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RigbyTheDog

@rigbythedog.bsky.social

Every day, I think deeply about being the kind of dog that I strive to be. #existentialism

created November 15, 2024

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Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social)

Helluva kick!

31/8/2025, 8:49:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RFK wants to bring it back.

31/8/2025, 9:45:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Artologica aka Michele Banks (@artologica.net) reposted

New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate

31/8/2025, 2:43:55 AM | 5447 882 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 1:29:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tuscaloosers!

30/8/2025, 8:46:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Former Elvis impersonator.

30/8/2025, 8:40:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Stalin didn’t have a No. 2.

30/8/2025, 8:39:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Tuscaloosers!

30/8/2025, 8:39:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

I survived a tumor on my back and another in my knee. Post op, my lung collapsed because I chased squirrels out of the yard. It took 6 weeks, but I recovered. Big Guy will too! Were shepherd dogs.

30/8/2025, 8:37:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He worked all his life to stop it.

30/8/2025, 5:13:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s a game of television commercials.

30/8/2025, 4:59:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

But the TV commercials are winning the game.

30/8/2025, 4:57:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

The commercials are winning right now.

30/8/2025, 4:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

So far it’s been 25 minutes of commercials and 10 minutes of game.

30/8/2025, 4:39:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social)

The maga bowl has begun.

30/8/2025, 4:16:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 11:22:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

AI is my boss.

29/8/2025, 11:45:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

But dang! Going through dead people’s correspondence is darn fun.

29/8/2025, 11:35:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m constantly telling historians that very, very few people are reading the journal that published their article about how 16th century people chopped down trees.

29/8/2025, 11:34:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

In my state for the past 55 years, only about 27% of eligible voters cast a vote in midterm elections.

29/8/2025, 6:07:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Grok will soon be the entire federal government.

29/8/2025, 6:06:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

She had a criminal record a mile long.

29/8/2025, 12:06:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Awww. Poor big guy.

29/8/2025, 12:04:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 11:18:12 PM | 27 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Cue up some Dead!

28/8/2025, 11:53:03 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s how Joe Rogan phrases things.

28/8/2025, 11:45:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

My parents saw me as a little drain that sucked away their money.

28/8/2025, 9:17:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe it’s time for the AHA to list the universities that still allow students to major in history.

28/8/2025, 8:48:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Ashli Babbitt was a criminal. DUIs, stalking, domestic violence, assault, all before she committed treason.

28/8/2025, 2:50:43 PM | 99 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

She had a criminal record a mile long: domestic violence, stalking, assault and battery, DUI. Fuck Ashli Babbitt and her stupid fucking family.

28/8/2025, 2:49:05 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s all marketing.

28/8/2025, 10:30:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

There are people who don’t like dogs.

28/8/2025, 12:43:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

It was passive aggressive.

27/8/2025, 7:49:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Google just wants your data.

27/8/2025, 7:47:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

The Bucktail Republicans were indeed a street gang.

27/8/2025, 7:44:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hackleton.

27/8/2025, 11:21:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

These Nazi lizards from outer space didn’t like science either!

26/8/2025, 8:28:55 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It would trigger another violent attack on the capitol.

26/8/2025, 8:27:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Interestingly enough, you could score some Molly there.

26/8/2025, 8:26:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Shepherds retrieve better. It’s just a fact.

26/8/2025, 8:24:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Can’t. Venture capital firms have to get that ROI.

26/8/2025, 8:23:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

When he dies, his people will say he was murdered.

26/8/2025, 8:22:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Spoken like a dictator!

26/8/2025, 7:31:33 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

In surveys I teach, every other week, students must write a doc analysis essay with a thesis supported with multiple assigned sources. They have a rubric, and on avg 78% still use AI on all of these papers (& fail). It’s a pain in the ass, & they struggle with multiple choice as well.

26/8/2025, 7:07:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

In the internet age, people want to but cannot just click through a crisis.

26/8/2025, 6:27:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

SCOTUS will overrule the appellate court. That’s what the Supreme Court 6 do.

26/8/2025, 2:46:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

They have Garcia Derangement Syndrome. They see this guy and all the magas go berserk.

26/8/2025, 11:48:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sept. 14, Birmingham!

26/8/2025, 11:47:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When Trump dies, his people will make it look like he was murdered.

26/8/2025, 11:46:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Ewok spells woke.

26/8/2025, 11:04:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

He was hoping to find some live Dead.

26/8/2025, 5:26:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s where they hook up the IV.

26/8/2025, 5:20:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Charley don’t surf

26/8/2025, 5:17:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

You think the current clowns are going somewhere?

26/8/2025, 5:14:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 5:10:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

There won’t be any future historians. Once the current crop dies, that’s it!

26/8/2025, 1:00:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Since they get no due process, what’s stopping them from fighting back? Someone comes to kidnap me and I’ll make it hard on them.

25/8/2025, 4:55:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok, grandpa.

25/8/2025, 4:53:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Poo-poo Paws.

25/8/2025, 12:44:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shepherds gone wild!

25/8/2025, 12:42:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 3:41:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It should have won an academy award!

24/8/2025, 12:34:59 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tiare Liberty Sol ☀️ 🌺🦄 (@tiare75.bsky.social) reposted

I want my two dollars!! 😆

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23/8/2025, 11:13:20 PM | 1255 128 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

The insult bot 2000 will run longer than the energizer bunny.

23/8/2025, 5:33:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Even if Shreveport didn’t have a high murder rate, the city still sucks ass!

23/8/2025, 5:01:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Did we expect som else?

23/8/2025, 4:50:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

People are not apathetic. Everybody documents their protests on Tik Tok or Bluesky, or on X, or facebook or Instagram. Putting up a meme on social media is the resistance. And it's making the world a better place.

23/8/2025, 1:33:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

She starred with Pal, one of the greatest TV actors of all time, in Lassie.

23/8/2025, 1:28:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

V was awesome! Nazi lizards from outer space take over America.

23/8/2025, 11:21:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture I Post Animal Vids... 😊 (@realjfairclough.bsky.social) reposted

A dog grandfather spreading happiness... 🐶❤️ #dog #dogday #bluesky

23/8/2025, 7:46:04 AM | 4792 297 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.

22/8/2025, 7:31:10 PM | 4722 1229 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

All my exes live in Texas.

22/8/2025, 5:30:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Hotels were great bathroom stops, but too many now require a key card for the lobby lavatory. Yet hotels like Holiday Inn and Hampton still give out free breakfasts for travelers. I act like I stayed the night. I some times eat at my local hotel just for free food in hard times.

22/8/2025, 4:43:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

They won’t care about election outcomes or judicial decisions either. They certainly don’t give a shit about protests. So people better start organizing a boycott, a general strike.

22/8/2025, 4:40:06 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rex Huppke (@rexhuppke.bsky.social) reposted

They don't care about poll numbers, they don't are about being transparently authoritarian, they don't seem to care about their party's fate in the midterm elections and they sure as hell don't care about the laws. People better start putting all these pieces together. The picture is clear.

22/8/2025, 4:13:51 PM | 1702 520 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

The MAGAs are now progressives?

22/8/2025, 11:44:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Communism is anything magas dislike.

22/8/2025, 7:24:00 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

That dog wants to surf!

22/8/2025, 7:23:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

So Gavin has apparently taken a page from your playbook. Kinda wondering what you think about that.

22/8/2025, 7:19:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

There really isn’t any hidden agenda with Trump. The magas are clear in their intentions to establish a dictatorship. Trump has been clear on his intentions to enrich himself via the office of president.

21/8/2025, 4:22:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) (@markanthonyneal.bsky.social) reposted

Why so few Americans read for pleasure Leisure reading among U.S. adults 15 and older has dropped 40 percent in the past 20 years, according to researchers. wapo.st/475WU6U

20/8/2025, 9:43:23 PM | 36 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Even if Trump sent troops, he’d then send Mike Pompeo to surrender to the Taliban.

20/8/2025, 2:30:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture I 💙 Dogs (@dogs100.bsky.social) reposted

Little Baby Girl wants to show off her stuff & twirl twirl

19/8/2025, 7:08:20 PM | 346 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

A reactionary is gonna do these things.

20/8/2025, 7:44:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted

This is a powerful documentary that should be seen by everyone. Among the best videos about the history of the rise of fascism and its characteristics. We are witnessing the same right now, and Dr. Parenti is amazingly concise and clear. Truly a must see.

20/8/2025, 5:33:33 AM | 47 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe even arrested. It’s fucking Texas!

20/8/2025, 6:27:52 AM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) (@markanthonyneal.bsky.social) reposted

Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of history at @Harvard, president of the Organization of American Historians and an award-winning author on Trump's Targeting of School Curricula, Smithsonian | @democracynow.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtV9...

19/8/2025, 4:22:23 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

I was dumbfounded in 2024 when the Roberts Court gave him total power.

18/8/2025, 10:11:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Very calm waters.

18/8/2025, 9:29:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Even if it were true, that wouldn’t make this heavy handed political theater constitutional.

18/8/2025, 9:12:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

I disagree. The MAGAs aren’t really loyal to anyone or anything. They’re mostly victims complaining about their feelings.

18/8/2025, 4:01:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Dogs and their drama.

18/8/2025, 3:58:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

The USA is client state to the Russian Federation.

18/8/2025, 12:56:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

They would say that's the original intent of the Founders who wrote the Constitution.

17/8/2025, 8:24:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

Sarah Vallor has a good take on AI mania. I’m expecting it to crash the economy. No way it’s going to be profitable.

17/8/2025, 10:55:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Blake Emerson (@blakeprof.bsky.social) reposted

It’s only going to get worse.

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16/8/2025, 3:21:37 PM | 70 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

You should get a whiff of Bogalusa.

16/8/2025, 10:26:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M. Belanger (@sethanikeem.bsky.social) reposted

A glaring symptom of fascism: Downplaying the threat of heavily armed gov’t enforcers while absurdly characterizing the slightest verbal resistance as criminally violent Creating a reality where throwing a milkshake or sandwich or saying, “I wish you’d die!” to an oppressor is a punishable offense

16/8/2025, 5:24:50 PM | 635 183 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

We could call ourselves love brokers.

16/8/2025, 8:43:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RigbyTheDog (@rigbythedog.bsky.social) reply parent

I first saw it at age 12. I didn’t get much of the humor, but Keaton stole the show.

16/8/2025, 8:42:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view