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The greyrat

@jonherrin.bsky.social
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Some Hessians know me as the greyrat. Lumbar spine full of arthritis and stenosis but currently mostly asymptomatic. Less than 90 days to retirement from a job I despise, but I'll never make it. Afraid for my non-conforming friends and acquaintances

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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It shows the level of pathetic in the modern republican party that a senator can't see that a witness is *not* perjuring themselves. Eric, and I presume many other republicans, have such low intellects that they can't even read a room. They expect others to be just as stupid. What a bunch of slugs.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MISSOURI HAS ALL THE STUPID SENATORS!!! Fight me. www.facebook.com/share/p/1JxQ...
facebook.com
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That's what I'm talking about! Of course, The mile and a half trip from the gas station to home is generally an all-electric drive, but it's still nice to see.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I *NEVER* want to be on the wrong side or Katie Phang. *NEVER*
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Think everything will be OK when sane people take over again? Think again: "Scientists don’t need a flag. They need a lab, a budget, students who won’t be deported, and a government that doesn’t fire them for publishing the wrong result."
deanblundell.substack.com
Canada Just Robbed Harvard, MIT and the NIH in Broad Daylight and Nobody in Washington Noticed
While Trump is shit posting anti Canada memes, 48 of America’s best scientists packed up and moved north this week. They’re not sad about it. They’re relieved.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"AIs use what they can find to generate output. Any AI theory is thus basically identical to the inane ramblings of the average internet moron." -- Nele Abels (a person on the Internet)
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Around 10:30 PM on August 23rd, the FAA issued a Notice to Airmen stating that Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF), the third largest airport in New York state, had no fuel." deanblundell.substack.com/p/an-america... This is not normal.
deanblundell.substack.com
An American International Airport Just Ran Out Of Jet Fuel. The Oil Crisis Isn't Coming. It’s Here And Landed In Buffalo Last Night.
One war of choice, one drained reserve, one torched alliance with Canada. Trump built the perfect shitstorm and Americans are about to freeze inside it.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I love it when I ask the company LLM to describe or define or clarify a term or item, and it returns THE EXACT WORDS I WROTE a few minutes ago. Nice job! Thanks for the answer! 😐
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlc3...
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Donald Trump, the Money Launderer + Max Miller, Jeanine Pirro and the Endless MAGA Grift
YouTube video by MSW Media
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ya' know, the fraud and anti money laundering organizations in all financial institutions are nothing to sneeze at. Capital One was EXTREMELY GRACIOUS - perhaps even treading the edge of the ethics line - in handling the Trump Orgs accounts. And this fucking sack of shit is running the country?
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
With the US debt surpassing GDP, why aren't all the "fiscally responsible" Republicans all up in arms? Are they just waiting until they are no longer the majority party so they can campaign on it like they've done every other time?
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
open.substack.com
Things are going to get better
At 11:15 this morning, the sitting President of the United States published a post on his own social media platform, Truth Social. Exactly one hour and 25 minutes later, he published another. Taken in...
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Has anyone figured it out yet? We're in World War III now. This is what a modern world war looks like.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What an embarrassment. This administration only knows how to shoot itself in the foot. But we'll all pay the price: open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
open.substack.com
BREAKING HIS OWN CASE: Trump's "Election Fraud" Documents Show Russia Worked to Ensure HIS Victory In Most Humiliating Night In America's 250 Year History. My God.
Trump promised a bombshell about a stolen election. He delivered a live-action self-own so complete that historians will study it. Gavin Newsom is calling it a 25th Amendment moment. No S&!#.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
For the Superb Owl today, I present the Puerto Rican screech owl.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
November 2025 - Budpest: The image quality makes this a B side. Szabadság híd (Liberty bridge).
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Hey Pam. I know you got the girlfriend, but here's the one of the actual founders of antifa.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Forgotten photos - B sides: Not technically a B side. January 2004. Ponte Sospiri, Venice, with yours truly in the foreground. You can tell what's most important to the registered architect spouse.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Suggestion: Disney+ should rebrand as Toady+. Truth in advertising. Just sayin'.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Forgotten photos - B sides: October 2009. Gravois Road bridge over the Meremac river. Fun to dive at 45 MPH. Jerk the steering wheel hard left when entering and hard right when leaving to not go into the river or into the weeds. And pretend that the thing was structurally sound the whole time.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Remember when "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" was canceled? Even though that was politically motivated, this is not the same.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Forgotten photos - B sides: USGS marker on the disintegrating rocks at Laupahoehoe Beach on the big island. The additional photos are for context.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Forgotten photos - B sides: The Pyramids, Indianapolis 2023.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Remember: If you're an asshole nicknamed Big Balls, and you get beat up by a couple random teenagers, you are more worthy of federal protection than the entire legislative branch of the government. This is how low the United States has sunk.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
So, the US is in line to be as much of a theocracy as Afghanistan, but as a bonus, we'll have the economy of Venezuela. Nice.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This. Get the fuck over yourself.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Forgotten photos - B Sides: Details around London. May 2012.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
O'Ka Lua recommend the film "Flow." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2...
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is why the US can't have nice things.
azcentral.com
Anti-government group with Arizona ties takes credit for weather radar sabotage
Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, who leads the anti-government group Veterans On Patrol, believes the military and media use radar to control the weather.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Forgotten photos - B sides: Our rule is if there's an up, always go to the top. Views from the top of the tower at the de Young Fine Arts Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. April 2023.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Forgotten photos - B sides: Bermuda, January 2019. This is part of one of the Tribe Roads, which used to define parishes. I'm pretty sure this is Tribal Road No. 6 looking from Railway Trail towards Middle Road. It's located about a mile east of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
When you get me to agree with the Catholic Church, you know you've fucked up bad.
independent.co.uk
Major Catholic diocese says parishioners can skip mass over fears of ICE raids
A rare decree from San Bernadino Bishop Alberto Rojas says ICE raids pose a ‘grave inconvenience’
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
open.substack.com
Real Men Burn Stuff
The manosphere and the war on renewable energy
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
See, the thing the Nazis didn't concentrate on was ECONOMICALLY DESTROYING THEIR BASE.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
OK, OK. Stay with me here. The face of actress Gwyneth Keyworth: From about the middle of the nose up - Audrey Hepburn. From the middle of the nose down - Katharine Hepburn. Prove me wrong.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
cidrap.umn.edu
Cambodia announces 7th H5N1 avian flu case of the year
Listed in critical condition, the woman had recently handled and cooked sick poultry.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I'm sure RFK Jrs HHS is planning ahead for this.
independent.co.uk
Scientists raise ‘urgent concerns’ over new bat viruses found in China
Viruses are similar to deadly Nipah and Hendra pathogens
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
How are these guys not the criminals? This is insane.
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
He’s so cool
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
As an old white man, I have to say: We gotta get all the old white men out of politics. What a shitshow.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
As a US citizen: Thank you to the members of the G6 for keeping you elbows up, supporting Ukraine, and pissing on Putin. Sorry that you had put up with the smell and incontinence -- er -- incompetence.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/06/2025
Shameful. Unlawfully deployed troops detaining a veteran on his way to the VA.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Forgotten photos - B sides: The first house I lived in. And the first school I attended.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This. Is. Important. Which is why the bosses will never read it.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Out of spoons today. So here's the cardinal who tried building a nest in the hibiscus outside our kitchen during the lockdown at the end of the before times.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.
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The greyrat @jonherrin.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Forgotten photos - B sides: Bermuda, January 2019 (the very last of the before times). Gibb's Hill Lighthouse. The old machinery underneath, the lens...
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