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Keith Harris

@usefulnoise.bsky.social

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Creeping socialist. Premature anti-rockist. Oldest living Racket editor. Saving my labor for insane reading. Subscribe to Racket, or at least read it. https://racketmn.com/author/keith-harris

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · Dec 20

Please forgive me, I have committed a "year in music" essay.

The Year In Music 2024: Accepting Sadness as a Gift in the Age of the Oligarchs - Racket

In 2024, my favorite music didn't always prepare me for the fight ahead, but it always reminded me what was at stake.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 7h

she's just factchecking

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 19h

bsky.app/profile/rach...

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 19h

My very hinged and "I drank from the hose" literary take is that I'm glad I grew up before the growth of the YA industry, because I just read adult books, or, as I thought of them, books.

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 22h

Oh wow really, genre fiction is good, actually? Some long-dead male author is overrated? The process of canonization is problematic? What horrible 19th-century asylum were you chained up in when you developed these shocking countercultural takes

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

look, we're not trying to find the best PERSON here, just the best ITALIAN*

*Moscarello on my mom's side, I can say this

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

ha I figured there was something disqualifying

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

www.startribune.com/rose-totino-...

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

What kind of bus commits genocide?

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

The @sahanjournal.bsky.social has published its City Council election guide. In Ward 8, @sorenwithward8.bsky.social was the only one to respond. sahanjournal.com/democracy-po...

2025 Minneapolis City Council election: See where the candidates stand on homelessness, immigration and more

Meet some of the candidates running for the Minneapolis City Council. All 13 wards are up for election. Three council members aren’t running for reelection.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

* Glacial

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I bet

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

it moved on

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Glacier Lakes State Park rules, in case you were wondering.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 2d

"Just tell 'em I'm in Tobago" -- how I will always hear the final line in the bridge to "Life Is a Highway"

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 2d

All of Mpls strikes back

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 2d

It’s kind of crazy that the first hour of this movie is just the detailed account of a messy open marriage between two hot but terrible poets from Portland, OR! And then suddenly the Russian revolution breaks out and all hell breaks loose. But that’s what history is like, I guess