any tumors or hemorrhages," McConnell said, adding that he is now "regaining my strength." Well, that explains why the paramedics did CPR.

youtube.com

Dispatch audio shows Mitch McConnell may have been unconscious, under cardiac arrest

YouTube video by 13News Now

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Right off the bat, "Star Trek: Picard" S1 was stupid as fuck.

Raffi's trailer at Vasquez Rocks National Park in "Star Trek: Picard."

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My band is down to three guys so I switched to acoustic guitar thinking we could go for a quieter sound, but this is what happens instead.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Seeing Egypt's World Cup fans in pharaoh gear, I realize I've always loved this look.

Egypt World Cup fan in pharaoh-themed outfit.

Egypt-themed helmet from 70s "Battlestar Galactica."

Pharoah design of robot from Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm watching the World Cup and I watched the NHL playoffs. But I'm never going to be a big fan of such low scoring sports. I would bail on the NFL in a heartbeat if half the games ended in a 0-0 tie.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am pleased to hear that Mitch McConnell is on his death bed. I hope his death is slow and painful. Yes, I do.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That first "Supergirl" trailer looked like outtakes from a "Guardians of the Galaxy" TV special. Turns out the whole movie does. Bummer.

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