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Charles Herold
@cherold.bsky.social
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Well, I'm just glad I didn't live to see this shitshow. Oh, wait, I'm still here. Fuck.

BTW, instablock to anyone who messages me who has never met me in person.

Mastodon:https://zirk.us/@cherold
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Over of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks.
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Tonya Harding walking up to an oblivious Nancy Kerrigan, with Tonya labeled "SENATE DEMS" and Nancy labeled "POST-ELECTION MOMENTUM."
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Suresh Singaratnam post: Zohran Mamdani is going to implement IKEA law in NYC as law because as mayor, he needs to assemble a new cabinet.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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My girlfriend dressed up as Wednesday Addams and wanted me to go as Pugsley but then someone gave me a Prince costume so...
Old guy in a fight with and a purple prince costume with a name tag that says "the artist formerly known as pugsley" next to the Prince glyph with blood on the arrow tip
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Really wish they'd described it as the "Republican federal shutdown," but it seems we're sticking to the non-political messaging the Republicans eschew.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Imagine what Republicans would have said if Obama had: Bulldozed the White House Sent Federal troops into Republican-led cities Wrote a suggestive birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein Arrested his political enemies on trumped-up charges Sunk random fishing boats Talked about running for a third term Gave 20 billion dollars to a strategically unimportant country to help his billionaire friends (assume list goes on and on and on)
October 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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To the reporter who wrote this paragraph, I would like to say, don't do this again. Just, don't.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
In a gilded room adorned with portraits of presidents past, under gleaming chandeliers and flanked by golden crown moulding, the silver-tongued president didn’t seem too fussed about controversial comments from the snowy-haired Australian ambassador.
October 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Mamdani goes for an old-school gut check over polling. We need more of that from Dems

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
cherold.bsky.social
Is this a pigeon meme, with Trump saying "is this what's really happening" while looking at a butterfly call AI videos.
September 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
cherold.bsky.social
What movie do you consider perfect?
Fingers reaching through a sewer grate (The Third Man)
September 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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The best way to honor Charlie Kirk is by not caring that Charlie Kirk has been murdered.
September 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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"America is not sending us their best. They're sending us their con men. They're sending us their dishonest politicians. And that's just their ambassador!" - Saudi Arabia
September 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Love how Mamdani ties corruption to the affordability issues in NYC. Guy's always on message. Dems could learn a lot from him if they just stopped running away from him.
In a statement, Mamdani, who’s notably avoided the chip jokes so far, focused on the indictment as a way to highlight contrasts between himself and the sitting mayor. “Corruption isn’t just about what a politician gains, it’s about what the public loses,” he said. “Right now, New Yorkers are paying the price as another flurry of indictments continue to erode their trust in our democracy and distract from the affordability crisis that demands action and urgency.”
August 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The Republican machine right now:
August 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Abbott: Thanks for taking care of my dog. How is he?
Costello: Your dog died.
Abbott: "OMG, don't blurt it out like that! Work up to it. Say, your dog got on the roof, he fell, he was injured, and I'm sorry, but he died.
Costello: Okay, got it.
Abbott:"By the way, how's Trump?"
Trump on the roof of a building, because WTF why not, right?
August 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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One of the frustrations of #TheGuardians lack of a comment section is I have no way to tell this guy to fuck himself in the ass with a red hot poker. Not because he says Trump is not always wrong, but because he thinks the guy who has coated the White House in gaudy gold plate has an eye for beauty.
Opinion He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air Simon Jenkins
August 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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That's bad, but have you seen WaPo's headline?
July 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Got this used Barry White album, and the first song begins with this *endless* spoken part. So I drop the needle about an inch in. And I noticed it was extra scratchy right there, which means whoever had this album before me *also* always skipped the monologue!

@vinylrecords #NowPlaying
Cover of Barry White's Stone Goin' album with record on turntable behind it.
July 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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TheGuardian can fuck all the way off for its headline of Connie Francis' obit centering a non-hit that went viral in 2025, prioritizing young people who didn't know who she was a year ago over those who remember her from the old days. TheGuardian's terrible entertainment coverage even runs to obits!
July 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Laughed when I saw this note taped to the back of a shrink wrapped Decemberists CD I found amongst some discarded CDs.
The back of a Decemberists CD with a note attached to it that says MUMMY - GIVE 'EM A CHANCE! XO, I
July 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Amazing opening paragraph by Moira Donegan.

The US supreme court just undermined gender equality | Moira Donegan | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/us-supreme-court-gender-equality
By now, it is a ritual: every June, Americans endure several weeks of agonizing suspense, as we wait to hear how the supreme court will erode our freedoms, attack our dignity, undermine self-government and empower those who enrich themselves at our expense. The court, controlled by career politicians in robes who were hand-selected for their loyalty to the rightwing and their willingness to be wildly intellectually dishonest in pursuit of Republican policy objectives, has ended the right to abortion, desiccated the Voting Rights Act, made state gun regulations nearly impossible and declared the president functionally immune to criminal law. Many of us waited, with a mixture and terror and disgust, to see what cruelties the court would deliver for us in 2025.
June 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Loved this Trumpty Dumpty at #nyc #NoKingsMarch
Trump as Humpty Dumpty
June 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Here's the difference between the Times and the Guardian. In the Guardian, Padilla tried to ask a question. But in the Times he "disrupted." #FuckTheTimes
June 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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This is evil. Our government is evil. The question is not why people in Los Angeles are protesting but why there is anyone in Los Angeles who isn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/la-ice-raids-immigration-conditions
The children, the youngest of whom is three years old, were provided a bag of chips, a box of animal crackers and a mini carton of milk as their sole rations for a day. Agents told the family they did not have any water to provide during the family’s first day in detention; on the second day, all five were given a single bottle to share. The one fan in the room was pointed directly towards a guard, rather than towards the families in confinement, they told lawyers.
June 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM