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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Tip jar contest at Greensboro NC's indie bookshop, Scuppernong Books. (Source: Their Facebook page.)

Screen capture from Scuppernong Books on Facebook with their comment "Current tip jar contest at Scoup" with a photograph of two tip jars, with one a sign reading "Abolish ICE" and the other with a tip jar labeled "Abolish ICE".

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Another economical $3 meal suggested by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins. #letthemeatporkandbeans

Vintage color magazine advertisement from A&P grocery stores picturing a Yankee Doodle Pizza Pie made with a can of pork and beans, cheese, and a few slices of green peppers.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This sign just popped up in Mebane in very red Alamance County in central NC. I’ve never seen a sign like this around here before.

Sigh in parking lot reading “TRUMP WE ARE NOT STUPID-FOOLISH. YOU AND EPSTEIN WERE GOOD FRIENDS. TRUMP LIES” in hand made lettering.

Sigh in parking lot reading “TRUMP LIES. I WANT MY VOTE BACK!” In hand made lettering.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I can’t make up my mind on a caption: “Vegas bookies are taking bets on which GOP donor slips on all this marble and wakes up thinking they’re in a Dubai Marriott.” or “Tomb of the Unknown Pedophile Serial Killer” #epstein #whitehouse

Image from Trump Truth Social account showing remodeled Lincoln Bedrrom bathroom covered in marble and gold

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Remember that time in 2018 when The NY Times reported on the undocumented immigrants working at Trump properties? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Where are the #ICE raids?

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

NC Senator Thom Tillis again demonstrating his affliction with Massive Tax Cuts for the Rich Obsession Syndrome.

Image of Facebook post by Senator Thom Tills that reads "If Congress doesn't extend the Trump tax cuts, it will be a massive tax hike for American families."

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is just like that time that Carter brokered an Egypt-Israeli peace through song dedications on Casey Kasem's "American Top Forty".

Image of Truth Social post from Donald Trump from Apr 24, 2025, 7:24 am reading "I am not happy wih the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Let's get the Peace Deal DONE!"

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The Greed/Fear index from this morning at CNN, sitting on "Extreme Fear" - on a scale from 0 (Extreme Fear) to 100 (Extreme Greed), the markets are at 4.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The seldom seen season 6 episode of “The Flintstones” where Betty and Wilma get into Fred and Barney’s stash of crystal meth.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Can anyone confirm if that last item in the TOS at My Social Security is new? I thought that personal data held by the government and the SSA in particular was very specific. Is this Elon trying to do a CYA if his interns leak data or have a data breach on the private systems they're copying to?

Screen of Terms of Service from sea.gov; the last item reads "I agree that the Social Security Administration is not responsible for the improper disclosure of any information that the Social Security Administration has provided to me or any information that is on or from my computer or other device, whether due to my negligence or the wrongful acts of others."

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Well, this nomination of RFK, Jr. makes my financial planning difficult. Should I invest in companies selling butt paste, bleach, crystals and woo? In foreign pharmaceutical companies located in countries that Trump will invade next week? Iron lung futures? Plague doctor masks?

Historical engraving of a doctor dressed in a "bird beak" plague doctor mask and robes.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's a weird feeling to run a Google search on your name, as I periodically do, and discover that your website was cited last year in an amicus brief in a Fifth Circuit case against the Texas anti-drag queen law.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Today’s appropriate vintage image.

1950s vintage ad headlined “Now it’s ICE for us!” with large color photo of smiling woman and text and illustrations touting advantages of home ice delivery.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Trump's approach to deportations is eerily reminiscent of McNamara's propaganda-focused dehumanizing daily body counts and quotas during the Vietnam War.

Screen capture of Washington Post article, "Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests" and subheading, "The administration wants to increase the arrests from a few hundred per day to to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained."

Screen shot of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement "Enforcement Update - January 23, 2025 - 538 Arrests - 373 Detainers Lodged".

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So, are we in a trade war with the Columbia Graphophone Company, the Columbia Phonograph Company, the Columbia Broadcasting System, or the USS Columbia?

Image of press release on White House leader head reading "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 01/26/25, ICYMI: President Donald J. Trump's TRUTH on Columbia Sanctions", misspelling the name of the country of Colombia.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Today's appropriate vintage photo.

Vintage black and white photo of three smiling men, one in work clothes on the left and two on the right in ties with hats, standing next to a sign next to a road. The sign reads "End of Improvement. Thank you for your patience. Quinn Construction Co."

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I wouldn't advocate printing out this sign and posting it on random public male restrooms in red counties. No, not at all.

Sign reading "PUBLIC NOTICE - PRESIDENTIAL ORDER - MALE RESTROOM CLOSED - EFFECTIVE JANUARY 20, 2025" with text explaining that the executive order defines gender "at conception", which is female for all humans, with male organs developing later in pregnancy.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you think about the symbolism of a Nazi salute, it's basically a simulated erect penis for displaying performative hyper masculinity by those who view dominance and rape as the only way to interact with other human beings.

Screenshot of German newspaper Zeit Online showing Elon Musk giving Hitler salute (with salute obscured) and the headline "A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute"

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Jack Fritscher is reporting on social media that David Kloss, the first holder of the International Mister Leather title in 1979, has passed away.

Image of David Kloss in leather for on unknown event.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Menu for the inaugural luncheon.

Image from vintage cookbook of casserole containing ham and lima beans that looks like vomit.

Image of vintage recipe card for Sausage and Spanish rice, consisting of sausages, looking like turds, on a bed of rice and vegetables.

Vintage ad of Libby's cream style corn showing dish of frankfurters covered in cheese on top of a bed of creamed corn.

Vintage off-color ad for a chocolate chiffon cake with a glob of greenish-brown frosting on top that looks like snot.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

More 45 rpm records that arrived this week for playing on my restored 1949 RCA Victor record changer and the jukebox I hope to own one day.

Photo of 45 rpm record label, Electra records, "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution" by Tracy Chapman.

Photograph of front 45 rpm record in transparent sleeve, "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" by the Dead Kennedys.

Reverse of 45 rpm record in transparent plastic sleeve for "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" by the Dead Kennedys, with lyrics to song shown on sleeve.

Photo of 45 rpm record label, Elektra records, "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Some 45 rpm records that arrived this week for playing on my restored 1949 RCA Victor record changer and the jukebox I hope to own one day.

Photo of 45 rpm record label, Motown, "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy.

Photo of 45 rpm record label, BGP Records, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron.

Photo of 45 rpm record label, BGP Records, "Home Is Where the Hatred Is" by Gil Scott-Heron

Photo of 45 rpm record label, RCA Victor records, "Revolution (Part 1)" by Nina Simone.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The Scottish Sunday Herald’s television guide listing for the 2017 Trump inauguration, which they can just reprint this year.

Television listing that describes inauguration of Trump as an episode of the Twilight Zone that explores an alternative history where Nazis won WWII.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

New blu-ray in the mail from the UK yesterday. One of my favorite Bogart pictures.

Cover of blu-ray for Humphrey Bogart in "Sahara", showing Bogart with a machine gun standing in a desert scene.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

That first ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke given to Trump by the Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Company should have been a Fanta. ( Coca-Cola Deutschland developed Fanta during WWII because of a US trade embargo against the Third Reich.) #coca-cola #fantathirdreich #cokenazis

Image of Instagram social media post with images showing Trump receiving "first ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke from the Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Company".

Image of enamel advertising sign for Fanta from WWII showing illustration Nazi soldier and bottle of Fanta with advertising copy in German.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The crisis-factory right wing thinks the Santa Ana winds are made by drag queens doing jazz hands.

Illustration of Judy Garland doing jazz hands in "A Star is Born".

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The right-wing outrage factory is upset about ASL at LA fire press conferences. When will they rid us of the DEI oppression of on-screen sign language at football games?

Grid of illustrations showing Official Football Signals used by referees at football games.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The Heritage Foundation just started running this ad in North Carolina, apparently to gin up support for Trump implementing Project 2025 with the supposed one hundred Executive Orders on day one of his Reich. #resist #fascists

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"What if ...?", Google, 12.20.2024.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Wall Street versus my current thoughts about Wall Street.

Screen capture showing headline from news story, "Trump rings bell at NYSE to cheers of USA as Wall Street CEOs, business leaders look on"

Vintage still of pilot in bi-plane, smiling and giving middle finger to camera.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Latest arrival for the 45 rpm box set collection. This one must be kinda rare; I've never seen it pop up for sale before.

Record box set with image of Queen Elizabeth II with the title "Through Childhood to the Throne, a Record of the Eventful Years Preceding the Coronation"

45 rpm record label from RCA Victor showing side 8 of "Through Childhood to the Throne"

Opened 45 rpm record set showing a flyer of liner notes, a record, and advertising sheets included with the set.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Have you considered that "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" is ultimately just a subtle way to sell Christmas lights?

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I've reached obsessive-compulsive movie collector phase, as I find myself ordering a limited edition out-of-print blu-ray set from a movie collector's shop in Paris. After an extensive Google search, it was the only retailer left with it in stock. Wish I could visit them in person.

Photograph of front of shop in Paris called Le Macguffin.

Photograph of contents of Ruben Ostlund blu ray box set.

Photograph of Ruben Ostlund blu ray box set.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Maybe I'll watch the Merle Oberon movie on Sunday and "Jane Eyre" on Wednesday. Not really interested in wrestling from the Ridgewood Grove Athletic Club. I'll just go out to a show that night.

Program schedule from NBC television showing schedule for week starting December 3, 1939 for New York City station WNBT.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Plans underway for the Inauguration.

Color photograph of Peter Ustinov, in toga and purple robe, as Nero in the film "Quo Vadis", reclining on ornate chair, flanked by servants and a Roman soldier.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Trump voters having buyer's remorse out there being like ...

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked footage shows JD Vance preparing for the Inauguration.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

On this date in 1952, Eisenhower announced his cabinet picks, including Pinky Lee for Secretary of Defense.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Me too, RedBox, me too ... (Taken yesterday behind CVS Pharmacy, Mebane, NC)

Photograph of crushed and disassembled RedBox movie rental kiosk sitting in front of a brick wall.

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

If there's anything that says something about the oligarchic post-apocalyptic capitalistic hellscape we live in, it's this thing that popped up as an ad on my Facebook feed. Twenty-four karat gold coated butt wipes are not far behind.

Image of a dark colored toothbrush with gold colored toothpaste on the bristles, with text "24K Gold Toothpaste - Anti-Inflammatory - Anti-Bacterial - Aurezzi".

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Randy Riddle @coolcatdaddy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

It's what all the cool kids are eating nowadays.

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