Chuck Groenink
@cgroenink.bsky.social
I draw pictures, I bake bread, I go for walks.
Columbia county, NY
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Chuck Groenink
@cgroenink.bsky.social
· Apr 8
Hullo, it’s #portfolioday! I’m chuck, I make picture books. I like drawing animals, far away places, and light.
Seeing these Epstein emails, I’m reminded that one reason I always thought Trump had a chance was because he tweeted like my mother in law texts.
zoomers can't read, and boomers can't write
One thing that the Epstein emails have taught me is that lots of supposedly superior intellects don't understand basic grammar.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Seeing these Epstein emails, I’m reminded that one reason I always thought Trump had a chance was because he tweeted like my mother in law texts.
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One thing that the Epstein emails have taught me is that lots of supposedly superior intellects don't understand basic grammar.
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
One thing that the Epstein emails have taught me is that lots of supposedly superior intellects don't understand basic grammar.
Easy: next Bond is a charming grifter who steals the deceased’s Bond identity and gets embroiled in the action when a sinister cabal assumes actual Bond has come out of hiding, leading to his being taken in by British intelligence.
Don’t know what these writers are struggling with.
Don’t know what these writers are struggling with.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Easy: next Bond is a charming grifter who steals the deceased’s Bond identity and gets embroiled in the action when a sinister cabal assumes actual Bond has come out of hiding, leading to his being taken in by British intelligence.
Don’t know what these writers are struggling with.
Don’t know what these writers are struggling with.
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Seeing illustrators post their Harry Potter stuff, or still do work for places like the NYT is maddening. At this point you have to be obtuse or just a turd to take these jobs.
I know everyone's hurting but you must be a real pathetic sicko to take freelance work from the nyt at this point
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Seeing illustrators post their Harry Potter stuff, or still do work for places like the NYT is maddening. At this point you have to be obtuse or just a turd to take these jobs.
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“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
www.openculture.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
God, you could so easily reboot Star Trek by doing a rip off Hunt for Red October, a young Kirk has to convince Starfleet leadership that the Klingon ship that entered the neutral zone is not going to attack. Pike is still in command of the Enterprise, the only ship in the sector, etc, etc
what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
God, you could so easily reboot Star Trek by doing a rip off Hunt for Red October, a young Kirk has to convince Starfleet leadership that the Klingon ship that entered the neutral zone is not going to attack. Pike is still in command of the Enterprise, the only ship in the sector, etc, etc
The failing NY Times won’t let me see their list of best illustrated books of the year😡
(Usually a list of the most visually appealing picture books for adults with a certain pretentious disposition)
(Usually a list of the most visually appealing picture books for adults with a certain pretentious disposition)
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The failing NY Times won’t let me see their list of best illustrated books of the year😡
(Usually a list of the most visually appealing picture books for adults with a certain pretentious disposition)
(Usually a list of the most visually appealing picture books for adults with a certain pretentious disposition)
‘Change the channel, Marge’
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
‘Change the channel, Marge’
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I hate that we're supposed to trudge through year after year after year acting like we don't already know the most effective solutions to social problems because some people don't like it. We know the best way to treat homelessness, addiction, crime, poverty, hunger, and bigotry but won't do it.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I hate that we're supposed to trudge through year after year after year acting like we don't already know the most effective solutions to social problems because some people don't like it. We know the best way to treat homelessness, addiction, crime, poverty, hunger, and bigotry but won't do it.
100% tax rate on any cent over, let’s say, 200k?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
100% tax rate on any cent over, let’s say, 200k?
Helen Andrews, or what if the killer from Don’t Look Now went to debate club instead.
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Helen Andrews, or what if the killer from Don’t Look Now went to debate club instead.
Wasn’t he cut from that last JJ Abrams one?
Matt Smith Is Preparing to Enter 'Star Wars' Later This Year
Matt Smith Is Preparing to Enter 'Star Wars' Later This Year
Plus, Guy Fawkes opens a portal to hell in a new movie.
gizmodo.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Wasn’t he cut from that last JJ Abrams one?
They hate immigrants who actually believe in this country’s ideals.
The Federal government, along with the state of Texas, continue their crusade against the Prairieland Defendants. Des is only one of the 18 protesters that the Trump administration is attempting to paint as an “antifa” terrorist group.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
They hate immigrants who actually believe in this country’s ideals.
Back in Oregon my wife worked for an environmental non profit taking care of a river. This involved an annual trip up into the mountains with a truck full of dead salmon to toss them in the stream as a wan attempt at exactly this.
(I still remember the smell)
(I still remember the smell)
And the CARCASSES! Holy shit, the carcasses. The essence of the Pacific Ocean distilled and bottled in fifteen-pound piscine packages, infusions of nitrogen & phosphorus & fatty acids in creeks that have missed their marine nutrients for a century.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Back in Oregon my wife worked for an environmental non profit taking care of a river. This involved an annual trip up into the mountains with a truck full of dead salmon to toss them in the stream as a wan attempt at exactly this.
(I still remember the smell)
(I still remember the smell)
I love a book that can make a precocious kid absolutely insufferable at family gatherings (complimentary)
⭐ #Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek WHITE LIES: HOW THE SOUTH LOST THE CIVIL WAR, THEN REWROTE THE HISTORY (Roaring Brook/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social): "Ann Bausum lists these falsehoods of the Lost Cause + then dismantles them 1 by 1 in this extensively researched book" www.hbook.com/story/review...
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I love a book that can make a precocious kid absolutely insufferable at family gatherings (complimentary)
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This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)
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This good stuff right here is why boomers are so desperate to stop millenials from entering the political arena. They know we are gonna start doing good things as soon as we get in there, and they would rather destroy the world and die rich.
I passed out before this happened. Watching it now, groggy and teary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKco...
‘Hope Is Alive’: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech After Toppling a NYC Dynasty
YouTube video by Zeteo
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This good stuff right here is why boomers are so desperate to stop millenials from entering the political arena. They know we are gonna start doing good things as soon as we get in there, and they would rather destroy the world and die rich.
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Not a fan of Sliwa but I admire that he’s a genuine weirdo who’s gonna go home to his 17 cats and get a good nights sleep and enjoy living in New York for the next four years while Cuomo is snapping 12 pencils in his hands every five seconds and won’t have a moment of inner peace
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Not a fan of Sliwa but I admire that he’s a genuine weirdo who’s gonna go home to his 17 cats and get a good nights sleep and enjoy living in New York for the next four years while Cuomo is snapping 12 pencils in his hands every five seconds and won’t have a moment of inner peace
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I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.
She’s really raising the bar unrealistically high for us illustrators and cartoonists with spouses who have regular jobs
[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:]
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
She’s really raising the bar unrealistically high for us illustrators and cartoonists with spouses who have regular jobs
There are approximately 800 languages spoken in New York City, and over 5 million people speak something besides English at home.
The Times thinks it’s important however to take issue with a dental plosive following a bilabial nasal, because the discomfort of English monoglots is ‘pure linguistics’?
The Times thinks it’s important however to take issue with a dental plosive following a bilabial nasal, because the discomfort of English monoglots is ‘pure linguistics’?
In Opinion
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Opinion | I Now Mispronounce You the Likely Next Mayor of New York City
A lot of people seem to trip over Zohran Mamdani’s name. The reason may not be as simple as it seems.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
There are approximately 800 languages spoken in New York City, and over 5 million people speak something besides English at home.
The Times thinks it’s important however to take issue with a dental plosive following a bilabial nasal, because the discomfort of English monoglots is ‘pure linguistics’?
The Times thinks it’s important however to take issue with a dental plosive following a bilabial nasal, because the discomfort of English monoglots is ‘pure linguistics’?
Just got these two, and it’s interesting to see how well one of them works in comparison to how badly the other doesn’t
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Just got these two, and it’s interesting to see how well one of them works in comparison to how badly the other doesn’t
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"