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Same quick13 you know from the other place. Salesforce consultant, Organic Gardener, Dual Citizen, professional pedestrian, Eldercaregiver, Dead Varmint Removal Specialist. Supposedly Elder.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is how local #Minneapolis meteorologist Chris Reese made his graphic recently, I laughed. #mnwx

Photograph of a man in smart blue suit, white shirt, bowtie and white pocket square standing in front of a graphic explaining "Dew Point Trends" for the next 4 days over Tues-Fri, with a bar graph With blue=refreshing, green=feeling nice, yellow=bad hair day, orange = instant 'ope', red = disrespectful. Anything in the 70's is disrespectful.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 5h

A video where Hasan Piker accused of using shock collar on dog.

quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 5h

It is not looking like a good start to the season for #Gophers hockey. You just don't allow 33 Shots on goal and only take 18 and expect to win in the #NCAA.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 6h

So #Portland has the chicken & the frog. I REALLY want somone in #Minneapolis to dig out the #PeteEPeeCup costume for protests against ICE. PLEEEEEEESSSEE!!!

a kitten is sitting on a table with a remote control in the background .

Alt: a kitten is sitting on a table with a remote control in the background .

media.tenor.com

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6h

I had a call today with someone in OR who was talking about the need for more “agitation theater” in street protests to humiliate ICE and make people laugh.

Well done Portland chicken and Portland frog.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 6h

Well the boo birds are out early in St Louis. In fairness, their defense has let a lot of #MNWild players walk right in.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 6h

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 6h

Well, as long as they stay 3-0 on the scoreboard with the fill-in players they can. But that likely won't last long.

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Matt Serwe @serwewx.bsky.social · 6h

Sorry Twin Cities, I haven’t been posting about the rain this evening because I’m on vacation through Sunday, and have been busy with interstate travel.

Accept this current pic of my dog DEMANDING pets as my apology.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 6h

Well THATS over.

Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 9h

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
“Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems”
🧪 #academicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 6h

Definitely NOT shocking - rotten to the core. #NotTrans #NotADragQueen but a Law Enforcement Child Sexual Abuse Ring.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 6h

Bloody Hell...

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 10h

Of course Garrison Keillor did the Riyadh Comedy Festival 🙄

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Brian Bengs @thebigbengs.bsky.social · 8d

Both SD Senators watched tariffs hurt our farmers in 2018, but they are still silent as it happens again.

These politicians have left S Dakotans behind. That's why I'm stepping up as an Independent candidate for U.S. Senate.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 6h

"In North Carolina and other states, low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable to order Covid-19 vaccines through the VFC program."

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/h...

Low-income families are still waiting on Covid-19 vaccines for kids, but states say they’re coming | CNN

Many low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable...

www.cnn.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 16h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 7h

Tribal economic development leaders convened Wednesday and Thursday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis for a gathering aimed at supporting tribal economies.

Center for Indian Country Development hosts data summit, looks to future of tribal economies

Tribal, economic and Federal Reserve leaders convened in Minneapolis for an event aimed at supporting tribal economies.

www.mprnews.org

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 18h

When will the climate change coastal property bubble pop? A significant acceleration in coastal flooding from a lunar orbit shift (mid-2030s) will significantly stress the market. My 2024 post: "When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?"
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/when...

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 17h

(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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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 11h

If breakeven job growth is down to 30k/month, as the Dallas Fed claims, then a steady growth in continuing jobless claims represents labor market deterioration, which is backed up by things like the Conference Board survey:

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 7h

Uhoh! Foglino hand injury does not look good.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 14h

There were *many* awesome bikes at the fundraiser last night, but of course I was drawn to the e cargo bikes that @thecargobikeshop.bsky.social brought for us to check out. 😍

Alex and Illyana look at 3 e cargo bikes outside of Dual Citizen

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10h

my neighbor stopped me in the parking lot to say "is that your cat?? he's so handsome and I need you to know I'm obsessed with him" and I looked up and saw this

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