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TommyBen
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Nihilist in the kitchen, humanist in the bedroom and an actor at work, in the role of civil servant.
Live long and prosper.
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Trump was flying like George Clooney in Up In The Air.
“Congratulations, this is your 100th Trip to Epstein Island”
Mustachioed pilot congratulating a passenger for excessive flying
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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So I guess Maduro’s only options are to go into exile, hold elections quick or start digging a hole. #Venezuala
Drawing of Saddam Hussein’s hiding place that resembles a ground hog’s den; Entrance hidden by rubble, descending down six feet to an alcove shaped like an oversized coffin, equipped with fan and Air Vent to surface
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Some farmers be watching Goodfellas.
Scene from Goodfellas where young Henry Hill is running from a large conflagration of his own making as part of an insurance scam.
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Joined my Nassau County CSEA Union Local 830 for an Anti-AI bot protest. Our local DA is trying to replace human Union employees with AI.
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Everyone of those little dots is a commercial break on the Ryder Cup coverage.
Lol, 😂
Picture of Ryder Cup TV coverage showing the progress bar of the telecast with shaded dots for every commercial break. The dots number in the dozens and almost take up as much space as non commercial TV time.
September 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Also saw Joe Piscopo
View from outdoor, on street dining area as Feast of San Generro festival float passes by. On the float is smiling Grand Marshall Joe Piscopo wearing a suit with red tie and a sash with a lath white strip border on top in green and bottom in red. Flanking the float is a large sunglasses and suit wearing security guard of unknown employment.
September 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Listening to my CSEA Webinar on Medicaid cuts.

Bleak.
Map of NY State indicating Hospitals at risk of closure under the Big Beautiful Bill Medicaid cuts; 64 hospitals.
August 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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“Mr. President, it’s not advisable to pardon her, but no one will notice if you move her to Club Fed with Henry, Paulie and Vinnie.”
Kitchen area of Pennsylvania state penitentiary, circa 1980’s. Henry, Paulie and Vinnie sitting down to a nice Italian million.
August 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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There are already hundreds (thousands?) of windmills throughout the American Heartland:
Windmills as far as the eye can see on the Texas plains as viewed from Interstate 40.
July 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Central Park last weekend. And he hung out pretty close and very plump.
My guess is people have been hand feeding.
Male Cardinal among foliage. Looking very plump.
June 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Behold the pocket cloaca.
Red soda gun, featuring buttons for Sprite, Coke, Soda, T, Q, G, Diet, Water, O and M.
June 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This is the natural evolution from the previous epoch’s pocket cloaca.
Red soda gun, featuring buttons for Sprite, Coke, Soda, T, Q, G, Diet, Water, O and M.
June 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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By choice man !
- Howard at the Gas-n-Sip
Local lonely boy sitting in the parking lot of a Gas-N-Sip pointedly responding to the question of why “If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?” “By choice, man !”
May 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Big Wuss Energy
Lobby of 1990’s high-end NYC hotel, revolving door exit in background, two men facing each other. Effeminate man in inside out suede jacket exposing whimsical red and white striped lining. His companion, a Hemmingway-esque boomer, scowls disapprovingly at this ridiculous display. Man-boy Jerry Seinfeld defends his choice as a response to the rain, alluded to earlier “But it’s suede”.
April 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Tombstone sent by RCA executive Howard Bromberg to the leader of the COBOL committee, Charlie Phillips, in 1960
Small Tombstone with stone carved Lamb on top and "COBOL" written in all caps.
March 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I’m telling my kinds “turtles all the way down” was coined by Dr. Seuss.
Scene from Dr. Seuss’s classic Yertle the Turtle. Yertle, in a bucolic meadow, is stacked precariously on top of at least five turtles extending past the bottom of the page. Yertle is gazing happily at some goats in the distance.
March 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I bet there are few dozen Abbey Road Winslows out there.
Iconic album cover to The Beatles Abbey Road. George, Paul, Ringo & John crossing 1970’s British suburban street, strutting left to right in stride with each other
March 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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BTW - Best Souvenir I own, purchased in Brussels and self imported, no Tariff 😂
Framed poster of Tintin comic “Objectif Lune” (Operation Moon) featuring Tintin, Snowy & Captain Haddock in bounding blue army style jeep, heading for Red and White checkerboard tripod Rocket that is surrounded by scaffolding foreshadowing the impending launch.
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
Cover of Destination Moon; sixteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Featuring Tintin, his dog Snowy and Captain Haddock in space suits on a Moon outcropping of rocks overlooking their iconic red and white checkerboard rocket-ship, which is sitting idly on the valley plain
March 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Costco Olive Oil comes from 11 countries.
I wonder how many different countries go into making more complex products?
The modern world is so not ready for Tariffs and trade wars.
Detail of Costco Regular Olive Oil listing all possible countries that may have oil in this container; Argentina, Australia, Chile, Spain, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Peru, Portugal, Tunisian, Turkey.
March 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Poor Lockheed Martin
One year chart of Lookheed Martin stock leading to highs in lead up to Trump’s coronation now plunging with the reality of MAGA. Letters “FA” and “FO” are superimposed in red at their relevant points in the time axis.
March 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Not just any part, a freaking body panel glued on, they couldn’t even splurge for $15 plastic clips:
$15 Plastic body panel fastener kit, which is useless in repairing glued-on Cybertruck parks.
March 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Rare Haggis taxidermy (Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow):
Haggis diaramma at the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow (The mythical animal not the dish)
March 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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FYI - Tariffs do not lead to inflation if they tank the economy.

Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was passed in 1930:
Chart of Inflation after 1930 Tariff Act: 1931 9.3% deflation 1932 10.30% deflation
March 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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#birds
Raven ? on snowy grassland
March 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM