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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Everson Art Museum. Syracuse, NY. Some great stuff up on the walls this fall. Building designed by I.M. Pei. everson.org

Interior atrium at Everson Art Museum. Poured concrete walls with spiral staircase and view into gallery one. Building designed by I.M. Pei.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

If this guy cared about America half as much as he cares about golf and money… …he’d still be a POS. But still.

Trump Administration v
Trump Outlines Rapid
Plan to Close and
Overhaul D.C.
Golf Course
The plan to begin work transforming
the course in four weeks injected
fresh urgency into a federal lawsuit
opposing changes to East Potomac
Golf Links.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

One man, two histories. R: Gilbert Stuart - The icon and founding father L: Clark V. Fox - “Town Destroyer

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I have no problem with work, but the levels of greed and inequality that are produced by America’s version of capitalism are obscene and anti-democratic. The IWW knew the economy was rigged a hundred years ago.

IWW street sticker with capitalism chicken laying three eggs: dictators, unemployment, and war.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Inside “Voices of the People: 110 Years of Street Stickers from Around the World.” Now on display at the Picker Art Gallery in Hamilton, NY. #streetart

Framed collection of anti-Trump stickers.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Artist is Shaun Slifer. I'm glad I get to look at this print every day I'm on the office. As long as autocrats keep trying to force simple and sanitized history down our throats, this will remain a mantra. #history #histodons

Poster with tall masted shirts cruising across the ocean and a pair of mantles on the ocean floor. TEACH HISTORY FROM BELOW

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Candidate A is flawed. Candidate A doesn’t have the kind of visionary plan that energizes me. Candidate B:

Masked members of Patriot Front surrounding African-American teen on DC Metro (July 4, 2026).

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@joshisanonymous I tried to use “riz” in a recent conversation with students. That didn’t go well either.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#Midterms coming. #NoKings. No lies. No conmen. Democracy requires us to live in truth.

"Because the regime is captive tolits own lies, it
must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It
falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It
falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an
omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus.
It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends
to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing.
It pretends to pretend nothing."
—Václav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless" (1978)

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Special event coming up in an hour or so.

Dear Alexander Karn,
Faculty/Staff
Registration: Global
Leaders Speaker Series
with President Barack
Obama is coming up soon!
Please thoroughly read all
of the information below.
Your electronic ticket (QR
Code) is attached to this
email.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

View of my workplace. Some BS, like any job, but load of great opportunities, colleagues, and learners. I’m fortunate to have spent the last twenty years here.

View of small college campus on a green wooded hill seen across mirrored lake.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

MAGA finally taking stubborn unemployment and affordability crisis seriously.

Real AP News Headline: FBI chief Kash Patel defends
loosening of employment standards
on bestiality, prostitution

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Wel’ll take the win, obviously. But, on the other hand, Trump’s bullshit crusade has already eroded trust in our elections and damaged our democracy as a result. Many millions of USAians now believe that the will of the majority, our closest approximation […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Justices Block Trump's Plan
to Restrict Mail Voting

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Mainstream media: Are Democratic Socialists Preparing to Submarine Democracy? Mother Jones: 🎯

Mother Jones cover: “The Southern Strategy” showing a
Judges robe on a hanger and a hand reaching for a KKK robe and hood on a hanger next to it.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Two days on the newly completed Adirondack Rail Trail. 34 mile car free stretch from Lake Tupper to Lake Placid. We hit rain on the way back, but a quiet, misty ride through the lakes and pines was lovely, and we practically had the trail to ourselves. Packed […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Gravel bike trail curves around a quiet pond and cuts through evergreen forest. Rain clouds in the sky reflected on the water.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Adirondack Rail Trail. 34 mile (55 km) ride from Tupper Lake to Lake Placid. Good beer and burger stop in Saranac Lake. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Summertime rolls. Bike ride to Delphi Falls County Park. Me plus a guy and his beefy black lab.

Forty foot waterfall cuts through the forest and rock and cascades into the stream below.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Friends in Europe: You live in New York. That’s so cool and hip. Meanwhile, live shot from my bedroom: #upstateny

Amish horse buggy trotting down village street in Upstate New York.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Doing some basic, but quite new to me, wrenching on my kid’s bike (new rear derailleur and hanger), and it’s pretty clear I will need a bike stand to do this properly. Wondering if any of the sub-100 dollar stands are work it, or maybe I bite the bullet and […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Say it with me. Objectivity is not neutrality.

Book cover: THOMAS L. HASKELL
Objectivity
Is Not
Neutrality
EXPLANATORY
SCHEMES
IN HISTORY

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

The MAGA/MAHA attack on science and vetted knowledge will have grave consequences long after Trump and Co. have exited the stage.

BREAKING
Measles Cases Hit New
Record in U.S., as
Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported
in the United States in the last two years
than in all the years from 2000 through
2024 combined.
4 MIN READ
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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Wind is starting to rip in Central NY. Halfway home on my 45 km #cycling route where I always make pit stop. Best to prepare for all possible outcomes.

Can of beer with can of highly caffeinated soda next to road bike.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Couldn’t post video on site, but here’s a special encounter from Friday evening.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Scene from the wolf sanctuary where we’re camping this weekend. These guys are thirty yards from our tent. We got to help with today’s feeding, which was remarkable.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Not quite 10:00 AM. 28 mile lake loop followed by bean/rice/cheese burrito and now some #tourdefrance on the telly. Summertime rolls.

Landscape view with blue lake and green hills in the background.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Goodbye, Norway. I hope we’ll meet again. Congratulations on your latest football triumph.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

It’s brings to mind this photo of Elizabeth Eckford (1957). Except that the politics and culture are somehow moving in reverse today. A democracy in retrograde.

African-American girls waits to attend school while crowd of white onlookers stands by menacingly.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

July 4, 2026. Washington, DC. Amerikka.

Masked members of neo-Nazi Patriot Front riding DC metro, with a young African-American girl sitting nearby.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Highlight of the day. Nicole Eisenman, Destiny Riding Her Bike (2020). There are no solitary events. Everything is connected to everything else. Buckle up.

I’m sorry, visually impaired friends, but this is almost impossible to describe. A painted canvas which shows a man who fell from a ladder while trying to retrieve a kitten in a tree. A female cyclist strike the stricken man and goes catapulting over her handlebars.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Wildlife sighting at the Astrup Fearnley Museum. #Oslo #Norway

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Continuing with Norwegian church theme. A quick stop in Borgund. #Norway

800 year-old Norwegian stave church with shingled roof and ornate wood carvings.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

The Aurlandsfjord does not disappoint. I love these moody, misty evenings. 🇳🇴

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Another church scene from Undredal. Active congregation since 1147. #Norway

Tiny Norwegian stave church in misty valley.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Sorry, other waterfalls with hopes and dreams. You’ll never surpass Vøringsfossen. 🇳🇴

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Stay human, friends. Seen in Housman’s Bookshop, London/Islington.

White poster with simple black text: “Don’t let the robots get you down.”

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

“How much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function?”

Book cover, On Lying and Politics by Hannah Arendt

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

ETA: They took pity on us and gave us a slot.

Wild swimmer after taking the water in North London.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Turned away from open swim session at Hampstead Heath. No admissions after 11:00. (It’s now 11:15.) Bookings available after 12:00 (no remaining slots). Current pond conditions.

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