E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

@ericallyn

Quipster, not hipster. I make jokes about metahumor. He/him. Grey-haired white cis-male-adjacent. Devout agnostic. Retired data geek. Black lives matter. LGBT+ lives matter. Immigrant lives matter. Facts matter. Science matters. (Aka Eric Bloomquist)

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Jul 4

The Soiling of Old Glory, a black and white photo by Stanley Forman for The Boston Herald American, April 5, 1976

A young white man is wielding an American flag on a flag staff as a spear against a black man. This was taken during one of the protests against court-ordered desegregation busing.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· May 11

This is my irregular reminder that being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize isn't really indicative of anything. The list of "Qualified nominators" is *huge*. Also, the Nobel Foundation restricts disclosure of nominee info for 50 years. And nominations can only be made between September & January

White text on black background:

"Hold on to your hats everybody!! President Zelensky has formally been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize!!!! YES!"

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Apr 13

Wouldn't it be simpler for him to sell Trump branding to those nice people in the Moon base so charmingly documented in "Iron Sky"?

A dark image from an intentionally-stupid movie called "Iron Sky", which shows a fictional Moon base shaped like a swastika.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Mar 28

Initial crowd estimate for Boston #NoKings 200,000 Currently on stage are the Dropkick Murphys, an Irish-American Celtic Punk band. (Because this is fucking Boston, that's why.)

Photo of part of a large crowd of people on the Boston Common for #NoKings March 28, 2026.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Mar 19

Oh, so you're a Marx-ist?

An image of Harpo Marx, playing a harp and singing.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Mar 8

I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

Two "orange" cats looking down at the viewer from the top of a tall cabinet.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Feb 12

Back cover of "Serviceberry", a lovely book by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

This is an image of the back cover of "The Serviceberr", by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

The background is a pale yellow, and there's a pair of cupped hands holding serviceberries. Most of the berries are dark purple and a few are red.

Underneath the hands, some italicized text read:

"All Flourishing is Mutual"

In small print, the credits on the bottom left read:

"COVER DESIGN BY JAYA MICELI
COVER AND ENDPAPER ILLUSTRATIONS
BY JOHN BURGOYNE"

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Jan 20

With alt text.

Alt text:

White text on black background:

"Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

A lot of good people are on a hook over Donald Trump. They voted for him for understandable reasons: to stop Hillary of Kamala, to prevent court-packing, to move the embassy to Jerusalem, to reduce regulations.
They rightly applauded his toughening of immigration policy. They began to feel invested in him. Sure, he was boorish and bombastic, but he was delivering most of what he was elected to do. Naturally, they bridled at criticism from people they disliked, some of which was indeed absurd.
But he has plainly now lost his mind. There is no other way of reading "I am going to threaten an ally with invasion because I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize".
It is impossible to exaggerate how high the stakes are. If Putin had put an agent in the White House, what would would be doing differently?
We are talking about the survival of the Western way of life, about the world order of which the United States is the chief exemplar and beneficiary. That, surely, matters more than "liberal tears".
". Doesn't
it? Because if it doesn't, we are all damned."

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Dec 19

The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 will go. Uh oh.

An image from the movie "The Godfather".

There are two men dressed in tuxedos.

The older of the two is seated, facing in the general direction of the camera, with his right hand at shoulder level.

The younger man is facing away, bent over, evidently whispering into the older man's ear.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Dec 13

Hmm. Source: CDC

An image of a CDC bar chart showing the number of measles cases per year. It shows a significant spike in 2014, a bigger spike in 2019, and an even bigger spike this year.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Dec 6

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Nov 18

Okay, THIS is a rebel flag.

Image of a black-on-red Rebel Alliance symbol from the Star Wars universe.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Nov 7

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."

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Nov 4

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.)”

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Oct 25

"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."

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Oct 22

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.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Oct 22

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

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Oct 18

Our little town in Western Massachusetts:

Photo of No Kings protesters lining both sides of a small town street.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Oct 2

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)

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Aug 12

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.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Jul 8

"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.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Jun 30

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

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· Jun 24

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.

E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦@ericallyn· May 3

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