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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 58m

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 1h

And we've been asking you to stop, have you not been reading your text messages?

Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 14h

There are 2 perfect musicals and they are called Les Mis and West Side Story

No I will not elaborate

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 18h

Please vote in our Official Minneapolis Mayor Poll (cheating is allowed, but please don't). We'll be using the numbers to inform a podcast discussion of ranked choice voting mechanics.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wedge LIVE! Very Official Mayoral Poll

Rank your first, second, and third choice candidates in the columns below

docs.google.com

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 17h

"Our neighborhood has become a ghost town, they said amid the lively bustle of the festival" rates among classics like:

"nobody comes here anymore, there's no place to park"

and

"why weren't we notified this was happening, the crowd moaned at the packed public meeting."

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 18h

a man in a brown jacket says with great power comes great responsibility

ALT: a man in a brown jacket says with great power comes great responsibility

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 18h

"luminous beings are we" ~ Yoda (and @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social customers)

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 20h

the Iowa State Cyclones and the Green Bay Packers have been the same football team for way too friggin' long

Jason B. Hirschhorn @byjbh.bsky.social · 20h

Packers HC Matt LaFleur said kicker Brandon McManus' quad injury is "a major concern right now."

LaFleur said they have a plan if McManus can't play this Sunday.

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 20h

he goed "brrrrt" when I touched himb but did not move

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 20h

me waiting for my @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social jacket to be delivered today

a man sits on a swing in a park

ALT: a man sits on a swing in a park

media.tenor.com

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 20h

"honey, can you swing by the bone store on your way home? Karthuraax the Blood Destroyer is coming over for book club and we're running low on femurs to go with my hot dish"

Racket @racketmn.com · 21h

We used to be a proper country.

Remember When You Could Buy Human Skeletons at the Mall of America? - Racket

BareBones was a true MOA oddity—and a place where Kurt Cobain once reportedly spent $4,000 on replica bones.

racketmn.com

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 20h

every American has the god given right to buy skellingtons across from a Jamba Juice, dammit!

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 21h

And then, bizarrely, the guy who owned the company (not the inventor) died in a Segway accident.

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 23h

Once, when I was in high school, a kitten escaped on a Wednesday and we spent a few days searching for her all over our neighborhood.

Sunday morning, we're getting ready for church and my dad looks out the window and says "hey, is that our cat in the neighbor's tree?"

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 1d

It is the fervently held belief of every Christian Nationalist that Jesus was a pussy

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 1d

Much like so many were unaware of Charlie Kirk's racism, probably 1% of Christian conservatives in the US know about Wilson's noxious views. Only a core group of Reformed homeschoolers or classical school types even know who he is.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 1d

This is probably the best time to be in organized crime since before the repeal of prohibition in 1933. I mean if you wanted to commit high level non-immigrant related crime, now is the time to go hog wild.

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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 1d

We won!

Following three weeks of legal proceedings and over five hours in court, the judge found Wayzata-based Minneapolis landlord John Wall in violation of the law on three counts, resulting in a $1,450 fine.

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 1d

God bless free stuff from Buy Nothing groups

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 1d

*grumbles in Nice Ride*

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 1d

I will 100% support any politician who takes transit, bikes, or walks regularly to get around. Be out in community! Don’t just drive through it.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 1d

Online censorship by big tech is bad but sometimes you'll encounter someone whose entire personality seems to be built around complaining about "getting zucced for posting memes" and they just seem like the most obnoxious people in the world

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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a teenager getting my first job at a grocery store no one told me what point of sale was

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adam - i'm an elephant @a.falk.wtf · 2d

George Lucas's prequel thesis stays winning

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

It is unbelievably funny how load bearing American democratic norms turned out to be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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