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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦
@ericallyn.bsky.social
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I make jokes about metahumor.

He/him. Grey-haired white cis-male-adjacent. Devout agnostic.

Black lives matter. LGBT+ lives matter. Immigrant lives matter.

Facts matter. Science matters.

Aka Eric Bloomquist.
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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."
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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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.)”
November 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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"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."
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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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.
October 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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
October 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Our little town in Western Massachusetts:
Photo of No Kings protesters lining both sides of a small town street.
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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)
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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.
August 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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"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.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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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
June 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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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.
June 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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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.
May 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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An images that's a combination of multiple images of the actor Ryan Gosling.
April 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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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."
April 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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)
April 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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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.
April 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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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.
April 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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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.
April 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#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.
April 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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White coffee mug on a white background. The wording on the mug says: BILLIONAIRE TEARS Warren
March 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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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.
March 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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?"
March 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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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.
March 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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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
March 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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"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.)
March 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM