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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 8h

A big day for Big D democracy

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 9h

This could be us but you playing

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 9h

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 9h

This transcript from the episode of Great British bake off where Paul Hollywood took four Ambien before filming

For the Showstopper,the bakers must create a spectacular, edible bread sculpture. The theme? "The animal kindom."

The tent is a flurry of activity. There are bread lions, bread bees, and one ambitious bread octopus. Paul is making his rounds, moving with the slow, deliberate grace of a deep-sea diver.

He stops at Norman’s station quickly. Norman, our lovable older baker, has made a "Bread Badger."

Paul: Talk me through your badger.

Norman:
Well,Paul, it’s a simple white dough, with a bit of rye for the stripes. He’s got poppy seed eyes.

(Paul leans down so he is eye-level with the unbaked bread badger.)

Paul: (to the badger):
You.I see you. Lurking in the doughy undergrowth. You know things. Ancient, floury things. Don’t you?

He gives the badger a solemn nod and moves on.

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 9h

You're posting thirst traps and there's a Cheeto and the goddamn White House

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 9h

I felt compelled to post about Paul Hollywood earlier today

Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 13h

"I can tell you that the flavors are off and that your dough is terribly overworked and underbaked however as I was mushing my fingers through this cake I started to really enjoy the sonic experience of the slathering of the frosting....well done I guess. " -Paul Hollywood on Ambien

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 10h

The only people under 60 that watch like over-the-air news are watching Spanish language TV

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 23h

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 11h

It is a word but it's from A clockwork Orange and it's a bit of slang that kind of means just being mildly menacing

Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 12h

We really need to dispel the notion that doctors are smart people. 2 to 3% of 300 million is millions and millions

Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 12h

There's a really strong human cognitive bias to need to have something disproven rather than just accepting that something wasn't proven. You can't prove that he didn't do anything but there's not a good case that he did from what's available

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 12h

Marx struggled with (the 19th century equivalent) for a time and then came around

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John @johnbull.wtf · 19h

Was going through Getty images looking at some old World War II pictures of antifa invading the beaches of Normandy and came across this picture.

Picture of the battle of normandy, but all of the soliders are the inflatable halloween frog.

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 13h

It's really interesting and also disappointing that the ceasefire term dominated the discussion of all of this whereas any sort of discussion of restraining Israel or a view of a path to a peace deal even from 10,000 ft was never part of the discussion. Israel wants to take as much land as it can

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 13h

"I can tell you that the flavors are off and that your dough is terribly overworked and underbaked however as I was mushing my fingers through this cake I started to really enjoy the sonic experience of the slathering of the frosting....well done I guess. " -Paul Hollywood on Ambien

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 16h

Banned for alt text that basically said that Charlie Kirk was saying a thing and then he died

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 18h

One interesting study I read when I was taking ecology is how much of the plant nutrition in riparian areas with salmon runs is from the salmon. There's a really complicated test involving radioactive isotopes but you can basically prove that the trees are made out of fish

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 18h

Fascism does demand to be taken seriously in its myth-making and if there's reptar and a dancing frog there it makes the story more difficult to tell

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 18h

Haha yes! (Sicko)

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 18h

This is profoundly sad news for the climate but the frogs are really cute I like them

Tree frogs freeze themselves for a winter that never comes

As winters grow milder, gray tree frogs still follow fixed daylight cues, burning energy for a freeze that may never arrive.

www.earth.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 20h

They're putting chemicals in the water!

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 18h

Bofor deez nuts

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 20h

ME: Alfred Nobel may have had his "moment of clarity" but it clearly didn't affect him enough to shut down his defence contracting business, which continues to operate today

YOU: Really? What's it called?

ME: Bofors

YOU, sighing heavily: Yeah okay. Bofors what

ME, blankly: Bofors ... AB?

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 18h

It looks like blue sky is dying because of management decisions... unless we can put on the best talent show that this town has ever seen

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 20h

I consider myself a man of the people but the people that don't have an executive membership at Costco I consider "the riff Raff"

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 1d

I could never compete with Alan tudyk with only my onedyk

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that heaven would not be constrained by mortality or scarcity or anything gave me so many nightmares as a teenager. that it would be an eternity of a video game with god mode enabled and nothing would matter it would be eons of nihilism

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