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Tammy @tbobrowsky.bsky.social · 1d

Heavily edited, but.

Deserted road sunset with trees in fall colors.

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t imagine having this strong of an opinion on Christopher Columbus. Is this guy a relative?

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 2d

Favorite. Night. Of. The. Year.

The start of the pumpkins at the Pumpkin Spectacular at the Minnesota Zoo. Carved fake pumpkins hand from trees around a paved path lit by colored lights.

Further on the path toward the pumpkins. A blurry child is in the foreground.

A collection of hundreds of fake carved pumpkins arranged off the side of the path. Multiple different colors light up the silly/spooky faces.

Another pumpkin display with a posed scarecrow pumpkin “behind bars.”

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow I got a Chad Smith drumstick?

Chad Smith, a tall guy in white sleeveless coveralls and a backwards maroon and gold baseball cap, walking with two drumsticks on the sidelines of a football field

Chad Getting ready to throw drumsticks into the audience

Me, in maroon and gold MN gopher sweatshirt, with with one of those drumsticks. No I didn’t catch it but my friend gave it to me

Me holding the drumstick with endzone behind it, which says “Chad Smith’s Funk Blaster”

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

Encyclopedic knowledge and the best friend of Goldy Gopher!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

Are you a Mac grad?

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

I guess Gunn has said that Foxy Shazam is “objectively the best band in America.” Ha!

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

I read it. I did not enjoy it. I am male.

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, it an old Lunds.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 4d

Lake of the Isles Pencil is dressed as Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson for Halloween.

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Pete Nikolai @neatpickleye.bsky.social · 4d

Last time there was a No Kings protest in Minnesota the speaker-emerita, her husband and dog were murdered, a state senator and his wife were shot, the gunman was at large and 25,000 people still showed up. All you fascists are bound to lose.

Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 4d

Fact: Mikhail Gorbachev visited the Twin Cities June 3-4, 1990 and on Oct. 15, 1990 he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

Don't get me started on the Twin Cities connections of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kofi Annan.

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

Fact: Jimmy Carter spoke at the University of Minnesota on May 17, 2001 during the dedication of Mondale Hall. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2002.

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

Boom!

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like causation to me.

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spooky smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 4d

Today I learned there is a giant pumpkin regatta in Stillwater on Sunday.

Pumpkin Regatta | Home

On Sunday watch as "pumpkin pilots" paddle giant pumpkins down the St. Croix River at 2:30pm. Before the regatta, watch our paddlers compete in a friendly competition called the Battle to Paddle at n...

www.harvestfeststillwater.com

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 4d

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 5d

#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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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 5d

Did you meet him on a hike?

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 5d

Very sad! It looks really nice. Hopefully it can open again someday.

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 5d

They remodeled an old Lund’s grocery store, and they did a really nice job with it! It opened in 2004.

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