Karl Coleman
@snarl71.bsky.social
Cape Cod native. Formerly just another gaijin living in Tokyo, currently just another local living in the People’s Republic of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
50s, work in higher education, passionate about travel.
50s, work in higher education, passionate about travel.
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2019. Randy and I are in Provincetown for the Carnival parade today.
Here I am the last time we attended six years ago. #ptown #provincetown #provincetowncarnival #pbg #ptowncarnival #massachusetts @snarl71
Here I am the last time we attended six years ago. #ptown #provincetown #provincetowncarnival #pbg #ptowncarnival #massachusetts @snarl71
August 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2019. Randy and I are in Provincetown for the Carnival parade today.
Here I am the last time we attended six years ago. #ptown #provincetown #provincetowncarnival #pbg #ptowncarnival #massachusetts @snarl71
Here I am the last time we attended six years ago. #ptown #provincetown #provincetowncarnival #pbg #ptowncarnival #massachusetts @snarl71
TBT - Throw Throwback Thursday: 2012.
Standing atop the Mori Tower in 六本木、東京。
Standing atop the Mori Tower in 六本木、東京。
August 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
TBT - Throw Throwback Thursday: 2012.
Standing atop the Mori Tower in 六本木、東京。
Standing atop the Mori Tower in 六本木、東京。
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2011. Fourteen years ago TODAY on our honeymoon, Randy and I stayed at this SPECTACULAR rental unit atop the Waipi’o Rim on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Looking back at this photo it almost looks too perfect but it wasn’t. This was us standing in front of our private house.
Looking back at this photo it almost looks too perfect but it wasn’t. This was us standing in front of our private house.
July 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2011. Fourteen years ago TODAY on our honeymoon, Randy and I stayed at this SPECTACULAR rental unit atop the Waipi’o Rim on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Looking back at this photo it almost looks too perfect but it wasn’t. This was us standing in front of our private house.
Looking back at this photo it almost looks too perfect but it wasn’t. This was us standing in front of our private house.
A step back in time at #lyndellsbakery
By the way, the chocolate drizzled cream puffs are phenomenal.
By the way, the chocolate drizzled cream puffs are phenomenal.
July 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A step back in time at #lyndellsbakery
By the way, the chocolate drizzled cream puffs are phenomenal.
By the way, the chocolate drizzled cream puffs are phenomenal.
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 1988. Mini golf at Pirate’s Cove with my (then) biggest crush, Gillian Crombie (a summer visa workers from Clarkston, Glasgow) We lost contact in the mid-90s and despite the powers of the interwebs I’ve never been able to find her again. #snarl71 #crush
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2007. Enjoying a beach day in #Provincetown 18 years ago. #herringcove #capecodnationalseashore #capecod
July 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2007. Enjoying a beach day in #Provincetown 18 years ago. #herringcove #capecodnationalseashore #capecod
Proud of where I work (and graduated).
June 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Proud of where I work (and graduated).
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2019. Happy Pride Month!
Accidentally stumbling upon Pride festivities in Quebec City, Canada, 6 years ago. #pride
Accidentally stumbling upon Pride festivities in Quebec City, Canada, 6 years ago. #pride
June 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2019. Happy Pride Month!
Accidentally stumbling upon Pride festivities in Quebec City, Canada, 6 years ago. #pride
Accidentally stumbling upon Pride festivities in Quebec City, Canada, 6 years ago. #pride
Does this surprise anybody? Trump’s track record of destroyed relationships is even longer than his list of felonies.
It seems every ally, employee, or cabinet appointment he engages with leaves under acrimonious circumstances.
It seems every ally, employee, or cabinet appointment he engages with leaves under acrimonious circumstances.
June 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Does this surprise anybody? Trump’s track record of destroyed relationships is even longer than his list of felonies.
It seems every ally, employee, or cabinet appointment he engages with leaves under acrimonious circumstances.
It seems every ally, employee, or cabinet appointment he engages with leaves under acrimonious circumstances.
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2008. Waiting for the Boston Pride parade to start 17 years ago. #bostonpride #pride
June 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2008. Waiting for the Boston Pride parade to start 17 years ago. #bostonpride #pride
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2016. I’ve been fortunate to be able to spend my birthday in some pretty amazing places (Paris, Prague, Helsinki, Montreal, Aruba, Rome, Tokyo)…but the most spectacular would have to be Petra, Jordan, nine years ago. #petra #petrajordan
May 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2016. I’ve been fortunate to be able to spend my birthday in some pretty amazing places (Paris, Prague, Helsinki, Montreal, Aruba, Rome, Tokyo)…but the most spectacular would have to be Petra, Jordan, nine years ago. #petra #petrajordan
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2007. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, we used to almost always travel to Europe for my birthday/Memorial Day. Here I am in London 18 years ago.
We flew over on my actual birthday, so this is my jet lagged self the following day: May 25. #london #tbt #uk #towerbridge
We flew over on my actual birthday, so this is my jet lagged self the following day: May 25. #london #tbt #uk #towerbridge
May 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2007. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, we used to almost always travel to Europe for my birthday/Memorial Day. Here I am in London 18 years ago.
We flew over on my actual birthday, so this is my jet lagged self the following day: May 25. #london #tbt #uk #towerbridge
We flew over on my actual birthday, so this is my jet lagged self the following day: May 25. #london #tbt #uk #towerbridge
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2009. Resting on an enormous sand dune in Death Valley, California, sixteen years ago. #tbt #deathvalley #sanddune
May 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2009. Resting on an enormous sand dune in Death Valley, California, sixteen years ago. #tbt #deathvalley #sanddune
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2011. Enjoying a spring afternoon on Peaks Island, Maine, fourteen years ago. #peaksisland #peaksislandme #maine
May 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2011. Enjoying a spring afternoon on Peaks Island, Maine, fourteen years ago. #peaksisland #peaksislandme #maine
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2008. Life imitates art, in San Francisco. @snarl71 #sfmoma #sculpture #lifeimitatingart #sanfrancisco #tbt
May 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2008. Life imitates art, in San Francisco. @snarl71 #sfmoma #sculpture #lifeimitatingart #sanfrancisco #tbt
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2008: relaxing in the hot tub at the (now demolished) Summer Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
The place was a dump so not big loss. @snarl71 #hottub #oldlasvegas #vegas #lasvegas
The place was a dump so not big loss. @snarl71 #hottub #oldlasvegas #vegas #lasvegas
April 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 2008: relaxing in the hot tub at the (now demolished) Summer Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
The place was a dump so not big loss. @snarl71 #hottub #oldlasvegas #vegas #lasvegas
The place was a dump so not big loss. @snarl71 #hottub #oldlasvegas #vegas #lasvegas
Donald Trump, May 2023:
“They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
Today (88 days after his first 24 hours):
“They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
Today (88 days after his first 24 hours):
April 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Donald Trump, May 2023:
“They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
Today (88 days after his first 24 hours):
“They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
Today (88 days after his first 24 hours):
Cambridge has a policy that you can’t remove a tree without city approval if the trunk is greater than 6 inches thick.
That results in things like this: a 3 foot wide tree that completely blocks the sidewalk to pedestrians, forcing you to walk into the street to pass by.
Nothing unsafe about that!
That results in things like this: a 3 foot wide tree that completely blocks the sidewalk to pedestrians, forcing you to walk into the street to pass by.
Nothing unsafe about that!
April 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Cambridge has a policy that you can’t remove a tree without city approval if the trunk is greater than 6 inches thick.
That results in things like this: a 3 foot wide tree that completely blocks the sidewalk to pedestrians, forcing you to walk into the street to pass by.
Nothing unsafe about that!
That results in things like this: a 3 foot wide tree that completely blocks the sidewalk to pedestrians, forcing you to walk into the street to pass by.
Nothing unsafe about that!
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 1988: sitting in the beach grass, apparently testing my fate with Lyme Disease. Thankfully, I had all of that hair to protect me. #1980s #capecod #osterville #dowsesbeach #80s #ioncehadhair
April 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 1988: sitting in the beach grass, apparently testing my fate with Lyme Disease. Thankfully, I had all of that hair to protect me. #1980s #capecod #osterville #dowsesbeach #80s #ioncehadhair
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 1998. I don’t think a photograph could epitomize the 1990s any more than this one does: flannel outer shirt, goth t-shirt, Lilith Fair posters, and long hair…standing outside of a record shop. What you can’t see are the Doc Martens on my feet. #1990s #90s #genx #generationx
March 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
TBT - Throwback Thursday: 1998. I don’t think a photograph could epitomize the 1990s any more than this one does: flannel outer shirt, goth t-shirt, Lilith Fair posters, and long hair…standing outside of a record shop. What you can’t see are the Doc Martens on my feet. #1990s #90s #genx #generationx
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A nice, peaceful, escape to Panama…(before Trump tries to invade and ruin everything). #panama #vacation #nuevagorgona
March 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A nice, peaceful, escape to Panama…(before Trump tries to invade and ruin everything). #panama #vacation #nuevagorgona
Are we winning yet? Are we great again?
March 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Are we winning yet? Are we great again?
March 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM