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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jun 17, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop I’m surprised this is the England fans and not the Scottish ones.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jun 11, 2026

Replying to @renatoram@fosstodon.org

@renatoram@fosstodon.org @cstross@wandering.shop @oliversampson@sigmoid.social @DJGummikuh@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange It’s as if the people running Fender now have never heard of Gibson’s attempted lawsuit against several Japanese companies in the 70s —look up ‘Lawsuit-era guitars’ And more recently Gibson threatening PRS over their single-cut guitars. Gibson got slapped down each time.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jun 10, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop @DJGummikuh@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Meanwhile in the guitar world, Fender Guitars’ lawyers and upper management are commiting brand suicide. Is there a reason these cases are being tried in German courts? https://www.europesays.com/europe/46084/

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @rbreich@masto.ai

@rbreich@masto.ai 6) Divorce a billionaire. Even if you try giving it away, the interest increases faster than you can get rid of it. At least that seems to be the case for the former Mrs. Bezos.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @openculture@toot.community

@openculture@toot.community Been climbing Mount Tsundoku for years!

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop @_tillwe_@mastodon.social I read it as commentary on Bush Jr., and the creeping authoritarianism coming out of the “War on Terror”. President Cheney, and the ‘If this goes on’ thing.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us

@SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us Hey Jarhead! That WAC can take care of herself. Pan’s just like; Hey buddy, I just wanna fight Nazis! Sign me up. He looks like Jeffrey Tambor.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @rbreich@masto.ai

@rbreich I don’t want to be accused of shaming, but Sanchez almost makes Noem look natural. I’m assuming most of us know the appropriate William Gibson quote.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · May 02, 2026

Replying to @gleick@mas.to

@gleick@mas.to Had this thought a few weeks ago— New motto for the US Navy: We used to fight pirates, now we are the Pirates!

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross That first paragraph mirrors something I’ve been thinking for a while. Israel may be a nation of Jews, but it is not a Jewish one—in the sense of following Jewish ethics.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @Geri@mastodon.online

@Geri@mastodon.online Or maybe, “You remember why your brother was arrested? Well, we want you to attend a banquet with that man’s best friend.”

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @blogdiva@mastodon.social

@blogdiva The Dominionist “Christian” Zionists have trying to get us to make aliyah for decades. Particularly those like John Hagee, founder of Christian United For Israel, who has said he wants a nuclear war in the Middle East to trigger the rapture. I have no desire to go there, especially as long as Netanyahu and his corrupt, psychotic regime is in power. I can’t be a traitor to a nation I’m not a citizen of. Blind support of Israel is one reason I’m no longer a member of my synagogue.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @georgetakei@universeodon.com

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Nah Cucker Tarlson’s just doing a bit of CYA.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross I used to always hear it was 8th grade reading level. I suppose it’s gotten lower since smartphones became ubiquitous?

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross @marjolica Or it’s a family heirloom that would crumble if opened.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross @JdeBP @WellsiteGeo @HollieK72 @BadExampleMan I stopped watching sitcoms years ago after realizing that they only have a handful of plots, with slight variations. Most of which center on one character misunderstanding another, usually when overhearing a conversation with a third.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @georgetakei@universeodon.com

@georgetakei@universeodon.com And Easter eggs come in every color of the rainbow.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @indivisibleteam@mastodon.social

@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social Jebus Trump sucking the soul out of a sleeping man, while surrounded by people unaware that they are about to be slaughtered by ghostly paratroopers. In the background the Statue of Liberty has been miraculously transported next to the Lincoln Memorial, both of which appear to be sinking into the rising Potomac River. Above them Chinese made fireworks explode.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @rbreich@masto.ai

@rbreich@masto.ai Well… Partly from the Heritage Foundation helping get Reagan elected, using a precursor to Project 2025. Then John McCain picking idiot Sarah Palin as his running mate, making it okay for other idiots to run for office. And all the dark money that helped them. And so on…

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @rbreich@masto.ai

@rbreich Because she’s never heard of the Streisand Effect. Trying to deflect attention from something, but instead drawing more to it.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @Strandjunker@mstdn.social

@Strandjunker Guessing that Melania has never heard of the Streisand Effect.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @georgetakei@universeodon.com

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Trump ‘wins’ and we all lose.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @georgetakei@universeodon.com

@georgetakei@universeodon.com His plan for the ballroom was: Tear down the East Wing, and….

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 28, 2026

Replying to @rbreich@masto.ai

@rbreich@masto.ai Rubio’s sitting there thinking “Grandpa’s sundowning again”. Bobby Jr. is like “Whut?” And little Petey’s laughing his ass off because he knows that he’s the only one in Grampie’s will.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest

@dushman Adding to the cats. Radioactive Cats, photo/sculpture by Sandy Skoglund, 1980 http://www.sandyskoglund.com/pages/imagelist/imagelist%20home.html

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @RunRichRun@mastodon.social

@RunRichRun@mastodon.social @gleick@mas.to Goes along with the hospital ships he was going to send to Greenland, the ones in dry dock in Mobile, Alabama.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 22, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross Slightly reminds me of this story fron the 80s version of The Twilight Zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Small_Talent_for_War

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @chrisamaphone@hci.social

@chrisamaphone @bruces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variophone

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross @glsk @blotosmetek Well, if I’d noticed the alt text…

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @rudytheelder@mastodon.social

@rudytheelder@mastodon.social Pictures of Anna May Wong across the top.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @glsk@mastodon.social

@glsk @cstross @blotosmetek From the translation I gather it’s from a blood pressure cuff.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 07, 2026

Replying to @badastro@mastodon.social

@badastro@mastodon.social Someone needs to do a filk for Musk, “I am changing my name to Kessler”, based on Tom Paxton’s I am changing my name to Chrysler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9qYGARxGu4

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

Replying to @georgetakei@universeodon.com

@georgetakei@universeodon.com You left out high school dropout.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Feb 20, 2026

Replying to @bruces@mastodon.social

@bruces I’m 3D printing whistles to give out at protests, and my mother is knitting red caps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melt_the_ICE_Hat

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Feb 14, 2026

Replying to @jdnicoll@wandering.shop

@jdnicoll Musk is an empty suit. Back when he launched his car into space I was half hoping he was in the spacesuit behind the wheel.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Feb 14, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross @jlargentaye @tilton 250 years is older than most nations, if you go by the age of their current governments. Russia today isn’t the same country is was 40 years ago, never mind 250. Or any country on the losing side of the world wars, or those that have had revolutions in the past century. etc.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

Replying to @iFixit__dup_44052@mastodon.social

@iFixit@mastodon.social When faced with something like this I get the dremel out and cut a notch in it, then get it out with a flat screwdriver. Worked on my former MINI (a BMW), with torx screws on the tail light cover, didn't have bit for them at the time.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Feb 08, 2026

Replying to @ScottEdelman@wandering.shop

@ScottEdelman@wandering.shop I think I actually remember reading this at the time. The last panel in particular. I’ve despised Donnie since around then, when he used to often be on Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous, he was always such an obvious phony. Bill the Trump was smarter than the real thing.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Feb 01, 2026

Replying to @kingsleybugarin@social.vivaldi.net

@kingsleybugarin @attoparsec I’d say it’s debatable that SC are the good guys, good intentions perhaps. You’re too polite about Musk, who may be the sort of (semi)Useful Idiot SC might use to keep a civilization getting ahead of itself and causing trouble. Maybe arrange for someone with big ideas to come along and screw things up enough to keep us planet bound for a few generations, and triggering a revolution among the masses who sweep away the oligarchs. Wishful thinking.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Feb 01, 2026

Replying to @attoparsec@clacks.link

@attoparsec Since he claims to be an Iain Banks fan, though cleary missed the point, I’d say he’s an agent for Special Circumstances. The Culture has already decided we’re not ready for them.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 24, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop H. H. Holmes style hotels, or more legit?

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 20, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop Caravans/wagon trains are how you get the Donner Party. How they start, at least.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 19, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop @bsdphk@fosstodon.org Pretty sure I once said on your blog, during the 1st term, that Donnie’s a wannabe mob boss. You couldn’t be in the NY building business without dealing with the mafia. I think it’s part of why he prefers being called Don, or as he used to go by The Donald.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 19, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop Assuming their TV is like most, they must be half deaf to keep the volume that high. I have mine around 10. Reading is certainly the better choice.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 19, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop I thought that was a Klan hood over ICE at first.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 18, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop Nothing cosy about Quantum of Nightmares, or a certain maternity ward.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 18, 2026

Replying to @eco-g@stroud.social

@eco-g Not what I was looking for, but maybe this one could use some sharing? Appears to be at Mar-a-Lago, judging by the dreadful portrait of Donnie behind them.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 15, 2026

Replying to @georgetakei@universeodon.com

@georgetakei@universeodon.com The sign I was going to make for the local protest last Sunday, but didn’t have ink. ETA; Local is Colorado Springs, where Renee Nicole Good went to high school, one of her teachers, and classmates spoke.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 14, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop People ‘wrecking havoc’ rather than wreaking it.

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Jaime Robertson @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social · Jan 13, 2026

Replying to @NickSchwanck@aus.social

@NickSchwanck@aus.social It also mirrors the movie version of The Untouchables, where Sean Connery’s character says “They put one of ours in the hospital, we’ll put one of theirs in the morgue.”

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