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St. Paul, MN
libraries, linguistics, nerdery, pottery, queer stuff
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I am generally pretty humbug, but the Jinkx and Dela Holiday show is about my level of Christmas spirit.
two drag queens, Jinkx Monsoon and Ben de la Creme, in pink sequin ms. santa costumes. They are both holding mics and in the middle of singing. two dancers in pink sequin leotards and ostrich plume caps are behind them.
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Walked through the neighborhood to the polling place, gorgeous fall day
selfie, I'm a middle aged white guy with a beard and moustache in a cream colored hat, a red and black flannel, and black plastic glasses. i have an i voted sticker a picture of a tree with very bright yellow and orange fall colors a tree with bright yellow fall colors a street scene with orange and yellow leaves on the trees and sidewalk
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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a mock-news item with a photo of the chantry exploding with the following text as a chyron: BREAKING NEWS ANDERS WAS RIGHT Templars are gross and the chantry fucking sucks
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Day off, went to the friendly neighborhood queer barbershop for a trim and walked the 3ish miles home, stopping along the way for little treats. Trying to enjoy autumn while it's so gorgeous out.
a selfie of me: a balding 39-year-old white guy with black plastic glasses and a beard and moustache, wearing a brown hoodie and a blue tshirt. there are trees in the background. a very gorgeous bright red maple tree at peak fall color, on the boulevard between the sidewalk and St. Clair Ave in St. Paul, MN.
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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they make me think of these guys
wacky waving inflatable tube guy, normally seen on the sidewalk advertising a Presidents' Day mattress sale
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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jesus christ, amy
screencap of a @historyinflicks tweet: Conservatives: Let's round up Muslims and put them in camps.👏 Liberals HIRE 👏MORE 👏WOMEN 👏GUARDS 👏
July 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Cathedral of St Paul with the beginning of the march to the capitol. shot from the north on Kellogg On the capitol grounds, too many people to get close enough to really see the building. there are many flags, including a split canadian/US
June 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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If you see this, quote this post with your 4 favorite final fantasy characters
Vivi from FFIX Edea Kramer from FFVIII Balthier from FFXII Feo Ul from Final Fantasy XIV
June 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I hate making mugs because I think handles are a pain in the ass, but they make better presents than most other stuff I can make, so I'm trying to get better.
a row of four unfired porcelain mugs on a wareboard. in the background is a pottery studio.
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"That is not something the women of my family aspire to anyway"
the headline and subhed of an article: Young people Cringe! How millennials became uncool They are mocked by Gen Z for everything from their trainer socks to their mom jeans and selfie technique. A maligned millennial asks: how did we get here? There is also a cartoon with a bunch of women doing stereotypical femme things and some other women looking at them disapprovingly. I think some of them are supposed to be Gen z and some millennials but to me that is only obvious from context and not the cartoon itself.
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Final Fantasy moments you never forget.
A screenshot of Final Fantasy 8, in the cutscene at the SeeD ball where Squall and Rinoa do the Waltz for the Moon.
May 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I wanted to test embossing writing in greenware and shading it in with underglaze, so I did a test with New York's iconic Gemma Collins rant from celebrity big brother. I got it back from bisque today, and found an anonymous note of appreciation from someone else in the pottery studio. ♥️
a small greenware porcelain cup. embossed on the side in all caps is New York's rant from Big Brother about Gemma Collins. I'm holding it in my hand, and there's a pottery studio in the background. The same cup, still greenware, with black underglaze worked into the embossing, making it more readable. the same cup, now out of bisque fire. there is a note scribbled on a scrap of newspaper: "THIS IS MAGNIFICENT. I love it and I love You, sight unseen. 😃"
April 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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My natural instinct to pick the queer characters in media stays undefeated. Over the past two weeks I have been buying singles for my first commander deck in years because this card looked fun.
They announced lore stuff today and I am happy to report that I subconsciously chose correctly. 🏳️‍⚧️😍🏳️‍⚧️
the magic the gathering card "Felothar the Steadfast" An armored woman sits in an armored saddle on the back of what looks like a purple alligator. She is pointing ahead of her. The rules text is not important for the skeet but it should be on scryfall if you're curious.
April 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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It's very satisfying to make coffee in a mug i make for myself that I don't hate.

This is the clear winner of the two I tried - I like how the handle worked out. I still do not understand how to size for porcelain shrinking, but it fits 8 oz of coffee and has room for foam so I'm calling it good.
A dark blue porcelain coffee mug with coffee and foam in it. It is sitting on a green metric cutting mat.
April 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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"Iso"
a young white man roughly at age 21. I am lying in a hammock. A very happy and lazy tuxedo cat named Isosceles is in my arms, and is mostly asleep. I am wearing a blue shirt with a cow on it.
March 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I know it is very niche, but every time she and her white lock are in the news, I wish that the story is actually that someone is announcing a TV adaptation of the very terrible Anne McCaffrey Federated Teleport and Telepath books from the 90s and Tulsi is playing Damia Gwyn-Raven-Lyon.
screencap of a news article. Headline is "Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 Intelligence Officers over messages in a chat tool" and has a picture of Tulsi Gabbard. She is a middle aged South Asian woman with black hair that has one white lock, wearing white.
March 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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@smith.senate.gov Hello Senator, I sent this to your site but since I'm asking you to speak publicly, I wanted to post it publicly as well.
A screenshot of the "share your opinion" part of Senator Tina Smith's website, with a letter from me: Thank you! Senator, thank you for voting no on cloture and the CR. It was important to try to stand up and fight. I'm concerned because Chuck Schumer stated "I think my caucus and I are in sync, and everyone knew what I was doing and respected it." This gives the impression that you and the rest of Senate Democrats were complicit in Schumer's surrender, and only strategically chose which Senators would have to vote publicly for it. I ask that you publicly denounce Schumer and his total surrender of any senate power, and call for new leadership in the caucus.
March 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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i put two weather widgets on my phone a while ago to try to get more used to it.
screencap of an android phone. there are two weather apps - one in Celsius that says 11C and one in Fahrenheit that says 53F
March 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Have definitely had the best results in this pottery class so far with this persimmon glaze (which I don't mix but I think is colored with rutile and iron?). So much fun to play with the thinner coats being the rust color and the thicker parts being the indigo.
a handmade pottery bowl on a wooden table. the glaze is marbled dark blue and rusty orange. a different but similar handmade pottery bowl on a wooden table. the glaze is dark blue and rusty orange, but more like stripes or rings than marbling a small ceramic cup being held in hand. the inside has lines left from my fingers where it was thrown. it is in the same dark blue and rusty glaze, with the blue in the recessed parts and the rust on the ridges a short ceramic bowl being held in my hand. the glaze has bit of the rusty orange color in the top right corner, woth the rest of the bowl in the deep blue
March 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Slowly trying to get more comfortable with porcelain. Trying out different handles. Feel completely unable to wrap my head around shrinkage rates yet and just kinda made them bigger than I thought I should.
two unfired porcelain mugs on a wareboard in a pottery studio
February 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Press F to pay respects to my favorite vase from the last kiln fire, which got a little too up close and personal with someone's mug and became conjoined permanently.
a small stoneware ceramic vace and a porcelain pottery mug. they bumped together in the kiln and fused together permanently.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Screencap of the episode of Archer where Mallory says "The thought of me dead gives you an erection?", except Mallory's face has been clumsily photoshopped to be the OpenAI logo.
January 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Had a fun day throwing some pottery today, finally starting to work some of the cobwebs out after several months off
a pottery wareboard with two wet clay vases on it. they are vaguely tulip-shaped and in stoneware clay.
January 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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slooooooowly getting back in the saddle. Super excited to be back in classes
a pottery ware board with four small wet pots lined up on it
January 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Like, how is this helping anyone? it saves like 2mm of space on an infinite scroll. why not just finish the skeet?
screencap of this quote tweet from mike masnick: https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lerv476tes22 "I mean, this is a terrible (if unsurprising) decision, but I'm left wondering how Brendan Carr is going to still try to claim regulatory authority over social media companies... There is no possible consistency between "ISPs can" and then it goes straight to the quoted skeet without finishing the sentence in masnick's original quote skeet.
January 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM