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Bob Alberti
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Comedian, author, photographer, Internet pioneer (Gopher, RFC1436), MMORPG pioneer (GamBit MultiSystems).
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STOP. This is a selfie checkpoint. You must repost with a cute selfie to proceed.
Bob as Klaus der Bäkker at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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This is where I post from if you even care
No, it really is. This is the abandoned gas station and the abandoned Subway in the abandoned mining town when I live. I walked about 50 feet out of my house to take this picture. But the cell tower is actually how my data reaches the Internet.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"Poor immigrants have stolen your housing" has serious "that foreigner wants your cookie" energy.
Rupert Murdoch with a plate full of cookies is telling a white worker with one cookie that the person of color with no cookies is after the white worker's cookie.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Blaming the housing crisis on immigrants making less than minimum wage rather than on fifty years of shitty government housing policies and rapacious corporations buying up housing to turn into rentals is full-throated "That foreigner wants to take your cookie" messaging.
A Dennis Lushch cartoon depicting Rupert Murdoch with a plate full of cookies warning a white worker in a visibilty vest with one cookie that a man of color with no cookies wants the white worker's cookie.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Here are my neighbor's final posts to Nextdoor before he died, murdered by an insurance company.

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Four posts to Nextdoor by my neighbor on September 26, 27, 30, and October 1st 2025, all asking for medical assistance now that "The insurance company has sent me home in spite of my telling th[em]"
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Respond with the same actor as a hero and a villain.
Ronald Reagan from "Bedtime for Bonzo" with the chimpanzee. POS president Ronald Reagan
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Arizona basically sucks for me, but dining al fresco in November ain't bad
The Catalina mountains at sunset from our al fresco dinner before going to see the 40th anniversary 'Back to the Future' in the theater
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
The cast of 'Time Bandits (1983)' featuring LtR Mike Edmonds as "Og," Kenny Baker as "Fidgit," Malcolm Dixon as "Strutter," David Rappaport as "Randall," Tiny Ross as "Vermin," and Jack Purvis as "Wally." They are holding the blueprint map of the Universe's holes and toasting the camera
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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In a common imagememe format a car labeled GOP traveling down a highway labeled "Law and Order" has taken a hard right turn at the last second to take an exit labeled "Fascist Chaos"
October 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Post a you from a different era
A colorized dork from the past stands backstage. Two text boxes read "Colors recreated by photoshop for your viewing pleasure." and "Me, circal 1975. Maroon print sweater, green plaid pants... and for some reason I couldn't get a date." I am also wearing white socks and black tennis shoes and a dorky expression.
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I will refrain from vaporizing Sheboygan... For one MILLION dollars! Mwahahaha!
September 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Whee...
A page of "Den of Geek" article in which a small ad for a burlesque show is dropped in a large gray box more than twice its side, relegating the article content to a seven-or-eight character column on the left side of the page. Later the ads will rearrange themselves, and the words presently on the left side will retract above the top of the window, requiring one to scroll back to contine reading.
August 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Article content: 10/10. Attempting to read the article content on Chrome while ads dynamically resize themselves and squeeze the article content into a ten-character column on the left side of the page: priceless. Hey @denofgeek.bsky.social maybe fix this?
A screencap of an article in Den of Geek in which the ads resize themselves in weirdly arbitrary manner, placing small ads into a much larger gray boxes, resizing the text into a thin column on the left side. This would happen dynamically while scrolling, so that suddenly the text one was reading was now several pages further down the window, then it would resize again and one would have to scroll back up to resume reading... This never would have happened with a Gopher+ browser... ;-)
August 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Hangin' out at Hidden Falls Park watching the doggos play at the dog park across the Mississippi
#dogs #mississippi #summer
June 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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First trip to #England 1987 & I feel something brush past my leg. Turn to see a limousine easing through the crowd. I raise my camera as it stops and the Queen Mother climbs out. People live their whole lives in England and don't get within a mile of a royal, and I'm 10 feet away. #QueenMum #royal
Across the back of a black limousine with a yellow license reading "NLT 2" the Queen Mother of England holds a transparent dome umbrella in her left hand and waves to the crowd with her right while various henchpeople mill around between her and a door that reads "All the Queen's Men," circa 1987.
June 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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First England trip 1987 and I feel something brush the back of my leg. Turn to see a black car easing slowly through the crowd. I bring up my camera, and the Queen Mother climbs out. People live their entire lives in England and don't get within a mile of a royal, and here I am ten feet away.
Across the back of a black limousine with a yellow license plate reading "NLT 2" the Queen Mother of England holds a transparent dome umbrella in one hand and waves to the crowd with another while anonymous henchpeople mill around behind her, one hidden by a white umbrella. A door at her back is labeled "All the Queen's Men." Circa 1987.
June 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Using commands from "Blade Runner," we zoom in to Kelly's eyes to see what ACTUALLY makes him tick...
May 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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#lifetoday #oldreferences #clippy #tng
A meme of Clippy the Microsoft paperclip saying "You say there are four lights, can't you see there are five?"
May 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Why yes I'm playing songs off the Gopher server that I'm running on my Raspberry Pi jukebox. #InternetGopher #Gopher #RFC1436 #PI #Retro #RaspberryPi
A display of a Gopher directory of musical groups beginning with 'A' A display of a Gopher directory of Adele's '25' album and a VLC client playing the first track, 'Hello'
May 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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I wrote a college comic strip over 30 years ago and got $15 a strip. Given the changes in the minimum wage since then I'd expect you to get... well... $15 a strip.
A parody Tenniel illustration for a parody of Carroll's "Father William" poem. Only two words of the poem have been altered to lampoon Reagan-era Secretary of Education and virulent racist William Bennett.
May 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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A friend wanted to go visit Italy before the tourist season. I said "Not missing the eclipse!" So we flew to Dallas, I shot this picture, then we flew on to Rome...
In a partly-cloudy sky the April 8 2024 eclipse displays the "engagement ring" phase. Copyright Bob Alberti.
April 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Best Star Trek Crew, Wrong Answers Only
Marvin the Martian, an excited Duck Dodgers pointing heroically at the sky, and a pink-spacesuited Porky Pig stand in front of a science-fictoniony blue-toned background.
March 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Post your favorite Pokémon. Wrong answers only.
Gossamer or "the Tennis Shoe Monster" from Bugs Bunny, while getting a perm.
March 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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My story "The Lord of Worms" set in the world of Tekumel has been accepted for inclusion in "Who Let the Gods Out?!: Divine Wrath" to be published by Wicked Shadow Press #booksky #wickedshadowpress #tekumel #marbarker #EmpireOfThePetalThrone #Mitlanyal
A complicated burnt-umber glyph circles a shadowed skull on a black background, emblematic of the worship of Sarku, Lord of the Undead, from the world of Tekumel by Prof. MAR Barker. For more information about Tekumel, visit tekumel.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Final version, full lyrics! Now somebody just has to record it!
#politics #parody #PinkyAndTheBrain #Musk #Trump #Elon #boogerboy #fascism
A parody cartoon of the Animaniacs' "Pinky and the Brain," Trump and Musk are depicted as The Brain and Pinky, respectively. The Brain is seated at the Resolute desk and has an absurd blond combover and a red tie so long it peeks out in front of the desk. Pinky wears a ball cap and is throwing a nutsy salute. Pinky's son is wiping a booger on the Resolute desk. A colorful Mar-a-Lago is depicted on the wall behind the Brain. The title "Stinky and the Stain" appears at bottom. The lyrics are posted at right, reading: They're Stinky and the Stain Yes Stinky and the Stain They're Dunning-Kruger geniuses And both are insane They're kleptocratic turds They're horrid and absurd They're Stinky, they're Stinky and the Stain Stain, Stain, Stain, Stain Stain, Stain, Stain, Stain Before their reign is done Their plan will be unfurled: To steal the nation’s funds And leave it a third world Before their reign is done Their plan will be unfurled: To steal the nation’s funds And leave it a third world They're Stinky and the Stain Yes Stinky and the Stain Their criminal campaign is easy to explain To grow their crooked worth They'll overthrow the earth They're Stinky, they're Stinky and the Stain Stain, Stain, Stain Stain, Stain, Stain, DOGE
February 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM