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Chris Steller

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 12h

(Just so it's clear, this skeet was posted **three days** before László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize for Literature)

Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 4d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 6h

Reacting to the news that he's won the Nobel Prize in Literature with all the joie de vivre of learning there are doughnuts in the office breakroom. 👑 Power move. All the proof we need that he deserved it.

Tweet (sorry, I know!) from Krasznahorkai: "I receive now a call from Sweden. Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025. Delighted! Thanks!!!"

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 8m

And I understood that exact intersection was called that name

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 16m

I mean, hats off NYT Connections person.

Create four groups of four!
THIRD
SISTER
LOVERS
MAGIC
BIG
STAR
SERIOUS
WONDER
NAKED
DEVIL
EVIL
MAJOR
MAGICIAN
CONTINENT
IMPORTANT
DEADLY SIN

Vinyl reissue of Big Star’s Third album aka Sister Lovers.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 11m

When you're hot, you're hot ...

Fake Nobel Peace Prize announcement for Bad Bunny

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 25m

same intersection, but on the SE corner

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 31m

I followed this thread and it worked like gangbusters. 100% recommend. We put corn and peanuts on one side of our front lawn. The toddler helps, usually by dumping it all into one single pile and then yelling "bird!" But we get there eventually and the crows are very patient 😅

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

So let's get back to how you befriend crows. You need to realize that crows are acutely aware of human gaze. They watch you, know which direction you are looking, follow your gaze, and use this to predict your behavior.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 1h

The George Romero-supervised restoration of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) from MoMA and The Film Foundation is now on Netflix.

It's also on Criterion Channel, but it's nice to see such a significant (and subversive) indie classic on the largest subscription streaming service in the US. #FilmSky

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 30m

The ad promises twenty such tribute shows but from their ads, looks like it may have ended up being more like ten.

David Bowie
The Police
A Flock of Seagulls
Stray Cats
Elvis Costello
Sex Pistols
Prince
The Who
B-52s/The Go-Go's
Bob Marley/Peter Tosh

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 49m

That's what they were going for!

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · Oct 8

Fun fact: Under Minnesota law up through 1988, Oct. 9 was observed in schools as Leif Erickson Day.

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 1h

#OnThisDay Oct 9, 1949: The Leif Erikson statue is dedicated on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol on "Leif Erikson Day." The monument was part of a Scandinavian American campaign to credit their ancestors - and definitely not Christopher Columbus - with the “discovery” of North America.

A 13' high bronze statue of a viking holding a sword stands atop a tall marble plinth. The white dome of the Minnesota State Capitol is in the background.

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Mike Pielocik @mikepie.bsky.social · 1h

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Steve @stevetsra.bsky.social · 1h

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Mitch Lemon @mitchlemon.bsky.social · 2h

This is why you watch the games! That’s unbelievable. You almost can’t believe your eyes. Baseball, man!! Baseball!!

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 1h

New meme format

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely brutal way for the Phillies to lose, Dodgers win the series

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Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social · 2h

In the 1950s, National Geographic wanted Kodachrome nature photography that really popped in print. One trick was to put foreground subjects (hikers, etc.) in bright colors; it was called the "red shirt school". Dick Lasher's Pinto makes this the greatest red shirt school photo of all time.

Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow, we will talk about this photo.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 3h

It's bottomless ...

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 3h

Someone just said Walter Mondale,when he was ambassador, opposed efforts to get JFK assassination-related documents from Japan because it would reveal something about how the government there had dealt with a left wing student group, or something.

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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 4h

I just picked my kid up from school on a Metro Transit bus and now I’m heading to Allianz Field on a Metro Transit bus. Ask me anything.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5h

Slow Horses has replaced The Blacklist as the show your gen x coworker has most likely "been getting into". the blacklist held onto the title from 2021 to today. it is the first time an apple tv show has held this honor, and joins ted lasso as the second apple tv show to earn broad coworker approval

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Racket @racketmn.com · 3h

“It was just so different from any other store, because it's skeletons all over the place.”

Remember When You Could Buy Human Skeletons at the Mall of America? - Racket

BareBones was a true MOA oddity—and a place where Kurt Cobain once reportedly spent $4,000 on replica bones.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 3h

I'm watching an online presentation on what's new in facts about the JFK assassination. Someone in the chat cracked up the host by asking if the federal government shutdown means the CIA can't assassinate anyone right now. (Alleged CIA involvement in JFK's death is a main theme with this group)

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 3h

oof!

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 5h

How does the Trib have this up when we haven't even seen the order yet?

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 5h

BREAKING: A federal judge in Chicago has blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to the city as part of its ongoing immigration-enforcement push.

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago

Arguments in federal court over an emergency restraining order that would bar a National Guard deployment began Thursday with lawyers sparring over what constitutes a “rebellion” that such troops m…

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