Robb
@robert2of3.bsky.social
A person who does a lot of divergent things.
Purple body, highlighter-yellow tail, and the attitude of a fish that knows exactly how important it is.
The Yellowtail Tang isn’t decoration—it’s reef infrastructure with opinions.
Zebrasoma xanthurum www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #fish #feesh
The Yellowtail Tang isn’t decoration—it’s reef infrastructure with opinions.
Zebrasoma xanthurum www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #fish #feesh
January 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Purple body, highlighter-yellow tail, and the attitude of a fish that knows exactly how important it is.
The Yellowtail Tang isn’t decoration—it’s reef infrastructure with opinions.
Zebrasoma xanthurum www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #fish #feesh
The Yellowtail Tang isn’t decoration—it’s reef infrastructure with opinions.
Zebrasoma xanthurum www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #fish #feesh
Steel truss. One span. “Basic bridge,” they say.
Johnstown says otherwise.
Built in 1937 after the flood, rebuilt instead of replaced, now carrying memory as well as traffic—the City of Johnstown Firefighters Memorial Bridge blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #bridge
Johnstown says otherwise.
Built in 1937 after the flood, rebuilt instead of replaced, now carrying memory as well as traffic—the City of Johnstown Firefighters Memorial Bridge blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #bridge
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Steel truss. One span. “Basic bridge,” they say.
Johnstown says otherwise.
Built in 1937 after the flood, rebuilt instead of replaced, now carrying memory as well as traffic—the City of Johnstown Firefighters Memorial Bridge blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #bridge
Johnstown says otherwise.
Built in 1937 after the flood, rebuilt instead of replaced, now carrying memory as well as traffic—the City of Johnstown Firefighters Memorial Bridge blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #bridge
Everyone wants smarter AI.
Almost no one wants to talk about obstacle courses.
Intelligence doesn’t scale on speed — it sharpens under resistance.
Constraint Is the Engine blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #ai
Almost no one wants to talk about obstacle courses.
Intelligence doesn’t scale on speed — it sharpens under resistance.
Constraint Is the Engine blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #ai
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Everyone wants smarter AI.
Almost no one wants to talk about obstacle courses.
Intelligence doesn’t scale on speed — it sharpens under resistance.
Constraint Is the Engine blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #ai
Almost no one wants to talk about obstacle courses.
Intelligence doesn’t scale on speed — it sharpens under resistance.
Constraint Is the Engine blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #ai
Glorious, stubborn, and entirely unimpressed by your lawn plans.
Convolvulus arvensis doesn’t ask permission — it simply arrives, blooms, feeds the bees, and reminds us that “control” is a comforting myth.
Hemerocallis middendorffii www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers
Convolvulus arvensis doesn’t ask permission — it simply arrives, blooms, feeds the bees, and reminds us that “control” is a comforting myth.
Hemerocallis middendorffii www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers
January 1, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Glorious, stubborn, and entirely unimpressed by your lawn plans.
Convolvulus arvensis doesn’t ask permission — it simply arrives, blooms, feeds the bees, and reminds us that “control” is a comforting myth.
Hemerocallis middendorffii www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers
Convolvulus arvensis doesn’t ask permission — it simply arrives, blooms, feeds the bees, and reminds us that “control” is a comforting myth.
Hemerocallis middendorffii www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers
Update after two hours of sworn testimony:
This is no longer about opinion, motive, or politics.
It’s a systems fail-safe test.
The record now exists.
What happens next tells us whether the republic corrects — or collapses
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #JackSmith
This is no longer about opinion, motive, or politics.
It’s a systems fail-safe test.
The record now exists.
What happens next tells us whether the republic corrects — or collapses
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #JackSmith
January 1, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Update after two hours of sworn testimony:
This is no longer about opinion, motive, or politics.
It’s a systems fail-safe test.
The record now exists.
What happens next tells us whether the republic corrects — or collapses
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #JackSmith
This is no longer about opinion, motive, or politics.
It’s a systems fail-safe test.
The record now exists.
What happens next tells us whether the republic corrects — or collapses
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #JackSmith
Everyone’s yelling about Jack Smith.
Very few people actually read what he said under oath.
I did. Slowly.
Letter on the Moment Facts Arrive blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #JackSmithTestimony
Very few people actually read what he said under oath.
I did. Slowly.
Letter on the Moment Facts Arrive blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #JackSmithTestimony
January 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Everyone’s yelling about Jack Smith.
Very few people actually read what he said under oath.
I did. Slowly.
Letter on the Moment Facts Arrive blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #JackSmithTestimony
Very few people actually read what he said under oath.
I did. Slowly.
Letter on the Moment Facts Arrive blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/01... #JackSmithTestimony
If this feels inappropriate for a calendar event, you’re starting to understand it.
Happy New Year.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #why
Happy New Year.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #why
December 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If this feels inappropriate for a calendar event, you’re starting to understand it.
Happy New Year.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #why
Happy New Year.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #why
Steel bones and old-world stone.
Johnstown rebuilt itself through churches—serious ones.
St. John Gualbert Cathedral looks Romanesque, but inside it’s an early steel-framed experiment from the 1890s.
Faith, industry, and Flood City
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #architecture
Johnstown rebuilt itself through churches—serious ones.
St. John Gualbert Cathedral looks Romanesque, but inside it’s an early steel-framed experiment from the 1890s.
Faith, industry, and Flood City
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #architecture
December 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Steel bones and old-world stone.
Johnstown rebuilt itself through churches—serious ones.
St. John Gualbert Cathedral looks Romanesque, but inside it’s an early steel-framed experiment from the 1890s.
Faith, industry, and Flood City
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #architecture
Johnstown rebuilt itself through churches—serious ones.
St. John Gualbert Cathedral looks Romanesque, but inside it’s an early steel-framed experiment from the 1890s.
Faith, industry, and Flood City
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #architecture
Don’t just share the image.
Read the idea behind it.
Collapse isn’t inevitable — correction is a choice.
Peut-être préféreriez-vous la guillotine?
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #incomeinequality
Read the idea behind it.
Collapse isn’t inevitable — correction is a choice.
Peut-être préféreriez-vous la guillotine?
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #incomeinequality
December 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Don’t just share the image.
Read the idea behind it.
Collapse isn’t inevitable — correction is a choice.
Peut-être préféreriez-vous la guillotine?
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #incomeinequality
Read the idea behind it.
Collapse isn’t inevitable — correction is a choice.
Peut-être préféreriez-vous la guillotine?
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #incomeinequality
Indian Blanket
Sun, poor soil, heat, wind—fine.
Big color, long bloom, pollinators everywhere.
Prairie engineering disguised as a flower.
Gaillardia aristata www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #FlowerHour
Sun, poor soil, heat, wind—fine.
Big color, long bloom, pollinators everywhere.
Prairie engineering disguised as a flower.
Gaillardia aristata www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #FlowerHour
December 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Indian Blanket
Sun, poor soil, heat, wind—fine.
Big color, long bloom, pollinators everywhere.
Prairie engineering disguised as a flower.
Gaillardia aristata www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #FlowerHour
Sun, poor soil, heat, wind—fine.
Big color, long bloom, pollinators everywhere.
Prairie engineering disguised as a flower.
Gaillardia aristata www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #FlowerHour
Two machines. One idea.
Angle the blade. Move the dirt. Let water go where it wants.
Horses became crawlers. Steel got thicker. Electronics piled on.
But road building never changed—just the price tag. Steel on a Slope blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #manmade
Angle the blade. Move the dirt. Let water go where it wants.
Horses became crawlers. Steel got thicker. Electronics piled on.
But road building never changed—just the price tag. Steel on a Slope blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #manmade
December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Two machines. One idea.
Angle the blade. Move the dirt. Let water go where it wants.
Horses became crawlers. Steel got thicker. Electronics piled on.
But road building never changed—just the price tag. Steel on a Slope blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #manmade
Angle the blade. Move the dirt. Let water go where it wants.
Horses became crawlers. Steel got thicker. Electronics piled on.
But road building never changed—just the price tag. Steel on a Slope blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #manmade
Truth only works if the rules apply to everyone.
That’s not progressive.
That’s not conservative.
That’s republicanism.
The Idea of “The Other” Is Anti-Republic blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #racism
That’s not progressive.
That’s not conservative.
That’s republicanism.
The Idea of “The Other” Is Anti-Republic blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #racism
December 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Truth only works if the rules apply to everyone.
That’s not progressive.
That’s not conservative.
That’s republicanism.
The Idea of “The Other” Is Anti-Republic blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #racism
That’s not progressive.
That’s not conservative.
That’s republicanism.
The Idea of “The Other” Is Anti-Republic blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #racism
A broken-winged swallowtail still flies.
Still feeds. Still belongs.
Nature doesn’t erase the marks of survival — it adapts around them. Beauty isn’t perfection. It’s persistence.
Green-banded Swallowtail (damaged wing) www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #Nature
Still feeds. Still belongs.
Nature doesn’t erase the marks of survival — it adapts around them. Beauty isn’t perfection. It’s persistence.
Green-banded Swallowtail (damaged wing) www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #Nature
December 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A broken-winged swallowtail still flies.
Still feeds. Still belongs.
Nature doesn’t erase the marks of survival — it adapts around them. Beauty isn’t perfection. It’s persistence.
Green-banded Swallowtail (damaged wing) www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #Nature
Still feeds. Still belongs.
Nature doesn’t erase the marks of survival — it adapts around them. Beauty isn’t perfection. It’s persistence.
Green-banded Swallowtail (damaged wing) www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #Nature
This piece imagines Diogenes of Sinope doing what modern comedians do on talk shows—riffing on someone who broke the form from the inside.
An ode, from a barrel to a stage. Diogenes on Kaufman- no the other one. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #MetaComedy
An ode, from a barrel to a stage. Diogenes on Kaufman- no the other one. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #MetaComedy
December 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This piece imagines Diogenes of Sinope doing what modern comedians do on talk shows—riffing on someone who broke the form from the inside.
An ode, from a barrel to a stage. Diogenes on Kaufman- no the other one. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #MetaComedy
An ode, from a barrel to a stage. Diogenes on Kaufman- no the other one. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #MetaComedy
The Kress Home on Ninth Street Hill doesn’t whisper history — it stands there and lets you notice.
A Queen Anne house built for presence, not subtlety.
Towers, texture, ceremony, and zero apologies. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #lafayette #indiana #victorian
A Queen Anne house built for presence, not subtlety.
Towers, texture, ceremony, and zero apologies. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #lafayette #indiana #victorian
December 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Kress Home on Ninth Street Hill doesn’t whisper history — it stands there and lets you notice.
A Queen Anne house built for presence, not subtlety.
Towers, texture, ceremony, and zero apologies. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #lafayette #indiana #victorian
A Queen Anne house built for presence, not subtlety.
Towers, texture, ceremony, and zero apologies. blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #lafayette #indiana #victorian
New from Heather Dean: “Stop Being Mad.”
No manifestos. No villains. Just a radical suggestion:
do something good and see what happens.
It’s surprisingly hard advice.
Read it anyway.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
No manifestos. No villains. Just a radical suggestion:
do something good and see what happens.
It’s surprisingly hard advice.
Read it anyway.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New from Heather Dean: “Stop Being Mad.”
No manifestos. No villains. Just a radical suggestion:
do something good and see what happens.
It’s surprisingly hard advice.
Read it anyway.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
No manifestos. No villains. Just a radical suggestion:
do something good and see what happens.
It’s surprisingly hard advice.
Read it anyway.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
Shelby Kelley recorded Raggedy Man as a quiet thank-you to Todd Snider, and it sounds like respect, grief, humor, and honesty all sitting in the same chair.
If you ever loved Todd’s work, you should hear this.
An Ode to Todd Snider blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
If you ever loved Todd’s work, you should hear this.
An Ode to Todd Snider blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
December 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Shelby Kelley recorded Raggedy Man as a quiet thank-you to Todd Snider, and it sounds like respect, grief, humor, and honesty all sitting in the same chair.
If you ever loved Todd’s work, you should hear this.
An Ode to Todd Snider blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
If you ever loved Todd’s work, you should hear this.
An Ode to Todd Snider blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
That’s Brompton Stock — technically a cabbage cousin, aesthetically a showoff.
Fragrant, cool-season, and elegant, Matthiola incana proves the mustard family can do more than feed you. Sometimes it just shows up to look good and smell better. www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers
Fragrant, cool-season, and elegant, Matthiola incana proves the mustard family can do more than feed you. Sometimes it just shows up to look good and smell better. www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers
December 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
That’s Brompton Stock — technically a cabbage cousin, aesthetically a showoff.
Fragrant, cool-season, and elegant, Matthiola incana proves the mustard family can do more than feed you. Sometimes it just shows up to look good and smell better. www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers
Fragrant, cool-season, and elegant, Matthiola incana proves the mustard family can do more than feed you. Sometimes it just shows up to look good and smell better. www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #flowers
"Give me liberty or give me debt!" is not how the quote is supposed to go.
What This Country Owes the Working Class blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #Labor
What This Country Owes the Working Class blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #Labor
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Give me liberty or give me debt!" is not how the quote is supposed to go.
What This Country Owes the Working Class blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #Labor
What This Country Owes the Working Class blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #Labor
Bidets aren’t exotic. They’re not complicated. They’re a small, practical upgrade that works better than dry paper and pays for itself over time.
If you’ve been thinking about it, this is your sign.
#BidetBasics blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
If you’ve been thinking about it, this is your sign.
#BidetBasics blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
December 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Bidets aren’t exotic. They’re not complicated. They’re a small, practical upgrade that works better than dry paper and pays for itself over time.
If you’ve been thinking about it, this is your sign.
#BidetBasics blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
If you’ve been thinking about it, this is your sign.
#BidetBasics blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
This Second Empire mansard at 510 Vine Street wasn’t built to be disposable.
It was built to mean something.
Formerly a flower shop. Always a statement.
The Mansard on Vine Street blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #johnstown
It was built to mean something.
Formerly a flower shop. Always a statement.
The Mansard on Vine Street blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #johnstown
December 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This Second Empire mansard at 510 Vine Street wasn’t built to be disposable.
It was built to mean something.
Formerly a flower shop. Always a statement.
The Mansard on Vine Street blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #johnstown
It was built to mean something.
Formerly a flower shop. Always a statement.
The Mansard on Vine Street blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12... #johnstown
Mee Meep Warner Bros. turned him into a joke, but the real roadrunner is a desert-built predator—fast on the ground, sharp-eyed, heat-proof, and very real.
Geococcyx californianus doesn’t need rockets or ACME.
The desert already trained him. Roadrunner www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu...
Geococcyx californianus doesn’t need rockets or ACME.
The desert already trained him. Roadrunner www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu...
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Mee Meep Warner Bros. turned him into a joke, but the real roadrunner is a desert-built predator—fast on the ground, sharp-eyed, heat-proof, and very real.
Geococcyx californianus doesn’t need rockets or ACME.
The desert already trained him. Roadrunner www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu...
Geococcyx californianus doesn’t need rockets or ACME.
The desert already trained him. Roadrunner www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu...
If North America ever voluntarily re-imagined itself as a continental republic, the capital couldn’t be Washington, Ottawa, or Mexico City.
After staring at the map: Cahokia.
Cyclical. Indigenous. Central.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
After staring at the map: Cahokia.
Cyclical. Indigenous. Central.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
December 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
If North America ever voluntarily re-imagined itself as a continental republic, the capital couldn’t be Washington, Ottawa, or Mexico City.
After staring at the map: Cahokia.
Cyclical. Indigenous. Central.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
After staring at the map: Cahokia.
Cyclical. Indigenous. Central.
blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
We already know how to feed people, clean water, and treat disease.
What we lack isn’t technology — it’s the will to stop pretending survival should be proprietary.
Open Source the Future: Why Food Water and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
What we lack isn’t technology — it’s the will to stop pretending survival should be proprietary.
Open Source the Future: Why Food Water and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
December 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We already know how to feed people, clean water, and treat disease.
What we lack isn’t technology — it’s the will to stop pretending survival should be proprietary.
Open Source the Future: Why Food Water and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
What we lack isn’t technology — it’s the will to stop pretending survival should be proprietary.
Open Source the Future: Why Food Water and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone blueribbonteam.com/blog/2025/12...
The poinsettia isn’t a winter plant.
It’s a Mexican shrub taught to blush for Christmas by long nights, monks, and marketing.
A warm-weather flower playing a seasonal role — just like the rest of us. Poinsettia (White Cultivar) for Christmas www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #Flowers
It’s a Mexican shrub taught to blush for Christmas by long nights, monks, and marketing.
A warm-weather flower playing a seasonal role — just like the rest of us. Poinsettia (White Cultivar) for Christmas www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #Flowers
December 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The poinsettia isn’t a winter plant.
It’s a Mexican shrub taught to blush for Christmas by long nights, monks, and marketing.
A warm-weather flower playing a seasonal role — just like the rest of us. Poinsettia (White Cultivar) for Christmas www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #Flowers
It’s a Mexican shrub taught to blush for Christmas by long nights, monks, and marketing.
A warm-weather flower playing a seasonal role — just like the rest of us. Poinsettia (White Cultivar) for Christmas www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictu... #Flowers