Russell Borogove
@borogove.bsky.social
Distracted bear. He/him. Consistently offering nine 5s of reliability. My skeets don’t leave room for nuance. Confirmed dipshit.
Game dev, music, synthesizer tech.
Check out my weird music at https://failure-mode.bandcamp.com
Game dev, music, synthesizer tech.
Check out my weird music at https://failure-mode.bandcamp.com
Pinned
techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
Fuck a bunch of Spotify, but "online service dedicated to playing the music you tell it to play knows what music you told it to play" is not some scandalous breach of privacy.
December 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Fuck a bunch of Spotify, but "online service dedicated to playing the music you tell it to play knows what music you told it to play" is not some scandalous breach of privacy.
I know it‘s not even in the top ten most irritating things about this but why is mad max wearing a cowboy hat
Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
Tesla brings back 'Mad Max' 'Full Self-Driving' mode that ignores speed limits
Tesla has brought back its 'Mad Max' mode for 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several investigations.
electrek.co
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I know it‘s not even in the top ten most irritating things about this but why is mad max wearing a cowboy hat
Marshall’s 2020 opponent has an interesting back story too.
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Marshall’s 2020 opponent has an interesting back story too.
Up for reelection in 2026, won 53-42 in Kansas. If you can’t build an attack ad around a howler like that, you’re in the wrong job.
Sen. Roger Marshall on Trump's health: "I'll work 110 hours a week. He outworks me. He's the first person I've ever known that works harder than I do. He runs around that golf course. He's in incredible shape right now. And you talk about sharp! He's playing 4 dimensional chess"
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Up for reelection in 2026, won 53-42 in Kansas. If you can’t build an attack ad around a howler like that, you’re in the wrong job.
Don't ask me how I got here, but:
Animated adaptation of Ringworld with H. Jon Benjamin voicing Louis Wu.
Animated adaptation of Ringworld with H. Jon Benjamin voicing Louis Wu.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Don't ask me how I got here, but:
Animated adaptation of Ringworld with H. Jon Benjamin voicing Louis Wu.
Animated adaptation of Ringworld with H. Jon Benjamin voicing Louis Wu.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
How can we be expected to share a planet with these people?
Megyn Kelly says that simply murdering the survivors of a strike on a Venezuelan fishing boat isn't enough. She would prefer that they be subjected to extended torture to heighten their pain and agony. Megyn has captured the essence of what it means to be MAGA.
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
How can we be expected to share a planet with these people?
Cool, a Calvin and Hobbes shaped bag of non sequiturs.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Cool, a Calvin and Hobbes shaped bag of non sequiturs.
"Fucking Unreal"
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Fucking Unreal"
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
You might be interested to know that the symbol ! has another meaning. It's super widely used as an intensifier. The easy way to tell if a ! is the factorial operator is to look at the context in which its used. Surprisingly, for almost all non-mathematical contexts, it's the intensifier!
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You might be interested to know that the symbol ! has another meaning. It's super widely used as an intensifier. The easy way to tell if a ! is the factorial operator is to look at the context in which its used. Surprisingly, for almost all non-mathematical contexts, it's the intensifier!
He could be anywhere
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
He could be anywhere
Romulan Hypnosis Checkpoint.
Please spend a little time watching the magnificent Joanna Linville spin around.
Please spend a little time watching the magnificent Joanna Linville spin around.
a woman is sitting in a bathtub looking out a window .
Alt: Romulan Commander from the Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident" dramatically spinning in her cushy chair. Mesmerizing, isn't she?
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Romulan Hypnosis Checkpoint.
Please spend a little time watching the magnificent Joanna Linville spin around.
Please spend a little time watching the magnificent Joanna Linville spin around.
well we had a good run i guess
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
well we had a good run i guess
Especially hard to get the joke if I’m making typos
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Especially hard to get the joke if I’m making typos
I’d tell the one about Odysseus and Polyphemus, but nobody would get it
I have a joke about Job but it's long and sadistic.
I have a whale of a joke about Jonah
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I’d tell the one about Odysseus and Polyphemus, but nobody would get it
Not loving this system where my tax dollars help pay for Jeff Bezos’ yacht.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Not loving this system where my tax dollars help pay for Jeff Bezos’ yacht.
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
I didn't realize he'd co-written Gilliam's Brazil or script-doctored Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I didn't realize he'd co-written Gilliam's Brazil or script-doctored Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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I’m putting my classic character “Grunbo” into the public domain. Anyone can use Grunbo in their projects and endeavors however they like. I don’t care anymore. I wash my hands of Grunbo!
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’m putting my classic character “Grunbo” into the public domain. Anyone can use Grunbo in their projects and endeavors however they like. I don’t care anymore. I wash my hands of Grunbo!