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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 20h

If the White Sox and Phillies play in the World Series I think Pope Leo has to excommunicate Alito at the Stadium before the first pitch

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 21h

This country would be marginally better if we made the Astros call their stadium Enron Field again

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 23h

There’s a statue of Shakespeare in St. Louis’ lovely Tower Grove Park. So far so normal for Victorian city parks.on the pedestal there are four characters. Hamlet. Naturally. Falstaff, fair enough! Lady MacBeth. Huh, interesting, but great character. Queen Katherine. Uhhh, what?

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just saw an Illinois Department of Corrections bus in a ditch outside of Springfield, in case anyone is looking for Harrison Ford

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI music? You mean like Rush songs that try to make a political point?

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So a while back I was thinking about how I was uncomfortable cheering for the Lynx because how much they won made me uncomfortable as a Minnesota sports fan and, uhh, mea culpa I guess

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No spoilers for the non-VPN crowd but Nigella has to explain miso in cookies to Paul this week on GBBO

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Started listening to the audiobook of this, and the opening chapters make a compelling case for Nikita Khrushchev as one of the more interesting and oddly admirable political figures of the 20th century wwnorton.com/books/978163...

wwnorton.com

Exit Stalin

A "Best Non-Fiction to Read This Year" Selection from The New StatesmanA magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid...

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Old man Grassley chairing this, and then Klobuchar finishing by shouting out the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers, is what really puts this over the top as a "that sure is the Senate!" moment

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok but also “Texas Bureau Chief for the Daily Mail” is possibly the most cursed job title that’s ever existed

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading @danshafer.bsky.social’s excellent recap of assembly races is how I learned that among the GOP candidates gracing our state this year are a Gen Z TPUSA guy from suburban MKE and a MAHA chiropractor from the Chippewa Valley. Shit remains weird. www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/2026-elect...

therecombobulationarea.com

2026 Election Mega-Preview: The Wisconsin State Assembly

Republicans have controlled the State Assembly for 30 of the past 32 years, and for the last 16 years in a row. Is this the election where Democrats finally break the cycle?

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Candidate actually lives in Kansas” is such a brutal burn on Iowa

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finishing “Patton” tonight (it’s long, I’m old) and I love that every so often they cut in German staff soldiers saying things like “wow that Patton sure is good” to each other

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’ve reached the time of year when all of the honey locusts on our street turn golden

A canopy of bright yellow leaves from a handful of honey locusts

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Misiorowski is a top notch name for a star Milwaukee athlete, well done there.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not saying that having to spend more time in Jefferson City, MO is sufficient punishment for the crimes of anyone in this administration but...has anyone here actually had to spend time in Jefferson City, MO?

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've reached the "both of my daughters singing Taylor Swift on the back of the bike on the way to school this morning" phase of parenting.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Noises Off” (1992) didn’t even get nominated for best costumes, what the hell

Michael Caine in a purple? Chore coat? With turquoise denim shirt? And a purple neckerchief walking down a street next to a guy in a very wide patterned tie and gray suit

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well that worked out well (grilled chicken, a pickled cabbage slaw, spicy cilantro sauce, and rice with cilantro, peas, and carrots)

A grilled chicken leg quarter next to some red cabbage, a pale green sauce, and green rice with carrots and peas

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Michael dies on the first day of the Somme a few years before Mary helps Jane to perpetrate the Amritsar massacre

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grilling Peruvian chicken while listening to an audiobook about the Soviet Union in WWII, this is the future envisioned by Lend Lease

Selfie of me standing next to a kettle grill with a chicken on it. I have a headphone in and am holding a red drink

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*Guy about to die in the mud at Passchendaele in 1917 along with every young man he grew up with* “Ok, but it could be worse, let me tell you about how we could really be a lost generation”

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Something is fucked in the state of Denmark

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The kids’ school does a fun run fundraiser every year. They give the kids a script to try to raise money. They called grandma and grandpa, and before the 2nd grader could start reading the script, the kindergartner screamed “grandma we need money!!!” into the phone.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not painful, as opposed to the garbage copper sold by Ea-nāṣir

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This week I made a ragu with ground elk and dried cherries for some friends. I modified it from Hazan’s recipe (the milk, the nutmeg, the very long cook time) and it worked really well. That book is a gem.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whenever HBO’s Rome is not on list, all the other shows should be asking, “Where's HBO’s Rome?”

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my favorite recurring bits about Slow Horses is that Diana Taverner is brilliant, cunning, a genius at office politics, and….absolute shit at her actual job

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Google responding to people who don’t want data centers in their towns like

The tweet by Mike F that reads

“Check this shit out motherfucker [l slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]”

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every year when it starts getting cooler I go back to folk and traditional music, and this year I've been listening to a lot of Stan Rogers (previously I'd really just know Barrett’s Privateers). This one, in particular, is great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJQk...

youtube.com

The Mary Ellen Carter

YouTube video by Stan Rogers - Topic

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Listening to an audiobook about the Soviet war effort in WWII and it’s pretty remarkable how faithful Jason Isaacs is to Zhukov’s general vibe in “Death of Stalin”

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well the finale of DTF St. Louis sure is bleak, huh?

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I try to have one fiction and one nonfiction going on and at the moment I’m about halfway through both, and they’re both great

Cover of Contested Continent by Peter Mancall

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An Entertaining with Andy tip! If friends are coming over for dinner, do a ragu* or other slow cooked meat thing the day before. You can spend more time hanging out, and it’s better a day later anyway. *In this instance, ground elk with dried cherries and red wine.

A reddish brown meat sauce simmering on a very dirty stove

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m almost 40 and I have two young kids, I know how out of touch I am, but you can’t convince me this isn’t a Tilly Norwood situation

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NY Times reporters encouragingly saying “you’re doing great” while trying to feed more coherent transphobic talking points to focus group attendees

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Important personal update: I'm now related to the people who re-sided our house.

A screenshot of an email that says "you are officially in the Family!"

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I actually like opera but, even if you don't Lincoln Center and the Met Opera specifically are among the most beautiful buildings on earth, and this is super cool.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The stories of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe in WWI treating advancing German armies (fairly) as liberators from the Russians is right up there with the graves of Imperial German Jewish officers I saw around Verdun in the “history is not a linear path toward justice and liberation” category

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also in keeping with historical accuracy, everyone will be wearing mud-spattered earth-tone tunics, and the sky will be a washed out grey at all times.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every year I watch Bake-Off I marvel at how such a small island has so many accents. Like it’s barely bigger than MN and the best my home state can do is slightly longer or shorter As.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every time they use Bundt Cake pans it’s actually the Great St. Louis Park, MN Bake-Off

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TG[for VPNs so]I[can make up]F[or the annoying start to the week by watching the premier of GBBO on Tuesday]

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lloyd’s Coffee Shop in London, 1690s A man looks up from the ledgers with a start. He spits out his coffee. His wig falls off in his excitement. “Hold on one damn second here people, did you know that most of these ships haven’t even sunk!!??”

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