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Roland Goity

@rocknroland.bsky.social

Writer and pickleball enthusiast living in the Cascades foothills east of Seattle

created November 20, 2024

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Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Occam’s razor FTW!

12/9/2025, 6:32:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy Birthday, Mina!

8/9/2025, 7:35:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to mention he wasn't married to Kim Guilfoyle before DJT Jr's turn with her, nor has he ever cheated (going out on a limb here) with the wife of his devoted campaign manager, blowing up their marriage, as Newsom once did.

2/9/2025, 9:59:53 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ll give him $15 if he speeds up the process and tries to get into heaven today. Lol

2/9/2025, 9:06:11 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Just call them the brown-nose brigade (orange-nose brigade?)!

25/8/2025, 12:42:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It makes Graceland look like Buckingham Palace

21/8/2025, 12:41:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

"Don't trust anyone over 30" was literally a credo

21/8/2025, 12:35:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

The “you” part of the two-word phrase is correct, at least, so it’s only a half-lie.

18/8/2025, 9:05:19 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If the cops aren’t gonna lift a finger it’s up to us fans to get rid of these douchebags i guess. This is a good start

10/8/2025, 11:57:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thrilled to have a have a story of mine hatched in the @smokelong.bsky.social fitness workshops fly off with JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/to-each-thei...

7/8/2025, 10:58:03 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/8/2025, 1:31:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very powerful, Cole. Congrats!

5/8/2025, 9:03:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Warriors will just let him sign the RFO and relegate him to the bench unless butler or green grt injured. No other teams have anywhere the interest to do better than the W’s current offer

30/7/2025, 7:06:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

We are dumb all over. And a little ugly on the side.

29/7/2025, 12:31:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Biden had all of 2024 to release them. He and Garland let a pedophile who led an insurrection get re-elected and exact his revenge on them (and all of us)

21/7/2025, 5:27:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Spoiler alert: We're already in the biggest trouble imaginable.

21/7/2025, 4:25:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, anyone with half a brain knows he’s at the top of the list, right?

18/7/2025, 7:13:33 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

What is Virginia doing on this list?

16/7/2025, 7:20:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s definitely wasted and his mind’s torn up and his body (and everything else a out him) definitely don’t care

25/6/2025, 9:52:37 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s just jealous since he can barely speak English

10/6/2025, 4:49:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m just waiting for Elon to drop the deets behind the staged assassination attempt.

7/6/2025, 5:17:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

2 of these stories sprung from the @smokelong.bsky.social workshop

29/5/2025, 3:01:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social)

3 print journals which include stories of mine arrived this week!

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29/5/2025, 2:42:01 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Especially since only one has ever won the title before, and the last time was 52 years ago!

20/5/2025, 12:29:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

No surprise to anyone paying attention all along. One performative grandstanding speech and he’s the Dem’s new darling. It’s so predictable

20/5/2025, 12:27:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

“Frank’s crease.” Unlike Trump, happens to the best of us.

15/5/2025, 10:36:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

He should give shooting tips to Podz before tomorrow night’s game. He can still make an impact that way.

11/5/2025, 5:48:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

😆

9/5/2025, 3:44:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

All hands on deck. Man the Warriors ship capably until Cap’n Curry retuns. Clear sailing ahead!

7/5/2025, 6:15:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

He has no filter for critical thinking. He make neanderthals look like Rhodes scholars

6/5/2025, 8:04:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

We got this! (I’m not nervous at all 🫨)

6/5/2025, 2:49:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Way to go, Cole. It’s a fantastic story. Nice to see it find a great home!

2/5/2025, 8:14:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

I think you can cut “critics claim.” It’s foreign policy for sale, period

2/5/2025, 3:51:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Make Sweatshops Great Again

29/4/2025, 9:40:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Everything he says and does is “an obvious flaw in his presidency.”

25/4/2025, 3:26:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

When Brit Hume’s the voice of reason, you know this administration has gone off the deep end

24/4/2025, 1:20:31 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Bravo! Well deserved

23/4/2025, 1:32:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social)

Very happy to have my "pickleball story" conceived in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop published today at Litbreak. litbreak.com/dink-respons...

22/4/2025, 6:32:40 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Way to go, Justine!

19/4/2025, 5:17:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Fantastic, Kate!

19/4/2025, 5:16:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

What did he say? I don’t speak his language and couldn’t understand a “word” (sound?) that came out of his mouth. Unbelievable how in over their heads every single member of this administration is.

18/4/2025, 12:58:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

You burnt him to a crisp! Love how he keeps talking about the guy being a father and a husband in reverent terms. Wonder if he says the same thing to his guests and exhibits the same feigned empathy when it comes to Kilmar Abrego Garcia

17/4/2025, 4:23:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

What's up, Steph?!!! Get the dub, please

12/4/2025, 1:20:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Little Marco in a big boy chair.. he looks just like a little gentleman

10/4/2025, 5:42:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

4 months is all i can take. 4 days would be appropriate

9/4/2025, 9:34:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, the good ol’ days…

7/4/2025, 4:24:58 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

He is a Steph Curry-like sharpshooter and also great at going to the basket. Super impressive

6/4/2025, 1:01:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Saw you on the PBS NewsHour. You were dynamite! Very refreshing to actually see someone urgently explain how things really are and not sane-wash. Bravo!

5/4/2025, 12:42:23 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

His braindead left brain is negotiating with his braindead right brain (these negotiations are DEAD on arrival)

4/4/2025, 7:21:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

If other countries don’t comply, he’ll just take his shiny blue ball called Earth and go home!

4/4/2025, 4:39:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Awesome game. Go Dubs!

4/4/2025, 4:47:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coward Nutlick is the perfect stooge for this administration

3/4/2025, 10:47:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Aka Fascism for Morons

28/3/2025, 7:10:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Oui! Oui! C’est vrai!

27/3/2025, 5:58:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

And the president, and the VP, and the DNI, and the FBI director, and the... and the entire administration

25/3/2025, 7:33:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social)

March Madness in Seattle. Terrapins to the Sweet Sixteen

24/3/2025, 7:18:14 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Self-described news outlet sux

16/3/2025, 12:12:29 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Ya think?

14/3/2025, 1:42:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This American says... GO CANADA!!!

10/3/2025, 4:11:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They’re all crazy then

7/3/2025, 6:07:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The kopromat Krasnov has on Lady G must be exceptional

5/3/2025, 10:34:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s what happens when a guy with the aptitude of a toddler is calling the shots.

5/3/2025, 9:27:59 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

We’re absolutely pathetic but the other side is so much worse, while technically true, doesn’t win elections

3/3/2025, 9:51:02 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Fire Hot Curry is 5* hot… so good

28/2/2025, 2:38:32 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

As a writer, i say the apostrophe, but as a citizen…

25/2/2025, 8:56:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Rich kids playing government = BIG FAIL

25/2/2025, 8:54:07 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta be on April Fools Day, right?

22/2/2025, 6:44:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Still more articulate than Trump

21/2/2025, 6:02:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The GOP will do nothing. There are no guardrails for these evil mf’ing morons

19/2/2025, 9:50:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Our country has become a shitty reality show governed by cosplaying Third Reich types

19/2/2025, 7:21:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Elon alone is wealthier than 152 countries, yet is obsessed with squeezing every dime out of us.

17/2/2025, 11:42:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Wiggs will always be remembered fondly for his amazing 2022 playoff run

6/2/2025, 8:09:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

At least Jimmy Buckets can bring some clutch to this team we hope

6/2/2025, 4:48:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pathetic

6/2/2025, 4:47:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Give it up already

3/2/2025, 10:00:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

9, but 10 if he’s willing to part with Draymond in the right deal

31/1/2025, 5:15:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ran in to a herd of Roosevelt elk today in the shadows of Mt Si

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30/1/2025, 1:31:21 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, love your sports takes, but your music taste is right there too. I never knew of Balthvs until Bumbershoot, but they are so good they slotted all the way up to #3 on my most listened chart for 2024

8/1/2025, 1:44:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Congratulations, Ani!

27/12/2024, 11:42:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What can they even get for Zion at this point?

11/12/2024, 4:35:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, i knew i listened to a lot of Todd Rundgren this year, so can’t say i’m too surprised!

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5/12/2024, 12:09:59 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy to learn my story, “Where the Lairs Are,” has been nominated by Cirque journal for a Pushcart Prize

26/11/2024, 10:27:01 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Goity (@rocknroland.bsky.social) reply parent

Most overrated coach in sports

26/11/2024, 4:44:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep, pretty much

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25/11/2024, 7:34:22 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like her gumption

23/11/2024, 7:24:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Super fun time seeing John Craigie & Co. at the Neptune

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23/11/2024, 7:12:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fingers crossed for a big season from Wiggs

23/11/2024, 7:10:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ben Gibbard with the lowdown on blowdowns on Tiger Mtn apnews.com/video/ben-gi...

23/11/2024, 1:30:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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20/11/2024, 1:12:30 PM | 51 15 | View on Bluesky | view

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Quite the storm we had the other night on Squak Mtn in Issaquah. Welcome to my neighborhood

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21/11/2024, 8:53:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view