Charles Riffenburg
@grabbagmedia.bsky.social
Illustrator, graphic designer, web designer, marketer. Also, cartoonist, director, actor, and cookie enthusiast. I contain multitudes.
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I turned 30 today! ☺️
So i beseech thee for some birthday shares, please ✨
I'm in absolute NDA hell, so have the same 3 paintings I always post :')
So i beseech thee for some birthday shares, please ✨
I'm in absolute NDA hell, so have the same 3 paintings I always post :')
September 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I turned 30 today! ☺️
So i beseech thee for some birthday shares, please ✨
I'm in absolute NDA hell, so have the same 3 paintings I always post :')
So i beseech thee for some birthday shares, please ✨
I'm in absolute NDA hell, so have the same 3 paintings I always post :')
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hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
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June 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives.
Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.
Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.
June 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives.
Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.
Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.
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Got to experience a spectacular concert from Ok Go tonight. Their opener was the L.A. Exes and they kicked so much ass. You should definitely seek them out.
April 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Got to experience a spectacular concert from Ok Go tonight. Their opener was the L.A. Exes and they kicked so much ass. You should definitely seek them out.
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Just answered several emails that I was supposed to answer on Friday but I forgot.
Adulthood: -6 points
Adulthood: -6 points
March 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just answered several emails that I was supposed to answer on Friday but I forgot.
Adulthood: -6 points
Adulthood: -6 points
Now the US is detaining and torturing green card holders, people who are legal permanent resistants.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.
www.wgbh.org
March 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Now the US is detaining and torturing green card holders, people who are legal permanent resistants.
Remember how Trump spent years fighting tooth and nail to prevent Congress from getting access to his tax info?
Now the unelected and unaccountable DOGE Bros are close to having access to everyone's tax forms.
Now the unelected and unaccountable DOGE Bros are close to having access to everyone's tax forms.
March 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Remember how Trump spent years fighting tooth and nail to prevent Congress from getting access to his tax info?
Now the unelected and unaccountable DOGE Bros are close to having access to everyone's tax forms.
Now the unelected and unaccountable DOGE Bros are close to having access to everyone's tax forms.
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Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
February 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
This feels closer and closer every day
"The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us."
YouTube video by Charles Gaba
youtu.be
February 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This feels closer and closer every day
Remember how hard Trump fought to keep anyone from seeing his tax returns?
Elon Musk's DOGE asks for access to IRS taxpayer data, sources say
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency requested access to an IRS data system that retains the personal tax information on millions of Americans, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Remember how hard Trump fought to keep anyone from seeing his tax returns?
"[We must] get back to the notion of people in the decision-making positions putting on shows they like because they like them, as opposed to because they can sell an IP. Television has to go back to remembering it’s a commercial art form — but it’s an art form.”
Showrunners on the State of Television at Arts Summit: “Streaming Was a Drug and Now TV Is in Rehab”
Hollywood gathered for The Creative Coalition's 'Davos of the Arts' in Las Vegas, where executive producers Bill Prady, Gloria Calderón Kellett and Jessica Sharzer concluded that between algorithms an...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"[We must] get back to the notion of people in the decision-making positions putting on shows they like because they like them, as opposed to because they can sell an IP. Television has to go back to remembering it’s a commercial art form — but it’s an art form.”
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The Stonewall stuff is akin to if the government agency running the web site for the house where Anne Frank and her family hid removed reference to the fact that they were Jews.
February 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Stonewall stuff is akin to if the government agency running the web site for the house where Anne Frank and her family hid removed reference to the fact that they were Jews.
It took Nixon years to reach his Saturday Night Massacre. Trump got here in a month.
Danielle Sassoon: Flurry of resignations after DOJ tells prosecutors to drop Eric Adams case
Top New York attorney Danielle Sassoon is among several prosecutors to quit over an order to drop a corruption case against Eric Adams.
www.bbc.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It took Nixon years to reach his Saturday Night Massacre. Trump got here in a month.
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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So it's official. Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center, installed his sycophants as board members, and had himself elected chairman. The hostile takeover of the arts to use as a propaganda wing has begun. It's a dark time to be a theatre artist right now.
February 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
So it's official. Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center, installed his sycophants as board members, and had himself elected chairman. The hostile takeover of the arts to use as a propaganda wing has begun. It's a dark time to be a theatre artist right now.
Second show of the year: Fat Ham at the Goodman. Absolutely phenomenal.
February 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Second show of the year: Fat Ham at the Goodman. Absolutely phenomenal.
When even the ads for AI are built on lies, why would you ever rely on it or build it into your work flow?
A Super Bowl ad featuring Google’s Gemini AI contained a whopper of a mistake about cheese
Google quietly corrected an ad featuring its chatbot that claimed Gouda made up 60% of the world’s cheese consumption.
fortune.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
When even the ads for AI are built on lies, why would you ever rely on it or build it into your work flow?
Between this and the new NEA guidelines for 2026, this feels like such a dark time.
www.broadwayworld.com/article/Trum...
www.broadwayworld.com/article/Trum...
Trump Dismisses Members of Kennedy Center Board and Reveals Plan to Make Himself Chairman
The President just announced plans to dismiss multiple members of the Kennedy Center board. According to the Atlantic, they include Democrats Mike Donilon, Karine Jean-Pierre, and Chris Korge. He also...
www.broadwayworld.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Between this and the new NEA guidelines for 2026, this feels like such a dark time.
www.broadwayworld.com/article/Trum...
www.broadwayworld.com/article/Trum...
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I finished Uncultured yesterday and it’s a great book, really interesting exploration of groupthink and a heartbreaking reminder that yes, many men just really hate women and/or see them as chattel. bookshop.org/p/books/uncu...
Uncultured: A Memoir
A Memoir
bookshop.org
February 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I finished Uncultured yesterday and it’s a great book, really interesting exploration of groupthink and a heartbreaking reminder that yes, many men just really hate women and/or see them as chattel. bookshop.org/p/books/uncu...