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Posts by Rob Simmons
"Alka Seltzer and a bump" I laughed out loud alone in this room for real
if I had to bet my bet would be on “mostly just market manipulation”
Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"
your grandparents voting for reagan
spouse immediately replied that we are all going to have archeologically detectable neck injuries from staring at our phones which… ouch
police lie, and have no duty to protect you
The Meta Streisand Effect is that nobody remembers what the thing Barbara Streisand was upset about is.
my attack? massive.
My… Giants?!!?!?!? They… might(?) be?!??? 🤷
My garden? Savage. (But ultimately sound)
Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
Himesh Patel will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler in the ‘X-FILES’ reboot series.
Ryan Coogler will write and direct the pilot.
(via deadline.com/2026/03/hime...
Ooh I love it. Is it glued or just held together by tension or something else?
my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters
5 hour early arrivals means the amtrak crescent is now time competitive with any atlanta–northeast corridor flight
as a bonus, you get to sleep those 5 extra hours away instead of standing in the tsa line
a fun fact that I will never tire of is that the brits cooked up the idea of a “vote of no confidence“ specifically to ditch the govt that lost the war against the US colonies, which is why our constitutional tradition doesn’t benefit from their innovation
Yeah… my specific fear is that this is why graham platner is gonna be JD Vance’s running mate
I've said it before and I'll say it again: this tech breaking through at the same time as Trump II reorganizing all of American culture around the repugnant vices of him and his cronies is an inseparable factor in the backlash to it
based on the valuations I think the bet is that we’re all gonna pay Anthropic $4000 a month forever
@jack's profound first tweet: "just setting up my twttr". It has been retweeted 115,000 times
Guardian headline, accompanied by an image of the man in question sitting in a large leather chair: Man who paid $2.9m for NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet set to lose almost $2.9m
In frankly horrific news today, at 12.50pm, Pacific Standard Time, it will be the 20th anniversary exactly of the first ever tweet. Yup. Twenty fucking years. Still, it did later give us one of the world’s great headlines...
Did you know? The year 2025 is evenly divisible by 5, the last time in history that this will ever happen! Wait what
Those are rookie numbers
"You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you." Mancus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take.
Doesn’t cite my prior work strong reject www.cs.cmu.edu/~rjsimmon/ra...
(All this has happened before…)
"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance
High effort shitpost of the day candidate right here
I’ve participated in lot of the internet criticism of the writers, and I’m not going to say they are without fault for some of the more heavy-handed stuff, I think we’re starting to see some elements of their vision finally come into focus as we head towards what might be the series finale
none of these things are berries