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xoxo Xopher

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Vermont, illustrator, animator, indie funk musician, DJ, baker, and kitten wrangler. Aka Christopher Grotke. Get the latest… About Time https://xoxoxopher.bandcamp.com/album/about-time

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xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 8h

NHK is back on Roku! Phew!

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 14h

Had I known about this back then I would have really wanted it. 🙂

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 14h

But Lucy wouldn’t pull the football away from Charlie Brown this time, would she? 🤪

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 15h

#grilledcheese

Cartoon crowd of protesters chanting. What do we want? Grilled cheese! When do we want it? Now!”

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the last 10 movies watched @criterion.bsky.social at The Criterion Channel #filmsky #moviesky #illustration #cartoon #list

Cartoon pencil and ink drawings of scenes from It Couldn’t Happen Here, Gidget, Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson, Blood Simple, Under the Sun of Satan, Caught By the Tides, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Trouble Sleep, Making Magic, and Inspiration.

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 3d

False. Only the cool people. 🤪🕺🎶

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t worry about it. If Gaga lawyers sued you would become super famous fast, plus you have proof of your older version. Go for it!

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 3d

Many don’t know how it works because they haven’t seen it operate properly.

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 3d

90 minute metal Maxell for me, please. Buy five and get a free case? Sure!

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 3d

Newfane Vt… West River Railroad Museum has a handcart. You can also drive stakes into ties to help them secure rails.

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 5d

Hey Roku… we need NHK back asap. Thanks!

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 6d

Add some indie funk to the pile of indie rock you are downloading on #bandcampfriday. There’s still time. xoxoxopher.bandcamp.com

Solo indie funkateer. Quirky funk often with a hint of go go.

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xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 6d

As I said.. xoxoxopher.bandcamp.com

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 6d

Funky #bandcampfriday options. Support indie funk.
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Solo indie funkateer. Quirky funk often with a hint of go go.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7d

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 7d

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 7d

Too cool. And a foot switch input! (Yes… I play everything a bit…)

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly. . That’s the section I want to play with… (and then be employed to demo it at the mall…)

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 8d

I love cats. Just trying to lighten the mood.

Very sorry, yore.

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 8d

Pledge drives today were along those lines. “We’ll, it just us now so we are working for you… you will pay our salaries, right?”

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 8d

“Ac-tion… I want to get some, too….” Alicia Bridges 🎶

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 8d

Update: cat’s name was Bob.

(Bob cat)

xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 8d

America has been made great again. Mission accomplished. 🤪

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8d

The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government--ICE but No Healthcare--Visible

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/01/a...

The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government-ICE but No Healthcare-Visible - emptywheel

No one knows how this shutdown will go. It truly is unlike any shutdown that has gone before. But it will serve to make the reality of Trump's abuse of power visible in a way that has not fully happen...

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xoxo Xopher @xoxoxopher.bsky.social · 9d

This sound like a post apocalyptic Andy Rooney commentary.