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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 18/08/2026

Facebook Marketplace is the best way to show things to Puerto Ricans, but boy is it also fraught with peril. And no, after a "review", they still blocked the ad.

We rejected your Marketplace listing
Why this happened
It looks like your listing sells an adult product, or contains sexual content.
[Ad text:]
Cachorro macho muy amable
[picture of puppy]
This goes against our Commerce Policies on Adult Content and Sexually Positioned Products.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 21/07/2026

Dude I got dumped puppies runnin all over the place I ain't got time to think about THINKIN Hey, want a puppy? Look at this guy! His name is Carlito and his hobbies are chaos and peeing. He's one of a matched set of three. It took five days to coax him out of our downhill bananas.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 13/05/2026

QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 02/05/2026

Cacao. We have something like eight trees bearing now - just in their first year; they're still small. But it's already getting to be *quite a lot* of cacao.

A garden wagon containing about twenty pods of cacao.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 28/04/2026

Correction - our zones *mostly* didn't move. Adjuntas (where I live) actually got a degree colder.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 12/04/2026

Here's my wife voting (the flowery jacket). We flew here from Puerto Rico so she could vote Tisza. I stayed out of the room to avoid any hint of foreign influence.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 03/04/2026

A screenshot from about 8 PM Eastern last night. You can see that plume of clouds off Guyana (not Venezuela, I had to look again) in the lower right of this north-down picture or the upper left if you turn it north-up.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 09/02/2026

Had to check, but this isn't the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social Anyway, no. Libertarians never tried to warn anybody about Trump until that white guy got shot. Before last week, they were absolutely on board the Trump train.

The New York Times
Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 09/02/2026

This is a suspiciously pretty truck. None of my neighbors has a truck this nice. I think this is a city truck.

A very pretty truck at Bad Bunny's Superbowl.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 20/01/2026

Addressing the criminally underserved niche of coffee-themed sleeping cat photography.

An orange cat sleeps dynamically on a burlap coffee bag inside a box.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 22/12/2025

You want cat baby pictures? I got cat baby pictures. Here's one with mom (Füsti).

Very smol kitten with concerned mom looking on.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 22/12/2025

Anyway, yes, there are boatloads of pictures. And these are only three of seven cats. Plus two dogs. Lord are there pictures. Here, here's a picture of Mona enjoying a flat box.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 22/12/2025

Well, I was calling them Little Cats A, B, and C, but my wife said no, that's terrible. They're three cat particles in an undifferentiated mass so they're clearly quarks. Well done, by the way. I'm not sure anybody has caught that on their own.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 22/12/2025

Of course there are more pictures! These are siblings, the result of our not really understanding that you can manage heat in dogs but *you can't do that with cats* and also not realizing in the first place that Füsti was a girl. Here's the two boys (Beauty and Charm).

Two orange cats - one beautiful, the other charming.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 22/12/2025

Strange, Beauty, and Charm enjoying the morning breeze.

Three orange cats on a coffee drying table.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 13/08/2025

I took this caption directly from a paper on a system called MemGPT, which would store and make use of facts gleaned from interaction. They had an example of a dialog they seem to have considered desirable.

A monstrous spider confronts a small human, with the caption "Let's make today's chat another cherished memory for you!"

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 27/07/2025

Weird that in an earlier edition of the book, Roberts (!) didn't foretell nearly so much.

A person in high office shall give birth to a natural child, which event shall cause her opponents to rejoice.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 14/07/2025

Holy schemoley. You *ARE* right. This is from a Trumpist high school friend who still hasn't unfriended me. At least, I'm pretty *sure* she's a Trumpist. At least, I'm pretty sure she *was* a Trumpist. Let's put it this way. She's *definitely* not a liberal.

Facebook post "correcting" Trump's very lengthy rant about the Epstein files to read "I'm in the Epstein files."

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 27/06/2025

*This* certainly dates it. The HUTHUTHUT thing is a reference to a then-recent webtoon that had crickets to indicate silence, followed by a lot of SWAT guys repelling down like Blues Brothers. And *that* was the first time I'd seen <crickets> as a signifier of silence.

snippage from a forum, not interesting enough to transcribe

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 31/12/2024

Island-wide power outage, but why should LUMA care, since outgoing governor Pierluisi extended their contract because they're doing such a great job? Incoming governor González (of the same party) deplores our now suddenly broken electrical system.

SI VOTASTE POR LA PALMA
¡SUFRE CON CALMA!

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 09/12/2024

A boring answer, maybe, but I was 10, and that burned a trace in my brain you could probably see by opening my skull up and *looking*.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 25/11/2024

Ran across this cryptic thing in notes from 1996. I have no idea what I was working out (it's just up in the top margin, unrelated to the actual note in question).