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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking for just a few more people (ideally who live elsewhere) to tell me how I should think about the too-big street fest in my neighborhood. Could that be you?

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got an extra thousand dollars in severance just by having a lawyer friend send a certified letter. Pretty good trade for a good bottle of scotch.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gonna go get tore up on cider bombs at APPLE FEST!!!!!

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man it is one of those early fall days where it is so nice working should be illegal. I'm talking everything up to life saving professions (who should get 3x).

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 01,1968

P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE PLAYING HIDE N SEEK, SLUGGO IS HIDING WHILE NANCY IS COUNTING,WHILE COVERING HER EYES

NANCY: 14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-
SLUGGO: THIS IS A GOOD PLACE TO HIDE

SLUGGO HAS GOTTEN INSIDE A TRASHCAN

P2-NANCY LOOKS SHOCKED AS SHE WATCHES AN EMPLOYEE FROM THE SANITATION DEPARTMENT JUST PITCH SLUGGO INTO THE BACK OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The NFL makes me feel like a 14th century peasant. I know I will never see the spoils of my king’s wars. It has naught to do with me. But when I learn his army won an impressive battle, maybe I give myself a heavier pour of grog. Maybe, with a wink, I throw a fresher tomato at someone in the stocks.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Real long shot here but is anyone I know trying to see Radioactivity at the Bottle on Saturday?

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ohhhhh this is what MLS has in mind when they decided to have the hoi polloi sit outside in winter? This is just kinda weird. Placing this story in public media is an odd way to go for something inaccessible to 95%+ of Chicago.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I bought two 1970s-era Sears flannels. Sears really knew how to make a flannel shirt back then. Or at least bought nice ones to sell.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In my new corner of the office they have a TV with CNBC on all of the time. Man, this is eye-opening...

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feel like I oughta check in here: as a man of a certain age, I too am enjoying the new Protomartyr record.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking an eight pound sledgehammer will be sufficient to Street Fighter II the next car to lay on the horn outside my home. I think about this often.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm at a point where I think college football and dog racing are morally indistinguishable.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't wait until my former employer gets the certified letter I just sent them.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man, I'd really like a Budweiser and slice at Santullo's right now.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a really nice feature!

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Man, I'd really like to go to Quenchers for a drink.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watching a person in the seat in front me on the train write and revise a linked in post that's arguing that if an AI lab builds a tool that commits war crimes that it isn't really the lab's fault. It is scheduled to post at around 7:30p tonight. Looking forward to it!

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was recently laid off and kinda saw it coming so I resolved to steal something from my office every day I was in the office. This lasted about six months. I have so much stuff. Really, anything that wasn't nailed down was fair game. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JWqN...

m.youtube.com

Take Stuff from Work

YouTube video by King Missile - Topic

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TV people mad at TV president, remove him from TV (today).

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think college football should be illegal.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Forgot how much I loved this one.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Made a nice goulash with mushrooms, beans, sauerkraut, and the good paprika from the Eastern Euro grocer.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tomorrow I'm going to set off riding a bike from Milwaukee to Madison. I'm very excited!

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Goddamn Maps is unusable at this point. Going to the library (tomorrow) to look at a real one.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reading in-depth analysis on Professional Football Team versus State Barbers College weekend.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Got laid off a couple days before I was going to resign (have another job) so now I get high four figure bonus. Anyone wanna have a single malt lunch?

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 03,1958

P1- NANCY IN A HURRY TO GET HOME, BUT SHE STOPPED BEFORE SHE CROSSED THE STREET
NANCY: I’M LATE FOR MY TV SHOW
P2- FRITZI SEES NANCY SITTING IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION WATCHING A WESTERN PROGRAM
FRITZI: DID YOU STOP AT THE CROSSING
ON THE WAY HOME ?
NANCY: SURE
P3- NANCY: IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST PANEL IN THIS COMIC STRIP

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First fry the tempeh until it is golden. Then add shallot, red pepper, green onion, and white pepper. After that, a few spoons of sweet soy sauce. Remove from wok. Then garlic, ginger, peppers, shallot. Woody ends of gai lan. Old rice. Thin soy sauce. Leaves, Buddhist fish sauce, tumeric, msg.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Maybe quitting my job so I took off early to get high and see the new Jason Statham movie.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The act of furiously honking at a stuck drawbridge says a lot about how things are going generally.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering when Ruth BG called Colin Kaepernick "dumb and disrespectful".

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Movie palaces promised escape from everyday life. But in Hopper’s New York Movie (1939), the real drama isn’t on the screen—it’s inside the usherette’s thoughts. She stands apart from the crowd, lost in a private story that takes center stage.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I spent twelve hours at the MN State Fair today. It was glorious.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I can't seem to post a photo of it best, rest assured I had the Grain Belt in the Mötley Crue-themed can up here in Minneapolis.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live look at me on the Borealis just outside of Redwing, enjoying the wine I brought with me.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On my way to the Twin Cities for the State Fair and to drink my weight in glorious Grain Belt Premium.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am not and will not be interested in examining Dolly Parton's or Tim Curry's death through a political lens. Thank you.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Man" from the WSJ has some serious Hapsburg jaw, right? The story was amazing. They're all so obviously fucked up on amphetamines but with billions of dollars somehow.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Please no more gay icons dying for awhile. Thanks in advance.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Starting with '9 to 5' tonight. Maybe a double with 'Blue Collar'?

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Listening to Knoxville's WDVX and would suggest anyone else for looking for a good tribute to do the same.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let the truth take over. Ascend to a higher plane of info with these affirmations.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Not saying anything new here but, wow, Gilliam Anderson was AMAZING in 'Camp Miasma'. Pretty nice print at the Music Box, too.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2026

The biggest mistake that people made about the AI bubble is assuming that the rich and powerful are smart, better-informed or somehow intellectually superior. Yes, they'd absolutely spend all this money without really knowing if it would work! Everyone around them said it would

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Listening to Lightning Bolt a bunch lately and it really works for me.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Man, I love enormous Greek salad from the garden season.

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Karl @wb05karl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Whenever I see well-known internet people complaining about weirdos in replies or randos not getting jokes I think. "I dunno, it kinda takes two to tango". If you tweet your thoughts often, often you with get internet users reacting to them. Sorta how it works!

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