Michael Rawdon
@mrawdon.bsky.social
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
I made a bunch of friends while slamming Star Trek: The Next Generation on rec.arts.startrek in the early 90s.
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I made a bunch of friends while slamming Star Trek: The Next Generation on rec.arts.startrek in the early 90s.
I wonder if the turkey drop in WKRP would have gone better if they’d defrosted the turkeys first?
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I wonder if the turkey drop in WKRP would have gone better if they’d defrosted the turkeys first?
Apparently I missed some big development in the news yesterday which has left a lot of people here feeling like they’ve had enough internet for a while, and I cannot figure out what it was.
Maybe I’m just jaded? Or maybe I’m the frog in the pot.
Maybe I’m just jaded? Or maybe I’m the frog in the pot.
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Apparently I missed some big development in the news yesterday which has left a lot of people here feeling like they’ve had enough internet for a while, and I cannot figure out what it was.
Maybe I’m just jaded? Or maybe I’m the frog in the pot.
Maybe I’m just jaded? Or maybe I’m the frog in the pot.
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Oh no I logged off bluesky for half an hour and now everyone is posting cryptic shitposts four times removed from the original context
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Oh no I logged off bluesky for half an hour and now everyone is posting cryptic shitposts four times removed from the original context
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
#MarjorieTaylorGreene following the proud #Republican tradition of quitting when the going gets rough (see also: #TACO), decides to leave finishing the destruction of U.S. democracy to others.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
#MarjorieTaylorGreene following the proud #Republican tradition of quitting when the going gets rough (see also: #TACO), decides to leave finishing the destruction of U.S. democracy to others.
#MarjorieTaylorGreene resigning to spend more time with her seething hatred of ordinary people just trying to live their lives in peace.
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
#MarjorieTaylorGreene resigning to spend more time with her seething hatred of ordinary people just trying to live their lives in peace.
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I know this makes me a bad person but I kinda wish Geddy Lee and Rush would get involved in some kind of massive lawsuit so I could joke that today's Tom Sawyer needs a keen keen lawyer.
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I know this makes me a bad person but I kinda wish Geddy Lee and Rush would get involved in some kind of massive lawsuit so I could joke that today's Tom Sawyer needs a keen keen lawyer.
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We could try taxing the rich for a change
The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
Why my ultra-rich clients are ashamed of their wealth
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We could try taxing the rich for a change
Them: <something something> dark mode
Me: People use dark mode?
Me: People use dark mode?
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Them: <something something> dark mode
Me: People use dark mode?
Me: People use dark mode?
The wonder of the Discover tab is sometimes you get a post which you just lack the context to understand.
Jordan Davis? Singer? Activist? Athlete? Cat? (Could be a cat. There are lots of cats here.)
(I apologize to OP for this post. If it wasn’t them it woulda been someone else.)
Jordan Davis? Singer? Activist? Athlete? Cat? (Could be a cat. There are lots of cats here.)
(I apologize to OP for this post. If it wasn’t them it woulda been someone else.)
Jordan Davis has been so good this year
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The wonder of the Discover tab is sometimes you get a post which you just lack the context to understand.
Jordan Davis? Singer? Activist? Athlete? Cat? (Could be a cat. There are lots of cats here.)
(I apologize to OP for this post. If it wasn’t them it woulda been someone else.)
Jordan Davis? Singer? Activist? Athlete? Cat? (Could be a cat. There are lots of cats here.)
(I apologize to OP for this post. If it wasn’t them it woulda been someone else.)
Oof, few things more frustrating than the smoke alarm going off at 1:30 am.
I ended up having to disconnect the one that was going off since the one other thing I could think of - vacuuming the sensor - didn’t help; it kept going off.
I ended up having to disconnect the one that was going off since the one other thing I could think of - vacuuming the sensor - didn’t help; it kept going off.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Oof, few things more frustrating than the smoke alarm going off at 1:30 am.
I ended up having to disconnect the one that was going off since the one other thing I could think of - vacuuming the sensor - didn’t help; it kept going off.
I ended up having to disconnect the one that was going off since the one other thing I could think of - vacuuming the sensor - didn’t help; it kept going off.
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BOOK! IS! COMING!
Cover Reveal for The Infinite Loop!
Cover for The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination by Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon. The title and author text are black text on a white background. Above and below the title block is a pattern of bright pink concentric circles.…
Cover for The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination by Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon. The title and author text are black text on a white background. Above and below the title block is a pattern of bright pink concentric circles.…
Cover Reveal for The Infinite Loop!
Cover for The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination by Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon. The title and author text are black text on a white background. Above and below the title block is a pattern of bright pink concentric circles. BEHOLD! The cover for The Infinite Loop! It is now live and preorders are available on the ALA…
lynnemthomas.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
BOOK! IS! COMING!
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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BOOK IS COMING
@katy-katy.bsky.social and I have just seen cover art for The Infinite Loop, and preorders should go up soon! 🎉
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
BOOK IS COMING
The Internet Archive is like a person who shot themselves in the foot and is now complaining that they’re having trouble walking.
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
arstechnica.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The Internet Archive is like a person who shot themselves in the foot and is now complaining that they’re having trouble walking.
Starting to wonder if the end result of all this - even if the Repugnicans don’t complete their coup - is that the Democratic Party splits into a moderate party and a liberal party.
That would probably mark the end of liberal influence in the federal government for a generation or two.
That would probably mark the end of liberal influence in the federal government for a generation or two.
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Starting to wonder if the end result of all this - even if the Repugnicans don’t complete their coup - is that the Democratic Party splits into a moderate party and a liberal party.
That would probably mark the end of liberal influence in the federal government for a generation or two.
That would probably mark the end of liberal influence in the federal government for a generation or two.
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Growing up we always muted commercials.
One day, watching TV at a friend’s house, I muted the commercials. Everyone stared at me in horror and someone actually said, “Why would you do that?!” like I just threw paint on their furniture.
So that’s how I learned how propaganda works as a 10 year old.
One day, watching TV at a friend’s house, I muted the commercials. Everyone stared at me in horror and someone actually said, “Why would you do that?!” like I just threw paint on their furniture.
So that’s how I learned how propaganda works as a 10 year old.
when I was a kid and ads played on TV my father would outright leave the room until they were done, which when he got lazier he'd just change the channel for 2 minutes to find literally any other one that wasn't in commercial
I found it ridiculous back then but I totally get it now dad
I found it ridiculous back then but I totally get it now dad
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Growing up we always muted commercials.
One day, watching TV at a friend’s house, I muted the commercials. Everyone stared at me in horror and someone actually said, “Why would you do that?!” like I just threw paint on their furniture.
So that’s how I learned how propaganda works as a 10 year old.
One day, watching TV at a friend’s house, I muted the commercials. Everyone stared at me in horror and someone actually said, “Why would you do that?!” like I just threw paint on their furniture.
So that’s how I learned how propaganda works as a 10 year old.
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Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth:
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth:
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth:
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth:
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
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Looks like I need a new starting guess word.
Wordle 1,603 1/6*
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November 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Looks like I need a new starting guess word.
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
I’m sure the bird-shit-for-brains Republicans think they’re punishing big (and mostly blue) cities, but this will touch anyone who flies on any aircraft which goes through one of those airports.
“Where’s my aircraft?”
“Still waiting for clearance to take off from an airport 3 hours away from you.”
“Where’s my aircraft?”
“Still waiting for clearance to take off from an airport 3 hours away from you.”
It’s basically all the major airports in the US, including HNL. I wish for a functional government not run by sociopaths.
These are the airports that will reduce flights during the government shutdown
The Federal Aviation Administration is forcing airlines to cut 10% of their flights at 40 of the busiest airports across the nation to reduce pressure on air traffic controllers during the ongoing gov...
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’m sure the bird-shit-for-brains Republicans think they’re punishing big (and mostly blue) cities, but this will touch anyone who flies on any aircraft which goes through one of those airports.
“Where’s my aircraft?”
“Still waiting for clearance to take off from an airport 3 hours away from you.”
“Where’s my aircraft?”
“Still waiting for clearance to take off from an airport 3 hours away from you.”