Ross in Detroit
@rossindetroit.bsky.social
66M retired Laser Engineer. I traveled for a living for 12 years. Proud tree-hugging atheist vegetarian SJW. Former Machinist, Janitor, Mainframe Systems Analyst, shoe salesman, freelance writer, etc.
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You know, it’s as close to a statistical certainty as anything could be that over the lifespan of the human race there has been an elderly white guy who was even more dumb, lazy and dishonest than me.
I find that comforting.
Have a good night.
I find that comforting.
Have a good night.
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
You know, it’s as close to a statistical certainty as anything could be that over the lifespan of the human race there has been an elderly white guy who was even more dumb, lazy and dishonest than me.
I find that comforting.
Have a good night.
I find that comforting.
Have a good night.
Detroit now has a cool 10’ tall 2.5 ton bronze statue of Robocop downtown. It took many years and lots of people’s involvement to become reality.
www.dailydetroit.com/first-look-t...
www.dailydetroit.com/first-look-t...
FIRST LOOK: The RoboCop Statue Arrives In Detroit
In Eastern Market, there's a statue happening
www.dailydetroit.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Detroit now has a cool 10’ tall 2.5 ton bronze statue of Robocop downtown. It took many years and lots of people’s involvement to become reality.
www.dailydetroit.com/first-look-t...
www.dailydetroit.com/first-look-t...
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If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
@dont.bsky.social
Life is confusing and I need to reduce the number of people who I take seriously. How does it sound to ignore anyone born after my 20th high school class reunion? Is that about right?
Life is confusing and I need to reduce the number of people who I take seriously. How does it sound to ignore anyone born after my 20th high school class reunion? Is that about right?
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
@dont.bsky.social
Life is confusing and I need to reduce the number of people who I take seriously. How does it sound to ignore anyone born after my 20th high school class reunion? Is that about right?
Life is confusing and I need to reduce the number of people who I take seriously. How does it sound to ignore anyone born after my 20th high school class reunion? Is that about right?
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Please stop training people for tasks and start training people to understand things.
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Please stop training people for tasks and start training people to understand things.
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Opinion | The state of Louisiana owes $172 million to three men who coached or will coach the LSU football team. Here's my scolding op-ed about a blue state's investment in a middle school math tutoring program.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Opinion | The state of Louisiana owes $172 million to three men who coached or will coach the LSU football team. Here's my scolding op-ed about a blue state's investment in a middle school math tutoring program.
Do you ever get something from the kitchen, look at it and think “should I eat this”?
If so, welcome to adulthood. You’ll hate it.
If so, welcome to adulthood. You’ll hate it.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Do you ever get something from the kitchen, look at it and think “should I eat this”?
If so, welcome to adulthood. You’ll hate it.
If so, welcome to adulthood. You’ll hate it.
This is beautiful.
i used to have a column in @pastemagazine.bsky.social where I wrote about my relationship to sobriety and music , and two years ago when Shane MacGowan passed away i wrote this
Shane MacGowan and the Stories We Leave Behind
In her column Flirted With You All My Life, Niko Stratis remembers the Shane MacGowarn as another difficult year comes to a close.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is beautiful.
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“Photos with Krampus”
I can’t keep up with these new holiday activities.
I can’t keep up with these new holiday activities.
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Photos with Krampus”
I can’t keep up with these new holiday activities.
I can’t keep up with these new holiday activities.
Apparently GM is permanently laying off 1,100 workers at Factory Zero where a lot of EV production takes place. I have been in that facility within the last year and lots of it was still being built out.
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/vide...
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/vide...
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Apparently GM is permanently laying off 1,100 workers at Factory Zero where a lot of EV production takes place. I have been in that facility within the last year and lots of it was still being built out.
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/vide...
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/vide...
Last night we watched the movie Laura with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. It occurred to me I couldn’t think of another film whose two leads both had androgynous names.
I always enjoy Vincent Price as a big crooked horny himbo in this. So greedy and dishonest.
I always enjoy Vincent Price as a big crooked horny himbo in this. So greedy and dishonest.
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Last night we watched the movie Laura with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. It occurred to me I couldn’t think of another film whose two leads both had androgynous names.
I always enjoy Vincent Price as a big crooked horny himbo in this. So greedy and dishonest.
I always enjoy Vincent Price as a big crooked horny himbo in this. So greedy and dishonest.
We watched Animal Crackers for the first time tonight. I will have something to say about it later. Though I am open to being talked out of that.
1930 was a long time ago. This film makes it inescapably clear how humor has changed in 95 years.
1930 was a long time ago. This film makes it inescapably clear how humor has changed in 95 years.
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
We watched Animal Crackers for the first time tonight. I will have something to say about it later. Though I am open to being talked out of that.
1930 was a long time ago. This film makes it inescapably clear how humor has changed in 95 years.
1930 was a long time ago. This film makes it inescapably clear how humor has changed in 95 years.
Okay that’s enough procrastination. Time to get after those leftovers. Hop to it.
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Okay that’s enough procrastination. Time to get after those leftovers. Hop to it.
I can’t be the only one who hears the similarities between Roadrunner by the Modern Lovers and Brimful of Asha by Cornershop.
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I can’t be the only one who hears the similarities between Roadrunner by the Modern Lovers and Brimful of Asha by Cornershop.
You’re probably too busy to read your Nextdoor so I will summarize for you:
People don’t pick up after their dogs.
People don’t pick up after their dogs.
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
You’re probably too busy to read your Nextdoor so I will summarize for you:
People don’t pick up after their dogs.
People don’t pick up after their dogs.
“Photos with Krampus”
I can’t keep up with these new holiday activities.
I can’t keep up with these new holiday activities.
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Photos with Krampus”
I can’t keep up with these new holiday activities.
I can’t keep up with these new holiday activities.
My campaign platform:
Pi =3.1
All food container lids fit every container.
Leaf blowers must be no louder than a Prius driving by.
A tax on billionaires to fund social services.
Another tax on them just for the hell of it.
Subsidized Ebikes for people who would otherwise drive a gas vehicle
Pi =3.1
All food container lids fit every container.
Leaf blowers must be no louder than a Prius driving by.
A tax on billionaires to fund social services.
Another tax on them just for the hell of it.
Subsidized Ebikes for people who would otherwise drive a gas vehicle
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My campaign platform:
Pi =3.1
All food container lids fit every container.
Leaf blowers must be no louder than a Prius driving by.
A tax on billionaires to fund social services.
Another tax on them just for the hell of it.
Subsidized Ebikes for people who would otherwise drive a gas vehicle
Pi =3.1
All food container lids fit every container.
Leaf blowers must be no louder than a Prius driving by.
A tax on billionaires to fund social services.
Another tax on them just for the hell of it.
Subsidized Ebikes for people who would otherwise drive a gas vehicle
Guillermo Del Toro’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
(Please).
(Please).
guillermo del toro’s pippy longstocking
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Guillermo Del Toro’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
(Please).
(Please).
Here’s a puzzle. The ground floor of this house, which can be walked in a loop, has only one step. If you walk forward up this step and counterclockwise through the house back to this point you will not have stepped down another step.
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Here’s a puzzle. The ground floor of this house, which can be walked in a loop, has only one step. If you walk forward up this step and counterclockwise through the house back to this point you will not have stepped down another step.
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Not every plant lamp needs a microcontroller and RF remote control. Especially if it’s cheap and unreliable.
Replaced with a simple mechanical switch in a pill bottle.
Replaced with a simple mechanical switch in a pill bottle.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Not every plant lamp needs a microcontroller and RF remote control. Especially if it’s cheap and unreliable.
Replaced with a simple mechanical switch in a pill bottle.
Replaced with a simple mechanical switch in a pill bottle.
It’s great. I read it in two days and didn’t want it to end.
Speaking of the petite bourgeois (writers), did you know you can still buy my book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman? A great gift for the holidays and all the other days.
📘🛒 : is.gd/iMcYEA
📘🛒 : is.gd/iMcYEA
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It’s great. I read it in two days and didn’t want it to end.
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You guys! It came! It’s officially the holiday season when the catalog comes from The Vermont Country Store.
If you haven’t experienced this think of the most square white people things of the last 50 years. It’s all here. Matching red flannel pajamas for the whole family? Yup.
If you haven’t experienced this think of the most square white people things of the last 50 years. It’s all here. Matching red flannel pajamas for the whole family? Yup.
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
You guys! It came! It’s officially the holiday season when the catalog comes from The Vermont Country Store.
If you haven’t experienced this think of the most square white people things of the last 50 years. It’s all here. Matching red flannel pajamas for the whole family? Yup.
If you haven’t experienced this think of the most square white people things of the last 50 years. It’s all here. Matching red flannel pajamas for the whole family? Yup.
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Welp if you still need groceries for Thanksgiving you have officially missed the deadline for early shopping.
You’re consigned to Crowded Produce Hell with the other tardy cooks.
You’re consigned to Crowded Produce Hell with the other tardy cooks.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Welp if you still need groceries for Thanksgiving you have officially missed the deadline for early shopping.
You’re consigned to Crowded Produce Hell with the other tardy cooks.
You’re consigned to Crowded Produce Hell with the other tardy cooks.