Roberto
@robertodevido.bsky.social
Literally self-inflicted …
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Literally self-inflicted …
Rubbish subhead in The New Yorker. No one in this story experienced a "bout of conscience", which implies initial alignment with Trump's fascist/racist objectives. Instead, they are good people who tried to do their jobs and were fired for it.
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Rubbish subhead in The New Yorker. No one in this story experienced a "bout of conscience", which implies initial alignment with Trump's fascist/racist objectives. Instead, they are good people who tried to do their jobs and were fired for it.
Christmas is coming … 🎄
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Christmas is coming … 🎄
Completely unsurprised. In the Chinese system, very few people are empowered to speak for the state in a crisis. Safest to leave the phone unanswered and simply follow previously given orders.
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Completely unsurprised. In the Chinese system, very few people are empowered to speak for the state in a crisis. Safest to leave the phone unanswered and simply follow previously given orders.
Took me two dry cleanings to get the salt stains (hot day!) out of my suit jacket after this race.
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Took me two dry cleanings to get the salt stains (hot day!) out of my suit jacket after this race.
LOL, suck it up, Japan. You're on your own.
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
LOL, suck it up, Japan. You're on your own.
For sportswriters, every PL loss, even in December, is a “title blow”. Ridiculous.
December 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
For sportswriters, every PL loss, even in December, is a “title blow”. Ridiculous.
Wondering if Trump and Musk will have killed off the NORAD Santa tracker this year … 😏
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Wondering if Trump and Musk will have killed off the NORAD Santa tracker this year … 😏
Imagining the millions of hours that Chinese teenagers have spent in this New York City video arcade across the decades … 🕹️
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Imagining the millions of hours that Chinese teenagers have spent in this New York City video arcade across the decades … 🕹️
Detoured to the river to snap the sunrise (I was a little late) and managed to arrive just as the crazy pigeon lady was generating a literal feeding frenzy among neighborhood pigeons.
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Detoured to the river to snap the sunrise (I was a little late) and managed to arrive just as the crazy pigeon lady was generating a literal feeding frenzy among neighborhood pigeons.
Here's NPR, unable to write the word "racist".
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Here's NPR, unable to write the word "racist".
Here's The New York Times's daily newsletter writer, rewriting history as she writes about rewriting history.
Start at "many historians believe ..." 🙄
Start at "many historians believe ..." 🙄
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Here's The New York Times's daily newsletter writer, rewriting history as she writes about rewriting history.
Start at "many historians believe ..." 🙄
Start at "many historians believe ..." 🙄
Ugly headline in The New York Times.
Prisoners are not Sports section entertainment, and I don't think we need the Times to provide us with prison team/athlete rankings.
Prisoners are not Sports section entertainment, and I don't think we need the Times to provide us with prison team/athlete rankings.
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ugly headline in The New York Times.
Prisoners are not Sports section entertainment, and I don't think we need the Times to provide us with prison team/athlete rankings.
Prisoners are not Sports section entertainment, and I don't think we need the Times to provide us with prison team/athlete rankings.
Here's your spot news photography Pulitzer. Extraordinary shot by Tyrone Siu.
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Here's your spot news photography Pulitzer. Extraordinary shot by Tyrone Siu.
New York Times story about "dating" AI chatbots ...
No, thank you.
No, thank you.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
New York Times story about "dating" AI chatbots ...
No, thank you.
No, thank you.
I would love to see an explanation of a pricing scheme that sees the Kindle edition more expensive than the paperback.
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I would love to see an explanation of a pricing scheme that sees the Kindle edition more expensive than the paperback.
Great example of media sanewashing ... here's the (admittedly mediocre) Japan Times headlining the far more "sane" element of a story, and burying the complete insanity in the subhead.
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Great example of media sanewashing ... here's the (admittedly mediocre) Japan Times headlining the far more "sane" element of a story, and burying the complete insanity in the subhead.
The Athletic's writers make this mistake multiple times a week ...
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Athletic's writers make this mistake multiple times a week ...
The Party of Lincoln has become The Party of Pedophiia ...
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Party of Lincoln has become The Party of Pedophiia ...
A lot of people say he is the greatest dealmaker in the history of foreign policy.
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A lot of people say he is the greatest dealmaker in the history of foreign policy.
Via NPR. The advice cited from a Republican strategist is obviously bad if the White House DOES have iron-clad evidence Trump is a pedophile ... if that's the case, their efforts to cover up make perfect sense.
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Via NPR. The advice cited from a Republican strategist is obviously bad if the White House DOES have iron-clad evidence Trump is a pedophile ... if that's the case, their efforts to cover up make perfect sense.
LOL, Qian Zhimin probably stole the money ...
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
LOL, Qian Zhimin probably stole the money ...
I shot one today with that app. Thanks for turning me on to it!
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I shot one today with that app. Thanks for turning me on to it!
Chinese tourists getting the full Japan experience
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Chinese tourists getting the full Japan experience