Juan
juanriverajr.bsky.social
Juan
@juanriverajr.bsky.social
Building a life in Baltimore
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I can't help but wonder . . . what has the notoriously corrupt FIFA already gotten (or hopes to get) in exchange for its silly award to flatter the perpetually needy Donald Trump?
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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*looks directly at camera*
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The pride of Baltimore!
I’m howling.
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
deadline.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What a god awful idea. Private Equity is destroying everything.
Big Ten is letting the wolf in the door and selling its soul. For what? — USA TODAY
Is Tony Petitti trying to kill the Big Ten all by himself?
apple.news
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It’s the Spanish.
Let's Stop Pretending Politics Is the Reason People Are Angry About Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Set — Billboard
Spanish is what’s got people all worked up.
apple.news
October 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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On a daily basis.
October 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A major loss here and still a shock. I’ll miss him greatly
Dan Morrison, staple of Hollins Market, was a community builder
Dan Morrison, a staple of the Hollins Market neighborhood and the beloved manager of The Back Yard restaurant and bar, died Aug. 18 at age 50.
www.thebanner.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (1987)

#animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation
August 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Not the obituary I wanted to read today. variety.com/2025/music/o...
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Frontman and Heavy Metal Legend, Dies at 76
Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman for Black Sabbath and a pioneer of heavy metal music, has died. He was 76.
variety.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“It was a delight to catch a glimpse of Khalil in the throes of laughter. He laughed as though each laugh were a physical vessel urgently exiting his body, or a secret he’d held for so long that it had forced its way out.”
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Senator dared to question the Empire, directly, and was met with force. Stormtroopers didn’t hesitate. They grabbed him, cuffed him, dragged him away like a dissident, claiming he “failed to identify himself.” But everyone knew who he was. He was a Senator.
June 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
June 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Feudalism Is Our Future — The Atlantic
What the next Dark Ages could look like
apple.news
June 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Pleasantly surprised they were able to catch him.
Hacker who crippled Baltimore in 2019 ransomware attack pleads guilty
The attack shut down Baltimore computer and communications systems for months and caused $19 million in lost revenue and expenses.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Not the obituary I wanted to read today.
Baltimore’s fedora-wearing Hank the Goat dies
“I’m gonna miss that goddamn goat,” said Cornish, “He done travelled the whole Baltimore city with me.”
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Your homework is to stop canceling each other, find out about punk, and get laid while you’re at it,”
Opinion | Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Fml. I've said in the past it seems like people conflate entertainment with good governance. And here we are.

I'd rather we elect officials who lack any charisma but are able to govern well.
New study suggests entertainment is key to populist political success
Populism may be powered by "popcorn politics," as new studies show voters are more drawn to entertaining leaders who stir emotions and challenge elites.
www.psypost.org
April 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“…the performance will remain: a man offering a caricature as comfort, selling certainty to those unsettled by change.”
Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
www.bloomberg.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM