Andy Karlson
@andykarlson.bsky.social
Husband, father of 3, UU minister, hospital chaplain, dedicated amateur film photographer (unless otherwise noted, photos taken with my Google Pixel 7 Pro), opinions my own.
"I am at home with the me. I am rooted in the me who is on this adventure."
"I am at home with the me. I am rooted in the me who is on this adventure."
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Andy Karlson
@andykarlson.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Well, here we all are. I'm a dad of three, a hospital chaplain semi-reluctantly ascended to management, a film photographer, a board game fan, a reader, and a pizza topping maximalist.
My interests tend to run broad, and in this next political epoch I'm trying to keep my focus local and joyful.
My interests tend to run broad, and in this next political epoch I'm trying to keep my focus local and joyful.
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The Donald Trump Golf Tracker site has November 8th as the most recent outing, but the person running it thinks something is up: didtrumpgolftoday.com
Did Trump Golf Today?
Track Donald Trump's golf outings and the cost to taxpayers.
didtrumpgolftoday.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The Donald Trump Golf Tracker site has November 8th as the most recent outing, but the person running it thinks something is up: didtrumpgolftoday.com
The worst fucking people in the fucking world, holy shit.
Reporting from Boston papers makes it seem very plausible that Trump's Press Secretary had his paramilitary detain the mother of her nephew, because she was no longer romantically involved with her brother and he wanted her out of the picture.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The worst fucking people in the fucking world, holy shit.
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You can get tens of thousands of likes and reskeets for posting a photo of any random smiling woman and captioning it “when your girlboss is about to ruin your life just to be a bitch.”
Anyway it’s a total mystery why America keeps rejecting qualified women for the presidency.
Anyway it’s a total mystery why America keeps rejecting qualified women for the presidency.
How did a bunch of men all convince themselves that Tariff Otaku would actually be better for the economy and give them all free stimulus checks unlike that shrill nagging bitch Kamala Harris it is a mystery
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You can get tens of thousands of likes and reskeets for posting a photo of any random smiling woman and captioning it “when your girlboss is about to ruin your life just to be a bitch.”
Anyway it’s a total mystery why America keeps rejecting qualified women for the presidency.
Anyway it’s a total mystery why America keeps rejecting qualified women for the presidency.
This is the coolest - wild to live only a few miles from the site!
Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is the coolest - wild to live only a few miles from the site!
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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Calvin gets it twice
I ever see that smug fucker Martin Luther its on sight
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Calvin gets it twice
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Evidently this is from the Owner of Bar Brava.
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Evidently this is from the Owner of Bar Brava.
I'm just very disappointed in you today, BlueSky.
Pie is for bringing us together, not for having bad opinions about!
Pie is for bringing us together, not for having bad opinions about!
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I'm just very disappointed in you today, BlueSky.
Pie is for bringing us together, not for having bad opinions about!
Pie is for bringing us together, not for having bad opinions about!
Another Madison landmark, Lombardino's Family Restaurant. Delicious food in an atmosphere frozen in amber in 1955. Interestingly, the family that owned and ran Lombardino's between ~1965-95 lived in our house!
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Another Madison landmark, Lombardino's Family Restaurant. Delicious food in an atmosphere frozen in amber in 1955. Interestingly, the family that owned and ran Lombardino's between ~1965-95 lived in our house!
Madison landmark, the Forest Products Laboratory building, designed by Holabird and Root in 1931.
sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WI...
sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WI...
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Madison landmark, the Forest Products Laboratory building, designed by Holabird and Root in 1931.
sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WI...
sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WI...
I guess it is pretty pedestrian
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I guess it is pretty pedestrian
Oh indeed!
To shoot macro with a Kodak Charmera, stick one of those iPhone lenses on it.
The Charmera was too thick to hold my iPhone lens clip, so I painter-taped it on.
The Charmera was too thick to hold my iPhone lens clip, so I painter-taped it on.
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Oh indeed!
Courage: it's contagious.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Courage: it's contagious.
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I used to literally livetweet Apple announcements. At this point, there’s nothing that makes me say “oooh” anymore and I love gadgets. I absolutely love them.
The main thing I want is a gadget that does what I want it to do for 15 years.
The main thing I want is a gadget that does what I want it to do for 15 years.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I used to literally livetweet Apple announcements. At this point, there’s nothing that makes me say “oooh” anymore and I love gadgets. I absolutely love them.
The main thing I want is a gadget that does what I want it to do for 15 years.
The main thing I want is a gadget that does what I want it to do for 15 years.
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Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.
THREAD
I responded to a call to be a legal witness at an ICE raid and Jesus
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
THREAD
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
Stan Kelly-level grudgery
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Stan Kelly-level grudgery
Oh man, the time we were making a strawberry rhubarb pie, and what we thought was tapioca turned out to be pearl barley...
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Oh man, the time we were making a strawberry rhubarb pie, and what we thought was tapioca turned out to be pearl barley...
They also initially found common cause with right-wing evangelicals, despite their "support for Israel" being based on the expectation that the Jewish diaspora regathering in Jerusalem and then all being annihilated is a precondition of the Second Coming. Then they found other common causes too.
somewhere between 10/7 and today, an economic and ideological split happened where the largest donors to a bunch of Jewish community institutions decided that a tidal wave of antisemitism was coming, and also that antisemitism consists exclusively of antizionism. not even Holocaust denial counts.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
They also initially found common cause with right-wing evangelicals, despite their "support for Israel" being based on the expectation that the Jewish diaspora regathering in Jerusalem and then all being annihilated is a precondition of the Second Coming. Then they found other common causes too.