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andrewbloomberg.bsky.social
He/him; left-wing history dad; pro-Popular Front; français par mariage (and temporarily in Paris); Minnesotan in WI exile. Mostly posts bad history jokes and occasionally bad history not jokes.
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Guy Fieri asking the Oracle at Delphi if he should do a giant burger challenge and being told that if he undertakes it, a great pile of meat will be defeated

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It’s only safe to go to restaurants in the Green Zone (Times Square)

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Started an audiobook twofer of Herodotus and Thucydides because I’m feeling like learning about other peoples’ political problems, and man, Croesus is really in the Misunderstanding Prophecy Hall of Fame

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I know that this isn’t a particularly helpful way to think about this but it genuinely terrifies me, so: Nuclear weapons feel like the gigantic Chekhov’s gun of contemporary world history

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“Look, surely we can all agree that bombing sovereign countries is good, it’s just that we need to do it with enthusiastic Democratic like the last several times (which we mostly now acknowledge were terrible ideas)”

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Core parts of my identity: 1) dad 2) husband 3) guy who cooks the meals for all the friends on vacation weekend ……… 100 something) professional

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The remnants of the massive artificial port that the British built at Gold Beach after D-Day has turned into tide pools, there’s something oddly poetic about that

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4YO at the Atlantic Ocean: daddy, I want to fight the waves! And I’ve read a little Greek tragedy, so if Poseidon comes looking, I’d just like to say I don’t know her

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Biggest surprise of Normandy so far is all the middle-aged British guys on motorcycles

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“You can’t ground me, I’m not a real boy, I’m merely an AI system designed for use by X subscribers” *Musk bursts into tears*

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One of the many D-Day themed restaurants here is called “Taste of Liberty,” and it prominently advertises tapas - which is ironic because if Britain, France, and the US had made better choices in Spain they may not have found themselves needing to storm heavily guarded beaches in the first place

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This may look like an innocent hunk of metal but don’t be fooled. It was a loading facility which was used by a heavily armed group of violent Antifa who killed thousands of people *This has been episode 1/??? Of left-wing history dad goes to Normandy*

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Just rented a car to go to Normandy for the weekend and it’s a VW, not great vibes

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Don Rickles denied tenure for being too nice

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Interesting analogy, what happened right after Lincoln said that thing about the better angels? Everybody was cool, right?

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The official line of the New York Times is vicious, nasty, and absurd transphobia, which is very convenient for the vicious, nasty, and absurd transphobes in our political system

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I was 15 years old in March, 2003, and I wrote an op-ed against the war in my suburban Minneapolis school newspaper. A football player got in my face in the bathroom and asked my why I loved Saddam Hussein so much.

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More of this, at a bare minimum. Any Democrat who is not offering a full throated defense of Trans people right now, or saying that their basic human rights are a distraction, is the enemy.

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Wasting away again in MAGAritaville

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And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; This, roughly, is the vibe of Bluesky today! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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I really don't want to downplay the ACA, which really did matter, as inadequate as it is. But the fact that Joe Biden - Joe Biden! - delivered more progressive policy wins that Obama really says a lot.

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