Robynne
@amphigorey.bsky.social
Host of the Oingo Boingo Secret Appreciation Society podcast
Slinger of bras
She/her
Slinger of bras
She/her
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Shifting past tense is pretty neat. When you're weaving, the yarn that you move back and forth to make new fabric is "the weft" - the only place where that very old past participle of "to weave" survives. Weave once followed the pattern of "to leave" but then somehow changed to wove instead of weft.
What’s the correct past tense of “to plead”?
pleaded, of course
or pled
or, JFC, plead
pleaded, of course
or pled
or, JFC, plead
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Shifting past tense is pretty neat. When you're weaving, the yarn that you move back and forth to make new fabric is "the weft" - the only place where that very old past participle of "to weave" survives. Weave once followed the pattern of "to leave" but then somehow changed to wove instead of weft.
And they both wrote music for Disney movies.
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
And they both wrote music for Disney movies.
Dungeon Keeper. They have to keep all the original narrations.
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Dungeon Keeper. They have to keep all the original narrations.
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If I found a door I've never been through
Would I have the courage to go in without you?
(Try to believe)
And if time runs short, would I recognize
The things I couldn't see
If I try to believe
Try to believe
Song: Try To Believe
Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
Would I have the courage to go in without you?
(Try to believe)
And if time runs short, would I recognize
The things I couldn't see
If I try to believe
Try to believe
Song: Try To Believe
Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
Try To Believe at Youtube
Try To Believe at Youtube
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I found a door I've never been through
Would I have the courage to go in without you?
(Try to believe)
And if time runs short, would I recognize
The things I couldn't see
If I try to believe
Try to believe
Song: Try To Believe
Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
Would I have the courage to go in without you?
(Try to believe)
And if time runs short, would I recognize
The things I couldn't see
If I try to believe
Try to believe
Song: Try To Believe
Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
HEY NOW
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
HEY NOW
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So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
Yes, and yet we have to say it in order to make it happen.
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Yes, and yet we have to say it in order to make it happen.
I salute each and every worker in the US Postal Service.
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I salute each and every worker in the US Postal Service.
There's a nazimobile truck in my neighborhood and now it has been spat upon, just as the driver was getting in.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There's a nazimobile truck in my neighborhood and now it has been spat upon, just as the driver was getting in.
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With sand in my heart and clouds in my head
I thought about us both and the life we led
From pages in a book and pictures on a screen
We make ourselves like clay from someone else's dream
Song: Not My Slave
Album: Boi-ngo
I thought about us both and the life we led
From pages in a book and pictures on a screen
We make ourselves like clay from someone else's dream
Song: Not My Slave
Album: Boi-ngo
Not My Slave at Youtube
Not My Slave at Youtube
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
With sand in my heart and clouds in my head
I thought about us both and the life we led
From pages in a book and pictures on a screen
We make ourselves like clay from someone else's dream
Song: Not My Slave
Album: Boi-ngo
I thought about us both and the life we led
From pages in a book and pictures on a screen
We make ourselves like clay from someone else's dream
Song: Not My Slave
Album: Boi-ngo
On my way to the SF Symphony to hear Danny Elfman do his thing
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
On my way to the SF Symphony to hear Danny Elfman do his thing
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Man, fuck Merrick Garland
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Man, fuck Merrick Garland
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In the darkness, undercover
We may bump into each other
In the darkness, undercover
Looking for a new direction
We may wander, we may wander
In geometric patterns
In a long, long, long, long breakdown
...
Song: Long Breakdown
Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
We may bump into each other
In the darkness, undercover
Looking for a new direction
We may wander, we may wander
In geometric patterns
In a long, long, long, long breakdown
...
Song: Long Breakdown
Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
Long Breakdown at Youtube
Long Breakdown at Youtube
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In the darkness, undercover
We may bump into each other
In the darkness, undercover
Looking for a new direction
We may wander, we may wander
In geometric patterns
In a long, long, long, long breakdown
...
Song: Long Breakdown
Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
We may bump into each other
In the darkness, undercover
Looking for a new direction
We may wander, we may wander
In geometric patterns
In a long, long, long, long breakdown
...
Song: Long Breakdown
Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
I love when Boingo resurrected songs. "Lost Like This" got an album release on 1994's Boingo, but it was originally demoed ten years earlier, for Good For Your Soul. That album had so many songs in the works that it could easily have been a double!
This place is not like anything I've seen before
The buildings move around, the houses have no doors
Strange that I should meet you here
Song: Lost Like This (Demo)
Album: Unreleased
The buildings move around, the houses have no doors
Strange that I should meet you here
Song: Lost Like This (Demo)
Album: Unreleased
Lost Like This (Demo) at Youtube
Lost Like This (Demo) at Youtube
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I love when Boingo resurrected songs. "Lost Like This" got an album release on 1994's Boingo, but it was originally demoed ten years earlier, for Good For Your Soul. That album had so many songs in the works that it could easily have been a double!
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TIL that noted writer Diane Duane had an impostor!
...Now, though, I'm wondering whether or not that con's "Diane Duane" was the fake one who was running around for some years pretending to be me (until the fans caught her and she went to jail for multiple frauds). (Details here: www.dianeduane.com/past-news-it...)
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
TIL that noted writer Diane Duane had an impostor!
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Recognizing whales as legal persons “shifts this perspective of whales and the environment as a resource and property to exploit with a value primarily derived from human benefit” Michelle Bender, one of the lawyers working on the draft legislation, told me. atmos.earth/ecological-w...
Tonga Could Soon Become the First Country to Recognize Whale Rights | Atmos
Ahead of Tonga’s election, whale and ocean advocates are preparing a bill to grant legal personhood to the island kingdom’s first ancestors.
atmos.earth
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Recognizing whales as legal persons “shifts this perspective of whales and the environment as a resource and property to exploit with a value primarily derived from human benefit” Michelle Bender, one of the lawyers working on the draft legislation, told me. atmos.earth/ecological-w...
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OpenAI: finally making billionaire brain atrophy accessible to the masses
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
OpenAI: finally making billionaire brain atrophy accessible to the masses
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Allosaurus Things Considered
October 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Allosaurus Things Considered
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A perfect Halloween video. 😍😍😍
October 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A perfect Halloween video. 😍😍😍
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Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.
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You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?
Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture
Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture
Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.
It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.
It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?
Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture
Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture
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I heard a rumor. They said it's gone nuclear
I stockpile cigarettes and double-bolt the door
A sanctuary for all my friends
Stay in bed until the world ends
So please don't wake me, I gotta get some sleep
Song: Cinderella Undercover
Album: Boingo Alive
I stockpile cigarettes and double-bolt the door
A sanctuary for all my friends
Stay in bed until the world ends
So please don't wake me, I gotta get some sleep
Song: Cinderella Undercover
Album: Boingo Alive
Cinderella Undercover at Youtube
Cinderella Undercover at Youtube
www.youtube.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I heard a rumor. They said it's gone nuclear
I stockpile cigarettes and double-bolt the door
A sanctuary for all my friends
Stay in bed until the world ends
So please don't wake me, I gotta get some sleep
Song: Cinderella Undercover
Album: Boingo Alive
I stockpile cigarettes and double-bolt the door
A sanctuary for all my friends
Stay in bed until the world ends
So please don't wake me, I gotta get some sleep
Song: Cinderella Undercover
Album: Boingo Alive
Candy corn.
What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?
October 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Candy corn.