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The greyrat

@jonherrin.bsky.social

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

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't "consider," DO. And don't do any "tit for tat" bullshit. Crush the Republican vote. Make sure they never recover. Because it's what they will do if you don't. No high road, no mercy.

2/9/2025, 12:45:21 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Vote accordingly. And DON'T FORGET.

1/9/2025, 11:10:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

We flew Frontier to and from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for a vacation. It was OK, rather like a charter flight -- for cattle. We didn't expect much, and we got what we expected.

1/9/2025, 11:09:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

The short answer is "no." The long answer is "noooooooooo."

1/9/2025, 11:02:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Not the defenestration that we were expecting.

1/9/2025, 10:25:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't sully the death of a monstous global despot by comparing it to a sniveling, cheap, grifter.

1/9/2025, 10:18:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Did people not see what Stalin was doing? What Berlusconi was doing? What Orbán was doing? Of course they did. And what were they supposed to do about it? Go to a concentration camp to die?

1/9/2025, 1:10:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't get a fucking Samsung.

31/8/2025, 11:23:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Murder the natives. Take over the land. Build what you believe to be a paradise. The literal American dream.

31/8/2025, 11:22:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

I've always wanted to call and ask when you're hosting on The Line: You are quiet tall, aren't you? Like, over six feet? You, like Jimmy, appear shorter to me on the shows...

31/8/2025, 11:20:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Tick tock tick tock...

31/8/2025, 11:16:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

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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30/8/2025, 10:53:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

H5N1 is here, just not being reported, because, you know...

28/8/2025, 1:06:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice knowing y'all.

28/8/2025, 12:59:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

...especially for work.

26/8/2025, 2:10:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Only painted our side. That faces mostly north. That doesn't get much direct sun. Genius.

26/8/2025, 1:10:40 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Why have they abandoned basic decency? Oh, wait. They did that a long time ago.

26/8/2025, 1:07:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

You're welcome.

22/8/2025, 7:02:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't wait for the English language Qurans. One for every classroom...

21/8/2025, 12:43:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

"Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!" Too bad he was such a racist and xenophobe.

20/8/2025, 12:56:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

The current Congress couldn't give a fuck what you think. Remember that next election.

17/8/2025, 9:37:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

I found it hilariously unrealistic but very entertaining. Just like "House."

14/8/2025, 11:49:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. They'll just shrug with their flaccid, overpaid, underdeveloped, barely useful shoulders.

13/8/2025, 4:56:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

Forgotten photos - B sides: The Pyramids, Indianapolis 2023.

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13/8/2025, 1:30:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

I remember!

13/8/2025, 1:11:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

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.

13/8/2025, 1:10:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

This right here is what I fear most. And if it happens, we will have truly lived through the end of democracy.

12/8/2025, 11:17:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure this is satire. Welcome to the US.

12/8/2025, 11:08:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Brownies are arguably my favorite bird.

12/8/2025, 1:41:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

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.

11/8/2025, 1:27:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

...and there's a dead body on the other side of me with my talons buried deep inside.

11/8/2025, 12:54:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm 65 in a month and a half. I wonder what my severance package will look like?

10/8/2025, 12:16:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

An overcooked string of angel hair pasta.

7/8/2025, 12:09:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

This. Get the fuck over yourself.

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7/8/2025, 12:06:11 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Forgotten photos - B Sides: Details around London. May 2012.

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31/7/2025, 10:28:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Tell me you don't remember your monologues without telling me you don't remember your monologues.

30/7/2025, 5:47:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck you, CBS. Fuck you in the ass. With a red hot poker. God damned craven fucks...

18/7/2025, 1:24:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

O'Ka Lua recommend the film "Flow." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2...

18/7/2025, 1:08:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

This is why the US can't have nice things.

17/7/2025, 11:12:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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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16/7/2025, 1:13:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

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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13/7/2025, 11:36:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

When you get me to agree with the Catholic Church, you know you've fucked up bad.

11/7/2025, 11:23:16 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Just wow. Go back to where you came from, you whiny bitch.

7/7/2025, 11:22:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/7/2025, 11:20:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

This is how Jill Stein operates and why people who support her are morons. She just collects a pile of free money every four years.

7/7/2025, 12:53:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Tots and pears. That's all you've got? You've worthless.

5/7/2025, 5:52:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably true. And the quality of services will reflect that. Then, the insurance companies will take all their years of premiums and say "fuck off!"

5/7/2025, 5:49:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't worry. FEMA will swoop in with a massive search and rescue effort, and lots of funding and support for the eventual clean up. Oops...

5/7/2025, 4:42:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

"First they came for..."

3/7/2025, 12:45:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

The first time I've regretted having an Android phone.

2/7/2025, 11:04:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, and the lowest worm of all, Roberts. History will remember them forever as the vile, craven, toadys they are right now.

2/7/2025, 1:31:38 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

See, the thing the Nazis didn't concentrate on was ECONOMICALLY DESTROYING THEIR BASE.

1/7/2025, 7:17:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

A lot of us have been warning of this since at least 2023.

30/6/2025, 12:54:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

If we lived in a civilized, non-shithole country, that'd all be free, subsidized by everyone to help everyone.

29/6/2025, 8:54:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

"You will die. Of an easily preventable condition. Early, broke, and hungry. And you will like it." -- The Republican agenda

29/6/2025, 8:44:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Need to buy this for my spouse to try to address her long enduring Catholic trauma.

29/6/2025, 8:41:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

...and the faithful don't even realize it.

27/6/2025, 8:05:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maia (@maiamindel.bsky.social) reposted

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

27/6/2025, 2:58:00 PM | 4674 1368 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

But we're all going to die. And, well, we'll get over it.

27/6/2025, 7:59:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

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.

27/6/2025, 1:02:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/6/2025, 4:57:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

I'm sure RFK Jrs HHS is planning ahead for this.

25/6/2025, 3:03:49 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

MSM is making themselves as irrelevant as possible as quickly as possible. "Why is or ad revenue drying up? People just don't want to watch nesw anymore..."

23/6/2025, 1:02:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture PoliticsGirl (@politicsgirl.bsky.social) reposted

How are these guys not the criminals? This is insane.

21/6/2025, 11:37:43 PM | 870 328 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Sadly, this is true.

21/6/2025, 11:33:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the best.

21/6/2025, 11:30:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

This is truth.

21/6/2025, 11:28:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

The most galling part of this is that if the wealthy paid their fair share, they wouldn't even notice. And their lives as well as everyone else's would be demonstrably better off.

21/6/2025, 6:58:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

The irony. It burns.

20/6/2025, 10:12:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Yakov Feygin (@buddyyakov.bsky.social) reposted

He’s so cool

20/6/2025, 9:55:44 PM | 48 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Yup. We'll definitely be landing on Mars next year.

19/6/2025, 8:19:35 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

As an old white man, I have to say: We gotta get all the old white men out of politics. What a shitshow.

18/6/2025, 10:42:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Did she pay for that ride? Should have cost around $5000 out of pocket. Even if it was approved by insurance.

17/6/2025, 10:57:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

And they are a significant portion of our tax base despite not being able to use the resources those taxes pay for. Unlike rich people...

17/6/2025, 10:54:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure Elon. Suuuuuuure... Dark sunglasses inside are just a fashion choice. And you neck is just so weak that your head helplessly rolls around.

17/6/2025, 10:52:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

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.

17/6/2025, 10:50:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

CLAP CLAP CLAP-CLAP-CLAP

17/6/2025, 2:17:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. Next, we'll be using nukes against Iran. No. No, we won't. Oops. Yes, yes, we are. Oh, and we'll drop a few on Ukraine, too. Or not. Maybe.

17/6/2025, 2:16:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn it. I already used W. T. A. F...

16/6/2025, 1:01:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

W. T. A. F?!?!?!

16/6/2025, 12:51:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our No Kings weekend will be the first non-downpour protest. Yay.

14/6/2025, 1:19:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Shameful. Unlawfully deployed troops detaining a veteran on his way to the VA.

13/6/2025, 11:45:50 PM | 3517 1339 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Laws. How quaint. I think we need to ask Germany for some guidance on how to handle all of this.

13/6/2025, 11:56:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

The house is the only wood frame house in the area. Presumably the original farmhouse before the city got there.

13/6/2025, 1:20:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

Forgotten photos - B sides: The first house I lived in. And the first school I attended.

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13/6/2025, 1:19:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

I literally had to mute myself in a work meeting because I was laughing so hard. You were in fine form Seth.

10/6/2025, 11:30:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

This. Is. Important. Which is why the bosses will never read it.

10/6/2025, 12:04:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Props with guns. See specifically, Checkov's Gun.

10/6/2025, 11:31:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

"...federal personnel and federal property." So we won't see any Kent State style images. Right? Right?

10/6/2025, 9:34:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

::SIGH:: They thought leopards understood what "bad" people are. The only problem is that leopards will eat anything.

10/6/2025, 9:30:34 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) reposted

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

9/6/2025, 8:31:47 PM | 23329 5429 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social)

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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8/6/2025, 1:27:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Here we go. Martial, or not, will depend on the clear heads of the military leaders and, more importantly, the front line soldiers.

8/6/2025, 1:22:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

In the US, they'll just run over the kid without a second thought. Unless the military understands reason, knows ICE and their contractors are hacks, and the president is not giving legal orders.

8/6/2025, 1:18:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. This is pretty scary. Not the first time this country has seen this, but the first time we've seen this with a sociopath as president.

8/6/2025, 1:15:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

Because that'll make it go away.

7/6/2025, 6:42:58 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

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.

7/6/2025, 5:55:16 PM | 15120 4687 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

I know a company that is working towards complete AI integration *and* moving the majority of development staff offshore. 3 observations: Management is dumb and/or in a death spiral trying to appease shareholders. Customer service is dead. Nobody cares about the world left to their grandkids.

7/6/2025, 1:23:32 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

They go to Walmart, dumbass.

7/6/2025, 2:32:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The greyrat (@jonherrin.bsky.social) reply parent

And the stairs.

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