Andrew Bloomberg
@andrewbloomberg.bsky.social
He/him. Left-wing history dad. Pro Popular Front, pro Sewer Socialism, anti borders. Français par mariage. Minnesotan in Wisconsin exile. Mostly posts bad history jokes and occasionally bad history not jokes.
The 4YO requested a pancake shaped like a t-Rex. She said “that looks more like a lizard,” a review I’m pretty happy with under the circumstances.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The 4YO requested a pancake shaped like a t-Rex. She said “that looks more like a lizard,” a review I’m pretty happy with under the circumstances.
5 months ago we ended a wonderful year in Paris to move back to the US. It’s nice to be home in many ways, but obviously there is a lot we miss. Fortunately there are ways to recapture the magic (“Champagne Problems,” 2025)
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
5 months ago we ended a wonderful year in Paris to move back to the US. It’s nice to be home in many ways, but obviously there is a lot we miss. Fortunately there are ways to recapture the magic (“Champagne Problems,” 2025)
Several inches of snow, a decorated Christmas tree, and a Negroni made partly with pine syrup from said tree. Happy winter, folks
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Several inches of snow, a decorated Christmas tree, and a Negroni made partly with pine syrup from said tree. Happy winter, folks
I’ve reached “got snowflake projector to point at my garage for the holiday season” levels of Midwestern dad, and I just went out to look at it in a t-shirt at 11 PM before the big snowstorm starts
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I’ve reached “got snowflake projector to point at my garage for the holiday season” levels of Midwestern dad, and I just went out to look at it in a t-shirt at 11 PM before the big snowstorm starts
My annual Thanksgiving leftover savory pie stood upright this year (until it was sliced into, but we don’t need to discuss that)
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
My annual Thanksgiving leftover savory pie stood upright this year (until it was sliced into, but we don’t need to discuss that)
Doing our annual Thanksgiving evening watch of Muppet Christmas Carol and the costumes and sets are genuinely so good, in a way that kind of depressingly shows how crap movies look these days
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Doing our annual Thanksgiving evening watch of Muppet Christmas Carol and the costumes and sets are genuinely so good, in a way that kind of depressingly shows how crap movies look these days
There’s a house in our neighborhood that does a massive Christmas light display every year, and their neighbor understands the assignment
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
There’s a house in our neighborhood that does a massive Christmas light display every year, and their neighbor understands the assignment
Happy Thanksgiving, my most dad day of the year (he says, about to nap)
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, my most dad day of the year (he says, about to nap)
The friend who is in charge of mashed potatoes is using purple potatoes this year, and it’s like the Simpsons episode where Homer doesn’t wear a white shirt
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The friend who is in charge of mashed potatoes is using purple potatoes this year, and it’s like the Simpsons episode where Homer doesn’t wear a white shirt
We’ve been back in Wisconsin for 5 months but we weren’t *back* back until tonight, when I took a glass of wine and a thermometer to the porch to see if it was going to be a walk-in fridge or freezer for Thanksgiving weekend
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
We’ve been back in Wisconsin for 5 months but we weren’t *back* back until tonight, when I took a glass of wine and a thermometer to the porch to see if it was going to be a walk-in fridge or freezer for Thanksgiving weekend
Well folks that didn’t feel like a three day week but it’s over and tomorrow is Thanksgiving, happy Negroni o’clock
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Well folks that didn’t feel like a three day week but it’s over and tomorrow is Thanksgiving, happy Negroni o’clock
“Why weren’t they grateful?”
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“Why weren’t they grateful?”
I love a cold, bare, gray, slightly snow dusted November landscape. Despite not being a believer I have to imagine this is the product of a long-standing cultural disposition to bleak Scandinavian Protestantism
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I love a cold, bare, gray, slightly snow dusted November landscape. Despite not being a believer I have to imagine this is the product of a long-standing cultural disposition to bleak Scandinavian Protestantism
*Millennia of global trade, conquest, colonization, immigration, warfare, and environmental exchange pass*
Time to put the little bag of seasoned salt, garlic, and paprika together macaroni and all the packaged cheeses known to man
Time to put the little bag of seasoned salt, garlic, and paprika together macaroni and all the packaged cheeses known to man
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
*Millennia of global trade, conquest, colonization, immigration, warfare, and environmental exchange pass*
Time to put the little bag of seasoned salt, garlic, and paprika together macaroni and all the packaged cheeses known to man
Time to put the little bag of seasoned salt, garlic, and paprika together macaroni and all the packaged cheeses known to man
Our kids’ (public) elementary school uses a bunch of apps to send messages, share art projects, etc. And every single damn app is trying to sell something. A new and fun way to experience the scamification of everything. Cool stuff!
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Our kids’ (public) elementary school uses a bunch of apps to send messages, share art projects, etc. And every single damn app is trying to sell something. A new and fun way to experience the scamification of everything. Cool stuff!
The 4YO’s thoughts while watching me brine the turkey:
“Dad, that’s gross. I’m *not* eating that unless you cook it.”
So rewarding when your kid independently creates the concept of proper food handling
“Dad, that’s gross. I’m *not* eating that unless you cook it.”
So rewarding when your kid independently creates the concept of proper food handling
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The 4YO’s thoughts while watching me brine the turkey:
“Dad, that’s gross. I’m *not* eating that unless you cook it.”
So rewarding when your kid independently creates the concept of proper food handling
“Dad, that’s gross. I’m *not* eating that unless you cook it.”
So rewarding when your kid independently creates the concept of proper food handling
Please send “boil” vibes to my brine, I’d like to go to bed
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Please send “boil” vibes to my brine, I’d like to go to bed
Made a Neapolitan frittata with Saturday’s leftover bucatini. I’ve never tried this before and am very curious how good it is
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Made a Neapolitan frittata with Saturday’s leftover bucatini. I’ve never tried this before and am very curious how good it is
We showed the French cousins our detailed Thanksgiving schedule, and put them to work doing some prep work. I may have said “on ne fuck around pas”
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
We showed the French cousins our detailed Thanksgiving schedule, and put them to work doing some prep work. I may have said “on ne fuck around pas”
My favorite history fact is that Henry Ford stole the concept of the assembly line from the process of making eggplant parm.
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My favorite history fact is that Henry Ford stole the concept of the assembly line from the process of making eggplant parm.
Finishing Tooze’s “The Deluge,” and struck by the similarity between the army that was built to crush slavery and save the Union being used for genocide and empire after the Civil War, and this:
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Finishing Tooze’s “The Deluge,” and struck by the similarity between the army that was built to crush slavery and save the Union being used for genocide and empire after the Civil War, and this:
Long week but it’s boulevardier o’clock on Friday, and the sausage and acorn squash risotto is starting, hell yeah
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Long week but it’s boulevardier o’clock on Friday, and the sausage and acorn squash risotto is starting, hell yeah
Extremely pleasant surprise in the mail after a long day, shoutout @themountaingoats.bsky.social and shoutout ordering books from independent bookstores that get delivered in nice brown paper by the USPS
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Extremely pleasant surprise in the mail after a long day, shoutout @themountaingoats.bsky.social and shoutout ordering books from independent bookstores that get delivered in nice brown paper by the USPS
Next audiobook up, and also I’d really like a movie about this with a “Taking of Pelham 123” dingy, beige, 70s vibe but in the Rust Belt Great Lakes instead of NYC
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Next audiobook up, and also I’d really like a movie about this with a “Taking of Pelham 123” dingy, beige, 70s vibe but in the Rust Belt Great Lakes instead of NYC
Two perfect albums from the year I turned 16 (very different)
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Two perfect albums from the year I turned 16 (very different)