Joshua Rogers
@jr73.bsky.social
Chicagoan, drums for Routine Faces, Kerosene Stars, more. Software tester and garden variety nerd.
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Joshua Rogers
@jr73.bsky.social
· Sep 13
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Can four nerds shoot a music video in 6 hours for $700? Yep.Directed, filmed, and edited by Routine Faces with an iPhone, stock footage, and beer.Special th...
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AMA about trying to play synthwave in the Chicago bar scene!
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Bummer - I enjoyed his eerie, looming presence in the 12 Monkeys series, although I must admit to never fully getting over his role in Robocop 2... His face portrayed in that primitive CG render on the screen of the evil, tripped-out Robocop 2... I always kinda flashed back to that when I saw him.
February 18, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Bummer - I enjoyed his eerie, looming presence in the 12 Monkeys series, although I must admit to never fully getting over his role in Robocop 2... His face portrayed in that primitive CG render on the screen of the evil, tripped-out Robocop 2... I always kinda flashed back to that when I saw him.
Thanks to a recent recommendation by @triciaaurand.bsky.social we are now halfway through Atlantic Crossing, a PBS Masterpiece series about the Crown Princess of Norway’s flight to America after the Nazi invasion of her home. Excellent, and agree w Tricia: Kyle MacLachlan is a surprise treat as FDR!
February 18, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Thanks to a recent recommendation by @triciaaurand.bsky.social we are now halfway through Atlantic Crossing, a PBS Masterpiece series about the Crown Princess of Norway’s flight to America after the Nazi invasion of her home. Excellent, and agree w Tricia: Kyle MacLachlan is a surprise treat as FDR!
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Hardware Store is the most quintessentially Weird Al song there is.
February 18, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Hardware Store is the most quintessentially Weird Al song there is.
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you are all fools the REAL music question that will cause intergenerational warfare on bluesky is actually: what is weird al's signature song?
February 18, 2026 at 1:39 AM
you are all fools the REAL music question that will cause intergenerational warfare on bluesky is actually: what is weird al's signature song?
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Residents across Chicago celebrate paczki — the fried, jam-filled Polish pastries — every year on Fat Tuesday, better known to some as Paczki Day.
But for the Polish community, paczki are eaten on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. https://to.wttw.com/4bYTDbV
But for the Polish community, paczki are eaten on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. https://to.wttw.com/4bYTDbV
You’ve Heard About Fat Tuesday, But What About Fat Thursday? Here’s Where Chicago’s Polish Community Gets Their Paczki
Paczki Day is coming up on Tuesday, but ask any Polish native and chances are they’ve already celebrated tłusty czwartek, or Fat Thursday, this week.
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February 16, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Residents across Chicago celebrate paczki — the fried, jam-filled Polish pastries — every year on Fat Tuesday, better known to some as Paczki Day.
But for the Polish community, paczki are eaten on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. https://to.wttw.com/4bYTDbV
But for the Polish community, paczki are eaten on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. https://to.wttw.com/4bYTDbV
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I am properly fixed for Pączki Day courtesy of my wife and Reuter’s Bakery at Grand & Harlem. We miss having Bennison’s nearby but Reuter’s is pretty great, too!
February 17, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I am properly fixed for Pączki Day courtesy of my wife and Reuter’s Bakery at Grand & Harlem. We miss having Bennison’s nearby but Reuter’s is pretty great, too!
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Because art requires empathy.
February 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Because art requires empathy.
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This shit rocks and the comment section on the YouTube video is, somehow, extremely funny.
February 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
This shit rocks and the comment section on the YouTube video is, somehow, extremely funny.
Roses are red
Bandanas are wearables
Pronouncing French sucks
Bandanas are wearables
Pronouncing French sucks
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Roses are red
Bandanas are wearables
Pronouncing French sucks
Bandanas are wearables
Pronouncing French sucks
“It was precisely seven years since he had last killed a man and this evening he would celebrate.”
DYING, here. 😂
DYING, here. 😂
The True Stories Behind The Photographs In The Habitat Catalogues Of The 1970s: www.tom-cox.com/the-true-sto...
The True Stories Behind The Photographs In The Habitat Catalogues Of The 1970s
This is a piece I wrote a while ago but I wanted to make it free to read again. I wrote it during the very early stages of planning for my novel 1983 when a memory popped up of wandering around the No...
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February 14, 2026 at 4:31 PM
“It was precisely seven years since he had last killed a man and this evening he would celebrate.”
DYING, here. 😂
DYING, here. 😂
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🔭 A Year of Sunspots
Image Credit: NASA, SDO; Processing & Copyright: Şenol Şanli & Uğur İkizler; Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
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Image Credit: NASA, SDO; Processing & Copyright: Şenol Şanli & Uğur İkizler; Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
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February 11, 2026 at 9:47 AM
🔭 A Year of Sunspots
Image Credit: NASA, SDO; Processing & Copyright: Şenol Şanli & Uğur İkizler; Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021...
Image Credit: NASA, SDO; Processing & Copyright: Şenol Şanli & Uğur İkizler; Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
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Strolling down memory lane on MD…
February 13, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Strolling down memory lane on MD…
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do not skip ahead to "cars" on the NIN/Numan vid! "Metal" is a great song! get hip to Gary Numan's whole catalog!
February 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
do not skip ahead to "cars" on the NIN/Numan vid! "Metal" is a great song! get hip to Gary Numan's whole catalog!
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you also need to unmute this for the perfect song / visual combo
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:59 PM
you also need to unmute this for the perfect song / visual combo
Incredible read… You may be unsurprised to learn that Google 1) is organizationally incompetent, and 2) does not understand art.
Truly shocking: Artist Judy Chicago's tale in Artnet of working with Google on the redesign of the former Thompson Center atrium is a horror story - incompetent, slipshod management meets corporate bureaucracy on steroids...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Incredible read… You may be unsurprised to learn that Google 1) is organizationally incompetent, and 2) does not understand art.
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so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
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What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance
The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
Post a banger that isn’t in English.
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Post a banger that isn’t in English.
Paint them red and you’d have some solid Gossamer cosplay.
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Paint them red and you’d have some solid Gossamer cosplay.
We only started really watching the game in the 4th quarter and it seems like that’s basically when it started.
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
We only started really watching the game in the 4th quarter and it seems like that’s basically when it started.
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america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be
So why did they have dancers dressed as tall grass but they never used them???
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
So why did they have dancers dressed as tall grass but they never used them???
Tom Nichols on Saturday night:
February 8, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Tom Nichols on Saturday night:
The last bit is getting all the attention but his is a great interview from beginning to end. Watched it on my own and enjoyed it again because Jen had to see it. Love the way he talks about theater.
I love a good anecdote. I love a bunch of them, even more. And then the clincher-
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"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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February 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The last bit is getting all the attention but his is a great interview from beginning to end. Watched it on my own and enjoyed it again because Jen had to see it. Love the way he talks about theater.