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Russell Borogove
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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
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borogove.bsky.social
Found one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
borogove.bsky.social
Don't ask me how I got here, but:

Animated adaptation of Ringworld with H. Jon Benjamin voicing Louis Wu.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
tweet by @gerryadamssf: "This house is like Santa's Grotto. Takes half an hour 2 switch off fairy lights and assorted Yule illuminations. Feel like a grinch now." reply by @realnannysheila: "Surely you know someone who can fit a timer."
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
borogove.bsky.social
How can we be expected to share a planet with these people?
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d
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
borogove.bsky.social
Cool, a Calvin and Hobbes shaped bag of non sequiturs.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
borogove.bsky.social
"Fucking Unreal"
smith.senate.gov Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1d
“That sounds illegal”
parks Y @parkersity_9 Without naming your job, tell me something you say 20 times per day at work
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
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.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
borogove.bsky.social
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
borogove.bsky.social
He could be anywhere
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
borogove.bsky.social
Romulan Hypnosis Checkpoint.

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
borogove.bsky.social
well we had a good run i guess
jesbattis.bsky.social Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 4d
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
borogove.bsky.social
The dude from that star trek episode where the aliens' language is based on metaphor and allusion just like every Terran natural language but somehow it confuses the universal translator. The caption is "Calrissian, his deal with the Empire". It's an allusion to the Space Wizard movies, which is ironic since the meme is from the other franchise. It means Northwestern is screwed because they didn't learn anything from the Space Wizard movies.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
borogove.bsky.social
Especially hard to get the joke if I’m making typos
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
borogove.bsky.social
I’d tell the one about Odysseus and Polyphemus, but nobody would get it
ennui.org reggie seidman @ennui.org · 3d
I have a joke about Job but it's long and sadistic.
fredfred.bsky.social Zvi @fredfred.bsky.social · 3d
I have a whale of a joke about Jonah
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
borogove.bsky.social
Not loving this system where my tax dollars help pay for Jeff Bezos’ yacht.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d
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...
Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
borogove.bsky.social
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
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ddayen.bsky.social
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
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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nedroid.com
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!
A cartoon guy with spiky hair and his hands on his hips. His t-shirt has a lightning bolt on it. He looks dumb as heck. This is Grunbo.
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
borogove.bsky.social
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
borogove.bsky.social
Yo @profanity.accountant 'sup?
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
borogove.bsky.social
Every time I read a detailed account of a naval engagement, the term "goat rodeo" comes to mind.
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
borogove.bsky.social
Hegseth's orders violate US and international law. They violate centuries of maritime tradition.

Hegseth must resign. If he does not resign, he must be removed. If the commander-in-chief will not remove him, the commander-in-chief must be impeached.
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM