Robert Rath
@robertrath.bsky.social
Head Writer of EXTRA HISTORY. Author of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, THE FALL OF CADIA, and ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER for Black Library. Freelance word mercenary. Born Hawaii, live HK. All views my own. He/Him
So they made a café specifically for me but it CLOSED?!
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
So they made a café specifically for me but it CLOSED?!
A very happy “Hong Kong is Within the Humidity Band That Spray Primers are Made For” Week to all who celebrate.
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A very happy “Hong Kong is Within the Humidity Band That Spray Primers are Made For” Week to all who celebrate.
Camping out in the wilds of Hong Kong, on a beach best accessed by speedboat.
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Camping out in the wilds of Hong Kong, on a beach best accessed by speedboat.
Not sure about this new manicurist.
She kept calling it a “Nailmacure” and claimed she invented it, then talked about Twilight Sparkle for like 20 minutes.
She kept calling it a “Nailmacure” and claimed she invented it, then talked about Twilight Sparkle for like 20 minutes.
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Not sure about this new manicurist.
She kept calling it a “Nailmacure” and claimed she invented it, then talked about Twilight Sparkle for like 20 minutes.
She kept calling it a “Nailmacure” and claimed she invented it, then talked about Twilight Sparkle for like 20 minutes.
I would like to point out that Max Muncy and I have never been photographed in the same place.
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I would like to point out that Max Muncy and I have never been photographed in the same place.
Wait did baseball change its rules when I wasn’t paying attention or…?
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Wait did baseball change its rules when I wasn’t paying attention or…?
Everyone has that Holy Grail model, the one that was crazy rare or unattainable in their country or for some reason they just couldn’t put their hands on.
…but somehow I just got mine?! I genuinely never even considered it a possibility.
…but somehow I just got mine?! I genuinely never even considered it a possibility.
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Everyone has that Holy Grail model, the one that was crazy rare or unattainable in their country or for some reason they just couldn’t put their hands on.
…but somehow I just got mine?! I genuinely never even considered it a possibility.
…but somehow I just got mine?! I genuinely never even considered it a possibility.
Funky bars are something Taipei has in spades, but among them Vinyl Decision stands out.
A part of the Huashan 1914 Creative Park—housed in a former winery and sake distillery—the host spins records by request between live music sets.
Who doesn’t love sake alongside live Brazilian Bossa Nova?
A part of the Huashan 1914 Creative Park—housed in a former winery and sake distillery—the host spins records by request between live music sets.
Who doesn’t love sake alongside live Brazilian Bossa Nova?
October 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Funky bars are something Taipei has in spades, but among them Vinyl Decision stands out.
A part of the Huashan 1914 Creative Park—housed in a former winery and sake distillery—the host spins records by request between live music sets.
Who doesn’t love sake alongside live Brazilian Bossa Nova?
A part of the Huashan 1914 Creative Park—housed in a former winery and sake distillery—the host spins records by request between live music sets.
Who doesn’t love sake alongside live Brazilian Bossa Nova?
The publication of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE five years ago marked a change in my life in a way that would be trite if you wrote it in fiction.
I took the book home, let my daughter play with it, then went to dinner to celebrate and was told we were going to have another kid.
This was my face.
I took the book home, let my daughter play with it, then went to dinner to celebrate and was told we were going to have another kid.
This was my face.
October 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The publication of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE five years ago marked a change in my life in a way that would be trite if you wrote it in fiction.
I took the book home, let my daughter play with it, then went to dinner to celebrate and was told we were going to have another kid.
This was my face.
I took the book home, let my daughter play with it, then went to dinner to celebrate and was told we were going to have another kid.
This was my face.
Happy book birthday to THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, which released in hardback five years ago today!
Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the ride with these two on their ten-millennia tropical vacation disaster.
Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the ride with these two on their ten-millennia tropical vacation disaster.
October 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Happy book birthday to THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, which released in hardback five years ago today!
Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the ride with these two on their ten-millennia tropical vacation disaster.
Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the ride with these two on their ten-millennia tropical vacation disaster.
Had no idea the Taipei Zoo was considered the best in Asia—and for good reason!
October 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Had no idea the Taipei Zoo was considered the best in Asia—and for good reason!
Mass Damper or “Gravity Ball” to reduce swaying due to wind. It’s 66 metric tons and on the 88-89th floors, and is the only one in the world open to the public.
October 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Mass Damper or “Gravity Ball” to reduce swaying due to wind. It’s 66 metric tons and on the 88-89th floors, and is the only one in the world open to the public.
I actually saw the National Guard in DC late at night a couple weeks back.
Blocks of no soldiers, then eight standing around Farragut West station in teams of two, doing nothing and looking bored.
Blocks of no soldiers, then eight standing around Farragut West station in teams of two, doing nothing and looking bored.
October 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I actually saw the National Guard in DC late at night a couple weeks back.
Blocks of no soldiers, then eight standing around Farragut West station in teams of two, doing nothing and looking bored.
Blocks of no soldiers, then eight standing around Farragut West station in teams of two, doing nothing and looking bored.
This year Ocean Park Hong Kong jumped on the Labubu craze and made blind-boxes its theme for the 2025 Halloween season, with each of its six haunted houses matching to a blind box figure (which yes, you can buy).
One haunted attraction, The Hatred Box, is explicitly about a possessed Labubu store.
One haunted attraction, The Hatred Box, is explicitly about a possessed Labubu store.
October 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This year Ocean Park Hong Kong jumped on the Labubu craze and made blind-boxes its theme for the 2025 Halloween season, with each of its six haunted houses matching to a blind box figure (which yes, you can buy).
One haunted attraction, The Hatred Box, is explicitly about a possessed Labubu store.
One haunted attraction, The Hatred Box, is explicitly about a possessed Labubu store.
The most beautiful sight in all of air travel.
September 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The most beautiful sight in all of air travel.
Y’all it’s hard to even describe how big Super Typhoon Ragasa is, but I just want to point out that it is comfortably covering the whole of the eastern South China Sea while simultaneously impacting geography as far apart as Southern China, Taiwan island, and the northern Philippine islands.
September 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Y’all it’s hard to even describe how big Super Typhoon Ragasa is, but I just want to point out that it is comfortably covering the whole of the eastern South China Sea while simultaneously impacting geography as far apart as Southern China, Taiwan island, and the northern Philippine islands.
Hoooo boy the typhoon about to hit Hong Kong is a biggie.
Looks a lot like Super Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, which downed 10,000 trees and provided some of the most dramatic HK typhoon footage of the past few years.
Looks a lot like Super Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, which downed 10,000 trees and provided some of the most dramatic HK typhoon footage of the past few years.
September 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hoooo boy the typhoon about to hit Hong Kong is a biggie.
Looks a lot like Super Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, which downed 10,000 trees and provided some of the most dramatic HK typhoon footage of the past few years.
Looks a lot like Super Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, which downed 10,000 trees and provided some of the most dramatic HK typhoon footage of the past few years.
This is what it looks like internally. The notebooks are all held in by elastic bands so you can swap them whenever you want.
I actually make them myself now, though this is one I bought.
I actually make them myself now, though this is one I bought.
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is what it looks like internally. The notebooks are all held in by elastic bands so you can swap them whenever you want.
I actually make them myself now, though this is one I bought.
I actually make them myself now, though this is one I bought.
Finally delivered a huge thing I’ve been working on for awhile.
Really excited to dive into something new!
I have ritually removed the project’s battle-worn passport-size notebook insert from my pocket journal and replaced it with a fresh one.
Really excited to dive into something new!
I have ritually removed the project’s battle-worn passport-size notebook insert from my pocket journal and replaced it with a fresh one.
September 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finally delivered a huge thing I’ve been working on for awhile.
Really excited to dive into something new!
I have ritually removed the project’s battle-worn passport-size notebook insert from my pocket journal and replaced it with a fresh one.
Really excited to dive into something new!
I have ritually removed the project’s battle-worn passport-size notebook insert from my pocket journal and replaced it with a fresh one.
In troubled times simple pleasures are really important, and one of those simple pleasures is getting a new watch band.
September 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In troubled times simple pleasures are really important, and one of those simple pleasures is getting a new watch band.
Yard has a wandering Pokémon.
September 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yard has a wandering Pokémon.
Reposting a meme someone else made about a movie he doesn’t understand is the closest Trump got to Vietnam.
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposting a meme someone else made about a movie he doesn’t understand is the closest Trump got to Vietnam.
Amongst the amazing offerings on Warhammer+ this week is the Black Library Book Club discussing The Fall of Cadia!
Check it out!
Check it out!
August 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Amongst the amazing offerings on Warhammer+ this week is the Black Library Book Club discussing The Fall of Cadia!
Check it out!
Check it out!
Why is the bean’s office not covered in Warhammer miniatures, six open notebooks, and a stack of online order returns he’s supposed to complete for his wife?
My bean has more classy decor than me and I don’t like it.
My bean has more classy decor than me and I don’t like it.
August 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Why is the bean’s office not covered in Warhammer miniatures, six open notebooks, and a stack of online order returns he’s supposed to complete for his wife?
My bean has more classy decor than me and I don’t like it.
My bean has more classy decor than me and I don’t like it.