Rob Belcher
@robbelcher.bsky.social
Managing Director at SaaS Capital, an alternative lender to B2B SaaS companies.
SaaS, economy, start ups, venture capital/private equity and occasionally some hobbies
SaaS, economy, start ups, venture capital/private equity and occasionally some hobbies
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Rob Belcher
@robbelcher.bsky.social
· Nov 8
GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky.
Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge
github.com
New to Bluesky? This chrome plugin is a great way to find and follow your accounts from the old site. Word of caution is: it isn’t perfect and you should scrub the list (some name squatters etc)
github.com/kawamataryo/...
github.com/kawamataryo/...
Seattle about to find out if this is true.
The presidency, governorships, and mayors' offices are not entry-level positions.
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Seattle about to find out if this is true.
Yet another example of squandered soft power.
It wasn’t literally representative of western life - quite weird (complimentary) overall… but also kinda got the gist of it. I (a westerner) liked it specifically because it was so weird.
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Yet another example of squandered soft power.
Happy no-street-sweeping-in-Seattle-ever (the most verdant city in the country!) day to all those who celebrate!
Enjoy those clogged drains and overflowing gutters, you only have another 200 days left this season!
Enjoy those clogged drains and overflowing gutters, you only have another 200 days left this season!
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Happy no-street-sweeping-in-Seattle-ever (the most verdant city in the country!) day to all those who celebrate!
Enjoy those clogged drains and overflowing gutters, you only have another 200 days left this season!
Enjoy those clogged drains and overflowing gutters, you only have another 200 days left this season!
2025 Yankees.
Just friendly advice for the Dodgers fans: most fans of other teams are going to be rooting for the Jays no matter what, embrace the villain role and you will be much happier than trying unsuccessfully to convince everyone else that the Dodgers are the heroes everyone should root for
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
2025 Yankees.
I really hope the west coast Yankees lose. @mollyknight.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I really hope the west coast Yankees lose. @mollyknight.bsky.social
I read all of Dante’s Inferno in a little more than a day ahead of the final exam. I don’t remember the exact grade but it was adequate. There was no AI and Clif’s Notes would not have cut it. Had to read the whole thing.
I wrote my take-home final for Law of War at 4 a.m., still half-drunk. It was due at 9 a.m. I got a B, which was my school's equivalent of taking you behind the barn and shooting you. It dropped my honors one level. My father was perturbed.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I read all of Dante’s Inferno in a little more than a day ahead of the final exam. I don’t remember the exact grade but it was adequate. There was no AI and Clif’s Notes would not have cut it. Had to read the whole thing.
Reposted by Rob Belcher
this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square
October 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square
I know of several people running windows 7!
Planned obsolescence should be illegal!
Planned obsolescence should be illegal!
An under-the-radar but huge story: in less than 2 weeks, Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows 10 operating system, which is currently used on 42% (!) of all PCs globally. Over 400 million computers will be vulnerable to hacks or destined for the dump if users don't pay up.
Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
prospect.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I know of several people running windows 7!
Planned obsolescence should be illegal!
Planned obsolescence should be illegal!
Pretty wild that after 158 games of baseball it still come down to the last 2 or 3 to determine the best 6 teams in each league. Still lots of movement. Crazy!
September 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Pretty wild that after 158 games of baseball it still come down to the last 2 or 3 to determine the best 6 teams in each league. Still lots of movement. Crazy!
Not the point of the thread but another great example of how allowing the railroads to build track right along the waterfront of the entire cascade corridor was a multi century mistake, cutting off everyone from one of the greatest resources in the region for the benefit of one company.
Indeed. Seattle used to produce maps of which downtown streets had the most people walking on them to help accurately price real estate
September 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Not the point of the thread but another great example of how allowing the railroads to build track right along the waterfront of the entire cascade corridor was a multi century mistake, cutting off everyone from one of the greatest resources in the region for the benefit of one company.
JUDITH RINEHART
BEVERLY HILLS COP
“I WON’T JUDGE.”
This whole article is a bit, right?
BEVERLY HILLS COP
“I WON’T JUDGE.”
This whole article is a bit, right?
Judith Rinehart knows that not everybody can collect art at a high level. But she doesn't think it follows that art galleries are exclusive or unwelcoming.
Seattle art galleries are 'for everyone,' even if you're not buying art
You don’t often hear art gallery owners say they were inspired by the Eddie Murphy film Beverly Hills Cop. More specifically, by a profanity-ridden scene in the film that pokes fun of the art world.
www.kuow.org
September 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
JUDITH RINEHART
BEVERLY HILLS COP
“I WON’T JUDGE.”
This whole article is a bit, right?
BEVERLY HILLS COP
“I WON’T JUDGE.”
This whole article is a bit, right?
Chart crime o’clock.
Good map to show my personal view that the only US metro areas pursuing serious urbanization recently has been Seattle—besides the already-super-dense NYC MSA, it's the only one that's significantly densified over the last 20 years. DC, Boston, and Portland can get honorary mentions though
September 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Chart crime o’clock.
Reminder: Kelly McGillis was a civilian instructor!
Inside Pete Hegseth’s civilian purge at West Point: What do Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have against soldiers listening to civilians?
Inside Pete Hegseth’s Civilian Purge at West Point
What do Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have against soldiers listening to civilians?
www.politico.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reminder: Kelly McGillis was a civilian instructor!
This is basketball in general. It is by far the worst sport. Every game should just be 2 mins long, final score 4-3. Yay. Wasn’t that fun.
At this point it feels like every other WNBA game is decided on the final possession and whether they happen to win or lose them in a given stretch determines whether a team is "hot" or "cold."
August 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is basketball in general. It is by far the worst sport. Every game should just be 2 mins long, final score 4-3. Yay. Wasn’t that fun.
Need for Speed
Without saying Beetlejuice, fav Michael Keaton Film?
August 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Need for Speed
A reporter can write about, and get clicks/make money, covering chaos.
The steady grind of administrative progress is hard to cover, boring and does not make money for the reporter.
They need and want chaos to make money. This 100% how we got Trump 2.
The steady grind of administrative progress is hard to cover, boring and does not make money for the reporter.
They need and want chaos to make money. This 100% how we got Trump 2.
One thing that has sort of surprised me is that it does really seem like the desire to be ruled by a powerful fascist daddy is stronger in the median elite journalist than in the median voter.
August 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A reporter can write about, and get clicks/make money, covering chaos.
The steady grind of administrative progress is hard to cover, boring and does not make money for the reporter.
They need and want chaos to make money. This 100% how we got Trump 2.
The steady grind of administrative progress is hard to cover, boring and does not make money for the reporter.
They need and want chaos to make money. This 100% how we got Trump 2.
I’ve thought for awhile now that there is over employment in tech / software and a lot of “product releases” are completely unnecessary tasks the devs come up with to justify their existence.
August 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I’ve thought for awhile now that there is over employment in tech / software and a lot of “product releases” are completely unnecessary tasks the devs come up with to justify their existence.
Darude - Sandstorm
August 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Darude - Sandstorm
Reposted by Rob Belcher
Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added...
August 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added...
The Replacements
August 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The Replacements
Not the point but PHX —> SFO is 2 hours. With take off and landing there’s like 50 minutes of usable “vape time”…. You can wait buddy come on.
"Celebrity pickleball coach" is an absolutely cursed assemblage of words.
viewfromthewing.com/say-sorry-ri...
viewfromthewing.com/say-sorry-ri...
"Say Sorry Right Now!" Celebrity Pickleball Coach Confronts American Airlines Flight Attendant Who Caught Him Vaping In Lavatory - View from the Wing
Self-proclaimed ‘celebrity pickleball coach’ Peter “Kobe” Nguyen turned getting caught vaping inflight into a viral spectacle when he filmed a heated exchange with the American Airlines flight attenda...
viewfromthewing.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Not the point but PHX —> SFO is 2 hours. With take off and landing there’s like 50 minutes of usable “vape time”…. You can wait buddy come on.
Lewis and Skamania counties went Trump +32 and +11 in 2024.
FAFO.
FAFO.
Washington’s rural counties and school districts are preparing to start the school year without millions of dollars from a program meant to offset reduced revenue from logging on federal lands.
Parts of rural WA pinched by lapse in federal payments to offset lost logging revenue
Washington’s rural counties and school districts are preparing to start the school year without millions of dollars from a program meant to offset reduced revenue from logging on federal lands.
www.kuow.org
August 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Lewis and Skamania counties went Trump +32 and +11 in 2024.
FAFO.
FAFO.
Oh I thought this was going to be sort of “har har i draw portraits with the chalk!”
But omg no - this is AMAZING
But omg no - this is AMAZING
Harry Weatherill, a tailor who draws portraits on cloth using tailors chalk (1955)
August 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Oh I thought this was going to be sort of “har har i draw portraits with the chalk!”
But omg no - this is AMAZING
But omg no - this is AMAZING
The US’ greatest exports are:
1. Tertiary education
2. Research and Science production
3. Data collection, reporting and statistics credibility
4. Culture: movies, tv mostly but also fashion. USAID+soft power influence is in here.
And this admin has made it its singular focus to destroy all 4.
1. Tertiary education
2. Research and Science production
3. Data collection, reporting and statistics credibility
4. Culture: movies, tv mostly but also fashion. USAID+soft power influence is in here.
And this admin has made it its singular focus to destroy all 4.
We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.
Trump: "You're right. Why should anybody trust numbers?"
August 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The US’ greatest exports are:
1. Tertiary education
2. Research and Science production
3. Data collection, reporting and statistics credibility
4. Culture: movies, tv mostly but also fashion. USAID+soft power influence is in here.
And this admin has made it its singular focus to destroy all 4.
1. Tertiary education
2. Research and Science production
3. Data collection, reporting and statistics credibility
4. Culture: movies, tv mostly but also fashion. USAID+soft power influence is in here.
And this admin has made it its singular focus to destroy all 4.
People are only now realizing you can actually landscape your curb strip? “Area couple learns flowers are prettier than dirt”. This is a bizarre article.
Three years ago, one Colorado couple turned the dull strip of turf between their sidewalk and the street into a garden. Since then, they estimate, 10 houses in their 154-home development have followed suit.
How a ‘Hellstrip’ Garden Can Transform Your Home’s Curb Appeal
That skinny patch of earth between street and sidewalk can be dull as dirt or the envy of your block. Here’s how to make it gorgeous.
on.wsj.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
People are only now realizing you can actually landscape your curb strip? “Area couple learns flowers are prettier than dirt”. This is a bizarre article.