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Andrew Bloomberg

@andrewbloomberg.bsky.social

950 followers 1.4K following 5.9K posts

He/him. Left-wing history dad. Pro Popular Front, pro Sewer Socialism, anti borders. Français par mariage. Minnesotan in Wisconsin exile. Mostly posts bad history jokes and occasionally bad history not jokes.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 5h

Everybody say hi to my new friend, this cool young ash tree

A small ash tree starting to change colors

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 7h

The good people of the west side of Madison and Middleton thought they were in for a peaceful, quiet Saturday morning, but then an excited 6 and 4YO came by on the back of an e-bike on their way to soccer, playing the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack from tinny phone speakers

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve become a morning person as I age so I’m generally anti Pacific Time, but boy was I jealous as I got invested in that

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 15h

There are so many good “stayed up past my bedtime to watch baseball” posts, this side absolutely has the juice (also, shit, it’s past my bedtime, I’m sleepy)

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 15h

I like tense sports in which I don’t have a rooting interest and I also like sleeping, so yes

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 15h

Moral victory for the Twins (probably the only victory that matters for, uh, reasons)

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 15h

Twins win! (He said pathetically)

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 16h

If Polanco gets the walk off if counts as the Twins winning

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 16h

There are two things I want right now, going to sleep and a big dumper walk off and baby those interests align

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 16h

If it was still Jim Leyland it would be no contest

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 16h

Ah well I’m used to it

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 16h

If Polanco gets the walk off if counts as the Twins winning

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 16h

Glue Keith

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 16h

Lot of guys in this game with one earring and jaunty facial hair, silver lining for depressed Pittsburgh Pirates fans

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 17h

Watching a game like this when you have a preference (hope my mutuals like @normcharlatan.bsky.social are happy) but not a strong emotional investment is an oddly meditative experience

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 17h

Watching a game like this when you have a preference (hope my mutuals like @normcharlatan.bsky.social are happy) but not a strong emotional investment is an oddly meditative experience

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 20h

Especially because once we start doing this to a few self-obsessed tech billionaires, a lot of other self-obsessed tech billionaires will psych themselves into establishing a weird quasi libertarian gated community on an uninhabited Pacific Island without fresh water, like incompetent Bond villains

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 21h

Every USCIS field office has a 90 second video playing on loop in the waiting of her talking about how the age of weak politicians not protecting the border is over

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 21h

95 Theses (you won’t believe #26!)

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 21h

It’s Friday, the workweek part of solo parenting is done, and the girls and I are celebrating by eating the greatest comfort food recipe I’ve ever seen, Pasta alla Zozzona (rigatoni with guanciale, sausage, egg yolk, tomato, and pecorino) and watching Is It Cake, hell yeah

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 22h

*Raw Egg Nationalist, in the 1920s*

These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Anglo-Saxon countries in terms of the endlessness of breadsticks

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

Discovering “Tropical Brainstorm” a couple of years ago has made northern winters slightly but measurably less depressing. What a talent. Also - particularly as a parent - I have a moment of horror whenever I think about how she died.

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s chilly and rainy today, so it’s time for a classic fall song

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Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves (7" Version)

YouTube video by All Dressed Up In Dreams blog

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

Also the young MAGA apparatchiks don’t like Lee Greenwood, but it works for them because they don’t like anything except racism and performatively pissing people off

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing how much living in a college town and being married to a professor pushes this dynamic to the maximum. You guys have that part of town. I don’t need to know what goes on there.

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I’d kick out of Comey winning it because it would piss off absolutely everyone

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

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