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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 10h

As a young boy in 1940s Duluth, Minnesota, Bobby Zimmerman lived around the corner from Albert Woolson, who would soon become the oldest surviving Union soldier from the Civil War. Both played guitar professionally.

map showing houses less than 500 feet apart

Woodson as an old man in the1950s with a young girl, playing a drum as he did in the Civil War

Bob Dylan's home in Duluth, where he lived until age 6

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Kris Wernowsky @kriswernowsky.com · 3h

This is the best if these. Why keep tying?

Tippi Hedren Collider @linanneblack.bsky.social · 3h

Mash up bands:

Barry Whitesnake

batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 6h

Mash up bands:

Captain Beefheart & Tennille

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Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 3h

(1966) Garage rock from Palmyra, New York. Canaltown Records which was officially located in Palmyra, appears to have only released one record - this one. 🙂
#MusicSky
youtu.be/8MW09g9CLvE?...

The Acoustics - My Rights

YouTube video by Moody Love

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 3h

I hate when the dish soap bottle makes a mess ... from soap

bottle: DAWN
ULTRA
50% LESS SCRUBBING
TIME TO REFILL
EZ-SQUEEZE
NO FLIP NO MESS I

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 3h

I hate when there is a mess ... from soap

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7h

In any case, I don’t think it’s mainly an infrastructure problem. I think it’s a cultural problem. Which means it’s solvable, but we all know how Minnesotans feel about change, so I dunno.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7h

…it is really shocking how there is almost no culture of walking to things here compared to a lot of MSP’s peer cities. Whether people here drive, bike, or take transit, almost everyone seems to consider it a major inconvenience to have to walk more than two blocks on either end.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 5h

I'm at the Miss Marple (wot?)
I'm at the Lord Peter Whimsy (wot?)
I'm at the combination Miss Marple and Lord Peter Whimsy

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 6h

Miss Marple shows up in this Lord Peter Whimsy

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6h

LOVE DA CUBS LETS GO CUBS

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 6h

The new rule for sporting events is you have to stand if the song has America or USA in the title. Including but not limited to:
- God Bless America
- God Bless the USA
- Born in the USA
- Living in America
- American Idiot
- I’m Afraid of Americans
- America (from West Side Story)
- American Woman

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 6h

Goin’ loaf mode!

A grey striped cat bunkered down so she looks topographically identical to a loaf of bread.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 6h

oh dammit that was accidental but you've salvaged it!

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 6h

(It's Joan Hixson playing a character in a radio dramatization)

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 6h

Miss Marple shows up in this Lord Peter Whimsy

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 7h

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · Mar 31

Dr. Demento started buying records in Dinkytown in Minneapolis while a student at University High School, as he described in detail in an extensive interview in 2018. #rockfacts
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 7h

Not quite this one but 1990s

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

you’re right on everything except the last part because nothing will ever top the north dakota / upper minnesota accent

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 8h

#locaangle

Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 16h

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Dave von Ebers @dave-von-ebers.bsky.social · 1d

After I heard about that WSJ article on Johnny Cash I had to go back and listen to his cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Johny 99"
and dear God, it's even better than I remember. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04Y...

Johnny 99 - Johnny Cash

YouTube video by Johnny Cash Infocenter

www.youtube.com

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 9h

I went to a zine event today here in Austin - lots of young weirdos (very complimentary) making cool stuff - it was great, made me feel a bit more optimistic about the future, but also, GOD I'M SO FRIGGIN OLD

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 9h

craig finn of The Hold Steady rock band singing on stage

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 9h

something like that, a "system" that one old guy used for decades

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 9h

If it makes you feel any better I know if someone who bought an old house in Minneapolis and was surprised to have to do this for the *first* time ... the house had never been hooked up to the city sewer system

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Mateo @bozodeluxe.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, if a guy has to write a five-figure check, at least a guy gets to do it on a lovely fall day.

Picture of a big hole, lined with boards, a big PVC pipe down at the bottom

Picture from another angle showing the two board-lined deep holes down to the sewer line going out to the city main.

Boards over the deep holes and the big ol’ pile o’ dirt you get when dudes in high viz dig a bag ass hole in yer yard.

A section of the old line, cast ceramic sections, which worked just fine for over a hundred years until they didn’t.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 10h

As a young kid in 1980s London I lived next door to Jim Henson

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 10h

Cuz I came here to get baked

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