Rob Isaac
@rmi.bsky.social
I like the party favours but I hate the party people.
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You're Not Autistic? That can't be true. I have a 4-year-old nephew who is Not Autistic and he's nothing like you! 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
You're Not Autistic? That can't be true. I have a 4-year-old nephew who is Not Autistic and he's nothing like you! 🧵
The Diplomat is delicious trash but Allison Janney just blows everyone else off camera in every scene she’s in.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The Diplomat is delicious trash but Allison Janney just blows everyone else off camera in every scene she’s in.
what if we just rounded up all the people involved in putting stickers on fruit and imprisoned them
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
what if we just rounded up all the people involved in putting stickers on fruit and imprisoned them
Ada Byron realised while trying to explain the concept of “programming” to other people that a stored-program computer could be used to manipulate any system of symbolic logic and wasn’t limited to arithmetic. That was when my fate was sealed.
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ada Byron realised while trying to explain the concept of “programming” to other people that a stored-program computer could be used to manipulate any system of symbolic logic and wasn’t limited to arithmetic. That was when my fate was sealed.
Happy Bolsonaro In Jail Day to all those who celebrate.
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Happy Bolsonaro In Jail Day to all those who celebrate.
The title music to Microprose Formula 1 Grand Prix for the Amiga is a note-for-note copy of John McVie’s bass solo in Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain.
#retrogames #themoreyouknow
#retrogames #themoreyouknow
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The title music to Microprose Formula 1 Grand Prix for the Amiga is a note-for-note copy of John McVie’s bass solo in Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain.
#retrogames #themoreyouknow
#retrogames #themoreyouknow
I watched carefully through the window but at no point did a chicken contribute anything to the frying of the rice.
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I watched carefully through the window but at no point did a chicken contribute anything to the frying of the rice.
don’t care about trans kids? just wait til that nonagenarian alcoholic is choosing your cancer treatments for you, because that’s the road you’re on now
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
don’t care about trans kids? just wait til that nonagenarian alcoholic is choosing your cancer treatments for you, because that’s the road you’re on now
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Fix your hearts or die.
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Fix your hearts or die.
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You got ultra religious people as Ministers and a fringe minority party full of conspiracy theorists and this is what you get. They are in a symbiotic relationship based on hating queer people.
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
You got ultra religious people as Ministers and a fringe minority party full of conspiracy theorists and this is what you get. They are in a symbiotic relationship based on hating queer people.
nothing this embarrassing failure of a government does matters any more but hipkins better say fucking something
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
nothing this embarrassing failure of a government does matters any more but hipkins better say fucking something
as much as I love wellington, not a single person from there has ever been able to explain to me what ray chung is for
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
as much as I love wellington, not a single person from there has ever been able to explain to me what ray chung is for
Early in my career I worked for a company that made their own computers, back when that was still a thing, and I actively avoid the topic now because the mythology has totally submerged the reality and people get angry at me for debunking it.
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Early in my career I worked for a company that made their own computers, back when that was still a thing, and I actively avoid the topic now because the mythology has totally submerged the reality and people get angry at me for debunking it.
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The thing is… old white men love to talk about themselves
You don’t have to sleep with them
You don’t have to sleep with them
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The thing is… old white men love to talk about themselves
You don’t have to sleep with them
You don’t have to sleep with them
Today's Cloudflare outage is rather inconveniently timed for a meeting in which I hope to convince a client to put their entire public presence behind Cloudflare.
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Today's Cloudflare outage is rather inconveniently timed for a meeting in which I hope to convince a client to put their entire public presence behind Cloudflare.
Rufus Sewell dropping “shrinking island kingdom that diddled its own economy and rabble-roused its way to global irrelevance” is among the greatest television moments of all time.
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Rufus Sewell dropping “shrinking island kingdom that diddled its own economy and rabble-roused its way to global irrelevance” is among the greatest television moments of all time.
"MY LOVE FOR YOU IS TICKING CLOCK," Olivia had written, "BERZERKER."
Strangely, "berzerker" was not a nickname she'd ever used for me before.
Strangely, "berzerker" was not a nickname she'd ever used for me before.
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
"MY LOVE FOR YOU IS TICKING CLOCK," Olivia had written, "BERZERKER."
Strangely, "berzerker" was not a nickname she'd ever used for me before.
Strangely, "berzerker" was not a nickname she'd ever used for me before.
It turns out Florence Nightingale had a sister named "Parthenope", arguably the definitive Victorian name.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
It turns out Florence Nightingale had a sister named "Parthenope", arguably the definitive Victorian name.
Me, every time I urinate during asparagus season: OH NO OH SHIT OH FUCKING I’M DYING RENAL FAILURE OH CHRIST SO MANY UNFINISHED PROJECTS THIS IS THE END … wait, I just ate some asparagus.
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Me, every time I urinate during asparagus season: OH NO OH SHIT OH FUCKING I’M DYING RENAL FAILURE OH CHRIST SO MANY UNFINISHED PROJECTS THIS IS THE END … wait, I just ate some asparagus.
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Fixed it:
Twelve Smoky Robins,
Eleven Azure Rollers,
Ten Van Dam's Vanga,
Nine Prairie Falcons,
Eight Dead Sea Sparrows,
Seven Great Blue Herons,
Six Swamp Grass Babblers,
Five Golden Doves,
Four Piping Crows,
Three Rock Wrens,
Two Turtle Doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree!
Twelve Smoky Robins,
Eleven Azure Rollers,
Ten Van Dam's Vanga,
Nine Prairie Falcons,
Eight Dead Sea Sparrows,
Seven Great Blue Herons,
Six Swamp Grass Babblers,
Five Golden Doves,
Four Piping Crows,
Three Rock Wrens,
Two Turtle Doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree!
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Fixed it:
Twelve Smoky Robins,
Eleven Azure Rollers,
Ten Van Dam's Vanga,
Nine Prairie Falcons,
Eight Dead Sea Sparrows,
Seven Great Blue Herons,
Six Swamp Grass Babblers,
Five Golden Doves,
Four Piping Crows,
Three Rock Wrens,
Two Turtle Doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree!
Twelve Smoky Robins,
Eleven Azure Rollers,
Ten Van Dam's Vanga,
Nine Prairie Falcons,
Eight Dead Sea Sparrows,
Seven Great Blue Herons,
Six Swamp Grass Babblers,
Five Golden Doves,
Four Piping Crows,
Three Rock Wrens,
Two Turtle Doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree!
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
<cockroach archaeologist, digging up a petrified “text with jesus” app in 3025> well, clearly THAT’S a translation error
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
<cockroach archaeologist, digging up a petrified “text with jesus” app in 3025> well, clearly THAT’S a translation error
In the biggest blow to the US intelligence community since Stansfield Turner, the administration has independently determined that the Epstein files are in fact hidden in Venezuela.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
In the biggest blow to the US intelligence community since Stansfield Turner, the administration has independently determined that the Epstein files are in fact hidden in Venezuela.