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Video wrangler, journo, cocktailian, flâneur, shutterbug, quizzer, semi-pro New Yorker, fitful writer, cognitive diffident.

"Tired and emotional." (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/likes ≠ endorsements, sillypants.) He/him.

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I always have to consult the chart:
Chart describing what Black(rock/water/stone) and Bridge(rock/water/stone) are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Just as You Feared—Life in Zohran Mamdani’s New York
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
On the street, young people spit on me for being in the 35-45 demographic, which is now old. I have done nothing to them—they do it out of pure Socialist cruelty.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Petrified ham!
Ham-shaped stone with label reading: Petrified Ham, Found in the Cellar of Ruins of the Old Harman Blennerhassett Home From the June 22, 1889 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Found a Stone Ham. By Telegraph to the POST-DISPATCH PARKERSBURG, W. Va., June 22 — Amos Gordon, one of the owners of the historical Blennerhassett Island, made a discovery a day or two since. While excavating along the edge of the Ohio River, one of his workmen unearthed a solid stone-like object in the shape of a ham of solid meat. The ham was perfect in every detail, showing plainly the layers of fat and meat, skin and bone, and every indication of a well-appointed, select quarter of a thoroughbred hog, but when found was a solid piece of stone. What caused the transformation is mere conjecture, of course, but the circumstances and condition of things showed that it had lain where found for many years. Gordon has been offered an exorbitant price for his stone ham, but he refuses to part with it under any consideration. The ham with a small sign reading: This leg-of-ham-shaped natural rock formation, part of the Stahl Collection, still has Professor Stahl's original label on it that states it was found in the Blennerhassett mansion's cellar. An 1889 St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper article (posted above) clearly gives a different story stating that it was found along the island's riverbank. Despite its origin it remains an interesting curiosity.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Late stage capitalism? Boy, I don't know...
Christmas-themed bobbleheads of Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg. Christmas-themed mugs and tumblers featuring Snoop Dogg. The travel mug has a figurine of Snoop's head wearing a green Santa hat covering the end of the straw and has a logo reading "Hangin' with My Gnomies." A display of Christmas fireworks (yah, I dunno either) with the headline "THE PERFECT STOCKING STUFFERS / TNT"
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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(if it's any consolation, my 7:30a flight from LaGuardia took off, I got a surprise upgrade to F on the way to the gate, and I'm in the air now. My fourth attempt to get to Ohio was the charm!)
A ceramic cup full of coffee on a Delta first-class tray.
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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So far so good!
Ceramic coffee cup on a first-class tray.
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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I don't know which is less welcome on the airport TVs before 7am: Kristi Noem lambasting people to get a REAL ID by five months ago, or hearing Charlie Sheen talk about "butt-sex."

Thanks, Port Authority!
Charlie Sheen on a TV at the airport.
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Hoping the fourth attempt to get to Ohio is the charm. (But unexpected upgrade to F! Hope we fly!)
Long view down an airport corridor, with moving sidewalks to left and right and the Delta logo at the end. Sunrise view from LGA Terminal C, with Citi Field at right. Display of I❤️NY merch for sale.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Zohran style sign reading 25 OR 6 TO for
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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What's worse is that not only are they gold-framed portraits of each President (w/gold accents above) but he has dickishly replaced Biden's with an autopen.
President Trump Creates "Walk Of Fame" Of Former Presidents At The White House TOPSHOT - Framed photos of US President Donald Trump hang next to a picture of an "autopen" to represent former President Joe Biden on the wall of the colonnade near the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on September 25, 2025. Trump has alleged, without evidence, that Biden's use of "autopen," the automated technology to sign pardons and other documents, was part of a cover-up of the Democrat's cognitive decline. Now he has doubled down on the allegation by putting a picture of Biden's signature and the device, in place of his portrait, in a new "Walk of Fame" located in the colonnade that runs along the White House Rose Garden. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump with a trophy shaped like a large gold hand. Trump has a "not-bad" from as he appraises the size of the hand.
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Nah, it's Johnny Baby creating another award for his buddy Trump.
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
vidiot.bsky.social
why fly to work when you can take the train?
A view of a subway platform with a woman's legs in the background and a pigeon in the foreground. Both are facing the track.
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I'm having some very nice Christian Drouin Domfrontais Calvados.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Two charged by Feds in Harvard explosion....but is the charge correct? Didn't Trump already cut off all funding to Harvard? Trying to have it both ways?

www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/u...
charged with conspiracy to damage by means of fire or an explosive a building belonging to an institution that receives federal financial assistance
November 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
vidiot.bsky.social
here's the view without zooming in:
Wide view of the West Front of the Capitol on Inauguration Day 2009.
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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yes!
John Roberts administering the oath to Barack Obama during his first inauguration in 2009. Michelle and Malia Obama are visible, as are several Supreme Court justices looking on.
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This photo feels SO long ago now.
Barack Obama greets Dick Cheney, who is staring at him, at Obama's first inauguration in 2009. George W. Bush and John Roberts look on.
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Well, at least my trivia team won tonight.
Four people sitting around a bar table, making the "we're #1" gesture
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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A bottle of whiskey, a jar of Luxardo cherries, a bottle of sweet vermouth, and a bottle of Angostura bitters on a stoop, with a sign reading "1 Manhattan per child."
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Civic duty done! (Stickers acquired!)
A man and a woman taking a selfie after voting. They are holding up the Halloween Voter stickers (with a pigeon holding a jack-o'-lantern) and the Queens Early Voter stickers (with the Unisphere.) The man is wearing a "All You Fascists Bound To Lose" baseball cap.
October 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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You know who ELSE fired up a crowd?
Screenshot of a skeet by "Liberal Atheist in Maine" (@cal-in-maine.bsky.social) reading: If you think that's the sum total of his content, then you're missing a few things. Join me at his next town hall and see why thousands of Mainers are fired up about our next Senator.
October 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Meme showing Cher, with the text: TURN BACK TIME ONE HOUR ON SUNDAY DON'T FORGET TO CHER WITH YOUR FRIENDS
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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HE EVEN ADDRESSED HIS OPPONENT THAT WAY! IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!

WHAT IS HE HIDING?!?!!?
Screenshot of Mamdani's video titled "Release Your Client List, Cuomo", with a closed caption showing that he is addressing Cuomo as "Habibi..."
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM