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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
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.
Soup is so important. Celebrate soup.
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Trump admin is building a list of people to retaliate against for engaging in legal, 1st amendment protected activity.
Watching the watchers: ICE uses facial recognition to track citizen observers in Minnesota, federal court filing says
Federal immigration enforcement agents are using facial recognition technology to track and record U.S. citizen observers, according to a federal court declaration in Minnesota.
kstp.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Trump admin is building a list of people to retaliate against for engaging in legal, 1st amendment protected activity.
The Bad Bunny show was so good, but it is very funny to imagine the alternate universe that these freaks wanted, where a stadium of tens of thousands of people had to watch a 70 year old man lip sync raps about underage women, then ran a 10 minute in memorium reel for a podcaster
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
The Bad Bunny show was so good, but it is very funny to imagine the alternate universe that these freaks wanted, where a stadium of tens of thousands of people had to watch a 70 year old man lip sync raps about underage women, then ran a 10 minute in memorium reel for a podcaster
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I think it's interesting to compare energy infrastructure investment to transportation in the US. The former we mostly leave to private or subnational actors to figure out (except some grants and tax credits), while the latter is almost exclusively financed by feds and states. 1/x
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
I think it's interesting to compare energy infrastructure investment to transportation in the US. The former we mostly leave to private or subnational actors to figure out (except some grants and tax credits), while the latter is almost exclusively financed by feds and states. 1/x
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The IBEW subreddit sure was excited to see power poles and transformers in the halftime show last night.
February 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
The IBEW subreddit sure was excited to see power poles and transformers in the halftime show last night.
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Folks, I too am cheered by the data, but: one of the great challenges we still face is teaching and showing people how “deporting people with criminal records” has been Not What They Think, since Clinton signed IIRIRA in 1996. You can get deported for a minor theft, like stealing a gift card.
Striking from Marquette poll:
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Folks, I too am cheered by the data, but: one of the great challenges we still face is teaching and showing people how “deporting people with criminal records” has been Not What They Think, since Clinton signed IIRIRA in 1996. You can get deported for a minor theft, like stealing a gift card.
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me these people are my enemy
In a city long defined by conflict, Somalia ’s capital of Mogadishu now echoes with the crash of pins at the country’s first modern bowling alley.
It’s the latest sign of revival in the once-thriving Indian Ocean port shaped by 35 years of civil war and militant bombings.
It’s the latest sign of revival in the once-thriving Indian Ocean port shaped by 35 years of civil war and militant bombings.
Somalia welcomes its first bowling alley as the middle class and diaspora returnees grow
Somalia is showing signs of revival from decades of conflict, welcoming its first bowling alley in the capital, Mogadishu.
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me these people are my enemy
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So we're clear (because the press is apparently incapable) this is a fake competition investigation designed to help local right wing propaganda broadcasters consolidate and increase their power over whatever's left of local U.S. news
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Probes Comcast Relations With NBC Stations
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sent a letter to Comcast on Tuesday announcing a probe of the company's relations with NBC affiliates.
variety.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
So we're clear (because the press is apparently incapable) this is a fake competition investigation designed to help local right wing propaganda broadcasters consolidate and increase their power over whatever's left of local U.S. news
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“Culleton’s attorney … appealed the case to a federal court, where two Ice agents claimed that in Buffalo, Culleton had signed several documents agreeing to be deported. However, he is adamant he did not and says the signatures are not his.”
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:20 PM
“Culleton’s attorney … appealed the case to a federal court, where two Ice agents claimed that in Buffalo, Culleton had signed several documents agreeing to be deported. However, he is adamant he did not and says the signatures are not his.”
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She’s not wrong. The whites will take a surveillance state long before training their dog or getting to know and speak to their neighbors.
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.
Tell them it will find your dog.
Tell them it will find your dog.
February 9, 2026 at 10:38 AM
She’s not wrong. The whites will take a surveillance state long before training their dog or getting to know and speak to their neighbors.
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A ring camera appears to be about $100 and the sub is $50.My tp link doorbell camera seems to go for about $50, I paid about $25 for the SD card in it and that’s it I’m done paying. I get alerts on my phone, playback when I need it all the features.With the savings buy an AirTag for the dog. Please
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.
Tell them it will find your dog.
Tell them it will find your dog.
February 9, 2026 at 11:30 AM
A ring camera appears to be about $100 and the sub is $50.My tp link doorbell camera seems to go for about $50, I paid about $25 for the SD card in it and that’s it I’m done paying. I get alerts on my phone, playback when I need it all the features.With the savings buy an AirTag for the dog. Please
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Ring unveils new Eye of Sauron feature for finding your parked car
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Ring unveils new Eye of Sauron feature for finding your parked car
I have a coworker who, every time he is screen sharing, he has the Nasdaq composite, HIMS (Hims and Hers), and RBLX (Roblox) stock ticker tabs open. An older zoomer redditor, sorta church youth group coded. I assume this is some memestock thing
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
I have a coworker who, every time he is screen sharing, he has the Nasdaq composite, HIMS (Hims and Hers), and RBLX (Roblox) stock ticker tabs open. An older zoomer redditor, sorta church youth group coded. I assume this is some memestock thing
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My 70-something small-town mom told me she's going to get a rebel loon tattoo (her first ever)
people not in MN cannot comprehend how hating ICE is now a core cultural component of being Minnesotan. it’s babe the big blue ox, loons, hot dish, and ICE OUT NOW
Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
My 70-something small-town mom told me she's going to get a rebel loon tattoo (her first ever)
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thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...
It’s the weekend everyone, so you know what that means. Time to drink two polar seltzers and do a thread on the power transformer shortage. Without transformers, we don’t get a clean energy transition. And as energysky knows, there’s been a shortage due to covid, supply chain, & labor constraints 🔌🔋
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...
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Ring camera search party™️ hits different with slavecatchers in your town
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Ring camera search party™️ hits different with slavecatchers in your town
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Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956
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I work in the industry and bad bunny should not climb a utility pole without fall protection
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
I work in the industry and bad bunny should not climb a utility pole without fall protection
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REBUILDING THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
REBUILDING THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
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this is a function of the current state of the media economy. there are fewer projects being developed, which means fewer jobs available. meanwhile, super bowl commercials have become tentpole productions with movie-sized budgets and are able to pay talent in a way that the studios aren't
Used to be a time when movie stars would go overseas to do commercials because it was beneath them to do ads.
Now we have A list actors doing full on ad campaigns for tech bro companies.
Now we have A list actors doing full on ad campaigns for tech bro companies.
February 9, 2026 at 1:12 AM
this is a function of the current state of the media economy. there are fewer projects being developed, which means fewer jobs available. meanwhile, super bowl commercials have become tentpole productions with movie-sized budgets and are able to pay talent in a way that the studios aren't
I loved that Amtrak ad
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I loved that Amtrak ad
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Mercury, Messenger of the Gods, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th c, 📸 by @PhilEllsworth1
February 9, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Mercury, Messenger of the Gods, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th c, 📸 by @PhilEllsworth1
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inventing time travel 2 do this
February 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
inventing time travel 2 do this
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i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
February 9, 2026 at 12:45 AM
i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
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Fun fact, eating buckthorn can turn wild bunny pee blue, so now the kids and I don't go on exercise walks we go on the hunt for blue piss
February 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Fun fact, eating buckthorn can turn wild bunny pee blue, so now the kids and I don't go on exercise walks we go on the hunt for blue piss
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If the prosecutorial arm of ICE withers away to nothing and it’s just the enforcement goons left do you think the rocks level stupid federal judges we got will finally make an order to stop this shit then?
The top lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has left the agency, the same week an ICE attorney was removed after telling a district judge that “this job sucks” and that the Trump administration is “overwhelmed” with immigration cases.
ICE chief counsel in Minnesota retires amid growing number of immigration cases | CNN Politics
The top lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has left the agency, the same week an ICE attorney was removed after telling a district judge that “this job sucks” and that the Tru...
www.cnn.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:31 PM
If the prosecutorial arm of ICE withers away to nothing and it’s just the enforcement goons left do you think the rocks level stupid federal judges we got will finally make an order to stop this shit then?