Robert
@braveamateur.bsky.social
"They shout and curse, stabbing wildly, more brawlers than warriors. They make a wondrous mess of things. Brave amateurs, they do their part."
300 (2006)
300 (2006)
I know someday, you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I know someday, you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?
For anyone looking for #giftideas a pair of good slippers is hard to beat. These I got for Christmas last year or the year before and they are great.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For anyone looking for #giftideas a pair of good slippers is hard to beat. These I got for Christmas last year or the year before and they are great.
www.glerups.com/products/the...
www.glerups.com/products/the...
This is a fun and interesting little book. A bit of a noodle scratcher at times. This one's as "sprawling" and intricate as Inherent Vice but not quite as funny and entertaining imo. Still good though. I'll keep going with Pynchon. 1/2 📚💙
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is a fun and interesting little book. A bit of a noodle scratcher at times. This one's as "sprawling" and intricate as Inherent Vice but not quite as funny and entertaining imo. Still good though. I'll keep going with Pynchon. 1/2 📚💙
Looking forward to seeing Das Boot at the cinema next week. They're showing the 3,5 h director's cut. We have this small cinema in town with a beautiful art deco inspired room. They even serve food and drinks and this evening's special is German sausage with potato salad and sauerkraut. 😅 #moviesky
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Looking forward to seeing Das Boot at the cinema next week. They're showing the 3,5 h director's cut. We have this small cinema in town with a beautiful art deco inspired room. They even serve food and drinks and this evening's special is German sausage with potato salad and sauerkraut. 😅 #moviesky
This is kinda interesting. I made my kids do something away from the screens, so they colored some. On the left is what our 14 yo did (she has normal vision) and on the right what the 11 yo did (she has #achromatopsia).
October 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is kinda interesting. I made my kids do something away from the screens, so they colored some. On the left is what our 14 yo did (she has normal vision) and on the right what the 11 yo did (she has #achromatopsia).
"This project is in effect as of now."
263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol
I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky
263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol
I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"This project is in effect as of now."
263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol
I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky
263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol
I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky
Went down a little rabbit hole of pics of iconic male actors smoking cigarettes. Man, a filterless cigarette stuck in the corner of the mouth, especially on some b&w old time iconic dude is a cool as hell look. If it weren't for all the negative sides to it, I'd be smoking in a heartbeat! 😅
October 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Went down a little rabbit hole of pics of iconic male actors smoking cigarettes. Man, a filterless cigarette stuck in the corner of the mouth, especially on some b&w old time iconic dude is a cool as hell look. If it weren't for all the negative sides to it, I'd be smoking in a heartbeat! 😅
Ha! I'm just now reading Foucault's Pendulum by Eco.
"From prohibitions you can tell what people normally do. It's a way of drawing a picture of daily life." #books
"From prohibitions you can tell what people normally do. It's a way of drawing a picture of daily life." #books
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ha! I'm just now reading Foucault's Pendulum by Eco.
"From prohibitions you can tell what people normally do. It's a way of drawing a picture of daily life." #books
"From prohibitions you can tell what people normally do. It's a way of drawing a picture of daily life." #books
Of course he too was involved! Jfc
October 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Of course he too was involved! Jfc
I see you're a harsher master than I am. 😅
September 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I see you're a harsher master than I am. 😅
Let's see.
Step 1: Prey on people's weakness and suffering.
Step 2: Make billions doing it.
Step 3: Keep doing it until they're sucked dry and depleted.
Step 4: I don't know, just kill 'em?
Man, talk about pump and dump.
Step 1: Prey on people's weakness and suffering.
Step 2: Make billions doing it.
Step 3: Keep doing it until they're sucked dry and depleted.
Step 4: I don't know, just kill 'em?
Man, talk about pump and dump.
September 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Let's see.
Step 1: Prey on people's weakness and suffering.
Step 2: Make billions doing it.
Step 3: Keep doing it until they're sucked dry and depleted.
Step 4: I don't know, just kill 'em?
Man, talk about pump and dump.
Step 1: Prey on people's weakness and suffering.
Step 2: Make billions doing it.
Step 3: Keep doing it until they're sucked dry and depleted.
Step 4: I don't know, just kill 'em?
Man, talk about pump and dump.
"It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction the product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer." - Patrick Radden Keefe
#NowReading #booksky
#NowReading #booksky
September 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction the product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer." - Patrick Radden Keefe
#NowReading #booksky
#NowReading #booksky
"We trained our young men for victory...but they don't quite know how to act in defeat. We told them they were brighter and braver than other young men. It was a kind of shock to them to find out that they aren't a bit braver or brighter than other young men."
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"We trained our young men for victory...but they don't quite know how to act in defeat. We told them they were brighter and braver than other young men. It was a kind of shock to them to find out that they aren't a bit braver or brighter than other young men."
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
Notice here how the responsibility for any damage caused by such technology is being put on the users by assuming that a person's choice is made isolated from and unaffected by its environment, including Facebook itself.
www.wired.com/story/facebo...
www.wired.com/story/facebo...
August 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Notice here how the responsibility for any damage caused by such technology is being put on the users by assuming that a person's choice is made isolated from and unaffected by its environment, including Facebook itself.
www.wired.com/story/facebo...
www.wired.com/story/facebo...
I really like the first two albums by Spiritworld, but I don't know what happened on this one.
I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅
The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying
I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅
The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying
August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I really like the first two albums by Spiritworld, but I don't know what happened on this one.
I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅
The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying
I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅
The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying
These came in the mail the other day. I've wanted to read the Eco for a long time, but I'm really looking forward to the Rachilde. Don't really know that much about it, other than that it may have inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse which is one of my favorite movies. @wakefieldpress.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
These came in the mail the other day. I've wanted to read the Eco for a long time, but I'm really looking forward to the Rachilde. Don't really know that much about it, other than that it may have inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse which is one of my favorite movies. @wakefieldpress.bsky.social
... and then around end of July they mow pretty much the whole thing and remove the cut grass. They could have probably waited with this a week or two longer, but you can't really complain.
August 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
... and then around end of July they mow pretty much the whole thing and remove the cut grass. They could have probably waited with this a week or two longer, but you can't really complain.
Every time I take the oat milk and see this label, my brain goes "shake meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, shake me my friend!"
Every. Single. Time.
Every. Single. Time.
August 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Every time I take the oat milk and see this label, my brain goes "shake meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, shake me my friend!"
Every. Single. Time.
Every. Single. Time.
The book itself I find quite difficult. I'm having a hard time grabbing on to much really. I do like his prose though.
July 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The book itself I find quite difficult. I'm having a hard time grabbing on to much really. I do like his prose though.
Today, I felt like rewatching the 1st season of True Detective and in the first episode there's the line "might as well be living on the fucking moon".
Probably a coincidence, but considering that Coetzee's writing tends to be a bit bleak, it wouldn't surprise me if the script writer has read him.
Probably a coincidence, but considering that Coetzee's writing tends to be a bit bleak, it wouldn't surprise me if the script writer has read him.
July 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Today, I felt like rewatching the 1st season of True Detective and in the first episode there's the line "might as well be living on the fucking moon".
Probably a coincidence, but considering that Coetzee's writing tends to be a bit bleak, it wouldn't surprise me if the script writer has read him.
Probably a coincidence, but considering that Coetzee's writing tends to be a bit bleak, it wouldn't surprise me if the script writer has read him.
Hm, this is a little interesting. I'm currently reading In the Heart of the Country and the other day the line "we might as well be living on the moon" stuck out to me. #NowReading #books
July 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hm, this is a little interesting. I'm currently reading In the Heart of the Country and the other day the line "we might as well be living on the moon" stuck out to me. #NowReading #books
This I always find interesting and thought provoking.
It's easy to forget that most things people are dealing with are either themselves complex processes or connected to complex processes. It's easy to assume that things are linear. It's about good decision making.
www.noemamag.com/measuring-a-...
It's easy to forget that most things people are dealing with are either themselves complex processes or connected to complex processes. It's easy to assume that things are linear. It's about good decision making.
www.noemamag.com/measuring-a-...
July 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This I always find interesting and thought provoking.
It's easy to forget that most things people are dealing with are either themselves complex processes or connected to complex processes. It's easy to assume that things are linear. It's about good decision making.
www.noemamag.com/measuring-a-...
It's easy to forget that most things people are dealing with are either themselves complex processes or connected to complex processes. It's easy to assume that things are linear. It's about good decision making.
www.noemamag.com/measuring-a-...
Halfway in and enjoying this book way more than I thought I would. I wasn't sure I'd like this based on what I've heard/read about Pynchon's writing (it being dense and difficult). But this one is readable, fun and funny! I'm laughing out loud every few pages. A pleasant surprise. #NowReading #books
July 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Halfway in and enjoying this book way more than I thought I would. I wasn't sure I'd like this based on what I've heard/read about Pynchon's writing (it being dense and difficult). But this one is readable, fun and funny! I'm laughing out loud every few pages. A pleasant surprise. #NowReading #books
A few more days of this before it's time to get back to work.
July 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A few more days of this before it's time to get back to work.