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Karl Zimmerman

@karlzimmerman.bsky.social
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Trade unionist, socialist, unpublished fantasy author.

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Union workers on Mars submitting their demands: 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for work 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for rest 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for what we will
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've been telling friends for awhile that Trump reminds me more of Nicholas II than Hitler. Just trying to speedrun getting himself overthrown by doing everything wrong. Who does that make the American Lenin? Hasan Piker?
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has pulled out of his tour, triggering a by-election
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Saw a cicada mid molt yesterday. I know it's common as heck some years, but he's the only cicada I've spied this year. Might be confused.
Freshly molted cicada.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I saw Mitch McConnell at the gym today, on a stationary bike. He was dead.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The haze is crazy in Pittsburgh today. We've had smoke blow in from Canadian wildfires before, but nothing like this. Came in suddenly between 12 and 1 like a sheet of white. Everything is overcast, like a deep fog, but everything smells like burning.
My street.  Wildfire haze.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Here's to Iran for giving us two free months before subscription fees kick in.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Nothing makes me want to unfollow an account on Bluesky more than re/posting a bajillion things at once, clogging up an entire feed. I like you Zohran, I really do, but couldn't whoever manages your account not repost like 18 things in the space of ten minutes?
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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
you don't need to repost every fucking thing you read. You can just not do that, it's a thing you can do. (Not repost it)(You have the power)(it can remain in your brain)(it can stay there)
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live Animal Collective Autechre Blackalicious The Butthole Surfers Godspeed You Black Emperor In The Nursery Mr. Bungle Sigur Ros Spoon Underworld
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
47, now.
Me, just me.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
That moment when Realtor shows you a banner ad of your late mother's condo unit that you are, in fact the one selling.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ahh, the one day a year I feel guilty and self-conscious for having an orange ski cap.
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Thought for the day: Does Trumpism mark the end of American exceptionalism? Seems like it does to me for two reasons: (1/3)
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Something I've been thinking about today - ICE is stuck in a real no-win scenario now. As in, I don't see how Minneapolis ends without being a massive failure for the Trump Administration.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11/12/2025
231-195 baby!
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Way overdue for a haircut.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Saw these the other day. Edible puffballs? They're by the side of a road, so I'm not sure I'd want to eat them due to the contamination, regardless.
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
BLITZER: Now we’re getting reports that one of the bullet casings was engraved with a message saying that if you are reading the casing, you are gay. We must warn our viewers we’re about to show the photo and don’t know at this time whether the engraving is what makes you gay or if it just tells you
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Find yourself someone who'll look at you like P.J. looked at Nick Cave.
youtu.be
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry Lee ft. P.J Harvey (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I had a realization the other day - I think we're all misunderstanding what LLM's are trying to be. They're not productivity tools, but just another case of algorithmic optimization in order to capture attention. Think about how sycophantic ChatGPT tends to be if you engage with it.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If I changed my icon to not be a picture of me, a completely ordinary middle-aged dude, would I stop getting all these random catfishing profiles trying to add me?
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Suddenly remembering for no particular reason how a half dozen Miss Teen USA contestants said Donald Trump walked in on them in dressing rooms like a decade ago and we just ignored it.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
How does this series of tweets so perfectly encapsulate everything regarding the current state of the right wing in America?
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Twice a year haircut time.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Keep hearing these anecdotal stories about people who "use AI" in their lives, and wonder how the hell they trust anything systems spit out that lie roughly a third of the time. I'd be in such deep shit at work if I tried to submit an analysis with a 33% error rate.
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Oh man, I thought B2B was "butt to butt" LinkedIn makes *WAY* more sense now.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, who could strangle you with a cordless phone if he wanted to, is pictured. Chief O'Brien, who can kill 2 stones with 1 bird, is facing the camera and winking. O'Brien, who can dribble a bowling ball, is on DS9 station and wearing his classic gold uniform, and has the energy of a man who is walking away from an explosion without looking backwards at it. Closed caption reads, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
With the impending recision of Harvard's tax-exempt status, it strikes me that public universities have a huge, huge advantage now over private universities in free speech in the Trump regime. Harvard will litigate. But is the easiest solution just to make a deal with MA for in-state tuition?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Trump wants to go back to the golden age of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory is a more accurate characaterization - again based on his own repeated statements - than whatever wishcasting others are doing.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is a nutso statement. The Trump Administration is literally calling on other nations to become our tributaries in order to stop the trade war. Not a lifting of trade barriers. Just give the U.S. money. Straight up in the fifth point.
whitehouse.gov
CEA Chairman Steve Miran Hudson Institute Event Remarks
Today I’d like to discuss the United States’ provision of what economists call “global public goods,” for the entire world.  First, the United States
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It's simply astonishing in the span of like three months we've seen the Trump Administration shift from "unbridled growth on its way" to "some short-term pain in the public sector" to Trump actively cheering a stock market crash/recession on Truth Social. I really have no words.
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Gul Dukat @realguldukat.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I don't read Jake Sisko, he's a journalist who I think is not very good & about to go out of business. I had no idea he was in a group subspace communique about the strike on the Gorn, which was very effective by the way. You're telling me about it for the first time. #StarTrek #SISKO197
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I realized yesterday (after seeing a moving van picking up stuff on Monday, and a for-sale sign being put up yesterday) my next door neighbor died. Not only died, but (checking the obituary) he died back in December, and we never noticed.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Donald
Follow
@getfiscal
me: "So, Karl Marx, that's basically what the world is like in 2018. What's your analysis of the situation? Is capitalism still doomed?" Karl Marx: "Holy shit, you went to the moon?"
me: "Does communism still have a future?" Karl Marx: "The moon in the fucking sky?"
4:44 PM - 10 Apr 2018
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Chuck Schumer:
media.tenor.com
a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas
ALT: a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Normie Dems are hopping mad now, while the response from the left seems muted. Likely because this is the "mask off" moment for them that we reached years, if not decades ago.
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Gul Dukat @realguldukat.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Picard and Sisko left us such a huge economic mess and it may take some time to get out of it. THIS IS NOT A DUKAT RECESSION! #StarTrek #SISKO197
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Autocracies usually go out of their way to take care of veterans, service members, police officers, and even most civil servants … because if you fuck those people over, they’re the ones who do coups.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
@jj-mccullough.bsky.social Do you think there's an analogue between the development of Canadian unity/rally round the flag in response to Trump's rhetoric/actions and the post 9/11 moment in America? Because it sure seems like the Liberals are getting a similar bounce to George W. Bush.
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The current moment is so weird, because half of people I follow think the Trump Administration is on the threshold of installing a total dictatorship, while the other half think it's omnishambles and we're one bad news story away from the country figuratively catching on fire.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
BILLIONAIRE: Ive done it all. This world has nothing for me ???: I can give you the mind & soul of Dylan Klebold BILLIONAIRE: Hm. Jack me in
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Karl Zimmerman @karlzimmerman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We have truly crossed the rubicon:
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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