Bob Alberti

@a1batross.bsky.social

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Comedian, author, photographer, Internet pioneer (Gopher, RFC1436), MMORPG pioneer (GāmBit MultiSystems). Website https://albatross.org Banner image is my wife's art at https://joygrant.art

Some rando calls for Her to step down
Figueiroa Beach looking east towards the Troia peninsulam. Then some kid just came along with a cooler full of hamburger-sized sugar donuts filled with Nutella. I mean, what was I supposed to do?
Joy and I under a water feature
An old man in sunglasses with dirt on his nose squints into the sun
My original 2011 post about "a man fills his apartment with newspapers." I was trying to describe that immense wealth is really no more than a hoarding disorder.
The Queen Mother holds a transparent dome umbrella and waves as she exits her car
Subject line of pestering marketing email reading "Hey Bob! Where have you been?"
Peeling windows with ironwork rails and colored tiles in Lisbon
Peeling windows with ironwork rails and colored tiles in Lisbon
The Vasco da Gama bridge looms over the LxFactory market in Lisbon
Looking at Troia across the Sado Estuary at sunset
Chillin' on a cool Domingo off the Rua de Luis Camœs.
Meliã Hotels greeted us with complimentary pastel de natas and espresso
Fort overlooking Setubal, too tired to describe more
My mother's head looks like it's on fire because of the painting behind her as she tries on her "Happy 90th Birthday" glasses.
Ramon Casas' "Erik Satie, The Bohemian Poet of Montmarte"
Rev. Jesse Jackson in a photo from June, 1987 at O'Hare Airport. His bodyguard is on his left, and is glaring suspiciously at the camera.
An espresso martini at Gage
The South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago
A Chicago dog, foreground, out of focus; the Bean, background
Visiting Chicago be sure to send a greeting
The USS Enterprise from the original series orbits above a cloudy blue planet obviously updated from the original 1960s effects. The parody name of the episode in yellow letters reads "Trek Gets Woke."
2016 Ford Transit T-350 XLT for sale $45K
My friend Laurie carried this costume in her suitcase halfway around the world to get these shots
The St. Peter Cornet Band's bandwagon, Nicollet Co Historical Society, St. Peter, MN
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Kryton
Kathleen Hellmond
view from the back of the RV towards the front with the bed in sleeping position.
In a parody pulled from Tom Tomorrow's 12 January 2026 comic strip, the latter portion of Schumer's statement has been modified to match current events. Top Panel: "Meanwhile on Capitol Hill..." Schumer: "How's this: Trump should stop [edited] nuking Iran and start nuking the national debt!" Jeffries: "I'll run it by the focus group IMMEDIATELY!" Bottom panel: "Next: who the absolute hell knows anumore." [edited] apologies to Tom Tomorrow
A glacier in Iceland descending from misty mountains.
Money quote from an analysis of the White House app that pulls source from a random person's GitHub account.
Two consecutive Facebook right-column ads combine weirdly. The top ad shows a man in a black shirt drinking something and facing left, while the bottom ad shows a pair of legs from the knee down in black pants and fancy shoes facing right. The total image looks like weird small person.
It's an utter coincidence that this scene in a major movie from a major studio is filled with antisemitic tropes.
Branches with small peach fruits
Sombrero Butte and the Galiuro mountains under a blue afternoon sky
Jesse Jackson photographed in 1987 at O'Hare Airport. He is walking down a glass hallway surrouned by three angry looking security personnel.
Dark interior shot from 1982 Blade Runner.
A copy of 'The Spanish Inquisition' by Henry Kamen
Lilly Wachowski of 'The Matrix' donates $5000 to South High's fundraiser
Poppies in the Galiuro desert
A Threads post from the_mad_end writes: Dear Leftists, The OG (old guard) Civil RIghts activists were literally getting beat upside the head to fight for the right to vote, just so they can get to the polls and choose which racist on the ballot was going to be least harmful to the community. Like WTF didyou think they were doing in 1969? What quality of candidates did you think they had to choose from? Modern Leftists need to grow the fuck up and realize this is a LONG, incremental process. The OGs didn't get fire hosed, bit by dogs, billy clubbed, because the Great Leftists Messiah was on the ballot. No, it was "hey, which flavor of racist can I best survive under for the next four years?" Are you all too good to make those type of hard choices? Is it beneath you to do what the ancestors NEEDED to do to survive? This blueprint for progress not working for you? Because it's all we got. That's the legacy. That's the strategy. Y'all pouting your way to liberation ain't the way."
In a photograph taken in OHare Airport in 1987, Jessie Jackson is center looking at the camera, walking beside a security officer scowling at the camera, and in front of two other men.
Suguaros and a rock formation at Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior, AZ.
A dorky kid doomed to only become more dorky over time.
Theresa left Bob right and Jeremy Messersmith middle.
Florence LaRue, a dork in an ugly tie, and Patrice Morris circa 1982
A screenshot from Facebook that I scrolled back to capture a year after I posted my comment, by which time it had already gone viral under another name. Go ahead, search for that quote prior to 2011 - you won't find it, and there is no "B. Lester." This has annoyed me for the last 15 years and will undoubtedly continue to do so.
Instead of Rupert Murdoch and a million cookies, replace the cookies with houses.
Cory wants everyone to know he got married, I guess.
88 stands for HH which stands for Heil Hitler
H being the 8th letter of the alphabet, 88 is a well-known dogwhistle for "Heil Hitler." This MFer was spotted in Catalina, AZ.
An Arizona license plate with a US flag background reading 88USA88 H being the eighth letter of the alphabet, 88 is a Nazi dog whistle for "Heil Hitler"