Chris Rossi
@chrisrossi.bsky.social
Here to hang out with my friends. Not here to doom scroll. I know where to find the news, thank you.
Durham, NC
Owner of Dusky Electronics
Guitar for Salt Maps, Modern Ruin, The Wusses
Freelance software developer/architect
Durham, NC
Owner of Dusky Electronics
Guitar for Salt Maps, Modern Ruin, The Wusses
Freelance software developer/architect
The Indy calls Mississippi Blue, by Reese McHenry, "a powerful new classic."
Ten Local Songs We Loved in 2025 (And One for the New Year)
Songs that stuck with us this year, with releases from Triangle artists like Reese McHenry, Tre. Charles, Jooselord, and more.
indyweek.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Indy calls Mississippi Blue, by Reese McHenry, "a powerful new classic."
In an era of people doing the dumbest fucking shit ever with technology, this thing I just read about Reflect Orbital is right on up there.
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In an era of people doing the dumbest fucking shit ever with technology, this thing I just read about Reflect Orbital is right on up there.
Reposted by Chris Rossi
Love ya, Durham
In Durham, North Carolina, neighbors are protecting neighbors from ICE: ‘We care for each other’
Community members have stepped up with carpools, food deliveries, school patrols and policy advocacy
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Love ya, Durham
There are things in my fridge that have been there longer than this kitten has been alive, and yet she already has concrete ideas about when I'm supposed to go to bed.
December 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
There are things in my fridge that have been there longer than this kitten has been alive, and yet she already has concrete ideas about when I'm supposed to go to bed.
I fucking hate cancer.
The Triangle music scene recently lost one of its brightest stars to a rare soft tissue cancer.
Now, Reese McHenry's final recordings will be released in a posthumous album by the Chapel Hill based Suah Sounds.
www.wunc.org/wunc-music/2...
Now, Reese McHenry's final recordings will be released in a posthumous album by the Chapel Hill based Suah Sounds.
www.wunc.org/wunc-music/2...
"Forever" collects the final recordings of Triangle legend Reese McHenry
On March 6 Reese McHenry's final recordings will be released on an album called "Forever."
www.wunc.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I fucking hate cancer.
It's bewildering what the scientific Python community considers to be "documentation".
December 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's bewildering what the scientific Python community considers to be "documentation".
If you're disbarred you've been barred from the bar.
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you're disbarred you've been barred from the bar.
Apparently we just work to enrich healthcare CEOs now.
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Apparently we just work to enrich healthcare CEOs now.
Wordhex - A Six Letter Word Game
Guess the hidden six letter puzzle in five tries.
captainsaturn.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just a normal day of worrying about my kid's classmates whose parents might have been snatched from their jobs while they were at school today.
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Just a normal day of worrying about my kid's classmates whose parents might have been snatched from their jobs while they were at school today.
Criminal liability for corporate crime would be a neat hack. Billionaires see fines as cost of business, not deterrents.
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Criminal liability for corporate crime would be a neat hack. Billionaires see fines as cost of business, not deterrents.
In other news, our health insurance provider is pulling up stakes, so we need new health insurance. All the group plans Laura has access to for her small business suck balls, and the marketplace only has a single provider for 2026.
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In other news, our health insurance provider is pulling up stakes, so we need new health insurance. All the group plans Laura has access to for her small business suck balls, and the marketplace only has a single provider for 2026.
I know that by the time punk came around, Led Zeppelin was considered the epitome of corporate rock excess, but if you go back in time to the late 60s when those guys were starting out, they had no reason to think what they were doing would be successful on remotely the scale that it was.
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I know that by the time punk came around, Led Zeppelin was considered the epitome of corporate rock excess, but if you go back in time to the late 60s when those guys were starting out, they had no reason to think what they were doing would be successful on remotely the scale that it was.
I turned 50 earlier this year. It's crazy to me that audio quality on phone calls was better when I was born than it is now.
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I turned 50 earlier this year. It's crazy to me that audio quality on phone calls was better when I was born than it is now.
Would you people please stop giving my kitten crack?!
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Would you people please stop giving my kitten crack?!
How does this math out?
October 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
How does this math out?
From a dream last night: "Badi a nonna!"
I'm not really sure what my nonna wants me to do, though.
I'm not really sure what my nonna wants me to do, though.
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
From a dream last night: "Badi a nonna!"
I'm not really sure what my nonna wants me to do, though.
I'm not really sure what my nonna wants me to do, though.
Laura wanted a kitten really bad and eventually one just showed up in our front yard. So I guess I should keep an eye out in case a Collings 470JL just randomly shows up.
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Laura wanted a kitten really bad and eventually one just showed up in our front yard. So I guess I should keep an eye out in case a Collings 470JL just randomly shows up.
Had a physical this morning and got flu and Covid vaccines while I was there. Shout out to the nurse that tagged me with a Strawberry Shortcake band-aid I didn't notice until I stripped to shower tonight.
September 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Had a physical this morning and got flu and Covid vaccines while I was there. Shout out to the nurse that tagged me with a Strawberry Shortcake band-aid I didn't notice until I stripped to shower tonight.
The amount of anger and confusion some people experience because a car in front of them yielded the legal right-of-way to a pedestrian is just crazy.
September 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The amount of anger and confusion some people experience because a car in front of them yielded the legal right-of-way to a pedestrian is just crazy.
I think Julian Lage might be the only example I can think of a child prodigy that doesn't have a sad arc as and adult. Surely there's others?
August 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I think Julian Lage might be the only example I can think of a child prodigy that doesn't have a sad arc as and adult. Surely there's others?
Withholding life saving medicine is an act of war.
August 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Withholding life saving medicine is an act of war.
Some person at Google decided that notifications from "My Pixel" should be able to override my "Do not Disturb" setting when I'm trying to sleep. There are not enough middle fingers for that person.
August 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Some person at Google decided that notifications from "My Pixel" should be able to override my "Do not Disturb" setting when I'm trying to sleep. There are not enough middle fingers for that person.
Just got a copy of a song I worked on with @reese_mchenry last year pressed into wax. There's not a day that goes by I don't wish we'd gotten more time. We were not done with each other.
August 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Just got a copy of a song I worked on with @reese_mchenry last year pressed into wax. There's not a day that goes by I don't wish we'd gotten more time. We were not done with each other.