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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

@ericallyn.bsky.social
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Quipster, not hipster. I make jokes about metahumor. He/him. Grey-haired white cis-male-adjacent. Devout agnostic. Retired data geek. Black lives matter. LGBT+ lives matter. Immigrant lives matter. Facts matter. Science matters. (Aka Eric Bloomquist)

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The "Change my mind" meme with the text "Discussing something with someone who refuses to argue in good faith is a waste of time."

(A white man wearing a blue shirt, sitting at a table in public, with a big posterboard sign that says "CHANGE MY MIND" along the bottom.)
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
with alt text
White text on black background:

"There are more Cornell frat boys raping women than there are trans athletes in college sports."
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are studies! Living with a cat - oh okay, any pet - is good for your mental health! It's science! (Certainly true for us and our two orange cats.)
Two orange cats next to each other, calmly looking down from the top of a cabinet.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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qasimrashid • 12m

I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.

That "normal" pre-Trump is what led to Trump. Don't believe me? Two terms under Obama got us Trump. We rallied & elected Biden in 2020 & got him a trifecta government. Biden stuck to "norms," and it led us right back to Trump in 2024.

If you're not ready to disrupt the entire system that keeps electing Trump, you need to be voted out as well.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Okay, I kinda had to ...
The classic 1977 Sidney Harris cartoon, updated for "Ai".

Two stereotyped (white middle aged men) at a blackboard.  In the middle of a mathematical proof is written "Then ChatGPT Occurs".  (In the original, it's "Then A Miracle Occurs")

One of the mathematicians is pointing and that and sad, "I think you should be more explicit here in step 2.

My apologies to Mr. Harris.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Movie poster for the film "Bon Cop Bad Cop", "a 2006 Canadian black comedy-thriller buddy cop film about two police officers – one Ontarian and one Québécois – who reluctantly join forces to solve a murder." (Wikipedia)

They're both striding toward the camera and there's an explosion behind them.

Tagline:  "Shoot first, translate later"
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Here, too.
Photo from the bank of the St. Lawrence River, in Quebec City.  In the foreground a man sits on top of a picnic table, looking out over the water.

The sky is party cloudy, clear blue to the right, the rest with large clouds dark on the bottom shading blue-grey going up, with some white bits near the top.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is my kind of house of worship. Biblioth Bibliothèque Claire-Martin, in Québec City. Originally a church, now a public library.
Interior photo of Bibliothéque Claire-Martin, in Quebec City.  In the foreground are shelves of books.  Behind are interior arches and stained glass windows.  The tall, arched ceiling is made of slats of a dark wood.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Soiling of Old Glory, a black and white photo by Stanley Forman for The Boston Herald American, April 5, 1976

A young white man is wielding an American flag on a flag staff as a spear against a black man.  This was taken during one of the protests against court-ordered desegregation busing.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is my irregular reminder that being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize isn't really indicative of anything. The list of "Qualified nominators" is *huge*. Also, the Nobel Foundation restricts disclosure of nominee info for 50 years. And nominations can only be made between September & January
White text on black background:

"Hold on to your hats everybody!! President Zelensky has formally been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize!!!! YES!"
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Wouldn't it be simpler for him to sell Trump branding to those nice people in the Moon base so charmingly documented in "Iron Sky"?
A dark image from an intentionally-stupid movie called "Iron Sky", which shows a fictional Moon base shaped like a swastika.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Initial crowd estimate for Boston #NoKings 200,000 Currently on stage are the Dropkick Murphys, an Irish-American Celtic Punk band. (Because this is fucking Boston, that's why.)
Photo of part of a large crowd of people on the Boston Common for #NoKings March 28, 2026.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Oh, so you're a Marx-ist?
An image of Harpo Marx, playing a harp and singing.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I'm sure I don't know what you mean.
Two "orange" cats looking down at the viewer from the top of a tall cabinet.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Back cover of "Serviceberry", a lovely book by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
This is an image of the back cover of "The Serviceberr", by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

The background is a pale yellow, and there's a pair of cupped hands holding serviceberries.  Most of the berries are dark purple and a few are red.

Underneath the hands, some italicized text read:

"All Flourishing is Mutual"


In small print, the credits on the bottom left read:

"COVER DESIGN BY JAYA MICELI
COVER AND ENDPAPER ILLUSTRATIONS
BY JOHN BURGOYNE"
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
With alt text.
Alt text:

White text on black background:

"Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

A lot of good people are on a hook over Donald Trump. They voted for him for understandable reasons: to stop Hillary of Kamala, to prevent court-packing, to move the embassy to Jerusalem, to reduce regulations.
They rightly applauded his toughening of immigration policy. They began to feel invested in him. Sure, he was boorish and bombastic, but he was delivering most of what he was elected to do. Naturally, they bridled at criticism from people they disliked, some of which was indeed absurd.
But he has plainly now lost his mind. There is no other way of reading "I am going to threaten an ally with invasion because I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize".
It is impossible to exaggerate how high the stakes are. If Putin had put an agent in the White House, what would would be doing differently?
We are talking about the survival of the Western way of life, about the world order of which the United States is the chief exemplar and beneficiary. That, surely, matters more than "liberal tears".
". Doesn't
it? Because if it doesn't, we are all damned."
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 will go. Uh oh.
An image from the movie "The Godfather".

There are two men dressed in tuxedos.  

The older of the two is seated, facing in the general direction of the camera, with his right hand at shoulder level.

The younger man is facing away, bent over, evidently whispering into the older man's ear.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Hmm. Source: CDC
An image of a CDC bar chart showing the number of measles cases per year.  It shows a significant spike in 2014, a bigger spike in 2019, and an even bigger spike this year.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Okay, THIS is a rebel flag.
Image of a black-on-red Rebel Alliance symbol from the Star Wars universe.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Black and white image of the titular characters from the Blues Brothers movie.  There is text that says "We're on a mission from God."
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This an image of the following text:

“America appears to be, at the moment, in a sort of benevolent hostage situation. Al-related spending now contributes more to the nation's GDP growth than all consumer spending combined, and by another calculation, those AI expenditures accounted for 92 percent of GDP growth during the first half of 2025. Since the launch of ChatGPT, in late 2022, the tech industry has gone from making up 22 percent of the value in the S&P 500 to roughly one-third. Just yesterday, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet all reported substantial quarterly-revenue growth, and Reuters reported that OpenAl is planning to go public perhaps as soon as next year at a value of up to $1 trillion—which would be one of the largest IPOs in history. (An OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters, "An IPO is not our focus, so we could not possibly have set a date"; OpenAl and The Atlantic have a corporate partnership.)”
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"A HUMAN WAS KIDNAPPED YESTERDAY."
A photo of a NAACP flag that was used to protest (and raise awareness of) lynching.

In white letters on a black background, it says "A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY."
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Not quite the Mines of Moria of social media yet, but working on it.
Image from the Lord of the Rings.  There are lines of towering pillars, and to give perspective, our group of heroes in the distance, very small.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I don't know how helpful this suggested alt text is, but I translated the chart into rough pseudo-code.
I don't know how helpful this is as Alt text, but;

Is it expressly allowed by law?
if yes then DO IT
if no then:
    Is it forbidden by law?
    if no then DO IT
    if yes then:
      Can courts stop you before you
         establish facts (?) on the ground?
      if no then DO IT 
      if yes then:
        Could 5 SCOTUS justices
          allow it?
        if yes then DO IT
        if no then:
          Could you successfully
            defy SCOTUS?
          if yes then DO IT
          if no then don't do it
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Our little town in Western Massachusetts:
Photo of No Kings protesters lining both sides of a small town street.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
You don't say.
A photo of a forest, with a trail sign in the foreground.  The sign say "One Less Traveled Trail".

And yes, *of course* we followed that trail.

(Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park)
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Guys like this give bowties a bad name. Done right, they can be sexy AF.
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones looking at the camera, dressed in a white suit and wearing a black bow tie.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"Who could've imagined?" 4 months ago:
Two comments, about four months ago;

Daniel Swain 

I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.

E. Allyn Bloom 

Well, it'd be even worse if they were also fucking over FEMA.  

[checks notes] Oh, right. Crap.
Goddamn fuckheads.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Added alt-text. (Because copy-past doesn't include the formatting, states are in *alternating* alphabetical order. Sorry!)
HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL LOSE HEALTH CARE IN YOUR STATE?

• Alabama - 219,803
• Montana - 55,981
• Alaska - 39,989
• Nebraska - 78,275
• Arizona - 365,984
• Nevada - 114,500
• Arkansas - 158,745
• New Hampshire - 46,388
• California - 2,368,466
• New Jersey - 363,330
• Colorado - 240,953
• New Mexico - 111,997
• Connecticut - 86,580
• New York - 1,019,121
• Delaware - 54,957
• North Carolina - 651,982
• Florida - 1,936,421
• North Dakota - 24,488
• Georgia - 651,540
• Ohio - 489,815
• Hawaii - 62,483
• Oklahoma - 211,794
• Idaho - 72,815
• Oregon - 198,089
• Illinois - 535,849
- Pennsylvania - 483,868
• Indiana - 267,996
• Rhode Island - 47,359
• lowa - 113,979
• South Carolina - 285,857
• Kansas - 92,937
• South Dakota - 33,838
• Kentucky - 184,526
• Tennessee - 310,056
• Louisiana - 267,550
• Texas - 1,671,965
• Maine - 61,488
• Utah - 188,494
• Maryland - 245,929
• Vermont -35,242
• Massachusetts - 326,262
• Virginia - 322,984
• Michigan - 453,101
- Washington - 328,695
• Minnesota - 173,268
• West Virginia - 82,225
• Mississippi - 153,910
• Wisconsin - 276,175
• Missouri - 265,298
• Wyoming - 20,407

THAT'S 17 MILLION LIVES
REPUBLICANS ARE PUTTING AT RISK
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A bright yellow US Forest Service sign at Mt. Washington trailheads reads:

STOP

THE AREA AHEAD HAS THE WORST WEATHER IN AMERICA. MANY HAVE DIED THERE FROM EXPOSURE, EVEN IN THE SUMMER. TURN BACK NOW IF THE WEATHER IS BAD.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Julia Andrews in a scene from "The Sound of Music", playing a guitar and rick-rolling 3 unsuspecting children.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
An images that's a combination of multiple images of the actor Ryan Gosling.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A panel from a Matthew Bors comic.

There are two characters.  One is carrying a large bundle of sticks, and there is a castle in the background, evoking a Middle Ages context.

The first character says, "We should improve society somewhat."

The second character, poking his head out of a well, says, "Yet you participate in society.  Curious!  I am very intelligent."
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Almodóvar, Spain with Castillo de Almodóvar on the left.
A photo of Spanish countryside.  Green farmland in the foreground. In the background on the right is part of the town of Almodóvar.  In the background on the left is a tall hill with a castle on top.  (Castillo de Almodóvar)
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Transportation infrastructure in a civilized country.
Photo of a digital display in a high-speed train in Spain.  Speed is 275 km/h, which is 165 mph.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Today's gratitude: Spain.
Granada, Spain.  Ornate front of a lovely old building on Plaza de Santa Ana.  

It's a sunny day, and there are a couple of pedestrians in the mid distance.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Me, holding a falcon chick, just after a wildlife expert banded it.
A photo of a falcon chick, being carefully held by a man in a white shirt. (Me!)  There is a shiny green and black band around the chick's leg.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff #handsoff2025 The spouse was worried that there might not be a good turnout in our little town in the rain. This photo shows about half of us.
Hands Off protesters in a small Western Massachusetts town, lining a main street.  

There's a church in the background.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
White coffee mug on a white background.

The wording on the mug says:  

BILLIONAIRE 
TEARS

Warren
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only. (Too obvious?)
In the background are large desert-brown boulders.  In the foreground are the crew of the NSEA Protector, from the Star Trek parody/homage "Galaxy Quest" (1999).

The three main characters are in front, played by (left to right) Alan Rickman, Tim Allen, and Sigourney Weaver.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
White supremacists are proof that they're not members of a master race.
Comic panel depicting a white man yelling at several other white men.

"Why is it that the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it?  YOU!"

Ugly white supremacist:  "Wh-wh-wh-?"

"WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?"
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Today's gratitude: snowdrops.
A close-up photo of bunches of snow drops, surrounded by a little snow.  They are very small white flowers that grow and bloom in some locations in late winter or early spring.

They're like a little visual appetizer for spring flowering.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I don't usually buy campaign merch, but I have one of these.
Photo of a white mug with red and blue lettering:

BILLIONAIRE 
TEARS

and in smaller font:

WARREN
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"Who wants to know?"
A photo of three bearded men, smiling into the camera.

("Bear" is slang for a burly and hairy gay/bi man.)
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our cats came to us with their names, Vincent and Theodore. It seems very likely that they were named after the Van Gogh brothers, who were redheads. Teddy and Vinnie are "orange" cats.
Two orange cats, one with a white patch on their throat, looking down at the photographer from the top of a cabinet.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A photo of the main character from "Midnight Diner" looking directly at the camera.
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"DO IT!" Okay.
Image from the graphic novel "Watchmen".  A close-up of a vigilante named Rorschach, who is white and has short red hair.  He's looking directly out from the image, his face is contorted in anger, he's weeping, and part if a clenched fist is visible.

He's yelling, "DO IT!"
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I don't know, I like the Washington Post's new motto.
A black-on-white image of the Washington Post motto, except it says "Hello darkness my old friend".
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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Unlike you, I got my news from a reliable source.
A black and white photo of 4 people sitting at a long desk.  On the front of the desk and on the wall in back, it repeatedly says "Weekend Update". (From an early Saturday Night Live episode.)
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