Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Decrepit Cocktail Blogger (https://rumdood.com) One-Time Bartender Guillotine Enthusiast
i think it’s not embellishment to say that if you were a nerdy early-90s kid patrick stewart kind of felt like a second dad to you. and you couldn’t ask for a better role model. the original antidote to toxic masculinity.
Otters bonding with their caretakers [📹 Toba Aquarium] Original post
Do Californians realize that if they passed their insane Proposition 40 wealth tax, I'd be left with only 230.7 billion dollars? by Sergey Brin
And prop 43 is just as bad! You thought cities budgets were broken now? Just wait til they have to get 66% approval for *any new taxes* a basically impossible threshold
Underrated election story is California voters are about to approve Super Prop13 and permanently fuck over state and local finances for the foreseeable future, and it’s being bankrolled by billionaires mad about Prop 40
Political Poll Bot@pollresults.org · 2d agoCalifornia Ballot Issue (Prop 42: Prohibit New Taxes on Personal Property) Oct 16 - 22, 2026 Yes 51% (+4.0%) No 47% Don't know 2% Public Policy Institute of California (A/B) 1086 LV View Poll
After a glass of absinthe enjoyed streetside at a cafe table: “The world seems fairer, the people more interesting, the ladies better dressed and every sound and motion have their charm and value.” — “How to Tipple,” a report from the front line of Parisian cafe drinking, 1895.
How to Tipple
An 1895 dispatch from the Paris with advice on how to drink alone in a crowd
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I will now discuss why I think Digger is brilliant. First, I do love the Hudsucker Proxy so a kind of screwball take on capitalism is my taste. So that's my bias...
Jason Concepcion@netw3rk.bsky.social · 2w agoDigger is a modern classic idc
I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.
Final lines from Chekov’s Enterprise: A Personal Journal of the Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Walter Koenig, RIP
I had a dream the other day that @nebula.tv and @dropout.tv merged into a single streaming service and then they bought Netflix later that afternoon.
OMG if you are watching NBA highlights do NOT watch any replay of the injury to Jalen Williams.
Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.
Cocktails. I was born in 1977. The Long Night of Shit Drinks was in full effect and we were about 30 years away from a craft cocktail Renaissance thanks to the likes of @davidwondrich.bsky.social and Jeff Berry and so many others so that drinks could be taken for granted and declining again today
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 6d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
Brussels Sprouts. They were literally awful things that everyone knew sucked balls and today the current strains available are fucking delicious. So much food is so much better than before but has any food undergone such a massive turnaround?
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 6d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
As always, a cocktail for Rocky's birthday. Absent Friend 1.5 oz Rhum Agricole Vieux 0.5 oz El Dorado 12yr Rum 0.25 oz Creme de Cacao 0.25 oz Ferrand Dry Curaçao 1 tsp Grenadine Rosé (to top) Stir all but wine. Strain into a chilled coupe and top with the Rosé. Garnish with an orange twist.
ADHD is “haha everything’s fine” followed quickly by “if one (1) more tiny thing happens i will die of overwhelm”
Most of the outrage seems to be around the fact that they did this to a citizen, but they should not be ramming a guilty person with a car either unless there are some pretty extraordinary circumstances.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last wk.Ricardo Gonzalez, a 40-year-old U.S. citizen, was riding his e-bike in Long Beach, California, when ICE agents struck him with an unmarked vehicle and tased him twice. ICE thought he was someone else.
i have said this before but “It is not permissible under the 14th Amendment for the state to alleviate racial inequality” is basically a version of Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that the 14th Amendment was not meant to equalize social relations. bsky.app/profile/mike...
Mike Sacks@mikesacks.bsky.social · last wk.If and when the Roberts Court declares race-neutral admissions policies unconstitutional, expect the majority decision to cite...RBG's solo dissent from Fisher I saying race-neutral policies were really race-conscious ones. She meant that approvingly. The Roberts supermajority...won't.
The thing about writing counterintuitively is that it lands quite differently if your question is "why don't we have fancy ketchup like we have fancy mustard?" vs. "we need more cops"
Malcolm Gladwell points out that Berlin PD has twice the staffing of LAPD. Important other fact though is that Berlin does that with a budget that is nearly the same as LA's. Twice the staff for the same price. You'll never get LAPD to agree to that. Ever.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago“In recent years, many Americans have decided that their country’s problem was that it had too many police officers, when in fact its problem was that it had too few,” Malcolm Gladwell writes:
Hey Californians! Ballot measure 40 institutes a tax on billionaires--ONLY billionaires--to fund health care for the rest of us. Ballot measures 41 and 42 were funded by billionaires and will INVALIDATE Prop 40 if they pass. Also prop 39 is aimed at restricting voting rights, fuck that one.
On this day in 1859, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry begins. Although ultimately defeated, the uprising is considered an important cause of the Civil War and thus did help lead to the abolition of the institution of slavery. anticolonialhistory.com/event/124/
