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Matt Robold (rumdood)
@rumdood.com
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Decrepit Cocktail Blogger (https://rumdood.com)
One-Time Bartender

Sometimes I make drinks. Often I make ill-advised statements. I also write code and often fail at parenting good. I also make noise with ukuleles.
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Setting, Moderation, Bluesky Moderation Service, scroll down until you see the big toggles for content and you'll see "Rude" and can turn it off (2nd image)
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This is just a funny coincidence here.
A screenshot of Bluesky where one post is stating the fact that this is the sixth consecutive year in which the team that won the World Series had a player named "Will Smith" on the roster, and the next chronological post is from a podcaster named Will Smith, where he thanks Satan for helping him and the Dodgers win the World Series
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Without downloading anything where are you mentally right now?
A screen capture from Super Mario Bros with Mario and Toad. The text reads: "The princess isn't in another castle. She isn't anywhere. She is not real. Nothing is real. There is only suffering."
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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He even acknowledges that crime is falling in his announcement!
Last August, Governor Newsom signed into law the most significant bipartisan legislation to crack down on property crime in modern California history. Building on the state’s robust laws and record public safety funding, these bipartisan bills offer new tools to bolster ongoing efforts to hold criminals accountable for smash-and-grab robberies, property crime, retail theft, and auto burglaries. While California’s crime rate remains at near-historic lows, these laws help California adapt to evolving criminal tactics to ensure perpetrators are effectively held accountable.
August 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Kudos to @alcademics.bsky.social on his upcoming Halloween costume.
August 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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We are in literal Hell.
August 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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I think I found this on Reddit a number of years ago. I don't recall. A few of us were looking at different flag ideas for different states and it kind of spoke to me.
An alternative California flag with a red background, a white star in the top-left corner. In the center of the flag is a white outline of a circle, and in the circle is the white profile of a grizzly bear's head, with three arrows pointing down and to the left as a representation of the Iron Front anti-authoritarian movement.
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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As a life-long Lakers fan I am very uncomfortable with how much the current times are forcing me to cheer for Boston.
Boston Mayor Michelle Chu dunks on the ridiculous claim by fascist ICE Director that she did not swear an oath by posting a photo of herself swearing her oath to uphold the Constitution on a Bible from 1782
August 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Nobody tell them about these other building with corners pointing in the same directions - especially not the one in the top right which has corners pointing to all sorts of places.
A clip of the aerial photo of the building and its neighbors which have corners also pointing in similar directions because they are also on the same street.
July 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Speaking now on his reservations because he doesn't want to remove a tool from Law Enforcement's belt. So this is going to fail 4-2 is my guess.
John Gyllenhammer, City Councilmember for District 6 in the City of Orange, who will not support a resolution to require law enforcement to be identifiable
July 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Almost 30 residents speaking in support of the resolution is a heck of a big number at a City Council meeting in Orange.
Agenda Item in Orange City Council Meeting on July 22, 2025 5.1: Consideration of a resolution to require federal agents to be visibly identifiable when engaged in law enforcement actions in the city
July 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Waiting for the resolution regarding requiring federal agents to be identifiable and in the meantime listening to public comments on other things.
An agenda item for the Orange City Council regarding an ordinance regulating the number of chickens that can be kept on residential property
July 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I mean, look at this chart. "Also trainable, food motivated" is the same psychological profile my therapist has written down for me.
A chart comparing the temperament and behavior of Golden Retrievers and Yellow Labradors. Under "Yellow Labrador" the trait "Also trainable, food-motivated" is highlighted.
July 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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You know how sometimes when you're trying to get at one bottle on your top shelf, you catch a glimpse of something that got pushed way back and it turns out it's a bottle of 1994 Rhum JM Agricole Vieux?

No? Just me?

#HappyBastilleDay
A glass of Rhum JM 1994 Rhum. Agricole Vieux sits in front of a dusty bottle.
July 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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My favorite tweepinned garnish is still the none-functional but non-wasteful one I got in Sydney a million years ago.
A cocktail with a playing card (the 9 of spades) pinned to the glass
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Tonight's night cap after evening chores:

The Devil's Parlor

1.5 oz Rhum Agricole Blanc (Neisson 52.5%)
0.75 oz Cocchi Americano
0.75 oz Gran Classico Bitters
0.5 tsp Demerara Syrup

Stir, strain into a chilled coupe glass. Grapefruit or lemon twist
A coupe glass containing the cocktail described in the post. The drink is an orange-yellow color with a thin strip of lemon peel
June 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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The City of Orange is governed by low-life thugs

From @voiceofoc.bsky.social

voiceofoc.org/2025/06/divi...
“That’s fine. Protest. You do it peacefully, because the second you break the law – you want to be in 1960s, we’ll return to 1960s,” Dumitru said. “There should be fire hoses, I have no problem with that because if you break the law, you’re breaking the law.”
June 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Sometimes I reflect on my life and the fact that I have somehow stolen the rightful place of some much cooler person who was supposed to know the likes of @mbrowley.bsky.social and be graced with his insight and wit.

They can have their place when they pry it from my cold, dead bacon-greased hand
A conversation in which I ask Matt Rowley what "leftover bacon is" and he responds in verse. "What is leftover bacon?" "Nonsense. Gibberish. It has flow and even meter, but no meaning in English. 'Twas brillig, and hte slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the bacon was leftover."
June 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I think it's also critical to point out that the article states they deported "at least" 70 citizens between 2015 and 2020.
"Between 2015 and 2020, ICE deported at least 70 people who were U.S. citizens, according to the GAO. That's not just a bureaucratic mistake - it's a constitutional violation."
June 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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A study in contrasts
A White House memo declaring the protests of several dozen people in Los Angeles a "rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States" A news release from the Los Angeles Police Department calling the protests of several dozen people in Los Angeles "peaceful"
June 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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He was a sk8er boi He said "Chinga la migra hoy"
June 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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When my parents moved to Texas, my dad left me boxes of his SciFi books. Asimov, Clark, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert...and a metric ton of Larry Niven.

Just look at some of his covers and this Wikipedia excerpt is very "that tracks"
ONLY ONE PERSON COULD HAVE BEEN ON THE LUNAR SURFACE... Her name is Naomi Mitchison. She's the most beautiful woman on the Moon; she was also the only person who was outside on the lunar surface at the right moment to send a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. But she's not a murderer, that much A.R.M. investigator Gil "The Arm" Hamilton is sure of, even though all the evidence seems to point straight at her. Trials these days are short, and sentencing for capital crimes is always the same: the organ banks, where felons wait in huge tanks to "repay society" with bits and pieces of their bodies. Gil has got to move fast to keep Naomi in one piece, or the most -beautiful woman on Luna is going to be a nicely arranged sack of spare parts. With the aid of over fifty superb interior illustrations by Fernando Fernadez, match wits with the sharpest mind in science fiction in a classic Locked Universe mystery! THESE ARE THE STORIES OF SVETZ... And his mad adventures with horses, unicorns, ostriches, rocs, and other unlikely fauna, both extinct and as yet unborn, and of the extraordinary difficulties into which a simple, humdrum time-traveller can get when his Department supplies him with inadequate information. But then, the Civil Service has ever been notorious for truly staggering foul-ups. Several hundred centuries ahead or behind makes little difference except to complicate matters even further... AND HERE THERE BE (ALSO) WARLOCKS, WEREWOLVES and divine witchery, Proving that LARRY NIVEN can write on both sides of the science fiction fence. Cover of Larry Niven's "The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton" Cover of Larry Niven's "The Patchwork Girl"
May 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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I feel like this guy is literally saying that he voted for this.
Adam Squires, a onetime candidate for mayor of Kennett, saw it differently. He did not bear any ill will for Ms. Hui, he said, but he voted for Mr. Trump, as did 80 percent of voters in Dunklin County, and he was glad to see the deportation campaign reach home. "They vote for Trump, and then they get mad because the stutff starts happening," he said of his neighbors. "We've got to get rid of all the illegals. This is just the start."
May 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM