Rob Garver
@rrgarver.bsky.social
I'm a freelance writer and editor. Among other things, I edit American Banker's BankThink.
Former Voice of America contributor. Probably some #photography and #flyfishing, too.
Former Voice of America contributor. Probably some #photography and #flyfishing, too.
DC, this afternoon.
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
DC, this afternoon.
Would love a @dieworkwear.bsky.social assessment of Dr. Oz's tie choice here.
October 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Would love a @dieworkwear.bsky.social assessment of Dr. Oz's tie choice here.
Yeah, freelance journalism was a brilliant career choice....
October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Yeah, freelance journalism was a brilliant career choice....
I will never stop reading Google's offer to "polish" my emails as, instead, an offer to translate them into Polish.
June 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I will never stop reading Google's offer to "polish" my emails as, instead, an offer to translate them into Polish.
May 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
April 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My neighbor's Joke of the Day feels painfully on point this morning.
March 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My neighbor's Joke of the Day feels painfully on point this morning.
Kind of alarming that the Times is saying that in 2030 Trump is "no longer expected to be president."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...
March 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Kind of alarming that the Times is saying that in 2030 Trump is "no longer expected to be president."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...
So that was the one that did it?
January 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So that was the one that did it?
Go home, Wirecutter. You're drunk.
December 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Go home, Wirecutter. You're drunk.
Reading Timothy Snyder's "On Freedom." I know it was written before <waves arms around> all this. But I want to believe this still applies.
November 20, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Reading Timothy Snyder's "On Freedom." I know it was written before <waves arms around> all this. But I want to believe this still applies.
There it is. Dr. Oz to Run Medicare.
November 19, 2024 at 9:07 PM
There it is. Dr. Oz to Run Medicare.
How did you make this happen?
November 17, 2024 at 8:01 PM
How did you make this happen?
Would Johnson do that to his counterpart in the Senate, John Thune? Who knows? But there's always inherent tension between the chambers, even when they're in the hands of the same party. www.aei.org/articles/our...
November 17, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Would Johnson do that to his counterpart in the Senate, John Thune? Who knows? But there's always inherent tension between the chambers, even when they're in the hands of the same party. www.aei.org/articles/our...
Richard Thompson, The Birchmere, 2023
November 10, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Richard Thompson, The Birchmere, 2023
Because, of course.
November 13, 2023 at 6:59 PM
Because, of course.
I think it's going to be a minute before LLMs with internet access can be relied on for even basic info. In Google Bard's world, Kevin McCarthy is apparently still speaker of the House.
October 3, 2023 at 10:37 PM
I think it's going to be a minute before LLMs with internet access can be relied on for even basic info. In Google Bard's world, Kevin McCarthy is apparently still speaker of the House.
MLB's playoffs are now to the death, apparently?
October 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM
MLB's playoffs are now to the death, apparently?
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
August 14, 2023 at 10:21 PM
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
What? Oh, nothing. Just a normal August afternoon in Northern VA...
August 14, 2023 at 8:31 PM
What? Oh, nothing. Just a normal August afternoon in Northern VA...
In the history of headline writing, I'm fairly sure that no set of single quotes has ever done half as much work as these are doing here.
August 2, 2023 at 8:34 PM
In the history of headline writing, I'm fairly sure that no set of single quotes has ever done half as much work as these are doing here.
That prompt is feeling very meta this morning.
July 24, 2023 at 2:15 PM
That prompt is feeling very meta this morning.
Only just now realizing that all these Ben Shapiro-Barbie parody memes I've been seeing...aren't parody?
July 23, 2023 at 7:22 PM
Only just now realizing that all these Ben Shapiro-Barbie parody memes I've been seeing...aren't parody?