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Andy Karl-son of Kong

@andykarlson.bsky.social

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Husband, father of 3, UU minister, hospital chaplain, dedicated amateur film photographer (unless otherwise noted, photos taken with my Google Pixel 7 Pro), opinions my own. "I am at home with the me. I am rooted in the me who is on this adventure."

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · Nov 13

Well, here we all are. I'm a dad of three, a hospital chaplain semi-reluctantly ascended to management, a film photographer, a board game fan, a reader, and a pizza topping maximalist.

My interests tend to run broad, and in this next political epoch I'm trying to keep my focus local and joyful.

Selfie of a bearded middle aged white guy in a dark gray long sleever, resting his chin against his right hand, and looking at the camera with what to me looks like an expression of benign befuddlement.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1h

If I can be serious for a moment here....it would be better if everyone but the very worst Twitter users comes here so that they aren't under Elon's thumb. So I think we should try to be nice to the ppl who come here from there unless they are Nazis or similar.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 12h

We’ve known for forever that they don’t think gendered violence is a really serious thing but it’s still wild to hear them say it so plainly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

trust fund brunchlords are not allowed to fail

it's a big club

and you ain't in it

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15h

Ro Khanna is not stupid, he's. a scumbag who never met a group he didnt want to use to benefit himself, he's literally just a wannabe Gavin Newsom

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 15h

Ro Khanna is so fucking stupid lmao.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 17h

docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Today the documented list of right wing child predators has 1,472 entries.

#RightWingSexualPredators

docs.google.com

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

In fairness some of the younger cohort of these people were in fact minors when they were in group chats with 30 something JD Vance

also reminder that it is verifiable fact that 30 something JD Vance was in group chats with minors and the entire political media has ignored this for years

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 19h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 19h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 20h

I am sick to fucking death of these pissant little Nazi pukes having any role in society, much less being influential political operatives!

It's time to go back to the old ways.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 21h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 20h

I have shared this piece a number of times over the last seven years, and it just keeps getting more relevant. A truly important work of comics journalism - read it today!

Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 20h

I’m really heartened to see articles finally being published which highlight the mainstreaming of fascist presence via aesthetic & consumer goods— the whole reason I made “About Face” was b/c I couldn’t find ANY essay/article making sense of what I was observing in 2016-17, so I had to do it myself.

Hat Full of Sky @hatfullofsky.bsky.social · 1d

@natepowell.bsky.social was prophetic: popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 20h

Scene from the climax of Ghostbusters, text altered so that Winston is saying, "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a frog, you say yes!"

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not slut shaming Olivia Nuzzi, I'm just saying that if you find a Nazi Cryptkeeper hot we don't need to understand each other

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Frogs vs Toadies

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 3d

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 1d

I happened to check the Hingston & Olsen web page yesterday in time to grab a copy - I didn't even know that Ghost Box IV was in the works, I just was seeing what they were up to!

I just love this series, and am geeked up to be adding another to the collection!

Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 14d

GHOST BOX IV is here from Hingston & Olsen! I’ve curated 11 creep-tastic horror tales, and they come in H&O’s signature, coffin-style case! One-time printing and this WILL sell out! Grab one now!

Ghost Box IV — Hingston & Olsen Publishing

www.hingstonandolsen.com

Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Which way, country-western man?

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 2d

here are 14 albums that turned 50 this year that you might dig www.dontrocktheinbox.com/14-essential...

14 Essential 1975 Country Albums

'70s country is the source of plenty of current nostalgia despite being made (gulp) a half century ago. There are so many great albums that hit the 50 mark this year, though, and it only seemed right ...

www.dontrocktheinbox.com

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Eddie Deezenuts @32mbit.bsky.social · 1d

Mans looking like a ukiyo-e print

BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 2d

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

This interviewer is GREAT and Booker falls all over himself here. It’s 2025. No more equivocating, please.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Whereas Harris told MSNBC that she believes whether or not Israel has committed genocide is a fair and honest question to ask, Cory Booker explicitly said to the "I've Had it" podcast that he thinks addressing the question of whether Netanyahu has committed crimes would undermine resolving conflict.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

Hochul is very much a centrist; kind of notable she's willing to be this direct about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 1d

Good morning. Rainy, grey day here in Tokyo. But, there's always some sunshine and colour to share from my back-catalogue.

These were both made back in November of 2023, over in Todoroki. A wonderful little corner of Tokyo where you can enjoy some nature away from the noise & bustle.

Luv&peace
❤️

Red momoji leaves above. Darker trunks and branches in the background. Autumn's deep red colours at the Todoroki Ravine, Tokyo.

An out of focus v-shape of tree trunk and branches in the foreground. Fiery oranges and reds of autumn momiji leaves fill the background. In this photo made at the Todoroki Ravine in 2023.

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