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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃

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Editor of a Labor newspaper. Union card, clinic escort, Nebraska roots, now Minnesota. Hockey, abortion, cake, abolition, liberation. I love it when goalies lose in OT. She/they. Radicalizing over time. Banner photo: IG @havington

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · Nov 11

hi new followers, here’s where I’m posting from

An old bottling plant, made of tan brick, renovated into an office building. There’s a big vintage neon sign that says LABOR TEMPLE

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 7h

watching the timeline slowly lose its shit over this game is almost as fun as watching the game itself

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 9h

I-Falls is the main crossing for CN/DWP. It's all containers. Anything coming Canada's west coast on CN bound for the US on rail comes through there

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 9h

to be clear this is a NYT reporter on the Wilfred Sykes chasing the Edmund Fitzgerald trip without ever being actually on Lake Superior and like...I WANT TO KNOW WHO WAS SINGING THIS SONG ON THE BOAT BECAUSE I AM GOING TO TURN YOUR MINUTES TO HOURS SO HARD

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 9h

I sat up and yelled OH MY GOD HAVE SOME FUCKING RESPECT when I read this

Erhardt recalled how at his graduation from the maritime academy, the cadets all sang “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” at karaoke. But on our trip, a passenger who started singing a line in a jokey voice one afternoon was shushed.

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 9h

"a jokey voice" ACT LIKE YOU'VE BEEN OUTSIDE BEFORE

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 9h

you are ON ONE OF THE LAKES. Not even SUPERIOR. But you are ON A BOAT. what are u THINKING

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 9h

Who was it? The reporter? The photog? WHO

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 9h

I sat up and yelled OH MY GOD HAVE SOME FUCKING RESPECT when I read this

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 10h

(also thank u 🖤)

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 10h

what the WHAT!!!

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago lakefront, c. 1890.

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 13h

October light

Three slim birch trees with yellow leaves against a blue sky. They are tall enough to catch the evening light; the rest of the trees are shadowed

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

Dermatologists really are a different breed!

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

is this...an emotion?? ABSOLUTELY NOT

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 18h

didn't even know a surprise nipple biopsy was in my future when I posted this 😃

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 5d

This week is going to make demands of me that will require some Work.

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

I LOVE HIM

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Mist-wreathed Meadow @callmemeadow.bsky.social · 12h

I cannot understand how being tabloid trash seems appealling to her

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

(If he accepts it. Moose is a reactive boi and doesn't always love face-schnorgling)

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

Aw, what a treasure! Schnorgle that face for me!

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

It's so shameful. I'm so mad about it for what it is, and I'm also mad about it because she's this newspaper's "rural issues" columnist, and she generally ends up embodying rural stereotypes

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

Oh he's a beaut. Lookit that snoot. Moose is our first mastiff mix and what a fun breed it seems to be!

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

EXACTLY

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 22h

Because scaremongering about the fates of (white) girls and women is the whole-ass point. It’s what white supremacy does. And white supremacy isn’t just about race — it’s about gender, dis/ability, and the fetishization of standards, respectability and purity. And you’re falling for it, Karen!!!!!!

But why is it that only girls and women are having to accommodate inclusion? It’s not being asked of boys and men; transgender boys and men are simply not as strong or fast as they are. So girls and women are finding themselves in a position to either accommodate competition from athletes who benefit from biological differences or be dismissed as transphobic.

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 22h

I know it's a hate-read, but I allow myself a small weekly ration.

Tolkkinen: Transgender athletes should not compete with girls, but everyone deserves a place to play
Only girls are being asked to sacrifice in the name of inclusion. How can we find teams for all?
By Karen Tolkkinen
The Minnesota Star Tribune

(This is the Minnesota Star Tribune's rural columnist)

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 12h

aaaaa love that brindle. Looks like Moose here but a lil more mastiffy?

A brindle mastiff-pitty mix grins as he considers getting up on a four-wheeler

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 13h

October light

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Mycelial Ghoul @backwoodsfairy.bsky.social · 13h

I need cake.

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