Contrafagotto32

Contrafagotto32

@bobrichardson.com

I'm Bob. This is my semi-SFW feed of bad jokes, geeky observations, random weirdness, and politics. Center-to-further-left. Pretty darned gay. He/Him. 📍Portland, Oregon, United States

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It's refreshing that the Gallant campaign is responding to the revelation of his bondage photos as no big deal, just kinky fun. But in the interest of transparency, and to prevent future distractions, he should release every kinky, sexy photo that's ever been taken of him. All of them. Right now!

I'm officially a published author. 🎉

"A Weekend Project" - I was invited to write a feature article for the May-June issue of the Theatre Organ Journal, a publication of the American Theatre Organ Society. It's now posted on the documentary's web site... www.pipedreamsfilm.com/blog/a-weeke... #organgrinder #theatreorgan #documentary

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Proust on AI, 1918. “He imagines a sort of composite of all the good books that he has read, whereas a good book is something special, something unforeseeable…”

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Engineer: The cup is twice as big as it needs to be (Not my joke, forgot where I heard, but has stuck with me since I was a kid.)

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Truvy: Cuppa cuppa cuppa? You don't even need to write it down: just mix a cup of flour, a cup of sugar, and a cup of fruit cocktail with its juice, then mix and bake at 350 til gold and bubbly.

Forgot ALT text: Login screen for Oregon's BottleDrop returnable container program, showing error message "Transaction (Process ID 289) was deadlocked on lock | communication buffer resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction."

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? An incomplete kitchen gadget of unknown purpose.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? An abandoned scrunchy from an undisclosed female family member.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Pro tip: Do not downsize by giving items to older relatives. The items wind up coming back to you eventually, now imbued with even more sentimental attachment, and you have to get rid of them again. (This is exponentially more true for only-children!)

If I were in DC right now, I'd organize a group to put on the "protest frog" suits and go pose for tourist selfies by the reflecting swamp.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Paint peels from the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations following a directive from U.S. President Donald Trump to paint it blue ahead of the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 18, 2026. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: “Here is another example of a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor. The sign says, ‘First they came for the algae…’ which is in reference to a famous post-WW2 statement about Germans not speaking out against Nazis ‘…Then they came for the Jews, & I did not speak out—bc I was not a Jew “

Somehow, it's still off this morning, even after batches had a chance to settle overnight. I suspect the problem is the results sorting - swap the top two rows and the math works. Perhaps they are sorting on date but with no granularity with respect to time-of-day?

Bluesky users never fail to mystify. I made a joke about someone's comment (friendly, on-topic, clearly indicated, and in no way negative), they hit "like", replied with an emoji which went well with the joke, which I then liked. But 30mins later, after no further interaction, they blocked me? 🤔

MAGA Spurs fans be like "If they'd have stopped counting the points at the end of the 3rd quarter, we'd have beat the Knicks. Mamdani and the radical left Democrat party rigged the points in the 4th quarter!" (I'm not into sportsball but couldn't resist posting this.)

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It's not like the light rail component that was designed was truly exceptional, but it's notable that the transit component is what is on the chopping block and not any effort to rightsize the massive five mile freeway expansion with massive new interchanges

opb.org‘Light rail to nowhere’? Surging costs undercut I-5 bridge transit planCity officials in Vancouver are incensed that plans for bringing light rail service into town, near the local library, are getting put off indefinitely.

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🚨 BREAKING: A federal appeals court has ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that the Trump-Hegseth transgender military ban is likely unconstitutional, finding that the policy appears to be driven by a “bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” and is “both arbitrary and based upon animus.” 1/3

Now there's a headline I never expected to see! (Yes, I know Vancouver is not Clark County writ large, but still, given all the historic opposition to any light rail into Vancouver, it's refreshing to see the city not just approve, but fight for it to be more useful.)

OPB@opb.org

Plans to bring light rail to the heart of Vancouver and reconnect two neighborhoods separated by Interstate 5 in the city’s downtown core are in danger because of heightened cost.

There is a fundamental airport culture incompatibility between people who seek out a sparsely-occupied gate to get away from noise, and those who seek it out so they can more-politely make a loud phone call.

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The proliferation of AI-generated images, and the overuse of sans-serif fonts, have doubly affected struggling artists named "Al", who can't get their work noticed because nobody wants to see Al-generated "art" in their feeds.