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Kirsten Bakis
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Author: King Nyx, Lives of the Monster Dogs. Awards: Bram Stoker, Whiting, Sustainable Arts. Finalist Women's Prize for Fiction. Rep: Janklow & Nesbit. Teach@Yale Writers Workshop. 🌱 💚 she/they
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Fidget spinner sales could falter if people stop buying fidget spinners, fidget spinner manufacturer warns.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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bluesky is the #1 app for introspection
June 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Our beautiful city. Minneapolis deserves better than the people terrorizing it.
January 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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"bluesky is dying" "bluesky is unsustainable" my man someone just liveskeeted their kidnapping on a bus on here maybe you're the problem
January 20, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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each day we’re forced to confront the craziest shit you could possibly imagine and each day we’re forced to wash the same spoon for the millionth time
January 20, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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I'm not saying it's perfect here on bsky dot app but we got college football talk, couple different flavors of smart people having good conversations about smart things, crazy-ass heartwarming(?)/terrifying(?) live blog, pretty decent jokes, some good on-the-ground stuff; things are all right
January 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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“Neighbors found the 6 year old girl walking down the street alone crying out for her father”
January 20, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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Might just fuck around and let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
January 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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According to Bishop Andrew Waldo, who was a priest colleague of mine in the Episcopal Diocese of MN and is now retired there, this terrorized man, ChongLy Thao, is a cousin of one of the priests at the Hmong-majority Episcopal congregation in the Twin Cities. Oh, and Thao is indeed a U.S. citizen. ⚓️
ICE broke into Minnesota home, dragged barely clothed man into snow
A Minnesota man told Reuters on Monday he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and...
www.reuters.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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No one has yet tried to marry me or give me a million dollars, BlueSky is simply not sustainable
January 20, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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moral arc backwards gyre widening what do?

amplified sound rules for falconers

rough beast posture correction how?
January 19, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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*frantically googling*

moral arc bent wrong how to fix

wikihow diy moral arc fix

moral arc technician near me
Who up bending they arc toward justice
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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This is literally what every right-winger has spent my whole life telling me they want.
A community member armed with a firearm stands guard in his neighborhood after ICE was spotted nearby during an abduction operation in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026.
January 20, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white
Despite Trump’s promises, grocery prices are still rising fast. Families can’t afford this… when is he going to get serious about lowering costs?
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the U.S. say that America’s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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High, tinny doink. A summery flavor to it. Bright tones, hint of flagpole rattle.
January 20, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Don't look at my posts, they're not ready yet
July 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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god fucking damnit
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
January 20, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Gift link!

"They have been given limitless license to abduct anyone — not just the undocumented immigrants, but American citizens who happen to look foreign, whatever that might mean. Even Native Americans..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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“…We are forced to consider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people…To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure.”
A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
January 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
January 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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Tupperware is great for when you want to throw your food out on a different day . . .
January 19, 2026 at 1:14 PM