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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 16h

This happened to me once. I quit at a radio station. I was informed by voicemail the next day I was rehired.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16h

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock.
https://to.pbs.org/4nMdf6g

Macron reappoints newly resigned PM Lecornu amid France's political crisis

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget in a bid ...

www.pbs.org

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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 1d

Ah this is pure gold. I worked at an AM station in Saskatchewan in the early 90's. They let me play whatever I wanted between 6 and 9pm as long as it was classified as rock. So to me I heard "okay, a fuck ton of Mudhoney"

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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 1d

This is what's sparking joy this morning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ra...

Home in San Antone

YouTube video by The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly. Not on a bike either

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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 1d

Met someone today named Mike Pike. Is that noteworthy?

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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 1d

There's a lot of cash weirdos out there

Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 2d

I really hate our plastic money. Sure it's durable but every now and then some numpty comes in here with a pile of cash all tightly folded in his wallet. Now all I've got is a bunch of weird shaped slippery pieces of plastic that are never ever gonna get back to remotely flat.

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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 2d

I'd be a maybe

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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 2d

Where the hell AM I from anyways?

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 3d

Spent the morning listening to antipodean 60's garage rock....mate

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Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 3d

🎶Birds Eye Potato Waaafles

Rob, I guess @somewhatrob.bsky.social · 3d

I blocked a mutual today for ragging on Edmonton

Also, man, Canadians have some pretty weird views on other places in this country. I get it, we are a big country but still.

I'm not even from here.

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