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He/him. Electrical engineer, former Iowan, St Paulinator. I wanna bike with the cool kids and form parasocial relationships with cats online

Pig's Sky, MN
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If you have met me IRL, or if you're cool, DM me for the soup details

Soup is so important. Celebrate soup.
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🎵 Well I thought about the army
Dad said "son, you're fucking high..."
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
For like 150 years Iowa had a reputation as a kinda hokey sorta-progressive Midwestern state with a good education system and a history of civil rights victories and in the last 10 years, the freaks have endeavored to turn it into fucking Florida. God I weep for the children of Iowa
February 6, 2026 at 5:53 AM
It is so funny that ICE keeps lining up truckloads of officers to just get trapped in traffic, roll up to a house, and immediately be surrounded by a dozen people blowing whistles and telling them their moms don't love them. Imagine waking up at 5AM and your boss assigns you to endure The Daily Hate
February 6, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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Wanna support my 'hood?! The East Side of St Paul has been under siege since November. Families need help now. Please donate if you can. 💛💛💛 Nothing but East Side Pride. We appreciate you.
East Side Partnership Rental Aid | District 2 Community Council
Help District 2 Community Council meet their fundraising goal by sharing this campaign.
d2cc.betterworld.org
February 6, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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A man who was standing on the Aldine bridge with anti-immigrant signs just stabbed a friend and neighbor.

Neighbor transported to hospital. Should be OK. 🤞

Suspect still at large.

SPPD flooding the area.

FUCK
February 6, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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Tales of the OpSec Era: arranged a meetup with a pal … turned out to be a different pal lol
February 6, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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I think they should let me buy scratchers in my 401(k), because that's what the founders would've wanted
February 5, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Love that they're creating new forms of fake cop science that will be used credulously by the legal system
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Two large African cats in a territorial coalition secretly pine for each other

Cheetah'd Rivalry
two shitposting Bluesky mutuals secretly pine for each other

Skeeted Rivalry
Two rare bourbon collectors secretly pine for each other.

Wheated Rivalry.
February 5, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.

An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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This fundraiser was so successful that I’m doing another one! The extra funds that were set for the first family went towards the second family’s total rent need. Let’s keep it going!
I am now raising rent funds for another Minneapolis family who has been impacted by ICE. For this family, the remaining need is $775.

Can we make this happen for them today? I believe in us & will post receipts!

V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater

Please help and share!
Thank you 💖
Challenge accepted!

I am raising rent funds for a Minneapolis family with four kids. They owe a month of back rent for $3975 total.

Can we make this happen for them today? I believe in us & will post receipts!

V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater

Please help and share!
Thank you 💛
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Stump Party Regular @derzquist.net has released a new and improved bloosky feed for Stump Party V. Like and pin to see an aggregation of all Stump Party posts. bsky.app/profile/did:...
February 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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I am accepting this challenge and raising $1200 for one Minneapolis family to cover their overdue rent today. Venmo me at nkkritzer and I will send the money to that family once it's raised. I believe in us.

Cat photo because you know who likes cat photos (everyone, everyone likes cat photos)
February 5, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Are you Stump-pilled? Do you yearn for the Stump? Is there a growing hole in your heart that only the Stump Party can fill?

All the Stump News fit to print, it's here at the new improved Stump Feed

bsky.app/profile/did:...
February 5, 2026 at 7:24 PM
4 years ago I was at a conference talking to a colleague from Iowa. The coop he worked for had a long term contract for power from Duane Arnold nuclear plant, but the IPP owner had just decided to rapidly mothball it. He said he didn't know where they were going to get new capacity on short notice
February 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Isn't the argument then the program needs more money? This is nonsensical
Council Member Vetaw argues against rental assistance money with anecdotes. Says she's heard from people who applied and weren't approved. Some of the most vulnerable people. Sounds like her argument is the money just disappears into a black hole and doesn't help people.
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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I came for a visit in the summer of 1999 and loved it so much I moved here a year later. Both Saint Paul and Minneapolis are each great cities in their right but truly at their best when experienced as The Twin Cities.
Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.
February 5, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Finally reading Tressie McMillan Cottom's column on state surveillance (reprinted in today's Pioneer Press).
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Hell yeah, Molly’s right. Let’s grab beers and enjoy the wonders of an empty Target Field.
Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.
February 5, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.

It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.

“ICE GTFO OF MN”

Minneapolis February 4, 2026
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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What if his name was Norm Chompsky and instead of being in the Epstein Files, he liked eating big sandwiches? Would you still be angry with him?
February 5, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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I have somewhat mixed feelings about this tbh -- on one hand working in a public health dept. (majority women-field) I saw how WFH made it easier for folks to balance household tasks like "walk kids to bus stop" with working full time (and the attendant wages and benefits thereof) ...
The war on work from home is in large part a war on women having a career btw
Roughly half a million women in the US exited the workforce in 2025, and 42% of those who voluntarily left cited their caregiving responsibilities as the main reason, according to a recent survey from Catalyst.

www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...
February 5, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Now that regime goons are censoring TikTok US Edition, I expect its dialect to become even more inscrutable as users adopt the impenetrable cat-and-mouse counter-censorious meme cultures of WeChat. Chairman Pooh has nothing on the grapist in chief.
February 5, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:

drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 4, 2026 at 8:27 PM