Rob McColley 🇺🇦

@mccolley.bsky.social

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musician, bartender, attorney, Illini basketball writer, dishwasher, lawnmower, pastafarian

Elvis Costello and G.E. Smith perform "The Other Side of Summer" during a 1991 episode of Saturday Night Live. Costello is wearing an enormous beard, sunglasses and a camouflage baseball cap.
The Captain of Golgafrincham B Ark loofahs his left arm while a yellow rubber duck bobs in his bathwater.
The bio page for Autumn, the person to whom this post is responding.
A box of ChoClits in the background with a tray of six chocolate vaginas presented on a plastic serving tray. They look like a clitoris and vulva.
Google explains that the genocide of Bosnian Muslims was well underway when the UN asked NATO to intervene militarily.
Rob can't see what Future Dementia Patient is responding to, because PincheAP blocked Rob after a drive-by flame war.
Bluesky says the post from PincheAP was written in German.
Nighthawk's post has a footnote from Bluesky saying it was written in Portuguese. It then asks if I would like to respond in Portuguese.
Slim Pickens rides an ICBM, from Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Paul J. West
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A can of Spam
The book "Tramways & Trolleys" by University of Illinois history professor John McKay. It was published in 1976. The book's subtitle is The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe
A cartoon in which Don Quixote charges at a windmill on horseback. He's dressed in armor and wielding a lance.
A screenshot of the bio page for the Bluesky user to whom the post is responding. The username is uranasshole dot Bsky dot social. The current profile name is "Impeach, remove and imprison NOW." The user's avatar is Captain Jean Luc Picard, and the other bio picture is blank. Three Orwellian slogans are listed instead of personal information. They are "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength."
A pop-up banner tells Bluesky users that The original poster Aurelius only allows responses from people who are following him.
A 1970s children's book features the Hardy Boys (Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy) prominently on its cover, with a much smaller image of a female below them. The title of the book, in big letters, is THE HARDY BOYS and then in much smaller letters below that "and Nancy Drew."
Bluesky user Revolutionary Radish says Rob should go to the Nazi site, where nobody hates centrists. Revolutionary Radish then posts that Rob is part of the "hate train."
A clip from the 1985 movie Real Genius in which the dean admonishes Mitch "never forget to check your references."
Miss Anne Elk (John Cleese) presents a new theory about the brontosaurus to Chris (Graham Chapman), a television chat show presenter.
A screenshot of a deleted post from the user "circumspectral" and a reply from Rob McColley. Circumspectral asks if Rob McColley thinks Bluesky admin is blocking posts. Rob McColley says Bluesky administration made the choice to allow users to remove other people's posts from their timeline by blocking the people who posted those responses. This technique is known as the "nuclear block," and McColley says it is not available on Twitter.
A screenshot of the profile for respondent "circumspectral" claims he is a "proud reply guy" and "unintentional contrarian."
A trading card of Anoia, the Discworld goddess of household items that get stuck in drawers. @terryandrob.bsky.social @rhi.bsky.social
Snausages!
No Kings protestors fill Main Street in front of the Champaign County Courthouse on March 28th, 2026.
Rob shares a screenshot of a dialogue from earlier in the thread, in which a poster named cerathi realizes that, while a lot of people are talking about JK Rowling, it's an incorrect assumption to conclude that Rob and the thread originator are talking about JK Rowling.
A light brown lemur leans its head on a wooden pole. Its hands rest on either side of the pole. The caption reads "I love this post."
Katiza jumps into a conversation about four authors, all of whom have been abandoned by the original poster, for thought crimes. Katiza says "There's "flawed" and then there's "wishing/perpetrating targeted harm upon others." ✨ There's a difference ✨ and the latter"
An obese couple sits in stadium chairs, high above a NASCAR track. They face away from the camera, and toward the racing stock cars. She has a mane of frizzy blonde hair. She wears an oversized white T-shirt, but you can still tell that she's a biggun. A bra strap protrudes mid-back. Her companion is not wearing a shirt, but has the number three shaved into his back hair.
A close-up of Johnny Cash's left hand shows that he's wearing a wedding band.
Dennis Moore, atop a horse, opines "this redistribution of Wealth is trickier than I thought." From Monty Python's Flying Circus
A picture of the screen of an Amazon Echo Show 8, with a message from Amazon asking the user to join Prime.
Pete Hegseth shirtless, with a big tattoo of of a Jerusalem Cross.
The cover photo from the Elvis Costello album Taking Liberties
The bottle label for Honey Brown lager
Shirley Temple sits in a large pot, waiting to be eaten by cannibas. A cannibal chef in a chef's hat uses a huge ladle to sample the soup she's presumably sitting in. From the short film 'Kid in Africa' (1933)
Zooming in from the original picture of Al Green, we see senator Tim Scott with a shit eating grin on his face. He's reacting to someone else, though. Neither trump nor Green is in his line of sight.
Google Image Search says it's looking at Sean Connery in the 1987 film The Untouchables.
Dennis Moore, played by John Cleese, says "Blimey! This redistribution of Wealth is trickier than I thought." From Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The McColley kids - Susanna, Margaret, Bobby, Teresa, Carolyn and Becky
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting shows a man speaking at a town hall meeting.
A screenshot from an earlier dialogue shows that Axeshun tried to ridicule Tom Nichols for avoiding the word "authoritarian," which Tom uses regularly. Tom says Axeshun is "moving the goalposts," but actually Axeshun just fucked up.
Google AI thinks EyAy is a translation about good hearted people, or maybe a song.
A pretend screenshot of an online newspaper story sits above a picture of Donald Trump and his lackey Speaker Mike Johnson. The headline reads: "GOP says it'll take a lot more than eyewitness testimony, photos, DNA, toxicology reports, victim statements, wire transfers, emails, flight manifests, phone records, surveillance logs, Bank records, audio, video, & total confessions for them to believe Trump's Epstein ties were more than coincidental."
The award for World's Whitest Whine is sun shaped, gold with filigree, and says Outstanding and Excellence but nothing else.
A screenshot of the Illini Republicans Twitter homepage shows a small group of people standing at the north end of the Quad on the campus of the University of Illinois. 300 yards behind them is the dome shaped Foellinger Auditorium.
A picture of a Kum and Go gas station and convenience store, taken from the area between the gas pumps and the front door. An SUV is parked immediately in front. Kum is spelled k-u-m.
Reverend William Grant McColley cuts his 100th birthday cake [1965]
A screenshot of the New York Times Spelling Bee shows that the word "ethology" is not in the Times dictionary. Ethology would be a pangram, that is, it would use each of the seven letters in today's game.
Ralph Wiggum, waving from his school locker, says "I'm an oil company!"