roddy chops

@rod-learmonth.bsky.social

dork, seattle wa https://newgothchamps.bandcamp.com/

my 14-year-old kid has taken up a pick-up basketball night with a bunch of 30-40-year-old guys at our local community center and while i know he can handle himself on the court i'm waiting for the "me and the guys are gonna grab a couple of beers can you keep dinner warm?" text at any moment.

Crowds took to the streets of Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators invoking Trump’s ties to Epstein and his alliance with Netanyahu.

i have strong feelings about 911 and one is guilt for not being there after having just moved away from nyc. i have others about what it symbolized in my personal life at the time and those feelings are selfish and finally (mostly) eroded after 25 years.

"today's top stories" from @nytimes.com doesn't include the president of the united states claiming he was at the WTC on 9/11 and saved by NYFD. and did no one find it disturbing/scandalous that he posted an AI video of himself beating the canadian prime minister with a hockey stick this morning?

Smithsonian Leader Is Resigning After Clashes With Trump

Also, OpenAI says it solved one of math’s “Millennium Problems.” Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

nytimes.com

thought about the fact that we read this book in 8th grade social studies and two of the four "grim hypothetical scenarios detailing how a nuclear exchange could rapidly kill 500 million people globally" are happening right now.

Cover image of the 1982 mass-market paperback Nuclear War: What's in It for You? by Roger Molander and the Ground Zero organization. It outlined four distinct, realistic paths by which a geopolitical crisis could rapidly cascade into a global thermonuclear catastrophe. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Zero_(campaign)

here's an old man take: "what's the worst/weirdest job you ever had" used to be a kinda funny and insightful office ice-breaker until i began working in big tech and the reply became "i don't understand--this is my first job."

At the press conference, Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Gordon asked US envoy Steve Witkoff if he thinks Putin has been deceiving him, if Russia only understands force, and if it feels disgusting to sit at the same table with a war criminal.