Rob McDonnell
@rob8086.bsky.social
Dad, husband, IT guy, Star Wars enjoyer, occasional children's book author, app developer, and unrepentant Michigan man. Takes you agree with are my own, spooky ghost responsible for all others.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a great movie. I watch it nearly every year about this time. Steve Martin was 42 when this movie came out. John Candy was 37. Kevin Bacon was 29.
BEN STEIN WAS 43.
Anyway, please scatter the dust I am becoming somewhere cool.
BEN STEIN WAS 43.
Anyway, please scatter the dust I am becoming somewhere cool.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a great movie. I watch it nearly every year about this time. Steve Martin was 42 when this movie came out. John Candy was 37. Kevin Bacon was 29.
BEN STEIN WAS 43.
Anyway, please scatter the dust I am becoming somewhere cool.
BEN STEIN WAS 43.
Anyway, please scatter the dust I am becoming somewhere cool.
The most unrealistic thing about Home Alone is that Kevin, with no parental involvement whatsoever, cleans up his whole mess after it's all over.
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The most unrealistic thing about Home Alone is that Kevin, with no parental involvement whatsoever, cleans up his whole mess after it's all over.
What I said (verbatim): hey bud, can you grab the books you pulled off the shelf and help put them back?
What he heard (apparently):
What he heard (apparently):
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
What I said (verbatim): hey bud, can you grab the books you pulled off the shelf and help put them back?
What he heard (apparently):
What he heard (apparently):
I think making 38-year-old men choose between football and a new Ken Burns documentary is Violence, Actually.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I think making 38-year-old men choose between football and a new Ken Burns documentary is Violence, Actually.
I made a thing! It’s a journaling/habit-tracking app, specifically the app I wanted to exist but didn’t. No account required, no ads or third-party sniffing allowed, and no “we need access to everything you have ever done” permissions. Check it out! Or don’t! But it’d be a lot cooler if you did!
Momentary App - App Store
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November 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I made a thing! It’s a journaling/habit-tracking app, specifically the app I wanted to exist but didn’t. No account required, no ads or third-party sniffing allowed, and no “we need access to everything you have ever done” permissions. Check it out! Or don’t! But it’d be a lot cooler if you did!
NYT and WaPo front pages are just... *incredibly* telling right now. You have to scroll down to find anything on Epstein and, in WaPo's case, the headline is a flat-out lie about the contents of the emails. What the fuck are we doing here?
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
NYT and WaPo front pages are just... *incredibly* telling right now. You have to scroll down to find anything on Epstein and, in WaPo's case, the headline is a flat-out lie about the contents of the emails. What the fuck are we doing here?
Inside every dad, there are two wolves. The two wolves are not fighting because the first wolf spends its entire existence being hunted for sport by the children.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Inside every dad, there are two wolves. The two wolves are not fighting because the first wolf spends its entire existence being hunted for sport by the children.
Truly appreciate having the power of Windows Defender in my mouthwash.
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Truly appreciate having the power of Windows Defender in my mouthwash.
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Ah, off-cycle election night. Time to start obsessively following the returns for a faraway candidate I just learned about an hour ago.
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Ah, off-cycle election night. Time to start obsessively following the returns for a faraway candidate I just learned about an hour ago.
A $60B company just paid a small town in Michigan $9M to set itself on fire so a $300B company can continue its quest for 100% human unemployment. I love it here.
Saline Twp. didn't have enough money to fight off a lawsuit from the developers and residents said they felt concerns would go unwarranted.
Some Saline Twp. residents didn't like 250-acre data center but feared it was 'inevitable'
Saline Twp. didn't have enough money to fight off a lawsuit from the developers and residents said they felt concerns would go unwarranted.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A $60B company just paid a small town in Michigan $9M to set itself on fire so a $300B company can continue its quest for 100% human unemployment. I love it here.
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2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money
I want to Fix The Damned Roads, just not my very specific roads at the very specific times I am using them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!
October 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I want to Fix The Damned Roads, just not my very specific roads at the very specific times I am using them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!
A distinctly American vibe that I really love: late-night-road-trip-pit-stop-core. Something about being in a public space, one open for your patronage but also empty or nearly empty of other humans, in the small hours of the morning while a little delirious from hours in your vehicle… (1/2)
September 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A distinctly American vibe that I really love: late-night-road-trip-pit-stop-core. Something about being in a public space, one open for your patronage but also empty or nearly empty of other humans, in the small hours of the morning while a little delirious from hours in your vehicle… (1/2)
Would love to see this kind of energy in the Big Ten.
Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
September 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Would love to see this kind of energy in the Big Ten.
In a potentially related follow-up question to my last one, why are there casters on the floor of the kids’ room? Two sets. From what? Nothing up here even uses casters. In fact, I can think of nothing in this whole house which would use them. What would even use only two of them??
And yet.
And yet.
September 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In a potentially related follow-up question to my last one, why are there casters on the floor of the kids’ room? Two sets. From what? Nothing up here even uses casters. In fact, I can think of nothing in this whole house which would use them. What would even use only two of them??
And yet.
And yet.
Serious question though, where are all my kids’ socks?
September 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Serious question though, where are all my kids’ socks?
I love that my son enjoys gaming. Mario Wonder, LEGO Star Wars, Mario Maker, old SNES stuff... but also. Just sometimes.
September 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I love that my son enjoys gaming. Mario Wonder, LEGO Star Wars, Mario Maker, old SNES stuff... but also. Just sometimes.
Marriage is…
TIRED: yelling across the house at one another until one of you pretends to have heard the other and just says, “OKAY, GOT IT” to make the pain stop.
WIRED: taking turns hitting the snooze button on your respective phone alarms until one of you hurls the other into the sun.
TIRED: yelling across the house at one another until one of you pretends to have heard the other and just says, “OKAY, GOT IT” to make the pain stop.
WIRED: taking turns hitting the snooze button on your respective phone alarms until one of you hurls the other into the sun.
September 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Marriage is…
TIRED: yelling across the house at one another until one of you pretends to have heard the other and just says, “OKAY, GOT IT” to make the pain stop.
WIRED: taking turns hitting the snooze button on your respective phone alarms until one of you hurls the other into the sun.
TIRED: yelling across the house at one another until one of you pretends to have heard the other and just says, “OKAY, GOT IT” to make the pain stop.
WIRED: taking turns hitting the snooze button on your respective phone alarms until one of you hurls the other into the sun.
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this looks like the box for Centrist64
of all of the cable segments I am not going to watch, this is the one I am not going to watch the most
September 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
this looks like the box for Centrist64
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"Hey what if humanity had infinite energy in the 70's instead of inventing global ecocide and dictatorial petrostates and century-long populous displacement"
September 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"Hey what if humanity had infinite energy in the 70's instead of inventing global ecocide and dictatorial petrostates and century-long populous displacement"
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Rapidly approaching the “Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down here” era of techno- feudalism
August 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Rapidly approaching the “Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down here” era of techno- feudalism
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So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
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Every night, I say a little prayer before I fall asleep.
August 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Every night, I say a little prayer before I fall asleep.
Ordered Insomnia Cookies, came downstairs and saw through the window by the door they might have been delivered. Pressed my face up to the window to be sure, made exactly this face when confirmed.
Looked up, delivery driver still present. There was eye contact.
Am cookie sicko.
Looked up, delivery driver still present. There was eye contact.
Am cookie sicko.
a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
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August 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Ordered Insomnia Cookies, came downstairs and saw through the window by the door they might have been delivered. Pressed my face up to the window to be sure, made exactly this face when confirmed.
Looked up, delivery driver still present. There was eye contact.
Am cookie sicko.
Looked up, delivery driver still present. There was eye contact.
Am cookie sicko.
Found this absolute unit of (what I think is) a Chinese mantis in the back yard. Carry on, little guy. Eat your fill and tell your friends - plenty of god-forsaken yellow jackets to go around.
August 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Found this absolute unit of (what I think is) a Chinese mantis in the back yard. Carry on, little guy. Eat your fill and tell your friends - plenty of god-forsaken yellow jackets to go around.